"Papers please" would actually be a step up from where we're at right now. ICE seems to care neither about documentation nor even the appearance of decency. They're just straight up kidnapping brown people.

It looks like it's all that's holding that erlenmeyer flask up, so you might have one of these kinds of situations when cleaning up. Careful!

Or she's complicit.

Maybe. Allegedly. Please don't sue me Oprah.

To be fair, LLMs could be applied to similarly virtuous uses, they're just tools and most tools are morally neutral. The problem is that a) people aren't using the tools virtuously and b) the tools weren't built virtuously, because c) capitalism ruins everything it touches.

To keep the masses some combination of stupid, scared, and pacified so that those with power and wealth can maintain and grow it without the fear of a peasant uprising

It's me. I'm the old man.

My dumb ass: Wait, Mark Rothko is in jail? I thought he was dead?...

I've found exactly one ever, and it was living in this hollow dead tree in Northern Nevada. Only chanced on it because a friend accidentally disturbed its home. It was pure luck, I have no advice to give.

So small, so quiet, so hidey, so very very nocturnal. I love them so much.

Yeah but you and I both know that when that small county runs short of money they'll choose to fund the police and cut social programs instead. Their bad behavior never hurts them, and in many cases actually rewards them directly.

Perverse incentives are perverse.

Bullets don't kill people, blood loss and soft tissue trauma do...

No one is immune to being shot in the head.

Now I'm not saying anyone should go around shooting their political opponents, but they *are* kinda already shouting at us, and if they've been made immune to every other kind of justice...

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His greatest role

Hey, that's the guy who played Bojack Horseman in Mr Peanutbutter's Holywoo Heist!

I don't think anyone thinks they should, but if you're waiting for someone else to do it, you're gonna be waiting a long long time

Oh is every textbook suddenly available as an audiobook? What's that? It takes a huge amount of labor and effort at great cost to create one when a piece of software can do an adequate job of reading a pdf to you?

You're a disgrace to your profession. You're disgusting and I'm done with you.