Yeah there’s been some wild stuff coming out but this is implausible. Actual journalists who regularly deal with redacted docs must’ve been through most of it by now.

If this were true i don’t think would be a tweet, it would be an uncontainable story.

Edit: well it seems to have become an uncontainable story, though it’s a small amount of files.

Isn’t internal propaganda like that just a way to sell a decision you’ve already made, rather than the cause of the decision?

I’m very skeptical of the idea that states go to war for ideological reasons. I’d always heard they were afraid of being contained and believed that their unfavourable position could only possibly get worse so they decided to roll the dice now.

He was in jail already, he knew he was about to die and he wrote to a fellow imprisoned pedophile to say trump’s one of us, but we’re the ones in jail, life’s not fair.

That’s the context.

He knew he was about to die. That could mean suicide, but he knew the rules of the game he was playing.

The gap and editing in the prison footage still implies murder, i think. He just knew it was coming.

Yeah it’s disapointing to see the guardian slowballing an explosive headline.

Epstein tells fellow child rapist trump is one of us but we’re in jail.

When people don’t like the present, they almost always assume the past was better. When people are broadly happy with the way things are, they argue the past was worse.

Our take on the past almost always says more about our take on the present rather than anything true about the past.

Delta mike, every day.

or like tabla music or droning stuff

Have you listened to gamelan music, from indonesia? You might like it.

That quote instantly reminded me of my “i have boring work to do” music, which also includes gamelan orchestras and beiguan music, though beiguan can be a little too distracting at times.

understand how computers and critical thinking works

These are two very different things.

Being comfortable enough with computers to use anonymous forums - say, 4chan - does not neccesarily imply critical thinking skills and does not stop people getting unneccessarily upset at the harmless behaviour of others.

Wait so you would rather have shallot bread than garlic bread?

Shallot > onion is just common sense, but let’s not go dragging garlic into a fight it has no part in.

My understanding is they only generated some textures, which everyone noticed and complained about, so they had to patch in human-created textures to replace them.

They also lost a goty award because they lied about having never used ai.

I don’t think either of those situations would encourage hidden use of ai.

Nobody was there to police you for words or anything else you did.

On cue, i’d like to correct you on this.

After my fellow goth friend alvin was seen wearing a skirt on the weekend, our high school paid a christian youth group to lecture our entire grade. Their leader said they used to believe they were real actual vampires, but when his friend came home wearing a skirt, that’s when he knew they’d gone too far and turned to jesus.

The satanic panic was also still going strong - i played d&d in the 90s.

People have always been trying to police others for some bullshit. It’s easier online, but we got it done plenty before that.

I feel like a lot of people are misinterpretting your comment because of the way republicans frequently use “clintonzes are evilzes!” as a distraction from their own much greater problems.

I’d think the order wouldn’t come from clinton himself - gotta keep plausible deniability.

But i definitely agree with you - it’s unsurprising that the FBI under clinton declined to investigate child pornography allegations against a child sex trafficker who has strong links to clinton.

One time after a rough night with my partner’s mental health issues flaring up, i barely slept and was too tired to be distracted at work.

If i wanted to do something it just happened, i just did it. And kept doing it. Until it was done.

It felt like having a superpower, but i don’t think i want to recommend emotional stress as a dopamine trick.

How many times do you think his name was redacted from the epstein files?

Sounds ghastly.

30% of US adults voted for trump - that 30-35% mark is probably about the total support that fascists can muster.

And yet people keep insisting the problem is the american people and not the corrupt system that allows minority rule.

Yep! It’s called primary endosymbosis and it’s one of the coolest things around! (I think.) The endpoint of a process where two parts of symbiotic relationship morph into an organ in an organism.

The first case of primary endosymbosis resulted in the mitochondria and thus all multicellar life. That’s pretty cool.

Another time created the chloroplast and thus all plantlife. Again, yay for primary endosymbiosis!

A few years ago scientists discovered that it happened really recently, resulting in an organism with a “nitroplast” for in house nitrogen fixing. So in the far distant future there could be an entirely novel branch of life, potentially as different from what we know as redwoods are from cats.

Mitochondria are so much more than that!

They have the ability to kill the cell as well as provide power, they can communicate and transfer resources to other mitochondria, and they might be one of the reasons that organisms need sleep.

I heard a science communicator suggest that in some senses, we might just exist to serve the needs of our mitochondria.

It was almost certainly written by gpt, you can tell because it doesn’t make any sense but still manages to be objectively incorrect.

Information already is knowledge, and that’s not what gpt does.