atticus goldfinch

about half the people on this website act like the first time anyone lied on the internet is when we managed to teach linear algebra to do it. like separating truth from fiction is somehow a new demand that this talking magic box imposes on us.

The masculine urge to bump into guys wearing camo and say “Oh, sorry I didn’t see you.”

right-wing supporters have been making use of social media in Brazil to spread fake news and agitate their base and finally someone realized, we can do it too!

golden age folks

*...and that's why I'm standing here today instead of in prison for attempting a coup.*

Don't worry, Flavio! Your future is guaranteed by Donald J. Trump! That's a bet no one has ever come to regret!

These people are just gutter racists, there isn’t more to it

Once you realize there’s no good argument for implementing the 23x performance improvement entirely by hand (which, if feasible without AI, would have been done already) or forgoing it entirely, it’s over.

The Republican Party is going to get worse before it gets even worse

I’m not saying Republicans are cooked in North Carolina but “Blake Masters Enjoyer” who is predicting 54 Republican seats thinks they may be in trouble there

this man is a gotdamned patriot

There’s a lesson here for other parties around the world.

smoked haters got absolutely smoked on the facts because the entire movement against AI power is built on fruit of a poisoned tree opposing the growing and dangerous power of AI (and its purveyors) requires reckoning with the reality of how it works, not plugging your ears pretending it doesn't

"there's no new information in this report so it's not news" say the same news media who plastered front pages with "duplicate hillary emails found on laptop" like it was a nuclear-level scandal a week before the 2016 election

Katie Johnson, 13, reported Epstein and Trump argued over who would take her virginity, and Epstein became angry and violently raped her when he learned that Donald Trump had done so. As shown by official FBI interview notes, Johnson, through her attorney, reported these alleged crimes to the FBI.

Yeah starting to think a polling miss in favor of dems may happen

Motherfucker, you eat roadkill and snort heroin off of shit covered toilets

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

More the fool I, but I really didn't imagine the current regime not simply leaning in to racism but braying it from every rooftop. Fuck RFK Jr., fuck his wife, and fuck anyone—anyone—who thinks that the Republican party deserves anything short of oblivion.

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

eh go fuck yourself. "be neutral on [insert interest] when you run and then stick it to the industry when you win" is a time honored way of actually getting things done.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

What would Cenk be doing differently if he WANTED El Sayed to lose?

Cenk and to lesser degree Piker have done everything possible to wreck this campaign for El Sayed

get him!!

i remember in our classes human-level machine translation was treated as basically this impossible-to-achieve Holy Grail of the field and now it just exists

ed saw the anthropic s-1 and it caused a family emergency

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

At one point he had a Whatsapp group with 10 million people in it, coordinating action. Which I didn't even think whatsapp was infrastructurally designed to support. And yes, whatsapp is of course a meta network, but the strategy was to be everywhere, to act redundantly, to be unbannable.

And credit to him, it worked. A sort of digital levee en masse, literally raising an army to counteract the forces that artificially amplify far-right messaging. He did that through organizing and messaging, both on the streets and online, that was so relentless that he put himself in the hospital.

Probably the guy who's going to come out of this one looking like a hero is André Janones, a deputy (congressman) from Minas Gerais who just kind of... decided to take the reins of the situation, more or less, and people were feeling so aimless after the first round that they went along with it.

What is true is that this was a conflict—and make no mistake, this was a conflict; this was a protracted battle in a hybrid war, more than anything—that was largely fought by large numbers of people laboriously working to unfuck the nation's informational environment.

I spent all day writing the thread in my head about how Bolsonaro's win was the culmination of a 20-year project to end Brazilian democracy, with the participation of both domestic elites and foreign actors like the US state department and Meta. This is all true, of course, except he didn't win.

waow

journalism is the f̶i̶r̶s̶t̶ second draft of history

here is a demo of my "ah" tool showing: - terminal-synced dashboard with live HTML task tracker - side by side markdown editor - diff review UI - arbitrary HTML illustration all of which have integrated buttons/chat/comments that talk back to the running TUI agent. will make repo public soon

this is a bit of a trend right now and there's a good reason people are thinking about it in terms of granular version control. when you work with people in real time on something complicated you need to be able to time travel on a whim, backtrack, etc

the talk doesn't quite put it this way but I had a revelation reading it: it's completely backwards to be generating plans and code alone and then collaborating on the review. we should be doing nearly all our collaboration on the planning. we do this in various ways already but it should be More

So why was everyone so certain Lula was going to lose a few weeks ago?

Lula Goes HARD