I have now come to believe that it is actually impossible for someone to be both as rich and powerful and as genuinely erudite and strategic (if evil) as Alan Moore’s Ozymandias in the modern world: you can only reach that pinnacle if you are both kinda stupid *and* a walking personality disorder

When I first moved to Phnom Penh, a number of the local monkeys had become addicted to sniffing glue, to such an extent that some of them were being housed in rehab/detox cages at one of the local Buddhist stupas. I swear I am not making this up

JFCOM wrote up a 750 page report on it, probably the most detailed account

"Gooning Towards the Führer" as policy coordination www.programmablemutter.com/p/gooning-to...

I think this is a good article, but I feel like a lot of these pieces are exposing what already happens in most companies, before AI — quality software isn’t something that happens because of ICs, it happens because the org builds processes that make quality a byproduct.

literally a constitutive part of douglass' entire ideology was the belief that one must assert ones personhood, which he illustrates through his violent struggle with an overseer!

It’s why I think simple board games are far more useful lesson learners than $250 million computer simulations with far too many independent variables to actually generate a useful outcome or lesson

The thing about millennium challenge is that much of the counter-counter-revisionism seems driven by this popular narrative (one almost entirely driven by Van Riper) that frames the episode as some massive DOD cover-up. In reality, participants in the game itself were largely fine with what he did

think bruce wayne is definitely harris, not really out of any particular love for her but more because he probably has a long history of interacting with trump in person and as batman probably rescued some girl from him

The thing I like about the astrophage concept is that it feels implausible in the same way that life feels implausible in general. It's like something unbelievable that David Attenborough would tell me and then I'd believe it. None of this should work.

i make my fair share of jokes about the stock market but something that people should think about more is that when things are uncertain volatility increases in both directions if things were good, Presidential tweets would not cause the same sized upswings

"wow doesn't the market realize that the trump peace talks are fake?" Like the people who realized "Covid will be gone by easter!" was fake missed half the market recovery and the people who trusted trump got rich! Wall Street learned a lot from that

i.cant.stop.myself

love a fandom wiki where every attempt to scroll down the page puts an enormous toll on your computer because there's like a dozen ads, half of which are all animated or full-on videos

setting up mistral vibe this week and swapping models thru, #iwanttobelieve in french engineering

This is not a video I ever expected to see. Using the official strategy guide to beat Warcraft 2: youtu.be/-uz0pB6KFR4?...

Getting convoluted knuckle tats that say “pessimistic meta-induction” and scaring all the stem undergrad

think the "zuckerberg is building an AI agent to be CEO" thing illustrates actually a lot of the problem with decision support tools in general

so, is there any evidence it is being taken seriously? because there doesn't seem to be in the actual post

ryan is really a hater in the original sense, someone that finds any small thing to hate

Yes, exactly. That’s how social media SHOULD be.

Bluesky is built in such a way that it’d absolutely be possible to give users a super-easy and friendly tool for building custom algorithms around their preferences and interests. We just need 1. Someone to build the user interface and 2. Someone to publicize it.

I remember growing up in the 90s and 2000s and hearing various responsible and important adults finger-wag about the dangers of ignoring reality in favor of the online world. Now, many of those same adults are so chronically online that they’re burning down the global economy.

Behold a pale horse, and the Rider’s name was DEATH, and HELL followed with her

its really weird how much this mirrors the tariff strategy, down to a T

AI cartoon is the meta point here

The EU had Han Solo fist fight against a giant otter, it is clearly the superior Star Wars canon

Every person I’ve talked with: 1. Assumed everyone else would buy upon taco 2. Thought that dynamic was crazy but risk of missing out was too great to ignore

To everyone who doesn't want to see the face of the US president, we have a labeler now! bsky.app/profile/face...

i think people who imagine themselves as criticizing the financial markets are making a basic mistake when they joke that the financial markets are responding to things the president says because they believe him. the likelier explanation is they’re trying to make as much short-term $ as possible.

i feel that a problem lately is simply that we keep following people we get annoyed by, and rather than simply unfollow and mute them we end up doing passive aggressive things. over the last 24 hours i blocked three followers for doing the following

this is also why "bets reveal beliefs" stuff was always nonsense. You can be correct about the general point but unable to profit off it due to not knowing how long it will take everyone else to realize it

if you turn my replies into an essay while doing a motte-and-bailey i will block you

and it's this tendency that repeatedly enables Trump

i think that trump's repeated tactic of using negotiations to mask military preparations should be kept in mind here

“Average diplomat fooled 3 times a year” factoid is actually a statistical error. Negotiations Steve, who lives in a cave and is fooled 10,000 times a day, is an outlier adn should not be counted.

i really liked one of riskin's books but the end sections on biology came perilously close to woo. it looks like the woo chapter has been expanded into an entire book history.stanford.edu/publications...

Between stories of the US’ original negotiators not understanding enough about the underlying issues to actually negotiate before the war, and how Israel is deliberately killing off anyone that could negotiate on behalf of Iran, and…

its really just a way for people who would never have had kids to begin with to.....take a deep breath before you hear the word.....virtue-signal about it

Very real question to me whether Trump was really talking to anyone with sufficient sway to do anything or if he was talking to the Delcy Rodriguez of Iran.

This seems as likely as any scenario

Crude getting slammed by this, rates rallying, equity futures spiking. Note strikes are only suspended against energy/electrical infrastructure, this isn't a cease-fire. Also doesn't include Israel.

Hahahaha sob

He cannot post his way out of this. It’s too late for that. Unbelievable that markets take his word for it.

The electorate not understanding how the world works is actually not a problem on its own. The modern world is very complex and *nobody* understands it in toto! The problem is that the electorate thinks things they don't understand can't, don't, or shouldn't exist.

If i were japan I’d probably play up the existence of godzilla in diplomatic talks with trump

“My latest app, Defctr, lets you opt out of any maintenance of any kind of commons. Get all the time you’ve been losing fulfilling basic obligations to other people back. We’re not here to tell you how to piss in the swimming pool, we’re giving you the tools to piss in it your way.”