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Elon Musk’s AI said he and Trump deserve the death penalty https://www.theverge.com/news/617799/elon-musk-grok-ai-donald-trump-death-penalty
Elon Musk’s AI said he and Trump deserve the death penalty

Musk’s xAI is investigating why its Grok AI chatbot suggested that President Donald Trump and Musk deserve the death penalty. 

The Verge
A couple weeks ago my brother-in-law asked if there were any apps that would let him read the NYT without any Tr*mp articles. I didn't see anything I liked, so I made something: https://icanteven.app (it'll actually work on any site).
I Can't Even

A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles https://www.theverge.com/24282022/kamala-harris-endorsement-presidential-election-2024
A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles

Donald Trump simply will not engage with democracy. A vote for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election is a vote for solving collective action problems, together.

The Verge

1000 richest people are approched. "The end of the world is here. Time to go to your doomsday bunker", they are told. The billionaires nodded. They knew this was coming. They were prepared.

So they gathered their loved ones and locked themselves in luxury bunkers. No contact to outside world.

10 years later they emerge. The world has healed. The air is breathable, people are happy. "What was the catastrophy?" they ask the first person they meet.

She screams: "THEY GOT OUT!!!"

#microfiction

‘I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

-Bob Newhart

If you want the fascists to win, start acting like they've already won. If you don't want them to win, act like you can beat them. It's a necessary step, one of many.

(PS: we can absolutely fucking beat them)
@cameronbanga After a couple months how do you feel about your Vision purchase? Might go try one today at the Apple Store

Merrick Garland has bungled the January 6 insurrection case against Trump so badly that Trump’s likely not to face trial before the election, which, if he wins, will render everything moot and put the very idea of American democracy at the gravest risk it's ever faced.

But he's got the green bubbles thing covered.

A new study shows that flowers have evolved over the past three decades to have less sex—possibly in response to the disappearance of bees. It could be a death spiral for some species. Here’s my story. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/science/flower-sex-evolution-bees.html?mwgrp=a-dbar&unlocked_article_code=1.LE0._inN.7uQQgiu7kYGW&smid=url-share
Flowers Are Evolving to Have Less Sex

As the number of bees and other pollinators falls, field pansies are adapting by fertilizing their own seeds, a new study found.

The New York Times