they bombed an elementary school and killed a bunch of little girls, man fuck this shit

this is just who they are they do bad things everywhere all the time because they are evil and stupid and constantly indulging their very worst impulses there’s no twelve dimensional plan here

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

a new war in the Middle East, run from the criminal president’s Florida resort, sponsored by Polymarket and brought to you by the thoughtfulness and maturity of r/pol

free note to everyone: you can just say we shouldn’t be bombing Iran rather than pretending this would be fine if Trump explained himself better

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”

bluesky: the headline

love to watch grown men get paid nine figures to plot out in realtime what the average 12 year old already knows

Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad "It’s a strange thing about determined seekers-after-wisdom that, no matter where they happen to be, they’ll always seek that wisdom which is a long way off. Wisdom is one of the few things that look bigger the further away it is."

Happy Friday, everyone! What a way to end the week. We added a few donations that rolled in after the buzzer and the updated total we got from the folks at the Marsha P. Johnson Fund, which officially brings us over $25,000 raised. We're in awe of you all. BLUESKY STILL HAS THE JUICE

a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”

so… the whole thing was a play by Altman to shiv Amodei and destroy his company? that’s sort of what I’m getting here

shorter Anthropic: lol fuck you, you’re way out over your skis and we’re going to beat your asses in court

“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

bluesky: the headline

the thing about how the admin has conducted this particular fight is that signing on with the Pentagon here is now explicitly saying HEY OUR AI WILL BE USED TO SPY ON AMERICANS in a crowded and competitive field where everyone is jockeying for position! it's a terrible bet unless you're MechaHitler

your honor this man is out of juice, we have never seen so little juice

welcome to the resistance, *checks notes* claude code

a better world is possible prospect.org/2022/11/30/b...

as always, the way we do taxes is so fucking stupid you know how much money I owe! just tell me instead of me having to guess about it! you'll yell at me if I'm wrong anyway!

When you were a kid, did you ever meet another kid who was clearly out of their mind, and incredibly troubled and destructive, who made you really uncomfortable to be around, and you just hoped that they would grow up to… Not be like that? And then they grew up to be even worse?

Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad "It’s a strange thing about determined seekers-after-wisdom that, no matter where they happen to be, they’ll always seek that wisdom which is a long way off. Wisdom is one of the few things that look bigger the further away it is."

every day I am more secure in my decision not to argue with people on the internet anymore

i love this because normies have no idea who bari weiss is or that ownership changed hands they just know cbs evening news sucks now

absolutely disgraceful and I am glad we never got our kids into scouting if this is the path they're following

he is going to be so incredibly mad if the next Dem president rolls up to his ballroom with a wrecking ball on Day 1 that It Might Happen and that alone is reason enough to do it

Holds up

The whole right wing movement is animated by 1 conspiracy theory: that white people are all secretly in agreement with them, and are being suppressed by a woke conspiracy Miller and ICE occupations, Carr/Ellison and right wing media, DOGE and USAID, it's all looking for the off switch for the woke

fundamentally I think it is good to be able to hold all of these ideas simultaneously: - what the bad guys are doing is bad - they are going to do enormous damage - they are not infallible supergeniuses whose every move turns out perfectly as planned

the Ellisons acquiring control of a huge portion of American media is a disaster and so many talented people are going to lose jobs and opportunities they are also self-evidently far worse than the Murdochs at propaganda

A thing I strongly believe, but that was only obvious in retrospect, was that drive-time talk radio was the most valuable propaganda platform in history and a big reason we got into this mess we're in now was because conservatives dominated it in the 1990s and 2000s

this nightmare law is patently unconstitutional and for the sake of every trans person in Kansas I hope the courts are ready to rule that way, and quickly

fight/don’t fight remains the biggest divide in the Dem party and the data points in only one direction: fight “we aren’t the other guys” can be a winning message when the other guys are in charge, but - as Labour is finding out - it sure doesn’t keep your voters engaged after you win

what the fuck this really seems like another case of them going after someone prominent to send a “nobody is safe” message and what’s actually going to happen is continuing to polarize everyone but the worst of the worst against them because how the fuck is this kid a threat to anything

total disaster, holy shit complete control of most of the media in the hands of the fucking ellisons

I would say one of the main right-wing projects of the past twenty years has been gaming every web 2.0 platform into thinking the right-wing is much bigger and more influential than it actually is. And the people who have been most taken in by this effort has been the right wing

the global far right all running the Trumpist post-election playbook is not an encouraging trend what is encouraging is that an anti-Reform coalition mostly held here, and Labour got their asses handed to them by Green as the base revolted against their Tory Lite platform

this is a great metaphor for software development

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

easily the hardest part of this for me would be the beers, it doesn’t give a time limit or a speed at which you have to run (just 24 hours) so that part is trivial, and obviously I could eat that many tacos in a day I just don’t like beer that much

oh is adopting racist right wing talking points on immigration unhelpful for the supposed left wing major party because your own voters get turned off and your opponent’s voters want to vote for even harsher language? do tell

total disaster, holy shit complete control of most of the media in the hands of the fucking ellisons

zohran really is the trump whisperer, huh

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

it's a bad site that rots your brain again, I do not blame people who bounce off bluesky, I don't think you have to post here (or anywhere, really) but I do think getting off X is good for you

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

post machine broke, halp