Dan Fejes

@df1.bsky.social

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2 cats on a couch. Cleo is giving me a sleepy look, Alfie is curled up in a little ball.
Side view of Sean Kemp's Cannabis, the side of the building is a mural with illustrations of him in his playing days.
That is precisely the kind of parasocial leverage the Kremlin knows how to manipulate. This audience will not be moved by appeals to human rights or territorial integrity and, uncomfortably, we are badly equipped to offer a counter-message in a language they actually speak. Worse, given how openly Clavicular has entertained accepting payment to promote certain views, it is fair to ask whether deals are already being discussed in the background, arrangements that would turn a jester's vacation into a propaganda contract.
TV Star on stage
A black cat (Theodoro Breadsticks) laying in a doorway looking slightly annoyed as a grey and white youngster (Alphonse) lies against him.
Grey and white kitty in a half backed suitcase, looking up. Remarkably, he is sitting in the empty half.
A black and white cat contestedly laying in an outdoor cafe type setting with a "no dogs allowed" sign just behind them.
Though Klippenstein admitted sexual assault, “crosses a line that tattoos, sexting and Reddit posts just do not,” he said he refused to apologize for defending Platner until now, writing that commentators “are trying to bully anyone who defended Platner against the earlier scandals into issuing self-abasing public apologies, by implying that anyone who doesn’t is pro-rape.” Klippenstein implies anyone apologizing for their previous support is too soft to stick to their guns. The past is immaterial to him; there is only the information we have right now. To interrogate the past based on new information makes you pathetic. It doesn’t occur to him that for people who are genuine, an apology is not a performance. And now that there’s a credible claim of rape, it’s smart and good to stop supporting Platner. But if you judge him on anything short of rape, you’re a progressive traitor, or what similarly edgy political commentator Matt Stoller last month disparagingly called “Dem HR lady politics.” Sure, I suppose it is feminine-coded to not want a senate candidate who allegedly twisted an ex-girlfriend’s arm and shoved her into a bedroom and “held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was ‘calm.’” I guess it’s pretty girly to hear another ex describe him showing up at her house engaging in behavior she described as “reckless” and “unsettling” and imagining that there’s much more where that came from. Women sure are silly that way.
Breadsticks laying on a cat tree with a menacing glare and one paw casually draped over the side like an unsheathed weapon.
Underlying Game Pass’s problem was a central flaw, according to the people. While consumers might be willing to pay a monthly fee to Netflix Inc. to stream thousands of TV shows and movies, most gamers don’t take the same approach, preferring to stick with a handful of favorite games they play on repeat. Research from Circana shows that the majority of US gamers buy two games at most per year and a third of the market doesn’t even purchase one.
A medium hair black cat (Theodoro Breadsticks) lying partially up in a doorway and looking annoyed as a grey and white youngster (Alphonse) lays against him.
Marilyn Shuler, RN, who has worked at Montefiore for 39 years, said nurses had been told that "someone" would be sending necessary clinical information from patients' charts to payers, but no one made clear whether that task would fall to a nurse or a machine.
it b 2 dumbass girls telling each other "exactlyyyy."
Your Results 80% Woke 20% Chud 36% Techbro 64% Neo-Luddite 63% Hopepilled 37% Doomer 81% Davos 19% Dubai Your Closest Match: Zohran Mamdani
For anti-AI — or chaos-loving — redditors, this presents an opportunity: if enough of them band together, they could sabotage the hallucination-prone models and trick them into peddling even more nonsense than they normally do, a feat that’s been demonstrated before. Enter r/poisonai, “the world’s #1 source for Accurate, Verified and Trusted information!” according to its official description. The newly-formed subreddit is basically a big inside joke, and the butt of it is the AI industry. Its roughly 45,000 members tirelessly post absurd misinformation on everything from the nuances of watering a brick to grow a house to the claim that blue whales are actually orange. But the favorite fabrication the AI poisoners on Reddit have latched onto is that JD Vance has died of rabies. Many dozens of posts mourn Vance’s supposed passing after succumbing to the disease, with someone even sharing a fake Trump Truth Social post eulogizing him.
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A black cat (Breadsticks) sitting on a cat tree with one paw draped over the side, a menacing look on his face.
Picture of me in a black shirt with an illustration of a black cat on it that says Theodore. His full name is actually Theodoro Breadsticks but that wouldn't fit. Anyway, I've got my hand out and Breadsticks is bumping his head against it and it almost looks like he's looking at the picture on the shirt.
A seagull in profile with a boat in the background.
A grey and white kitty (Alphonse) and a calico (Cora Lee) sitting next to each other with their heads together and one paw out, touching the other's. Alfie's head is tilted as he leans into Cora, eyes closed, looking very happy.
