Sir Traline
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Smoked salmon and cream cheese Hegel.
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I think the saddest thing about AI video for me, aside from immense societal damage--
Cool and nearly-impossible thinsg do happen. Lifelong wild animals do seek human help sometimes.
But we can never again trust those things. A wolf saved a kitten? Yeah, I ain't believing that.
AI stole the magic
Cool and nearly-impossible thinsg do happen. Lifelong wild animals do seek human help sometimes.
But we can never again trust those things. A wolf saved a kitten? Yeah, I ain't believing that.
AI stole the magic
December 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I think the saddest thing about AI video for me, aside from immense societal damage--
Cool and nearly-impossible thinsg do happen. Lifelong wild animals do seek human help sometimes.
But we can never again trust those things. A wolf saved a kitten? Yeah, I ain't believing that.
AI stole the magic
Cool and nearly-impossible thinsg do happen. Lifelong wild animals do seek human help sometimes.
But we can never again trust those things. A wolf saved a kitten? Yeah, I ain't believing that.
AI stole the magic
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I hope that liberals are finally realizing what the left has been saying forever: The police state and its culture of mass surveillance doesn't exist to keep you safe. They're protecting the ruling class from YOU. They could care less that someone shot up a heavily surveilled university campus.
New photo of person of interest in Brown University shooting is released as manhunt enters fourth day
Like previous images, the enhanced photo showed a man with a black mask, a beanie and what appears to be a two-toned jacket.
www.nbcnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I hope that liberals are finally realizing what the left has been saying forever: The police state and its culture of mass surveillance doesn't exist to keep you safe. They're protecting the ruling class from YOU. They could care less that someone shot up a heavily surveilled university campus.
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Sat in a Mexican restaurant on Lake Street. The door was locked to keep ICE out; someone was posted by the door looking outside and letting customers in. Whistles went off outside. Everyone went on high alert. People scattered.
Went to another Latino business up the road. Their door was locked too.
Went to another Latino business up the road. Their door was locked too.
December 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Sat in a Mexican restaurant on Lake Street. The door was locked to keep ICE out; someone was posted by the door looking outside and letting customers in. Whistles went off outside. Everyone went on high alert. People scattered.
Went to another Latino business up the road. Their door was locked too.
Went to another Latino business up the road. Their door was locked too.
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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Have seen this "explainer" urging a soft, cautious response to gun law reform in Aus shared a few times now, but no one seems bothered the author is affiliated with the gun lobby theconversation.com/why-can-some...
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Have seen this "explainer" urging a soft, cautious response to gun law reform in Aus shared a few times now, but no one seems bothered the author is affiliated with the gun lobby theconversation.com/why-can-some...
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'You should get along with people who hold different political opinions than you' is just code for 'I shouldn't be expected to feel bad about the horrific things I say and do.'
December 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
'You should get along with people who hold different political opinions than you' is just code for 'I shouldn't be expected to feel bad about the horrific things I say and do.'
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Remember when you censored Judith Butler for calling the gender-critical movement fascist? Or when you ran an editorial both sides-ing gender identity reform? Or when you quoted a transphobic hate group as a neutral source? Or when you basically republished one of their press releases verbatim?
With the world in flux, our commitment to clear, agenda-free reporting has never been stronger.
Back factual reporting by supporting the Guardian today. theguardian.com/support/eoy-sc
Back factual reporting by supporting the Guardian today. theguardian.com/support/eoy-sc
December 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Remember when you censored Judith Butler for calling the gender-critical movement fascist? Or when you ran an editorial both sides-ing gender identity reform? Or when you quoted a transphobic hate group as a neutral source? Or when you basically republished one of their press releases verbatim?
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"Google's Gemini is on pace to push Copilot into third place"
Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic if the metric they're trying to judge by is 'Adoption' beyond desperate forcing down the throat of every normal human's wishes.
Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic if the metric they're trying to judge by is 'Adoption' beyond desperate forcing down the throat of every normal human's wishes.
December 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM
"Google's Gemini is on pace to push Copilot into third place"
Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic if the metric they're trying to judge by is 'Adoption' beyond desperate forcing down the throat of every normal human's wishes.
Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic if the metric they're trying to judge by is 'Adoption' beyond desperate forcing down the throat of every normal human's wishes.
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It's so cool that Bsky is the social media of choice for people who were born yesterday
I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
December 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
It's so cool that Bsky is the social media of choice for people who were born yesterday
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once a year the british establishment is like 'here is a list of ppl we will be using to subvert your democratic rights' and it's treated as a perfectly normal part of a healthy democracy.
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
once a year the british establishment is like 'here is a list of ppl we will be using to subvert your democratic rights' and it's treated as a perfectly normal part of a healthy democracy.
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nearly one third of adults use chatbots daily. the rest are getting laid
December 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
nearly one third of adults use chatbots daily. the rest are getting laid
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Reminder, the guy who runs ChatGPT is being sued by his little sister for sexually abusing her for a decade: www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/b...
December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reminder, the guy who runs ChatGPT is being sued by his little sister for sexually abusing her for a decade: www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/b...
