…why do we pretend that’s a department speaking…that’s a specific asshole…& this is their job…shit-posting on behalf of a government agency…it’s just cant…might as well just post lalalalalalalalalalalala-I-can’t-hear-you or a bunch of pics of people mooning the fucking camera…get a fucking job you imbecilic moron
Do they have Corey L writing this '80s movie frat-boy villain dialog? "Lewandowski, her top adviser at DHS" www.propublica.org/article/kris…
"We are not surrounded by cretinous, vicious imbeciles but mostly by careful, thoughtful people who may disagree with us but usually have good reasons for doing so."Fascinating & wise piece from @naomialderman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n…
…& a lot of things have been around longer than some people would be inclined to admit
‘Centuries of printing preceded Gutenberg. As White is careful to describe, Gutenberg was born nine hundred years after printed texts were first produced in China by rubbing paper onto inked, carved woodblocks.’Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social):www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4…
…some parts of those things are simple…there’s little if any qualitative difference between the sort of asshole that prospect one is mostly about…& your matt gaetz or other most-likely-to-get-found-in-a-ditch-with-the-shit-kicked-out-of-them lowlife scumbag…all these fucking assholes think part of what they ought to be entitled to is to live like they have a harem…& sue you if you call them a pimp…&…maybe admitting what those people make you think about them is unwise
No one should have to face such threats. It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
…& you know what…in most cases & senses I don’t think it makes sense to talk about this or that person being better than the other…but…john is a better person than those fucks
I’m the normie whisperer who believes that people who get belligerently drunk at sports games are getting drunk off stadium beer
…she talked to jon stewart for upwards of an hour & that was an interesting listen…anyone who would sooner listen to yglesias than ms khan is absolutely a fucking moron & you ought to never listen to them or pretend like they have any form of authority that matters…& that isn’t because I expect to agree with more things she says…it’s because only one of them actually says stuff anyone else benefits from paying attention to
among other things i do not understand this idea that she is an exceptionally good prose stylist
…she isn’t…she never was…she checked some boxes on a woman-shaped-object-with-NYT-sweet-spot-credulity-about-obviously-bad-faith-bullshit…& then she did RFKjr…she’s a fucking diversity hire when you bizarro those rules…actual talent had nothing to do with any of that
…go on…tell me why that would never happen to olivia…I can wait
NEW: Trump’s second term has been marked by voter suppression efforts and a refusal to let 2020 election conspiracies die. Driving this anti-voting agenda are election deniers in key posts who are working tirelessly to rig the vote. Matt Cohen highlights the ones to watch👇https://bit.ly/3LKeRz6
…one day I might count up all the ways I can think of that ought by rights to have rendered the man ineligible…that…in principle…*do*…& come up with a numerical value for how many times over that means I guess I make it that the entire criminal enterprise makes no sense to be described as an administration as though there’s the thinnest veneer of legitimacy left on so much as a scrap of the thing
Once wasn’t enough. Trump pardons a J6 rioter for a SECOND time.@politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/11…
Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!It gets even darker than that. 1/(new piece)newrepublic.com/article/2032…
Nobody in the @Tennessean Facebook comments section seems particularly surprised by the unethical @MarshaBlackburn money grab. www.facebook.com/share/17Yoyn…
"Newly released documents suggest Bannon's relationship with Epstein went further than being his biographer, with the convicted paedophile occasionally seeming to act like a personal assistant….'I'll make sure you're well looked after.'" www.bbc.com/news/article…
This is morally wrong, but it’s also politically wrong too. 1/3rd of the electorate say they might vote Reform, about 1/3rd of this 1/3rd are strongly motivated by immigration (of which 10-13% is made up of asylum claimants). 2/3rds of the country reject Farage, and mostly find this 👇 abhorrent
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article…
Refukker Tice excited that his candidate won the votes of 15% of the local electorate…I wonder which human right they're most excited about losing under a Refuk regime?
Economisty types are gonna do economisting, but sincerely – fuck the economic case! These are children. Immiserating half a million children just because you can was utterly toxic policy from the Tories and it’s shameful that it wasn’t at the top of the list of things Labour wanted to scrap.
Russia is fucked. The US should take note, this is us in 30 years when you let fascists run the place in an authoritarian govt. Trump is not nearly as smart. #econsky
Foreclosures are now up 20% from last year as Americans struggle to pay mortgages and rising costs. Meanwhile… the U.S. now has a record $13.1 trillion in mortgages.A wave of foreclosures and evictions approaching.Here are the US States with the highest foreclosures. What do yo notice?
655 US large companies have gone bankrupt year-to-date, highest in 15 years.This has already surpassed all previous full-year totals since 2011, except for 2024.Since 2022, bankruptcies have risen nearly +100%.68 companies filed in October, 66 in September, and 76 in August. #EconSky
RENMAC: “.. As of August, the unemployment rate for the native born is up over the last year a touch more than the unemployment rate for the foreign born. But, what do I know? I don't have a PhD. If Hassett is in the running for Fed Chair, good luck making these arguments to the Fed staff!”
[…it’s a bit technical but that’s a reply from a thread begun by someone pointing out that teslas as a “GPU fleet” is just a way of elon saying “I don’t understand the words I use”]
…where along humanity’s way did we collectively give up on there being a difference between *doing the thing* & *selectively tweaking how we talk about the thing until you can squint at it & claim it looks like you did the thing*…or…didn’t…if having done the thing is why you ought to be under the fucking jail already?
One trick pony my man! Don’t bet against rules of the universe
Of course not. This is exactly my point. A distributed fleet implies some amount of coordination. Otherwise it’s not a fleet. It’s just a bunch of GPUs out in the world. And it certainly not something that’s so groundbreaking that it’s a grand slam.I’m pretty familiar with inference usage.
