Unless Iran is willing to sell out Hezbollah it seems like the Israelis could indefinitely prevent a deal by continually waging ceasefire on southern Lebanon
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mountain cretin
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lmao look at this x axis
Mark Dubowitz@mdubowitz
Epic Fury and Roaring Lion changed the trajectory of Iran’s medium-range ballistic missile program (1,000–3,000 km range), pushing it off the deadly red-line growth path and onto the yellow — or even blue — trajectory through sustained kinetic and economic pressure designed to prevent reconstitution. Now we may be heading toward a deal that risks putting the regime right back on the red-line trajectory — rebuilding the very missile capabilities that U.S. and Israeli operations worked to destroy. That would mean losing at the negotiating table what was won on the battlefield. I warned about this back in March: nypost.com/2026/03/25/opi…
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@nuqedvest Like posting, 95% of "otg organizing" is a social club for people who don't know what else to do and cant take their eyes off the void
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@nuqedvest The funny thing about claiming valor for "actual organizing" is that the fastest way to radicalize yourself against it is to participate in any 21st century leftist organizing
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I wonder what % of tech/AI people being such nitwits is accounted for by the fact that everyone on their twitter is only reading bluecheck-generated text
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@atmoio They're actually not arguing for AGI in the sense of computers being human (although this is what they sell), but rather diluting human intelligence to the level of mere agregated language & subsequent computation.
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I’ve been trying to find good analogies for this.
The argument seems to be: “AI is intelligent because it does intelligent-like things, therefore it is cope to say it’s not intelligent.”
Some analogies:
- “The moon is really bright. Therefore it is capable of luminance.” Here of course we expose a manner of speaking. The moon reflects the sun’s light. The models reflect our own intelligence. The moon will never be a star.
- “A snail on the bed of a tow truck is really fast. Look, it’s moving from A to B at 60mph, it’s clearly fast.” But of course the snail is borrowing the truck’s velocity.
Notice how there is no controversy in calling the technology large language models because the term is perfectly apt: a map of language. This points to language as constructed by humans as the true source of magic, and LLMs being algorithms that can traverse this map at light speeds.
Before you think I’m being pedantic, understand that the nature of the words we use is precisely what’s at stake. That the moon *looks* bright is incontrovertible. Insisting however that the moon itself has any concept of inherent luminance is when you start to gaslight people into deranged realities that they will not stand for. Attempting to appropriate ageless conceptions like consciousness and intelligence to corporate technology by playing axiomatic word games is insanity.
Large language models do what they do and this is non-controversial. Personifying it with human-like attributes however is totally uncalled for, when it is easy enough for us to define new words that better capture the phenomenon.
I’ve been thinking long and hard about this and I think a good phrase for these technologies can be—hear me out:
“large language models”
nic carter@nic_carter
The “it’s not AGI because machine intelligence is jagged” is dumb cope. It’s obviously AGI. If you had a friend who had a 130 IQ, could write production code flawlessly, could write academic papers of a high research caliber, pass any exam in any field with flying colors, create a sophisticate LBO model, draw technical diagrams perfectly, compose poetry in any language, and could find solutions to significant unsolved mathematical problems, you would call that person a world historical genius. Certainly, no single human has ever had intelligence that “general” before. Now you think it’s “not AGI” because it sometimes slips up and makes mistakes - so does any human that you would consider “extraordinarily intelligent.” The professor might forget a colleagues name that he has known for a decade. He is still considered intelligent. The math genius might be a little autistic and shy, unable to maintain polite conversation. Still intelligent. You might stare at the fridge for 30 seconds unable to find the butter, despite 5 million years of evolution perfecting your visual intelligence. We give intelligent humans a pass when they have jagged intelligence. So why the double standard? The qualities people list as “necessary for AGI” are important traits to have, but no longer pertain to intelligence. People will say things like “true AGI requires agency, long term goal setting, embodiment, self-direct action”. But none of those things are intelligence. Those are “things that humans have that AI lacks”. Raw intelligence, AI has it in spades. That other stuff - important yet, but broader than and different from intelligence. The unwillingness of people to acknowledge that AGI obviously exists and has existed for a while is due to a kind of anthropic chauvinism - a psychological need to believe that humans are superior in every respect, that we possess soft skills that no machine could replicate. Yes humans are different from machines, but if we are limiting the discussion solely to general intelligence, AI has it already. That battle is over. If you want to reframe the discussion to matters of human dignity and personhood, fine, but that’s not an AGI question. That’s something else. Just take the loss on AGI already. It’s over.
