goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
10.03.2026 03:56
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goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
This is correct.
Here's my idea about writing:
If you hate to write, don't write.
And here's my idea about reading:
If you can't read, STFU about writing.
Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com. The company gave me this statement over email: We’ve heard the feedback about this tool and appreciate the engagement from those who have taken the time to raise thoughtful questions about the functionality and the experts surfaced. We agree that the product experience can be improved for both users and experts. The agent was designed to help users discover influential perspectives and scholarship that add value to their work. We want the people behind those perspectives to have greater control over whether their name is used, while providing new ways for influential voices to reach new audiences. Our goal is to improve Expert Review to deliver this outcome.
NEWS: Grammarly tells me it will let "experts" like me opt out of having their names used against their will and for no compensation as part of its "expert review" feature www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
Indeed, assuming this represents current policy, it is an open admission that the regime change effort has failed, de-nuclearization is likewise impossible or impractical and the only objective that remains is to extricate from a costly failure.
Please also consider a snack and a nap.
Yes, you are mentally paralyzed and psychologically traumatized by the satanic prayer wheel of dystopian events you cannot escape, but also, you are dehydrated.
The obvious example here is Elon Musk. Musk is an explicitly white nationalist political force now, aligned with Republicans, but implementing his politics by supporting the far right in at least 18 countries around the world. Within the US, he was Trump’s largest donor during the 2024 campaign, and used his position in government to dismantle parts of government that progressives have championed, often in legally questionable ways. The U.S. government has developed a multi-layered dependence on Musk’s companies, particularly in aerospace, national security, and digital infrastructure. If it wants to send astronauts to space, or bring them home, it increasingly must turn to Musk. The DOD depends upon Musk for both Starlink for internet service, and for military-use satellites. Grok has been embedded into government, including the Pentagon. Most recently, HHS is sending users to Grok as part of its Make America Healthy Again campaign.
A third sovereignty concern: your contractor is your ideological enemy, deeply embedded in government, with more resources than many nation states, and willing to use his power to undermine your policy goals. I don't think Dems have thought through if and how they would dislodge such contractors.
Heavens yes, get their asses.
(Our Lord and) King shit.
*(gift link)*
Screenshot of NYT home page article Title: "Bennie Thompson Faces a Young Challenger in the Mississippi Primary" Lede: "Mr. Thompson, the longest-serving Black Democrat in Mississippi, is not immune to a national trend of younger candidates going after older incumbents."
Ah yes, the NYT reporting on the controversial politics effects of literally time just passing.
I wrote about the Republican Party’s historical trajectory:
From Abraham Lincoln to… Donald Trump. How the hell did we end up here?
Some thoughts from my new piece - an attempt to identify key moments and dynamics in the history of the modern Right:
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What is it about our society that leads us to desire being lectured at constantly like we're waxing nostalgic for Sunday school?
Just so y'all know, it's not real, noteworthy violence if no white people died. It's just sparkling racism.
women's history month science google doodle is v bisexual lookin
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Democrats need to start branding their good ideas to sound dumb as hell. Medicare For All is now Operation Healthmaxxing. A billionaire tax? You must be confused. This is the Pedo Tariff.
Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh
Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,
Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below
Instead of banning plagiarism, schools should teach students to plagiarize in ways that are more difficult to detect, that degrade the value of labor, and destroy the environment.
i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.
I think we as a society have to face the fact that a lot of these people think LLMs are conscious because the machine seems to listen and respond to them – a basic human need. Real people seemed to have failed.
"No one listens to me like Claude" should set alarm bells off for any mature adult human
Amazing how many answers here basically center around finding a male character funny or cool and then later realizing he’s a giant child and maybe creep
Also if you've ever experienced the world-transforming bliss that is a warm chocolate chip cookie straight out of the oven and still believe horseshit like this, I can't help you.
The argument that LLMs and humans have the same level of consciousness--which I have seen in the wild--is the extreme logical end of logocentrism, which humanities disciplines abandoned half a century ago.
But apparently techbros did not get the message.
One of the most frustrating things about Trump and everyone like him is that they approach the most intense and unspeakable of human experiences like poker chips on green felt tables.
I see your Gender Studies and raise you Religious Studies
The reaction of oil markets in early March 2026 to the prospect of a closure of the Straits Of Hormuz will likely go down in the books as an example of an Eminently Knowable Yet Somehow Unknown Known.
Heard the siren call of spring in this morning's breeze, so I decided to plant old potatoes in our garden with my 1yo son, which means I am on the way to Wegmans for weekend veggies in jeans covered with dark soil mixed with Virginia red clay.
Tldr I find there are things worth smiling about still.
This is a bad decision. If I had to guess which guy trying to leverage a job in order to start his own consultation firm, it would be this man.
He doesn't seem to possess any kind of intellectual insight or moral anchor. Both opportunistic and parasitic upon the actions of a fascist dictator.
I hope they share a cell someday