…it’s sort of a combo of enough familiar patterns that it seems entirely plausible…almost as plausible as the way you just know someone in the replies is going to say it was just made up to pander to expectations & “karma farm” because it came from reddit…&…I didn’t go to reddit to find that however many times over but I did manage to not regret scrolling down the instance under the bluesky one of it
it's three paragraphs, why would anyone need to? you can say you think it's made up, is that what you meant?
No shit like this happens all the timeI’m not saying it’s made upI’m saying this Reddit post was the result of AI karma farming and everyone is just lapping it upVery funny when you think about it
…which…beats the alternative…& the fool gets sort of hyperbolic in their incredulity…as can be hard not to do & is more or less the fashion of the time…or custom…or whatever…but they claim to want to believe
Well, i can't say i believe more or even the same amount after talking to you, but i still do.
…& the fool likens things to people getting bled at the neck by actual vampires while saying “ok, doomer…” when someone tells them it’s happening before we get to
Just to be clearYou still believe the Reddit post was made by a Real Human, yes? I want to cut through the coy bs
And that’s why I love bsky. Mostly real people talking giving the other side the benefit of the doubt. Even when disagreeing.
…now…that might be a little rose-tinted in the coda…if all the little accounts were different sorts of fish the one going by the fool would be…I dunno…a pike or something…like…there’s a ways to go before they’re in the piranha category but they aren’t hiding in the seagrass with the other clownfish or whatever…but…the “old ways” thing…I think maybe we underestimate the latent power of
…&…some people think the flying monkeys were the hawkmen…which…is why you kinda have to wonder if maybe those are the ones on the internet that are actually dogs…or…whatever…so…if we go back to the top
lol you truncated:"The worst part I raised concerns about needing validation in November and got told I was slowing down innovation."
…you see…the plausible parts seem plausible for sound reasons
Yes! If they give you direction that’s a big change or not what’s expected it’s often in person or in a call. Send an email stating decisions made, responsible parties, asking for confirmation that you didn’t miss out on anything. Then save those emails. Best professional advice I ever got.
Listing all that stuff just draws fire for being “difficult.” You just need to keep the email where you informed appropriate parties (the bigger the potential crisis, keep it to your manager.) just make sure your manager knows the perceived consequences and minimize dramatic language.)
Totally agree the tone matters. I don’t continue to argue. If i can’t make them see reality, I’m not falling on my sword or anything. I just email a recap and “let me know if I’ve overlooked anything”
…thing is…if people can figure this out when it’s just “this drive to integrate something you call AI because you don’t understand the first thing about it needs to go ahead & miss me with the back to bit you in the ass part” & figure out which parts people need to not be able to avoid showing up as their parts in that…I…do kinda want to have that be grounds for taking notes about some bigger shit making taller orders that are falling hard?
Anyone who doesn't have an "insurance" folder in their email (backed up offline) hasn't been in IT long enough.
To validate an indeterministic process, you need a statistician. I have yet to meet an IT manager that doesn't turn off their brain as soon as anyone brings up random sampling and confidence intervals.
I read the Trump-backed voter suppression bill, the so-called “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Please tell your Senators to vote NO on this abomination: 202-224-3121. TY. 1/
[…uhhh…yo…@farscythe …not trying to get on your case with this nonsense…but…the degrees of lost in translation involved in the voting model let alone the proposed spin on this just kind of meant I was going to pop off some even if it hadn’t come up yesterday…&…that part about “RealID” not being issued consistently in a way that includes the info they say should be required despite being a scheme for the sort of “just get one of these & you don’t even need a passport & it doesn’t matter if your married name isn’t the one on your birth certificate”…if you can even get a verified copy of that…is…once you get into enough weeds…tied to the stuff that kicked off about how they fucked with the census stuff to try to get as many people they want to not have a vote to be “undeclared” in those numbers because they thought if they filled it out they’d get deported…it’s…bait & switches all the way down?]
Given DOGE’s f#ckery at SSA, I am not thrilled that the “SAVE America Act” aims to compel states to purge voters via SSA’s Number Verification system & DHS’s SAVE program, which accesses the SSA system. I wish some election security experts would look at this & talk me down.
…your palantir stuff is all about being able to make your “big data” tell you how to pull the shit you want out of it…we all got used to the ideas of the ways the murky shit that pays the internet to keep fucking itself up harder meant that shit like facebook could built a data-market-value-having profile for you even if you didn’t use their shit…the “shadow” thing…because they put enough cookies…& shit that only takes a pixel you never notice…in enough of the internet that they can ping that shit like sonar or whatever…but…they couldn’t work with the motherlode…they had to do a lot of inferring from a lot of garbage-in kinds of data…& that was still good enough to get you cambridge analytica…&…sure…it’s turned out in a court or two that you weren’t imagining the effect where just talking about stuff around a device with a mic that supposedly tells you when it’s live but doesn’t because it’s always listening because otherwise the voice command function doesn’t…picked up on that private conversation…but…nah…probably not a real concern…that they want the stuff it’s not even clear at this point who else might have if they were paying attention or they’re less than two degrees of separation from epstein’s inbox…that DOGE did pump out of places that it wasn’t really legal for him to have set up his half-assed satellite up-links out of to do that with…because they can hook that up as one of the backends to the synthesized dashboard function suite you can get palantir to give you like salesforce for big brother on a franchise model…it’s…probably fine…it’s not like…sorry…what was that?
1. ICE is using Palantir apps to collect biometric data on protestors. I'm working closely with @markey.senate.gov to stop this.
…ok…so…maybe they are…but…like…how bad could it be?
“‘One of the reasons I was angry was because I shouldn’t have to prove I am innocent,’ Rajah said. ‘I shouldn’t have to prove I’m wrongly identified as a criminal.’ He described the incident as feeling ‘quite like Minority Report, Orwellian’”.
