This would be entirely different if Altman and others had come out saying “This is an exciting new technology! It’s in its infancy, but has great potential, so we want to figure out where it’ll work best and help people adopt it!”

Deeper than that is the VC scale/pump/exit bullshit motivation (ctd)

As a lawyer I’m getting a daily machine gun of come-ons to use AI in legal research, have AI draft my documents, let AI suggest my arguments, AI can take a flying fuck at a rolling seven-fingered doughnut

“Soskin devoted her life to telling stories that might otherwise have gone untold, highlighting the contributions of marginalized communities and ensuring that forgotten voices were brought to the forefront of American history.”

Rest in peace

Trump provides us with sufficient ammunition so as to not require ableist slurs such as that, I think.

You can't even be reasonable or ethical with the Dems here ragging, cause they're just cosplaying left wing, they don't actually understand it.

I agree and I find Blue MAGA can be as culty as Red MAGA. The fact that the words, in a country they try to call a "democracy", come out their mouth as "if you voted third party or didn't vote at all then you voted for the big bad guy!" ummmm, hello? That ISN'T how DEMOCRACY fucking works.

i encourage any guy who thinks it’s No Big Deal to read the comments on any youtube channel with a female-presenting host. the shit men say to women on the internet is vile

US law prohibits precursors to chemical warfare agents, but isopropyl alcohol is a necessary precursor to the nerve agent Sarin. Hundreds of millions of US residents are, technically, felons. Because US "WMD" laws are badly written.

One of the simplest truths, purposefully obscured, is that no person is a burden on the state because the state exists precisely to protect, uplift, and provide for the people. This is why we collectively huddle together against the night. So that all may be sheltered simply because they are human.

Me in my 20s: people have a lot of motives and there's nuance to everything

Me in my 40s: oh a lot of people are just evil actually