@blindsat

@chests @GianmarcoSoresi Long ago this was actually a standard way that conservatives would attempt to ridicule liberal views of any sort. Kind of crazy to see it in the wild in the year of our Lord 2026

@GianmarcoSoresi still perplexed why he put on a sassy gay voice to imitate poor people booing

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@mathburritos @ashwinl @PimmInACup @teddypowday Someone adopting ChatGPT Voice as their own, without actually using an LLM, is grim shit

@ashwinl @PimmInACup @teddypowday I'm pretty sure you wrote this, but it has that glib LLM style and implies Garry Tan is hungry, so honestly not sure if you're investing any thought into it. But the downside people are talking about is a person losing touch with reality. It's not failing at coding or whatever.

Is there really nobody in SF who can pull garry tan aside for an honest chat about what's happening to him

@TownsUsa R.I.P.

I think I gotta pay to make the bot now. Maybe credits will reset in a few hours (according to that unix timestamp). I'm not going to pay.

@MirandaWMeyer Glad I just got mine renewed, maybe I can bypass the trump edition entirely

@PabloReports @RonFilipkowski Ron is notorious for stealing/not attributing reporting that he reposts on his feed, or at least he was during the summer of 2020

Credit where due: I get most of my best questions for Congress from @RonFilipkowski

@GABXia @basedsenorito @nypost The article this tweet is in reference to describes Asheville as "scary"

@basedsenorito @nypost No one is afraid of Asheville, it's just annoying to deal with because they allow their homeless population to go unchecked and smash windows and destroy property.

Once-charming, US mountain escape has transformed into 'nasty, crazy, and scary' city trib.al/jpSrLJ6

@poiuplop @JoePostingg That's not happening though

@JoePostingg No one cares about trans people in a parkrun. The issue is when men record themselves as women in the parkrun. Hope that helps.

This is so dumb. Parkrun is a casual co-ed event that's technically not even a race. Its like getting mad about trans people in a co-ed slow pitch softball beer league.

@medi0 @zeinsmind @TMZ She's 44 and he's 29. The guy is a full blown independent adult with his own career for a decade, not a high school student.

@zeinsmind @TMZ Keep in mind, that gender of the elder person is important. It is absolutely fine and empowering when it is a woman.

Russell Brand says he slept with a 16-year-old when he was 30. 😬 tmz.me/OhxjuOu Credit: The Megyn Kelly Show

@TJS3331 @ryangrim I misunderstood and thought you were saying she was won over by the comment. All the same, there's no evidence that Ryan is basing his assessment that she has been won over on this comment alone

@blindsat @ryangrim Yes, that is the leap I was referring to. How did they come to that conclusion from McCain's comment?

It's amazing that Trump can trash Meghan McCain's dad for years but all it takes to win her over is a war on Iran. Truly her father's daughter. He'd be genuinely proud.

@TJS3331 @ryangrim "all it takes to win her over is a war on Iran"

@ryangrim How do you make the leap that she was won over by reading this comment alone?

@Brien_Jackson @danceswitbears Wow, so savvy, so tough, so cool

@danceswitbears No I'm just old enough to remember the 90's kid. Now go take a nap and stop bothering the adults

Yeah man, that's one of the consequences of losing multiple military conflicts for 80 fucking years ruuning

@NotTheMormon1 @normalwomxn @PrinceDuSang510 This is the best part - by never explicitly stating, they can continue to occupy the moral high ground in any discourse. Nice!

@normalwomxn @PrinceDuSang510 What is the change you want to see?

Boots Riley's new film is executive produced by Zero Dark Thirty & Death in the Terminal producer Megan Ellison, daughter of Larry Ellison and brother of David Ellison

@Punk_terminator @tomtomthetomtom @NatalieElsberg @BillAckman Peak economic prosperity in the United States was ushered in with marginal tax rates of over 90% and the expansion of government welfare programs covering disability and healthcare.

@tomtomthetomtom @NatalieElsberg @BillAckman You would need more than that to understand what’s going to happen, high taxes and free stuff kills economy and that’s not a secret

Non-residents who spend millions of dollars on NYC apartments help drive NYC’s economy. Most of the profit in condominium development is in the penthouses. The Ken Griffins of the world make NYC high end development viable, driving high-paying construction, brokerage, legal, marketing, and other jobs in NYC. We should be applauding Ken for spending $238 million in NYC, not attacking him for doing so. Importantly, non-resident owners of NYC apartments who leave their apartments vacant for much of the year are not a burden to NYC schools, services, or other resources while they drive growth in retail sales, restaurants, theater, and other important drivers of our economy. They also often support NYC non-profits with donations. Ken’s company is a major employer in NYC of very high paying jobs which drive a considerable amount of our tax base. We wouldn’t want him to move even more employees to Miami. These non-resident owners also already pay a lot of taxes including mansion taxes, real estate taxes, sales taxes and more. While @NYCMayor Mamdani likes the tag line ‘Tax the rich.’ Unfortunately, his policies will harm the constituencies he is supposedly trying to help. I can’t imagine the NYC construction unions are excited about his plan.