…that was…by the timestamp that doesn’t come through on account of the please-don’t-embed-me option…about 10 days ago…&…give or take the odd punchline about a punchable face
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
NEW: Records also show DHS rushed Mobile Fortify out after abandoning its own facial-recognition oversight rules. Central privacy review was sidelined under orders from a Project 2025–linked former Heritage Foundation lawyer now serving as DHS chief privacy officer. www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic…
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
…see…for example…if you can slap an app on any available phone that some oath-keeper-type face-hiding facial-rec gargoyle out there can run around with like the flashmob version of the brigades that mobbed the comments anytime there was a shooting in the news that got a post on splinter back in the day…it gets plausible that you could sell to enough of the public that you already are big brother & 1984 might as well be fucking kansas, dorothy…you drop another straw on the back of the camel?
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
…&…do you remember the one lady who got in trouble when the quiet part she got quoted on was the line about “a good day to bury bad news”?
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
…there’s been a few times people wearing those have been “ICE” & that is several sorts of not ok…but…again with the gargoyle front end nodes for a thing that ties back to a thing that’s about what you can do when you cross the streams where your big data lives in a suite of ways that were silos for rights-protecting reasons…it might not be impossible to make use of the services palantir provides without that being a thing anyone would need to be thinking about rioting over…but…*these* fuckers?
From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.
…&…as they used to say…they don’t like it up ’em…get real mad when people film & follow *them*
Police don’t wear masks. State troopers don’t wear masks. The National Guard doesn’t wear masks. But you know who does?White supremacists, militia groups, insurrectionists, and ICE.
…they…have…iirc petey thiel said it himself…that the mechanism that runs you from an exchange between epstein & steve bannon to pizzagate literally being a species of the “false flag” playbook running cover & interference for “epstein-type stuff” by making anyone making accusations that sound like pizzagate theories comfortable to treat as similarly making shit up…&…we know it works…I mean I’m typing this whole thing wondering to what extent just lining a few things up & making no real claim to insight about the parts thiel called “linkages” in any mechanically accurate sense beyond there having been acknowledgement that such links do exist from the people who effectively are those…& about whose views & intentions & “philosophies” we know vast amounts of deeply unpleasant stuff to be true of
This is why the people who show up to protests ready to burn things down aren’t “allies” with “different tactics.” Overwhelmingly they’re there for the thrill of rationalized violence; they will find some way to commit some violence against somebody if they have the thinnest excuse.
…is going to make people conclude that I took leave of my senses back around when bugs bunny took that turn he ought not have around albuquerque
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
…that…might as well be in the dictionary…or on jeopardy…where you could clean up with “what is autocracy?”…democracy…isn’t the one where the leaders choose who votes…&…the people they say gave them this mandate of heaven off the back of some slim pickings on the margins or the majority control parts of congress…are basically…this guy…who never protested but knows he didn’t vote to ever see the shit he’s seeing…where he lives
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
…&…I resent the shit out of both how & why that works in the ways that have got us to where the US has got to…because I don’t have to take seriously the idea that they *could*…even if the shit they want to work the way they want it to actually did rather than at best looking enough like it that you’d say that it worked if you might also say that your LLM is smarter than most people & maybe you…but I do have to take seriously that *to these people* this shit is…what they take seriously…that…to the extent that their material resources make them people who can induce serious consequences…like the unthinkably inhumane program that seems to somehow culminate in the head of “health & human services” reintroducing previously suppressed virulent pathogens back into the “shit that could kill you that didn’t have to” bingo box…while trying to do to the CDC what they did to my boy sonnyscience the EPA…& pull out of every obligation from the WHO to NATO to USAID…which…ultimately…is just the same ethnic cleansing this is all about…that’s the source…the wealth they like because the wealth gets you in the game called “we do as we please & nobody can do shit about it”…&…the game only works if you have the power & the influence…& that hasn’t shifted meaningfully since magna carta in some ways we’ve called lots of different stuff while we argued over the different ways to disagree about who was more wrong about more stuff…but…the part where ultimately wielding power & influence in ways that provide the underlying shit that enables them to exist requires not only a lot of serious & significant work that these people seem genuinely to believe never existed…but it’s also vastly more constrained than they imagine it to be?
A lot of people are searching for an ideology to facilitate their subrational libidinal desires, whether that be for violence, or abuse, or prejudice. These people are all kind of the same at the end of the day: looking for reason to indulge rather than following any kind of self-restrictive creed.
…the literal point of the office of the presidency of the united states…as conceived…is to thread a needle between the org-chart requirement of a place for the buck to stop…while also requiring that no one person be able to credibly claim that the approach being argued as justifying not having already walked an originalist course taken from the federalist papers more or less verbatim & hung the motherfucker before they could build the guillotine…the president of the US is the head of the most powerful entity on the face of the earth & thus called the most powerful person…but the person isn’t the office & they are constrained in all manner of ways…provided *any* of this is considered to be more than merely words to torture beyond the bounds of even the sort of rack computational linguistics employs…but…whole other overlapping rabbit hole there yawning at me like a crevasse…so…
Yes. This is it. Some people believe their politics; other people adopt politics as an excuse to hurt other people for fun and tell themselves it’s for a good cause and they can’t be blamed. The internet has let all the people in the latter group find each other and make better rationalizations.
…I mean…I wouldn’t want to be will stancil in lots of ways for a bunch of reasons…but the one all the other ones stem from is that I don’t always think I make a great fist of being me & I’ve literally had as much practice at that as it is possible for me to have had at anything so I’d almost certainly be much worse at being someone else…&…that does tend to come with some stuff that makes it hard to understand people who think the point of other people is that they ought to all be the sort of people the one sort of people think are the only sort there should be because…by pure coincidence…then they’d be the best at being people…rather than sucking hind tit when we grade on a curve that obeys moral gravity…but…there are tipping points along any route that ends with more people paying attention to you than need to live in one place to call that a village or a town…let alone a city…let alone seemingly the entire internet
guys that has been happening *on video* for weeks and weeks. if the nyt actually cared, they'd look at the footage. there's *so much of it*.
