They can, yes. Might makes right

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Imagine Nazis naming a branch of the SS as “The Jewish Preservation Society”.

You can do that with this novel technology called “a second pair of glasses for reading”.

Alternatively, if you don’t want to constantly adjust because you only need to read something quick, try taking off your glasses and squinting.

Could save you thousands of dollars and hours on the line with technical support.

A source familiar emphasized to The Hill that Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his Palm Beach Golf Club years ago and noted the administration previously released Epstein files with the President’s name included.

Yeah, of course he was at my club, dragging a line of sex workers in handcuffs and ball gags behind him. But that piece of shit missed his dues date twice and we don’t tolerate poor people at this establishment.

Same choice minorities have always enjoyed.

Lay low and do your grisly work at the spear point of imperialism hoping you won’t be pushed out in front of it.

Or drop off the last US ladder out of poverty and consign yourself to a service sector that’ll leech you dry before you turn 50.

People in charge of setting the actuarial tables for the rest of the country don’t know a black swan event when they see one

One more reason this system shouldn’t be private.

Someone inform Crimea.

Part of me knows this has almost certainly got to be a distraction

I mean, distraction from what? This is a melt down over a Must Pass budget bill that’s going to potentially reshape the global economy. Elon’s angry because his friends at the fringe of the US Senate are only getting most of what they want.

Trillions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of employees, and whole administrative departments are hanging in the balance. Nevermind the fate of the US space program and the telecomm industry. Plus the next round of funding for both Israel and Ukraine.

What else is there to be distracted from? The ability for these two assholes to agree on something is the hinge point on the next decade of history, easy.

Yeah, the over/under was in March.

Amazing that the thing setting Musk over the deep end was doggedly stanning Rand Paul. Of all the people to be ride or die for…

Well not every MMO is run to the same standard as Blizzard.

Damning with faint praise.

Real presidents had Lee Atwater and Roger Stone and Steve Bannon to do that shit for them. Can’t believe Trump and Elon are being dragged down into the hoi paloi. Disgraceful.

We need to get back to a more respectable era of politics, like we had under Strom Thurmond and Barry Goldwater.

So long as someone is still buying our guns and bombs, why not let the wheels of social annihilation continue to spin.

When the dust settles, the US can step in and claim whatever is left.

Microsoft outright hemorrhaging staff, particularly in the AI market.

It’s called “Blogging” and it is taking the nation by storm.

We can use AI to make Star Wars better

By fixing the dialogue?

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By fixing the dialogue, right?

Problem: Most people only process text at the 6th grade level

Proposal: Require mainstream periodicals to only generate articles accessible to people at the 6th grade reading level

Consequence: Everyone accepts the 6th grade reading level as normal

But… New Problem: We’re injecting so many pop-ups and ad-inserts into the body of text that nobody ever bothers to read the whole thing.

Proposal: Insert summaries of 6th grade material, which we will necessarily have to reduce and simplify.

Consequence: Everyone accepts the 3rd grade reading level as normal.

But… New Problem: This isn’t good for generating revenue. Time to start filling those summaries with ad-injects and occluding them with pop ups.

Given the degree to which the modern day Wiki mods jump on to every edit and submission like a pack of starved lions, unleashing a computer to just pump out vaguely human-sounding word salad sounds like a bad enough idea on its face.

If the AI is being given priority over the editors and mods, it sounds even worse. All of that human labor, the endless back-and-forth in the Talk sections, arguing over the precise phrasing or the exact validity of sources or the relevancy of newly released information… and we’re going to occlude it with the half-wit remarks of a glorified chatbot?

Woof. Enshittification really coming for us all.

Imagine a mathematical concept that approximates a particle across a spherical plane. Now imagine a force emitted from this sphere in a field. Okay, we’re ready to talk about why this is wrong, too.

The Erosion of Miranda

In Vega v. Tekoh, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in part, that the jury could not be required to find Tekoh’s Fifth Amendment rights were violated because Miranda warnings are not rights but rather judicially crafted rules, which opens the door for overruling Miranda altogether.

The Vega decision will have a stronger impact on young defendants, the intellectually disabled, racial minorities, immigrants, and anyone unfamiliar with the criminal justice system and more prone to coercion.

And this was in 2014.

Imagine being Mahmoud Khalil right now and talking about the Fifth Amendment. You’re lucky if you can invoke the Suspension Clause.

Lived it before. Casinos exist to fuck with your head. What’s been illuminating for me is the P2W video games that adopt so many of the casino strategies to goad people into constantly feeding money into the machine. Once you start picking up on the queues and triggers coming off your cell phone, you can’t unsee it when you’re standing on the floor of the Bellagio.