I feel like an actual 12 year old would have better taste than this

They ended up doing a cartoon series that has apparently been running for over 15 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Kratts

Gonna be interesting to see how this plays out viz Cory Doctorow’s recent thesis on Mamdani’s governing philosophy:

Mamdani is the anti-Obama. He shows what happens when a progressive candidate nurtures and co-governs with their base after the election, using millions of passionate, committed, everyday people to steamroller anyone who gets in the way of his agenda.

Of course the downside of this is that when Mamdani reneges on his pledges, he is loudly and furiously held to account for it.

Mamdani understood that he would be corralled into compromises if he won the mayoralty and that when he made those compromises, his base would come after him with the unmistakable fury of betrayed idealists. He also understood that any comfort he enjoyed by sidelining his base while in office would come at a price far higher than being yelled at by his supporters: it would cost him the ability to get anything done.

Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts

But they were definitely in Athens because Alcibiades got got for messing them up.

“All I did was hook up this computer designed to randomly rotate a gimbal and activate a servo to this AK-47, where are all these bullets coming from?”

AI as a Normal Technology is a blog with some good, lay-audience-friendly work. See A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?

Bit idea: keep placing ancient Athenian fertility statues closer and closer to Rubio as he speaks.

The 80’s/90’s problematically horny sci fi era will never be replicated by man nor machine.

It’s pretty maddening to see how much time and effort gets spent carefully building an environment where the PI never has to admit they’re wrong, even for the pettiest things.

My boss finally (indirectly) admitted that she was wrong about something she chewed me out for three years ago.

I hate academia. Time has no meaning. If it was published in the last 20 years, it’s not relevant. Keep that nose to the grindstone.

I don’t know any such resource for Marxism

Does Richard Wolff count?

On a somewhat serious note, I am not even using AI, but my job has slowly gotten more boring over the years to the point where I spend my days dying for cognitive stimulation. Office work is a plague on mankind.

You need Dr. Doctor Bliss

1. Get a job for the government by lying about your credentials
2. Lie your way through the background check
3. Ask your boss for gold bars for “work expenses” and get them.
4. Stash your ill gotten gains in a non-extradition country <---- (Important!)

This guy is either just short of insanely lucky or defrauding the government is way easier than it should be.

Kids need to be introduced to America’s L’s early for best results.

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Critics call it ethical gooning.

Thou shalt only fund schools via licentious gooning!

Literally the plot of Lolita