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So this has been up for four hours already. It’s millions, not billions Mr Bloomberg editor sir.

There is no "new normal" on a warming planet. As long as we keep adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, what's "normal" will keep warming, and we'll keep struggling to adjust.

This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.

A sign of how fundamentally broken and inadequate to the moment our information and media ecosystem is when the president is deploying the military to crush protests against his mass kidnapping scheme, and the question is whether those who oppose it are being nice enough.

Do not shut up about Trans Club

Oh, so they CAN defund Homeland Security oh interesting

Tech bro grifters like Altman are just cloistered, spoiled children. They think every obvious, mundane thing they do is an astounding first, and everyone should applaud. "Look I made a poo!"

Writing to your MP works, btw, if enough do it.

The update was pushed through by Falkner, and developed as a secret kept from the people working in her organisation. She’s abused her position to further her goal of persecuting a minority. She’s a disgrace to public life, frankly.

British MPs seem to be actually doing their jobs and holding an abusive office holder to account.

At the same time: The left doesn’t know how to do online activism The left took over the world through online activism The basic stupidity of apparently intelligent people attracted to contemporary centrism is a threat to democracy.

Today, Republicans advanced a bill through committee to lock up parents and doctors for providing gender affirming care to young trans people. This targeting of trans kids who are doing zero harm and just trying to live their lives is beyond cruel.

Apparently it’s wrong for people to be on Bluesky because they’re missing the really important conversations on Xitter.

To give you a sense about the ideological drift being caused by Twitter, here's Noah Smith talking in 2021 about the account that would become "i/o" and "avidseries." And then here's a screenshot from today, where Noah Smith has constant friendly interactions with him.

Blows my mind that just a year after the brutally violent crackdowns on campus protests at Columbia and dozens of other universities, there are people out here today trying to say that protests must be done in the "correct way" to avoid being demonized by the press

The whole Mexican flags thing is a re-run of Norman Tebbit’s cricket test in the UK. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket... White tenth generation US liberals pushing this line should fuck off. You can love your new country without being forced at lib-point to forget you came from somewhere else.

This is beautiful and nostalgic. Nostalgic for the time when of course someone like KJK with her “men, come shoot trans women in our toilets” would be banned as a pro-violence lunatic.

So many AI boosters don’t understand how the tech works. So many of them don’t have the skills to discover this sort of behaviour. They somehow don’t notice that LLMs pander. Like they’re in need of flattery.

The thing is, they won’t make the leap to realising their model of humanity is wrong. Their model doesn’t comprehend talented people who could make a ton more money at Google choosing public service. And that this is a foundational element of modern industrial /post industrial societies.

This is why I follow Stancil. He’s a mix of interestingly wrong and right. Here, he’s right. He’s very right. (He provokes people who need someone to be always right.)

I’m not saying accidentally pissing in their food would be a good thing to do, but if God isn’t going to turn up and enforce divine justice, someone has to.

Enjoying the wiki article on “I am the Walrus”. I’m sure cooler kids knew all this long ago.