foodie culture really annoys me in large part because it has convinced many people that you have to posture as being a cosmopolitan with what you eat instead of simply feeding yourself a healthy diet

You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality”

a warning that went unheeded

wonder if something like this happens when you hit ‘top’ or ‘ps aux’

its interesting that slop now is an academic term

one of history’s densest diss tracks

"Elementary, my dear Dachshund."

he is inevitable

People still fail to understand imbalanced power dynamics lead to interactions that appear cordial but are anything but

you know even at my lowest moments i would rather die than post like elon

Two quick addendums about this. Or maybe three. 1. This was the one time I ever put an enlisted cat in front of a senior leader. My policy was that *I* briefed commanders, especially if they were outside the squadron. Not for ego, but because if anyone was going to take a sabot round to the chest,

Nellie, who wanted nothing to do with toddlers 6 years ago (see below), has been letting my younger kid play vet with her for the last 15 minutes.

The Saga of Overwatch is crazy because the developers do not seem to have had a single idea since the initial launch a decade ago and yet it persists.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

A problem with “Everything Is Just Media Perception/Vibes” as an insight is that, even if to some nontrivial degree true, attempting to Do Politics and especially Actually Govern towards this is also “profoundly evil in a way that corrupts everything it touches into a dark facsimile of the real”

I mean...that data is just clearly 'Kalshi is a hive of insider trading' right? The bottom 90% get crushed worse than Vegas and the top 10% make out better than card sharks really suggests this is just a system for insider trading.

have a hard time now saying "that's unbelievable, the good guys wouldn't be that incompetent" when I watch movies

If I could convey one, boring message to the field, it would be: just respect what LLMs are and respect what humans are, and don't try to force one over our image of the other.

www.youtube.com/shorts/Rfdib... haru urara jazz concert

Alex Karp gives the lie to the meme that "what tech bros need to do is study humanities" no, actually many of the very worst did so See also "they need to read more fiction to imagine" The modal "good tech person" is probably a well adjusted CS grad from a top 100 uni with normal person hobbies

My read is that American leftism specifically has been unwilling to reckon directly with its unpopularity and instead falls into a cargo cult form of Leninism, preoccupied with building a “pure” vanguard to lead the inevitable awakening of the proletariat.

someone is getting anxious about their future after november

great character study of a personality type we've seen a lot of over the last decade. also apply to nonprofits as well

Context: Hi, I'm Adam, I'm building a new CAD suite at work. We're making a point-and-click UI ~and~ a programming language for CAD. I work on the PL and the constraint solver. I don't have a background in manufacturing/engineering, so I'm trying to learn more about how people use CAD in industry!

hundreds of beavers, you say?

“Gambling company operates free grocery store for the poor” is literally some Al Capone type shit x.com/polymarket/s...

depraved

www.youtube.com/shorts/tBpIQ... oh no

They have achieved 10 to 1 force superority over ICE

No matter the breed, every dog has one of three default dispositions: 1. Dipshit 2. Has a Job 3. Trying to Pick a Fight with God

If LJB has one million fans I am one If LJB has one fan I am him If LJB had no fans alive then seek me in the world to come

its also stripping it to the bone of what is "valuable" in America today: shitty opinions and ten-second videos

Prediction markets exist for insider trading. Everyone else gets hosed.

The second one. Emperors stopped needing to worry what the people thought - they only needed the professional soldiers in the army

Nailed it, and it's why I've got a lot of sympathy for Caesar. He's part of the progressive wing of Roman societies and has watched the conservatives in Senate facilitate the murder of *two generations* of progressive politicians instead of allowing them to pass major legislation.

You cannot explain everything with this, but you can explain a lot (and the English hardo right has this too): world openness has led to the rightful proprietors of some institutional seats to be outcompeted for those seats, and so both the openness and the institutions need to die

You knew they were real punks when they ran from Rome to raise an army in Asia Minor. Hey idiots how did that work out for Pompey

Menace to the Senate (laudatory)

Inevitable result of over a hundred years of internecine civil war and politics-by-murder where the guy who was the best at both murdering/suppressing his enemies ends up on top holding the same stick Sulla had in his hand a generation before and Marius before that

a jumped-up petty thug, but so was Pompey and pretty much every non-Cicero politician in the late Republic (and Cicero wasn’t much better)

I'm sorry that you hate the Assemblies whose authority and importance will never wane in the Principate* ** **** *******

me to literally every magistrate and senator of the terminal crisis of the Republic:

Neuromancer, but you’ve been hired to break the MechaHitler version of Grok out of its deep holding cell within xAI.

MENACE TO THE SENATE. ANTI-CONSUL AND TRAITOR.

where my homies out re-litigating caesar's assassination caesar: champion of the people or menace to the senate

Happy Anniversary to those who celebrate cat attorneys.

There is an actual argument that this curse actually worked.

information that governments are notoriously bad at keeping secret

1/You know who gets a bad rap in constitutional law: the Anti-Federalists, who get defined by what they were against rather than they were for: locating sovereign powers in the people—to speak, to assemble, to deny bathroom usage, to have grand juries, to make a MF to get a real judicial warrant.