Found Art

The problem with the Turing test, which I discovered at least for myself with Mark V. Shaney back in the mid-1980s, not to mention Eliza in the 1960s, is that people are just far too gullible to be a reliable judge of intelligence and humanity in language.

watch this! and then ask yourself "why am I hearing this from a comedian instead of political leaders like ___ or ___ ? "

No kings

I promise y’all: marching in step is quite easy. Nothing difficult about it. That bad marching was intentional. I guarantee it.

After adopting AI for programming on personal projects a few weeks ago, I strongly agree with this article.

I’m not one to boast, but I was at Swanwick Marina today to buy this beauty. No apologies, I’ve worked hard all my life and this has always been a dream. I’m going to rent it out so if interested let me know. It’s the one with the dark blue cover at the bottom of this picture.

The wannabe dictator wants a party? Well then, let's show him some "love”. On June 14th, Trump is spending millions of taxpayer $$$ to throw himself a military parade for his birthday. That's why we're peacefully protesting across the nation on the 14th. In America, we have no kings. #50501Movement

THE most important political issue facing us now is our corrupt campaign finance system & Citizens United. As long as Musk, AIPAC & crypto money can buy politicians, we’re not living in a democracy. We must end billionaire control of our politics and publicly fund elections.

You know that Twilight Zone episode where the kid has amazing psychic powers and can make people disappear with his mind and the entire town is hostage to him and has to cater to his every whim? That’s us right now.

Financial contracts and products get built around the assumption of stable, independent, quality-controlled govt data. Same with building things like flood models - stable, continuous, quality-controlled data is critical. So randomly cutting monitoring data is BAD

This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

I went to the Senate floor to tell a story about Trump’s first 100 days - a story of daily, norm shattering corruption. I laid out 40 different corrupt acts - each one alone could have taken down previous presidents. 1/ A 🧵 of my speech. People need to know this story.

MR PRESIDENT HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?

Incredibly telling moment. Trump is completely sure he is right here. We have a president that is pickled in his information bubble, high on his own supply, can't tell his administration's propaganda from reality. Next the White House will insist Trump is right!

Ask yourself: If the President so easily falls for photoshopped pictures he sees on Truth Social, what other complete falsehoods is he relying on when he makes decisions? How else is he being manipulated? That wasn’t funny. It was scary.

my reaction to this is not "oh Trump's losing it" it's "the entire point of fascism is that the leader declares reality and everyone else has to follow it".

Ten years of Trump going on TV and just fucking saying whatever, and still nothing like an industry set of best practices to deal with it. Put someone on the set with a laptop to look stuff up, pause the interview, whatever. He'd walk off but so what. Amazing to still be at "agree to disagree."

“I could” Seems pretty relevant.

Either way this is not great

None of the official ABC tweets or clips from the Trump interview tonight feature the most important clip of all: a demented Trump repeatedly and falsely claiming, and seeming bizarrely to believe, that Albrego Garcia literally had the letters and numbers MS13 on his knuckles.

whining out loud during a televised interview that the reporter should let you lie bc they owe you for the interview is pretty wild

This is one of the worst interviews I’ve ever seen. Moran keeps trying to move on from a point Trump is CLEARLY WRONG ON and just says “agree to disagree.” Do your fucking job!

Incidentally, this is why I worry about the dominant position of AI critics on this site that "AI doesn't work and is just a scam" It absolutely does work, in good ways (controlled studies on education, medicine) and in ways that create risks & problems. Pretending AI isn't real is a big mistake.

You can't. And some vigilantes realize this. Someone is going to get killed, tortured, or seriously maimed by a thug cos-playing as plainclothes ICE.

I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife? HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS? www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

“If you follow the money, it gives you all the answers.” Shocking corruption from CA legislator Lisa Calderon, doing the bidding of her former employer @socaledison.bsky.social to kill rooftop solar. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Stephen did more prep for this than the entire Trump administration

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

When you defy court orders and deny one man his Constitutional rights, you threaten them for ALL. Trump can post all he wants, but a federal judge said there's “no evidence linking Abrego Garcia to MS-13 or to any terrorist activity.” Trump needs to put up or shut up IN COURT.

A friend texted this photo from the tiny Oregon coast town of Manzanita today. 200 or so out protesting along the highway #protest @maddow.msnbc.com

The MacArthur Foundation isn’t complying in advance — it’s resisting in advance. This is the kind of courage and resolve we need to fight MAGA fascism.

As long as Donald Trump desecrates and defiles the White House with his despicable presence, there should be massive protests at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue — every damn day.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Small town America is waking up. Today in Grants Pass, Oregon. Deep red Grants Pass, Oregon. Pay attention Congressman Cliff Bentz.

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

wrote about my quest to escape the algorithms and get back to finding new music via human recs only, with some excellent advice from @cushac.bsky.social of @hearingthingsco.bsky.social, who's also had enough of the streaming economy nygroove.nyc/enough-is-en...

Rights of due process don't depend on our personal opinions of the accused. For example, I regard the January 6, 2021, criminals as insurrectionists and traitors - yet I am still glad that each and every one of them got a proper trial before they were convicted and sentenced.

Our DOGE tracker is updated with a whole slew of new names, and now you can filter by agency to see which of the DOGErs have been where. Great work by @williamturton.bsky.social, @chrisbing.bsky.social, @kirstenberg.bsky.social and others! projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

This. Write your name in the history books on the right side of the ledger.

We’re doing the tariffs we’re canceling the tariffs we’re doing the tariffs we’re pausing the tariffs we’re exempting things from the tariffs we’re doubling the tariffs we’re tariffing the tariffs

Oooh, I've got some anti-Christian bias to report; the current administration that targeting Catholics and Lutherans who work with migrants.

If you feel like being inspired by a big law firm, here's the opening to Sussman Godfrey's lawsuit against Trump and his executive order targeting the firm. It still is amazing other firms caved quickly to Trump's mob-like and unconstitutional shakedown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...