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K. Thomas Ulland
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THE 👏 NEW 👏 YORK 👏 TIMES 👏 IS 👏 TRASH
NYT doesn’t get it. He’s terrorizing nonwhite people, seizing imperial power, perverting the government, and spewing hateful lies. This is pro-Trump gaslighting.
December 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
more of this
December 26, 2025 at 4:58 AM
December 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
❤️🏳️‍🌈🎄
I have two transgender kids… and in my family… we do Christmas… a little differently.
December 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I genuinely think it's 50/50 right now when (not if) the bubble pops of this remains true

because this isn't the dot-com bubble where the underlying tech was actually cheap and could survive a reduction in funding - HTML and JavaScript and web servers didn't owe their existence to the investment 1/
We can hate it all we want. I DESPISE IT. That trauma for me in January is FOREVER TRAUMA. But like the current administration, it is here. This is it. We are in damage mitgation mode now. We have been for some time.
December 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I am uninterested in "reaching across the aisle" to these people

there is no amount of brainrot and media ecosystem problems that excuse this heaping steaming pile of deplorables
December 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Larry Ellison and other billionaires want us all fighting over basic dignity and human rights so we don't form a unified consensus that they're a planetary cancer
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"anti-capitalism"
fuck alllllllll the way off Fascist Barbie
Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation
December 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
FUCKING PRIMARY SCHUMER NOW jfc these useless losers learn how to be an opposition party ffs
LOL - Senate (and House) Republicans are ending their "probe" into Hegseth's boat strikes after they got Schumer, Durbin and majority of the Senate Democratic Caucus to vote for a $900 billon defense authorization bill for Trump/Hegseth.
December 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
YES this is what I keep harping on! there's SO MANY cool and interesting uses of every other type of Machine Learning model, but frickin Generative AI has swallowed up the funding AND ruined the brand

(to be fair, AI was a terrible brand from the start, but noW that it's synonymous it's even worse)
I genuinely despise how "AI" has become such a buzzword that even *I* mentally flinch at it sometimes, even if it turns out to be in the context of something like computer opponents in a game

We've become conditioned, Pavlov-style, to expect bad things from it...even those of us who know better 😩
December 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
so we're just primarying any incumbent at this point, right? ffs 😮‍💨
Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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why are these freaks so committed to throwing their brands and reputations in the trash for a machine that DOESN'T EVEN WORK i cannot!!!!!!!!!!!
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Merrick Garland waiting until 2022 to assign him to the case and then it getting slow-walked until after the 2024 election is a dereliction of duty whose scope is so massive it's hard to contemplate, but one that has absolutely irreversibly fucked this country

good job, Joe
December 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
this is the Republican trick that they apply over and over to every grievance they invent

don't blame the billionaires and private equity and shareholder-value-over-everything for your stagnant wages and tight job market, it's the illegals!

rinse and repeat, and idk how we break through that
The real story: with decreased opportunity, these white men experience the success of people of color as symbolic.

When humanities jobs cratered, I was told I wasn't getting hired because I was white. The disappearance of hundreds of jobs, reinterpreted as the fault of a small handful of people.
December 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
[registers MomGPT.com and scams a billion dollars out of losers]
When you think about apps as mommy replacements for tech bros, it makes more sense
My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
December 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
the “let them die of AIDS” guy?
the “welfare queens are the problem” guy?
the “trickle down economics” guy?
the “government services are bad for you” guy?

he wasn’t decent! he just played that role on TV!

gtfo here, you billionaires-teat-suckling phony
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
what if by making a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of the Mona Lisa we actually made good art
[puts down bong, passes out]

#FuckAI
America, you've spoken loud and clear: you do not like being stabbed in the dick with an ice pick. But what if stabbing yourself in the dick with an ice pick is the only way to fight, idk, climate change or whatever?
December 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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For those of us worried AI is gonna end creative jobs, I heard a funny story this weekend from a parent of one of my kids classmates who happens to be a production designer. He builds sets and things like that. He's worked on Ray Donovan, Always Sunny, and a bunch of FX shows.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
one of these days this is going to turn me into the Joker because HOLY SHIT what I wouldn't give for any elected Democrat with party platform power to ACTUALLY do something even partially leftist?

"people being pendantic online" is not the same thing as Democratic politicians' positions or policies
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
December 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I mean all of this is true but us real Nate Silver haters have disliked him much longer 😂😬 he’s not solely responsible for the horse race coverage of politics that prefers polls over policy, but he turned it into a slick model and helped ruin the brains of people in media and politics #BooNateSilver
December 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I do wonder that part of the solution has to be a massive increase in state school funding? why are kids killing themselves with 40 extra curriculars to have a resume to get limited spots in “good” universities when we could have good local colleges available to everyone? it’s bananas
it is devastating to be bearing witness to this as an educator. as the thread mentions, the causes are likely manifold - LLMs, post-covid brain damage, teaching to the test, transactional HS teaching, students under increased pressure, attention span degradation. but it's devastating in combination.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
lol fucking fascist nerds giving Alternate History a bad name 😒😑

meanwhile, I'm over here with an AH book where Cleopatra won and it leads to 1000 years of matriarchal democracy and peace
November 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM