Back when I was a sociology student at Kyiv-Mohyla, I was stupidly, shamelessly enamoured with the collective western Left. I dreamed of a day when Ukrainian academia would have widespread and popular discussions about colonialism, privilege, and all of the -isms. I read essays
I came across a theory that AI is starting to make more mistakes because the internet is increasingly polluted with AI slop. The idea of AI cannibalising itself into obscurity is one of my favourite things ever. I hope it is true and I hope it becomes impossible to fix.
I'm sorry but I have to vent.
Fuck the GOP for watering down the Lindsay Graham sanctions bill and giving Trump full power over it.
Fuck anyone who said Kamala would be worse for Ukraine than Trump.
Fuck all the Americans who are okay about the fact that US is now funding Russia's genocidal war in Ukraine - because that's what you're doing now.
And fuck people who still support Trump after all the shit he's done for Ukraine.
So tiring.
Just so you understand the depth of the cynicism: Trump’s failed war with Iran not only raised America's gas prices, but also global oil prices, which allowed Russia to make a gigantic amount of money and fund the killing of Ukrainians.
And then they blame Ukraine for a disaster of their own making, one that contributes to killing Ukrainians and is a big reason why the war didn't end this summer. Plus, they use that blame to feed Russia with even more money and kill even more Ukrainians.
Amazing allies. I have no words left except curses
@Vote4JKendall@skumWgmi It's the opposite: this is real free market working. The capitalism you want, and what used to exist, is one with the concept of "within reason". But that's gone, and the only way to bring it back is with (reasonable and we'll thought out) regulation.
My friend’s dad built a business from nothing. 30 years. Blood and sweat. Turned it into something worth $2,000,000.
Sold it in 2019 to a private equity firm.
They gutted it in 18 months. Cut 40 jobs. Raised prices 35%. Eliminated the pension plan he’d built for his employees. Squeezed every dollar out and sold the carcass.
He calls it the worst decision he ever made. Said he thought they’d protect what he built.
Private equity doesn’t buy businesses to run them. They buy them to harvest them. And they’re doing it to every industry you depend on daily.
Seriously. Find me ONE single policy where boomers accepted a short term sacrifice for the greater good of the country and their kids. One policy, one law, one plan. There’s nothing. Most self centered, arrogant, and entitled ME generation that ever lived.
No, you deeply Fake Christian; you disagree with - and reject - Jesus.
Christ overturned “eye for an eye;” stopped an execution and said only the sinless may execute.
He brought a New Covenant; it’s why you get to eat bacon. Or are you Kosher?
Leviticus 20:10 commands us to stone adulterers to death. Do you “disagree?” Or shall we tell the secret service you’re bringing rocks to Mar-a-Lago?
No. Bc you, Metaxas, do not follow the Bible. You use it. Rejecting Jesus’s commandments is required by MAGA - yall just haven’t gotten around to reading the Jesus parts.
Just admit you prefer killing prisoners to the actual teachings of Christ, you pious fan of death. Because you do.
He also commands us to welcome the stranger, you blaspheming fraud.
Stop pretending you follow Him and we can stop calling you out.
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Trump: Russia and Ukraine should agree to a ceasefire.
Zelenskyy: YES!
Putin: Nah.
Trump: Let's do at least an energy ceasefire.
Zelenskyy: Yes! Let's go! Energy ceasefire!
Putin: I don't think so.
Trump: Zelenskyy should have made a deal. He never makes deals! 🤷♀️
Everybody’s missing Tao’s whole point.
Imagine an AI-generated cancer drug that’s specifically designed to game the drug trial process.
The drug makes the cancer cells go dormant and changes the way they appear in blood tests and diagnostic imaging, such that they become indistinguishable from healthy tissue.
The drug clears the trial and then only much later do we find out it didn’t work. It probably was also harmful on top of that.
We *already* see AI behave like that when confronted with difficult programming/hacking challenges. This is already reality.
An Indian medical student was trying to make money off an egirl persona.
Nothing was working, then AI suggested he target MAGAs because they have a lot of money and are easily fooled.
He ended up being shocked at how much he was able to make through such a transparent grift by talking about pronouns and illegals.
He wasn’t able to replicate his success with a Democratic version because liberals are too smart.
“The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”
This explains why Texas separatists, with their totally coincidentally identical “Veteran, Christian, Father, MAGA” bios, have suddenly gone awfully quiet today, right alongside their Quebec counterparts, conspiracy whackos, and Polish anti-EU eurosceptics
I can’t stress enough that this would mean the complete extinction of human culture. You need art because it connects you to all who’ve gone before you; it challenges you to embrace perspectives not your own. Media generated to your exact preferences is the death of the soul.
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Ah, now I get it. I thought the AI catastrophe meant a model escaping its sandbox, launching nukes or hacking the power grid.
Turns out it spots the AI debt bubble, shorts its own creators and crashes the financial system with trading bots.
The singularity is a margin call.
No snark, I genuinely don’t get it. Trump is one of the least masculine, most juvenile public figures out there. He’s needy, whiny, defensive, terrified of strong women, and visibly intimidated by powerful men.
How does his base spin this into the ultimate “strongman” image?
As a reminder, this is already illegal.
The Senate voted 100-0 to ban it.
We sanction other countries for it.
It’s literally an impeachable offence.
Congress MUST enforce.