Add this to the relative little outrage about suicides being driven by “AI” (compared to the moral panics over heavy metal lyrics and video games last century) and something sinister is developing, politically and economically, in liberalism. It’s happening right in then open. But barely discussed.

Wow, hard to imagine a world where rich people have access to the most expensive doctors and hospitals while the average person doesn't. Let's hope that Americans never have to worry about that happening.

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Billionaires already live in a magical reality where they're exempt from consequences for fraud, criminality, antisocial behavior. But that's not enough. Everyone else must be forced to live according to their precepts and be at the mercy of their whims. Perverse!

I wish I could speak with my senator about taking any action whatsoever to push back and whip up impeachment movements instead of granting unanimous consent to advance the vote to confirm

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They were 8 and 11 years old

part of what made louis ck’s old routines funny was the ability to trust that he knew whereof he spoke, that he had conquered his issues with women enough to joke about them incisively. turns out he hadn’t, therefore couldn’t. craft issue!!

People will listen to neuroscience podcasts 18 hours a day and never shut up about optimizing themselves and still willfully forget that the point of making art is not for a computer to generate an image as quickly as possible it is to activate different parts of that brain you supposedly care about