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An excellent interview with one of the leaders of the student uprisings that led to the Islamic Revolution in Iran... https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/ervand-abrahamian-iran-under-fire?token=529urHn3h58a In it he discusses the history of the conflict, the illegitimacy of the...

Rewriting History? Iran was freed from its imperial shackles by a student movement powered and trained by Marxist-Leninist guerrilas... which then fell apart by squabbles between the Maoist and Trotskyist factions. The Islamic Republic took advantage of the division, seized power and cemented...

Brandon Johnson. So incompetent that he has the lowest approval rating of any politician in the United States. Somehow hated more than Rahm Emanuel despite the latter admitting to operating a black site prison in Chicago. Pete Buttigieg. Not a single electric charger under his watch at DOT...

Newsom likes the taste of boot served at French Laundry from his dom Getty, but to call him a fairweather friend of LGBTQ causes is the kind of disinformation I would expect from a MAGA stooge. He officiated the first gay marriage before the Supreme Court legalized it. LGTBQ rights and turning...

What's your solution? Ars isn't a small business operation. It's a site that millions of people rely on for news. It's a newspaper organization. It has special protections by law, specifically against disclosing sources. These protections and the site's reach require it to hold itself to a...

You can even call me Al, @pauleyc Fair point about letting investigations complete, but he's admitted to fabricating the quote. That's not speculation, and in my opinion, that's a fireable offense. He says that he was sick. He says that it was AI that hallucinated the quote. I'm not calling...

The AI is a red herring. Benji fabricated a quote. That's at minimum a fireable offense. 20 years ago, he would have been canceled from the writing community. The people defending Ars and Benji are why journalism is in the toilet.

You've made my point. The articles change, the comments never do. What's the point of endlessly disapproving, over and over, with the same verbiage, on every single AI article, no matter the use case described. It can't be possible that there's nothing else to say, except. DOOM, DOOM...

The irony is delicious: Kyle Orland does actual research and writes thoughtful analysis about the most expensive technology rollout in human history, and the comments are just 500 variations of "AI bad, slop everywhere, we're all doomed." You know what else endlessly regurgitates the same...

The USA exporting its imperialism and controlling a mass driver capable of blackmailing any country on Earth should terrify China, the EU and other countries. There is no doubt that the US will build that weapon first, before any Moonbase. Now you know what the $500 billion budget increase for...

https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contributions-to-Erd%C5%91s-problems

Perhaps the quote needed more context. Lenin creates a distinction between several stages of imperialism. There is occupation of uninhabited territory (like the Azores), then there is colonization of indigenous people (America, Africa, SE Asia). And finally there is the struggle between...

From Lenin on Imperialism, Chapter VI. DIVISION OF THE WORLD AMONG THE GREAT POWERS

How likely is it that the EU will stand united if the US dials up pressure on Denmark without resorting to military action? Will Italy and Germany sign bilateral trade deals with the US? Will Canada tear up the USMCA if the US decides to, for instance, cut off Denmark from the banking system...

So Universal Basic Income for aging actors but none for the working man. How about you give me $2 million to show up on set for 40 minutes a day for a week? I promise to phone in the performance, not that there's anything in the script to act.

It's mad. Articles by a man who hates writing. Regardless, it's a unique perspective, worth reading in that respect.