there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it
this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive
Ignore that Cramer's history is fucking stupid, but this is monstrous. Most Iranians are normal folks trying to live a tolerable life. How is "kill them all to keep oil prices low" something you feel comfortable saying in public?
A tomahawk missile costs the taxpayers the same amount of money as one five-year major NIH research grant. Remember that every time they tell us one of those missed the target, blew up paintings of enemy aircraft or tanks, or was the fifth and unnecessary hit on the same target.
most of my anger towards dems is they repeatedly invoke this trope and then do not govern, either in majority or minority, as if it was true. whereas i actually often do believe it and believe the responsibility to act like it’s true extends past the first week of november
i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly
One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.
The thing that I don't think they've fully grasped is because we've had two nearly three generations of adults who have been vaccinated, people are going to realize pretty quickly shit is bad when suddenly their kids are dying.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
is it morally or legally right? no
has it achieved any long standing strategic aims outside of degrading iranian strike assets? no
did any plan go into thinking about the second-order effects of this conflict? no
Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, “Wyoming is missing”
making it all the more comical that this administration pretended to care about antitrust issues when they just wanted to get Netflix out of the Warner Brothers game
“Alexander Dunn, a retired police officer and president of the Illinois Council of Police, a police union, told Business Insider that while Flock is a useful investigative tool, it can also be "an information overload" when officers on patrol are inundated with pings.”
“"It's just like scrolling on Instagram or a slot machine, you hear that ding from your computer, and now your adrenaline goes up a little bit," he said.”
Oh.
Schrödinger's war
Bedtime with kiddos the night after the time change is hell.
Defund billionaires. Seriously. We have a choice. Democracy or billionaires. Take their money.
In an ideal world, the guy who controls the nukes and the village idiot would be two separate people.
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.
oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
we joke but we're going to end up learning hegsgeth and/or his staff are really doing this
This is what peak male performance looks like
Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.
Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.
The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.
The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out.
I am amazed by the limited news coverage.
I kept my family in Pizza Hut and McDonald's during the summer library reading challenges.
Those bunkers are making more sense every day
The most scathing critics of Silicon Valley circa 2014 barely scratched the surface of the treachery these companies have shown.
Providing your products to criminal regimes planning to use them to violate human rights on a massive scale is a choice!
BRENNAN: The US is suspending some sanctions on Russia. But doesn't Russia financially benefit?
WRIGHT: Right now we're worried about Iran & US consumers
B: Russia was helping Iran
W: Well, there's been rumors. We don't know
B: Iranian drones have Russian parts in them. They're sharing intel
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
I don't think it's just job security. It's people who have gotten ahead by rent seeking. I point to door dash as an example because it is only modestly better than calling your local restaurant and ordering that way but they charge restaurants a 30-50% fee to do it.
My point is these are not people who have gotten good at creating new things that people need and making a steady profit off of that.
They are people who have gotten good at extracting wealth from a captured market they helped create.
