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Mozart’s 25th Piano Concerto is giving me chills… Sertraline is a hell of a drug!
Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503: I. Allegro maestoso (Cadenza: Gulda)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Friedrich Gulda, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado · Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 25 & 27 · Song · 1976
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May 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Mozart’s 25th Piano Concerto is giving me chills… Sertraline is a hell of a drug!
The product is citizenship and the price is whiteness, whatever that may consist of. This word salad is merely a euphemism to avoid the so-called “woke mob” and cure his supporters of the slightest voice in their head telling them that maybe they are a white supremacist.
Trump: "We'll make deals, but we don't have to. We are the ones that have the product. We are the ones that the United States -- they want a piece of our product. We can just set the price."
April 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The product is citizenship and the price is whiteness, whatever that may consist of. This word salad is merely a euphemism to avoid the so-called “woke mob” and cure his supporters of the slightest voice in their head telling them that maybe they are a white supremacist.
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I think we just send everyone at @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social home now.
a MAGA influencer in today's White House briefing suggests joe Biden was responsible for rising suicide rates
April 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I think we just send everyone at @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social home now.
THIS. I get that the comical mistakes of the earlier models and the industry’s indelible ties with the emergent techno-fascist merit a critical eye here, but most Bluesky academics been entirely incapable of nuance on this issue—many won’t even acknowledge the potential for socioeconomic disruption…
It's impossible to have a nuanced conversation about LLMs this on this platform. No one I talk to in person is this hostile to LLMs like users on here.
April 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
THIS. I get that the comical mistakes of the earlier models and the industry’s indelible ties with the emergent techno-fascist merit a critical eye here, but most Bluesky academics been entirely incapable of nuance on this issue—many won’t even acknowledge the potential for socioeconomic disruption…
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I feel like much of the punditry class is almost like an LLM—just completely insulated from empirical/normative reality. “Ideas” like this are coherent within the context of the think piece sphere, but that means jack when the sphere is a sophistic pseudo-discourse that endlessly regurgitates slop.
March 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I feel like much of the punditry class is almost like an LLM—just completely insulated from empirical/normative reality. “Ideas” like this are coherent within the context of the think piece sphere, but that means jack when the sphere is a sophistic pseudo-discourse that endlessly regurgitates slop.
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The arc of history is too damn long.
February 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The arc of history is too damn long.
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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." - Hannah Arendt
The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.
February 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." - Hannah Arendt
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Mom, come pick me up, they're coming up with the silliest possible version of the Great Man Theory of History
February 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Mom, come pick me up, they're coming up with the silliest possible version of the Great Man Theory of History
A question for scholars at the intersection of history and international politics: I can’t help but feel like this is one of those “weeks where decades happen” and that the stage is being set for a global conflict.
Am I overreacting/falling victim to sensationalism, or is this really happening?
Am I overreacting/falling victim to sensationalism, or is this really happening?
February 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A question for scholars at the intersection of history and international politics: I can’t help but feel like this is one of those “weeks where decades happen” and that the stage is being set for a global conflict.
Am I overreacting/falling victim to sensationalism, or is this really happening?
Am I overreacting/falling victim to sensationalism, or is this really happening?
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the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
FDA’s Food Safety Chief Resigns
The chief said the loss of critical employees overseeing the nation’s food supply made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division.
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February 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
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The United States is joining an international fascist network before our very eyes.
JD Vance’s Debacle in Germany Exposes MAGA’s Sinister Global Endgame
Did you know that the United States is joining an international fascist network?
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February 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The United States is joining an international fascist network before our very eyes.
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taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
February 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
A star burns the brightest rIght before it dies.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, rejected an offer by the Trump administration to relinquish half of the country’s mineral resources in exchange for U.S. support, according to people with knowledge of the talks. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
February 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A star burns the brightest rIght before it dies.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. Given the comical mistakes of early models and the technology’s indelible association with the emergent techno-fascist class, academics have generally been dismissive about the near term socioeconomic disruption of AI. This needs to change, and fast.
Good post by Paul Musgrave on how far LLM's have come in data analysis...
"It recognized a quadratic equation and then calculated the minimum. I didn’t even know to ask. And a lot of people are still making hurr-durr it can’t count r’s in strawberry jokes."
academics need to take this seriously
"It recognized a quadratic equation and then calculated the minimum. I didn’t even know to ask. And a lot of people are still making hurr-durr it can’t count r’s in strawberry jokes."
academics need to take this seriously
Are You Smarter than an LLM?
Maybe LLMs are fancy autocompletes, but maybe so are Ph.D.s
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February 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I wholeheartedly agree with this. Given the comical mistakes of early models and the technology’s indelible association with the emergent techno-fascist class, academics have generally been dismissive about the near term socioeconomic disruption of AI. This needs to change, and fast.