@Howlingmutant0 This guy's name is Alexander Norden

Yeah I “meal prep”

@uhohthatsweird @hecubian_devil He did a talk with cory doctorow that really exposed him as a demagogue and poor thinker. Cory was measured and insightful as always and at the end Ed just kept blubbering variations of "well I think you're wrong" and trying to get the last word. It was embarrassing to hear.

@hecubian_devil he's essentially got reverse ai psychosis. i wouldn't be surprised to discover he's been mainlining 4o this whole time.

There’s two big problems I have with Ed Zitron’s analysis in particular, and the “AI will never be truly impactful nor economically viable” argument in general 1) It doesn’t seem to understand the history of technology. Not just computer technology or software, but technology writ large. AI firms aren’t profitable currently. The capex is insane, the business models murky. The ultimate social and broader economic impact remains largely speculative. As Zitron correctly argues, AI is, for now, just “exactly the shit that software has always done — automations, shortcuts, reminders, and document work.” None of this suggests it won’t become profitable or hugely impactful, and a better understanding of the history of technological development and investment would reveal this. I think specifically back to the printing press—a development so obviously revolutionary in retrospect that it’s easy to forget that Gutenberg’s press was never consistently viable in his own lifetime, and by 1458 (18 years after his first press was completed) he was *extremely* bankrupt. For the first *several decades* of print, printers operated with razor-thin or often negative margins, and bankruptcies were common. And of course, they didn’t do anything humans couldn’t already do—copy and reproduce texts. Presses were expensive, high-investment businesses for the time. The market for their output was limited (not a ton of literate Europeans at the time) and often incapable of financial viability outside of select markets like Venice where literacy was much more widespread. Contemporaries also had a lot of familiar complaints. Printers, as a rule, exercised little-to-no editorial oversight. They’d print whatever sold. Misinformation, plagiarism, and inflammatory content were rife. And print took a long time to transform society. By the time print became undeniably, obviously transformative—with Martin Luther and the Reformation—nearly *eighty years* had passed since Gutenberg’s first press. About sixty since he’d gone bankrupt and been barred from Strasbourg for being such a profligate debtor. This is the thing: if you understand the history of technology, none of the arguments made about AI are new, or even unusual. They’re the norm for new technology. The initial investment boom is exuberant and irrational. The ultimate market for the product is foggy. The social impacts speculative. The difference from what human labor can already do is underwhelming. The quality is worse than what human artisans produce. And yet, sometimes, new technology does indeed become economically viable and socially transformative. Maybe AI will flounder and fail—but none of *these* critiques are actually a good guide for determining that, because they’ve been true of *most* new technologies, dead-ends and revolutionary successes alike. 2) The stakes of believing this dismissal of AI *and being wrong* are massive. *If* AI becomes economically viable and socially transformative, the effects are likely to be horrendous, on the level of the individual (making us all less competent and capable thinkers, with a demolished sense of agency) and on the level of society (unemployment, intense mass surveillance, previously-impossible levels of propaganda consolidation—the destruction of mass politics as we know it, and a huge threat to the ability to organize). If we pat ourselves on the back for being wisely skeptical doubters, instead of taking legislative action, and we’re wrong? It would be a world-historical disaster for the left. But, hey, we’d feel really smart on the way down.

@josephhooker @BoneJail @taste_of_tbone Saw a guy with a "kill your local pedophile" hoodie, but with the hood down it obscured the "kill" part lmao

@BoneJail @taste_of_tbone It's a cue to other dipshits that you're smart and strong Same shit as "kill your local pedophile" bumper stickers or whatever Probably a little cis gender affirmation

Everyone posting about how they would have and the owner of the house should have shot this guy is essentially the same kind of dude as the guy in the video, a suburban dork fantasizing that one day they’re going to get to be the star of an action movie and hurt somebody

@sockpuppet80 @christapeterso That's true, but a lot of that oil is getting there via underwater pipeline direct from offshore oil fields. I'm not sure how easy it would be to spin up an alternative.

@christapeterso The Kharg Island part is almost as hilarious. "Ninety percent of their oil flows through it", yeah, by choice. It's just a fucking terminal, its not the actual source you fucking clowns.

Don’t siege Leningrad. Take it immediately

@MirandaWMeyer I do a lot of repair work and LLM generated content and webpages is swamping what used to be one of the last, least-compromised examples of "good internet." It seems uniquely ill-suited to summarize it (blends together eg multiple similar cars, appliances, etc). I hate it!

@TownsUsa Nice

Happy ducks 👍

@TheGirondin @ohcrapohno @delmoi It is not a lie if we're comparing activity per kWh generated, which is the more meaningful metric here since the only meaningful comparison between two energy sources is if you hold the amount of energy produced constant

@ohcrapohno @delmoi I know this is a lie, so I'm still smarter than you

Coal ash is almost twice as radioactive as spent nuclear fuel and they're gonna let them dump it into your drinking water