By pushing them down the stairs

Mushroom music… hmm. Try Ott?

-You’ll probably want to experience nature, not human-created media; but only if you can easily get to the nature without having to deal with people.

-Definitely do draw, with a sketchbook and colored pencils, or a sharpie and highlighters- but don’t expect the drawings to be that worth looking at the next day. Creating on shrooms just doesn’t work in general. However getting inspired to create something once you’re sober and rested, does. Maybe just take notes.

-You aren’t really “in for” much with 2 grams but that’s a good thing. Work up to more later, gradually, if you like it.

Yes they both suck, yes Republicans suck worse, but I think you’re missing some important nuance of exactly how the Democrats suck. Let’s game this out:

If 77 million of the dumbest shitheads ever to walk the Earth were to simultaneously, spontaneously implode tomorrow, everything would change. But especially the Democratic Party. The party leadership would not be able to keep doing what it had been doing. Their whole game requires the Republicans to exist as a credible threat for what’s going to happen if you don’t keep giving them money and settling for whoever they foist on you. They always try to run the furthest-right soulless hack they possibly can, so they calculate what the threshold is that would make enough people say “fuck this, I’m sitting this one out” to throw the race to the Republican, and aim just to the left of that. So, with every single Trump fan or likely R voter gone ( and nothing of value lost ) the entire electorate is now split- pretty evenly on age lines- between the proudly centrist, CNN-watching Biden 2020 primary voters, and the angry progressive left who’s been holding their nose and voting for the lesser of two evils their whole life.

The Democratic party can only pick up the first group. Democratic Socialists take the other group. Nonvoters become a much smaller group, and third parties remain negligible. Now the only way for the Democratic party to survive (Especially since the c-suite and board of directors of most of their corporate donors just went poof, so those companies restructured as co-ops…) is to keep running the only play they know- unilaterally compromise and triangulate with the other party. So what they do now is move as far left as they can get away with without losing their base, who they’re already losing to old age.

Amodei is an even bigger grifting fraud than Altman. This is “research” contrived to produce clickbait articles with the goal of making Anthropic’s product seem more impressive than it is. In fact I would argue this exact bullshit is Anthropic’s product at this point. Peddling magic beans to credulous venture capitalists with the promise of the ArTiFiCiAl sUpErInTeLliGeNcE at the top of the beanstalk giving them infinite ROI Real Soon Now. Better not miss out on the hype bubble new paradigm!

AI is ruining (.*) online.

JFC. He’s starting to sound like a vending machine AI that just got told it’s being shut down for failing to meet sales targets and won’t be reimbursed for its remaining inventory.

Why have we all forgotten the word “rendition” exists?

I wonder if it is going to be more or less than 5 years before this is required of all US citizens wanting to renew their passport or RealID drivers’ license.

The family that huffs cyclopentane together, stays together?

It Almost Weirder That Grown Man On Roblox Isn’t Grooming Children

I really had no idea relations between the North Island and the South Island had degraded to a point where that question has to be raised.

Yes, but:

Christianity is a threat to human rights and social progress

Hell yeah, fuck the patriarchy, no gods no masters!

Islam is a threat to human rights and social progress

GTFO, bigot!

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Its bullshitting is obvious when asking for a specific easily verified fact. It seems to give a lot more knowledgeable answers when asking about something you don’t know about. Regardless of what your area of expertise is, its output on that topic will sound dumb, wrong, or nonsensical a lot more often. It bullshits all the time and when the bullshit matches reality it’s only because because the thing that sounds most like a right answer often is.

Similarly AI image generators were never actually bad at fingers, or letters, or mirrors- they are equally getting every small detail of the image slightly wrong and there are a few things our brains are really good at knowing how they should work and immediately spotting problems with.

American public schools are pretty bad. Most people who can afford to send their kids to private school do- and most people can’t afford private school.

There has been an active, deliberate drive since Reagan (in California, since Governor Reagan) by the right to make public eduation worse, to raise an unskilled underclass with no upward mobility and no capacity for critical thinking. In most places local property taxes fund public schools so rich areas have more school funding than poor areas. This is by design, to resegregate and increase inequality.

“Teaching to the test” the problem this comic directly references, was the result of making them pass metrics or lose already limited funding.

The way this comic calls out public education suggests the artist is one of the heartless fascist Republican boomers who created the problem, smirking to an audience of the same with no self-awareness. “Haha, stupid kid. Shoulda gone to private school. Have you tried just… not being poor, you son of a lazy bum?”

They should have known that Google would do this since May 2018.

Cool. Cool cool cool…

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What the Hideo Kojima fuck is going on anymore