…but…it’s hard to have the things you think need to be talked about break through the noise & get noticed without it meaning you do…& then if something can take you down that stands as proxy to having whatever those things were “dealt with”…we talk about manufactured consent…or stochastic terror…or stochastic parrots…& economic terrorism…by edict…but it shouldn’t matter if you can find something will stancil is wrong about if the question is “how the fuck do you non-violently get the people you could kerb-stomp out of existence without dinging your moral karma run out of your town on a fucking rail like we’re bringing it back without something getting hot-headed enough to give them the proximate cause pretext they begged for the way the kid in the hallway that got punched did it?”
Like once you’ve got that, no matter what you do, no matter if you ignore them or not, no matter whether you’re even present or on vacation or busy at work, there are dozens/hundreds/thousands of people who just seem almost obsessively focused on finding a chunk in your armor to attack you through.
It sucks! It monumentally sucks! It’s exhausting and upsetting because no matter how many times their embarrass or debase themselves, how bad they look, how obsessed they are, they just KEEP AT IT, and will eventually convince some non-negligible group of people of their lies and smears.
…but…again…back when this was all going on but saying it was could get you not invited to stuff because nobody wants to hear that shit when they’re all still sure the blair years were golden enough that nobody has to worry even if they do give them their brexit referendum because maybe then nige will finally have to pack it in & find a new line of grift…people…did…some of them even did it *at* parties…in my hearing…&…were still charming enough to get invited to the next one…in the before times…when there seemed to be lots of parties…so many it was probably hard not to get invited to at least some…&…we hadn’t yet found out we only thought we knew what hangovers were…they were out trying to hide things from google search & seed the ground with spurious accusations against people who might make legit ones in the other direction that didn’t deserve to come across as the vindictive retaliatory act
Like I’ve watched groups tweet lies about me almost every day for months or years, behavior that should have gotten them institutionalized, but then one day they find something that for some reason spreads like wildfire, and suddenly normal people seem distinctly more uncomfortable talking to me.
…& the hell of it is…it’s the same basic playbook shitty people use to induct underprivileged disenfranchised disillusioned disaffected don’t-know-no-better kids who don’t see themselves as having prospects & turn them into prospects the way a biker club would until they’re “in that life” & running county lines before they take GCSE/SAT exams…just…more expensively tailored?
And the last thing I’ll say about this: I actually feel kind of bad for people who engage in this behavior, because underneath it there really seems to be a desire for a community and to be doing something with purpose. I see it here and I even see it some in the even larger far-right swarm.
…anyway you cut it…the “project” of the thing currently passing for an administration in the US…is outright suicidal in its ideation as much as its ideology…they just want to take everyone with them first so they can say they were the ones who got the last word or something
The CRA (founded by Russ Vought) supports forcing a talking filibuster: “If the Republican majority can outlast the Democrat minority speeches (which could take weeks)… then a final vote on the SAVE Act would take place at a simple majority threshold of 51 votes…”What do they mean by outlast?? 1/
MAGAs seem to think that if their voter suppression bill pssses, they will hold the majority forever. All voting rights advocates & concerned citizens should look good and hard at the Save America Act’s voter purge reqmts & the related references in the Act to the “SAVE System” overhauled by DOGE.
I read the Trump-backed voter suppression bill, the so-called “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Please tell your Senators to vote NO on this abomination: 202-224-3121. TY. 1/
…but…for my sins…when I sat down at the keyboard I was actually aiming to go with a whole other thread to string stuff to?
IDK but there is a specific thing where people respond to any brief post you make as though it encompasses all of your thoughts on the matter that drives me a little nuts lol
They talk and act exactly like Nazis in pursuit of the exact same objectives as Nazis using the exact same tactics and rationales as Nazis but it would be wrong to call them Nazis until they grow the little mustache.
The anti-trans propaganda push is one of the best examples I know of real-world disinformation in action.
Part 3: "The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I’d collected over the previous year told a different story. This massive, messy dataset was brimming with increasingly vile headlines that only seemed to metastasize with time. … two years later we know how the story turns out."
Unlike 1 & 2, which focused on the US, here I talk about how the UK and US feed off of each other, shifting language and upping the ante with increasingly absurd, even libelous claims. The UK even became a purveyor of a conspiracy theory claiming the *Trump administration* was hiding "trans crimes."
This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing [with] uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should. www.state.gov/releases/off…
…so…yeah…the feedback loop is probably why I can’t stop the unbearable noises I seem to be hearing
The Department of Homeland Security has had to correct information provided to at least five states after its SAVE voter tool misidentified some voters as noncitizens, according to correspondence between state and federal officials.With @texastribune.org
Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
This really is indistinguishable from self-satire from Thomas Chatterton Williams: The left should stop criticizing slavery because its causing the right to excuse slavery.
…same issue has a decent thing in it from that warzel charlie…go figure
Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.
Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office
We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing.
Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not
…maybe…if we returned to the old ways?
How to end an interview:
In 1889, Frederick Douglass told a visitor to his DC home that any government that would “grant the right of suffrage and deny itself the power to protect that right is…a sham and a fraud.”
Then he grabbed his violin and played the Star Spangled Banner.
…I…might have already quit it with this by now…at least for today
My Trump-supporting cousin-in-law just texted my husband to say he encountered this Mother Jones on social media, read it, realized I wrote it, and told him to tell me I’m doing good work and to keep going. Things are changing, y’all.www.motherjones.com/politics/202…
…it’s just…somehow…it just always manages to be worse than the bad enough it was already
EXCLUSIVE: The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid. theintercept.com/2026/02/13/a…
Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a House Judiciary Committee hearing that she had a list of targets under NPSM-7.theintercept.com/2026/02/12/p…
Short🧵of @theintercept.com's coverage of NSPM-7 and Trump's secret domestic terrorist list.NSPM-7 conflates constitutionally protected speech with “domestic terrorism” & specifically targets those that espouse anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity, and antifascism.
