The Last Meme Era

We now enter the twilight age of memes

[algorithmist]

Our position on open-weights models

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models

kindly little dario seems upset that china is getting in his way of becoming one of the world's first trillionaires

[technofeudalism]

yeah i mean could you imagine if an authoritarian, fascist government got its hands on extremely powerful proprietary ai models that could potentially be used externally to launch illegal wars of aggression against sovereign nations who don’t align with their or their allies interests and internally to track, surveil, compile information on and persecute political dissidents? could you imagine how bad that would be? if a country did that? wowee wowzerz dario my guy i don’t even want to THINK about that.

[makefile-dot-in]

[zoesupreme]

imagine begging and pleading to bomb Iran for decades, finally getting the war you've spent your whole career creaming your pants over, losing immediately, and then dying out of nowhere

[corrya]

I think about this like once a day

[vaspider]

I have heard a variant on it that I really like: "You cannot hate yourself into someone you can love."

[captain-price-returns]

[complex-analytic-dysfunction]

[energyprison]

yeah man open it up in tf2 for me

[captain-price-returns]

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Not blaming the guy at all but in our post-NSPM7 and Antifa-as-domestic-terrorist-category world this definitely will bring down the hammer. About to get far spicier on the streets.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

You all need to get familiar with National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 NOW.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

From a presentation I gave on ICE and white nationalism:

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

“Class based or economic grievances” added as a domestic terror indicator:

Leaked Doc: Homeland Security's Domestic Terror Obsession

Forget Greenland; the American public are the real target

Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization

Section 1.  Antifa as a Terrorist Threat.  Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the Unite

‘People should be scared’: convictions in US ‘antifa’ trial set dangerous precedent

Experts say verdict gives Trump officials scope to crack down on leftwing views using spurious ‘terrorism’ label

[captain-price-returns]

>becomes prime minister

>wins largest majority seen in labour history

>pivots the party hard right, cracks down on palestinian protestors and privacy rights

>completely destroys the labour party

>resigns

what was bro doing any of this for

[skinilivein]

[iamoutofideas]

[socialistexan]

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

[damazcuz]

Insane to me that literally preschoolers learn things like "sometimes your experience is different from someone else's experience! Sometimes what you like isn't what your friend likes! Our differences make us all special and colorful and unique!"

And then 20-somethings with an internet connection will willfully unlearn this and post comments like "why is op saying 'everyone enjoy an orange today!'? I'm actually allergic to oranges and I dont like apples or bananas and I dont really want any fruit plus im not hungry right now and I dont have time or money to go buy groceries or transport to get there and the store is closed because its Christmas day plus there's a big hurricane so I dont really understand? Op this doesnt apply to me I dont get it? You need to apologize for trying to hurt me with this. I could have died. Why didn't you say something true about me instead?" and then they expect not to be told to shut the fuck up.

[saulwexler]

[markovchaingang]

hey you. teenage girl writing in her diary. quit talking about the boy you have a crush on and start writing about the current political situation, the valuation of currencies, and the level of technology your people hold. your diary might be the only piece of evidence our society existed after nuclear war fries all of our data backups. future historians don't need to know about damian, they need at least a secondhand accounts of the great water wars and whether or not your leaders truly did worship a deity called "the free hand of the market"

[andhaveapleasanttomorrow]

yesterday I had the thought "visual novel for normal people" (?) and halfway through making this image (which I thought would be really funny) I realized it was completely meaningless

[hbmmaster]

usa: united states of america

usb: universal serial bus

usc: university of southern california

usd: united states dollar

use: now this one's just a normal verb

[amandla]