Redneck Lefty
@rednecklefty.bsky.social
Student of people, history and the sciences, scholar of fortune
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"Mainstream media, and I think Democrats and progressives, are often more comfortable with using medicalized language when talking about morality than they are in using…well, moral language. We say that fighting to starve children is deranged rather than saying that it’s evil."
wrote about trump not knowing why he got an MRI, and how his ignorance is not cognitive decline, but a deliberate choice for evil. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/mri-says-t...
MRI Says Trump Is A Bad Person
Trump's evil has cooked his brain
www.everythingishorrible.net
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Mainstream media, and I think Democrats and progressives, are often more comfortable with using medicalized language when talking about morality than they are in using…well, moral language. We say that fighting to starve children is deranged rather than saying that it’s evil."
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Do these people not test this stuff to exhaustion? Prompt degradation is a major issue. I have to rewrite prompts in new sessions every so often to maintain consistency - otherwise the AI will drift. And all I do is data collation and some simple template structuring.
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Do these people not test this stuff to exhaustion? Prompt degradation is a major issue. I have to rewrite prompts in new sessions every so often to maintain consistency - otherwise the AI will drift. And all I do is data collation and some simple template structuring.
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The thing is… Charlotte is in NC. And I think there might be unforeseen consequences. “North Carolina has voted for the Republican candidate in all but one presidential election since 1980” and perhaps that bird won’t fly there. Or maybe it will: (note that Charlotte is in Mecklenburg County)
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The thing is… Charlotte is in NC. And I think there might be unforeseen consequences. “North Carolina has voted for the Republican candidate in all but one presidential election since 1980” and perhaps that bird won’t fly there. Or maybe it will: (note that Charlotte is in Mecklenburg County)
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Universal basic income was needed decades ago, but it's even more needed now. We must decouple survival from jobs. Universal healthcare is needed too for this. We must demand these things and vote accordingly.
Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Universal basic income was needed decades ago, but it's even more needed now. We must decouple survival from jobs. Universal healthcare is needed too for this. We must demand these things and vote accordingly.
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Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Sometimes thinking about combinatorics is a little psychedelic
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Sometimes thinking about combinatorics is a little psychedelic
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Hello, I would like to introduce you to bad writing.
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hello, I would like to introduce you to bad writing.
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“More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém, significantly outnumbering every single country’s delegation apart from the host Brazil, new analysis has found…” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém, significantly outnumbering every single country’s delegation apart from the host Brazil, new analysis has found…” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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And here it is. Hillary Clinton lost because of sexism. Kamala Harris lost because of racism and sexism.
And yet we need to hash endlessly over this and write concerned and complicated opinion pieces when the basics are quite simple.
And yet we need to hash endlessly over this and write concerned and complicated opinion pieces when the basics are quite simple.
Almost everyone with a high level of racial resentment tended to vote for Trump in the 2024 election, regardless of educational attainment. Conversely, those with a low racial resentment score tended to support Harris, whether they had a college degree or not.
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
And here it is. Hillary Clinton lost because of sexism. Kamala Harris lost because of racism and sexism.
And yet we need to hash endlessly over this and write concerned and complicated opinion pieces when the basics are quite simple.
And yet we need to hash endlessly over this and write concerned and complicated opinion pieces when the basics are quite simple.
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This is the kind of coverage you want voters to see when they’re in line at the grocery checkout. 🤡
@peoplemag.bsky.social
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov @jamespmanley.bsky.social
people.com/ghislaine-ma...
@peoplemag.bsky.social
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov @jamespmanley.bsky.social
people.com/ghislaine-ma...
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is the kind of coverage you want voters to see when they’re in line at the grocery checkout. 🤡
@peoplemag.bsky.social
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov @jamespmanley.bsky.social
people.com/ghislaine-ma...
@peoplemag.bsky.social
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov @jamespmanley.bsky.social
people.com/ghislaine-ma...
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Is this what she got in exchange for saying what the regime wanted her to say?
This is the kind of coverage you want voters to see when they’re in line at the grocery checkout. 🤡
@peoplemag.bsky.social
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov @jamespmanley.bsky.social
people.com/ghislaine-ma...
@peoplemag.bsky.social
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov @jamespmanley.bsky.social
people.com/ghislaine-ma...
