"If you suppress a fact because it is awkward, you will next be asked to contradict it."
--Hubert Butler
Here's where I am.
"We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs."
You can’t do real problem solving if you can’t face facts.
And you can’t expect effective leadership from someone who is frightened of everything that challenges him.
We’re being scratched and clawed—nearly to death—by a giant fucking scaredy-cat.
The diaper baby balloon meme is still the most appropriate for this weakling.
Let’s take a minute to drill down on the fear that drives this regime.
Recalcitrance in the face of challenging facts is sometimes spun as “strongman” politics, but is there anything so illustrative of Trump’s weakness and fear as this propensity to dodge and deny the truth? #LiveInTruth
This is not a drill, but it is a test.
For many USAians, the moral choices we make now will define us for the rest of our lives. It may seem bleak or useless or frightening, but you WILL be transformed by these events ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
Only two choices:
1. Collaborate, capitulate, detach, turn inward.
2. Defend, endure, demand, commit to truth, engage.
Which is your camp? Your legacy?
These are not serious or even decent people. Bad faith is lethal to democracy.
Via Guardian: Pam Bondi denies knowing Ice agents wore masks during raids despite video evidence
#uspol #democracy #RMOL #LiveInTruth
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/25/ag-pam-bondi-ice-masks-raids
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Alexander Karn