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do you think they should have a big switch for sanctioning UN officials that goes off when they clears US customs and goes on every time their plane enters international airspace?
Orde F. Kittrie@ordefk
🧵My new article: federal judge who paused US sanctions on Francesca Albanese (an Italian citizen living in Tunisia), claiming the sanctions violated her First Amendment rights, disregarded US Supreme Court's 2020 ruling that “foreign citizens outside U.S. territory do not possess rights under the U.S. Constitution.” 1/3 fdd.org/analysis/2026/…
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Is @TuckerCarlson running? Most of the left will vote for him in a heartbeat.
Policy Tensor@policytensor
@obzhdam The capture has gone too far. It’s too blatant. Our politicians are just tools of a foreign power.
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@whoisomariam birthright trips for anyone matrilineally related to a British drop shipper
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@NiceCrossbreeze That would be a funny sight. UAEPAC calling WFP Arabphobic and demanding that Sudanese restaurants be careful not to make Emiratis feel uncomfortable.
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mountain cretin retweetledi
There is an inexplicable chasm between the amount of people that nominally recognize that Israel is committing a genocide, and the amount of people that actually treat the situation as if they really think it is a genocide.
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@whoisomariam If anyone cared enough to agitate about pressuring the UAE on Sudan, I am sure they would get dozens of democrats flying out to Dubai. The same callousness strangling Palestine preempts Sudan, Yemen, etc from even getting to the stage of agitation where they need to be explicit
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@NiceCrossbreeze Yeah but even just compared to the totally lackluster response to Rwanda or Darfur in 2004, there’s way more reflexive defensiveness of the people, politicians and institutions directly responsible, and way less actual help making it to the other side.
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@whoisomariam the Holocaust comparison is misleading because it's the only genocide any non-victims actually care about (and even that only retroactively). Gives a false sense of the urgency expected around genocide
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I’ve been thinking about this since I saw AOC defend the Iron Dome *after* calling it a genocide. Would AOC have supported sending tank destroyers to Nazis to protect German civilians?
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Why didn't you put a link in this particular answer? Surely you would want to drive traffic to other relevant articles published by your own newspaper if you have such strong proof.
Nicholas Kristof@NickKristof
Readers offered questions and pushback about my investigation into sexual assaults against Palestinians by Israelis. So here are our answers: nytimes.com/2026/05/21/opi…
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@hasanthehun @nukedwest the only way to settle this once and for all is on stream
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@nukedwest buddy if you think i’m distancing myself from antizionists or antizionism you are choosing the british over the ottoman. we can have reasonable disagreements, i apologize for all the ppl replying to you, but i am not a zionist.
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I actually think that it's his guilty conscience
🦜@parandeye_zard
Hasan Piker suddenly starting arguments with Salin and Brian feels less about any disagreement he has with them and more a signal to his Democrat owners that he'll gladly distance himself from anti-Zionists
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@professorgaysex @nukedwest salin cultivates annoying reply guys it's like his version of gardening
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@nukedwest Hasan’s fans are the K-POP Stans of Politics bro, get ready for an unlimited amount of annoying reply guys orbiting you for the next month
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You voted for Kamala, thats literally a compromise on Gaza genocide
hasanabi@hasanthehun
yes i famously compromise on the genocide in gaza!
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you can either uncompromisingly oppose genocide OR publicly support any Dem elected official other than Tlaib. It's an understandably unpleasant position to be in, but deluding yourself about it doesn't help anyone except the Zionists
hasanabi@hasanthehun
yes i famously compromise on the genocide in gaza!
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@hasanthehun @nukedwest if posting is just froth why not at least be honest
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@nukedwest which pales in comparison to your methods. also posting.
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its always if if if with these zionist dems
hasanabi@hasanthehun
now imagine if the other side is offering medicare 4 all, arms embargo and sanctions on israel, a federal jobs guarantee, social housing projects and high speed rail.
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I hope trump starts openly cheating the vote just so that idiot election pundits lose their hobby
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