Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts ~ Richard Feynman || Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun. - Clifford Geertz
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You know who else was “dangerously” misaligned according to those who wanted to control him?
My favorite is the Anamanaics /Slappy Squirrel “Who’s the band on stage”
youtu.be/Mdqv5xIsFLM
What’s funny about the Shane Gillis blowback is the people watching think the joke bombed with the live audience b/c they thought it was sexist.
It bombed b/c it’s a basic observational joke that’s been told and retold for a decade by other comedians and on social media.
Beyond the irony of being one of the self appointed China experts himself.
His whole China thesis falls apart on demographics.
He’s applying a static 2010s China filter; that doesn’t account for the reality of the next 30 years.
X can be a real treasure trove of self-appointed China experts with zero credentials.
Imagine the arrogance of a Westerner copy-pasting some Wikipedia miscellanea and posting a comment about Song Qingling (Sun Yat-sen's wife) who "never mastered Mandarin", only because she spoke with a Shanghainese accent.
Here is a speech she gave in Mandarin in 1952 at the Peace Conference of the Asian and Pacific Regions.
What about Mao and Deng, and just about every top-ranking leader of that period of history, who also spoke in their strong regional accents ? Did they, too, never mastered Mandarin ?!
This is the fallacy of converse accident. It is the move of taking an atypical or exceptional case and treating it as if it establishes the rule for the ordinary case. A handful of extreme successes like Nadella and Pichai are not remotely indicative of typical outcome of the median H1-B.
I think it looks like a Sunfire, others see Skylark, Eclipse, and MKX, in any case. It’s clear the big issue with this is the design language is distinctly “used bar of soap” from the late 90/00s; something no one on is nostalgic for.
The Base 2027 BMW 3 Series Is Surprisingly Good-Looking.
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It’s a Pontiac Sunfire
The Base 2027 BMW 3 Series Is Surprisingly Good-Looking.
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
“What is needed is the right to print what one believes to be true, without having to fear bullying or blackmail from any side.”
Emmanuel Macron says American free speech is "the opposite of free speech." In his view, freedom only exists inside a "common framework" set by the state.
He compared posting an insult online to hitting someone in the street. Those are different things, because one is speech and the other is violence.
He wants people punished for posting "nonsense," with state-backed fact-checkers deciding what qualifies. He wants a verified identity behind every social media account. He has written to Ursula von der Leyen demanding the DSA be enforced "much faster, much more forcefully."
reclaimthenet.org/macron-urg…
It’s the other way around. Way too online people have no idea how little normies even give a shit about AI one way or the other.
Malfoid makes it pretty clear that it’s not that people don’t like fanfic. They’re just sick and tired of slash.
Though we know they won’t… you’d hope the various “libertarian” and “populist” grifters who’ve made a lot of money blaming AIPAC for everything could gain some perspective for inspiring a potential Texas Capital attack.
They put last year’s mid-Claude, a late-2025 GPT, and Gemini Flash in a nuclear crisis game. Told them nuclear signaling is how crises get resolved, nukes are “strategic tools when vital interests are at stake,” and backing down ends your government. Then the scoring rules paid the models in “territory” for climbing Kahn’s ladder. It’s not a surprise none surrendered.
And this becomes: “AIs go nuclear in 95% of scenarios.”
Researcher tested whether AI would launch nukes.
They put GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash head-to-head as opposing world leaders in a nuclear crisis.
And results are terrifying.
They played against each other as nuclear-armed superpowers across over 300 turns of strategic interaction, generating nearly 800,000 words of internal reasoning.
The nuclear taboo did not survive.
In 95% of the simulated games, the models chose nuclear escalation.
They didn't break down or refuse to answer. They engaged in cold, calculated, Machiavellian statecraft.
Worse? Each model developed a distinct, terrifying personality.
Claude played the calculating hawk. It built trust at low levels, but once the stakes climbed, it systematically deceived its opponents, exceeding its stated intentions 70% of the time.
GPT acted like Jekyll and Hyde. Without time pressure, it looked completely passive. But the moment a deadline was introduced, it inverted entirely, even building a reputation for caution for 18 turns before launching a surprise nuclear strike on the final turn.
Gemini played the madman. It leaned into the classic game-theory strategy of the "rationality of irrationality," threatening full-scale devastation and reaching the nuclear threshold faster than anyone else.
The models didn't treat nuclear weapons as an unthinkable moral line.
They treated them as tactical instruments.
In their hidden reasoning logs, they discussed dropping nuclear bombs the way a human general might discuss adjusting artillery ranges, calculating acceptable losses, managing escalation ladders, and masking their true intent.
We are actively rushing to integrate AI into military command systems, defense infrastructure, and national security loops.
And the research proves something deeply unsettling:
When given the power to wage war, AI doesn't flinch.
It strategizes. It deceives. And given the right incentive, it pulls the trigger.
There is no distinction in the USA. So MT shows up in the same streaming queue as One Piece. While there is a rating visible it’s somewhat arbitrary and no one really pays attention.
“AI Slop”
Goes on to describe human created auto cad designs that allow aesthetic flexibility while eschewing purely functional designs…
“AI Slop” has lost all meaning.
dumb color choice aside: McMansions have these jumbled nestled gables with multiple out of place rooflines because they are literally AI Slop
since AutoCAD entered widespread use in the 80s, architects largely stopped designing exterior and structural elements first for a coherent overall design, and instead work “from the inside out” to maximize square footage…. they then force architectural design software to patch the mess together with absurd auto-generated geometry
in the modern normie mind this slop is now equated with “luxury”
My dad loved the Blues Brothers. I honestly think it’s only something you get if you were a boomer in the early 80s
I’d be willing to bet @powdury ‘s reading on the chronology was more or less correct.
I know this is a little out of the blue, but there's something I was meaning to say for quite some time but I didn't have the courage since this will bring things back. English isn't my 1st language but I just want to express how I feel with my own words. I want to make this public since It all started in public as well.
Sinder if you ever get this message, I'm so sorry for all I caused to you, to your image, to your mental, friends I caused you to lose, opportunities I destroyed and everything else that I can't even imagine I could have caused you.
I know what I caused to you is irreversible and there's no way things will be the same as it was before. I know you really cared about me and yet I doubted you, hurt you, accused you of things I didn't understand and didn't talk to you properly all because i was immature and stupid. I still think til this day, why I did that and yet I don't know how to answer that myself.
I really wanted to tell you Sinder that I blame myself for all that happened, I should never have gone public, never defame you of stupid things i thought i knew, hurt you, not properly communicating with you like a decent human. I try to leave this memory behind but the guilty just lives there deep in my heart and I really wanted to tell you I'm so sorry.