Totally understand- I’ve written (probably too much) about SLMs.www.distributedthoughts.org/they-dont-ha…My issue tends to be that even in the SOM scenario, networking, memory, and data locality can’t just be ignored and they will be TERRIBLE for the full stack in this “fleet”
…the social-media-alt-stable for people who don’t know they get paid by the defense department is…fucking embarrassing…if there’s a sense in which the online sphere contains contemporary front lines…either you need that rapid response account…or you need a mis-labelled DoD presence to complete your repost-your-own-regurgitated-shit-so-there’s-cud-to-chew ouroboros of masturbatory garbage…having both suggests you are ill-equipped for even the kind of defense you’re actually engaged in
…that whole deal was cooked up to be the thing that tried to stay ahead of the unraveling whatever in the news-cycle…but now that’s the only job the people in charge think there is outside of blowing unarmed fishermen out of international waters like they finally got to play snuff video-games…so either it ought to be the thing…or it’s obsolete…not this prick’s idea of dual-wielding his FPS fantasy
…whatever…what was it chris rock said they said when he asked them why they were still dancing when the lyrics were fully disrespectful…”he ain’t talkin’ ’bout me”
if we take it to be true that the tariffs are aimed at getting americans to buy US-made products, then what's the point of rolling them back when they become painful? the entire point is to cause financial pain to change consumer behavior. what's the strategy here?
Pam Bondi on Feb. 21: Epstein client list is “sitting on my desk right now.”Bondi’s DOJ on July 7: There’s no client list. As for other Epstein files, “no further disclosure would be appropriate.”Trump on Nov. 14: Investigate Bill Clinton over Epstein.Bondi, also Nov. 14: Coming right up, boss!
🚨| BREAKING: Epstein Itemized for Trump Biographer Some New Areas of Trump Corruption—Giving a Road Map to Investigators1. Who funded Mar-a-Lago mortgage(s) (Epstein implies he and Russians did)2. Hawaiian Tropic contests (implied sexual misconduct)3. Trump Shuttle4. Legality of His Inheritance
This is a particularly egregious example of Trump’s obvious tell that he is lying.1. Make a false statement: “I haven’t even thought about it.”2. Add a drop of truth: “I haven’t thought about it in months.”3. If no one corrects 1 or 2, go bigger: “Maybe I haven’t thought about it at all.”
Too few people are talking about the fact that for eight years (2011-2019), while Jeffrey Epstein was raping young girls and trafficking them to hundreds of other rapists from his home base in Palm Beach, Florida, the Florida district attorney was Pam Bondi. Connect the dots.
I am well aware that they are and will continue to do massive damage to this countrybut does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not
Considerations:i) Trump is a federally adjudicated rapist.ii) Trump admits to being attracted to underage girls.iii) Epstein says Trump knew of his child sex trafficking ring.iv) Trump pimped underage girls at the Plaza Hotel for years.v) So yes—reasonable suspicion exists.
I appreciate the problems of moderating at scale, because it’s impossible if you’re not willing to spend millions of dollars on moderators and their therapistsHOWEVERThis smöl bean site is TO THIS DAY ignoring its own moderation policy when it comes to government accounts posting snuff videos.
And you CANNOT write apologia for people who refuse to apply their rules to those who most need the rules applied and expect people to take you seriously.You either hold the powerful accountable, or admit you have a price, and I think we’re all getting a sense of what BlueSky’s price was.
And not to get too real on a late night post, but yeah.I am *so* fucking done with people acting like this is normal. That the president of our country can just flat out lie and it’s not a big deal. That an entire branch of our government has been subverted to the whims of a serial liar.
As someone who has had multiple MRIs, you absolutely know what the techs are imaging before they put you in the machine, because if there is any sort of metal in the target area you *really* need to let them know beforehand since cleaning bloodstains out of the tube is NOT a good time
…look…I know I bang this drum every so often…but…if you don’t have time to read the man who was thursday…they knocked it out as a radio play in the late 30s with orson welles & you can listen to that in, like, an hour…& I could use some company that didn’t find it weird that I keep mentioning that shit…just sayin’
Nothing to worry about, just the chief regulator of the media pressuring a television network to fire a critic of the president.
…anyway…here’s the thing…I know I yet again managed to slap some nonsensical catalog of calumny together at absurd length…but…I fully don’t trust myself to speak my mind this go around…I still haven’t gone looking at what you can persuade to pop out at you from that oversight committee data dump about that shit but I might be open to the suggestion that people who of their own volition do unspeakable things maybe deserve to get the basic turnabout-is-fair-play deal on unspeakable things being done unto them against their express & fervent fucking appeal to how wholly inhumanly that might deny their very humanity…& I resent the everloving hell out of them for making me feel like that because it drags me down to places they don’t get to make me fucking live…but…we fucking understand…don’t we?
Virginie Despentes: ‘I wasn’t writing Baise-Moi from a very good place’
…while places like the BFI saw that same flick in a pretty different light
Promising Young Woman is a right-on-time school of shocks Emerald Fennell’s BAFTA-winning debut feature packs in style, wit and sharp social commentary, with a propulsive performance from Carey Mulligan at its centre.
…maybe I’m wrong…in which case I plead no-harm-no-foul…but…decent chance you dig at least more than not of his stuff…maybe?
…like…not to say there’s nobody you could compare him to…or to sleep on how that chart has NF all the way at the other end of its spectrum at <2.5k...but...that can still run you this
…but…dude definitely checks all the “does his own thing” boxes on the regular card & then hits the supply closet for fresh cards to staple to that?
…chalk another up in the TIL column, I guess…single videos embed as links but the “copy” link for youtube playlists doesn’t work…like the tenor .gif ones, though…the editor will accept the thing youtube offers as an embed “slug”…no “/” between the < > on that button in the share options in that spread, though
…noted on the knox hill thing…there’s a bunch of people “in that space” & within that context I’d argue he’s decent value over at least some of your other options but I kinda just mean those as a thing a bit like all the ellipses…here’s someone who isn’t me who could also bore you for so long about someone talking for not nearly that long because to them there’s a pretty crazy amount of density of information to be gleaned from the text…which I’m politely restraining myself from doing in a “watch me invent the wheel” way…again
…& I don’t have anything to say against NF that I’m aware of…but I guess I did make it unhelpfully vague by the time I was sort of trying to suggest that if you get past “take this step with me and never come back”…from a thing titled “arguments with dreams”…you might like the busdriver stuff?
…trust me…by the time I get the tunes stapled on at the end I am living the mantra “we can fix that in post” on every one of these
…never got further than naming tracks last night…only said the name before the half-hour-late-&-all-the-tunes-short post…so…I’d already been an accidental accessory to rabbit holing you with NF before the 42-spot option showed up with a refresh?
