And just to be 100% clear it is explicitly forbidden in Article 23(d) of the 1907 Hague Convention IV, itself incorporated into domestic law via 18 USC 2441(c)(2). It is a directly enumerated war crime, and giving or acting on that order is prosecutable domestically.

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Seems like the War on Christmas starts earlier every year

A quibble: all growth measurements are sums of changes, which may be negative. So reporting them as percentages is nonsensical. For example, overall growth might be zero or negative. What would the percentage of that be?

This is notable in light of motorists’ bullying behavior towards human bodies they encounter. An inanimate object cannot be bullied, so they are motivated to avoid it instead.

It’s time to lose the falcon
It’s time to loose the tide
It’s time to move our slow thighs
Toward Bethlehem tonight

Uh the press release is obviously LLM slop already.

“Not just X, it’s also Y!”

I like this. And, according to Graeber and Wengrow, for most of history human social systems were fluid and diverse, even changing with the seasons. Their big question being how did so much of the world get stuck in a permanent one

Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it*

Using genAI is proof you don't.

Using genAI alienates you from everyone else. It doesn't democratize art, it atomizes it.

No genAI user is gonna get an outpouring of sincere support from others because even they themselves don't give a fuck about what they're making.

These cheeky little rascals need a timeout (prison)

Media could just replace DEI with Integration to make it clearer. Anti-woke is a resegregation project

Reminds me of "The Clothes They Stood Up In" short novella with similar mysterious circumstances

Musk rubbing hands, sneaky look on his face, sending off for the Acme Mechanical Sycophant

Projection explains almost everything!

My favorite example is how closeted gay right-wing homophobes don't believe in straight people.