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So you'd rather acquiesce to living under de facto martial law? Give me a break.
Force his hand, make him declare it, and let him and his goons suffer the political consequences of doing so.
Force his hand, make him declare it, and let him and his goons suffer the political consequences of doing so.
"activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately"
Something something in advance
www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
Something something in advance
www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority | CNN Politics
Amid Democrats’ shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper question rippling through leaders across the Capitol and across the country: How much should they rel...
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February 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
So you'd rather acquiesce to living under de facto martial law? Give me a break.
Force his hand, make him declare it, and let him and his goons suffer the political consequences of doing so.
Force his hand, make him declare it, and let him and his goons suffer the political consequences of doing so.
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Our military will soon be asked to make a very stark choice. There will be mass unrest in this country as these disastrous changes take effect. Trump will invoke the insurrection act at some point. You will be ordered to inflict violence on your fellow citizens. Think through this before it happens.
What Happens if the President Issues a Potentially Illegal Order to the Military?
Military.com spent several months trying to unearth what existing safeguards and policies are in place to protect what has long been considered a hallmark of the U.S. -- an apolitical military that us...
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February 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Our military will soon be asked to make a very stark choice. There will be mass unrest in this country as these disastrous changes take effect. Trump will invoke the insurrection act at some point. You will be ordered to inflict violence on your fellow citizens. Think through this before it happens.
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seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism
February 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism
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If the US blocks access to HRT, ADHD drugs, and SSRIs, I cannot begin to describe to you how much all of the tech sector will screech to a halt. The internet is built and maintained by trans people, people with chronic depression, and the neurodivergent.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. is already taking aim at antidepressants
The new HHS secretary has made baseless claims that the drugs are addictive and cause violent behavior.
www.motherjones.com
February 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM
If the US blocks access to HRT, ADHD drugs, and SSRIs, I cannot begin to describe to you how much all of the tech sector will screech to a halt. The internet is built and maintained by trans people, people with chronic depression, and the neurodivergent.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
February 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
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Two possible reactions:
1) Continue on the trajectory that got us here in the first place by discarding this as “just Trump being Trump”
2) Grapple in earnest with the fact that Trump asserts dictatorial power as the providential leader tasked with saving the nation.
This is acutely dangerous.
1) Continue on the trajectory that got us here in the first place by discarding this as “just Trump being Trump”
2) Grapple in earnest with the fact that Trump asserts dictatorial power as the providential leader tasked with saving the nation.
This is acutely dangerous.
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Two possible reactions:
1) Continue on the trajectory that got us here in the first place by discarding this as “just Trump being Trump”
2) Grapple in earnest with the fact that Trump asserts dictatorial power as the providential leader tasked with saving the nation.
This is acutely dangerous.
1) Continue on the trajectory that got us here in the first place by discarding this as “just Trump being Trump”
2) Grapple in earnest with the fact that Trump asserts dictatorial power as the providential leader tasked with saving the nation.
This is acutely dangerous.
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Tim’s latest substack is well worth a read—it puts the last few days of foreign affairs into historical perspective.
Tim’s latest substack is well worth a read—it puts the last few days of foreign affairs into historical perspective.
Appeasement at Munich
World Wars, Past and Possible
open.substack.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Tim’s latest substack is well worth a read—it puts the last few days of foreign affairs into historical perspective.
Tim’s latest substack is well worth a read—it puts the last few days of foreign affairs into historical perspective.
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Vance refuses to meet the German chancellor Scholz, but meets with the head of the AfD and CDU. Vance claims that German parties need to work with the fascists and claims democracy in Europe is declining, threatened by enemies from within. The international Right is forming, out in the open.
Exklusiv: Nach ZDF-Informationen hat sich US-Vizepräsident J.D. Vance am Nachmittag nach seiner Rede auf der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz mit AfD-Chefin Alice Weidel getroffen. Man habe ca. 30 Minuten gesprochen. Über den Ukraine-Krieg & deutsche Innenpolitik - u.a. Brandmauer.
February 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Vance refuses to meet the German chancellor Scholz, but meets with the head of the AfD and CDU. Vance claims that German parties need to work with the fascists and claims democracy in Europe is declining, threatened by enemies from within. The international Right is forming, out in the open.
JD Vance is one scary motherfucker. A Yale educated lawyer, it’s highly likely he went from dispirited liberal to nihilistic fascist upon realizing that we are accelerating into the abyss. He went from warning that Trump was America’s Hitler to aspiring that role for himself in less than a decade…
February 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
JD Vance is one scary motherfucker. A Yale educated lawyer, it’s highly likely he went from dispirited liberal to nihilistic fascist upon realizing that we are accelerating into the abyss. He went from warning that Trump was America’s Hitler to aspiring that role for himself in less than a decade…