…you know…I only mention this part because of the irony-adherent thing…not to be mean or anything…but…full disclosure…before you unintentionally (…I mean…I think?) dropped me down the busdriver rabbithole…for a variety of reasons…the playlist today would have probably run from ragga jungle through goldie into drum’n’bass at least through bryan G, andy C, grooverider, jumping jack frost & roni size all the way to dj marky & that shit with the samba licks in
…that’s the sort of thing I was steeping in saturday until I started thinking about cake
…I don’t know to what extent your childhood & mine overlapped on the “visible personalities” thing…but that guy was a bit of a legend in the places I grew up for getting that stuff on the telly given that among those people he showed would say any old shit because that was what they did when they weren’t in at least several notable cases among the ones that show & others of his showed up one way or another…being pretty despicable people…most people will clock harris…opinions differ on edmonds…but…bernard manning…guessing a lot less people remember he used to be what nigel farage’s career looked like?
…delighted to meet you…hi…I grew up in one of those with a lot of family about as far north as you need to be to be in another country without needing a boat…with a bunch more way over where you’d probably want a plane to get to these days
…the tv rules I personally lived under vs my awareness-by-osmosis of stuff considered relevant by people I considered peers in a de facto sense is long on the latter by some orders of magnitude…with weird loopholes for stuff that was on repeat when I was little & makes me sound like I grew up my grandparents’ kid…like…everyone knew the thunderbirds…& most of them got to watch more cartoons…or just TV in general…but…they didn’t seem to watch all the fireball XL5 or stingray repeats…much less buster crabbe era flash gordon with sparklers jutting out the back of the wobbly model spaceships or whatever
…& I called it Mazinger Zee…which presumably means I got that from a cousin…because damn if I meet any brits who remember watching that cartoon when they were a kid who are remotely close to my age
…but there were a whole slate of “personalities” who got on panel shows or quoted in papers & made a better living that way than they did doing the thing they got their profile from…which was working the “blue” comedy circuit in the working-mens-clubs sense of that circuit…mostly the ones that unlike the way those came to be were mostly a haven for unreconstructed misogynist antipathy in ways that made them the spiritual home of the mother in law gag…& in not a few cases they fell out of favor when their day to day behavior got an airing…people liked life on mars but they also like memory holing those assholes because they aren’t nice to think about & it’s nice not to
…it just might be nicer to have the problem of there being a bernard manning to deal with than an aaron banks with a nigel farage to play with…from [*alec guiness voice*]…a certain point of view?
…I don’t genuinely believe it comes down to anything quite so simple…but the same slice of society existed then as now…it just…acted differently…& because it did that it kind of in some senses got away with more
…nobody ever said that bernard had a shot at being prime minister if he played his cards right…but the popularity of those acts was in at least a few senses tacitly viewed as a necessary outlet for a particular brand of sentiment
…at the time…with maggie having hadbagged the NF…that sentiment belonged in a comedy club a middle-class person would be ashamed to be seen frequenting by anyone they “knew”…but there was still a rolf harris loose in the wild to co-opt into earnestly talking about the scourge of cake
…now that routine gets you elected to maybe even prime minister…so people as notoriously well behaved as boris can pretend they actually wanted that job rather than one where you only have to *sound* erudite for it to count?
…they ought to bring back the blackadder version of pitt the younger & have him ask them questions about what they’ve done to his parliament…it’d be like jonathan pie before his voice broke, I reckon?
im pretty sure the space laser lady is still a nutcase….its hard not to take her side for the time being tho…
…I don’t have to like any of it or her to acknowledge that she is pretty much the ideal “set a thief to catch a thief” style mouthpiece through which to explain MAGAs playbook back to them using her current/previous status & treatment as a textbook example…& she loves to talk about herself in a way that makes everything about that…so…it might seep in some places that are all battened down when the clues are getting handed out for free
…in a perverse sort of a way it’s a bit like starmer finding it important to make a big public deal about how much the manoeuvring around him wasn’t escaping his notice when it might otherwise have escaped the public’s almost entirely in most cases…she knows when [thing] is supposed to follow [action]…or vice versa…so she sees that stuff where they might fail to…& that’s your basic recipe for home truths…even down home on the range…or at home down on the range…or whatever?
“I didn’t think they would eat my face!” sobs the lady who voted for the Leopards Eating Faces Party. Who actively supported all their bullshit and evil. Who endorsed their leader and actions. Who encouraged violence and disruption in the same chamber she works in.
Obviously I don’t want psychos out there threatening anybody.
But she’s now living with the consequences of her actions, specifically the batshit nuttery of the republican party of the last 8 years or so when most of them decided that workplace norms and operating with basic courtesy to your coworkers was no longer a thing.
Her own behavior has ramped up the safety and security threats to other women in her workplace as well as men. So like, something something consequences of her own actions that she’s scared now.
Many in the MSM are hopeless. Why do they think that redeeming the most venal of us is a good thing? Olivia Nuzzi completely broke all ethical lines in her profession with her “sextual” relationship with the Horseman known as Pestilence.
He might be a lovely man (eye roll) but he’s also responsible for killing a lot of people and suffering of many more thanks to his braindead stupid “ideas”/”notions” and she enabled it because she couldn’t get past her “feelings.”
Think that overrides her public responsibility? Nah. Hope the book bombs.
…someone once told me that they knew someone who had been at a dinner attended by nigel farage & that actually he was terribly good company
…thing is…I’d rather vote for a candidate I think I might hate as a person that I think will do difficult stuff as un-badly as anyone currently available seems likely to…which I don’t actually enjoy much…than for someone I might like who is fully on board pretty much everything I would prefer to see taken all the way off the list of available ways things can even possibly go
i ran out of replies…. …I don’t genuinely believe it comes down to anything quite so simple…
oh i do…i really do
i firmly believe the pack animals what are humanity only remember what their elders do…..once they are gone…shit gets repeated
i could quote the 20 year cycle theory….but tbh…i think my theory is more accurate…
…at the risk of sounding inconsistent in a way I don’t think it would be consistent with anyone’s patience to try to argue wouldn’t be…I…do & I don’t?
