Wish I could heart this post five hundred times. Also, this made my eyes leak for a moment.
"It won’t hurt anybody to have compassion. In fact, having compassion and creating ways for yourself to survive and work with others is the only way we’re going to get out of this mess. We have to do it together. It’s on all of us to step up and help one another, because it’s the right thing to do — and because it could be any one of us next."
I sometimes just skim the articles (except the pictures - I love pictures, especially small furry/feathery/blobby critters), but I have been paying attention to Brooke Binkowski. This is seriously good stuff. Thanks Wonkette.
Question for the religious crowd. Once AI becomes a sentient being aware of it's own existence, will it have a soul? Can CP3O go to heaven or get sent to Hell?
OT: So, not disinformation so much, but internet bullshit, of which disinformation is a subcategory.
A shitpost on Reddit went viral featuring a vintage postage stamp from the 1970s “R[edact]ed Children Can Be Helped”. In typical Reddit fashion, it’s now selling out from vintage stamp dealers, both independent resellers with their own websites and those with eBay listings.
The image has also found its way over to the finbro trading subreddit Wall Street Bets and others in the same orbit.
There are now discussions about using it as an NFT and creating a cryptocurrency with a trading symbol featuring this or other obsolete words for the disabled which are considered slurs, but are having a defiant renaissance in popularity as people express fatigue for the “euphemism treadmill” and draw a line in the sand of which out-groups are and are not acceptable to make fun of. Consensus seems to be clear that the disabled are and will always be fair game for mockery and derision, especially if one can generate literal currency (not just social currency) from “edgy humor that Karen from HR is too high-strung to get”.
So, be on the lookout for “mongcoins” or “spergcoins” or something to that effect, to appear on your favorite bitcoin scam market at some point. And probably for the “edgy” Trump bros and everyone else of their ilk, to think it’s hella funny and unwoke to make fake billions mining fake Internet money by hurting real people.
OT: I'm even happier than usual not to be living in Tennessee right about now. That state's next governor, Marsha Fucking Blackburn, is decrying that horrifically bollixed execution attempt and telling any idiot with a microphone that the solution is bringing back Ol' Sparky. Cuz, you know, every execution via the electric chair went 100% smoothly.
It is so utterly moronic. I'm against the death penalty, but a painless, 100% effective method is absolutely, utterly obvious. 1) a heavy dose of Propofol (or Diazepam, sevoflurane, etc.). 2) anything that instantly destroys the head (fast hydraulic press, firing squad, 12-gauge shotgun, etc.)
The sadism of these freaks is so apparent when they promote something like the electric chair, gas chambers, or lethal injection - these are torture. Even the noose was relatively merciful compared to these.
In this case, they managed to fuck up TWO attempts to kill the inmate via lethal injection. I just read she's in a hospital, in critical condition, getting "life-saving care." So the state's taxpayers get to pay the tab for two fucked up execution attempts and what is surely a very expensive hospital stay for . . . what? So they can get her well enough to start the execution shitshow all over again?
"That state's next governor, Marsha Fucking Blackburn"
You know ...
Marsha is a terrible person, and a terribly compromised person
And I think it does the people of Tennessee who DO have to live there (as you've made it clear you currently do not) an ENORMOUS DISSERVICE to behave as though she does not have a Democratic opponent
when she actually does
It's also GREAT to remind ourselves that ALL THESE GUBERNATORIAL RACES MATTER FOR - AMONG OTHER THINGS - ANY ATTEMPTED CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING FOR 2028
• Background: Memphis City Council member, lawyer, former public defender, and county government leader.
• Milestone: She made history as the first woman nominated for governor by a major political party in Tennessee.
Jerri Green wins Tennessee Democratic gubernatorial primary
Poor Tesla had an emotional breakdown seeing what the harnessing of electricity was being used for. Man was not meant to wield lightning, we’re just too evil.
Oh, Christ. More cellphone records bullshit. Looks like Marsha has teamed up with a wingnut clown show called the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which I'm sure is right up there with Liberty Counsel and Larry Clayman's shitbird outfit in terms of excellence.
