I gotta tell you, long before the advent of AI, the expense of paying the writer was already, with very few exceptions, not a significant part of the cost equation. I think we’re just dealing with people who see the existence of humans as a problem to solve.
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I just finished the audio book, which I highly recommend. It’s incredibly well done and brings some elements that reading just can’t.
I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened
Today I watched a 3-year-old put his face into a bowl of dry Cheerios and eat them like my cat eats her kibble. Little kids are fascinating.
we are at war because he wanted to be at war. it's almost certainly that simple.
I spend far too much time online, though, and I know it (...she says as she posts on an online platform...).
I didn't expect to retire when I did, but the bigger surprise is that I didn't expect retirement to be so mind-numbingly boring. And lonely. I'm sure my experience would be different if I had any money, which I absolutely do not. Anyway, today is the day I read books to preschoolers, so there's that
Well, this is an exciting development in our very sleepy, restaurant-deficient neighborhood.
Yesterday I bought a really nice, barely used Thule bike rack for a phenomenal price from a guy who is moving out of the US. As thrilled as I am about the acquisition of something I've needed for some time, I'm also envious of the seller in that he gets to leave the US at this particular time.
Epstein video Q & A: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/epstein-and-the-shadow-world
On Epstein, video, and AI, from an interview I did last month: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/epstein-an...
The incompetent, simple-minded atrocity in the White [Supremacy] House is ensuring that Americans will risk revenge killings for generations.
I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power
The perils of using cardboard for art:
"Hashimoto explained that, because the sculpture was made from cardboard, cats kept...using it as a scratching post...What's more, he would find cats sleeping with it in order to keep warm..."
So, wait. Wait. Trump says the next Iranian leader has to be someone he approves if not outright chooses? What? Is he the world's HR director? JFC.
that the Trump administration is trying to shut down a leading AI company because it’s unwilling to develop autonomous murder systems is terrifying, and should be of grave concern to everyone in the world
I feel like it was around the same time that movie box office receipt numbers became part of the regular (not industry) news. It made me think, like why would the average American care how much money a movie made over the weekend?
Yeah, the footage Fox News used seems to have been from December
Tomorrow morning will remind me once again that we have a fuck ton of clocks in this house.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
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.
I think about this all the time. And for faculty in good jobs it still has some of that — I do enjoy knowledge making. But those are so so few and everywhere else the academe is indentured labor to a loan shark.
I've worked with registered dieticians. Mine started by looking at what I was currently eating. From there, they outlined the macro adjustments I needed (protein, carbs, fiber) plus calorie targets. From there, we definitely talked about what I liked and how to make that work. It was never punitive.
Didn't the time change used to be like a month later than it is now? I seem to remember it always happening during finals when I was in college.
There's a medical professional on social media who tracks Trump's dementia progression. He says that the low lighting is intentional so as not to overstimulate the patient. Persons with dementia are light sensitive, apparently. He explains it here. www.tiktok.com/@epistemiccr...
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
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The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.
Hegseth and Stephen Miller ridiculed "rules of engagement" and vowed this war won't be "politically correct." Now it looks like we may have bombed an elementary school. Hegseth/Miller's certainty that their version of "strength" would have support is imploding. 3/
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If a US Senator wants the US to go to war against another country, he should introduce a war authorization and push for a vote in the US Congress.
Not subvert the Constitution to achieve that end.
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I just keep coming back to this and how in a normal world this would be the end of any career who had anything to do with it.
brianmcginnisnc Brian McGinnis' wife has NOT been allowed to see him in the hospital. He is currently awaiting surgery for severe injuries. Legal counsel has also been denied access. A Marine veteran. A firefighter. A father of four. And his family still cannot see him.
so apparently Brian McGinnis has been denied access to both his family and legal representation since a sitting senator broke his arm
