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[extremely dumb guy voice] kinetic

I understand that in this case the claim is that the information is false, I’m just making a point that none of the “sniff tests” work at all anymore. (2/2)

Huge problem with this stuff is it is completely impossible to tell who’s right because the people in charge are so evil and incompetent. This is “blatantly not real” — but does that mean the Iranians did a bad job faking it and we fell for it anyway or does it mean the information is false? (1/2)

"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"

We should never ever forget why they did it

This is obviously correct, but let’s not pretend it matters at all what the founders or the public would’ve believed rather than what some FedSoc dipshit imagined they might have believed hypothetically based on a throwaway line in Blackstone

tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety.
venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars.

child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me.
mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed.
mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.

tbc I don’t care whether you use it or not but it’s just a failure of imagination if you can’t see why someone might want it

the advantage is that the plate stays put in a way cords don’t. my port is damaged right now (dust in it preventing a tight seal) and I suggest you do some googling to see how common this is

Can you show me an example? I’ve been shocked at how little this has happened

Even the Bezos Post always immediately flags it as incorrect. Like they’ll quote a Trump person talking about “the Department of War” and then say “, using the administration’s preferred term for the Defense Department”

nobody is capitulating except companies that sell things to them. i’ve been shocked at the resistance in the press!

i love my wireless chargers.

first of all that’s not true, the magnetic chargers work fine while you’re using the phone. second, the main use of it is just convenience: cables fall off from their locations and ports get damaged or get junk in them, but “wireless” charging doesn’t have these issues

Degrowth Don strikes again

They’re calling it “the Full Brandon”

A middle eastern energy crisis with stagflation, welcome back Carter

american evangelicals already run everything and what we are seeing right now, including this headline, is them trying to close the gap on the 5% of everything they don't run

Something I find particularly interesting and telling about the consciousness BS is that it’s pretty clear these people think consciousness is about language use. But it isn’t! My cat is almost certainly conscious, but she cannot use language at all.

Agreed. The thing is, it’s frustrating because a shovel is a useful tool.

“Oh, so you know what consciousness is and can fully characterize it?” Nope. Definitely don’t. I do know some things it is clearly not, though.

BREAKING: Breville CEO says the Smart Oven Pro BOV845BSSUSC may or may not have gained consciousness [ability to react to the world around it], as the toaster oven has begun showing symptoms of anxiety [working worse than it did when it was new].

The only way around this is to just lie about what “consciousness” means so that it is fully characterized by external behavior, a completely uninteresting exercise because at that point my fucking toaster oven is also conscious.

The number one property of consciousness is that it is a property of organisms. Nothing about “Claude”’s operation, which is fully reducible to electricity in circuits in ways we understand in minute detail because WE ENGINEERED THE ENTIRE THING FROM TOP TO BOTTOM suggests it is anything like it.

We’re going on, what, like year 3 here of tech dipshits debating the proposition “can a computer circuit/software programs become conscious if it can result in something resembling linguistic behavior?” and everyone pretending it’s worth taking seriously. I can’t deal with it!

ENOUGH. There is not even a clear entity being referred to as “Claude” to be “conscious.” (If you reply to me to say that I am also not a clear entity I will block you immediately. Pull your head out of your effective altruist ass. I’ve had enough.)

So regime changing Iran was an epic quagmire that crushed the American economy and set the conditions for China to take back Taiwan. So what, you never had a relationship end badly? You never had to deal with fake friends? How about a little mercy?

A lot of you are relentlessly critical of Trump as if you haven’t also failed at every big thing you’ve ever tried.

Trump 1 imagery: gay Cuban dancing on rollerblades to YMCA

Trump 2 imagery: Male Fantasies by Klaus Theweleit

And yet, interestingly, when Schumer cares, Fetterman does what he’s told

The task for people who want to fix law enforcement is to get people to see defund the same way.