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"Published following Charlie Kirk’s assassination in September of last year, NSPM 7 instructs federal law enforcement to use every tool available against organizations and people who criticize the administration's policies and espouse "anti-Christian" ideas. "

this just in....Will is running for office again

This is true. Qatar is widely believed to be the biggest financial backer of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Would have ended Trump 2016 immediately, we'd have a majority on the Supreme Court, we'd still have USAID, we'd still have Roe

Two-round electoral systems are very underrated - I’m always saying this

It's all machine opcodes and punch cards for this guy. Don't want to be reliant on "automated systems" like "assemblers" and "compilers", that's "cheating"

This seems like a big deal

im just embracing the blocks now.

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

if you are running a PHP application - it does not matter what it is - you are vulnerable. if you are running some embedded firmware that uses PHP to serve its web UI - you are vulnerable. full details and a patch at 2 PM UTC sharp tomorrow, you have been advised to prepare to patch immediately

BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.

NEW AD: “Ken Paxton says I don't have his experience — and he's right. I’ve never been indicted for fraud. I’ve never been reported to the FBI for bribery. I’ve never been impeached by my own party. And I’ve never given a sweetheart deal to a pedophile.”

Susan Collins on Kavanaugh: "I'm very disappointed in his his vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. There was no way for me to anticipate that."

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

saw a poll showing Talarico up only two points and I decided it's time to Doom Again. Polls have all skewed D in the past ten years. I think we'll get the House but not as much as we think and I really can't imagine the Senate going. Look for Florida being called barely by sunset, as usual.

JD VANCE: The biggest reason why gas prices are so high is because when Joe Biden ... DOKOUPIL: It's almost been two years. At a certain point it becomes your economy, not Joe Biden's economy

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

Singer songwriters make your demo recordings using a real drummer and not a drum machine challenge

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

it's unethical for Gemini to read all my docs and use it to generate its own content for profit that isn't shared with me!

my thoughts on Will's consciousness idea

well that's not too bad a ratio for whatever I said about AI

you wouldn't smoke or try heroin but you certainly would study these drugs under a microscope, run experiments on the substances directly, etc. Bender is still making claims like OpenAI is hiding "calculators" behind their models so they can fool people into thinking they can do math now.

ah yes, "grade school logic", which brought us such bangers as "did not!" "i know you are but what am I?" and "my dog ate my homework", not to mention lingering theories of Santa Claus while the Tooth Fairy is working overtime with grade schoolers

the line is when the being has a central nervous system and brainwaves. do LLMs generate brainwaves? no! why assume "consciousness" when you dont even have brainwaves? why is "can figure out a math problem" some magic line? dogs and ants can't do math yet are conscious! brainwaves!

I can’t believe that this debate somehow gotta stupider after I left it. Taking the demand to prove a negative and turning it upside and calling it an affirmative claim is not a thing. Your vague feeling that LLMs might be conscious is just a vague feeling.

"Bowling balls aren't conscious" is a strong, affirmative claim. It implies a lot of specific things about consciousness. It requires strong evidence. “We can’t say for sure if bowling balls are conscious” is a weaker, cautious claim. It doesn’t make any particular evidence about consciousness.

there’s an uncomfortable nuance probably worth diving into about the ethics of using generative AI to ship code versus generate art assets versus clone a person’s voice versus push slop to the algorithms. I truly don’t know where the line is. it’s frustrating

ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

here he goes again with the crayons-and-play-doh characterization of consciousness this kind of thinking buffets my theory that not everyone is actually conscious, people like Will are actually machines.

all of these same things were said about word processors vs typewriters ("we produce documents faster, but now we're bogged down doing tons of revisions! Productivity has gone down!") and computers in offices overall. It even has a name, the "productivity paradox". It resolves after people adapt

this is misleading because while it describes this phenomenon, it doesn't conclude abandoning AI and mostly recommends firms need to get better at code review. I can review well written code, which I directed at a high level, *a lot* faster than I can write it. That's the skill you need to have.

I wrote about Elon Musk, and why it bothers me that he is still first and foremost described in the media as an entrepreneur, rocketeer, or tech mogul, when the most salient fact about him is that he is now the world's most powerful white supremacist. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/06/e...

Susan Collins was asked tonight about the FBI pay-to-play probe of her inner circle. Her answer: "false." False? Her donor is in federal prison. His $150,000 went to a super PAC backing her. The inquiry closed after Trump took office. Try again.

Seems like Bari has lost the New York Post. And bigly. Everyone can smell the stench of sucking air. pagesix.com/2026/10/05/s...

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

Let me just explain the arithmetic thing real quick; I'm seeing a lot of people not understanding what it's supposed to show (or was supposed to show in 2023). First, let's agree that an LLM is a Stochastic Parrot, a description which I find poetic, useful, informative, and basically correct.

He’s making poor Ken bleed dignity hard for the support. And the more Trump thinks he’s going to lose the more dignity he’s going to demand

seeing if I can develop the post-it-note->Krita pipeline

this joke was not supposed to be successful and now it's all gotten out of hand. I'm in over my head now

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...