quicklime

It has been very noticeable – like should-be-embarrassingly noticeable – the change from the first week after the debate (where any pundit who mentioned swapping out Biden, regardless of them being in support of that or not, basically always mentioned that Harris would not be a viable/successful alternative) to just the past 2-3 days where suddenly that perspective is forgotten or forbidden. (for-Biden?)

“They hit each other, like fucking Christ intended”

Climate “ambitions”, huh. The pressing need to avoid or mitigate the collapse of civilization is merely an “ambition” now…

When reminding or teaching the younger community about George H.W. Bush, let us not forget to mention that when the US elected him, it elected the former CIA director to the presidency.

A supposedly democratic Republic elected its own chief of secret police to lead the executive branch of government. Somehow even at that time most Americans didn’t seem to be aware of that glaring fact, and far fewer have seemed to realize it ever since.

And then the country went on to elect that guy’s completely unqualified son to the same office less than a generation later. /facepalm

I mean… it’s not artificial intelligence no matter how many people continue the trend of inaccurately calling it that. It’s a large language model. It has the ability to write things that look disturbingly close, even sometimes indistinguishable, to actual human writing. There’s no good reason to mistake that for actual intelligence or rationality.