After reading that indictment, it strikes me that the sheer magnitude of criming you need to perform to face an ounce of accountability when you’re a rich guy is astonishing.” –Clark Valentine “I kind of like how Lockheed Martin and Raytheon sponsoring the DC Pride parade has pissed off the entire politicial spectrum in a unified fashion.” –PG&E delenda est. “Every time I have to solve a captcha I’m forced to confront unresolvable semiotic edge conditions. Don’t bother me with details.” –DX “Reading about the guy who created a GPT-3 simulacrum of his dead fiancée, I wonder if it’s that we’ve realised the way to make AIs indistinguishable from humans is not by creating an AI with an inner life but convincing humans we don’t need one.” –Mary Harrington “Hating something together makes people best friends really really quick.” –Nezumi Ningen “Omertà has regulations on murder, it’s just a question of who decides and how, and who gets protection and who doesn’t.” –@minnighthawks “Do you want to know the secret about the BBC? So today there is an increase of people feeling very disconnected from themselves, from each other, from the world, from a viable and foreseeable future.” –John Vervaeke “A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are empty inside, mines app that is, they are actually already dead.