If you can't get through two short paragraphs without equating Stalinism and "social justice", you may be a cockwomble.
here's a matt yglesias article on the ordeal that i think is pretty even-handed
eat a dick
I trained a neural network on all the ways I've said that I hate these people, and it screamed in eldritch spectra before collapsing into silence.
Organized crime is not a rejection of Americanism, it’s what we fear Americanism to be. It’s our nightmare of the American system. When “Americanism” was a form of cheerful bland official optimism, the gangster used to be destroyed at the end of the movie and our feelings resolved. Now the mood of the whole country has darkened, guiltily; nothing is resolved at the end of “The Godfather,” because the family business goes on.
Wow, it's nice that that doesn't feel at all relevant in this, the year 2024
Surely the words being put into the son's mouth should be "What's his TikTok?".
The Singularity (of hating that we know what those words mean) Is Near
Mastodon has Reply Guys. Lemmy has Cater To Me Whilst I Am Literally, Not Figuratively, Taking a Shit Guys.
Transcript: a post by Greg Stolze on Bluesky.
I heard some professor put googly eyes on a pencil and waved it at his class saying "Hi! I'm Tim the pencil! I love helping children with their homework but my favorite is drawing pictures!"
Then, without warning, he snapped the pencil in half.
When half his college students gasped, he said "THAT'S where all this AI hype comes from. We're not good at programming consciousness. But we're GREAT at imagining non-conscious things are people."
"Computational complexity does not work that way!" is one of those TESCREAL-zone topics that I wish I had better reading recommendations for.
Altman: Mr. President, we must not allow a bullshit gap!
Musk: I have a plan... Mein Führer, I can walk!