The quoted person is basically phrasing common AGI delusional belief; they think Altman is building God in his basement, basically, and "portal that summons aliens" is just expressing the idea that a notional superintelligent AI wouldn't necessarily share our values, goals, or ways of thinking.
One of us always says that The Strait of Hormuz is open. The other of us always says that the Strait of Hormuz is blockaded. You can ask us one question to decide whether to proceed
There was this great tweet from the late Obama era where someone said: it is weird to normalize relations with a rogue police state that kills civilians and torture prisoners but Cuba did the right thing
Tech CEOs love UBI because it's 20 years away and costs them nothing today.
42 million people on SNAP are being cut right now. Not one "thought leader" thread about that.
Firing and jailing RFK is the moderate position
Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.
Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.
It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen
Probably just a coincidence that the law professors defending insurrectionist John Eastman are the same guys arguing against birthright citizenship, in no way reflective of a world view on who the law protects vs binds
Not only did the sons probably call ICE on her, the day after her husband died they took their dad's cars, leaving her housebound. Then they rerouted mail, causing her to miss a visa appointment & the utilities to be turned off. Tony and Gary Ross are going to hell.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
One day after JD Vance unveils “I will lecture the pope on religion,” Dave Chapelle pops the cork on “I had no idea Republicans were using my jokes the way literally everyone told me they were.”
Great stuff everyone.
I think direct to consumer (DTC) businesses hit big in that short moment when advertising on podcasts and social media was cheap.
Conditions like these will reliably cause occasional deaths and the ICE agents culpable should face capital trials.
The BC NDP's moves to "suspend" DRIPA is exactly what you'd expect from the same country that created the "notwithstanding clause", aka "these are your rights and now here's how your rights don't matter if we find them inconvenient."
Canada's international students dropped by 60% thanks to politicians trying to appease a racist backlash. We didn't even need a goon like Trump in office to be the face of the backlash. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
a grandma needing to be a food delivery person so she can pay for her partner’s cancer treatment isn’t a feel good story it’s an indictment of a failed society
a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position
Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
The country's descent into fascism cannot be understood without interrogating U.S. policing. But folks across the political spectrum are allergic to this so here we are.
he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare
She goes on to claim not excluding farm workers from overtime protections means farm workers make less money (which is a grower boss talking point, full of shit)
It’s here, at about 43 mins. Another guy literally hops up onto his little feets to agree with her 💀 www.youtube.com/live/TeE7gMP...
CAPTCHAs are a pain. Why haven't they been automated already?
Post from Dale Partridge claiming nobody wants to live in diverse neighborhoods
I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries.
Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.
But if these things didn't happen at all, per Swalwell's claims, then how would Swalwell's lawyers know who to text? I'm guessing he's had interacted with more than four women in his whole career so that wouldn't narrow it down.
The Chronicle reported the sexual assault, CNN followed up with a story about three more women saying he'd Snapchatted them explicit messages and photos. That latter part was first reported by CNN, hence "exclusive".
By the way: Eric sent those cease & desists in response to being asked for comment on the CNN story.
He had his lawyer TEXT cease & desists to the WOMEN SAYING HE RAPED THEM in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. They were not named!
That’s the weirdest response to a request to comment that I’ve ever heard.
Frank Rich, 2007, on the White House correspondents' dinner:
"Washington wisdom had it that Stephen Colbert bombed because he was rude to the president.
"His real sin was to be rude to the capital press corps, whom he caricatured as stenographers."
www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/o...
Swalwell’s lawyer: “The credibility of your accusations is fatally undermined by your voluntary and cooperative relationship with Mr. Swalwell over the course of many years following the period in question.”
Just so everyone knows: that’s not how it works.
Swalwell needs to withdraw immediately.
Centrists on college students: "Why aren't they out in the streets protesting every day??!"
Centrists on Democratic members of Congress: "They're in the minority -- what could you expect them to do??!"
Israel keeps ignoring ceasefires and journalists keep describing the situation as the ceasefire potentially in the future maybe ending, instead of having already obviously ended due to Israel continuing to murder people.