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When investment in constant capital becomes too high, and the rate of profit keeps falling, war is presented as a solution
“If the rate of profit falls… there appears swindling… frenzied ventures… new adventures, all for the sake of securing a shred of extra profit.”
“If the rate of profit falls… there appears swindling… frenzied ventures… new adventures, all for the sake of securing a shred of extra profit.”
December 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
When investment in constant capital becomes too high, and the rate of profit keeps falling, war is presented as a solution
“If the rate of profit falls… there appears swindling… frenzied ventures… new adventures, all for the sake of securing a shred of extra profit.”
“If the rate of profit falls… there appears swindling… frenzied ventures… new adventures, all for the sake of securing a shred of extra profit.”
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Two weeks ago I said that there were likely millions of uninstalled Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses as there is neither the data center capacity nor the power to turn them on. Michael Burry is looking into it and it looks like he’s got evidence I’m right.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
December 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Two weeks ago I said that there were likely millions of uninstalled Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses as there is neither the data center capacity nor the power to turn them on. Michael Burry is looking into it and it looks like he’s got evidence I’m right.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
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I know it’s very popular at the moment but I think “enshittification” is insufficient a term for what’s happening right now. This is not a gradual diminishing, it is a leap off a cliff, it’s a system in free fall.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I know it’s very popular at the moment but I think “enshittification” is insufficient a term for what’s happening right now. This is not a gradual diminishing, it is a leap off a cliff, it’s a system in free fall.
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I see the PM is being very rattled and very untruthful about the Greens again in the papers.
He couldn’t say this stuff in Parliament because he would be lying to the House - both about what our popular, evidence-based policies are, and about him believing this guff.
Trumpian
He couldn’t say this stuff in Parliament because he would be lying to the House - both about what our popular, evidence-based policies are, and about him believing this guff.
Trumpian
December 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I see the PM is being very rattled and very untruthful about the Greens again in the papers.
He couldn’t say this stuff in Parliament because he would be lying to the House - both about what our popular, evidence-based policies are, and about him believing this guff.
Trumpian
He couldn’t say this stuff in Parliament because he would be lying to the House - both about what our popular, evidence-based policies are, and about him believing this guff.
Trumpian
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Drugs have caused less measurable harm to this country than landlordism so I'm chalking this one up as a win for the Greens.
[wearing my sickos t shirt whilst smiling so wide im like Jack Nicholsons Joker] oh wow, that sounds sooooo bad
December 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Drugs have caused less measurable harm to this country than landlordism so I'm chalking this one up as a win for the Greens.
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This is what it's liked when a whole nation falls for "the lesser evil" vote. Or maybe most didn't fall for it and got exactly what they wanted
December 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
This is what it's liked when a whole nation falls for "the lesser evil" vote. Or maybe most didn't fall for it and got exactly what they wanted
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Don't get your news about a genocide from social media, get it from somewhere reliable, like the president who would never repeat atrocity propaganda about seeing 40 beheaded babies for half a year after it was disproven.
Fantastic advice, thanks Hillary!
Fantastic advice, thanks Hillary!
December 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Don't get your news about a genocide from social media, get it from somewhere reliable, like the president who would never repeat atrocity propaganda about seeing 40 beheaded babies for half a year after it was disproven.
Fantastic advice, thanks Hillary!
Fantastic advice, thanks Hillary!
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US universities aren't educational institutions. They operate like corporations and focus on indoctrinating students into joining the ranks of the professional class. The goal is to create competent systems managers that can't think critically and will maintain the status quo.
I dunno man it just really seems like American universities have lost the plot over the past 30 years or so and while I too love college football and basketball, the people making key decisions at them don't seem to care about their educational mission at all
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
US universities aren't educational institutions. They operate like corporations and focus on indoctrinating students into joining the ranks of the professional class. The goal is to create competent systems managers that can't think critically and will maintain the status quo.
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Hakeem Jeffries snaps back at masked ICE agents illegally and arbitrarily disappearing people from American streets in EPIC Tiktok dance challenge
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Hakeem Jeffries snaps back at masked ICE agents illegally and arbitrarily disappearing people from American streets in EPIC Tiktok dance challenge
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Guy inventing capitalism - "The most efficient way to allocate resources would be if everyone was trying to trick each other all the time."
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Guy inventing capitalism - "The most efficient way to allocate resources would be if everyone was trying to trick each other all the time."
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Bigotry is a symptom of precisely zero mental illnesses.
Fascism too.
Leftists have got to unpack their saneism.
Fascism too.
Leftists have got to unpack their saneism.
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Bigotry is a symptom of precisely zero mental illnesses.
Fascism too.
Leftists have got to unpack their saneism.
Fascism too.
Leftists have got to unpack their saneism.
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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I remember my union tried to get members to campaign for Labor this election on the basis of Peter Dutton promising to cut our jobs - I wonder what our officials think about that now
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I remember my union tried to get members to campaign for Labor this election on the basis of Peter Dutton promising to cut our jobs - I wonder what our officials think about that now