aidan walker

it’s time to replace the morning scroll with a morning stroll

when they call me unc in the comments on tiktok

locking in

Remember when they said Trump would get us into a full-blown war with Iran? Times like these should make us all realize how lucky we were to have Trump, his strength and his resolve.

I will not vote for a democratic party that favors the advice of men who have had the privilege to travel the world but still felt content with the grace of ignorance.

Lol, this is so good and so brutal

easy, low-lift AI regulation: ban all models from using the words “I” and “me.” solves 65% of all psychosis, improper use, and embarrassing behavior if we make it harder to anthropomorphize the bots.

@Chris_arnade my friend, the Louvre comment is clearly a joke

Stealing from Louvre (or any public museum) is ok is a crazy take because 1) it's a public good built to democratize ownership of cultural icons 2) It was directly formed as such, having appropriated art from elites for national ownership 3) It is as such, the antithesis of socialism. It is removing art from the public to the private 4) it might be the singular most socially destructive symbolic act you can do

I think the vast majority of Americans would agree

I think this is the best picture I've ever taken

Blob "intellectuals" only do real talk off-the-record because they can't stand by their analysis in good faith -- actual thinking is subordinated to access-finding, the skill atrophies. Also Foreign Policy mag doesn't know what a Rorschach test is

Net favorability among independents: Bernie Sanders +21 Democrats in Congress -36 Net favorability among moderates: Bernie Sanders +24 Democrats in Congress -31 Centrists on this website will do anything to avoid looking in the mirror.

@mattyglesias "absent" in the sense of clearly not breaking through and highly ineffective, no?

The strangest thing about the contemporary American and global crises is that you’d think the imperialists in the Democratic Party would realize that massive internal reforms are needed to restore American political credibility with both allies and adversaries.

Cory Booker claiming he had no idea who Hasan Piker was before a few days ago and he had never heard is name is either a bald faced lie or reveals how stunningly ignorant these politicians are abt the online world. Cory Booker is the one leading the Senate Dems social media stuff

Cutter is one of many from Obama world who have signed up to work for companies who are responsible for this country’s decline. This trend is much more serious problem for the Democratic Party than anything Hasan Piker has said on Twitch.

The largest student movement since the Vietnam War was in response to watching a genocide, live. Across the USA young people stood up & said NO. They were arrested, beaten, expelled, vilified, followed, disappeared. It was shut down by a state-corporate-university-press alliance

Frankfurt School: "The Enlightenment's one-sided conception of reason inevitably leads to the use of human beings as objects." Steven Pinker, friend of Jeffrey Epstein: "Preposterous!"

she communion on my jd til I tradcath conversion memoir

@deanwball The question of whether AI is smart is a dumb question.l The primary use of the tech is not "researcher using it to answer questions" but "short cut for getting money to shareholders and gutting social infrastructure" That, at least, is how most people have experienced it

My theory about why so many on the left remain in denial about AI is that their worldview rests on a load-bearing notion of “the tech industry” as being composed of vapid morons whose accomplishments will always be superficial, never “real,” always based on some grand theft. With social media and search, the theft was manipulation of people’s minds. With Amazon it was worker exploitation. With Apple, it was a mix of these. In the left retelling of the story, no value whatsoever was created from these technologies. All a trick. With AI the “grand theft” in the telling of the left is the use of copyright-protected data in pre-training. This one is a particularly dangerous mindworm for them, since they identify with the “artists and writers” from whom they imagine this training data was “stolen.” This is why things like “mode collapse” from synthetic data, stochastic parrotry, “it can only mimic things it has seen on the web” and similar are so core to the argument for the left: it supports the notion of “tech bro” thieves—who lest we forget, and they never will let us, have no “liberal arts” training!—continuing their unbroken string of robberies. Of course the “grand theft” notion is an old motif on the left, relating as it does to a zero-sum mindset about economics, business, and growth that is. more traditionally associated with the left, though the lines have always been blurry, since the zero-sum mindset is above all else a *human* fallacy and thus a useful tactic in mass politics of all valences. The lines have become especially blurry lately, as has been widely observed. Anyway, the notion that AI *is* a genuinely world-changing technology, that it can “go beyond” its “stolen” training data, breaks this load-bearing conception of the tech industry as vapid and superficial and, more importantly, of the people within it as blood-sucking thieves.

If this happens I think well see wealthy families go to go back to hiring a governess and private tutors for every subject while poor kids are warehoused in public schools w AI tools looping propaganda all day