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Jordan117

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  • ‘Get Somebody Else to Do It’: Trump Resistance Encounters Fatigue

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  • Democratic presidents since LBJ:

    • Jimmy Carter
    • Bill Clinton
    • Barack Obama

    Which ones had a bigger record of progressive economic accomplishments than Biden? Closest one is Obama, but his Recovery Act was less than half the size of Biden's Rescue/Infra/IRA/CHIPS packages. Biden was also more strongly pro-union and pro-regulation, and accomplished his many wins in half the time and with far narrower majorities in both houses.

  • ‘Get Somebody Else to Do It’: Trump Resistance Encounters Fatigue

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  • This would be a compelling argument if the Biden administration hadn't been the most economically progressive since LBJ.

  • Alex Jones is trying to halt the sale of Infowars. Elon Musk's X just got involved in the case

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  • He used his platform to claim that murdered children were fake and that the parents were "crisis actors". He so roiled his audience with blatantly false inflammatory bullshit that they began harassing the parents and sending them death threats, all for the crime of having their kindergartens shot to death in America. They absolutely suffered and the blame for their harassment lies entirely with that fucking sociopath (who has since admitted that yes, the massacre was real).

  • Alex Jones is trying to halt the sale of Infowars. Elon Musk's X just got involved in the case

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  • Fuck that. Did the Sandy Hook parents deserve to have their murdered children used as fodder for Jones's conspiracy bullshit?

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    Duty to Warn Letter Regarding Hacking of 2024 Election

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  • I laughed my ass off at the pathetic, baseless attempts to dispute the 2020 election, but never questioned their legal right to do so (which they failed miserably at). If suspicious Harris supporters believe they have convincing evidence of manipulation, then let their claims be examined and proven or disproven by a recount or in a court of law. Call it copium, but I'd rather check these claims out and be disappointed than pre-emptively assume they're bullshit.

  • Devastated Harris voters conclude America just hates women as Trump wins again

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  • Harris didn't move right! She supported expanding the child tax credit, legalizing marijuana, codifying Roe, etc.

    She did campaign with Cheney, but didn't endorse her or promise her a position of power or adopt any of her policy preferences. The whole point was to signal "Trump is so dangerous that even the most conservative leaders are setting aside their disagreements to support me."

  • Billionaire cowards at Washington Post, L.A. Times show what life under a dictator is really like

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  • I think it's less out of fear and more about billionaire wannabe oligarchs tacitly supporting the candidate best aligned with their own interests.

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  • While anything that gets people off Twitter is good, I'm sorely unimpressed by those artists who "had to" to patronize the racist transphobic neo-Nazi hellhole "because my audience is there"... until Musk's policies happened to offend their own personal interests, by requiring training for their AI. Countless models trained on all public images already exist, jumping ship won't prevent their work from being scraped elsewhere, and frankly, any one image or even portfolio will contribute virtually nothing to the result, so quitting in protest is largely symbolic. But so many peoples drew the line at that, and not at Musk making "cis" a slur, or protecting child pornographers, or boosting white supremacist supremacy theories. It's really disappointing to see.

  • This is a thought experiment "Ball on a Table" for detecting whether someone has Aphantasia. What do you see when you perform this experiment?

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  • I imagine it's because it's the simplest, most common type of ball that you commonly see described as such. Like, baseballs and basketballs and soccer balls and beach balls exist, but out of context they're typically called that rather than just "a ball". So, a simple round ball. Giving it a pattern requires some extra thought, and of the solid colors red seems like the most common (think dodgeballs).

  • This is a thought experiment "Ball on a Table" for detecting whether someone has Aphantasia. What do you see when you perform this experiment?

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  • I pictured a smooth red rubber ball about the size of a baseball on my kitchen table. The "person" was more of an invisible force, not explicitly male but definitely not female. That might be male bias, or subtly thinking of myself doing it (combined with playing too many physics engine video games where your disembodied self pushes things around).

    All of this was pretty vague though, like I didn't really imagine the details of the room or the exact path of the ball other than knowing it would roll off and bounce on the floor.

  • Treating MAGA as an epidemic disease

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  • I genuinely wonder how much of the rise of this kind of belligerent stupidity can be traced back to widespread, low-level lead poisoning decades ago that's starting to manifest in earnest now.

  • Damning video shows Roger Stone is plotting a coup for November

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  • NASA beams home cat video from 19 million miles away

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  • The Internet Archive is under attack, with a popup claiming a ‘catastrophic’ breach

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  • Dipshits thought it was affiliated with the US government and attacked it to "avenge" Gaza.

  • Macklemore dropped from Las Vegas festival lineup after viral 'f--- America' video

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  • Thanks for the correction -- I'd heard about the costume thing the other day and thought it was part of the same event as in this story. Doesn't make it any less anti-semitic (and IDF fuckery in Gaza has been going on for long before October 7th), but it does explain why it seemed like people were ignoring it.

  • Macklemore dropped from Las Vegas festival lineup after viral 'f--- America' video

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  • Trump says he will visit Springfield, Ohio, 'in the next two weeks'

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  • OpenAI is reportedly going all-in as a for-profit company

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  • The fact that Silicon Valley interests effortlessly shrugged off the non-profit board's attempt to hit the kill switch last year, and now are preparing to take the company commercial despite the deliberate design otherwise, becomes much more interesting when you consider the theory that corporations are a form of artificial superintelligence.

    If the AI idealists can't stand up to basic forces of capitalism, how do they expect to control an actually dangerous AGI?