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Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

This is amazing; everything is very stupid. futurism.com/artificial-i...

The people freaking out about Mamdani are the people who support Netanyahu, and by extension, support Trump. Their opposition to Trump is a front. They want to keep public focus singularly on Trump, the individual, instead of on the broader mafia networks that include Netanyahu.

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

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The Dems are like the GOP in 2016. Abandoning winning over the public and no longer keeping up the pretense of trying. They're solely focused on retaining the most immoral donors. There are exceptions -- and the Dem leadership gets angry at them for *winning*, which tells you all you need to know.

A fifth of Leave voters have died.

I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done.

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The AI evangelists want us all to conveniently forget that they were all telling us we had to buy bored apes or we would be left out of the Economy Of The Future four years ago.

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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

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"aggressive accounting" is a fun euphemism

Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information! Silicon Valley, 2025:

That Cuomo could keep repeating racist, Islamophobic tropes, and that Mamdani had to answer idiotic questions about "intifadas," reveals how deeply ossified the Democratic party--and media--is and how corrupted by billionaires, consultants, and entrenched communities.

"Everything they do is extremely violent." Greta Thunberg on Israel:

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

All statistical models are wrong, but some are stupid

"The Language of Thought is not Natural Language" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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"I would rather be sincerely stupid than artificially intelligent." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-spookl...

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen something so simultaneously absurd and disturbing: the House will vote Monday on a bill that would punish Americans for participating in boycotts of Israel with fines of up to $1 MILLION or prison terms up to TWENTY YEARS.

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We've arrived at the point where most predictions in THEY KNEW have come true and folks can respond to "But no one could have known!" by waving THEY KNEW in their face

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social