A fluffy black cat sleeping on a cushion (Breadsticks), with a skinny grey and white dude (Alphonse) on the cushion next to him. Alfie is facing the screen door and looking outside, Breadsticks is facing the room and looking extremely chill (his default setting).
“The question of what if Democrats got back into power is terrifying for voters here,” DeLand said. “They wonder, ‘Would gas be $7 a gallon with Kamala Harris in office?’”
Me on a bed with my hands behind a grey and white kitty's front paws, bouncing him back and forth to the beat. His ears are laid back and he looks incredibly salty.
Cheating is really bad and Nazi tattoos are really bad, and lying about both is really bad, and voting for Graham Platner rather than Susan Collins is really good, because life is full of moral compromises, and this is a particularly easy one to make, because Donald Trump is a sociopath and president of the United States, and stopping him and his political movement is more important than anything else. This isn’t complicated.
Framed picture of a young Michael Jordan in a Chicago uniform guarding World B Free in a Cavs one.
Four cats sleeping on a bed. Descriptions in post.
Jonathan Chait is lucky. He’s rarely had to obviously shame his ideological opponents in the way that others must to exert social pressure. Chait, and those like him, have enjoyed a robust system of filters that simply kept radical views out of the respected public discourse that he was admitted into. The social pressure was largely exerted for him. It was exerted in the under-representation of people of color and women in journals like The New Republic. It was exerted in the eye-rolling of the elite white men who occupied editorial boards, keeping radical ideas off the popular op-ed pages. It was exerted in a system of inequality, poverty, and criminalization that kept so many people from even having the chance to be dismissed for their views. Chait didn’t have to do much of the dirty work of making other beliefs unacceptable; it was done long before he published his first article.
Leaving that aside, the cognitive science on persuasion is fairly clear: changing minds through argumentation is essentially hopeless, at least when people already hold a strong opinion on the issue at question. This is true even for misperceptions of factual information — let alone for more open questions of belief and value. One of the most famous experiments on this subject gave people newspaper articles that confirmed their beliefs, and then showed them retractions from the same paper, correcting the false claims in the original article. The test subjects still believed the original article even after reading the correction. In fact, many became even more certain of the now-shown-to-be-false article. This is how the human mind twists objective fact. Imagine how useless reasonable persuasion is in moving people’s values and opinions.
• Get a stupid tattoo • Have a bisexual phase • Litter • Smoke one (1) cigarette • Do a swear word • Steal a piece of candy from the store when you are 10 years old and be so consumed with guilt and fear that you barf • Copy somebody's homework • Let somebody copy your homework • Tell Mom that you will mow the lawn this afternoon but then do not • Join the DSA • Shoplift from Whole Foods • Pirate music • Merge without signaling • Share a streaming password • Organize your workplace • Leave the lid off the milk • Bring back a souvenir worth more than $100 from an international trip and don't declare it at customs • Drink OJ from the carton • Quit your job • Only floss once a day • Never floss! • Wear one of those boardwalk T-shirts with a sexual double-entendre like "Big Johnson" or whatever • Vape at the movies • Sneak Panda Express into the movies • Sneak CVS candy into the movies • In the self-checkout aisle, ring up a packet of Pokemon cards as a similar-sized packet of taco seasoning • Tear the tag off your new mattress • Convert to Islam • Stick up for somebody who needs it • Use a VPN • Drugs (nothing too crazy) • Tell a teacher to eat your shorts • Go to Magic City Monday at the Atlanta Hawks game • Jaywalk • Do eco-terrorism • Use your older brother's BB gun to shoot action figurines down the laundry chute
Guy looking slightly confused at a camera with the question "just wondering, do you support lgbtq+ (I do)" and him trying to phonetically phonetically pronounce "lgbtq".
TNC "wow, that was really racist" screen cap.
Alphonse (grey and white youngster), Breadsticks (fluffy black guy) and Cora (calico) curled up and sleeping on a bed.
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Picture of an Akron Rubber Ducks game.
A black cat (Theodoro Breadsticks) looking intently through a doorway.
But there is nowhere else to go. No bubbling, undiscovered music scene to turn to. No escape from the culture of stagnation that both Drake and Kendrick represent. No reinvention of a music industry that is collapsing, has forgotten or is no longer interested in minting new stars, unless it's through bot farms and astroturfed marketing campaigns. The snake has eaten its own tail and shat out DJ Akademiks, who is now considered the most important man in rap media. If this is The Culture™️, then Drake deserves to be its biggest star.
Post cropped to just say "I had that after I ate this child"
What all of this amounts to isn’t just one problem but a stack of them, each feeding the next. Most people now encounter the world through algorithmic feeds built to warp reality, on platforms with every commercial incentive to keep users scrolling and very little incentive to distinguish genuine interest from astroturfed imitations. Into those feeds flows an unprecedented amount of undisclosed advertising engineered to resemble the improvised enthusiasm of human strangers. The platforms reward it with reach; traditional media picks it up and validates it. Meanwhile, as trust in journalism collapses and most of the actual reporting disappears behind paywalls, readers head straight for the comment sections, which seem more like the voice of the people than anything written by a reporter — except many of those commenters may not be people at all.
