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pirate wires #136 // paid influencers, foreign bot armies, and a biblical flood of AI-generated content — how much of our internet is real? and is there any way to save ourselves from slop?
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pirate wires #136 // paid influencers, foreign bot armies, and a biblical flood of AI-generated content — how much of our internet is real? and is there any way to save ourselves from slop?
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Yesterday, after President Trump said he would pursue the impeachment of a “radical left lunatic” judge appointed by “Barack Hussein Obama” who attempted to force a plane of illegal immigrant gang members back to the states, Chief Justice Roberts publicly rebuked the executive — a rare and somewhat shocking act. “For more than two centuries,” he said, “it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.” Then: “we do not have Obama judges or Trump judges,” we have an “independent judiciary.” Listen, it was a nice statement, and we do love our checks and balances. But the left has been screaming “right wing courts” for years as they tried to pack them, and now the right has joined the chorus. I agree we’re supposed to have an independent court, but if there’s nobody left who actually believes it? I’m not sure it can even theoretically exist.
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Yesterday, after President Trump said he would pursue the impeachment of a “radical left lunatic” judge appointed by “Barack Hussein Obama” who attempted to force a plane of illegal immigrant gang members back to the states, Chief Justice Roberts publicly rebuked the executive — a rare and somewhat shocking act. “For more than two centuries,” he said, “it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.” Then: “we do not have Obama judges or Trump judges,” we have an “independent judiciary.” Listen, it was a nice statement, and we do love our checks and balances. But the left has been screaming “right wing courts” for years as they tried to pack them, and now the right has joined the chorus. I agree we’re supposed to have an independent court, but if there’s nobody left who actually believes it? I’m not sure it can even theoretically exist.
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According to the WSJ, more students are using AI to cheat on homework, to which we say: good! Homework isn’t simply bullshit that fails to make our children smarter, ...
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Five Republican state senators in Minnesota have introduced a bill that would officially classify “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a mental illness. According to the bill’s text, symptoms of TDS include “acute onset paranoia” about Trump’s policies as well as a “Trump-induced general hysteria.” And while this is technically speaking pretty funny toddler behavior (I am ...
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pirate wires #136 // paid influencers, foreign bot armies, and a biblical flood of AI-generated content — how much of our internet is real? and is there any way to save ourselves from slop?
how pilgrim, and its 20-year-old founder, plan to rethink defensive biotech
G. B. Rangoideas for actually making practical use of large language models
Sarah Constantinan imaginative portal into the future of ai-powered video games
G. B. Rangoeverything we need to build the first base on mars
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