Short answer: The Trump administration protects sex traffickers. Didn’t hurt to have a little assist from Don Jr. and Barron to grease the wheels, and a natural mutual interest in capturing the fascist youth influencer set.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/andrew-tate-barron-trump-romania.html

The Chinese national security law is bogus for many reasons. A general but incomplete list is here: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/07/hong-kong-national-security-law-10-things-you-need-to-know/

If it’s a bogus law, the charges are bogus. Cultural relativity is not an excuse for arbitrary authoritarian oppression.

Oh, sure, if your horses are all in the same place.

America isn’t a monolith. There are a lot of Americans who fit that stereotype. And there are a lot of Americans who never have and never will fit that stereotype.

It’s clearly the right column, second from bottom row.

Isn’t the second best time 2999 years ago?

It’s the glycerin. Look at the contents of nearly every protein bar, and glycerin is in the first four ingredients, and man, once you know that, you can taste it, it coats your mouth, it doesn’t leave, and it tastes exactly like it sounds.

Hey, I really appreciate this on my feed. Thanks for adding something nice to the world.

Is this the same person who did Three Word Phrase?

Honestly, this refinement seems like it’s gaming the metric a bit. I have no doubt there’s innovation here, don’t get me wrong, but the first two examples are not just retaining the character, they seem like overfitting.

The model in many of the images reproduces the exact same armor angle, shield angle, head/helmet angle, etc, without any modification - i.e., it isn’t learning how to reproduce a persistent character in multiple angles, scenes, etc, just the exact illustration fed into it, while changing the setting and positioning.

Actually a really nice question, lets me think of how to make things better rather than just complain.

1. Implement ranked choice voting across all elections. Undo all gerrymanders and make intentional gerrymander a criminal offense not protected by legislative immunity

2. Pass immediate media/content law package, including laws limiting media ownership, limiting social media reinforcement algorithms, deep & persistent AI content watermarking and anti-disinformation rules, anti-propaganda laws, and content labeling for entertainment/opinion versus news programming.

3. Pass public option healthcare of some type and set hard limits on our of pocket yearly healthcare expenses for private insurance at livable levels.

4. Pass wealth and profit reform laws to set a CEO-to-lowest-paid-employee distribution ratio for all profit beyond $1m yearly net profit, and tax rates and wealth caps to discourage grotesque wealth accumulation (TBD, but let’s say if you have more than $1b, most personal income will be taxed or business income redistributed to workers).

5. Initiate global democracy reforms with all of the non-authoritarian governments and come up with global steps to counteract right-wing propaganda (primarily from Putin), revitalize democracy, and reverse the negative effects of globalization on the public to legitimately answer authoritarian populism.

Bonus:

Government reset: Publicly and immediately prosecute the law-breaking currently happening and reestablish rule of law, undo basically every action of Trump.

Reform immigration and law enforcement: cut DHS and ICE to the bone and rebuild into an immigration support system. De-militarize local and state law enforcement and retrain every single cop to actually serve and protect. Support with laws requiring mandatory reporting of police brutality or law-breaking, with criminal penalties for failing to do so.

Anti-enshittification laws: Saas business models heavily regulated, laws that limit companies’ ability to data mine and exploit, laws that grant personal ownership of attention (i.e., your attention is not a public resource companies can freely mine with ads), stronger monopoly enforcement to prevent thr terminal stages of enshittified platforms, require giving users the option of staying on prior software and T&C versions.

Worker protection laws: Codify union rights into new laws and incentives for unionization, with anti-corruption package to reduce chance of capture.

Reform Congress to re-establish proportional representation. (Too much here. BMaybe go unicameral, expand house, expand Senate - all constitutional amendments but hey, why not.)

Easy-peezy.

Yes, they just check all the boxes for stereotypical “beautiful” features and somehow miss the point of a human beauty.

It’s like someone with face blindness deciding if your face is beautiful.

That’s pretty impressive that they show it from the 2nd grader blob sketches to the finished animation.

This really does look like a signal to where the future workflows will be, because careful key-framing addresses a lot of artificiality inherent in AI video.

Epstein’s favorite book was apparently Lolita. That book used the word “gamine.” It’s actually eerily fitting that if Trump and Epstein’s secret was pedophilia, that that’s exactly what “enigma” means.

Trump isn’t smart but he can parrot back something that sounds smart from someone else.

The line “enigmas never age” remains too strange. The whole card feels built around that line.

The anagram enigmas = gamines is the only theory that fits. It’s just the kind of basic show of intelligence a slightly less<dementiaed Trump would think is the height of wit.

How long ago? Because it looks the MBAs are in charge now.

“Pie fights”

Sorry, I thought the joke was implicit in your question, but the analog to “Lemmites” is “Piefites” which I think is just fine because say it out loud.

This is pretty much a Black Mirror episode or Ted Chiang short story.

I could imagine a plausible dystopian future in which “AI agents” are commonplace and so dating apps are basically one person’s AI talking to another person’s AI and that is the “getting to know you” phase.

And once the AIs respectively decide they are right for each other, then the people just follow along, because the AI agents are making all the decisions otherwise for them as well.

This was meant to be a snarky comment that some people prefer seeing the sausage. But actually, that’s a reasonable benefit as well for romancing your local LLM, since many people would like the, er, benefits of a non-corporate-restricted model.