A reminder that tens of millions of Americans believed the country was heading in the wrong direction because they believed the economy was doing badly and that crime was going up. None of that is true.
If future historians have to ask why the US collapsed into authoritarianism, I suggest they start by comparing the page A1 of the Times on Oct. 29, 2016, to page A12 of the Times on Oct. 24, 2024
Hearing that AI models are collapsing because AI bros poisoned their own well by flooding the internet with loads of slop that’s being fed back into the training data with no way to sift it out. It fills me with such schafenfreude
You’re 5, you have saved up for what feels like an eternity for an ice cream. You’re barely able to hold it so you accidentally drop it after 5 licks.
Dad pats you on the back and says, THATS LIFE SON. Before you turn to leave he snaps a picture of your devastated face for twitter so he can show everyone what a great dad he is.
This is diabolical parenting. All you taught him is that when things go wrong you’re not going to be there to help him.