yarum
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Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?
December 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?
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actual numbers suggest that this narrative of systematic discrimination against white millennial men is bullshit.
What Does the Census Data Say About “The Lost Generation”
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
actual numbers suggest that this narrative of systematic discrimination against white millennial men is bullshit.
Side note from a Jewish person.
Not all Jews are Israeli, and not all Israelis are Jews.
You can share your empathy and grief without having to comment on a completely different geo-political nation state.
Not all Jews are Israeli, and not all Israelis are Jews.
You can share your empathy and grief without having to comment on a completely different geo-political nation state.
December 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Side note from a Jewish person.
Not all Jews are Israeli, and not all Israelis are Jews.
You can share your empathy and grief without having to comment on a completely different geo-political nation state.
Not all Jews are Israeli, and not all Israelis are Jews.
You can share your empathy and grief without having to comment on a completely different geo-political nation state.
We can’t be aspirational?! The far-right can be as aspirationally bigoted, racist, transphobic, and white Christian Nationalist as they want and we can’t hope for affordable food, healthcare, and education?! We can’t hope for a livable planet and livable wages?! GTFO.
December 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
We can’t be aspirational?! The far-right can be as aspirationally bigoted, racist, transphobic, and white Christian Nationalist as they want and we can’t hope for affordable food, healthcare, and education?! We can’t hope for a livable planet and livable wages?! GTFO.
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Hipkins and Labour need to stop trying to placate those who will never vote for them and start trying to inspire those who might.
December 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hipkins and Labour need to stop trying to placate those who will never vote for them and start trying to inspire those who might.
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The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.
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Everyone is selling innovation and none of it works. What if I started an agency that sold denovation. Build you a last-gen project that actually fucking works.
December 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Everyone is selling innovation and none of it works. What if I started an agency that sold denovation. Build you a last-gen project that actually fucking works.
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I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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Not every job requires a college degree. But higher education is about so much more than job training, and every kid deserves affordable access to it. Public support of higher education is an investment in a shared future that we all benefit from.
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Not every job requires a college degree. But higher education is about so much more than job training, and every kid deserves affordable access to it. Public support of higher education is an investment in a shared future that we all benefit from.
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Coming off Thanksgiving, and @theradr.bsky.social has a banger of an article.
The coda is going to stick me with a while: “We must choose life, every day. “Every policy. With every risk. Every effort.
“Which doesn't mean that it's easy.
“Only that it's the most important thing in the world.”
The coda is going to stick me with a while: “We must choose life, every day. “Every policy. With every risk. Every effort.
“Which doesn't mean that it's easy.
“Only that it's the most important thing in the world.”
Our Side Of The Deal
the tl;dr of covenant, and everything since Creation: Choose Life
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Coming off Thanksgiving, and @theradr.bsky.social has a banger of an article.
The coda is going to stick me with a while: “We must choose life, every day. “Every policy. With every risk. Every effort.
“Which doesn't mean that it's easy.
“Only that it's the most important thing in the world.”
The coda is going to stick me with a while: “We must choose life, every day. “Every policy. With every risk. Every effort.
“Which doesn't mean that it's easy.
“Only that it's the most important thing in the world.”
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Exciting news: my union @pen-guild.bsky.social won our fight to hold management accountable for rolling out AI tools with no notice & for failing to hold the bots to the same standards all of us humans must follow — in violation of the contract they agreed to. A neutral arbiter said we were right!
PEN Guild wins landmark arbitration on AI protections - Washington-Baltimore News Guild
This marks one of the first major labor-arbitration rulings on the impact of AI on journalism, setting an important precedent for the U.S. news industry.
wbng.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Exciting news: my union @pen-guild.bsky.social won our fight to hold management accountable for rolling out AI tools with no notice & for failing to hold the bots to the same standards all of us humans must follow — in violation of the contract they agreed to. A neutral arbiter said we were right!
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pay close attention to WHO produces this kind of bullshit, WHERE they get their money, and WHICH OUTLETS launder it
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
pay close attention to WHO produces this kind of bullshit, WHERE they get their money, and WHICH OUTLETS launder it
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Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
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I think one of the big problems with AI is that it's never about making my life easier in ways I want it to. "Oh it makes art so you don't have to" but I want to make art! I don't want to snake out dirty drains and pick up dog shit out of my yard. Focus on making the robots do that kind of stuff!
