Decorative Jord

Eight years ago today, we suffered the deadliest act of antisemitism in American history when a killer entered Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh while people prayed and murdered 11 of our neighbors.

This never gets old (& also shows how hard forecasting AI is even for AI) “Hey Claude Fable & GPT-6 Astra, Without looking anything up, when do you think we will solve the Exponential Time Hypothesis?” (I only show part of the answers for space)

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

“Fire denier” would honestly make a great slur for the antis

does anyone know if they won

The bad news is that we might end up writing a lot less code in future. The good news is that we might finally be able to start building software *correctly*.

That ad by Cenk is so vile that it is pretty goddamn suspicious that it's not being soundly and roundly denounced around here.

Two and a half years between these. (Tonight, OpenAI announced an unreleased model solved three long-standing problems in physics, math, and computer science, one of which was proving the Exponential Time Hypothesis was false)

“Shabbos Goy but for AI Luddites” is my career backup plan

“Corporations” 🚩🚩🚩

It’s so funny that as soon as people realized they could no longer get away with passing off LLM output as their own writing, they immediately jumped to “Well, there’s no way you could possibly know that, since me and the group I’m part of are the only ones smart enough to be mistaken for an LLM.”

There is no evidence to suggest English as spoken in the Global South is structured so qualitatively differently from other varieties of English that it could reliably activate a failure mode causing Pangram to falsely detect it as AI generated. None.

Did all the people calling for heads to roll read the article or just the headline

this is not actually true, linguists have been using machine learning for comparative linguistics and reconstruction for many years. it's actually quite trivial and you can, in fact, produce novel results.

Why won’t Dems talk about this?

Once the product proved useful it was always going to be impossible to stop

This isn't really fair to gifted kids who aren't trained teachers and don't know how to teach. It's also not fair to the kids who are struggling and need actual, targeted instruction from an adult who knows how to help kids with learning difficulties.

I will never understand the psychological profile of leftists who demand that liberals, who they will never support, acknowledge that leftists are honorable. "You have to admit anarchists do important work in their communities!" no, i don't! you won't acknowledge anything liberalism does!

Evil Man is correct that Left YIMBYISM is a gateway drug to capitalism (and that's good)

i don't think it's that crazy it's a lot harder to use public money to build a complicated interconnected grid of rail infrastructure than it is to use private money to build a bunch of big warehouses. like i don't think it's great only one of those is possible but what i do not think it is is crazy

[Contrapoints voice] They don’t care about the food at Panera. They care about endlessly posting about “private equity” on social media.

No, NPR, this isn't true. There's plenty of things extraordinarily more scary than "private equity in food"

Someone do a wellness check on Ed Zitron

thoughts and prayers to the ed zitrons and emily benders of the world on this the day of anthropic's S-1 filing

are we still doing this and by "this" I mean taking a deliberately vaguely weasel worded statement from a dem pol with a shot at winning in a red state facing a bajillion dollars of "he wants to trans your kids" ads and deliberately twisting it into the most unfavorable interpretation possible

You are lying to my face if you claim the attention and outrage over Trump's support of Israel in 2026 is at the same level and intensity that was directed toward Holocaust Harris in 2024. bsky.app/profile/meid...

Cool story nobody cares because a Democrat isn't president right now

“Secular humanist” really fell off

You assholes deserved everything that came to you, look at this shit

Because there are 10s of thousands of Democratic electeds in the United States, and you have positioned yourself directly into a media environment that is designed to find every statement a Democrat makes that is even vaguely transphobic as soon as it happens.

Language translation is like... the classic example of AI research. Translating "I'm going to call you a taxi" means understanding that "call you" doesn't mean giving you the nickname "a taxi". It's crazy to say that translation isn't AI.

Anti-Black racism in New York is something that needs to be confronted, and it is reasonable to expect the mayor to have a plan to confront it, and also, there is absolutely no reason to define it as opposed to fighting antisemitism, which is also part of the mayor's responsibility.

also worth saying Democrats who did go out on limbs for trans rights, people who passed major moves for trans rights (Hillary) who advanced trans people (Biden) or fought transphobia in court and in public (Janet Mills) got no credit, no support.

What flag were you expecting to be featured at a synagogue

They don’t call it the “Grandma Cheese” for nothing

I really think the trans community is really not understanding that the Democratic Party being probably the most pro-trans major political party on the planet means whole swaths of Americans that don't like you will go "one vote for the pro trans party please" without knowing it

Elections (like the one whose convention they were speaking at) have consequences.

and this is why you don’t immediately believe people who claim they are being persecuted falsely. because the metadata tags can prove they lied. about what exactly, and to what extent? who knows. but he got caught in a lie.

[Contrapoints voice] They don’t care about the food at Panera. They care about endlessly posting about “private equity” on social media.