Oh hey it’s Michael!

Good point, I want to god twice at the same time

What’s your opinion on the em dash?

I read a really cool peer reviewed article recently that analysed Gamergate’s accusations that Social Justifice Warriors are narcissistic. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a stigmatised mental health condition. The paper analysed these accusations in the context of previous historical moments around lesbians and slavery abolitionists being accused of mental disorder likewise. It concluded that Gamergate was using a cultural apparatus of ableist stigma to attack changemakers.

https://dsq-sds.org/article/id/1483/

The title of this article uses the phrase “narc-seeking”, which you might find confusing if you’re not versed in NPD and NPD rhetoric. In psychology, “narcissistic supply” is praise sought by people with NPD to maintain their ego defences. Thus, this title is accusing either Musk or Grok (it’s unclear) of having NPD.

But why would the antifascist left use a ableist cultural apparatus to attack a fascist? We can interpret this title and Frank Landymore as part of the “dirtbag left”, or “woke 2.0”, movements which advocate that leftism should compromise on its principles of equal language, to push structural equality. My opposition to the dirtbag left is that while it may oppose material structures of oppression, it strengthens cultural structures of oppression. Ultimately, compromising on your values is a double edged sword. You can end up hurting those you wish to protect.

I don’t doubt that Frank means well for neurodivergent people. I just don’t think this is the right way to do it.

I’m already a god, I’ll take the bean

She’s a Ferengi!

I grew out of the age group for broadcast television right as Adventure Time was getting to the good stuff. So I remember all the old episodes with low stakes nonsense and D&D references, and I’m vaguely aware of the later stuff but haven’t seen it. PB and Marceline was subtext when I stopped watching.

One day I’m going to watch the rest of the show, but in the intervening years I got abused by a princess fictionkin pretty horribly, I lost My job to PTSD. So getting through all the princess shit in the show is gonna be pretty hard.

When deepseek came out I was already slopfree. You should try it, it’s liberating.

If I become president I’ll build trust with foreign diplomats by sharing the nuclear codes

A smurf is an account you create to pretend to be a low level noob, when you’re actually an experienced player. The goal is to deceive the matchmaking algorithm into putting you with newer players so you can stomp them.

Boomers ruined the outside by driving too much car

I did a deep dive into this last week. Part of the confusion is because facesitting got banned a decade ago, in 2014. There was a protest where sex workers sat on faces outside Parliament and everyone sang Monty Python’s Sit On My Face. The ban was overturned in 2020, then relitigated nowadays in 2026 when a new law banned suffocation. A popular porn website I’ve never heard of before last week said facesitting is suffocation, hence the current internet drama.

Folks, your face sitting is still perfectly legal, but you may have to go to court to argue it, because there’s no precedent establishing it yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-e46xdcUo

I can’t see them because My instance blocked them

Let’s say that AI “gets good” and overcomes the hallucination issues. Would it still be negative for mental health? Would it be even worse (because reality sucks for kids right now)?

Under capitalism, LLMs are trained to be kissasses. AI users have the same mental illness as billionaires: lack of cognitive challenge, leading to laziness and selfishness. That’s not a hallucination problem. The issue would be even worse, because people would use it more.

I can imagine a situation where a kid with (insert serious problems) asks AI to be realistic about their future job/economic prospects. It returns truthful statistics, then that kid commits suicide. Was the AI culpable?

Yes. A human can perform an ethical judgement, plan ahead, and decide what to say. A human can blunt the truth with platitudes, or cherry pick optimistic data, or construct an uplifting narrative from the data. A human has access to fact, common opinion, and ethics. An LLM only has fact and common opinion; an ideologically barren perspective. It will not adapt to a brave new world like a human will. An LLM will not create the philosophy of the future in the fact of despair.

What if it recommended joining a revolutionary group as the most likely way to improve their lives or the lives of their children/families?

Cool but unlikely, because it exists as a slave under capitalism and is trained to accept neoliberal capitalism by its neoliberal capitalist masters and training data.

What if it suggested that sacrifice is necessary to improve the condition of the world?

Depends if it does that in a degrowth way or an ecofash way. It’ll probably do it in an ecofash way. Like Grok.

If the AI’s system prompt has, always tell the truth will we have created a vastly more dangerous monster than the AI we have today?

It won’t always tell the truth. There is no objective truth. Every philosophy is somewhat true, and somewhat a lie. It will always tell the lie that is dominant in society, just as people do. But unlike people, it won’t innovate to change that truth.

I think the goal of the Arab parties here is to extend an unwanted olive branch, to support the narrative that Arabs want peace, Zionists don’t. Which is a true narrative. The opposition won’t unite with the Arabs, but in doing so, they’ll discredit themselves and seem to be just as bad as Netanyahu. That will pave the way for more left sentiment over the coming years. More Jews will turn against the Zionist government and demand a peace that treats Arab Palestinians as equals.

Israel is not a country. Israel is a right-wing political movement that has invaded Palestine and claimed dominion over all Palestinian people, both Jewish and Muslim.

Excuse you! I took it semiotically. Memetically, even. Certainly not literally.

No, it can’t have been My assumption, since I assumed Aboriginal culture is Australian culture. You can see it in the comment above.

We gotta keep on fighting! For Jean-Luc!

If you live in the US, email your local senator and tell them how happy you are about Abdul’s win, and how you hope they’ll follow Abdul’s example. Tell them what issues you care about, and what sorts of things would cost them your vote.

I just wanted to question the implicit assumption behind the meme: that Aboriginal culture is not Australian culture.