Distinct from fine art, it’s also about avoiding developing the skill of written composition (forget vocab, spelling, grammar, appropriate word choice, proof-reading), it’s about avoiding developing any ability to express yourself, and failing to develop reading comprehension (if you plug something into it, asking for a summary). It’s just about being lazy and incompetent, and insisting that laziness and incompetence is fine, actually.
I hadn’t connected AI use with the recent surge in anti-intellectualism, but this makes me think it pretty neatly links that with the capitalist disrespect for art and writing as meaningful pursuits.
Can't get enough of these videos of Peter Thiel being asked by a friendly interviewer to "just say you're not the antichrist, out loud" followed by Thiel making various deep sea creature noises for 30 seconds before going "it's uh it's uh it's uh there are a lot of declensions here, interestingly,"
The Trump regime would like you to please hand over all your private information and communications to the dictatorship so they can vet your loyalty to the regime before you visit the US. If loyalty is not confirmed, you will be abducted on arrival and shipped off to El Salvador.
Trump administration says he was barred "over drug use," original Norwegian article says that two images triggered the detention: the Vance meme, and a picture of a handmade wooden pipe that Mikkelsen had made years ago
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
has that dude had his little birthday boy tank man parade yet? it’s hard to tell because the only thing the news is showing right now is how much people around the country hate him
It seemed like a huge waste of time! Like 8 trimet officers milling about a bus with like 8 passengers on it. When you have to pay fare to get on the bus, and presumably the driver would know if someone was on the bus without having paid said fare?
being online means regularly coming into contact with the types of guys you might once have only seen angrily walking back and forth in front of a rural town hall wearing a hand-painted clapboard sign reading “I FOUGHT FOR GOD AND COUNTRY, BUT MY COUNTRY TOOK MY FORESKIN — GIVEN BY GOD!”
I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
I’m genuinely stating to think that having anything even approaching a high school education or higher is a material disadvantage in feeling sane right now. My niece is two and a half and she’d have trouble believing half of this shit.
Extremely funny. A man admitted he spent millions to help make a pedophile president as a way to make himself look better, then lost 34 billion dollars.
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