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Honestly didn’t know it was considered a slur nowadays. Thought it was just a link. I’ll delete.

All of the investors that opposed this should divest, now. It’s the only sensible response.

Or, give them to people Trump envies. And make a bigger deal of it. Billboards in DC and Times Square, streaming ceremonies with fireworks and big-name bands and actors.

Make a mockery of it.

Cards Against Humanity could have one. The Daily Show. Jimmy Kimmel. They could all give one to each other.

Flood the news cycle but with peace prizes for other people around the same time as FIFA’s.

Isn’t he way too old to play live-action Maui?

I’m just sick of this guy. Another over-used actor but also a huge asshole.

She’s like Nancy Mace but on medication.

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Come on, Andy. Let the bitterness and shame spur your desire to lash out and hurt someone. Tell all and watch the place burn. Imagine walking into the US capitol building and dropping napalm in front of the world.

You think you’re fucked? Watch what happens to the USA when you prove who their President really is. At least a third of their heads will explode and the rest will just ignore you while they dance around the carnage and point fingers.

It will be glorious.

Was half expecting this to be like an M. C. Escher drawing. Something about the light and shadows reminds me of his work makes me look for paths that aren’t there.

Very cool photo.

But, how many mice and rats did you see?

Fucked if I know. I really think these tech bros are mental.

They do, now. Literally, this is the first one. I’m sure they did it to kiss Trump’s ass.

It’s pathetic.

Yeah, I’m with Apple on this one.

In the old days, instead of legislating stuff like this, governments, companies and NGOs would come up with a standard for interoperability. Everyone that participates benefits and safeguards can be put in place.

“I think the secularists in Silicon Valley are filling the God-shaped hole in their heart with AGI,” Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar said in an interview with the New York Times’s Ross Douthat. “It’s like, OK, the models get better. Why do you think that this cliff is going to happen where they somehow turn us into house cats?”

What the fuck is he even saying? Is he saying secularists are embracing AGI or are they afraid of it?

He also said that doomerism is a “fundraising shtick” where companies on the front lines of AI development “can say ‘my technology is so powerful, it’s going to lead to mass unemployment, so you better invest in me or you’re going to be poor.’”

This is nonsensical. The mass unemployment predictions are really aimed at the AI company customers who think they would get richer with fewer employees. The potentially unemployed don’t have significant money to invest in these scams.

Where do they finds these people? But, also, fuck Business Insider and its shitty reporting.

They’re following the conservative playbook. If your ideas are shitty, equate opposition to them with opposition to religion (or patriotism).

The added benefit is to set up their text generators as oracles and the arbiters of religious doctrine. I think I they actually want to control people with these things.

Is this going to be a hagiography or will it address the darker side?

See also:

The Ghost of Tom Joad—Bruce Springsteen

Tom Joad Pt. 1–Woody Guthrie

Back-paying furloughed federal employees after a shutdown predates Trump, FYI. That’s been the policy for a long time. It was made a law during Trump’s first term.

Of course, now they are threatening to not back pay them or, at least, omitting language about back pay from letters to furloughed employees.

If it’s made of iron, is it identified as Fe-mail?

Shit. Makes me worried for Ars Technica, too. It’s also owned by Condé Nast.

It’s this weird human tendency to take things to extremes. Sometimes it leads to amazing advances and sometimes it leads to inedible sugar sculptures.

Also, reminds of stuff like Carhenge. When humans have an excess of something, they make art out of it.

I wonder if we supported art in more traditional materials better of this stuff would even exist.