I don't doubt that a significant portion of Orange's posts are written by someone (or something?) else, but I wouldn't necessarily attribute his late-night/early-morning posts to someone else just because of the time of day. That guy's a total f**king weirdo who is obsessed with himself and lacks impulse control.
He's patient zero for TDS. It's a different disease than he thinks it is.
An AI generating Trump's social media posts?
Seems plausible.
It's the modern equivalent of "infinite number of monkeys at typewriters", except that the "typewriters" are smartphones, the number of monkeys isn't infinite, and the monkeys are brain-damaged.
It's been obvious for some time that many (most?, virtually all?) of the Truth Social posts are written by someone else. Too many long sentences, too many big words, too long, just flat out too many posts. Which also may explain the use of the third person, althouth Trump has taken to doing that when speaking.
At minimum, Trump rants about something, a minion writes it down, cleans up the wording, and enters it -- which I would guess is what happened, at least in part, with the Rob Reiner post. More often, someone else drafts a post, reads it to Trump to get his approval, and then posts it. And sometimes (for example the middle of the night posts) someone just echoes his style. Albeit with better syntax and a far bigger vocabulary than Trump ever uses.
marching band is seen as a ‘girly’ thing in Japan.
When I was in college (late '60s), the Cal Band was still men only. I knew several women who had been in their (California) high school marching band, and were seriously miffed that they were excluded.
one of the comments on that Kyoto HS vid said the reason there were so many women in the band was because marching band is seen as a 'girly' thing in Japan.
?
it being a former girls-only school makes more sense, though.
"...to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump..."
'of' is a very strange preposition to use here. i can't think of a way in which it could be considered correct.
and this:
"...with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before."
is a hideous mess.
whoever writes these doesn't care much about grammar.
Hartmut, I suppose one could read it like that, but I'm just pointing out that linguistically, the wording is a bit implausible as something authored by Trump, which then has me imagining some writers' room where they are churning out these truth social posts. Gemini tells me that he averages 15-20 a day but that's skewed, and it was mentioned that he posted 160 times in a single evening.
Isn't this in a sense a claim that one of HIS followers did the deed*?
Not even true but would be typical. It has to be about HIM.
The trolls take another angle: Biden's drug and immigration policy.
Without Sleepy Joe there would be no drug problem and no drug dealing and pet eating darkies in the country, so the son would never have gone down the dark path. Of course in that case it would be the liberal upbringing (or violent video games or satanic rock-n-roll or...).
Btw, some trolls have the audacity to compare HIS spoilt (b)rats favorably to Reiner's son (no drugs there and they would never go after HIM).
*which would make it by definition righteous, so no problem there.
That's Kyoto Tachibana HS. I hesitated to add it because it is a private school and so draws a lot of students because of the marching band (as well as the volleyball and soccer clubs) Fun fact, it was originally Kyoto Handicraft Girls' School and changed its name in 1957, going co-ed in 2000 (the band was formed in 1961 with the "original goal of improving girls’ health" according to a fan website)
https://kyototachibanashsbandunofficialfanblog.wordpress.com/tachibana-fact-sheet/
As Gramsci wrote: "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of monsters." In an ordinary world the likes of Liz Truss would never rise to power, but in an age of monstrosity her her refusal to be deterred could just win her support amongst the political Kaiju fanciers. Scoff at your own peril.
Yes, the summary conveys the import but not the tone of the article, which was in some ways positive about Truss, with obvious reservations. Stears will have chosen his words carefully.
I was prompted to go back and check. In an article written by Stears in the Times on July 30 2022:
Back in our tutorials, Truss demonstrated an unnerving ability to surprise. No other student matched her mischievous ability to read out essays on any number of the main events in British political history which always managed to say something new; not always accurate, but definitely new. These essays were creative and self-consciously unconventional. As we argued over the hour, she almost never backed down, even when I did what all Oxford tutors try to do and present fact after fact to try to change her mind.
Back in our tutorials, Truss demonstrated an unnerving ability to surprise. No other student matched her mischievous ability to read out essays on any number of the main events in British political history which always managed to say something new; not always accurate, but definitely new.
