Matt Knutson 🏜️

Getting absolutely roasted by the sheep at the writing residency 😅 @SundressPub

Professor John Mearsheimer : "if there were Nuremberg trials right where the Israelis and the Americans were brought before the court, President Trump along with President Netanyahu and many of their advisors would be hanged"

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@donie @jaketapper @PeterHamby @JonahPlatt @TheLeadCNN Absolutely disgusting hit job, CNN should be ashamed of itself. Israel just green lit the mass murder of 10,000 Palestinian hostages and this is what you talk about.

American and Texan here: Americans mostly use guns to kill their whole families or random people in road rage related incidents. Lots of times we use them to kill children too. Our 2nd amendment is 50% a cyanide pill we chew on all day and 50% a vanity project for suburban morons

"What if a drug addict used your tax dollars to get SNAP benefits?" The government uses my tax dollars to bomb villages, arm warlords, fund coups, and trafficks children through proxy states. If a "junkie" eats because of me, that's the most moral thing my taxes have done.

No shirt just walks up and snuffs him, beastmode

The names of Palestinian babies (0-1) K*LLED by Israel in a year.

Israeli soldiers tortured this 18-month-old baby in Gaza to force a confession out of his father during an interrogation

🔺NEW: Spokesman for Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters addresses the U.S.: 🔹“Have your internal conflicts reached the point where you’re negotiating with yourselves?” 🔹“Don’t call your defeat an ‘agreement’. You will see neither your investments in the region nor previous energy and oil prices return.” 🔹“Until it is our will, nothing will return to how it was. That will only happen when the idea of acting against the Iranian people is completely erased from your minds.” 🔸“Our position from day one has been clear and remains unchanged: someone like us will never come to terms with someone like you — not now, and not ever.”

There are many reasons to resist AI (e.g. environmental harm, the power it gives to states/corporations, intellectual theft), but perhaps the biggest one for me is that, despite it all, I still believe that the human intellect is miraculous, irreplicable, & worth fighting for.

the most influential piece of writing wisdom for me is ursula k. le guin, who wrote a dozen books about guys sailing, saying: “Yeah idk, i've never been in a boat. I was just sort of guessing”

why do Democrats hate the only prominent streamer/political influencer who vaguely appeals to young men like every single other one is a neo-nazi manosphere freak and they are going after Hasan harder than they go after Trump. like israel is really worth all that to you?? jesus

Denmark is investing $83,754,486 in textbooks and turning away from its digital-first approach to education. This follows research showing that screens reduce concentration, impact mental health, and hurt student performance. Yet another dynamic to the EdTech debate.

sontag wrote that there are zones of human experience only accessible through transgression, meaning the willingness to follow desire past the point of comfort. sexuality is the primary doorway because it's where the self becomes most vulnerable art that refuses to go through that door voluntarily limits its territory. by this framework, an AI model trained via RLHF to avoid anything transgressive is limited in its epistemology and removing the guardrails doesn't fix it transgression requires a human self to risk

Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

like a child amidst a tantrum

The war on Iran is a massive, systemic failure of the US political system. No one but the military contracts and Israel fanatics wants it. It's terrible for Americans, for the whole world. Where is the opposition party? Where are the checks and balances? Where is democracy?

new höhlengleichnis just dropped

The people who did this want you to know international law and civilian life must be protected.