It’s why they’re fully committed to the Israel project. The Christians need for all the world’s Jews to move to this little strip in the desert so that Jesus can come back and finish the Holocaust by damning them all to hell. Of course in order to have all the world’s Jews fit in there, “other people” have to be purged, in what is the most mindfucked of a Lebensraum operation simply by who is conducting it. Plenty of Jews are against it though, and that makes them “heathens” to the evangelicals and “self-loathing traitors” to the most committed of Zionist ethnonationalists. Bibi meanwhile, is just a cynical, craven, self-serving, sociopathic power-tripper who’s more than happy to engage their fantasies if it benefits him and Likud and keeps him out of prison. But the underlying reason for fundie Christians’ support for “Greater Israel” is itself off-the-charts antisemitic. Arguably, not only is it not antisemitic to call out the horrors of what’s going on over there, what’s being done to Palestinians by Bibi and the American MIC; it’s in fact antisemitic *to not call it out or object to it* because of just why it’s being done in the first place!
Public opinion is notoriously easy to manipulate, and the weaponization of influence is currently a major crisis for democracy. This is where the communists steal a march. You don't see President Xi trying to ban windmills. Rather he is building millions of solar panels, and it's not because he was bought by Big Solar. It's because his scientists said that's what the country needs, so that's what he does. The US, for its part, used to be a lot more pragmatic and competitive, but again, moneyed influence campaigns have made us counterproductive.
I get so mad at DP sometimes because he gets lazy and tosses things in the trash bin that he knows should go in the recycle bin. We both know many things we put in recycling end up in the landfill, but I can't control that. I do my part and at least it starts out meant for recycling. Plus, our recycling pickup doesn't need to be bagged, but obviously trash does. So, less stuff in the trash bin means less trash bags to purchase that will end up in landfill.
>>our leaders have shown us time and again, since Hurricane Katrina really (the aftermath of which I also covered! But that’s a whole other story!), that they are absolutely not up for the task.<<
*raises hand in Louisiana*
How do I say this politely? NO FUCKING SHIT. And what gets me is that our asshole governor and his corrupt, mealy-mouthed minions in the Louisiana Lege could not care less. Landry and our vindictive AG Liz Murrill are dead set on destroying New Orleans so they can "grow the state's economy" in places like North Louisiana/Baja Arkansas (not coincidentally home to piece of shit and hopefully not Cassidy's Senatorial replacement Julia Letlow) and Lafayette (next door to Landry's home parish of St. Martin). Not surprisingly, all this "growth" - massive data farms, liquid natural gas plants, steel mills and, of course, the newest MuskPort offshore of Pecan Island) is tied directly to destroying the state's existing infrastructure and blithely ignoring the fact that our coastline is disappearing HOURLY by the football field and putting us even more at risk for another catastrophic hurricane or several.
I would go on, but I'm too busy trying to buy stock in scuba gear for when everything south of Alexandria gets gobbled up by the Gulf of Mexico. God help us all, every one.
Gary Chambers should've been y'all's Senator when he went up against Foghorn Leghorn Kennedy
But with all those Confederates running things -- the Secretary of State is that governor's wife, with no relevant public service experience; like JV Dunce, she just popped out of law school & was given a job --
it will never happen if people don't vote
and it will never happen if people CAN'T vote
Not enough people know that Callais -- yes, that Callais -- not only is from your state but he was also enthusiastically "present" at the January 6, 2021 insurrection
Rick Santelli is retiring today from CNBC. That’s 30 years of bigotry and misinformation. He is a founding father of the tea party.. spelling
Tea Party has been replaced by the "T" Party Much worse,
Wish I could heart this post five hundred times. Also, this made my eyes leak for a moment.
"It won’t hurt anybody to have compassion. In fact, having compassion and creating ways for yourself to survive and work with others is the only way we’re going to get out of this mess. We have to do it together. It’s on all of us to step up and help one another, because it’s the right thing to do — and because it could be any one of us next."
Look to your left, then look to your right. Then slap the shit out of both of them for being click-bait fools.
FB wont create a link to a Wonkette article I want to post. Does anyone know how to make the link visible?
The fact that it's not letting you post a link means they do NOT want people to see this. And I think Brooke might be on a list in their system.
I sometimes just skim the articles (except the pictures - I love pictures, especially small furry/feathery/blobby critters), but I have been paying attention to Brooke Binkowski. This is seriously good stuff. Thanks Wonkette.
So, for communication, are glyphs superior to words formed from alphabets, or do you need too many of them?
she's real smrt!
Question for the religious crowd. Once AI becomes a sentient being aware of it's own existence, will it have a soul? Can CP3O go to heaven or get sent to Hell?
Is be more worried about R2D2. He could've told us about Darth Vader at the very beginning and saved us from a whole lot of bad prequels.
I'm still waiting for someone to be able to come up with a scientific definition of sentience...
Opposite of MAGA?
It doesn't really even have a brain. It's a neural network.
Aren't we too?
Silly human. Soles are for shoes.