These essays were creative and self-consciously unconventional. As we argued over the hour, she almost never backed down, even when I did what all Oxford tutors try to do and present fact after fact to try to change her mind. It was frustrating at times, but as a young tutor, I really liked how she insisted her judgment mattered just as much as anyone else’s. Older tutors were probably more frustrated by how she was happy to deviate sharply from the textbooks.
There's a lot going on between the lines in this assessment.
Oh, I now see properly what you wrote. So if you are right, that must have been commentary, by journalists or other academics, on what Stears had said.
Pro Bono: that would surprise me, regarding the words in bold. They were exactly what I remembered reading when she became PM. Was AI generating that stuff then?
By the time we get to Dave Lombardo and Slayer’s Reign in Blood, we are in a zone of Darwinian mutation, as Lombardo pulls off feats of speed and dexterity unimaginable—and probably terrifying—to his drumming forebears.
SLAYER!!!
(Sorry, it's kind of mandatory for me to do that.)
The thing about Liz Truss I can never forget is Marc Stears, one of her tutors from Oxford saying that
"once Truss had an idea in her head, she was "unshakeable" and seemed to thrive on going against the prevailing orthodoxy. Stears noted her ability to argue a position fiercely, even when presented with facts that showed she was wrong, only to later drop that belief entirely and adopt a new one with the same fervour."
That's copied from Google's AI, but I distinctly remembered it from when she was leader, and did a quick search to find it. It's (my) bolded part that I find particularly telling.
This podcast appears to be an attempt to monetize the extraordinary political appeal of her spectacularly short premiership. I wouldn't say she's less deserving than all of the people who've got rich out of right-wing politics.
*Comment archive for non-registered commenters assembled by email address as provided.
On “Author, author?”
Not US politics, sorry, but good news from the UK. Might this be the beginning of a bigger shift?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/uk-to-rejoin-eu-erasmus-student-exchange-programme
I still regret not having taken part in my time.
"
I don't doubt that a significant portion of Orange's posts are written by someone (or something?) else, but I wouldn't necessarily attribute his late-night/early-morning posts to someone else just because of the time of day. That guy's a total f**king weirdo who is obsessed with himself and lacks impulse control.
He's patient zero for TDS. It's a different disease than he thinks it is.
"
An AI generating Trump's social media posts?
Seems plausible.
It's the modern equivalent of "infinite number of monkeys at typewriters", except that the "typewriters" are smartphones, the number of monkeys isn't infinite, and the monkeys are brain-damaged.
"
It's been obvious for some time that many (most?, virtually all?) of the Truth Social posts are written by someone else. Too many long sentences, too many big words, too long, just flat out too many posts. Which also may explain the use of the third person, althouth Trump has taken to doing that when speaking.
At minimum, Trump rants about something, a minion writes it down, cleans up the wording, and enters it -- which I would guess is what happened, at least in part, with the Rob Reiner post. More often, someone else drafts a post, reads it to Trump to get his approval, and then posts it. And sometimes (for example the middle of the night posts) someone just echoes his style. Albeit with better syntax and a far bigger vocabulary than Trump ever uses.
On “Weekend music thread #08 How do you get to Carnagie Hall?”
When I was in college (late '60s), the Cal Band was still men only. I knew several women who had been in their (California) high school marching band, and were seriously miffed that they were excluded.
"
one of the comments on that Kyoto HS vid said the reason there were so many women in the band was because marching band is seen as a 'girly' thing in Japan.
?
it being a former girls-only school makes more sense, though.
On “Author, author?”
"...to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump..."
'of' is a very strange preposition to use here. i can't think of a way in which it could be considered correct.
and this:
"...with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before."
is a hideous mess.
whoever writes these doesn't care much about grammar.
"
Hartmut, I suppose one could read it like that, but I'm just pointing out that linguistically, the wording is a bit implausible as something authored by Trump, which then has me imagining some writers' room where they are churning out these truth social posts. Gemini tells me that he averages 15-20 a day but that's skewed, and it was mentioned that he posted 160 times in a single evening.
"
Isn't this in a sense a claim that one of HIS followers did the deed*?
Not even true but would be typical. It has to be about HIM.