…like…we are individually simpler than we recursively imagine ourselves into being…& some parts of how that means groups of us behave as groups is in the same sorts of fundamental ways the same sorts of simple…& pack is as good an analogy as any the way hardware/firmware/software/ad infinitum can be a good basis for analogies for thinking all the way from the original mechanical turk to whatever this week’s edition of chatGPT calls itself…while also seeming to be pretty importantly inaccurate…or at the very least incomplete…it’s still true that all the stuff we do without consciously needing to think about it operates in ways that must be simple enough not to need thinking about
…you’d still be trying to remember the formula for the arc of the trajectory when the cricket ball hit you where you hope you were wearing the box otherwise
…but…the example a bunch of people I know used for a long time is the game go…it could hardly be simpler…two kinds of pieces that are the same in all ways but the one they differ…black & white…those go on the spots on the corners not in the middle of the squares on the board but so far it’s basically othello
…except othello uses a different rule set…& arguably neither is more simple than the other…there’s all of three rules in go, I think…but the number of possible games of othello is nothing compared to the number of possible games of go
…simple rules…complex systems…emergent properties…it’s like those chaos fractal pictures that got fashionable for a bit…we’ve been trying to get our shit together this whole time…& plenty enough people have that we hardly ever think of anything someone hasn’t previously figured out…but…most of the time way more people haven’t figured whatever that might be out than have while still being happily of the conviction that they do so they don’t even need to think about it
…we’re all stupid at least some of the time about just about anything if your standards get exacting enough…but it sure seems dumber than we could be without trying to let the ambient levels of stupidity run out of control until they’re what control looks like to enough people that it qualifies as a de facto definition
…paging sam vimes, I guess…carrot…means well…but…that could get out of hand?
…anyone ever tell you you’d probably make an excellent detritus (if you haven’t read those like I for some reason feel certain you have he’d be a troll & maybe in a little john way I should have picked a dwarf…or called you carrot…but…turns out if you chill a troll out they get super smart all of a sudden right up until they go back to room temp or above)?
honestly….being stupid aint that bad….if you learn from your mistakes…
problem is…we dont..we make a bunch of sprouts… then whine about them being stupid…
apple tree motherfucker
and the worst thing is….if we raised them to be smart….we’d probably be extinct now….
wheres dudley moore when you need him…im having a catch 22 here
Splinter, I’m a little mad at you this fine Sunday morning. Through no fault of yours, I want to stress.
I read your title as “apostasy” and had my hopes up for a long minute that another high-profile defection had happened publically and we’d get that juicy fresh meat.
…I do apologize for only having the usual heresies on offer from today’s buffet of un-delights
…the title looked too weird if it went…I.just.can’t.you.all/the cant is killing me out here…& for whatever reason in the moment while I was looking for something other than me whose fault that could be the apostrophe was my target of opportunity?
Also I don’t know if this was covered earlier this week but I missed it? Anthropic’s Claude AI tool was used by China to hack several companies and federal agencies.
They’re saying between 80-90% of the cyber attack was AI-driven.
This is pretty fucking basic to jailbreak the guardrails.
“Because the tool is trained to avoid being used for harmful purposes, the attackers jailbroke Claude Code, which allowed them to bypass its built-in guardrails.
Various steps in the attack were broken down into simple tasks, which the tool interpreted as innocent, incremental steps without fully understanding the context of what it was being asked to do, according to the blog post. As part of the deception, the hackers convinced Claude they were employees of a cybersecurity firm and that the actions were part of defensive tests.
The tool was used to conduct reconnaissance and find high-value databases. Claude identified and tested security vulnerabilities inside these targeted systems – and then wrote its own exploit code. After the tool harvested usernames and passwords, Claude was then used to search for privileged accounts, create malicious backdoors and conduct large scale attacks.”
If only there was some sort of prevalent theme in the scifi genre warning us of exactly this sort of risk!
…I…also struggled to remember…which is why one of the things in my discard pile today was this
Plus: State-sponsored AI hacking is here, Google hosts a CBP face recognition app, and more of the week’s top security news. http://www.wired.com/story/major-...
…like…AI might be cool…& certainly doesn’t seem like it has to come at the full sticker price on the current downsides…but…big part of that requires substantially differing in the way you try to either implement or deploy it…which…if you think you have a tool you can adapt to theoretically any use case the way you theoretically can with the computers that got us this far…it would make sense to intentionally implement in accordance with more than just a tunnel-vision approach to what you even think your use-case is beyond funnel-money-this-way-please?
…but…along with the not-impressed-with-the-fleet-remark guy’s thing…this was interesting, too
One of the Mac’s most popular productivity apps is incorporating generative artificial intelligence in a way that keeps it offline, private, and customizable. http://www.wired.com/story/ai-fea...
…can’t find it as a clip but there’s an eddie izzard bit that runs “…because people think I’m on drugs and I’m not. I’m really quite … just a bit of coffee. When I take drugs I start going, ‘Oh, would you like some insurance?'”
…upon considerable reflection I have elected to take a view that the tipping point for the part about how much it matters depends on whether out of you & the world it seems like it might be you going crazier faster…not a little self-serving but it’s about the only way I can carve out even a semi-respectable niche in which to consider myself sane for…uhhh…not running down the street screaming…preferably clothed…but without having figured out water displacement or anything that useful first like the one dead bloke who couldn’t stay in the bath he got so excited?
unfortunately..how much is still dictated by billionaires?#
i cant speak for you… but me personally…i love being fucking blitzed
will work let me operate a fucking forklift high as a kite?
