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BBC tested a bunch of chatbots used as news source: - 51% have issues with answers - 19% fabricate fake statistics / info - 13% fabricate fake quotes or alter them This is exactly what you expect from a random word blender being used as a source of information. www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

The word theoretically is doing A LOT of work here.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Lost in this insanity is that if all of Canada was one state, it would likely have two democratic senators and a ton of gerrymandered republican members of the house.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I strongly agree with Leah here 👇

submitted 21 days ago • 347 comments

PETE!

submitted 23 days ago • 21 comments

One day left to request a ballot to vote online for California Democratic Party delegates - form closes at noon this Friday 1/31! Party delegates vote on endorsements and work on the party platform and organizing volunteers I'm running with the AD14 Progressive-Labor Slate! ademelections.com/home

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Well Elon and DOGE are off to a great start. At the going rate for a traffic controller and the cost of the helicopter and plane, it would only take 294 years to get back to break even.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

This is a long gamer rant, but it's a window into Musk's approach to everything. It's not just he's paying people to level his account; it's how he needs to be known as a gaming god but is so lazy & shameless he doesn't bother learning the game's mechanics to make the ruse work.

submitted 40 days ago • 51 comments

Alternate take: Trump is an extremely predictable simpleton that can easily be won over/manipulated by praise. Exhibit A: the dictator of the worst nation on earth won him over by sending him a “very large envelope.”

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Cyber trucks in the Bay Area basically all look brown because of the lack of rain and their ability to collect dust. This will be a common occurrence

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

AppleTV+ is free this weekend! I highlighted some stuff to watch on it in my streaming churn guide a few weeks back: www.thebulwark.com/p/streaming-...

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

This would need a COLA because much of California already does this and it’s not enough.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

My strange new respect for Loomer is off the charts, tbh. She’s dead right about Musk and H1B and the tech MAGA’s hostility to actual populism.

submitted 54 days ago • 46 comments

Same energy

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

This could be the slogan for bringing SALT deduction back in congress next year.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

"Massachusetts was the state with the highest rate of child literacy." "The state with the lowest adult literacy rate was California." One state has high property taxes to support schools. One state has $2.9M homes that pay $1,230/yr. www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literac...

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

The Santa Cruz wharf collapsing into the sea because some jackasses used CEQA to stop renovations is a perfect encapsulation of how broken it is. The status quo is not neutral, and CEQA's bias is not protecting the environment as much as protecting the environment that existed when it was passed

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Could YOU disappear from your job for six months and not get fired? Granger's staff should be investigated for fraud.

submitted 63 days ago • 18 comments

Rosa Delauro going in on Elon musk rn

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck cancer. Especially pediatric cancer. These people want to punish these precious little kids to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest corporations in human history. Shame on them.

submitted 65 days ago • 319 comments

the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image also the feds: treat him like they’ve captured the joker

submitted 66 days ago • 1384 comments

Who could have predicted that letting the Tesla guy drive the government would end in a crash?

submitted 66 days ago • 5 comments

Prop 13 example of the day. House on our street sold back in January. Last years property tax: $2,464 This year: $29,589

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Funny thought if this happened. There would no longer be a “50 is a round number” defense from preventing DC and Puerto Rico to becoming states.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

The tacit complaint here is that a black person won out over a white person. That’s the fullness of the critique. For people like End Wokeness, a black person triumphing is intrinsically provocative.

submitted 67 days ago • 13 comments

Spirited on Apple TV has become an instant family Christmas tradition.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Why do people take Meghan seriously?