It's absolutely fucked how it took approximately five seconds from ppl inventing a slur for AIs they don't like to turn it into a general purpose slur against disabled people with prosthetics.

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

if you repeat “there is still time to repent” enough times in front of people facing down a hostile crowd and news cameras the message will start to sink in

i think there should be christian preachers in front lines of every protest unsubtly doing the “sinners in the hands of an angry god” thing

what i did not expect re: "AI" is the number of people saying "i know exactly what consciousness is" before saying "and this isn't it." i believe in the second half of that sentence. i do not know why anyone would say the first.

it is insane to me that you could basically get two narrative designers who can basically solve any problem within scope constraints. it’s like having people parachute in to rescue whatever you need fixing far beyond what you thought you could get

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

This is a good step in the right direction. More cities should follow suit and if governors had any gumption, they would work to take it to the state level.

Laura is one of the very best writers and editors in video games, you'd be lucky to get her on board a project.

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I don't think I get into legal debates with people who talk like Sephiroth

Perjury? The charge needs to be attempted murder. I realize there's a reluctance to create a potential confrontation between state and local police on the one hand vs. the feds on the other, but if the feds are going to protect a violent criminal, make them actually do that. bsky.app/profile/galv...

Yeah I do feel pretty confident of that because of how it's unrelated

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I agree a lot with this and it gets to an older understanding of liberalism I've mentioned before. It is more primal and "no kings" is actually a great slogan for it. The problem is "a king can do whatever he wants to you."

both the mainstream pro- and anti-AI arguments are entirely various types of cope

If there exists a category of people who don't have due process rights, then either there's a process for determining who fits in that category or there isn't. In the first case due process is still being observed for everyone, and in the second it can be denied to anyone. There are no other options

It doesn't make any sense to conceive of due process as a right that individual people can have or not have at all tbh. Bad framing from the start. Due process is a restriction on the government's actions, and by definition it applies to either everyone or no one.

Good statement, and, of course, insane replies.

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

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If I ran for federal office, I think I'd make "E pluribus unum" my official campaign slogan and talk often about what it means.

You can imagine an episode where Jake finds out a writer buddy is doing that but the episode would be about Jake helping them realize that's dishonest and also cringe