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“a couple of hoots, a hello, and a fuck all y’all”
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I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.
Sarah Hurwitz Profanes the Holocaust
Holocaust education has worked too well for the Obama speechwriter, since when she rationalizes Israel's genocide, "I sound obscene." Maybe sit with that, Sarah
www.forever-wars.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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seems like one of the main use cases for genAI is to eliminate the joy that other people take in thinking and actually doing things www.thecut.com/article/woul...
November 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
seems like one of the main use cases for genAI is to eliminate the joy that other people take in thinking and actually doing things www.thecut.com/article/woul...
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you really couldn't do better than 25 years after 9/11 dick cheney finally dies on the same day as a majority of NYC voters elect a socialist muslim mayor. that is some mythic lightbearer being sweatily forged in the darkness type mythos.
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
you really couldn't do better than 25 years after 9/11 dick cheney finally dies on the same day as a majority of NYC voters elect a socialist muslim mayor. that is some mythic lightbearer being sweatily forged in the darkness type mythos.
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Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.
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very funny that we've spent like two decades in a media environment where fictional depictions of villain are expected to be nuanced and have complex motives and then the country gets taken over by people who are like "hurting people makes me feel like a big strong man :)"
November 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
very funny that we've spent like two decades in a media environment where fictional depictions of villain are expected to be nuanced and have complex motives and then the country gets taken over by people who are like "hurting people makes me feel like a big strong man :)"
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U.S. labor historians, like Elizabeth Faue, have been writing about the significance of work being coded as male for many decades. And, even as service sector work has accelerated, the image of a “worker” in popular understandings remains white and male.
uncpress.org/979889086565...
uncpress.org/979889086565...
October 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
U.S. labor historians, like Elizabeth Faue, have been writing about the significance of work being coded as male for many decades. And, even as service sector work has accelerated, the image of a “worker” in popular understandings remains white and male.
uncpress.org/979889086565...
uncpress.org/979889086565...
sometimes i think i could put together a solo acoustic set for like, a farmers market gig, and then i remember that basically all the songs i currently know are super sad
October 16, 2025 at 6:35 AM
sometimes i think i could put together a solo acoustic set for like, a farmers market gig, and then i remember that basically all the songs i currently know are super sad
As a bookstore clerk I resented that every page of this book is printed on coated paper, not just the pages with color plates. It’s just so unnecessary for it to be so dang heavy.
"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism
October 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
As a bookstore clerk I resented that every page of this book is printed on coated paper, not just the pages with color plates. It’s just so unnecessary for it to be so dang heavy.
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that users could prefer a generated simulation to actual old clips for nostalgia purposes clarifies how nostalgia is about consuming "decontextualization" in itself — nostalgia negates history under the auspices of longing for it
YouTube has a legit library of recordings from quotidian settings (which are interesting, mostly as historical markers) but instead of promoting that social media pushes soulless facsimiles solely meant to associate a feeling with a moment sans the immediate, substantive context
This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.
October 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
that users could prefer a generated simulation to actual old clips for nostalgia purposes clarifies how nostalgia is about consuming "decontextualization" in itself — nostalgia negates history under the auspices of longing for it
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Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.
October 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.
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really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt
It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
October 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt
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I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
September 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
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Exactly, the Dems' "condescension problem" is almost entirely a creation of right-wing media.
Honestly think the only way to solve the condescension problem is to stop insisting that we have one. It's very obvious why your opponent would call you condescending for being smart and right; stand up for yourself!
Klein is also obsessed with solving Democrats’ “condescension problem” but it’s not condescending to talk about how your political opponents are wrong! That’s kind of how it works.
September 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Exactly, the Dems' "condescension problem" is almost entirely a creation of right-wing media.
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i am reminded of when matt stoller lost his mind over this column, and saw it as evidence of my “pro-corporate” bias. he literally could not grasp the idea that the smallness of a business does not necessarily alter its relationship to production or to the workers it employs
Opinion | The Small-Business Tyrant Has a Favorite Political Party (Published 2024)
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
i am reminded of when matt stoller lost his mind over this column, and saw it as evidence of my “pro-corporate” bias. he literally could not grasp the idea that the smallness of a business does not necessarily alter its relationship to production or to the workers it employs
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my god what carnage
the casualty counts must be enormous
the casualty counts must be enormous
September 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
my god what carnage
the casualty counts must be enormous
the casualty counts must be enormous
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“Integrity” is a deeply polysemic word. It can mean “holding your principles” but it can also mean “being whole, feeling like yourself.” These execs are discovering they can acquiesce and still feel like themselves…bc our society’s worship of the market uber alles has created these selves.
September 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“Integrity” is a deeply polysemic word. It can mean “holding your principles” but it can also mean “being whole, feeling like yourself.” These execs are discovering they can acquiesce and still feel like themselves…bc our society’s worship of the market uber alles has created these selves.
we’re about getting to the point where news about the US that friends abroad find the most disturbing could be stuff we haven’t even heard about yet
September 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
we’re about getting to the point where news about the US that friends abroad find the most disturbing could be stuff we haven’t even heard about yet
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This is just a shitpost, but there's something to the idea that
Almost every design choice and optimization for large language model-based "AI" comes from the designers' terror of ever hearing the words "you're wrong" or even just "no."
Almost every design choice and optimization for large language model-based "AI" comes from the designers' terror of ever hearing the words "you're wrong" or even just "no."
June 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is just a shitpost, but there's something to the idea that
Almost every design choice and optimization for large language model-based "AI" comes from the designers' terror of ever hearing the words "you're wrong" or even just "no."
Almost every design choice and optimization for large language model-based "AI" comes from the designers' terror of ever hearing the words "you're wrong" or even just "no."