no…they fucking wont…the bastards
that means its on them that the workforce is unhappy
underpaid..overworked…and we dont even get to take drugs…. and somehow…the rich fucking wankers are still going to be surprised when we put them in a woodchipper
…see…those Culture books that iain banks guy wrote when he threw in the free bonus middle initial…the ones elon thinks he ought to talk about like he’s the guy to take us to the good parts…with things like “let’s start with neuralink – imagine the crudest of beginnings for what would eventually become the neural lace…which…until the advent of the book with the virtual hells where he brought back *the fucking chairmaker* from fucking “use of weapons” as a rarer-than-hens-teeth recurring character that isn’t an artificial Mind…was hands-down prime candidate for what the guy in the tweet about announcing the unveiling of the torture nexus from the hit novel “don’t invent the fucking torture nexus” or however it goes must have been thinking of”
…in…*those* books…the Culture have reached the point as a society that they could have…banks goes with “sublimed”…basically the entire civilization could have pulled a full-buddha on the one-with-the-universe disappearing trick to some further plane of existence…but hung back bodhisattva-style to “be the shepherd” at an intergalactic level
…all citizens of the Culture live a natural lifespan well into the triple digits…disease & injury are almost never life-threatening or even more than mildly inconvenient on a temporary basis…their entire physiology can with varying degrees of conscious effort…restructure itself to adapt to conditions like higher or lower gravity & bone density…& while I bet he paid attention to the stuff about the permutations available from the drug glands…he seems to have skipped over how the physiology thing extends to the option of just…deciding…& a while later being the other sex in a reproductive sense…is the universal sort of standard build out
…like…I genuinely think that guy…whether or not he turns out to be on some segment of a diagnostic spectrum…might be legit brain damaged as a wholly distinct level of problem…& I don’t think the weird niche elements of what makes that so fucking offensive to me are anywhere near as important as the fact it’s just one example that glares at me particularly glaringly among the thronging mass of other glaringly obvious ways that seems serially to be ockham’s pick of the available explanations for a man it must make the rest of us more damaged to say is worth more than anyone ever has been in the history of all of humanity
…the shit is embarrassing in a way the whole concept of “cringe” is simply too small to begin to accomodate?
…I hear ya…but the distance between “a clubby world” that’s supposedly “almost gone” & the “people in royalty, academia, business, journalism and politics”…who “sought his ear”…”long after his conviction”…to the point a harvard lit professor that’s a woman was in correspondence with him on the subject of further reading beyond nabokov’s much admired lolita that also centres the way that compulsively fetish-ising an inappropriately juvenile “romantic” interest while managing to stray into the lofty notice of the ivy league worldview…is…finer than gossamer…& also so thick if you hit it with a pickaxe it’d bounce out of your hands
…people talk about how part of what handicaps the (D) side of the thing in america is how the money is endemic to the whole thing & the establishment machine is entrenched beyond removal…but that’d be small beer even if you went the full bernie on the thing compared to what kind of social upheaval you’re looking at if the day to day rules for anyone trying play epstein…or puffy…or r kelly…or gary glitter…or rolf harris…or jimmy saville…or too many damn priests to mention…or sports coaches…or parents…or…fucking whoever-the-fuck-ever…came with the sort of repercussions you can’t walk off…in every room…which only happens if enough people accept that shit into their heart & soul the way they claim they do god or jesus or their flavor of holy spirit that it tips past the point of “don’t bother, you can’t win that fight & that’s just how it is & probably always will be”…whatever shape or size or gender the ones paying for it or the ones that ought to be might happen to be
…that shit might make transitioning to a reciprocal-to-the-point-of-redundancy-by-default model of sustainable societal remodelling seem like a cakewalk
…but both strike me as not unreasonable things to at least attempt to work towards in whatever small way things might get nudged that way while we’re around to see it?
…given that we’ve got…here…this late…about this lot…of basically the same thing we keep saying is completely intolerable right up until the next time it turns out it was being tolerated just fine in places that would have you believe there’s another way you ought to look at that where their end of it is concerned…again…until it feels like you might as well be talking about the number of schoolkids it’s acceptable to have die of gunshot injuries sustained on campus while pretending that a debate over whether or not to turn the schools into citadels broadly indistinguishable from penal institutions with more security on the door than the faux-prince of schnell air wanted at the ellipse when his mob was camera shy on account of the metal detectors is about addressing any part of that problem in a way that’s compatible with claiming to be the preeminent nation of the first world
…so…yeah…I figure between me & that world…in the last however-many-years-it’s-been-now…that has me still playing catch up on both the going crazier & the how fast things?
…also…I can’t @ “seattle-type-folks”…but…this reminded me I meant to track down the thing about states flipping a states’ right double bird at citizens united…because in both cases I’m intrigued if it’s a thing but short on any real corroboration that it so much as could be?
komonews.com/news/local/k…Excellent news out of Seattle! I would love to see a general strike happen in all 50 states at the same time!
…ok…so…can’t speak for whoever it is the link comes from but it’s a write up which is more than the other things I saw about the idea offered…although at least one of those I think had a video-clip cliff notes thing in the tik tok style…or one of those not-youtube things, anyway?
The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United IrrelevantBy using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politicswww.americanprogress.org/article/the-…
it was me….
mojo jojo….
not bubbles
…maybe I’m wrong…in which case I plead no-harm-no-foul…but…decent chance you dig at least more than not of his stuff…maybe?
…like…not to say there’s nobody you could compare him to…or to sleep on how that chart has NF all the way at the other end of its spectrum at <2.5k...but...that can still run you this
…but…dude definitely checks all the “does his own thing” boxes on the regular card & then hits the supply closet for fresh cards to staple to that?
P.S.
…chalk another up in the TIL column, I guess…single videos embed as links but the “copy” link for youtube playlists doesn’t work…like the tenor .gif ones, though…the editor will accept the thing youtube offers as an embed “slug”…no “/” between the < > on that button in the share options in that spread, though
am currently in the nf rabbit hole…dude has interesting loops/samples
surprisingly good singer too….
am allergic to knox hill tho…dude annoys the fuck out of me
what can i say
…noted on the knox hill thing…there’s a bunch of people “in that space” & within that context I’d argue he’s decent value over at least some of your other options but I kinda just mean those as a thing a bit like all the ellipses…here’s someone who isn’t me who could also bore you for so long about someone talking for not nearly that long because to them there’s a pretty crazy amount of density of information to be gleaned from the text…which I’m politely restraining myself from doing in a “watch me invent the wheel” way…again
…& I don’t have anything to say against NF that I’m aware of…but I guess I did make it unhelpfully vague by the time I was sort of trying to suggest that if you get past “take this step with me and never come back”…from a thing titled “arguments with dreams”…you might like the busdriver stuff?
coulda just linked busdriver mate…
coz holyshitwtfbbq?
