I do think with LLMs automating slop making it increasingly difficult to differentiate bot-generated vs. human-generated text, we should institute my system of "5 cents per post." Not that expensive but also not that cheap. Make you think twice before posting.
Do you think economists are stupid or that they are trying to trick you?
My wife: (noticing I and the 7yo are wearing similar pajama bottoms) You look like you're wearing the same pants.
Me: Well, we do share many genes/jeans.
Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...
autist in the 1800s who spends half of his time telling people that trains might be a good thing on net in spite of rockefeller
the best argument for feminism is to just let an old woman talk at you about her career experiences
maybe even better than the gods
I've been looking at this quote in a new light due to AI.
hat-tip to @jholbo.bsky.social and the best blog post ever (sadly accessible only via wayback)
"Revert to handwork in a machine age, and you are back in Ye Old Tea Shoppe or the Tudor villa with the sham beams tacked to the wall.”
"...Deliberately to revert to primitive methods, to use archaic tools, to put silly difficulties in your own way, would be a piece of dilettantism, of pretty-pretty arty and craftiness. It would be like solemnly sitting down to eat your dinner with stone implements..."
George Orwell: “So long as the machine is there, one is under an obligation to use it. No one draws water from the well when he can turn on the tap … "
Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
On the pages of the New York Times Ross Douthat deploys ink in rather the same way a squid does: to confuse opponents who would otherwise see rather plainly how defenses his position is.
catholics: oh hey u guys are back early
me: pope's woke
catholics: what?
me: *grabs rosary, heads toward the confessional* pope's woke
"Now that my lies failed to attain the electoral outcomes I had hoped for, I apologize..."
Title: "The lady doth protest precisely the right amount"
It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly
Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
What if I told you it was actually the easiest situation anybody has ever been in?
Why?
Really tough situation for Democrats since "unreliable and ineffective drunk who uses the FBI as a way to fly around the country in a personal jet" is like by far the best possible outcome for Trump FBI Director
If they can't return all the money they can at least return the tip!
Fair.
So are Mary Poppins and Bert like, dating or what?
How to tell if you're in Berkeley.
As with so much of our undignified geopolitics today, the whole firestorm resembles a mirror universe Trump tweet, setting agendas through sudden and possibly unvetted social media posts, except that the agenda was "we will vigorously respect international law and human rights"
Is this a play on "storico"?
tpot = "This Part Of Twitter"
The new Erdos GPT proof seems like the real deal.
It's one of those things where everyone hates it, but some hate it because it goes too far, and some hate it because it doesn't go far enough.
