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Ed Zitron apology form

i'd vote for that. sounds refreshing

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

the greatest green degrowth ecofeminist president of our lifetimes

JCO for the win.

Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

Darkly funny how the "USAID is CIA" is the exact mirror image of "UNRWA is Hamas"

the "clanker is a slur" guys should link up with the ppl who are still fighting the "saying 'idiot/stupid' is ableist" war like ww2 soldiers stranded on remote pacific islands

A reminder Carney's agenda remains a militaristic climate killing and antidemocratic one. He will use all this to further and even expand this agenda. We still need to fight him on this.

Mid edgelords in video games have ruined us.

It doesn't even work well to find cancer before doctors. The pitch AI radiology companies make is with the most obvious mistakes possible and radiologists don't find it that useful as they either over-rely on it or don't rely on it at all.

Scaling back military exercises is a rational decision that Trump has arrived at for the wrong reasons so of course liberals are going into right-winger mode and sounding like birchers.

Some people have memories longer than a goldfish. The employees demanded that the magazine be owned by them with him as an equal and he declined. They weren't collective bargaining or organizing and demanding that someone step down as a leader is not something to be taken lightly.

See also the term "activist scholar," which is applied derogatorily to academics who use their expertise to advocate for Left-leaning policy, but not to Right-leaning academics, even if they take money from Right-wing groups or advocate for Right-wing causes based on dubious evidence or none at all.

Hey remember when Korean right-wingers were worshipping THAAD and claiming that the US would protect Korea?

The modern era is full of the bizarre argumentative phenomenon of aggressive fragility. Instead of puffing oneself up as strong, one posits oneself as glass-doll weak, such that any opposition (any talk one dislikes existing) is to be seen as unethical attack. Literally pathetic.

"Military Airlift Command," slide 17 of 24 [gallery]

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (1999). This and StarCraft's menu are burned into my memory.

Sometimes the horse speaks truth.

“Stalinist and tacti-cool” just reminds me of Turing Police’s tweet describing being an ML as wanting the police to drive an MRAP through your boss’s house to arrest them for wage-theft lol

I think it's healthy for people on Blueksky remember that the people who run the editorial offices of most of the prestige media and commentary outlets in the country hate 🫵YOU🫵 in particular more than anything else.

100% chance they have an item with a swastika or flag from apartheid South Africa.

sexual orientation as a concept is ethnocentric, white supremacist, and chauvinistic.

To Prince Edward Island Alex Colville 1965

I seriously think that my boss has AI psychosis. His entire management style is just to tell employees to use AI and he puts massive contracts into AI instead of reviewing them. One of my co-workers failed their probation and got fired because he didn’t train her and she made a mistake.

One thing that we’ve learned over and over again in the last like 5-10 years is that politicians and leaders are no more resistant to online brain worms than the average person, yet nobody’s really sure what we can do to prevent it. I’ve read troubling things about Putin as well.

You expect tankies to care about techno-fascism?

Fellas, is it intersectional to do emotional labor?

"woke" is the weirdest insult and it feels lowkey transmisogynistic tbh

Half Life 3 is ableist, Overwatch is ableist Gnostic dreck, Fremen roleplaying games are ableist, slapstick is generally ableist, jihad is ableist. Masscult under Assadism is inherently ableist. Sorry to spoil your 'fun'.

This sums up the frantic and coerced deployment of "AI" throughout public and private sectors. Results of even cursory audits are horrifying every time, invariably paired with forced adoption and retaliation for asserting professional norms. Colonialism is a cherry on top.

kinda spitballing here, but I do feel like being the sort of guy who loves being a marine and killing people and who gets nazi tats because he thinks they're badass probably is comorbid with being the sort of guy who does nasty things to women, and that denying this association don't make sense

I feel like this should be a bigger story then it is. www.readthemaple.com/canadian-def...

when i heard about a guy who liked committing war crimes in Iraq so much he took the only job that would let him keep doing them as a civilian, but now sort of weakly says it was bad, i went "Finally! A politician who's not animated by violent psychosexual power fantasies!" but somehow i was fooled

It’s always some grand conspiracy that the world has changed and not just that they’re getting old.

There is no complete theory of our current moment without understanding that the most dangerous form of being Extremely Online is expressed by our elites. It's not the kids on their phones, its their congressional representatives and the Atlantic columnists complaining about kids on their phones.

I’m betting that there’s going to be a crash lol

When you think of it, civility is puritanical and harmful bullshit which never should have been invented and any proper nihilist movement should seek to abolish it.