The trolls take another angle: Biden's drug and immigration policy.
Without Sleepy Joe there would be no drug problem and no drug dealing and pet eating darkies in the country, so the son would never have gone down the dark path. Of course in that case it would be the liberal upbringing (or violent video games or satanic rock-n-roll or...).
Btw, some trolls have the audacity to compare HIS spoilt (b)rats favorably to Reiner's son (no drugs there and they would never go after HIM).
*which would make it by definition righteous, so no problem there.
On ““We’re now poorer than Mississippi. It’s like Huckleberry Finn without the steamboats.””
Degree classifications went private decades ago. But I suppose she would have let it be known if hers were creditable.
Getting into Oxbridge is an achievement in itself,
On “Weekend music thread #08 How do you get to Carnagie Hall?”
That's Kyoto Tachibana HS. I hesitated to add it because it is a private school and so draws a lot of students because of the marching band (as well as the volleyball and soccer clubs) Fun fact, it was originally Kyoto Handicraft Girls' School and changed its name in 1957, going co-ed in 2000 (the band was formed in 1961 with the "original goal of improving girls’ health" according to a fan website)
https://kyototachibanashsbandunofficialfanblog.wordpress.com/tachibana-fact-sheet/
On ““We’re now poorer than Mississippi. It’s like Huckleberry Finn without the steamboats.””
It's interesting that Truss' Degree classification is not readily available.
"
Yes, positive- ish, but in a very backhanded way.
As Gramsci wrote: "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of monsters." In an ordinary world the likes of Liz Truss would never rise to power, but in an age of monstrosity her her refusal to be deterred could just win her support amongst the political Kaiju fanciers. Scoff at your own peril.
...or something like that.
"
Yes, the summary conveys the import but not the tone of the article, which was in some ways positive about Truss, with obvious reservations. Stears will have chosen his words carefully.
On “Weekend music thread #08 How do you get to Carnagie Hall?”
YouTube knows all.
it just suggested i watch this Kyoto highschool marching band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qce6Mu5dHzQ
On ““We’re now poorer than Mississippi. It’s like Huckleberry Finn without the steamboats.””
Pipped at the post by nous! I agree, a novel between the lines.
"
I was prompted to go back and check. In an article written by Stears in the Times on July 30 2022:
Back in our tutorials, Truss demonstrated an unnerving ability to surprise. No other student matched her mischievous ability to read out essays on any number of the main events in British political history which always managed to say something new; not always accurate, but definitely new.
These essays were creative and self-consciously unconventional. As we argued over the hour, she almost never backed down, even when I did what all Oxford tutors try to do and present fact after fact to try to change her mind.
"
Here's a bit of what Stears wrote in The Times:
There's a lot going on between the lines in this assessment.
"
Oh, I now see properly what you wrote. So if you are right, that must have been commentary, by journalists or other academics, on what Stears had said.
"
Pro Bono: that would surprise me, regarding the words in bold. They were exactly what I remembered reading when she became PM. Was AI generating that stuff then?
"
I think that's an AI summary of commentary on what Stears wrote, which was phrased more academically than that.
On “Weekend music thread #08 How do you get to Carnagie Hall?”
SLAYER!!!
(Sorry, it's kind of mandatory for me to do that.)
On ““We’re now poorer than Mississippi. It’s like Huckleberry Finn without the steamboats.””
"often wrong, never in doubt", it's called.
"
The thing about Liz Truss I can never forget is Marc Stears, one of her tutors from Oxford saying that
"once Truss had an idea in her head, she was "unshakeable" and seemed to thrive on going against the prevailing orthodoxy. Stears noted her ability to argue a position fiercely, even when presented with facts that showed she was wrong, only to later drop that belief entirely and adopt a new one with the same fervour."
That's copied from Google's AI, but I distinctly remembered it from when she was leader, and did a quick search to find it. It's (my) bolded part that I find particularly telling.
"
Truss was against Brexit before she was for it.
This podcast appears to be an attempt to monetize the extraordinary political appeal of her spectacularly short premiership. I wouldn't say she's less deserving than all of the people who've got rich out of right-wing politics.
*Comment archive for non-registered commenters assembled by email address as provided.