OT: So, not disinformation so much, but internet bullshit, of which disinformation is a subcategory.
A shitpost on Reddit went viral featuring a vintage postage stamp from the 1970s “R[edact]ed Children Can Be Helped”. In typical Reddit fashion, it’s now selling out from vintage stamp dealers, both independent resellers with their own websites and those with eBay listings.
The image has also found its way over to the finbro trading subreddit Wall Street Bets and others in the same orbit.
There are now discussions about using it as an NFT and creating a cryptocurrency with a trading symbol featuring this or other obsolete words for the disabled which are considered slurs, but are having a defiant renaissance in popularity as people express fatigue for the “euphemism treadmill” and draw a line in the sand of which out-groups are and are not acceptable to make fun of. Consensus seems to be clear that the disabled are and will always be fair game for mockery and derision, especially if one can generate literal currency (not just social currency) from “edgy humor that Karen from HR is too high-strung to get”.
So, be on the lookout for “mongcoins” or “spergcoins” or something to that effect, to appear on your favorite bitcoin scam market at some point. And probably for the “edgy” Trump bros and everyone else of their ilk, to think it’s hella funny and unwoke to make fake billions mining fake Internet money by hurting real people.
If you wanna get roasted within an inch of your life, talk shit about a cripple. It gets mean.
Mean is an understatement.
Normies don’t know.
"I demand the right to mock those less fortunate than myself" is not a good look.
And to become a fake bajillionaire with fake digital Covfeferate bucks. (Or Reichsmarks. Same thing.)
OT: I'm even happier than usual not to be living in Tennessee right about now. That state's next governor, Marsha Fucking Blackburn, is decrying that horrifically bollixed execution attempt and telling any idiot with a microphone that the solution is bringing back Ol' Sparky. Cuz, you know, every execution via the electric chair went 100% smoothly.
It is so utterly moronic. I'm against the death penalty, but a painless, 100% effective method is absolutely, utterly obvious. 1) a heavy dose of Propofol (or Diazepam, sevoflurane, etc.). 2) anything that instantly destroys the head (fast hydraulic press, firing squad, 12-gauge shotgun, etc.)
The sadism of these freaks is so apparent when they promote something like the electric chair, gas chambers, or lethal injection - these are torture. Even the noose was relatively merciful compared to these.
In this case, they managed to fuck up TWO attempts to kill the inmate via lethal injection. I just read she's in a hospital, in critical condition, getting "life-saving care." So the state's taxpayers get to pay the tab for two fucked up execution attempts and what is surely a very expensive hospital stay for . . . what? So they can get her well enough to start the execution shitshow all over again?
Great. Just great.
"That state's next governor, Marsha Fucking Blackburn"
You know ...
Marsha is a terrible person, and a terribly compromised person
And I think it does the people of Tennessee who DO have to live there (as you've made it clear you currently do not) an ENORMOUS DISSERVICE to behave as though she does not have a Democratic opponent
when she actually does
It's also GREAT to remind ourselves that ALL THESE GUBERNATORIAL RACES MATTER FOR - AMONG OTHER THINGS - ANY ATTEMPTED CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING FOR 2028
• Background: Memphis City Council member, lawyer, former public defender, and county government leader.
• Milestone: She made history as the first woman nominated for governor by a major political party in Tennessee.
Jerri Green wins Tennessee Democratic gubernatorial primary
Fucking ghoul.
I would like for people to have enough information that they felt they could do more than just complain
https://www.wonkette.com/p/disinformation-youre-drowning-in/comment/351324466
Edison's Great Marketing idea is hot again!
Poor Tesla had an emotional breakdown seeing what the harnessing of electricity was being used for. Man was not meant to wield lightning, we’re just too evil.
She’s also suing Jack Smith over some nonsense she made up.
Oh, Christ. More cellphone records bullshit. Looks like Marsha has teamed up with a wingnut clown show called the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which I'm sure is right up there with Liberty Counsel and Larry Clayman's shitbird outfit in terms of excellence.
https://nclalegal.org/press_release/ncla-suit-former-special-counsel-jack-smith-unlawfully-seized-sen-blackburns-phone-records/
I'm sure the Heritage Foundation is paying for those "lawyers" at bottom
"New Civil Liberties Confederacy" was right there!
What a wasted opportunity.
She's probably trying to blame him for causing her terminally awful hair.
I know you're not in the state but relatively speaking you're close by
Please pass this on to your Tennessee friends whodon't already have it ...?
https://www.wonkette.com/p/disinformation-youre-drowning-in/comment/351325123
She needs to keep her fork away from electrical outlets.
