Ken M. Haggerty

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now here's the thing: it is of course completely reasonable for someone to be skeptical of cars on the ground that they are *dangerous*, but anyone who says they are *useless* is obviously very dumb AI denialists seem not to have grasped this distinction yet

Can you imagine if CA/the country had done this when interest rates were near zero

Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.

Another person who is good at deception of this nature: Donald Trump. Trump is a moron with no special insight into humans, but he’s capable of saying stupid and wrong stuff confidently (in part because he’s detached from reality) and that’s quite literally all you need to sucker half the world.

Again, what I want you to realize is that THIS IS NOT REALLY EXPERT MANIPULATION. Elizabeth Holmes did not succeed at fraud by telling convincing hard-to-detect lies. She succeeded at fraud by telling big, dumb, obvious lies that rich people wanted to believe. This is how 95% of fraud works!

I feel like the AI consciousness debate is getting too "weed smoke-filled dorm room" for me. yeah it's kinda interesting but it's hard to really go anywhere with it in a way that feels like you're making progress.

Elizabeth Holmes—like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk—is a dumb person's idea of a smart person. I am genuinely troubled that more people can't seem to see this.

remember the world cup, when you had tons of folks visiting the united states for the first time and having just the best time of their life? it ruled! we should encourage that kind of thing!

Anyone else feel like everyone is just nuts nowadays? I'm not even talking about the obvious candidates but everyday people who get worked up into a defensive frenzy about the most insane things and can't fathom that they might be wrong or that someone else might think differently.

Something very important to figure out before Jan 20, 2029 is whether, when a new President is inaugurated, they will control the computer system at GSA (i.e. doors to federal buildings) and Treasury payments system or if those systems will be somehow in the hands of DOGE cronies

I swear to god so much of this is literally just people confusing measles and chicken pox

This is different from a malware botnot how exactly

Seeing things like "Chinese youth unemployment is 18.9%"is why I feel more than a little insane when young people talk about how much better China is than the US

Weird how Republican lists of bad people to deport never, ever, ever includes neo-Nazis, segregationists, apartheidists, or any other white nationalists.

hard to think of anything that better sums up the modern Republican Party than this note right here

If you push out a rumor that turns out to be 100% bullshit, you didn't "break a story."

I swear to god this is a replacement of the original meme, but a quick search doesn't show that one up.

While I’m making people mad by claiming consumers get what they want, a lot of consumers really do like big houses with no lot lines in the exurbs. Good urban form exists in lower quantities than demand for it but I think exurban housing has a very high demand and that’s why there’s so much of it.

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It is actually Not Good to expose yourself as directly as possible to the atrocities that turn people into suicide bombers.

Congratulations @sky.skymarchini.net and @mtsw.bsky.social for being more popular than @aoc.bsky.social.

NYC has a plan to stop homeless people from cycling between hospitals and the streets gothamist.com/news/nyc-has...

🚨Exclusive🚨: I have exculpatory evidence in what is easily the dumbest congressional oversight episode of the year...maybe the decade. I was at the Iowa v. MD game & just looked at my pics & sure enough, someone who looks like Jack Smith is sitting in Sec 109, Row 1. Complete & total vindication!

bold and wildly inexplicable photo choice here

Rereading this article just makes me mad. We had folks working tirelessly for a ceasefire & we threw it away over a fantasy that there was a Bibi remote control on the Resolute Desk that Biden refused to use.

"the war," like "the economy," is the kind of thing that you can only ever really know about via mediation--via what other people are telling you--and this is especially magnified for the ordinary rando.

A lot of this shit, like every query draining a lake, is akin to a religious belief at this point and they’re not gonna be reasoned out of position they weren’t reasoned into. We have two flavors of AI psychosis now basically.

the number of post-stroke patients i have personally helped treat who transformed into right-wing mega assholes after is unnervingly high

One thing that encourages me is that despite individual Democrats capitulating on trans rights, I think if the polling holds, we will elect the most pro-trans congress and senate in US history.

i also want to stress the distance between labour & the democrats, the two parties are not the same (& it's very important that the dems do not go down that path) newrepublic.com/article/2155...

There was a post on here that I forgot to bookmark of a video where seniors were being shown AI videos and the reasoning they were using was based on plausibility rather than visual clues—anyone able to find this post for me? 🤞

Okay, I made a chart, it's every month since 1977. The blue line is how many people are citing high prices as a reason for worse finances in the U Mich consumer survey. The orange line is the annualized change in CPI. Do you see how the very close correlation MASSIVELY BREAKS DOWN in 2022?

Anti-wokeness is a hysterical mass tilting at windmills

The American Democratic Party is overwhelmingly pro-trans.

I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs

13-year anniversary of Subway getting really mad at us.