Matt Fotis

Let's be direct about this. The Trump family has turned our government into their personal piggy bank. It’s appalling.

The Pope is a great example of the idea that cruelty is actually dumb and that kindness and openness come from intelligence. A great juxtaposition to the (techno)fascists of our time. It takes a mind to create a better world, it takes zero to destroy it.

Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas. Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions, and that is what makes us exceptional

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

spurs up by six with the ball and less the five seconds to go lol this was the most FUCK YOU GUYS dunk i’ve seen in a game in a looooong time 😂😂😂😂😂

I PROMISE YOU THAT THE UFC EVENT ON THE SOUTH LAWN WILL BE THE LARGEST GATHERING OF DOMESTIC ABUSERS AND SEXUAL PREDATORS IN WHITE HOUSE HISTORY 👍

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.

the thunder play basketball like if the children of rich people was a basketball style

nothing on earth lasts longer than a video someone is showing you on their phone that you have zero interest in.

A reminder that no serious historian, academic or anyone who has spent even minutes looking at Nazi Germany agrees with this. Hitler locked up the left, denounced the left. He was not a 'hardcore socialist.' The only people who say this are... Nazi sympathizers & the far right.

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

it does make me feel pretty bad that the literal actual catholic pope is not only considerably more informed about AI, what it actually is, its costs and externalities but also much more serious about combating regulating and limiting it than virtually every american politician

This passage from Leo's Encyclical is perfect. Perfect.

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

It’s still so fucking embarrassing that people were mad about wearing masks lmao

I’ll never understand how so many people were manipulated into believing the government shouldn’t use the tax money you pay to fund services and create systems that benefit you.

Tom doing the lord’s work here. No more OKC fan excuses. Your dude is a mathematically confirmed flopper…

New from the NYT: The failure to detect the new Ebola outbreak in a timely manner, can, in part, be tied directly to the destruction of USAID.

COMMENTARY: Let’s say it plainly: There has never been a president as corrupt as Donald Trump. There is no close second in our history. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…