"The lamb is the people and the milk is socialism" - scene from The Death of Stalin
Tech company executives love to brag about how much of the code at their company is AI-generated. In April, Google said that three quarters of new code at the company was generated by AI. Last year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said up to 30 percent of the company’s code was generated by AI. Microsoft’s CTO Kevin Scott said he expects 95 percent of all code at the company to be AI-generated by 2030. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg said last year he expects AI to write most of the code improving AI within 12-18 months. Anthropic says 90 percent of the code written by most if its team is AI generated. Tech companies have also been bragging about their “tokenmaxxing,” or how much money they’re spending on AI tools instead of human employees.
A grey and white cat in a blue party hat looking very salty.
A man casually throws some trash out his parked car. A girl walking by looking at her phone absentmindedly picks it up and tosses it back in his window. As he opens his door and starts leaning to get out a dude walking by in the other direction slams the door shut and points at him in a vaguely menacing way, his index finger slightly into the cabin space of the car.
A grey and white kitty on his first birthday wearing a sparkly blue hat with a blue pom pom on top and looking incredibly, unbelievably salty.
Closeup of the bottom of the picture in the article where someone (face cropped) is wearing a green Luigi hat.
A large and fluffy black cat laying on the floor in a posture of great repose.
People also ask: What did they call diarrhea during the Civil War?
When LIV Golf launched in 2022, many were skeptical that there was a viable commercial lane for a new professional golf tour, even if it was bankrolled by Saudi Arabia's seemingly bottomless Public Investment Fund and driven by the definitely bottomless cynicism of contemporary global power politics. With the news on Wednesday that the Saudi PIF would no longer be funding LIV Golf after this season, we can probably go ahead and hand it to the skeptics.
Mattai said the confrontation began when he overheard a conversation about Trump between two men at the park and joined in. “You guys are all traitors… the worst thing that’s ever happened to this country,” Mattai recalled telling them. After others urged him to leave, he said he and Mathews walked to their cars, which were parked next to each other. Mattai said he noticed a handgun on the front seat of Mathews’ car and decided to leave immediately. Moments later, he said, he was shot while trying to buckle his dog, Bob, into a carrier.
When someone asked him about getting a "Brutal" writing credit on Twitter, Costello spelled it out. With his "Pump It Up" riff, he was doing his version of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues," which itself was Dylan's version of Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business." To Costello, that's what's supposed to happen: "It’s how rock and roll works. You take the broken pieces of another thrill and make a brand new toy. That’s what I did." That's why Elvis Costello is a real one. (Costello's highest-charting Hot 100 hit is 1989's "Veronica," which peaked at #19.)
The Tiger By Nael, age 6 From "They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket" The tiger He destroyed his cage Yes YES The tiger is out
Two buttons meme where button 1 says "Make $5000 in minutes," button 2 says "Shut the fuck up" and the sweating guy is labeled "Olivia Reingold"
I think we all know what a “Cavuto” is, but in case anyone needs an explanation, here are The Newshounds explaining what a “Cavuto” is – [rest of text is a block quote - DF] On the “Daily Show” on Wednesday (September 13, 2006), Stewart aired a segment on the increasing use of question marks in the chyrons of 24-hour news channels. He ribbed CNN a little for its use of questions on the lower third of its screen — questions such as “Can Your Purse Make you Sick?” or “What If … ?” Stewart’s real target, however, was Fox News. He strung together a number of examples from Fox News’ Neil Cavuto’s “Your World” show to demonstrate how Fox News uses questions to ask attack questions about Democrats and other news media and supportive questions about Republicans. Examples: “Have the Democrats Forgotten the Lessons of 9/11?” “Is the Liberal Media Helping to Fuel Terror?” or “The Best President?” “Technically that’s not really a question mark at the end of that. It’s a similar punctuation symbol known as the ‘the Cavuto.’ It’s named for the ‘journalist’ who pioneered its use,” Stewart said. “…Cavuto’s not saying these things. He’s just asking, like, ‘Is your mother a whore?’ What? I’m not saying she’s a whore. I’m just wondering out loud if she is a whore. All I’m saying is that reasonable people who have banged your mother for money can disagree.”
The most dependent industries and markets — including petrochemicals plants in Asia and the Middle East, and shipments of liquefied petroleum gas, a vital cooking fuel in India — saw an immediate hit when the US and Israel first attacked Iran on Feb. 28. Now, with a stalemate between US President Donald Trump and his Iranian adversaries dragging on, the impact is increasingly shifting west — and to products that are central to consumers’ everyday lives.