Why is it the most self evidently inferior people who love to talk about Nietzsche ? Feels like something he himself would write about .

Another character of color whitewashed by Hollywood

It’s wild that Chris Rufo is constantly like “yeah I’m evil and I’m gonna do some evil shit” and the NYT editorial board immediately creams their jeans trying to help him by convincing contrarian libs do his dirty work for him

What's amusing about this isn't just how resolutely predictable it is, but (ironically) how common

Ever since Ayn Rand plagiarized Nietzschean themes and made them palatable in the US there's always been wealthy people and their defenders eager to imagine themselves supermen.

One thing that I think will come out of copyright cases for LLMs and AI will be (eventually) a regulatory structure that looks kind of like ingredients lists.
ie, LLM creators will have to list/provide the datasets that went into their models

Can’t wait to see all the people boycotting Starbucks over their support for Israel go back to saying “no ethical consumption under capitalism consumer boycotts are not the answer” when you ask them to stop paying for the torture and murder of animals in a couple months.

my favorite part of israel discourse is when columnists tell us that itamar ben-gvir, kahanism, and otzma yehudit are fringe forces that should be ignored when we talk about Israel, when they are in government and one of the main left wing parties isn’t even in Knesset rn

The right not to be killed - Full and equal rights as citizens - the end of being occupied in an open air prison
The end to blockades of good services
You know treated like free human beings -

If you're wondering why the TikTok generation sides so strongly with Palestine, it's because the IDF keep posting videos there destroying childrens homes while screaming 'we are evil! yeehawww!'

Biden lied, people died.

this post is actually the definitive nail in the coffin for 'AI art isn't art' people. it is transgressive, absolutely pregnant with meaning, and fundamentally could not accomplish what it does without being created by AI

Happy new year!

In 2023, workers demanded more -- and struck to get it.

During an average 2023 month, more workers were on strike than any year since the 1970s (!!):