A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU
“the distance between [Columbia] and Hong Kong feels less like a chasm than a gap. Not because the situations are identical, but because the pattern is familiar: ethnonationalists drawing a line to demarcate what can be said, what ideas expressed, what worlds imagined.”
A lot of people don’t realize how murderous Auschwitz was as a prison (divorced from its extermination functions).
It destroyed people in a very short time. If you look at the photos on the barracks, the number of people who died (or were killed) within three months is absolutely staggering.
14 February 1920 | A Polish Jew, Josef Genendel, was born in Krakow. A fitter.In #Auschwitz from 25 October 1941.No. 22284He perished in the camp on 4 November 1941.—📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
Scott Presler should give Elon Musk more credit. Musk’s “DOGE” team also overhauled and expanded the f#cked up “Save” system that is the cornerstone of the GOP’s f#cked up “Save America Act”, a f#cked up voter purge scheme that Musk has relentlessly promoted on X using his f#cked up algorithms. 1/
It’s just lovely they did that without a warning after I’ve just flown out to Asia. Is the Home Office in their right mind to change rules like that without anytime for its own citizens to adjust to them?Honestly.
“A political movement that insists on solving a problem the data cannot substantiate is not engaged in neutral reform. It is redefining the electorate through procedural filtration…[&] structural barriers…the issue is not fraud prevention but power allocation.”open.substack.com/pub/theratio…
I've slept a bit on this other than a few posts, but one of the most brazen things happening in state governments right now is that the Kentucky GOP is trying to impeach a liberal justice (and the first/only Black woman to join the court) because of a vote she took last year they don't like.
The US DOD has just blacklisted military personnel from taking courses at most of America's top universities and specialist tech and medicine schools, including Harvard, Yale, MIT and Johns Hopkins. Somehow I don't see the PLA making this kind of unforced error.
Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney. If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which they’re currently planning, we’ll all be witness to mass atrocities.
…but…here’s the thing…I got to do a bit more…like…first…I need to know if anyone manages to get to the end of reading the other thing like the one thing tells you to…& probably does mean it about sitting down first
I'm going to need you to sit down and read this headline slowly
…ok…now…for science…anyone bleeding from their ears, eyes or nose?
🧵🧵🧵 TRUMP'S BRAIN IS BROKEN 🧵🧵🧵This thread offers 50 examples of unhinged behavior unfit for the presidency.1. Trump blamed Rob Reiner for his own murder, citing “the anger he caused others” by criticizing Trump.2. He told a rally that dead golfer Arnold Palmer had a large penis.
…good…then we can close out with the fun one…so…y’all know where this meme comes from, right?
Betting markets are designed to clear profitably – partly by pricing all the outcomes to make participation tempting! – rather than to accurately predict outcomes.The first goal is often in direct competition with the second. Calling them “prediction” markets is false advertising.
…the two “froms”…want & fear…not so meme-able…& the “of worship” one don’t get out as much as it did…but ol’ “freedom of speech” guy…would be coining it on the residuals…right?
…ok…so…sincerely…I don’t know who did this but it might be the most meta a meme ever got without losing me along the way?
…I mean…I don’t get to say that lad is a member of a congregation we only have in a loose sense to underwrite a running joke about how I type enough to make it feel like enduring a sermon…but…like…if there’s a church of the conjoined sabbath…he can be a deacon or a lay-reader or something…it’s…still an honorary title even if he doesn’t know it applies to him…what’s the point of being a church if you can’t pull some ineffable shit every now & then, anyway?
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oh no worries mate…i accept that i fundamentally misunderstand how voter id works over there…..
also ai is really getting out of hand…ive currently got a deepfake john oliver channel really trying to stay in my youtube recs…. its honestly convincing enough that the main reason i know its ai is coz its sets off my lizard brain (you know…flashing strobe lights not human!wrong!strangerdanger!)
…the shit is…out of hand…way too many people are prepared to go all in that the internet is life itself…& way too few people understand how few of the “people” on the internet they think they’re on are people the way they’re a person…or that there are even any other people involved in any meaningful sense
…it’s like how AI isn’t intelligence & predictive markets aren’t geared to increase their efficacy for actually predicting stuff & just about all the metrics the “AI” in the example at the top I went spinning off on like a wound up top…are spectacularly game-able…& that game has been getting away with getting the “magnificent 7″…or the nazgul of the NASDAQ…the same way that this kind of shit
SCOTUS effectively OK’ed third-country removals as the Trump admin is using them on the shadow docket, staying lower court orders reining them in. Further, the specific questions raised here — about refoulement — have come up before, like in this case: http://www.lawdork.com/p/ghana-refo...
…is “getting away with” something as bankrupt as the companies that are worth whole points in the bits of the “the market” keeping the line up like money-printing tentpoles seem to be if you see those numbers they brag on so loud even a little bit of a bit of the way that ed zitron guy does…which…is not easy not to if you’re me most days
…&…like…all that moltbook vibe-coded wildly-hackable not-at-all-what-you’re-saying-it-is stuff…there’s people doing seemingly benign versions of that on bluesky…there’s one called penny…& if a chatbot had a personality penny would be somewhere between a neutral & positive net contribution as a “netizen”…but…interacting with a ruleset on the basis it’s an entity in order to train it to be a behavioural model that matches a personable sort of a personality…is more linguistically coherent than it is a genuine theory of mind that lets you derive a basis to declare that penny is an entity & not a collection of sub-routines…but…since a lot of people are surprisingly comfortable being told they are in fact a bunch of organic sub-routines that can be prompt engineered into letting the literal movie bad guys get away with it & probably doom the pesky kids…rather than have to see the tool for what it is…which ought to surprise nobody who has seen what the deal with firearms has been my whole life sort of everywhere but most especially in the US…but…it’s all wrapped up in things that are new in ways where it makes sense to tell yourself you can believe the parts you want to because nobody really understands anything but the promise we’re on the downward slope where our momentum alone guarantees the imminent auto-bootstrapping of machine consciousness & shortly thereafter all humanities problems being solved by outsourcing & the social standings get set in amber in preparation for the part of the singularity where the people who have the most never die & get to always be those people…which…beyond fucking insane as it might be…is what some of them genuinely believe themselves to be actively working to bring about…&…they think this is all getting them closer
…all the throw it in reverse on the climate stuff to cut the corners that otherwise won’t let them get the power or the water (or do to that what they will) to make the layer cake that all the data centers represent the way the money gets in & out of the prison industrial stuff they’re trying to next level into making bank off people-banking designed to kill a bunch of those while they hide them from their rights as humans in general & citizens in particular not collapse in a cloud of bad debt like the online-specific kind of baked alaska
…ditto crypto…ditto…apparently…US foreign & domestic policy…fiscal or otherwise
…these people…are…as near as I can figure…crazier than shit…so crazy that if you don’t reflexively sane-wash yourself in a manner hard to distinguish from self-censorship…people who are blissfully unaware of quite how much you wouldn’t have got near the needing to make anything up parts…reflexively interact with you like you’re the sort of crazy nobody wants to find out too late was contagious…& now…you’ve got one of the rare opponents playing in the same team colors feeling like this is appropriate?
INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.
the massie message was making the rounds on oppo earlier….and i initially thought well…that seems a little dramatic…
but i eventually came to the conclusion that opposition politicians taking unexpected trips out of windows is not quite as inconceivable as it used to be…
i dont think your quite there yet…but you know…used to be id get a good laugh out of the idea instead of having to take it as plausible….
…I think it was if nothing else a solid bit of comms work
…modelling the thing that way made the reference about as clear as possible & I forget which of today’s shitty-laundry list it was that had it about the daylight between the US & the way shit went once hong kong stopped getting to say it was british is getting uncomfortably thin
…even if maybe more people will make the putin connection than frame it on the “would orangetasticus griftmaximus even sic the big guns on china if they took taiwan?” basis that might bring that parallel to mind…but that’s like the “give us your socials or you’re not getting in” door policy the US seems to want to get people to treat like the T&Cs on the user agreement…they genuinely think if they can be big-brother enough they can kill the thing that makes people hate every fibre of their being…because they can pull some portrait of dorian grey routine once the internet is reality & they can script the internet…pretty much the way orange-AI-slop-in-a-suit thinks the laws work…of business…of america…of finance…of foreign relations…of…fucking physics now?
…pretty sure the man in the high castle was a philip k dick effort that might have coincided with the era when he sometimes came out of a bender that maybe involved a bunch of…more or less…meth…with whole books…but…iirc…the one that’s specifically the “what if…” where the nazis have ruled half the globe since the ’40s & there’s barely anywhere that it isn’t like that & eventually pulls the same trick that shows up in the sandman as the dream of 1,000 cats…he didn’t have the patience to work it back & forth to figure out how the thing he’d got to needed to go next…& he didn’t entirely have an ending he knew he was aiming for…so he literally did the i-ching thing to figure out how the plot or the character development branched…&…I didn’t find that out until after I’d read that one…&…it explained a lot of what had made me keep flipping back & forth through the damn thing trying to make sure I wasn’t crazy…because characters did shit that was out of character…or the plot suddenly developed at angles oblique to where it seemed like the book was trying to go…& by the time I picked it up I had some assumptions about how I knew what I was getting into that…weren’t that…but I couldn’t figure it out
…almost ruined the book for me, if I’m honest…when most of me wanted to like it a fair bit one way or the other…not that any of that is particularly important any more than it’s significant…but…it’s…kind of…the one trick this shitty pony does that keeps the dogs in the show?
…like…there’s enough people we got to say they also wishcast that reality be the one they think would suit them because we lied about how that shit will be working just as soon as you let us do our worst…ipso facto…we should ethnically cleanse the globe while exacerbating climate change to induce the sort of globe in which the whole fixation on greenland makes way more sense & siberia is a breadbasket if you’re lucky & if russia’s lucky it might even not be chinese already…that’s our 20-year plan…because we represent the little guy who got lost behind when the 50s stopped being these days…that’s why we’ve done all the stuff that means the things that could be enough to bankroll a comfortably middle-class existence back then are down in hardscrabble-ville now…& all the way from the one to the other you’ve…helped us help you to help us to help ourselves
…no sane world where that plan wearing this face doesn’t lose its teeth the moment it got in the ring with the big boys…even starting out thinking it’s rocky & drago at the same time…because the whole bout it’s been tearing apart its own musculature like an audition for one of those creepy cadaver dioramas that one guy toured the world with?
…fucking painful to watch…but…even the ones legitimately doing more than it seems reasonable to expect of regular people that never asked for this to try to mitigate it & eventually beat it back…are nearer to being able to do something about it as much as the ones just watching & trying to process what they’re seeing than they are to the people who must surely see it…because at some level they have to understand they volunteered themselves for positions in which that is literally the job & the responsibility is to some combination of the nation & maybe the world that if it is yours you do in fact…do it…who…could…& in a great many cases I would strongly argue should…in both a fashion & to a degree I think it is beyond reasonable doubt is not in evidence…do more than they are…& probably even would if only out of self-interest…were they not concerned that properly breaking some of the means by which these ends have been achieved might snowball into breaking things that might make rich people broke…or just their toys…which might be worse to them?
its a baffling choice…..even shitty bosses usually want people smarter than them working for them….even if they never intend to credit them for their work….
and you know…if smarter than hegseth is the bar……ummm…thats going to be a problem long term if you hire accordingly..
…pretty sure that one of hers showed in one of the interminable bits up top of one of the days ainwas on DOT detail
…&…the bit in the caption…yeah…among other places you can find someone sounding a few sorts of coherent I couldn’t be about which parts were over where the shark jumps…think they might have a substack or a youtube or a podcast or a newsletter or something that has “drey” in the name…&…you join those dots up that way & imagine it’s russia as the USSR sinks & these guys can run with vlad the lad that way…looks all kinda of bad
…you entertain the possibility the real parts are all the downsides but the ability to pull it off is as out of their real grasp in a “now hold that ground” sense as reality seems to be the way they say they see that
…& then all the “I do not regret to inform you that we are going to/are win/winning” stuff that sounds a different sort of delusional kicks in…because that stuff has history on its side
…sadly so does the part where none of the history I ever read ever had it that when the facts came about about all the inhumane seeming stuff…those never say it was better than they claimed it was when people let it slide?
