The black Santa and the KKK kid sketch would kill.
The year is 2032. Millions are displaced as a Cat 5 hurricane hits the East Coast, causing billions in damage over several states. Wildfires rampage through the southwest. Floods wipe out entire towns in the Eastern mountain ranges.
It is the 12th continuous year of covid. Cases never went close to zero. It's always been there. There are several labor movements around suing employers for long covid damage. There are news stories about a new generation of children with learning disabilities possibly linked to old covid infections. The anti-vaxx movement has never been bigger, including several prominent congress members.
Today was another school shooting. They have been slowly increasing over the past decade. Despite guns becoming prohibitively expensive for most of the general public, there are more shootings than ever.
It's a midterm year and the news is buzzing with all the hot-button issues of the day. The pundits lament about the various crisis facing the country today. The one thing on the top of everyone's mind is whether or not Tucan Sam would have owned slaves. The cereal company came out in strong opposition to slavery in honor of Juneteenth. The media has been talking about nothing else but the debate over whether or not the fictional cartoon bird would have been a member of the KKK. The President dedicates several minutes to the issue during the SotU address. The issue is argued before the Supreme Court.
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Note to self: Write a treatment for a remake of It's A Wonderful Life where about an eighth of the town is Klan-affiliated
I imagine Klan related content may even have been filtered from the training set.
Stuff written by literal Klan members probably is.
It's super depressing how fast machine learning gets racist though.
I've only worked with optimizing and getting predictions about specific actors' actions from AI thus far, but the conclusions of capitalism are self-reaffirming in those. Like if you train an overbooking system with zip code data and previous customer data, pretty soon everyone in certain neighborhoods is getting prioritized a certain way...
You may not like it, but this is peak performance.
Also supreme court should be surrounded by :reddit-logo: fallacy enjoyers heckling from tribunes
Recently found out Clarence Thomas was never a judge before the Supreme Court position
Edit: he barely had legal experience.
lib observation. thomas is bad because he has disasterous and selfish opinions, not because he didn't check off enough resume boxes.
(btw, he's YLS and served as an assistant AG, and then had some federal appointment by reagan, and then was an federal appellate judge, so he literally does have all the resume boxes checked lol.)
it's still a noteworthy observation; even by its own ideas, liberalism fails to meet any standards when profits can be increased. This is a nebulous way, but having some fool there was useful over someone who was ready and could do the job right.
again, it's factually inaccurate that he was unqualified by some liberal standard. he had an excellent pedigree. (other than his personal life, uh, improprieties.)
but more importantly, no, it's immaterial. there is not a shortage of gorsuches or kavanaughs that could be assigned to the bench.
thomas is bad because he has disasterous and selfish opinions, not because he didn’t check off enough resume boxes.
Counterpoint: Every large institutional system needs some level of bureaucracy and experienced bureaucrats provide systematic value that goes beyond their ideological political positions. Sometimes you just need the trains to run on time.
Thomas is awful in a way even Scalia wasn't, because he degrades the constraints that the judiciary is supposed to have on state power. He creates large gray areas that only ever favor far-right groups. His opinions enflame conflict rather than resolving it, and always in a way that facilitates more fascist tendencies in the lower tiers of the bureaucracy.
A big part of that comes from his inability (or disinterest) in the functional role of his appointed position. In a saner world, guys like him would simply be removed from office once they'd laid bare their incompetence and incoherence. But in America, we let leadership serve indefinitely, just so long as they've sufficiently entrenched themselves against the opposition.
TW: Hunter S Thompson writing hard R's in a satire
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/fear-and-loathing-in-elko-34374/
Thompson's version of Thomas Clarence gives me fucking nightmares
Repeat after me: I am not smarter that Pelosi, I am not smarter than Ketanji Brown Jackson, I am not smarter than RBG, I am not smarter than Sotomayor
But if I stand back and watch and learn
I will be smarter than I am
I'm so sick of these people making laws when they couldn't figure out how to dress themselves. Like Idiocracy was a documentary.
They sometimes decide between life and death! There were dozens of federal executions that they denied to even hear arguments for over some minor procedural reason. Just unimaginably evil.
In Stalinist china, the court will recognize your (potential) innocence, document it, and release it for the whole country to see, then execute you anyway without further investigation
