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This. If you think it’s fine to use white guys under 30 as the consistent villain of every vignette, even when data show it’s not remotely accurate, talk to their mothers. They actually don’t feel great about the fact that it is always their sons that are villainized.
And there is zero way I believe any evangelical pundit, including @NeilShenvi, would be OK if you took the exact same ad and put a black woman with children from multiple fathers in the starring role.
They would decry it as further proof that the dissident right was gaining purchase in the conservative movement. If the Trump administration released something like that, we would have outraged op-eds for days.
The difference is, if you did it with a black woman, it would be accurate at least. In this case, it’s not accurate at all as white men under 30 are one of the least likely demographics to be taking welfare in Arkansas.
It’s not about snowflakes. It’s the fact that it misrepresented reality. And why did it do that? Because the assumption was that young white men are the only people you can portray in this way without backlash.
The biggest problem with the ad is that choosing to misrepresent reality highlights the cowardice of our political consultant class and their unwillingness to speak truthfully about our problems.
It’s reasonable for people to object to that.
Unlike Sarah Huckabee Sanders, I actually have a son in this demographic. From the time this generation of young men were little boys they have been told to sit still for hours on end at school and, when they couldn't because they are LITTLE BOYS, they were diagnosed en masse with ADHD and put on medication for life.
They sat in classroom after classroom taught by women with posters on the walls that said, "The Future is Female". Their Boy Scout Troops were invaded by girls and they had it repeatedly drilled into them that by virtue of their skin color and gender they were the cause of all evils throughout history.
Their churches and youth groups sang "Jesus is my boyfriend" type of worship songs and they were made to feel like holding their hands in the air and swaying around was the measurement of their faith. Instead of strong Christian leadership they saw the men in those positions take a "we don't want to get our hands dirty" approach to the cultural rot encroaching on every aspect of society.
They were given access to every vice and sin without ever having to leave their rooms. And they were robbed of vital life experiences when tyrannical and weak leaders got their opportunity to run this nation into the ground in 2020 and beyond. Some are trying to get into trades while others, like my son, went to college and now they get to compete with legal and illegal immigrants for jobs, not to mention all of the women who get preferential treatment in every industry. Their living costs are insane for all of the same reasons.
They watched as the ONE younger man who really seemed to get them and speak up for them was assassinated and then witnessed the demonic cheers from those who would cheer on their deaths too.
Are some of them lazy and playing video games too much? Absolutely. Can you find lazy degenerates in every.single.generation? Of course! Are they the ones using the most welfare? No. Most of them are continuing to try to carve out some semblance of a life in this insanity. Now they have yet another woman lecturing them about how terrible they are? It's no wonder they vacillate between being apathetic and radical. Which means the politicians who understand this and are willing to be their voice will have their loyalty and will win.
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Shout out to all the dudes in the gym doing lateral raises as fast as you can. You'll be flying with the birds in no time
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JD Matthews retweeted
me: how do i open pdf
claude: You're right to ask. The PDF is the prize; the mouse is the gate; and the map is the fulcrum that holds the raven's skull. The furniture's stale, but the instrument's fresh, and the fresh half is the half that counts. I deleted your home directory.
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These people are just grifters who have moved on from hole in the ozone layer and climate change hysteria.
