Scott Wiener is 56?! I would’ve guessed early-mid 30s.

the correct remedy for the current regulatory environment and frontier model duopoly is to open source a mythos-level model

If you believe this then why on earth are you shitposting about it rather than spending the time you have left trying to enjoy life?

This sucks. They’re nowhere near as good as Six Flags, but they’re inexpensive and have a great coaster :/ www.ajc.com/arts-enterta...

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Claude, invent me a time machine, make no mistakes

One of the most important locations in Xorientation :)

Someone tried to qt dunk this by saying I "swung hard for NFTs." Detaching that & don't want them harassed. But I was always critical of the idea of treating NFTs as serious investments. NFTs are absolutely still around, though (my pfp & banner are NFTs, lol)

I think work is extremely important both for yourself and for others; I just don't think that *jobs* are the only - or even, often, a particularly useful - form of work.

"The fact it's so hot in France is proof that the current 2.7°C projection is wrong" is just an inverted form of "if global warming is real, why is it snowing outside?" Global warming is real, things are far from fine, but we're not doomed either.

I don't say this as someone who has historically had picture perfect mental health. Quite profoundly the opposite. But I realized the only way I can help myself & the world around me is to find productive paths forward rather than give in to the darkness within as the "correct" way to be.

the protestant work ethic is one of the most evil ideologies in history; a straight line runs from the idea that vocation is purpose and drudgery is edifying to arbeit macht frei on the gates of auschwitz

one of the worst mistakes people make is confusing bad mental health with radicalism

being part of the problem: advocating for widespread adoption of solar, nuclear, mass transit, more density in cities not being part of the problem: spreading doomer nonsense online to make people think it's hopeless to even try to solve anything apparently

Yes yes a thousand times yes (Geothermal and to a lesser extent hydro can come to the party where appropriate as well) But overwhelmingly, electricity should come from the big sun above, and the little suns in our power plant cores

someone asked me for the source code to this I have done nothing to try to clean up this code yet or get it ready for a proper release (e.g. an app icon) but here ya go github.com/smolfarm/air...

a) we've averted the worst case scenarios at this point. no, we are not all going to die, sorry if that upsets your nihilism b) the planet is cooking because of fossil fuel use, which can and should be ended

we just need FF8R with Robert Pattinson as the lead VA to settle this debate once and for all (okay, I'm just desperate for Squenix to do more with FF8)

air conditioning will kill the patient. he needs heat stroke to live.

𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚣𝚑𝚘𝚞 𝙳𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚂𝚎𝚎𝚔 𝙰𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝙱𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚃𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚢 𝚁𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 i love you. save me 𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚣𝚑𝚘𝚞 𝙳𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚂𝚎𝚎𝚔 𝙰𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝙱𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚃𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚢 𝚁𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑

Maybe I'm cringe for using FFX terminology here, but one of the main points of the game is that the Church of Yevon pushed the demonization of machina to maintain authoritarian control over society while using it themselves

It’s very hard to uninvent a technology However, it’s very practical to democratize and decentralize tech in ways that transform it from a tool of control to one of empowerment

Hilarious how often “Marxists” try to defend the legacy of the Luddites. Marx had very low opinions. The point of Marxism is to seize the means of production, not destroy it.

This is projected learned helplessness Fucking organize!

There are a lot of successful left-wing streamers and YouTubers who are more invested in protecting their petite bourgeois status than improving the status quo, and you can’t unsee it once you notice it

The only way focusing on trying to stop AI is beneficial is if you succeed (you won’t, lol) But if you focus on stuff like UBI and your millenarian fantasies of the bubble bursting happen, then we still have UBI — great! And we *need* that if (when, lol) AI makes a lot of people unemployed

Being a huge sapphic by once again listening to Indigo Girls while I do weightlifting

Typical American decadence. If your hair is clean, why does it need to be soft? Think how much plastic waste is created by those bottles!

A lot of people have interpreted "it's not antisemitic to criticize Israel" (true) to mean "antisemitism is fine if it's in service of criticizing Israel" (bad, bad, bad, bad, BAD)

Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness premiered yesterday and is definitely worth checking out. It's basically Curb but Larry David's self-caricature inserted into various parts of American history, hosted by Obama. (Yes, it's as insane in a good way as it sounds.)

I wanted to be able to AirPlay an mkv on macOS without having to throw it on a Plex server or something. There are apps that can do this, but all of them cost money. I was able to use AI to build one that works great in about a half-hour, lol

I LOVE MY SENATOR

It's so weird to me that we are so close to the possibility of Star Trek future and people are trying really hard to make it Dune future.

On dude's insta, he specifically complains that Scott Wiener is a YIMBY, because of course in addition to using "zionist" as a slur, this is also about the desire for protectionist Hukou-with-American-characteristics housing policies that hurt queer people, but leftishly

Many such cases in Leftist theory since the 18th Century, alas.

Boom.

People should read Marx's Fragment on Machines, I'm begging you. We want a world where people don't need to work to survive. That's the ideal. Focus on reshaping the economy to ensure everyone enjoys the fruits of automation.

Happy doggo

If Kamala had won and she had Pete Buttigieg write legislation like "models must be sent for review 30 days earlier", and "They adopt a preparedness framework", Marc Andreessen would have posted endlessly about how this is vile tyranny, they're decels, and it's basically third reich 1984.

*whispers softly* plex, jellyfin, radarr, sonarr

Out: Better things are possible In (laser eyes etc): Better things are inevitable

"just get AC" 🤝 "just vote" something virtually no one is saying is the *only* thing we need to do but serves as a way for people to be indignant about refusing to take basic action to protect themselves and their communities

Still looking for a remote senior/staff-level SWE role that can provide health/vision/dental. I'm so good at what I do, and this job search dragging on is taking such a toll on me. Any help deeply appreciated.

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The goal should be hyper-abundant electricity that's too cheap to meter fueled by solar and nuclear

Call me Al Bhed the way I love using the forbidden machina

A lot of the anti-AC Euros counter with stuff wrong in America, and that's fair, we have a lot of problems! But this whole, "I will not use the yankee blood magic machina, otherwise, I might raise the global temperature by 0.0000000000001°C" act while people die is so friggin stupid