Close up of Josh's fake mouth and chin, with a square jaw and stubble
Close up of Josh's actual, more frog-like mouth and chin, with round jaw, baby-smooth cheeks and acne
This is what I'm doing when I'm not staring into the modern gestalt horrorvoid.
My bigger picture approach is to treat afro-caribbean knowledge systems with the same respectful framing as we do western proto-scientific systems that were ultimately just as epistemically distant from modern STEM.
Biggest challenge will be in studying it as a black box, closed system, and respectful of practitioners while still discussing it in a broader historical context.
Academic stuff:
Currently starting work on a paper about Obeah in a history of science context, where I research it with the same historiographical respect as I would when talking about the humours or Paracelsus.
#histsci #hsts #historyofmedicine
Lol, I mentioned Amanda Askell and the dubious ethics of Anthropic helping blow up kids, and someone found my work email and tried to sign me up for her blog.
Weird way to try convincing someone it's not a cult.
Bringing back the morals ethics duty and honor, every single general and soldier who perpetuates this war should be brought up on charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
All of them.
Set aside morals, ethics, duty or honor, of which Hegseth has none - he also doesn't understand that these rules and norms he hates so much are the only thing that's kept the rest of the world from joining forces and obliterating us.
The thing about rules of engagement is that they protect the "mighty" from the wrath of the weak.
If everyone knows you're just going to kill them without any restraint, then they have no reason to help you, and the US does not in fact have the budget, resources or manpower to solo the world.
I think he's holding on as long as he can and has no plan for anything because he's flickering like a spent candle.
Just get his name on a bunch of stuff and go out without ever experiencing a single consequence.
A living and dying moral indictment of American capitalism, a monument to vulgarity.
I really am convinced, without hyperbole, that Trump is just trying to kill as many people as he can before he dies this summer.
And I am convinced he will die this summer. He isn't acting like someone who thinks he's going to live much longer.
He's acting like a nihilist at the end of life.
"We could do 'em all..."
What is "doing" them in this thing's brain?
Because it seems like he is literally just talking about indiscriminately bombing countries just for the sake of bombing them.
And does Rubio just really want Cuba carpet bombed? Hates everyone who lives there that much, huh?
Thankfully, I don't have to take that position because I think Pete Hegseth is just as wrong as every violent theocratic monster has ever been.
He's a stain like all the other stains of history, and time and good effort will wash him away.
The thing is, if I believed that God was what Hegseth believes God is, the only moral choice would be Satanism.
If your God wants you to mass murder little girls and defend wealthy rapists, then your God is evil and I would rather go to hell that worship that.
No wars are holy.
An LLM won't judge you because LLMs are not conscious, or intelligent, and they have no opinions. They are not alive, have no internality, and cannot care or feel things.
But they can reflect the biases of their training data and the people who created them.
Maybe Amanda Askell can go back on Pod Save America and explain how ethical it is for Anthropic to help murder children.
Where's that part of the Claude Constitution?
So much for the "ethical" ai company.
The reason I don't believe any of the propagandists who tried claiming Iran did it is because if they had, every news outlet would have put it on the front page.
The thing that needs to be pointed out is that there is no such thing as a moderate in the current GOP. They are uniformly the party of rape, murder, pedophilia, theft and oppression.
Which is why Democrats need to kick out John Fetterman and anyone who isn't sufficiently, consistently opposition.
Republicans were never going to vote against the opportunity to murder innocent civilians abroad.
The whole party is a death cult.
Machinist on one side and artist on the other.
Being a rapist is this man's single defining feature.
Everything else is details.
It's about the same amount of time I've spent listening to straight men explaining that they don't have anything against gay people but could never do it, themselves, and it's like a waiter refusing to serve you a meal you didn't order.
Probably the most exhausting thing about polyamory isn't making time for your multiple partners, but the amount of time taken up listening to monogamous people apologetically letting you know they wouldn't have the energy to maintain multiple ships, even though they weren't in the running.
Just really cool and good how you are acting like he has the right to make decisions about who is in charge of Iran.
He really does think he's god emperor of the world, and you are complicit.
There's a lot of talking involved
Like, it's fine if it's not for them, but boy do they have opinions about the inside of other peoples' hearts
The biggest advantage Republicans have is that their base never listens to what they say.
The straights are having discourse today
