Ben Saufley

as above—polymarket betting on mass murder—so below

Remember when American politicians used to lie about this part?

It is an existential imperative that we begin a serious global dialogue about how ‘experts’ as the media uses the term, consistently lag behind us laymen when it comes to Knowing Some Bullshit When We See It.

Rahm Emanuel: democrats need their own blotting out the sun plan, or the republicans will blot out the sun

Another example of "there are two genders: male and political"

(Misspelling Maine in a discussion about the Collins seat race is also a sure sign of a good faith argument hahaha)

@skywatch.blue why is @andrealaflamme.bsky.social showing as Spam? That doesn't seem right. Feels like a bad-faith labeling.

Hey Maine - Yall might want to consider this candidate for your Democratic primary. Ya know, someoke who isn't a Nazi.

Even if it takes years, we have to bring EVERYONE who made this happen to justice. No moving on, no letting this go.

Revenge is good enough motivation for me personally, but the nobler and important reason is to ensure that anyone who thinks of doing this again knows they’ll rot in prison for it.

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

When you goad people into believing that what a college student, without institutional, financial or social capital, writes on poster is bigger threat than what a regime cabinet member says from lectern, you've hacked being anti-semitic & using it as cover to silence valid dissent.

I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from

I, too, think tens of thousands of people should go to prison because sometimes I smell something I don't like

Sometimes you learn things when you do an interview with a chief executive. And sometimes, you learn things when you do not in fact do an interview with a chief executive:

Is there a German word for the feeling of pure disdain for a person while recognizing that they are, while still being vile, also one more bit of fodder in a larger and even more cruel machine that grinds people's bones in pursuit of its only value, which is power and humiliation?

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

He did once write something kinda-sorta in this vein once, but is there anything more Orwellian than rationalizing your authoritarian police state with a fabricated Orwell quote?

I don't think that the SAVE act includes anything about points 4 or 5? I think he's just throwing in some anti-trans stuff into his post for the fun of it?

As far as "is it just the aesthetic?" no, if anything that was a reason I was initially skeptical of Platner. I only got onboard after seeing more of what he had to say—whatever his faults, he speaks very well about many issues important to me—and seeing others I generally support back him.

For the record, as a Mainer who was previously a Platner supporter: I *would* support others who say those things. Mills isn't saying most of those things. It's looking like maybe LaFlamme, but I'm still pretty unfamiliar with her.

Your Honor, we would like to introduce this clip as Exhibit #1.

hey so this image is from Claude, could we all, like, wait a fucking second before we start treating it like news

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

1,000 targets isn't even a very big number. Everything about the war on Iran is both evil and stupid, but the idea that the American military apparatus would have trouble coming up with 1,000 targets to strike quickly *without* AI is baffling. You think they don't have buildings full of that info??

Another member of the chat, William Bejerano — who tried to start a pro-life group at Miami Dade College — was the primary user of the n-word in the group. At one point, he posted a block of text calling for dozens of acts of extreme violence against Black people, who he referred to using the n-word, including crucifying, beheading and dissecting people. Bejerano hung up the phone when reached by the Herald.

Dariel Gonzalez, the College Republicans’ recruitment chairman at the time, responded in the chat: “How edgy.” “Ew you had colored professors?!” Gonzalez wrote at another point. “I reguse [sic] to be indoctrinated by the coloreds.” He told the group he used the term “colored” because, “I was told we cant say black anymore.” A couple days later, he added: “Avoid the coloreds like the plague.” He did not respond to a request for comment. The group chat members — which included some women — also frequently discussed sex, sometimes describing women as “whores” and at one point using the k-word, a slur for Jewish people, to describe women they avoid.

Fun fact, fox news once tried to sic a mob on me because I wrote that being hispanic didn’t mean you couldn’t be a white supremacist, because race is subjective and many hispanics identify as white. Completely unrelated here’s how some Miami Republicans talk in private

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

Weird how this keeps happening! www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

The use of AI to identify targets (without subsequent specific human confirmation) should be considered a war crime.

And by that I don't mean "we should make a rule" I mean that straightforward application of the existing rules would tell you that it is a war crime.

Hello this dropped very late last night but it's definitely worth reading

After mistyping "yesterday" enough times I've decided I'm going to start calling trash night "yeeterday"