...the utopia promised by Sam Altman et al, that AI general intelligence is around the corner, capable of anything (cure for cancer right after porno). You need AI to be super-capable for it to be capable of wiping out humanity, and I figure we are mostly in a world of incrementally better chatbots.

A propos of @ezraklein.bsky.social interviewing Yudkowsky on the AI apocalypse (I'll skip this one), the first time I heard Y talk about this I was spooked and thought it plausibly scary. Then I understood, for the doom-scenario to be possible you need to believe in the best-case scenario for AI.../

While I hate to give my frenemy @dsquareddigest.bsky.social credit this post is actually really good.

"will" doing a lot of work there.

¿Puedo hablar con un humano, por favor?

Humano.

Humano.

Humano.

Humano.

We can have democracy or we can have billionaires.
We cannot have both.

NYT: Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

We had Spitting Image lampooning P.W. Botha to get us through the miner's strike

That's how you do it:

bsky.app/profile/argy...

Also, I think "Trump clueless." is sufficient.

"about who he is" is redundant.

At the end of the day she gave it 110% and you can't ask for much more than that.

The deposit recycling scheme Buckaroo:

when the next bottle spills this thing, that person has to take the lot back to the supermarket

The far-right is never conservative. It always attacks established social institutions, the ones important for democracy and social peace. Because it knows they will be a source of opposition.

Or it'll go to zero :)

Most every finance newsletter or podcast pivots to shilling Bitcoin...

One might look at this chart and conclude thank goodness Bitcoin isn't used for real-world transactions (barring the illegal kind)

*cough*

Who on Earth could have seen that coming?

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

They should get it from Italy, where Asahi sold across Europe is brewed.

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.

I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"

Could have been an email.