And boy it sounds expensive.

Kudzu is edible, which I’m guessing will come in handy for the South about halfway through the Trump administration.

Tbh this is what AI used to sound like prior to GPT-2.

AI is turning us into the stupider version of itself.

Catholic Trumpers agree with her. They hated this pope.

I’ve seen this movie before.

I think we may have to agree to disagree, but I don’t think having the Marshal Service, which is run by the Executive, issue them a subpoena is what I would call an “enforcement mechanism” that could “lead to a lot of death.” It is nothing more than something for the Executive to tell the Marshals to ignore and barring that, for the Executive to ignore itself. There is no “enforcement” here. Judicial has recourse against you and me (it can have the Marshals jail us for contempt - unless we are under the protection of the Executive), but not against the Executive. The only recourse against the Executive is impeachment and conviction from Congress. End of story.

[citation needed]

And of course whatever they want to be true will be true.

You might think you do, but the stock market is wholly price controlled. Even the Great Recession will never happen again. The market is controlled by huge banks and hedge funds using HFT algorithms and dark pools. Price means nothing and big drops are in any case performative.

The following weeks will demonstrate this, as the bounce(s) will take back the great majority of the perceived losses. Behind the scenes, of course, these same institutions love being given the opportunity to display this performative disapproval, as they make untold fortunes using the stock market as their own personal pump and dump.

Anybody notice that Trump doesn’t give the Scaramucci treatment to people in this go-around? He was hiring then firing left and right in his first term, but this time around - nothing.

♬♩ barely getting by ♩♫

Talk means nothing, look at what he does. All his actual actions benefit the Kremlin and serve to further it’s goals. Words do not inflict sanctions, and repeatedly saying shit while doing other shit just makes it seem like the Kremlin is looking for plausible deniability for their puppet. Wake me up when anything at all has been done that materially damages Russia or Russian interests, because that right there will be a fucking news story.

Algorithms are not universally good and helpful. They should be designed to boost engagement only in that they serve to find content you wouldn’t be able to see otherwise, not to boost engagement at all costs by feeding you things they think you will click on. It’s an important distinction.

Discord is bad because its forums are not world-readable, therefore not indexable. It’s very useful to the rest of the world to have conversations be public. The youngest users here may not even remember but searching Google in the 2000s before Facebook went huge and when forums were all world-readable, it was a different experience altogether. You could find somebody who was talking about your niche issue/product - no matter what it was. It was kind of magical. No matter what thing happened to you, you could be pretty sure it had happened to someone else and they were talking about it somewhere and Google would see it and point it out to you.

Not anymore. Everything’s on Facebook now and Google can’t see it, nor can anyone else - except Facebook. All that legacy knowledge just tucked away in Facebook’s data vault and essentially useless to anybody but Facebook, which makes it less than useless.

100% agreed. Not even that high. Platforms that generate more than $1 million in revenue. Wipe out these engines of disinformation.

Yeah, I’m struggling to see the downside of this personally, which means there is no way in gods green hell it will happen.

That was just the warmup. They got serious about it on January 21, 2010.

Their attention is your lifeblood, and you’re actively giving them reasons to look elsewhere.

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My attention is all the currency YouTube will ever get from me - and it should be enough. If I post videos to YouTube (for nothing in return) and I talk to people about videos I saw on YouTube or link them to videos - then I am a net gain for Google and they should treat me as such. If anything, they should be working (nicely) to try to get me to want to pay (or view ads) and just be thankful I’m there if I don’t pay (or view ads). Instead they’ve chosen to work at ensuring everyone is so goddamn pissed off at their bullshit that they’d rather make it their full-time job to never give them another dime. Good job, Google! Smart!

Edit: Oh look, half a dozen lectures about how Google has to make money somehow. Hi there YouTube shills, I thought I would see you here.