While it’s probably best that we’re past the “rich guy observes things“ era of social science, it was still better than the “amateur statisticians overconfidently prove ridiculous hypothesis” era

The key to syndicate speculation has always been figuring out how members can exit with their private gains before distributing the losses to the public. “Regulators” usually help.

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I was so excited to see The Amazing Digital Circus finale in theaters tonight, but less than 2 hours before the show, I came down with food poisoning. Big sad! At least we'd already bought our tickets, so we'll be counted among ticket sales. I hope it was well-attended everywhere!

At what point does nuking DC kill less people globally than not nuking DC?

c/o Alberto Romero at Algorithmic Bridge

Ótimo. É preciso pôr este maldito governo na linha.

This is the way

Continue to suspect that both pro- and anti- AI factions haven't really grappled with the weapons of the weak potential of this technology. A lot of people frame refusing AI as the luddite position, but in many cases using AI is literally sabotaging your employer...

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I mean, absolutely nobody could have possibly foreseen this

As requested, here are day old ducklings jumping off a ledge onto a lake set to "Ride of The Valkyries" 🐣 🪶

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

Increased sales for local business is not the most important reason for promoting bike lanes, but it is a reason. The new mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia, where I live, removed an existing path (newly installed with EU funds). The major street has since become more hazardous for bikes & cars alike. 🤦

Amnesty International understanding that this "generative AI" shit as currently conceived and deployed is a project which enables fascism and endangers the already vulnerable and marginalized populations of the world.

The timeline people obsess over is imaginary. Life does not care how many times you had to begin again, only that you kept going.

When you're waking from a deep sleep to a cat standing on your chest in the morning

Who else is excited about going to see The Amazing Digital Circus in theaters this week?

The thing about Platner is that I swore we were all passing around some anecdote a little while back about how you can't allow even one nazi, even a well-spoken one with good vibes, into your bar. I have a very clear memory of this. We all agreed with it and found it trenchant and apt.

I've been playing World of Warcraft again. It's something I enjoy & look forward to playing with my wife. I appreciate how much thought they put into making the game accessible.

<You don't say meme> "Some in the party fear they have attached themselves to a candidate who didn’t undergo thorough vetting and could undermine their hopes for the midterm elections in November."

A minha mensagem para a Greve Geral de 3 de junho.

@eurosky.social gives me reason for hope when it comes to restoring and protecting social wellbeing in the EU, in both online and offline spaces. This is the way.

Bovino posted this on X earlier today, so suffice to say I think there's a particular audience he's pandering to now after being proverbially driven out of town

Reconquista got ran out of Porto and are now trying to meet in nearby Figueroa da Foz. They will hopefully be run out of town there, too. Greg Bovino should be chased out of Europe.

Did it make you angry how the ratings agencies contributed to the Subprime Crisis by keeping MBSs & CDOs at investment-grade ratings so that they could be purchased by retirement funds? Well, Larry Fink would like you to pay the next trillion or so necessary to make him whole. S&P obliging.

Parabéns ao governo que acaba de equiparar a pobreza aos criminosos que têm de fazer trabalho comunitário para cumprir a sua pena. Para este governo ser pobre é ser crime. Parabéns a todos que votaram nesta corja.

Russel, my man, a trans woman and a gender critical can categorically not end up “on the same side” except for the gender fascism to come for the bigot as it comes for us, in the process overtly confirming the gender crit was in fact Wrong

A greve geral de 3 de junho é fundamental para enviar uma mensagem clara a este governo de que os ataques aos direitos dos trabalhadores não serão tolerados aqui. Portugal não pode tornar-se como os EUA!

3 de Junho, Greve Geral

Trabalhador, razões para aderires à Greve Geral: 💥Banco de horas individual; 💥Despedimento para recorrer a outsourcing; 💥Descriminalização trabalho não declarado; 💥Redução dos direitos de parentalidade; 💥Caducidade da Contratação Coletiva; 💥Desregulação dos horários de trabalho; ...

Apoio os trabalhadores em greve! 3 de junho, Greve Geral. ✊

Imigrantes a abandonar Portugal pelas “rendas altas, salários baixos, atrasos da AIMA na renovação de documentos, dificuldades no reconhecimento de competências e xenofobia.” A economia vai sofrer por causa da xenofobia e incompetência do governo. Votem na direita e ajudem a enterrar Portugal.

"...the energy transition cannot be carried out against the people, and much less with the force of the State rented to those who want to expel them."

What I appreciate most about this platform (and old Twitter) is the expert-public ecologies. Asymmetric in the best, most democratic ways.

a couple months ago when my mental health was really really bad I wast trying to cancel an order and the shitty AI kept running me in circles so I said "I'm two seconds away from traveling to Uber headquarters and self-immolating at the doorstep" and i almost immediately got a real person

There is no safe age to be exposed to unending footage of atrocities, pro-anorexia content, or images of child sexual abuse:

Rich Americans are not the only people who have or are getting multiple passports. Most have it via ancestry, and many working class Americans are working towards it via normal immigration paths including myself. The idea Americans Abroad are all rich is a myth.

I'm not into woo woo, but yeah

Happy belated #WorldTurtleDay to Gimli, our friends' eastern box turtle who joined our picnic last week. He kept trying to make a break for a nearby pond, where he met a very curious duck, and then he took a nice nap. 🐢 📸

Just think, you could spend this weekend working on a miniatures agnostic skirmish wargame set in a WAFFLE HOUSE That is literally a thing you could do

Alongside silhouettes of rocking horses, candy, and airplanes, there's a firearm silhouette on this kiddie carousel in the mall. 🧐

I know about the three seashells, but this is just getting ridiculous

Why are profits essential to the legal reproduction of key infrastructures? Profitability is a destructive legal-accounting design, not a material condition of sustainability in any stronger sense. (Though it is often taken as a proxy for material sustainability for ideological reasons.)

Profitability as a proxy for viability is a legal-accounting design that hides behind naturalism because economics itself is modeled on energy conservation principles.

Finally taking the plunge and moving to the Linux Mint OS today. Goodbye, Windows!

love these photos i took :)

Hoje, Portugal está mais pobre. Os jornalistas da Lusa estão em greve contra um processo de reestruturação e revisão dos estatutos da empresa que põe em causa a sua liberdade editorial de forma flagrante. A Lusa faz respirar a democracia. A greve dos trabalhadores da Lusa merece todo o apoio

Yeah, reading can be difficult when it’s obviously your first time opening the bible and you clearly couldn’t care less what it actually says. We don’t care about the bible either, but that’s kind of our whole thing.