Oop, typo, argument is destroyed. The AI bros win

I wasn't included in the gigantic anti-AI block list. It's my turn to be blocked for laughing at tech freaks' most pathetic grift yet. Please oblige me at your earliest convenience.

It uses up that amount of water "to train," he says. The processing of the actual prompts and respondes is conveniently left out.

THIS! THIS! Tulsi Gabbard's entire ideology and political pivot is explained by her cultist upbringing!
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Weird to me that even the replies to a niche natsec account on a niche politics site don't mention Chris Butler when talking about the motives of Tulsi Gabbard

what does Tulsi even do

Conservatives have been trained for decades to think of Constitutions not as agreed-upon rules for fair governance, but as a series of cheat codes and loopholes that let them hold power even when the voters want to throw them out. They won't accept anything less than permanent domination of us.

Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces a Justice Department criminal probe over paid informants The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the subject of a Justice Department criminal investigation and faces possible charges over its use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

They're protecting white supremacist groups from private investigations, holy shit.
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This lady is arguing that just about every single piece of media Pedro Pascal has been involved in (from the Mandalorian to the Last of Us) is, at its core, untrue (surrogate parenting).

Men have parental instincts for more than just their bio kids. I’ve had it for people, pets & fucking Pokémon

It mostly does, and that's good enough for me. Good to know I can be a little harsher on Mastodon if I need to be. But that will still be rare, because most people there are normal people and fairly progressive.

Would you say this defensiveness is more a part of the user culture, or more a part of actual moderation practices? Let's say I come across a supporter of Israel on Mastodon, and I don't tolerate ethnonationalist beliefs. Would I face suspensions or bans for yelling at them too aggressively?

Oh! I see Mastodon is your primary social media. Please tell me what you think! You have more experience on there than I do, it looks like. I'd like to hear your perspective on this

Of course, I don't think being cruel and swearing out people you disagree with is inherently good. But I think it should at least be *allowed* on a social media site.

As far as I know, Mastodon is a good bit harsher in enforcing respectful discourse. On Bluesky and Threads, you're allowed to be pretty mean, within obvious reason. On Mastodon, I'm pretty sure if you swear at people enough and call them harsh names, you'll get banned pretty quick.

I'm never going back to X, so I'll stay here for now. But there are other options. Mastodon has a smaller userbase and discourages disagreement but they're more stable. Threads is stable and has a bigger userbase but it's also Threads. I have accounts on both but would rather this be my main spot.

I was highly optimistic about joining Bluesky, especially after multiple waves of new users, news outlets, etc. But the owners are a bunch of tech freaks partnering with crypto and AI firms and now their platform's stability is suffering. Damn it all.

The Senate Minority Leader explicitly argues for "blood and soil" based on religious fundamentalism. Very little separates him from Republicans.

Chuck Schumer is too moderate and weak on most issues. But on Israel, he's a proud extremist. He argues that scripture mandates a Jewish state in Israel and that anyone who doesn't follow this religious, ethnonationalist doctrine is against peace in the Middle East.

My profile shows an Invalid Handle

Oh how lovely! Invalid handle!

Oh fuck off
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Is Bluesky still experience technical troubles? It took ages for it to load and let me in just now.

Was Hoover hated this much?

She's practically begging for a New York Times position

The Plot to Enslave America

Ever hear of Darth Bane?

The Democratic shift on Israel policy was on full, dramatic display on the Senate floor on Wednesday night as 40 of 47 Senate Democrats voted for at least one of two resolutions to block U.S. shipments of bulldozers and bombs to Israel. The votes left many pro-Israel Democrats shocked and disillusioned — exemplified in the muted statements, if any, on the vote from key pro-Israel groups — and is being seen by some as the marker of a new era of Democratic policy on Israel, in which critics of Israel are firmly in the party mainstream. “It’s yet another data point that the bipartisan consensus [in support of Israel] is, at least at the moment, no longer,” a former Biden administration official told Jewish Insider on Thursday. “Democrats think it’s politically advantageous to take these votes that would have been completely out-of-bounds just two-and-a-half years ago. … It’s deeply concerning if you care about the relationship, if you care about the security of [Israel]. But that’s the state of play at the moment, I think until or unless there’s an event that changes the trajectory.”

:)

You live closer to the UK than me and probably know more, but I'd think there are a portion of British conservatives/nationalists who still lament the loss the of what became the US, right?

Rate limit exceeded? Huh?

It is official, 39 out of 47 Democratic senators have voted to block weapons to Israel, specifically $300 million in armed bulldozers

If it looks like a concentration camp and sounds like a concentration camp,