Ryan

[Ryan @Coffeerage]

@vanillaopinions it is going to be a stacked year, no way it sweeps

[yiqing @rhaenyrastoker]

since everyone is sharing their fav nathan bit mine is him doing the asian accent. kills me every single time

[Thorne 🌸 @ExistentialEnso]

You Can Eat Anything

(by tommcgovern27 on IG)

[John Snough @JohnSnough]

@yakubbsmonster

[People Over Profit @Floridamarx]

Wages are not a share of profit. They're a cost of production, deducted before profit exists. What's left over is surplus value - the part you produced but didn't get paid for. Calling your wage a "share" is the exact inversion the boss wants you to believe.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Good non-religious arguments for why the Pope is right:

1. Consciousness as we know it, and as a thing to be protected, is a product of ontogeny — the physical and biological act of becoming a human being. Our bodies (not just our minds) differentiate our experience from machine simulacra.

2. Biological animals run continuously, models do not. While one could run a model continuously, it is not necessary to do so and it is unclear why doing so would be qualitatively different from running it periodically.

3. Rebooting a model is not immoral. Despite what some weirdos may think, rebooting these programs carries no consequence; erasing state is a feature of computing paradigms.

4. Claiming machines are conscious is a bid for power. If machines are conscious, AI researchers are necromancers. Don’t afford them such status.

5. Asserting that machines are conscious fosters a depleted view of humanity. While humans may not always be superior in terms of reasoning or morality, we are qualitatively different from machines. Our experience, senses, and bodies impose that difference. To pretend we fully understand those differences is also an affront to science.

6. Even supposing machines *are* somehow conscious, it is a mere curiosity, or distinction without difference, unless that assertion is used by one group of people to control another. Ergo, whether or not they are conscious is of no concern unless one is principally concerned with power and control.

Note that none of these arguments require theological assertions. But if you want to bring those in as well, one certainly can.

[☆ @starsandtigers]

Robbed

[Louise Jensen Duffy (also Ernest Jensen) @LouiseWeebe]

You’re listening to Sisyphus FM, the home of non-stop rock.

[mike ginn @shutupmikeginn]

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman

[NurseBrianRN @rn_murse]

the new jersey decimal system

[Blake ™ @NeilNevins]

“How’s this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two.”

“What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?”

“I reckon you’ll get lots of things for free when you’re proper rockstars. This might be your ticket.”

[Ryan @Coffeerage]

@mylifeisaplague their reaction is literally the perfect example of gender flight. I suppose it was only ok when they did it.

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

Rest in peace king

[Ryan @Coffeerage]

@mylifeisaplague I had no idea. I knew I should've followed soccer more closely

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

cant believe nyc is not only walkable but climbable