that is one hell of a thing
just spell shit out for me like you would for a fairly dense child….and maybe ill take the hint
…I only ended up saying it the 42 times once I got the playlist lodged in at the bottom of the DOT…but…it could be said a lot more times
…my bad, either way?
oh..i saw you say busdriver….but it wasnt posted in video…so you know…i figured it was like….fucking code…or some shit
if i had an edit…id fix that comment…but anyways..i has 42 songs to check out
…trust me…by the time I get the tunes stapled on at the end I am living the mantra “we can fix that in post” on every one of these
…never got further than naming tracks last night…only said the name before the half-hour-late-&-all-the-tunes-short post…so…I’d already been an accidental accessory to rabbit holing you with NF before the 42-spot option showed up with a refresh?
it was you….
mojo jojo….
not bubbles!
no complaints here tho mate
…you know…I only mention this part because of the irony-adherent thing…not to be mean or anything…but…full disclosure…before you unintentionally (…I mean…I think?) dropped me down the busdriver rabbithole…for a variety of reasons…the playlist today would have probably run from ragga jungle through goldie into drum’n’bass at least through bryan G, andy C, grooverider, jumping jack frost & roni size all the way to dj marky & that shit with the samba licks in
…that’s the sort of thing I was steeping in saturday until I started thinking about cake
…well…after that made me think about this anyway?
aww man…the smorgasbord of uk accents is making me a little homesick
also gib cake!
or stella?
…I don’t know to what extent your childhood & mine overlapped on the “visible personalities” thing…but that guy was a bit of a legend in the places I grew up for getting that stuff on the telly given that among those people he showed would say any old shit because that was what they did when they weren’t in at least several notable cases among the ones that show & others of his showed up one way or another…being pretty despicable people…most people will clock harris…opinions differ on edmonds…but…bernard manning…guessing a lot less people remember he used to be what nigel farage’s career looked like?
oh its probably safe to say..far as tv personalities go…our childhoods dont overlap
tho time wise they maybe should
i grew up between two countries and with very little tv time
i guess not knowing what the fucks going on made me who i am
hi im farscy…i dont know what the fucks going on…but im here…deal with it…coz you cant move me unless i want to move
…delighted to meet you…hi…I grew up in one of those with a lot of family about as far north as you need to be to be in another country without needing a boat…with a bunch more way over where you’d probably want a plane to get to these days
…the tv rules I personally lived under vs my awareness-by-osmosis of stuff considered relevant by people I considered peers in a de facto sense is long on the latter by some orders of magnitude…with weird loopholes for stuff that was on repeat when I was little & makes me sound like I grew up my grandparents’ kid…like…everyone knew the thunderbirds…& most of them got to watch more cartoons…or just TV in general…but…they didn’t seem to watch all the fireball XL5 or stingray repeats…much less buster crabbe era flash gordon with sparklers jutting out the back of the wobbly model spaceships or whatever
…& I called it Mazinger Zee…which presumably means I got that from a cousin…because damn if I meet any brits who remember watching that cartoon when they were a kid who are remotely close to my age
…but there were a whole slate of “personalities” who got on panel shows or quoted in papers & made a better living that way than they did doing the thing they got their profile from…which was working the “blue” comedy circuit in the working-mens-clubs sense of that circuit…mostly the ones that unlike the way those came to be were mostly a haven for unreconstructed misogynist antipathy in ways that made them the spiritual home of the mother in law gag…& in not a few cases they fell out of favor when their day to day behavior got an airing…people liked life on mars but they also like memory holing those assholes because they aren’t nice to think about & it’s nice not to
…it just might be nicer to have the problem of there being a bernard manning to deal with than an aaron banks with a nigel farage to play with…from [*alec guiness voice*]…a certain point of view?
eh..the only reason fuckwits like farage werent popular when i was a wee sprout is coz ww2 was still a fresh memory for the voting populace
twas a long time ago now
and those fucking immigrants are taking our jerbs….and houses….and fucking welfare too
…I don’t genuinely believe it comes down to anything quite so simple…but the same slice of society existed then as now…it just…acted differently…& because it did that it kind of in some senses got away with more
…nobody ever said that bernard had a shot at being prime minister if he played his cards right…but the popularity of those acts was in at least a few senses tacitly viewed as a necessary outlet for a particular brand of sentiment
…at the time…with maggie having hadbagged the NF…that sentiment belonged in a comedy club a middle-class person would be ashamed to be seen frequenting by anyone they “knew”…but there was still a rolf harris loose in the wild to co-opt into earnestly talking about the scourge of cake
…now that routine gets you elected to maybe even prime minister…so people as notoriously well behaved as boris can pretend they actually wanted that job rather than one where you only have to *sound* erudite for it to count?
…they ought to bring back the blackadder version of pitt the younger & have him ask them questions about what they’ve done to his parliament…it’d be like jonathan pie before his voice broke, I reckon?
im pretty sure the space laser lady is still a nutcase….its hard not to take her side for the time being tho…
…I don’t have to like any of it or her to acknowledge that she is pretty much the ideal “set a thief to catch a thief” style mouthpiece through which to explain MAGAs playbook back to them using her current/previous status & treatment as a textbook example…& she loves to talk about herself in a way that makes everything about that…so…it might seep in some places that are all battened down when the clues are getting handed out for free
…in a perverse sort of a way it’s a bit like starmer finding it important to make a big public deal about how much the manoeuvring around him wasn’t escaping his notice when it might otherwise have escaped the public’s almost entirely in most cases…she knows when [thing] is supposed to follow [action]…or vice versa…so she sees that stuff where they might fail to…& that’s your basic recipe for home truths…even down home on the range…or at home down on the range…or whatever?
“I didn’t think they would eat my face!” sobs the lady who voted for the Leopards Eating Faces Party. Who actively supported all their bullshit and evil. Who endorsed their leader and actions. Who encouraged violence and disruption in the same chamber she works in.
Obviously I don’t want psychos out there threatening anybody.
But she’s now living with the consequences of her actions, specifically the batshit nuttery of the republican party of the last 8 years or so when most of them decided that workplace norms and operating with basic courtesy to your coworkers was no longer a thing.
Her own behavior has ramped up the safety and security threats to other women in her workplace as well as men. So like, something something consequences of her own actions that she’s scared now.
