Nobody: "What the Internet needs is more messages that American capitalism is the best of all possible worlds and if you fail its your own individual atomic fault for not trying harder."

Girl Lich: here are some slop music videos of my songs "Skill Issue" and "Everyone Gets Paid" https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/channel/UCYAghJk7NG3b900IEbBY55g

guys our ultimate scary story maybe isn't scary enough??? what do

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xak4GixbKD9W5jzqn/extinction-does-not-feel-as-bad-as-it-should

LW not beating cult allegations by including on title bar a link to an actual secular candlelit ceremony instructions, whose narrative places computer touchers generally and chatbots specifically at pinnacle of human development. as in, on par with invention of language and fire. amazing self-report

Also high chance this was already posted here, but Yud’s book has an entire website dedicated to it

So the number of felonies ‘incidents’ that AI companies have committed is way, way higher than initially believed (unpaywalled ver)

from linkedin but in the comments: https://lnkd.in/p/g4VfX3SQ

Oh I forgot to mention: apparently judges consider AI use in sentencing

How

Like if you used AI you get more months

Huh why

Because AI can magnify the reach and speed of criminal activity

Is this like how hitting someone counts more if you used a weapon?

Yes

Here's a LWer being very wrong about how US politics work

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WMBgSseHJpghhma4n/we-need-a-better-theory-of-polarization-because-it-s-failing

First warning sign: "the US started becoming polarized with the election of Barack Obama"

"Affordability" won the frame for 2026, and I'm not sure I remember the last time the right talked like they are playing catchup.

uh, are you in your early 20s??? (who am I kidding of course you are)

You'd think bayesians of all people would try to avoid extrapolating from the position smack dab in the middle of a current news cycle

DHH is a racist not fascist, bet you feel stupid now don't you?

Ever wondered what kind of workplace environment Elon cultivates? Reading coverage of Tesla's trial, where complaints were brought by Black folks who felt harassed and discriminated against, gives us an inkling.

CRD attorney Juan Gamboa asked [Judge] Borkon to bar Tesla’s counsel from contacting anyone on the agency’s witness list. He told the court the CRD had tried to reach at least four other listed witnesses over the past several days without getting a response, and that they’ve fallen "off our radar." The agency believes Tesla’s lawyers got to them too, either with payments not to testify or by talking them out of it. Gamboa wants to stop Tesla from offering to represent witnesses "through persuasion and payment."

You're going to hear a lot of coverage of this trial, I expect, due to the following antics from Elon's "hardcore" attorneys. For context, the N-word is an anti-Black slur which is, in the USA, completely unacceptable to use in court or the workplace.

Tesla’s outside counsel told the judge the N-word is a “term of respect and endearment” in the Black community. … "This trial is not about the N-word — the N-word is not on trial here," Jones said.

Huh, so what's actually on trial?

Edwards said a non-Black coworker called him the N-word, cursed at him, and threatened to beat him up. He reported it right away. A month later, he found out his managers had written him up over the incident, and he was later passed over for promotions after applying to more than 100 jobs.

Oh, that's pretty awful. That's depressingly common in blue-collar factory employment, though. I wonder if there's anything unusual about Tesla's internal culture when it comes to race relations?

The CRD’s Brett Watson told the court the evidence will show managers calling Tesla "the plantation," with some referring to themselves and Elon Musk as "slave masters," and graffiti including swastikas, "KKK," and nooses left on factory walls for days. The second witness, former regional security manager Ozell Murray, testified that his supervisor, Ray Sethna, now Tesla’s senior director of global security, told him to warn a Black Marine veteran he was hiring: "just be sure [the veteran] knows he’ll be called those words."

I was at a loss for words for a few minutes after this. Dr. Seuss and Jim Henson together could not create such a caricature of a goose-stepping bigoted incompetent business-muppet as Elon.