There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
male insecurity is why noticing very obvious facts was dismissed as hysterical
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This your fave?
Republicans just OBJECTED to funding FEMA, TSA and the Coast Guard. They’re holding them hostage to extract more $$$ with no accountability for Trump’s rogue ICE/CBP operations.
No doubt now who’s responsible.
Mother just texted me “now I don’t need to tell you the woman who kill the dog to identify her.” (She really does text in English, she’s the bomb.) I await her to-be-invented way of identifying Markwayne.
Hawley is “the one who put his fist in the air like an idiot” btw; she means that photo from 6 Jan. Karoline Leavitt is “that bitch I want to slap across the face.” And so on.
My 90 yr old Portuguese mother can’t always get US politician names right. Jim Jordan is “the one in a shirt” (ie no jacket) “who shouts”; Corey Lewandowski I once had to discern from “o zeesky.” Noem is sometimes “the one who poses in hats” but always, always, she is “the one who killed the dog.”
I predict it will be less flamboyant, but no less stupid and cruel
Once again forced to point out that this didn’t happen as implied. Look what he’s wearing, look what she’s wearing, look at the backgrounds. They were not in the same place at the same time. Her expression is excellent, I’m sure whoever received that look deserved it, but this is just fun fiction.
They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.
PAT RYAN: 'Does the US want to be the policeman of the Middle East getting nothing but spending precious lives & trillions.' Rng a bell?
COLBY: Defer to you
R: That was Trump. How about this - 'we simply cannot afford to get enmeshed in a Middle East war'
C: Defer to you
R: That was actually you
What experience exactly?
Jfc if I told you a man with wife and daughters was a misogynist would you believe that? How about if he had a mother and sisters? For fucks sake.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
BREAKING on MS NOW:
The House Oversight Committee just voted to subpoena Pam Bondi as part of the panel's Epstein investigation.
The vote was 24-19. 5 Republicans voted in favor.
Wow. Not surprised. But ugly as it gets. So, if I understand this correctly, Mike, we're engaged in crusade now? Do you know how those turned out the last time(s)?
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
I think we should not use the term “glazing” in serious conversation. Is there some reason ppl who claim to understand the impact of language, including independent journalists, must adopt vulgar, contemptuous sexual terms coined in misogynist discourse? To seem cool? Just lazy?
We can do better.
Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.
CNN: Three US fighter jets accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, military says By Haley Britzky , Helen Regan Helen Regan , Eyad Kourdi , Isaac Yee , Teele Rebane , Lucas Lilieholm Updated 13 hr ago
Reuters: Fire at US embassy complex in Riyadh after blast heard, sources say By Reuters March 2, 20266:23 PM CSTUpdated 13 mins ago
New York Times: U.S. military death toll rises to 6
CNN: State Dept urges US citizens to "DEPART NOW" from countries throughout Middle East
Two days into the war:
- three F-15s shot down
- U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia in flames
- six U.S. service members confirmed dead; more wounded
- State Department tells Americans to flee the entire Middle East
Absolutely gutting news.
"I think responses [that ask only for the Administration to 'explain itself'] are pathetic. This isn’t a mystery that needs to be solved. This is not the case of the missing casus belli."
Look where so many people falling for the excuse that “it was only locker room talk” has gotten us.
It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.
Just to be blunt: the administration's belligerence abroad and at home are not distractions, they are things they loudly promised in the 2024 campaign and close to the heart of many of the key figures involved, including Trump himself. They live for this shit, and see it as Good Content
I'm glad we're just "involved," because if we were "at war" that would be "illegal" and also "immoral" and also "incredibly stupid."
Just thinking about how one time I called out Sam Altman as a dangerous, anti-human, voracious dumbfuck, maybe 2 years ago? And I got a bunch of comments going, "Why you attacking Altman? Musk is one thing but Sam?" Well...whoever was perplexed then: surely you see it by now.
Pete Hegseth reposted Sam Altman & @sama X.com Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. Al safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.
We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the Dow also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all Al companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place. 6:56 PM • 2/27/26 • 155K Views
It’s looking more and more like Trump squeezing Anthropic was just in service of the other tech oligarchs Sam Altman and Elon Musk
JUST IN: Trump orders government agencies to cease using Anthropic's AI tech over the company's refusal to bend safeguards for the military—including refusing to allow Claude to be used for mass surveillance or autonomous drones.
Trump threatens to force Anthropic to comply with criminal penalties.
