I am in no way an expert on immigration issues, but I am surprised that the folks I think of as being most staunchly anti-union so often also want to get rid of the kind of vulnerable, easily exploited workers that one would usually use to bust unions.

Talking about LLMs and stoic with a friend brought up two interesting points: — What would “transcendental shallowness” be? — Pattern matching and plagiarism are really quite closely related concept.

Being John Malkovich for Tax Purposes

THIS IS TRUE. As I just said in a recent appearance: fake news, propaganda, rage bait, bias-affirming slop, etc is a demand problem, not a supply one.

Voted early and in person

Angry neighbors stress me out.

Huh. Well that’s interesting.

Like having someone be maudlin in a world without Mary Magdalen, or describing something as bedlam when there's no Bethlehem to name your hospital after.

It enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.

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Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

Dem comms staff: Please check your Meta security. RIGHT NOW. There's some kind of bug, and I was somehow given access back to a page for an elected official for a job I left in 2021. (I created the page originally, so I'm assuming that's how that happened?) But this official has -

Dude. You're just trolling me now, right? This is just for funsies.

Subjective measures are literally what we're talking about. I will grant you that he is very popular and probably rich if you will grant me that he wasn't good enough to keep from bombing on SNL.

I’m comparing him to Eddie Murphy at the top of his game. You can talented and successful and not make that mark. But thanks for chiding me for something I didn’t say, I guess?

Glad it worked for you. 😀

Yeah. The punchline was basically “but I sure like looking at ‘em.” It was a weird venue to reach for lazy work.

It’s kind of the tension at the center of that artistic project. Saying things that can’t be said is the engine of comedy. And done well, it’s awesome. The stakes for the performer are also part of the risk that makes it worth doing. Trapeze acts are less interesting four inches off the ground.