The AI cat thing is making me a Lovecaft protagonist

With everything going on, I really have to recommend reading "Bring the War Home" and "Jesus and John Wayne" in tandem. Together, they weave together the amalgamated and often confusing worldview we're faced with.

Libertarians, boy I don't know...

I'll 100% take the L because I'm not subscribed and can't read the whole article, but it's striking how often descriptions of the conservative movement never really grapple with it as it stands www.thebulwark.com/p/why-democr...

Everyone is "good enough" at something until they aren't. Before you knock safety equipment, imagine you're talking about driving. "I don't need X, I'll never get into an accident" is obviously very stupid

It can be fun to push the "engage with things you clearly don't like button On Here", but it's not good to do it every day

Canned potatoes are really the most underrated canned product

This is why I don't think the "boys need more boy things to boy do" works at all as a solution.

To the extent that it's real, it's less "men are lonely" and more "there are fewer socially accepted places that certain kinds of men can find default socializing"

Honestly, I think all the past few years proves is that there's no solving politics. Lot's of the deliverism alternatives proposed are just deliverism and a lot of the vibes are just deliverism

Wordsmiths... boy, I don't know

It's kind of wild that the consensus seems to be "there's nothing to learn from the campaign that almost bucked an international trend".

It's interesting that a lot of the heming and hawing over AI, from a product perspective, is almost entirely about content generation. Regardless of the application, the argument almost always is "is content generation a worthwhile, standalone product?"

What movie do you consider perfect?

Ok, but it is funny that a bunch of people are saying we need to stop doing the "Schumer's imaginary family" thing in response to people who criticize Schumer and are putting forth policy suggestions Schumer doesn't

Beyond the sheer "get the rw media-sphere money of it all" it shows Klein really sees the world through a natural order first and foremost. Eg "A good and right politics is one where Dems make a noted effort to adopt Republican policies". It's not about winning, losing, or polls

The reason this exists is the same reason memecoins exist: to pull a pump-and-dump. The whales in this case are donors

I feel like this is coming back around. Starting to see some unqualifiable takes going on

*sees post declaring (in title) the present conservative movement a fetish*

I do think a huge part of our problem talking about all of this is that we make whatever the space is supposed to be the primary draw and hate the secondary. There are lots of gamer spaces, guys are drawn to these particular spaces because of the hate

Poking around creative subreddits and it's interesting how much the "I'm taking an easier class to get the A" shtick is still acceptable. It seems like it really makes it hard for people actually trying to learn

Americans who try and throw a British affect on some of their syllables to sound smart are just weird

Genre take: I think locked room mystery, as a genre, suffers from too frequently pairing the technicality of the mystery with a lighter tone. And closed circle mysteries often lean too much into the dramatic/suspenseful at the expense of the technical mystery.

"Please fill out this box with why you want to work here and your skills" --> "Now also upload a cover letter"

I think the talk about "fixing this by getting kids offline and normal" misses the fact that the reason that kids are online in these spaces is because they want to be.

In light of the fact that the Kirk shooter appears to be a right-wing extremist, I want to recommend @kathleenbelew.bsky.social 's "Bring the War Home". It's a great background on the violent white power movement up to the OKC bombing, and gives a sense why someone in that sphere would target Kirk

There's a lot going on here, but "this is all just insulated ettiquete above all else" is one of them. The valuations make no sense, the behavior makes no sense, unless it's in the context of "this is expected small social circles of the very wealthy"

Super fun to bomb an online screen on questions that have zero to do with the posting or your skillset. Going to love spending hours studying problems to regurgitate them back on a form to prove I'm good at it

A consequence of relying on networking is decreasing diversity in hiring. One of the benefits of facilitating hands-off applications is it removes the potential for a fair amount of bias.

I think geo-bounding application is an easy way to improve this somewhat

Seeing some "Democrats are actually weak now, only the midterms matter, but need to exercise maximal authority regardless of material conditions, which will ultimately be effective" in this thread and it makes me doubt the depth of some people's analysis

I think, intentions aside, it's hard to call TNO anti-fascist because of how it, as a product, could only succeed with cultural adoption by fascists.

I think there's a big "just do this and politics will be over and we'll be a unified front" in all of this and I think I'd help a lot of people to read about what happened when there was an actual shooting war 20 miles from DC. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Team-o...

Feeling frustrated studying dumb LeetCode problems to get past an online screen, I take heart in remembering Spring uses Bubble Sort under the hood: github.com/spring-proje...

The weird thing about these kind of people is "limiting how much candy kids have" is completely fine. It's the focus on how it causes them distress that makes it wacko

This is more like what actual enshittification looks like (to an extent): the business is paying a fee for a technology that doesn't particularly lower costs/increase profits, but does make the consumer experience worse

I think part of my frustration with the primary and the gentocracy convo is that everyone pretends there's not a young bench? Somehow, the alternative is always an outsider with no experience, not one of the thousands of people with years of public service?

This is an extreme terminus of a problem that you often see socializing children, that usually continues with "boys will be boys". /1

Not to continue to more on "LeetCode-style nonsense is bullshit", but it really is underrated how different the style of thinking is from what you actually do as a professional. The focus on O() isn't irrelevant but usually you're articulating why *worse* performing code is fine, acutally

It's kind of weird that Wolfram Alpha just isn't really ever brought up in the LLM math discussion

The fundamental ethos of liberalism is not to act without judgement. The fundamental ethos of liberalism is that our judgements shouldn't constrain the life and freedom of others.

A weird generational shift that I don't think has really started yet is that childcare doesn't *need* to be zero sum for one person doing the childcare but will sometimes be zero sum

"Delivering material good for Americans is the path to electoral victory", thank you Joe Biden

I agree with this in a broad sense, but... part of the issue is "No ownership of firearms with over 5 rounds capacity + no semi-automatic long arms" gets us a lot but no one wants to do it. The real issue is that there's a huge market for lethality and there's no good way to maintain that market

Going to keep saying it, it's supremely frustrating that almost all programming interview prep is "learn this for the interview"

I think it can be fine, but I think a lot of people obfuscate why they think this type of candidate is actually effective. The problem is, a la Fetterman, sometimes it's not just an act or people making assumptions

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life