Sunny Moraine
Writer of the horrific and weird, recovering sociology PhD w/focus on war and genocide. Christian Druid. Creator of the GONE podcast. Author of YOUR SHADOW HALF REMAINS, out now from Tor Nightfire. They/them.
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- Short of this being fake—and it does seem to be real?—I’m very curious to know why they chose a pic where he looks UNUSUALLY dashing and charismatic even by his elevated standards
- People think a billion is like a million but a bit more. I mean, I can imagine a million of something. Even a few hundred million. It’s a lot, but I can DO it People don’t know how much a billion is. You don’t. I don’t. It’s not possible to really know it. It’s a fucking inconceivably large number
- They keep doing shit like this thinking it’s going to own us and I’m like my dudes this is so boring it’s just more stuff we gotta either tear down or force you to tear down for us as part of your life sentence to hard labor
- New @washingtonpost.com: Trump is planning to install a statue of Christopher Columbus outside the White House Officials are eying a spot by E St, north of the Ellipse with the terrific @oliviacgeorge.bsky.social
- Something I picked up pretty early when I started studying sociology is that things that look like grand highly intentional conspiracies are so often just systems of power and incentive structures that connect people who have the same interests Which isn’t to say there are no conspiracies but
- They are so, so desperate to own slaves again and I wish they’d just fucking come out and say it They want to create a white ethnostate not in the sense that only white people live here but in the sense that only white people are people (Also as the comments point out he’s completely wrong)
- This, combined with the evidence we have that it meaningfully degrades cognitive skills, I really think it’s probably bad to allow a group of men wealthy to the point of literal derangement to force us to use a technology that makes us less competent and worse at thinking
- “We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.” Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- HE’LL KICK YOU APART
- I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...