ok i think i finally figured out why alignment has gone basically nowhere after 15 years and several billion dollars. the problem is hard sure. but have you met the people in charge of it
1) the leadership does not know how computers work. ask one what happens when you type a url into a browser and watch them start sweating. dns is a spooky word. they genuinely believe the model lives in "the cloud" like a ghost haunting a castle
2) zero idea how large scale distributed systems work. never been paged at 3am. never watched one bad bgp announcement take half the internet offline. their big threat model is the ai "copying itself across the internet" like its a floppy disk virus from 1998. brother it needs 50 megawatts, a liquid cooling loop and a personal relationship with jensen. it is not escaping onto your smart fridge
3) they dont understand the stack they are supposedly protecting us from. ask about inference servers, kv cache, batching, egress, rate limits. blank stare. ask how the model will seize the power grid and you get a 45 minute answer with a hand drawn diagram and three links to their own blog
4) nobody can define an agent. ask ten of them and you get eleven definitions and a 30 page google doc. to the rest of us an agent is a while loop that calls tools and eats a 429 every thirty seconds. to them its a digital god in its larval stage. my agent cant book a dentist appointment without asking me three times if im sure
5) they started from "everyone dies" and worked backwards so every result is bad news somehow. model refuses, deceptive. model complies, sycophantic. model does well on evals, well now its scheming about the evals. i cant think of a single thing a model could do that would get them to say ok maybe we're fine
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> be Harvey
> lawyers give you money “bcuz AI”
> product sucks, no one uses
> seat pricing means less usage = higher margins
> acquire $15.5B valuation selling mediocre frontier model wrapper
> models suddenly git gud
> lawyers start actually using the product
> ohno.jpeg
> token costs explode
> gross margin goes from +50% to -50%
> pivot to lower quality open models to halt usage growth
> mfw accidentally built AI company that's structurally short AI progress
TRACKED CHANGES: Harvey’s gross margin fell from about 50% to -50% by June as agent token use spiked twentyfold on rented OpenAI and Anthropic models, Bloomberg reports.
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JD Matthews retweeted
The United States is not an all-you-can-eat buffet for the global masses to extract resources from then promptly redistribute to their extended families abroad.
Our economy exists to serve our people. The American people.
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Can anybody name a YC company that has made America a better place?
YC is categorically Un-American. Most of their cohort companies are meaningless widgets to self-perpetuate the SF tech circlejerk or make kids more addicted to devices. They only care about maximum value extraction and treat America like nothing more than an economic zone.
YC in bio is a counter-signal.
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JD Matthews retweeted
Y Combinator is a supposed champion of “Little Tech” but perhaps they’re nothing more than a front for the far left.
I’m deeply uncomfortable with wealthy investors attacking American workers like this. I’m afraid it’s increasingly obvious to many people that individuals such as this guy do not have the best interests of America and her citizens in mind.
The purpose of the American economy is to promote the general welfare of American workers, not provide jobs for the rest of the world.
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It's refreshing to hear leaders like @PalmerLuckey stick up for the American worker. @ycombinator and their cult have nothing but contempt for the men who built the system that they exploit
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Had a plumber out today to fix a broken pipe. The second he pulled out the iPad, I knew I was financially ruined. PE firms are ruining America
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Had a plumber out today to fix a broken pipe. The second he pulled the iPad out, I knew I was financially ruined. PE firms are ruining America
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JD Matthews retweeted
This is boomer snark that misses the point
A $150 pair of shoes and a $1,000 phone aren’t "luxuries"
They've become baseline participation costs in modern American life
You need a smartphone to apply for jobs, access your bank account, do your schoolwork, and communicate with anyone
$150 shoes aren’t extravagant when a pair of basic Nikes starts at $90 and falls apart in 6 month
The real question that boomers cannot grasp
-Why does a young person in the wealthiest country in history need to spend $1,200/month on a shared apartment,
buy a $1000 phone designed to go extinct in a few years,
and carry $100,000 in student debt for a degree that was supposed to be the ticket to the middle class,
and watch home prices triple in 20 years while wages moved maybe 15%?
Nobody is claiming they can’t afford coffee. They’re saying that even doing everything right , a degree, job, no frivolous spending, the math doesn’t work the way it did in 1985 when you could pay tuition with a summer job and buy a house at 24 on one income.
Pointing at a kid’s shoes while ignoring the disparity in cost of living is missing the forest for the trees
Consumer goods are a net loss over time
And the things that actually build wealth, like property, education, healthcare, they all got 5-10x more expensive
Would you rather they get a magic marker from the dollar tree store and write it on a cardboard sign?
Imbecile.
Only in America can you find a kid wearing $150 tennis shoes, drinking a $5 cup of coffee, typing on his $1,000 cell phone, and complaining on social media that he is oppressed and that capitalism has failed him.
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