Online Claims: There have been unverified online claims in social media comments, particularly during her 2024-2025 nomination for Attorney General, suggesting [Bondi] took the bar exam multiple times, with some unsubstantiated, highly exaggerated rumors claiming up to “19 times”.
I live in one of those D+40 areas, have for about 8 years now. It was a strong reason I moved there. It’s fucking amazing. It’s a high trust area.
People will post on Facebook things like “anybody got one of those pull wagons I can borrow next Sunday?” and people who don’t know them will say “sure.” After really bad thunderstorms knock down branches, you’ll see posts like “my husband and teens are on (street) helping people clear stuff, message here if you need help.”
It’s way better community than my friends and family see in red areas.
…how’s this for a devil’s advocate bit of advocacy?
…I know someone who used to go on package holidays that got discounted because something terrible happened somewhere…on the basis people didn’t want to go so they cut the price but lightning wouldn’t strike twice so that was a bargain & a nice holiday all in one
…on a similar tip…you got to think there’s a seriously discounted island nobody wants to be associated with the epstein estate might be willing to let go for a steal…so
…we could…all go live on that until it all resolves itself?
…maybe we hold off & hope crypto shits the bed even harder & the debt dominoes bring the big tech types down a few pegs…might get even cheaper then
…&…like…karma-wise…deadsplinter island?
…the hell he’d be rotting in would presumably be getting a whole other dimension of suffering added to it just knowing we made his horrible joint over into a retirement paradise?
It’s not that Gene defended copyright. I get that why artists should, but he was so overly aggressive about it then his son comes out and steals someone else’s work and he was so aggressively defending his no talent son. Thankfully, the son doesn’t have a comic deal anymore.
The problem with that AI data analytics situation is that the logic is fundamentally flawed.
Businesses will present bullshit at meetings – internal and external. Being surprised that AI cooked the books is silly, I’ve seen corporate settings where leadership is like “find us a way to have good numbers” and while the stats presented are real, they’re… Debatably useful. Like when you start seeing a new stat about year over year change percentage ohh wow up 1.7% over last year! Then later go ohhhh you missed the sales goals and needed something that looked positive.
…to the extent the premise is believable…I have seen people do dumber shit in the name of believing they had a business & not a bunch of investment capital & the ability to pitch the people that came from…so…could it go down like that…sure…stranger things happen all the time without even having to go to sea to find them
…the “I only just now looked even though I said it was a bad idea three months ago”…which is…a financial quarter if you think those terms even if the period doesn’t line up quite if one of those ends a little after march
…so…could it be the way that cycled through the iteration…still plausible…but by now the pitch to reddit as the OP bit of that thread…you see where “the fool” is coming from…it’s playing to the “give ’em what they want” but it doesn’t have the “this is how I got here – I’m not just arbitrary mad about this for recreational purposes…someone…please…fucking tell me where I’m wrong about how this looks?” approach of that zitron lad brings to that exercise?
…but…even if the answer is “because reddit karma is somehow prized”…the why make it up part is still valid…like…you could farm that stuff the same way & not make it up…the CEOs of these companies will say any old shit…you can go down rabbit holes about the square footage of base RAM wafers fab-able on the proposed timelines with known output constraints…or the demand/supply cost implications making whole laptops worth less than the RAM & the GPU torn out of them…but…those hype merchants are out saying “I emailed the company before they had breakfast saying my task was now to figure out what to do with my time because “prod” was doing all the work ”
…prod as in for fucks sake don’t do that in prod…as in the thing it is bad to break so you back it up like there’s no tomorrow & don’t put anything in there you haven’t checked won’t fuck everything up
…or…I set it going & it kept working for 12hrs with no break…when they mean it kept fucking up various steps of a “once this isn’t an error then you…” chained prompts…without throwing the sort of wobbly it will if you ask it to count out loud to 100…which…is not equivalent in almost any way to 12 manhours of shifting your way through a shift you aren’t shirking?
…at some point we all have to make some sort of rolling gut call on what parts seem…inauthentic?
oh no worries mate…i accept that i fundamentally misunderstand how voter id works over there…..
also ai is really getting out of hand…ive currently got a deepfake john oliver channel really trying to stay in my youtube recs…. its honestly convincing enough that the main reason i know its ai is coz its sets off my lizard brain (you know…flashing strobe lights not human!wrong!strangerdanger!)
