I’m at a bar trying to watch the Knicks, and there’s someone 2 seats over from me very loudly talking to their date about AI with a lot of LessWrong-coded talking points. For the love of Jalen Bronson just let me watch the fucking game

URL Typo - fixed it

Feeling robbed of my path to citizenship right now after grinding a PhD and contributing to foundational AI + computing technologies for the United States for the past ~ 10 years. Feels like robbing top and technologists like me of the opportunity to achieve the American Dream

oh boohoo Beff let me play a sad song for you on the world’s smallest violin

Somebody check if Sam’s got a pied-a-terre in NYC that’s gonna be taxed under this new proposal

Their Branding Guidelines have several logos - including ones where the 7 doesn’t accidentally form a Wolfsangel/Ger-Rune/Lightening Bolt type of shape.

These AI orgs don’t get the benefit of the doubt (FYI on further investigation this looks like a Saudi outfit. Not that they’re any better, mind you)

Trump giving a speech at some TESCREAL-coded nonprofit that’s got some…interesting design in their logo

Waitwaitwait

I just learned these people aren’t talking about Computer Numerical Control

Pass the brain bleach pls

Palmer Lucky Wants YOU 🫵 To Die For His Waifus

Bonus Sneer from Adam Johnson

Tudeh are western stooges

Moldbug 🤝 Iranian Government

Scratch a Moldbug and find a neocon

That cuts both ways, you just need to be the last person in the room to speak with Trump

Looking at the bloodthirsty freaks he’s put in charge of our military / intelligence / diplomatic apparatus, and I don’t like them odds

That’s cute, how about you find me a source that isn’t a spooky blob think tank?

Or better yet, enlist and we can be rid the world of another Sam Harris fanboy

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. Sam “No It Won’t” Harris

On a semi-adjacent note I came across an attorney who helped to establish and run the Department of Homeland Security (under Bush AND Trump 1)

Who wants you to know he’s ENRAGED. And EMBARRASSED. How the American Schutzstaffel is doing Schutzstaffel things

He also wants you to know he’s Jewish (so am I, and I know our history enough that Homeland Security always had ‘Blood and Soil’ connotations you fucking shande)

Little Eigmanns

Also pretty rich how a government (and its plutocrat backers) currently engaged in a campaign of domestic state terror have any standing to whine about other governments

My kingdom for a Democratic Party that was actually ruthless enough to put the screws to this little shit

The case for affirmative action for conservatives

We have that already it’s called business school

Why don’t you tell us what those are Kelsey

I regret to inform SneerClub they’re advertising the book on the NYC Subway!