Many in the MSM are hopeless. Why do they think that redeeming the most venal of us is a good thing? Olivia Nuzzi completely broke all ethical lines in her profession with her “sextual” relationship with the Horseman known as Pestilence.
He might be a lovely man (eye roll) but he’s also responsible for killing a lot of people and suffering of many more thanks to his braindead stupid “ideas”/”notions” and she enabled it because she couldn’t get past her “feelings.”
Think that overrides her public responsibility? Nah. Hope the book bombs.
…someone once told me that they knew someone who had been at a dinner attended by nigel farage & that actually he was terribly good company
…thing is…I’d rather vote for a candidate I think I might hate as a person that I think will do difficult stuff as un-badly as anyone currently available seems likely to…which I don’t actually enjoy much…than for someone I might like who is fully on board pretty much everything I would prefer to see taken all the way off the list of available ways things can even possibly go
…so…chidi-you-get-that’s-worse-right.gif?
i ran out of replies….
…I don’t genuinely believe it comes down to anything quite so simple…
oh i do…i really do
i firmly believe the pack animals what are humanity only remember what their elders do…..once they are gone…shit gets repeated
i could quote the 20 year cycle theory….but tbh…i think my theory is more accurate…
we be stupid yo!
Agreed! Or even if they are aware of things farther back than 20 years, “this time is different because (whatever reason).”
…at the risk of sounding inconsistent in a way I don’t think it would be consistent with anyone’s patience to try to argue wouldn’t be…I…do & I don’t?
…like…we are individually simpler than we recursively imagine ourselves into being…& some parts of how that means groups of us behave as groups is in the same sorts of fundamental ways the same sorts of simple…& pack is as good an analogy as any the way hardware/firmware/software/ad infinitum can be a good basis for analogies for thinking all the way from the original mechanical turk to whatever this week’s edition of chatGPT calls itself…while also seeming to be pretty importantly inaccurate…or at the very least incomplete…it’s still true that all the stuff we do without consciously needing to think about it operates in ways that must be simple enough not to need thinking about
…you’d still be trying to remember the formula for the arc of the trajectory when the cricket ball hit you where you hope you were wearing the box otherwise
…but…the example a bunch of people I know used for a long time is the game go…it could hardly be simpler…two kinds of pieces that are the same in all ways but the one they differ…black & white…those go on the spots on the corners not in the middle of the squares on the board but so far it’s basically othello
…except othello uses a different rule set…& arguably neither is more simple than the other…there’s all of three rules in go, I think…but the number of possible games of othello is nothing compared to the number of possible games of go
…simple rules…complex systems…emergent properties…it’s like those chaos fractal pictures that got fashionable for a bit…we’ve been trying to get our shit together this whole time…& plenty enough people have that we hardly ever think of anything someone hasn’t previously figured out…but…most of the time way more people haven’t figured whatever that might be out than have while still being happily of the conviction that they do so they don’t even need to think about it
…we’re all stupid at least some of the time about just about anything if your standards get exacting enough…but it sure seems dumber than we could be without trying to let the ambient levels of stupidity run out of control until they’re what control looks like to enough people that it qualifies as a de facto definition
…paging sam vimes, I guess…carrot…means well…but…that could get out of hand?
…anyone ever tell you you’d probably make an excellent detritus (if you haven’t read those like I for some reason feel certain you have he’d be a troll & maybe in a little john way I should have picked a dwarf…or called you carrot…but…turns out if you chill a troll out they get super smart all of a sudden right up until they go back to room temp or above)?
honestly….being stupid aint that bad….if you learn from your mistakes…
problem is…we dont..we make a bunch of sprouts… then whine about them being stupid…
apple tree motherfucker
and the worst thing is….if we raised them to be smart….we’d probably be extinct now….
wheres dudley moore when you need him…im having a catch 22 here
Splinter, I’m a little mad at you this fine Sunday morning. Through no fault of yours, I want to stress.
I read your title as “apostasy” and had my hopes up for a long minute that another high-profile defection had happened publically and we’d get that juicy fresh meat.
…I do apologize for only having the usual heresies on offer from today’s buffet of un-delights
…the title looked too weird if it went…I.just.can’t.you.all/the cant is killing me out here…& for whatever reason in the moment while I was looking for something other than me whose fault that could be the apostrophe was my target of opportunity?
Also I don’t know if this was covered earlier this week but I missed it? Anthropic’s Claude AI tool was used by China to hack several companies and federal agencies.
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/anthropic-state-actor-ai-tool-espionage/805550/
They’re saying between 80-90% of the cyber attack was AI-driven.
This is pretty fucking basic to jailbreak the guardrails.
“Because the tool is trained to avoid being used for harmful purposes, the attackers jailbroke Claude Code, which allowed them to bypass its built-in guardrails.
Various steps in the attack were broken down into simple tasks, which the tool interpreted as innocent, incremental steps without fully understanding the context of what it was being asked to do, according to the blog post. As part of the deception, the hackers convinced Claude they were employees of a cybersecurity firm and that the actions were part of defensive tests.
The tool was used to conduct reconnaissance and find high-value databases. Claude identified and tested security vulnerabilities inside these targeted systems – and then wrote its own exploit code. After the tool harvested usernames and passwords, Claude was then used to search for privileged accounts, create malicious backdoors and conduct large scale attacks.”
If only there was some sort of prevalent theme in the scifi genre warning us of exactly this sort of risk!
…I…also struggled to remember…which is why one of the things in my discard pile today was this
…like…AI might be cool…& certainly doesn’t seem like it has to come at the full sticker price on the current downsides…but…big part of that requires substantially differing in the way you try to either implement or deploy it…which…if you think you have a tool you can adapt to theoretically any use case the way you theoretically can with the computers that got us this far…it would make sense to intentionally implement in accordance with more than just a tunnel-vision approach to what you even think your use-case is beyond funnel-money-this-way-please?
…but…along with the not-impressed-with-the-fleet-remark guy’s thing…this was interesting, too
It’s all too complicated for me.
…between you & me I think it’s too complicated for all of us…so…the way I score that at this point has you ahead on points for noticing?
boop
am i crazy or is the world?
the big question
course the other big question is who gives a fuck….
or maybe does it matter?
why for?
what is the meaning of 42?
why is my brain this fucked up sober?
