“I understand that you once saw your mother wearing clothing. That must have been very traumatic for you…”

Republicans have oversaturated the market for hate.

“I don’t care what the patient said before he went under. They say all kinds of loopy things. The chart clearly says to amputate the right leg. Hand me the bone saw.”

The release of this next model comes at a crucial time for OpenAI, which just closed a historic $6.6 billion funding round that requires the company to restructure itself as a for-profit entity. The company is also experiencing significant staff turnover: CTO Mira Murati just announced her departure along with Bob McGrew, the company’s chief research officer, and Barret Zoph, VP of post training.

All the problems with “AI” are suddenly solved now that Altman needs to justify his funding. I’m sure senior executives are jumping ship right on the cusp of their great triumph, because they want to spend more time with their families.

Employees watch porn at work. Executives masturbate to porn in the bathroom with the volume turned up on speaker. The weirder the porn, the better. Let everyone know who's the alpha dog in the office.

Vance lies like he breathes, but he isn’t mentally addled like Trump. He’s a threat. A long term threat.

I think Trump is going to snort enough of whatever he snorts that he shows up energized. What he says will be rambling nonsense, as it always is, but he'll say it confidently. The story on the Trump side will be that he exceeded expectations, and that he's going to gain momentum again.

Harris is more of an X factor, but the buildup to the debate (felon vs. prosecutor) means that she has to win decisively in the eyes of both the left and the middle just to meet expectations. I hope she somehow exceeds them or has a few moments that steal the show, but it's more likely that Trump being able to speak semi-coherently will be the top story regardless of anything Harris does.

I hope I'm wrong.

Reforms to restrain the rent-seeking class were always an alternative to the preferred method of killing them and redistributing their wealth.

Yeah, there has to be a response to this. The Russians will continue to escalate their war crimes if there are not consequences. Weapons free Ukraine.

holy fuck = “I don’t even realize this catastrophic error could exist.”

"Let's bring lots of Trump staffers together and co-write a Christofascist American version of Mein Kampf. We'll write it as a blueprint for the dismantling of democracy in Trump's second term and put it on the internet for everyone to see," said the brilliant political strategists at the Heritage Foundation.

If the extraction class was capable of this level of self-awareness, we would have converted to renewable energy decades ago. They'll go to the guillotines shouting about being job creators and calling people ungrateful.