taylor

struggle always, tweets sometimes | she/her
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[Jafrin⁷ 🌸🌙 @antares_ojo_o]

Due to inflation I'm downgrading from ADHD to AD720p with ads

[TonyIsHere4You @TonyIsHere4You]

The people cutting employees while revenue is growing are the same people you're counting on to pay your UBI out of the goodness of their hearts.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

watching brazil defeat fascism while trump gives a speech about nicki minaj’s ass

[one dozen bats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

[jubbly jiver @starrdiver]

Woke isn't killing gaming. Private equity is.

[taylor @_eggnonymous]

@bioware Sorry for what EA did to y’all. Thanks for the many great games.

[🐞 @saintybc]

I do think we need to give Elizabeth Holmes at least a little bit of credit for scamming Henry Kissinger

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.

Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.

Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.

Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.

In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.

The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

[Nick 💿 @n__c__l]

to be seated next to a bad first date at a wine bar is one of life’s purest joys

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

We could’ve answered literally all of those questions.

[Lila @mhariamx]

You are all against alcohol and sugar now. But who was there when your life was falling apart? sure wasn’t salad

[Hayduke ⏹️ @GWHayduke97]

Dario Amodei considers people opting out of AI-driven transformation of human life as a problem, perhaps a dystopian problem, needing to be "solved", on par with anti-vax. This is from the same essay, 'Machines of Loving Grace', in which he advocates that we become pets of the machines, and suggests video games as one of several alternate vectors of meaning to replace meaningful struggle and challenge.

[antipodean scourge @guywhoiswoke]

The return of Public Spectacle Executions is widely known by historians as the first sign of things going really well

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

[Lunens @Lunens__]

I think part of the negative reaction against the OpenAI mathematics thing is that the work of thousands of exceptional individuals, who sacrificed very much in pursuit of their craft, is now being used to directly enrich a small handful of people. The benefits of all this research fall to precisely one group of shareholders who feel like they deserve Fields medals. Which is, frankly, disgusting.

[taylor @_eggnonymous]

@hilbertspaess It’s not a communications issue, it’s a reality issue. And it’s either delusional or condescending to not realize that.

[𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧★ @olivvrszn]

“Almonds actually use more water than AI.”

Okay, but remember that I can eat almonds, and almonds have never applied for my job, written my performance review, or ever claimed they can replace me.

[alco ⊣ ꙮ @qualiascript]

if Dario Amodei thinks p(doom) is 10%, it means he expects to murder 800 million people as a statistical average, which makes him the most evil person in human history by a long shot

[taylor @_eggnonymous]

@elonmusk No one fucking elected you and you have no right to even attempt to make us all “biological bootloaders.” What a profoundly sociopathic worldview.

[Wesam @wesamo__]

Top 5 cities in the world:

1. Brooklyn
2. Manhattan
3. Queens
4. The Bronx
5. Tokyo