This has genuinely hit me harder than anything I've ever seen from a mass shooting. So profoundly sad and needless

JWjaywillis.netSep 4, 2024 6:44pm

this is fucking me up today

That they're using the output of one model to train another is also incredibly horrifying. Just speedrunning their way to a Hapsburg AI because they don't have any other ideas to stay relevant

They are the absolute weirdest and no one who grew up Catholic likes them at all.

Vance really was the worst possible pick because every unpopular Republican policy that Trump skates on by being too dumb and disinterested to be associated with it, Vance is on 12 podcasts outlining the logistics of it

The appropriate response

We've entered the "major presidential campaign does dril quotes" phase of our current timeline

Fun fact: companies use donation prompts like this to gauge whether a location can increase prices.

MDdarrigomelanie.bsky.socialJul 27, 2024 10:07pm

CVS reported $8.34 billion in profit last year, and spent $12,476,000 lobbying against policies like universal healthcare and lower prescription costs. CVS is asking customers to donate to help the problem that they’re making exponentially worse, just to pad their profits.

I wonder if they hope to go out of business so that Microsoft can buy them out in bankruptcy and get rid of that pesky nonprofit structure that technically owns the company

Thank you, Senator Wyden. Your excellent grasp of the tradeoffs involved in technology policy makes me very happy that you are one of my Senators

Like most narcissists Trump absolutely cannot abide by being ridiculed — which is more or less why he wanted the FCC to take action against SNL — and if Harris is willing to mix it up like this he’s going to decompensate

BBjoshuajfriedman.comJul 25, 2024 2:09am

8-SECOND KAMALA HARRIS AD: x.com/KamalaHQ/sta... TRUMP AT RALLY: "And then their campaign says (goofy voice) 'I'm the prosecutor, and he is the convicted felon—" HARRIS (VOICEOVER): "I'm Kamala Harris, and I approve this message."