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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 3 days ago • 1572 comments

Colbert nails it

submitted 4 days ago • 196 comments

been thinking a lot about the media reaction to Biden's first debate performance compared to its response to fascism

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

I knew this would happen, but it's still surreal to hear another nation's leader talk to us in a televised address the way US presidents have historically spoken to the citizens of countries led by dictators and despots.

submitted 4 days ago • 53 comments

I agree that the Democrats desperately need to pay attention to how Zelenskyy recognized that groveling and moderation get you nowhere with the fascist demons squatting in the White House right now.

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

This is not leadership. It is abasement to norms that no longer exist.

submitted 5 days ago • 297 comments

This is Uvalde: defector.com/this-is-uvalde

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

anyway periodic reminder that congress can at any time they wish, and should tomorrow, end this

submitted 8 days ago • 89 comments

Actual question from reporter: "Why don't you wear a suit?" Ukrainian President Zelenskyy: "I will wear costume after this war will finish."

submitted 8 days ago • 3920 comments

The Democratic party is currently lead by the most ineffectual bunch of losers I’ve ever seen. James Carville says it’s time to “play dead.” Hakeem Jeffries is on a book tour. Chuck Schumer is so uninspiring it’s a joke. They don’t care about winning, they care about enriching themselves.

submitted 10 days ago • 986 comments

"It turns out that people would rather read a thoughtful essay with an error in it than one of ChatGPT’s grammatically flawless articles about delving into a thought-provoking tapestry of synergy."

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

submitted 12 days ago • 847 comments

"without objection" is the epitaph of the democratic party.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

"President DooDoo Stupidhead is stealing from you" would have been less childish and more productive than this

submitted 18 days ago • 37 comments

"we, your representatives, can do nothing and we plan to do nothing" is just not very inspiring, whether it's said by chuck schumer or bernie sanders.1

submitted 18 days ago • 37 comments

This is fucking incredible.

submitted 18 days ago • 134 comments

Incredible journalism.

submitted 18 days ago • 352 comments

Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

submitted 19 days ago • 66 comments

As a reference, the $46B that Meta spent building this shit is about the same amount of money Spain used to built its WHOLE high speed rail network. All 2469 miles of it. Zuckerberg got that money selling shitty ads and destroying democracy, and gave the world this.

submitted 20 days ago • 88 comments

Massive, meaningful changes in governance done as a result of a ctrl-f for the word "transition." No one will ever believe how stupid this shit was.

submitted 20 days ago • 82 comments

We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life

submitted 39 days ago • 385 comments

submitted 22 days ago • 77 comments

This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages

submitted 25 days ago • 633 comments

Click on the magnifying glass icon in your browser bar, then select "DuckDuckGo" as your default search engine.

submitted 25 days ago • 697 comments

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.

submitted 25 days ago • 43 comments

"Given what we've seen here, it is clear what AI is meant to be. AI is meant to be ignored, discarded, rejected in favor of the shelter of community and the warm embrace of a friend."

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

Fun fact Google doesn't give you AI suggestions if you swear

submitted 28 days ago • 42 comments

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

submitted 29 days ago • 51 comments

They have to present Americans with a true alternative; they have to show that they believe in something as much as the GOP believes in MAGA. www.jezebel.com/what-the-fuc...

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

“The president, perhaps inadvertently, wound up smudging the line between empirical verification and his own boundless optimism.”

submitted 41 days ago • 29 comments

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

submitted 42 days ago • 181 comments

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

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submitted 49 days ago • 36 comments

The amazing part isn’t just the wrong answer, but that the explanation it gives is accurate — and it simply doesn’t know that 27 is a smaller number than 32. Billions of dollars spent to make a black box machine that doesn’t know something elementary school kids know.

submitted 50 days ago • 140 comments