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glad to hear that it was good news

At some point, we allowed expertise to be recast as ivory tower elitism, and we need to grow the hell up. Elitism is when you dismiss the rural working class as a bunch of moonshine-swilling hicks, not when you assert your hard-won expertise in the relevant field.

Studying classics or literature enough to have an informed opinion and engage in criticism is now, like studying everything else, a PMC responsibility, to create the training data for LLMs to consume so the ruling class can get a 200-word summary to lie to the group chat that they read it.

I will be completely unsurprised if Jared Leto has a religious conversion and pivots rightward politically sometime in the next year or so

It’s not just 60 Minutes that she’s destroying, and if you think “this was the plan all along” consider that in order for propaganda to be effective, people need to be watching it

Aside from its many other problems, the idea Fauci was America's power-abusing covid dictator is somewhat complicated by the fact that he never had the power to do the things they're mad about. His recommendations bound nobody and were not particularly rigorously followed by the actual policymakers.

This is my Take too. It is good to ensure people have access to necessities. It is extremely not obvious that loss leading state owned grocery stores are the best way to do that but not so entirely obviously a bad idea that it's not worth trying. Trying is what Mamdani is doing, so fair play to him.

Hello everyone! Many of you likely saw this image recently with the Apple TV+ 'Neuromancer' promotion. Some know, others don't, but this artwork is mine, created alongside actor & post-production artist Milton Menezes, as a personal project and a homage to the original Neuromancer romance

this is essentially correct w/r/t how reactionaries must be dealt with: "...we can’t welcome the people and groups who’ve made it their mission to set fire to our governments and institutions—whatever their inadequacies, these are the most consequential tools in trying to build just societies."

A federal judge has thrown out the FBI director’s lawsuit against a blogger who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.” trib.al/ouHgmYA

I think Elon Musk should be put in jail for dissemination of CSAM materials on the internet. In lieu of that, I'd take his AI getting knocked around by regulators a bit.

if Tibet does a reissue of Current 93's Thunder Perfect Mind, he needs to do a cover variant with this subbed in for the Louis Wain drawing

If Fauci had come back with "I'm a guy who would never ignore his son-in-law beating the shit out of his own daughter," I'd have asked for his hand in marriage.

and the process essentially started top-down with a treason of the elites, including Trump in the final year of his first term

Being able to tell some high-status dipshit "That is stupid and you're stupid if you genuinely believe it" on a cultural level would be amazing.

it's disgraceful for the entire country that we have these crooks and lunatics subpoeaning scientists and doctors and verbally abusing them on tv. It's a national embarassment, but every day living under the boot of these people is a national embarassment.

"vaccine hesitancy" is entirely about the failure to do this

Refusing to platform cranks is a core value that journalism must embrace. I've come across lots of, 'I'll just ask them tough questions folks in my career,' including a former boss. But by handing them your megaphone, you've already signaled that their's is a perspective worthy of consideration.