…can’t find it as a clip but there’s an eddie izzard bit that runs “…because people think I’m on drugs and I’m not. I’m really quite … just a bit of coffee. When I take drugs I start going, ‘Oh, would you like some insurance?'”
…upon considerable reflection I have elected to take a view that the tipping point for the part about how much it matters depends on whether out of you & the world it seems like it might be you going crazier faster…not a little self-serving but it’s about the only way I can carve out even a semi-respectable niche in which to consider myself sane for…uhhh…not running down the street screaming…preferably clothed…but without having figured out water displacement or anything that useful first like the one dead bloke who couldn’t stay in the bath he got so excited?
unfortunately..how much is still dictated by billionaires?#
i cant speak for you… but me personally…i love being fucking blitzed
will work let me operate a fucking forklift high as a kite?
no…they fucking wont…the bastards
that means its on them that the workforce is unhappy
underpaid..overworked…and we dont even get to take drugs…. and somehow…the rich fucking wankers are still going to be surprised when we put them in a woodchipper
…see…those Culture books that iain banks guy wrote when he threw in the free bonus middle initial…the ones elon thinks he ought to talk about like he’s the guy to take us to the good parts…with things like “let’s start with neuralink – imagine the crudest of beginnings for what would eventually become the neural lace…which…until the advent of the book with the virtual hells where he brought back *the fucking chairmaker* from fucking “use of weapons” as a rarer-than-hens-teeth recurring character that isn’t an artificial Mind…was hands-down prime candidate for what the guy in the tweet about announcing the unveiling of the torture nexus from the hit novel “don’t invent the fucking torture nexus” or however it goes must have been thinking of”
…in…*those* books…the Culture have reached the point as a society that they could have…banks goes with “sublimed”…basically the entire civilization could have pulled a full-buddha on the one-with-the-universe disappearing trick to some further plane of existence…but hung back bodhisattva-style to “be the shepherd” at an intergalactic level
…all citizens of the Culture live a natural lifespan well into the triple digits…disease & injury are almost never life-threatening or even more than mildly inconvenient on a temporary basis…their entire physiology can with varying degrees of conscious effort…restructure itself to adapt to conditions like higher or lower gravity & bone density…& while I bet he paid attention to the stuff about the permutations available from the drug glands…he seems to have skipped over how the physiology thing extends to the option of just…deciding…& a while later being the other sex in a reproductive sense…is the universal sort of standard build out
…like…I genuinely think that guy…whether or not he turns out to be on some segment of a diagnostic spectrum…might be legit brain damaged as a wholly distinct level of problem…& I don’t think the weird niche elements of what makes that so fucking offensive to me are anywhere near as important as the fact it’s just one example that glares at me particularly glaringly among the thronging mass of other glaringly obvious ways that seems serially to be ockham’s pick of the available explanations for a man it must make the rest of us more damaged to say is worth more than anyone ever has been in the history of all of humanity
…the shit is embarrassing in a way the whole concept of “cringe” is simply too small to begin to accomodate?
…well…shit, ken…if you put it like that?
…not gonna argue with that, ‘hat
lost new york?… the banality of evil?
the fuck is wrong with you wordy cunts?
pedo = bad
fuck all of them
with a giant pink floppy dildo labeled liberal agenda
…I hear ya…but the distance between “a clubby world” that’s supposedly “almost gone” & the “people in royalty, academia, business, journalism and politics”…who “sought his ear”…”long after his conviction”…to the point a harvard lit professor that’s a woman was in correspondence with him on the subject of further reading beyond nabokov’s much admired lolita that also centres the way that compulsively fetish-ising an inappropriately juvenile “romantic” interest while managing to stray into the lofty notice of the ivy league worldview…is…finer than gossamer…& also so thick if you hit it with a pickaxe it’d bounce out of your hands
…people talk about how part of what handicaps the (D) side of the thing in america is how the money is endemic to the whole thing & the establishment machine is entrenched beyond removal…but that’d be small beer even if you went the full bernie on the thing compared to what kind of social upheaval you’re looking at if the day to day rules for anyone trying play epstein…or puffy…or r kelly…or gary glitter…or rolf harris…or jimmy saville…or too many damn priests to mention…or sports coaches…or parents…or…fucking whoever-the-fuck-ever…came with the sort of repercussions you can’t walk off…in every room…which only happens if enough people accept that shit into their heart & soul the way they claim they do god or jesus or their flavor of holy spirit that it tips past the point of “don’t bother, you can’t win that fight & that’s just how it is & probably always will be”…whatever shape or size or gender the ones paying for it or the ones that ought to be might happen to be
…that shit might make transitioning to a reciprocal-to-the-point-of-redundancy-by-default model of sustainable societal remodelling seem like a cakewalk
…but both strike me as not unreasonable things to at least attempt to work towards in whatever small way things might get nudged that way while we’re around to see it?
…given that we’ve got…here…this late…about this lot…of basically the same thing we keep saying is completely intolerable right up until the next time it turns out it was being tolerated just fine in places that would have you believe there’s another way you ought to look at that where their end of it is concerned…again…until it feels like you might as well be talking about the number of schoolkids it’s acceptable to have die of gunshot injuries sustained on campus while pretending that a debate over whether or not to turn the schools into citadels broadly indistinguishable from penal institutions with more security on the door than the faux-prince of schnell air wanted at the ellipse when his mob was camera shy on account of the metal detectors is about addressing any part of that problem in a way that’s compatible with claiming to be the preeminent nation of the first world
…so…yeah…I figure between me & that world…in the last however-many-years-it’s-been-now…that has me still playing catch up on both the going crazier & the how fast things?
…also…I can’t @ “seattle-type-folks”…but…this reminded me I meant to track down the thing about states flipping a states’ right double bird at citizens united…because in both cases I’m intrigued if it’s a thing but short on any real corroboration that it so much as could be?
…ok…so…can’t speak for whoever it is the link comes from but it’s a write up which is more than the other things I saw about the idea offered…although at least one of those I think had a video-clip cliff notes thing in the tik tok style…or one of those not-youtube things, anyway?