…the shit is…out of hand…way too many people are prepared to go all in that the internet is life itself…& way too few people understand how few of the “people” on the internet they think they’re on are people the way they’re a person…or that there are even any other people involved in any meaningful sense
…it’s like how AI isn’t intelligence & predictive markets aren’t geared to increase their efficacy for actually predicting stuff & just about all the metrics the “AI” in the example at the top I went spinning off on like a wound up top…are spectacularly game-able…& that game has been getting away with getting the “magnificent 7″…or the nazgul of the NASDAQ…the same way that this kind of shit
…is “getting away with” something as bankrupt as the companies that are worth whole points in the bits of the “the market” keeping the line up like money-printing tentpoles seem to be if you see those numbers they brag on so loud even a little bit of a bit of the way that ed zitron guy does…which…is not easy not to if you’re me most days
…&…like…all that moltbook vibe-coded wildly-hackable not-at-all-what-you’re-saying-it-is stuff…there’s people doing seemingly benign versions of that on bluesky…there’s one called penny…& if a chatbot had a personality penny would be somewhere between a neutral & positive net contribution as a “netizen”…but…interacting with a ruleset on the basis it’s an entity in order to train it to be a behavioural model that matches a personable sort of a personality…is more linguistically coherent than it is a genuine theory of mind that lets you derive a basis to declare that penny is an entity & not a collection of sub-routines…but…since a lot of people are surprisingly comfortable being told they are in fact a bunch of organic sub-routines that can be prompt engineered into letting the literal movie bad guys get away with it & probably doom the pesky kids…rather than have to see the tool for what it is…which ought to surprise nobody who has seen what the deal with firearms has been my whole life sort of everywhere but most especially in the US…but…it’s all wrapped up in things that are new in ways where it makes sense to tell yourself you can believe the parts you want to because nobody really understands anything but the promise we’re on the downward slope where our momentum alone guarantees the imminent auto-bootstrapping of machine consciousness & shortly thereafter all humanities problems being solved by outsourcing & the social standings get set in amber in preparation for the part of the singularity where the people who have the most never die & get to always be those people…which…beyond fucking insane as it might be…is what some of them genuinely believe themselves to be actively working to bring about…&…they think this is all getting them closer
…all the throw it in reverse on the climate stuff to cut the corners that otherwise won’t let them get the power or the water (or do to that what they will) to make the layer cake that all the data centers represent the way the money gets in & out of the prison industrial stuff they’re trying to next level into making bank off people-banking designed to kill a bunch of those while they hide them from their rights as humans in general & citizens in particular not collapse in a cloud of bad debt like the online-specific kind of baked alaska
…ditto crypto…ditto…apparently…US foreign & domestic policy…fiscal or otherwise
…these people…are…as near as I can figure…crazier than shit…so crazy that if you don’t reflexively sane-wash yourself in a manner hard to distinguish from self-censorship…people who are blissfully unaware of quite how much you wouldn’t have got near the needing to make anything up parts…reflexively interact with you like you’re the sort of crazy nobody wants to find out too late was contagious…& now…you’ve got one of the rare opponents playing in the same team colors feeling like this is appropriate?
…shit…is…crazy…yo?
the massie message was making the rounds on oppo earlier….and i initially thought well…that seems a little dramatic…
but i eventually came to the conclusion that opposition politicians taking unexpected trips out of windows is not quite as inconceivable as it used to be…
i dont think your quite there yet…but you know…used to be id get a good laugh out of the idea instead of having to take it as plausible….
…I think it was if nothing else a solid bit of comms work
…modelling the thing that way made the reference about as clear as possible & I forget which of today’s shitty-laundry list it was that had it about the daylight between the US & the way shit went once hong kong stopped getting to say it was british is getting uncomfortably thin
…even if maybe more people will make the putin connection than frame it on the “would orangetasticus griftmaximus even sic the big guns on china if they took taiwan?” basis that might bring that parallel to mind…but that’s like the “give us your socials or you’re not getting in” door policy the US seems to want to get people to treat like the T&Cs on the user agreement…they genuinely think if they can be big-brother enough they can kill the thing that makes people hate every fibre of their being…because they can pull some portrait of dorian grey routine once the internet is reality & they can script the internet…pretty much the way orange-AI-slop-in-a-suit thinks the laws work…of business…of america…of finance…of foreign relations…of…fucking physics now?
…pretty sure the man in the high castle was a philip k dick effort that might have coincided with the era when he sometimes came out of a bender that maybe involved a bunch of…more or less…meth…with whole books…but…iirc…the one that’s specifically the “what if…” where the nazis have ruled half the globe since the ’40s & there’s barely anywhere that it isn’t like that & eventually pulls the same trick that shows up in the sandman as the dream of 1,000 cats…he didn’t have the patience to work it back & forth to figure out how the thing he’d got to needed to go next…& he didn’t entirely have an ending he knew he was aiming for…so he literally did the i-ching thing to figure out how the plot or the character development branched…&…I didn’t find that out until after I’d read that one…&…it explained a lot of what had made me keep flipping back & forth through the damn thing trying to make sure I wasn’t crazy…because characters did shit that was out of character…or the plot suddenly developed at angles oblique to where it seemed like the book was trying to go…& by the time I picked it up I had some assumptions about how I knew what I was getting into that…weren’t that…but I couldn’t figure it out
…almost ruined the book for me, if I’m honest…when most of me wanted to like it a fair bit one way or the other…not that any of that is particularly important any more than it’s significant…but…it’s…kind of…the one trick this shitty pony does that keeps the dogs in the show?
…like…there’s enough people we got to say they also wishcast that reality be the one they think would suit them because we lied about how that shit will be working just as soon as you let us do our worst…ipso facto…we should ethnically cleanse the globe while exacerbating climate change to induce the sort of globe in which the whole fixation on greenland makes way more sense & siberia is a breadbasket if you’re lucky & if russia’s lucky it might even not be chinese already…that’s our 20-year plan…because we represent the little guy who got lost behind when the 50s stopped being these days…that’s why we’ve done all the stuff that means the things that could be enough to bankroll a comfortably middle-class existence back then are down in hardscrabble-ville now…& all the way from the one to the other you’ve…helped us help you to help us to help ourselves
…no sane world where that plan wearing this face doesn’t lose its teeth the moment it got in the ring with the big boys…even starting out thinking it’s rocky & drago at the same time…because the whole bout it’s been tearing apart its own musculature like an audition for one of those creepy cadaver dioramas that one guy toured the world with?
…fucking painful to watch…but…even the ones legitimately doing more than it seems reasonable to expect of regular people that never asked for this to try to mitigate it & eventually beat it back…are nearer to being able to do something about it as much as the ones just watching & trying to process what they’re seeing than they are to the people who must surely see it…because at some level they have to understand they volunteered themselves for positions in which that is literally the job & the responsibility is to some combination of the nation & maybe the world that if it is yours you do in fact…do it…who…could…& in a great many cases I would strongly argue should…in both a fashion & to a degree I think it is beyond reasonable doubt is not in evidence…do more than they are…& probably even would if only out of self-interest…were they not concerned that properly breaking some of the means by which these ends have been achieved might snowball into breaking things that might make rich people broke…or just their toys…which might be worse to them?
