The fact is that a lot of people have always been racist assholes, but now they feel they can say it in public without repercussion.

“you sweet, summer child”

Anger and outrage sell, and the shows that lean more to the right are the ones that draw most heavily on those two emotions.

We need more outrage on the left, but it’s harder to come by because it frightens the rich who own all media companies.

The most striking thing in this graphic is that Republicans don’t trust anything except Fox and Joe Rogan. Shows the lack of critical thinking imho.

The [AI] safety stuff is more visceral to me after a weekend of vibe hacking,” Lemkin said. I explicitly told it eleven times in ALL CAPS not to do this. I am a little worried about safety now.

This sounds like something straight out of The Onion.

Yep. When he talked about buying Twitter, the courts took him to his word and forced him to proceed. The US media might not have the same power as the courts, but t’s a pity they don’t attack him more.

Oh come on. Saying “Without me, he would have lost” if far from admitting he rigged the election. If he did, an admission would need to be more specific. That being said, Musk is a Nazi incel POS.

I would say this is normal in a society where people trust each other.

“no taxation without representation”

By this standard, Windows isn’t ready either. I use Mint, Windows and Mac interchangeably at work, and of the three, Windows is definitely the one with the most unpleasant surprises: computer slowing down for no apparent reason, printers disappearing, updates forcing you to reboot in the middle of something…

Mac is fantastic if you don’t mind feeling like your computer doesn’t belong to you.

Vote. In every election. In the primaries. The city you live in. The school council. And convince everyone you know to vote, too. Protest. Strike. Make people you know angry about what’s happening so they are motivated to stir shit up. You still can change things, but you are right: you can’t do it alone. So find as many people you can who can do it with you. Time is running out.

The fact that he’ll spend all his time playing golf or whatever will leave ample room for all his appointees to actually govern. It’s not Trump we should be worried about.

Except if it’s free software.

The fact that they didn’t even try to hide their ssid (or at least, the report doesn’t say they did) shows how stupid people can be with cybersecurity.

“Can’t find the clitoris” is kind of a boomer joke tbh.

The word “fascism” comes from Mussolini’s ideas and was later used to denote any political system with similar ideas. I think the use of the word “nazism” has been generalized in the same way.

All variants of French are real. Source: am pedantic linguist.

Yeah every store values client loyalty, but pretending companies (e.g. Walmart for crissakes) want to be loyal to their customers should disqualify you from being called an “industry analyst”.

I think the most interesting thing in this article is the fact that some concepts central to semantics (analogy, connotation) or psychology (bias) kind of emerge naturally in multi layered neural networks of sufficient size. Also that it can sound like different personalities (overconfident, secretive, delusional) if you manipulate the weight or the proximity of features. I’d like to see the same kind of study but for midjourney…

Accelerationism is like being on a plane and wishing it crashes when one of the engine fails.