ABrockwell @aebrockwell@social.cleverlibre.org

Trump is being arrested today. For the third time. So here’s a bold thought: Maybe he doesn’t belong in the White House. Like, ever again.

@timkmak

#Russia invaded Ukraine, bombed #Ukrainian cities into rubble, scattered #Landmines all over the country and committed uncountable #WarCrimes against the people of #Ukraine

Yet Russia is whining that Ukraine sent a few drones into Russia?

Russia started this war. Did they think Ukraine wouldn't fight back?

*Why shouldn't Ukraine attack Russian territory?*

Unlike Russia, Ukraine will aim for military and political targets, not innocent civilians.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/01/russia-ukraine-war-news/

Twitter / X sucks so much now.

Anyway, I'm back on here, and here's my latest:

"The Funhouse Mirror of Trumpistan"

Enjoy! And sign-up for the newsletter if you feel like it (it's free).
https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-funhouse-mirror-of-trumpistan

It's well worth blowing up the picture to read the #poster text.

Revisionist history is a lie. The Qpublican party is devoid of morality. Vote Blue

"Describing [RFK's] views as ‘controversial,’ I think, is dishonest. They’re not controversial. They’re false. He’s not spreading controversial views, he’s spreading lies. And so the framing matters enormously, and that’s something that I foresee being a huge, huge issue in the 2024 campaign."

Agreed!

Some key distinctions made by journalist Seth Mnookin in this sharp interview. (He wrote a book about the anti-vaccine movement in 2011.)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-f-kennedy-jr-seth-mnookin-panic-virus-deadly-immunity-interview_n_64c137b7e4b0ad7b75fadc32

#journalism #uspol #science

"What’s wanted here isn’t a civil discourse or an exchange of ideas.

What’s wanted is to agree that reality is not what it actually is, but what the person you’re dealing with says it is, which means you agree that they are the ones who get to set the terms of reality for everyone else."

@JuliusGoat has an awe-inspiring way with words and insights when evaluating Elon, or Bud Lite, or Barbie, or talking about almost anything.

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-dipshit-paradox?publication_id=376521&post_id=135430627&isFreemail=true

Don't know who came up with this, but the new Twitter logo as "sans-serif swastika" is...perfect.

*takes deep breath*

Dear Republicans,

We can't believe this needs to be said...But slavery did not 'benefit' Black Americans and the Holocaust did not did not help make Jews 'useful,' whatever that means.

Despicable.

Important sets:
ℂ the complex numbers
ℕ the natural numbers
ℚ the rational numbers
ℝ the real numbers
𝕏 the set of fascists wannabes
ℤ the integers

It is striking to me how some people (too many) think that there is something egregious enough that Trump will do to turn off his ardent supporters. There is no such point.

-He stole money intended for children with cancer.
-He had sex with and paid hush money to a woman while his wife was pregnant.
-There was that whole NBC Access Hollywood tape where he was grabbing women by the p***sy
-He has stolen classified documents and lied to investigators and his own lawyers about it
-He refuses to accept the results of a lawful election
-He tried to start an insurrection.

If you were not moved by any of these actions what do people think will move them?

My fundamental point is that we’ve already tumbled into the epistemic abyss – and as the major search-engine products foolishly fold in LLM functionality, it will get much, much worse. Soon it will effectively be impossible to definitively determine the answers to simple questions of fact without sustained investments of investigative time and energy. Above all, as I keep saying, *no assertion of fact that was not committed to physical media prior to the fall of 2022 can be considered reliable.*

Why is AI research so much sexier than education research? Sure it’s cool to study how machines learn but wait until you hear about PEOPLE.

The challenge faced by science in the United States isn’t that scientists are awkward and bad at communication. It’s that we’re beset by propaganda and mass media channels funded by corrupt billionaires to sow confusion.

We need big, generously funded communications channels dedicated to verifiable reality. Scientists who are slightly better at talking isn’t going to cut it.

I feel like Moms for Liberty could call itself a fascist organization on its website, add a swastika to its logo, and announce that none of its members were parents but all were proven to be Aryan for four generations, and the national media would still be calling it "a conservative parents' organization"

Does anyone know what kind of hummingbird this is?

it's genuinely wild how we heard nothing but long winded platitudes on how innovative silicon valley was for like 20 straight years and it's all culminated in a bunch of the dullest, most petulant billionaires imaginable all just copying each other's version of a very basic chat app

The idea that there exists such a thing as 'unskilled labor' is a pernicious one, and we have to reject it - consciously and deliberately.
Any experiment you care to carry out will trivially demonstrate that. Go try digging a ditch or flipping burgers or slinging fries for one shift.
It's not 'unskilled' it's 'undervalued'.