Mike W

"LLMs have exposed a vast pre-existing cultural appetite for false profundity, and gave everyone a machine that can produce it on demand."
Interesting take! It works with a lot of airport literature too, I guess.

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

It doesn’t “allow” anything.

For a long time I have been saying that the real danger of AI-controlled drones is not that they will go haywire and disobey orders, but that they will work correctly and obey them.

Need to line up the next toy for the toddler to play with lest he have a meltdown.

At this point, anyone filing for the DOJ has the same credibility as a random YouTuber.

Ok I’m not even close to being a lawyer but it feels like they’ve stayed a lot of TROs wrt cases everyone expected to be overturned after the case worked its way through appellate courts, e.g. tariffs.

Which is then stayed on the shadow docket, no?

These dummies are so grok-brained.

Raided the camps to confiscate the letters from the kidnapped kids.

Classic Good Guy behavior.

imagine if you were a vampire that lived for 100s of years but you just had a regular guy's memory. Like a normal person. "What was Venice like in the 14th century" Ahhh, I don't...I don't fucking remember. There was a guy, Vincenzo? Maybe that was the 15th century. Wait, did I live in Venice?

FBI Announces They Have Located Savannah Guthrie

FBI Announces They Have Located Savannah Guthrie

“Look, we social distanced. Maybe Epstein was in my pod with my kids and nannies, so what? We stayed outside the entire time.”

for better or worse, people will forget about that video by the end of the year, if not end of the month. but when trump finally kicks the bucket, there were be orgasmic celebrations across the US & around the world. he will be remembered as the most despised US president since WWII for generations

Over on X, the Everything App, serious conservative thinker Dinesh D'Souza shared a video of an AI-generated woman on a fake podcast he seemingly thought was real, telling the audience that young women should get with older men. Dude, wtf?

‘I Was Called a Body’: Minneapolis Resident and US Citizen Aliya Rahman Describes ICE Horror | APT YouTube video by APT

My god, her testimony. It’s just infuriating.

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

So predictable, in fact, one would be reasonable to challenge the loyalty of anyone who voted to confirm her.

Pardon him? They’re going to “flip him” to say it was a false flag attack.

Cue the confused Facebook posts in a few months.

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained.

Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Right wing white dudes finally noticing things a lot of women do for their kids, offices and communities on a daily basis:
PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.

When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL

I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.

The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.

At this point, even by the strictest Hobbesian standards, this government has abandoned its duty to serve the public, and is illegitimate.

The type of people who can engage in this behavior need to be kept away from society

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.