As Marcellus Wallace put it, We are pretty fucking far from OK.
Maryjane Osa
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Political and historical sociologist writing about culture, democracy, and comparative politics (Ph.D., University of Chicago). Publishes "Grounded," a free weekly 'zine on Substack. https://maryjaneosa.substack.com/ #exPostNews (Still sad about this.)
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Wake up, America!
"The future election of any Democratic president must be a moment of far-reaching democratic restoration. The clock starts ticking the day after they are elected. Any Democratic president who fails to govern with that reality firmly in mind, must be reckoned a failure."
Priority One For The Next Democratic President Must Be Restoring Democracy
The Biden years were a missed opportunity, but, as Trump’s authoritarian spree shows, Democrats (and democracy) cannot afford another one.
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My vocabulary is insufficient for me to express my disgust. I did try though, you might be interested in this piece:
maryjaneosa.substack.com/p/buzz-buzz-...
Buzz Buzz Buzz
The world of social media drones drearily along
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They’ve upped his subscription to Founder’s Level
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Just remember, guys—
Paul Krugman and Larry Summers can both be right.
Just not at the same time.
Stagflation: Shooting the Messengers
Mainstream economists’ critiques of Trump were right
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Smiling? Or gloating??
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Mark Zuckerberg is a greedy, mongering lowlife.
“Meta’s internal guidelines for its AI chatbots permitted the technology to flirt with children and generate racist arguments, according to a Reuters report published Thursday.”
Meta let its AI chatbot creep on young children - Salon.com
Internal documents reviewed by Reuters show Meta’s AI guidelines permitted sexual conversations with minors
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2016 Rick Wilson: Everything Trump touches, dies.
2025 Me: Trump ruins everything that isn’t dead (yet).
The Kennedy Center The Smithsonian The Rose Garden The Fourth of July The Rose Garden The Library of Congress …
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“Much of the euphoria swirling around today’s artificial-intelligence technologies can be traced back to 2020, when a team of researchers at OpenAI published a 30 p report titled ‘Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.’”
Guess what? Turns out that the AI pushers’ “law” was a hypothesis.
What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.
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He should touch himself.