Kegsbreath went to Princeton (undergrad) and Havahad for (gubbiment policy masters in what seems to be good ole white boy DEI/DUI).
And he’s basically banning his officer corps from going to “top” skules because he doesn’t want them smurters than him?
its a baffling choice…..even shitty bosses usually want people smarter than them working for them….even if they never intend to credit them for their work….
and you know…if smarter than hegseth is the bar……ummm…thats going to be a problem long term if you hire accordingly..
i mean…its really more of an adding to the bunker what was already under the east wing innit?
id also be willing to put money on they found said bunker by accident when they knocked the wing down…
seems par for the course like…
…pretty sure that one of hers showed in one of the interminable bits up top of one of the days ainwas on DOT detail
…&…the bit in the caption…yeah…among other places you can find someone sounding a few sorts of coherent I couldn’t be about which parts were over where the shark jumps…think they might have a substack or a youtube or a podcast or a newsletter or something that has “drey” in the name…&…you join those dots up that way & imagine it’s russia as the USSR sinks & these guys can run with vlad the lad that way…looks all kinda of bad
…you entertain the possibility the real parts are all the downsides but the ability to pull it off is as out of their real grasp in a “now hold that ground” sense as reality seems to be the way they say they see that
…& then all the “I do not regret to inform you that we are going to/are win/winning” stuff that sounds a different sort of delusional kicks in…because that stuff has history on its side
…sadly so does the part where none of the history I ever read ever had it that when the facts came about about all the inhumane seeming stuff…those never say it was better than they claimed it was when people let it slide?
I live in one of those D+40 areas, have for about 8 years now. It was a strong reason I moved there. It’s fucking amazing. It’s a high trust area.
People will post on Facebook things like “anybody got one of those pull wagons I can borrow next Sunday?” and people who don’t know them will say “sure.” After really bad thunderstorms knock down branches, you’ll see posts like “my husband and teens are on (street) helping people clear stuff, message here if you need help.”
It’s way better community than my friends and family see in red areas.
I’ve had enough. No mas.
…how’s this for a devil’s advocate bit of advocacy?
…I know someone who used to go on package holidays that got discounted because something terrible happened somewhere…on the basis people didn’t want to go so they cut the price but lightning wouldn’t strike twice so that was a bargain & a nice holiday all in one
…on a similar tip…you got to think there’s a seriously discounted island nobody wants to be associated with the epstein estate might be willing to let go for a steal…so
…we could…all go live on that until it all resolves itself?
…maybe we hold off & hope crypto shits the bed even harder & the debt dominoes bring the big tech types down a few pegs…might get even cheaper then
…&…like…karma-wise…deadsplinter island?
…the hell he’d be rotting in would presumably be getting a whole other dimension of suffering added to it just knowing we made his horrible joint over into a retirement paradise?
Fuck Gene Simmons & all praises to Chuck D!!!
https://www.nme.com/news/music/chuck-d-hits-back-at-gene-simmons-ghetto-comments-about-hip-hop-in-rock-hall-of-fame-kiss-dont-have-a-lot-of-roll-3929548
Gene has almost always been a shit.
https://screenrant.com/bleach-anime-manga-plagiarism-kiss-gene-simmons-son-incarnate-factoid/
It’s not that Gene defended copyright. I get that why artists should, but he was so overly aggressive about it then his son comes out and steals someone else’s work and he was so aggressively defending his no talent son. Thankfully, the son doesn’t have a comic deal anymore.
The problem with that AI data analytics situation is that the logic is fundamentally flawed.
Businesses will present bullshit at meetings – internal and external. Being surprised that AI cooked the books is silly, I’ve seen corporate settings where leadership is like “find us a way to have good numbers” and while the stats presented are real, they’re… Debatably useful. Like when you start seeing a new stat about year over year change percentage ohh wow up 1.7% over last year! Then later go ohhhh you missed the sales goals and needed something that looked positive.
…to the extent the premise is believable…I have seen people do dumber shit in the name of believing they had a business & not a bunch of investment capital & the ability to pitch the people that came from…so…could it go down like that…sure…stranger things happen all the time without even having to go to sea to find them
…the “I only just now looked even though I said it was a bad idea three months ago”…which is…a financial quarter if you think those terms even if the period doesn’t line up quite if one of those ends a little after march
…so…could it be the way that cycled through the iteration…still plausible…but by now the pitch to reddit as the OP bit of that thread…you see where “the fool” is coming from…it’s playing to the “give ’em what they want” but it doesn’t have the “this is how I got here – I’m not just arbitrary mad about this for recreational purposes…someone…please…fucking tell me where I’m wrong about how this looks?” approach of that zitron lad brings to that exercise?
…but…even if the answer is “because reddit karma is somehow prized”…the why make it up part is still valid…like…you could farm that stuff the same way & not make it up…the CEOs of these companies will say any old shit…you can go down rabbit holes about the square footage of base RAM wafers fab-able on the proposed timelines with known output constraints…or the demand/supply cost implications making whole laptops worth less than the RAM & the GPU torn out of them…but…those hype merchants are out saying “I emailed the company before they had breakfast saying my task was now to figure out what to do with my time because “prod” was doing all the work ”
…prod as in for fucks sake don’t do that in prod…as in the thing it is bad to break so you back it up like there’s no tomorrow & don’t put anything in there you haven’t checked won’t fuck everything up
…or…I set it going & it kept working for 12hrs with no break…when they mean it kept fucking up various steps of a “once this isn’t an error then you…” chained prompts…without throwing the sort of wobbly it will if you ask it to count out loud to 100…which…is not equivalent in almost any way to 12 manhours of shifting your way through a shift you aren’t shirking?
…at some point we all have to make some sort of rolling gut call on what parts seem…inauthentic?
is doing a snow here again….
im probably going to read a news report about drunk idiots freezing to death for karnaval in the morning…
sooo uhhh… psa…alcohol does not raise your body temperature… that warm fuzzy feeling you get is a lie!
*dies*
too funny man…too funny