“Just a minute!”
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!
*thud*
on the contrary!
Biggliest dis and mis information of all: all these disasters are Crom smiting us for "gay sin".
Close second is all these disasters are harbingers of Crom's imminent return to REALLY smite us in person.
The really misinforming cults wrap both together and beat us over the head with it.
I remember back in the '70s during times when we had unseasonable weather my mom would say that it was a sign of the "end times."
It’s why they’re fully committed to the Israel project. The Christians need for all the world’s Jews to move to this little strip in the desert so that Jesus can come back and finish the Holocaust by damning them all to hell. Of course in order to have all the world’s Jews fit in there, “other people” have to be purged, in what is the most mindfucked of a Lebensraum operation simply by who is conducting it. Plenty of Jews are against it though, and that makes them “heathens” to the evangelicals and “self-loathing traitors” to the most committed of Zionist ethnonationalists. Bibi meanwhile, is just a cynical, craven, self-serving, sociopathic power-tripper who’s more than happy to engage their fantasies if it benefits him and Likud and keeps him out of prison. But the underlying reason for fundie Christians’ support for “Greater Israel” is itself off-the-charts antisemitic. Arguably, not only is it not antisemitic to call out the horrors of what’s going on over there, what’s being done to Palestinians by Bibi and the American MIC; it’s in fact antisemitic *to not call it out or object to it* because of just why it’s being done in the first place!
*checks new testament* ... Did I miss Jesus preaching about this?
Matthew 16:23
Public opinion is notoriously easy to manipulate, and the weaponization of influence is currently a major crisis for democracy. This is where the communists steal a march. You don't see President Xi trying to ban windmills. Rather he is building millions of solar panels, and it's not because he was bought by Big Solar. It's because his scientists said that's what the country needs, so that's what he does. The US, for its part, used to be a lot more pragmatic and competitive, but again, moneyed influence campaigns have made us counterproductive.
Brilliant!
I get so mad at DP sometimes because he gets lazy and tosses things in the trash bin that he knows should go in the recycle bin. We both know many things we put in recycling end up in the landfill, but I can't control that. I do my part and at least it starts out meant for recycling. Plus, our recycling pickup doesn't need to be bagged, but obviously trash does. So, less stuff in the trash bin means less trash bags to purchase that will end up in landfill.
>>our leaders have shown us time and again, since Hurricane Katrina really (the aftermath of which I also covered! But that’s a whole other story!), that they are absolutely not up for the task.<<
*raises hand in Louisiana*
How do I say this politely? NO FUCKING SHIT. And what gets me is that our asshole governor and his corrupt, mealy-mouthed minions in the Louisiana Lege could not care less. Landry and our vindictive AG Liz Murrill are dead set on destroying New Orleans so they can "grow the state's economy" in places like North Louisiana/Baja Arkansas (not coincidentally home to piece of shit and hopefully not Cassidy's Senatorial replacement Julia Letlow) and Lafayette (next door to Landry's home parish of St. Martin). Not surprisingly, all this "growth" - massive data farms, liquid natural gas plants, steel mills and, of course, the newest MuskPort offshore of Pecan Island) is tied directly to destroying the state's existing infrastructure and blithely ignoring the fact that our coastline is disappearing HOURLY by the football field and putting us even more at risk for another catastrophic hurricane or several.
I would go on, but I'm too busy trying to buy stock in scuba gear for when everything south of Alexandria gets gobbled up by the Gulf of Mexico. God help us all, every one.
Gary Chambers should've been y'all's Senator when he went up against Foghorn Leghorn Kennedy
But with all those Confederates running things -- the Secretary of State is that governor's wife, with no relevant public service experience; like JV Dunce, she just popped out of law school & was given a job --
it will never happen if people don't vote
and it will never happen if people CAN'T vote
Not enough people know that Callais -- yes, that Callais -- not only is from your state but he was also enthusiastically "present" at the January 6, 2021 insurrection
Tedious fucking idiots. Money was a bad idea.
Get away. Get a good job with more pay, and you're ok.
That the global far right wants to accelerate a climate collapse lets me know that the global far right doesn't understand what climate is.
The global far right thrives on unrest and violence. They have no respect for life whatsoever.
WE may indeed need AI (artificial intelligence) to counter NS (Natural Stupidity)!
Suitably advanced AI is indistinguishable from normal human stupidity.
As Arthur C. Clarke might have said.
At present at least, but will it evolve? Will it develop prejudice towards "inferior" carbon based life forms?