I am embarrassed to report that I still took the time to bypass the blocks to figure out (as much as that is really possible) what the heck was going on.

I look forward to this content entering training sets for upcoming models so that they can figure out how to predict these tokens.

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

Won’t be the first time I needed to be saved from myself.

Darn it. I missed my opportunity to figure out the Dr. Doolittle reference.

I’ve missed the dog noise reference. Where can I find it?

Can confirm.

Are there things other than humans (other animals, perhaps) that can “figure things out”? If so, do they use the same capabilities as humans? If not, what are the capabilities that are exclusive to humans?

It was inescapable anyway. I saw “infrasound” mentioned enough that I was going to seek it out eventually.

I’m trying to not bother learning about this, but I’m pretty sure I’m going to fail.

You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Musk, but you’re right.

I’m only a little surprised they didn’t specify *urban* (wink) crime.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures ... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.

These points stand out:

When you put it that way, Leah, you make it sound bad.

Oswald Mosely's grandson Louis Mosely is the head of Palantir's UK branch.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Dear friends, you, however, are real persons!

A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com #ArtificialIntelligence systems increasingly shape and permeate our mentality and social environments. Like every great historical transformation, this too calls not only for technical competence, but also for a humanistic formation capable of making visible the logic behind economics, embedded biases and forms of power that shape our perception of reality. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 91K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 209K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 696K Views

Pope Leo on AI:

“Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses.”

This short thread is worth reading:

I’m willing to bet that your teenager and my teenager are almost infinitely better qualified for these negotiations than the delegation we are actually sending.

Hey, Beshear, Lis Smith, & associated Majority Dem-types:

If you want to kill group-speak, how about we start with “officer-involved shooting,” “ice agent involved-shooting,” “weaponized vehicle” & other mealy-mouthed obfuscations of state-sanctioned murder?

I know he won’t, but I’d really like him to elaborate on exactly what “liberalism” these putative rural progressives are so tired of.

I think I know.

“Fucknovsky oblast” 😂

i will give the press corpse this — going to the trouble of printing a couple of lines of the first amendment out on a sheet of fabric to express your fears about encroachment, then folding it up and putting it away in your suit pocket *does* send a message. it’s just not the message they think.

I think about it most days ever since LLMs have taken over everything.

You’re telling me this doesn’t all run on my phone?

people are furious the site where they propose direct action to destroy data centers is ever down

I was about to get on here and complain about being at LHR without a giant UK adapter, but then I remembered we have USB-C. We live in the future.

We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much.