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Is this what she got in exchange for saying what the regime wanted her to say?
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My thoughts are with all of us who write so much and get not even a fraction of what this dimwit has received.
“From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible.“
guys.
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My thoughts are with all of us who write so much and get not even a fraction of what this dimwit has received.
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In case you writers out there have ever felt imposter syndrome, "From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible" is an actual sentence in whatever this is.
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In case you writers out there have ever felt imposter syndrome, "From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible" is an actual sentence in whatever this is.
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It's like someone very dull and full of herself went to a very tolerant and expensive MFA program.
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's like someone very dull and full of herself went to a very tolerant and expensive MFA program.
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I don’t think Harvard is talking a lot about how Larry Summers teaches there but Yale should be talking all over the place about how Larry Summers teaches at Harvard
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I don’t think Harvard is talking a lot about how Larry Summers teaches there but Yale should be talking all over the place about how Larry Summers teaches at Harvard
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The APA had to introduce ethics rules about having sex with patients or former patients. And then a few years later they had to make the ethics rules more strict because it kept happening and being a problem.
Academia will end up the same.
Academia will end up the same.
Personally I think even college adult professors should never be allowed to have sex with students even adult grad students in a different department but we're still teaching them not to fuck their own direct supervisees.
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The APA had to introduce ethics rules about having sex with patients or former patients. And then a few years later they had to make the ethics rules more strict because it kept happening and being a problem.
Academia will end up the same.
Academia will end up the same.
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
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www.cnbc.com/2025/11/17/a... “quiet” consumer spending & home ownership & debt repayment to follow?
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/17/a... “quiet” consumer spending & home ownership & debt repayment to follow?
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"You think the NYT is bad these days? With the profile of Olivia Nuzzi? WELL, let me tell you about a 'clubby world that is all but gone' [cf. Shawn McCreesh, 11.16.25] ...."
(NB: this is beyond horrifying, all of it, even beyond the darkest of comedies)
nymag.com/nymetro/news...
(NB: this is beyond horrifying, all of it, even beyond the darkest of comedies)
nymag.com/nymetro/news...
Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery
“Terrific guy,” Donald Trump booms from a speakerphone. “He’s a lot of fun to be with.”
nymag.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"You think the NYT is bad these days? With the profile of Olivia Nuzzi? WELL, let me tell you about a 'clubby world that is all but gone' [cf. Shawn McCreesh, 11.16.25] ...."
(NB: this is beyond horrifying, all of it, even beyond the darkest of comedies)
nymag.com/nymetro/news...
(NB: this is beyond horrifying, all of it, even beyond the darkest of comedies)
nymag.com/nymetro/news...
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WOWZA. I may be no Faulkner, but the prose excerpts below make Bulwer-Lytton look like Thomas Hardy.
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
WOWZA. I may be no Faulkner, but the prose excerpts below make Bulwer-Lytton look like Thomas Hardy.
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Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The DOJ was targeted for corruption early on in Trump's second term. It's hard not to conclude that the extent of a government office corrupted by Trump is in direct correlation to his ability to use the office for his own ends and his ability to influence it.
Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The DOJ was targeted for corruption early on in Trump's second term. It's hard not to conclude that the extent of a government office corrupted by Trump is in direct correlation to his ability to use the office for his own ends and his ability to influence it.
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The dictators game plan on Epstein files. Hope the Republicans are not fooled by his telling them they can vote for the release of the files.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The dictators game plan on Epstein files. Hope the Republicans are not fooled by his telling them they can vote for the release of the files.
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Yes, I absolutely agree with this. This isn't something that merely process or procedure reform can grapple with. We have to articulate a common set of values that can undergird this effort.
And I strongly believe that even that will not be possible without an intentional effort to build trust.
And I strongly believe that even that will not be possible without an intentional effort to build trust.
I just don’t think that folks are really comprehending what will be necessary to establish institutional trust (along a whole lot of dimensions!) once this thing is totally done and dusted.
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal — The Washington Post
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
apple.news
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Yes, I absolutely agree with this. This isn't something that merely process or procedure reform can grapple with. We have to articulate a common set of values that can undergird this effort.
And I strongly believe that even that will not be possible without an intentional effort to build trust.
And I strongly believe that even that will not be possible without an intentional effort to build trust.