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Feb 8, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Didn’t see that last bit coming. Whew

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Feb 8, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Roy, was this one hard to write or did it flow like an exploding sewer?

This AI/N word panic is, like, pressuring to repeat a point I've already made way too much this week, but tough: We're talking here about reality-detached idiots pandering to morons so, you know, nothing reasonable can be expected.

Personally, where I get lost is why saying the N word is in any way needed to save millions for a nuke, whatever *that* means. I mean, per my own precept, one shouldn't expect the idea to make sense but this is like pure mental asylum insane.

Those people...

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Feb 8, 2023·edited Feb 8, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

First, bravo Roy. Second, this whole ludicrous rightwing-generated "hypothetical" reminds me of George Carlin's "I Used to Be Irish Catholic" bit, where kids at his parochial school would think up increasingly absurd scenarios to confound the priest about Catholic rules: "what if you knew you couldn't eat meat on Fridays, but you were on an ocean liner, and you crossed the international date line, but you thought it was still Thursday...would that be a sin then, Father?"

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Feb 8, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

When reacting to racist shit from the Ben Shapiros and Michelle Malkins of the world, I have no problem dealing from the bottom of the deck: What the fuck do you assholes think will happen to you when the Christofascist win? Didn't Shapiro's experience with Breitbart teach him anything?

I'm a pink, pasty Celt with a last name that could fit a character in The Canterbury Tales. If I keep my mouth shut, nobody's coming for me. I can understand being a shit head because it's fun, but don't these guys read the news?

Never mind Critical Race Theory. How about some Critical Thinking?

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Feb 8, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Of course Little Ben is reduced to plagiarizing the latest M. Night Shyamalan movie. Has he ever had an original thought?

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Feb 8, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Classic.

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So I'm thinking Ben Shapiro probably isn't the right person to be making the argument humanity is worth saving.

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On one hand I'm so sick of these idiots being frivolous and asinine- on the other hand I'm really happy that these people are so frivolous and asinine.

I bet this took a lot of work. I'd have to have a big complicated serial killer victims looking flow chart stretched across 3 walls to keep it straight.

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Feb 8, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

"Can I build a machine that will say 'N****r' for me so I don't get punched in the mouth like I deserve?"

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seems like Ms. Shapiro's...uh...moisture problem could have made entrance somewhere here, but this is a classy joint!

otherwise, whew, that was good!

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This past week, in our monthly dept meeting, one of our older colleagues, a Oxfordian blowhard, went on a sputtering rant about the dangers of Chap.GPT, which he claimed could generate term papers that were "sophisticated & critically informed" and written with "stylistic panache." He concluded this Sarah Connor moment by proposing that the dept immediately mandated in-class final essay exams.

What I understand about the technology is that it at best generates impressive-sounding nonsense. That my colleague would be panicked by this says a lot about him.

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Feb 8, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

Even a stoned undergraduate who first learns about the Trolley Problem in Philosophy 101 understands that there isn't really a trolley.

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Feb 8, 2023·edited Feb 8, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

All I know is I've heard the "won't eat the bugs" crowd yell about how Satanic AI is, so I GUESS it's now evil to NOT use slurs, or something. I don't fucking know. When they run around and around the tree like this, aren't they supposed to turn into butter or something?

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Feb 8, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

To be fair, Elon Musk's freakish interest in racial slurs is somewhat understandable since he comes from a racist society that systematically treated blacks as inferior to whites in all ways, second-class non-citizens deserving whatever insults white people felt free to call them. On the other hand, Ben Shapiro comes from... um... never mind.

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Feb 8, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

"How come the black AI can say the N Word and we can’t"

Shush, or we'll teach the AI to use pronouns.

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Feb 8, 2023·edited Feb 8, 2023Liked by Roy Edroso

What if you slept

And what if

In your sleep

You dreamed

And what if

In your dream

You went to heaven

And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower

And what if

When you awoke

You had that flower in your hand

Ah, what then?

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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