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I think one of the big problems with AI is that it's never about making my life easier in ways I want it to. "Oh it makes art so you don't have to" but I want to make art! I don't want to snake out dirty drains and pick up dog shit out of my yard. Focus on making the robots do that kind of stuff!
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The thing is, taking a strong stand in defence of trans people's rights isn't just the correct moral thing to do. It's also the politically smart thing to do.
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The thing is, taking a strong stand in defence of trans people's rights isn't just the correct moral thing to do. It's also the politically smart thing to do.
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"The Greens affirm our pledge to properly resource and promote clear pathways for timely, free, non-discriminatory access to all forms of gender-affirming healthcare based on informed consent and self-determination."
www.greens.org.nz/our_trans_wh...
www.greens.org.nz/our_trans_wh...
Our trans whānau deserve better than this Government
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
www.greens.org.nz
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
"The Greens affirm our pledge to properly resource and promote clear pathways for timely, free, non-discriminatory access to all forms of gender-affirming healthcare based on informed consent and self-determination."
www.greens.org.nz/our_trans_wh...
www.greens.org.nz/our_trans_wh...
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Sci-Fi film-maker- In my movie Highlander II: The Quickening I invented The Shield Corporation as a cautionary tale
Tech Company- At long last, we have created the The Shield Corporation from classic sci-fi movie Highlander II: The Quickening
Tech Company- At long last, we have created the The Shield Corporation from classic sci-fi movie Highlander II: The Quickening
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Sci-Fi film-maker- In my movie Highlander II: The Quickening I invented The Shield Corporation as a cautionary tale
Tech Company- At long last, we have created the The Shield Corporation from classic sci-fi movie Highlander II: The Quickening
Tech Company- At long last, we have created the The Shield Corporation from classic sci-fi movie Highlander II: The Quickening
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Hoo boy. We are all in such trouble.
It's also vastly easier and cheaper for media outlets to produce culture war content than policy stuff.
With policy, you have to find actual experts that are available and willing, then pray they're good entertaining communicators.
On culture shit, you start with a talking head and work backwards.
With policy, you have to find actual experts that are available and willing, then pray they're good entertaining communicators.
On culture shit, you start with a talking head and work backwards.
This chart (which applies even more to social media than it did to TV) lives in my head rent free.
Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.
Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.
November 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Hoo boy. We are all in such trouble.
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Doctors and parents should make decisions about what it best for their kids' health - not politicians.
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Doctors and parents should make decisions about what it best for their kids' health - not politicians.
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There are a million children in Aotearoa, about 700 of them have been prescribed puberty blockers (that's 0.07%)
Medication decisions should be decided by the child, their caregivers, and the relevant health professionals, not a party relying on imported culture wars to stay in power
Medication decisions should be decided by the child, their caregivers, and the relevant health professionals, not a party relying on imported culture wars to stay in power
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
There are a million children in Aotearoa, about 700 of them have been prescribed puberty blockers (that's 0.07%)
Medication decisions should be decided by the child, their caregivers, and the relevant health professionals, not a party relying on imported culture wars to stay in power
Medication decisions should be decided by the child, their caregivers, and the relevant health professionals, not a party relying on imported culture wars to stay in power
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I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
Shit it down. All of it.
Best typo ever - I’m keeping it. Obvs meant ‘shut’.
AI is a fucking menace, and these companies should be held accountable and prevented from doing further ‘business’.
We don’t need these tools and never asked for them.
Regulate the living shit out of these tech orgs.
Best typo ever - I’m keeping it. Obvs meant ‘shut’.
AI is a fucking menace, and these companies should be held accountable and prevented from doing further ‘business’.
We don’t need these tools and never asked for them.
Regulate the living shit out of these tech orgs.
November 19, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Shit it down. All of it.
Best typo ever - I’m keeping it. Obvs meant ‘shut’.
AI is a fucking menace, and these companies should be held accountable and prevented from doing further ‘business’.
We don’t need these tools and never asked for them.
Regulate the living shit out of these tech orgs.
Best typo ever - I’m keeping it. Obvs meant ‘shut’.
AI is a fucking menace, and these companies should be held accountable and prevented from doing further ‘business’.
We don’t need these tools and never asked for them.
Regulate the living shit out of these tech orgs.