to me falls into the same category that "free will doesn't exist" does. valid belief to have, 0 identifiable upside to living your life that way

My new essay, on bodycams and capturing the first-person perspective, is now available on Nebula. It is a relatively enormous video and one I am very proud of. nebula.tv/videos/jacob...

please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: https://prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-writings/statement-by-benjamin-champagne-song/

You may not like it, but it's true

i know not what games will be made with unreal 6 but unreal 7 games will be made with sticks and stones

Mass surveillance Bill C-22 is one of the most significant laws being pushed atm, but it is getting little attention. The Bill lays groundwork for giving US warrantless access to data, compels technology providers to build surveillance tools into their systems, and strips privacy protections.

Norco is cool play Norco

LEGIT don't wait for Nintendo to deliver when a beautiful version of the game exists

this is also how free healthcare is attacked in countries where it's established: by privatizing parts of the system that are stressed (like MRIs) and pulling wealthy demographics out of advocacy.

i see frustration from folks who are frustrated that people can't distinguish LLMs from other uses of Machine Learning and like: why do you think that happened? who is driving the extremely well resourced campaigns to market LLMs as magic and unspecifiable technology?

@rachelgilmore.bsky.social hey are you aware of this Gardaworld contract? www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...

play anthology of the killer

"Now true agent-believers can answer any specific criticism by postulating better agents. But the specific problems are not the ones that make my blood boil, anyway. Agents make people redefine themselves into lesser beings. THAT is the monster problem."

like its literally fine #capydraws

My new video is out on YouTube now: "Why the New York Times Loves Stupid Questions" youtu.be/ztQJ7XGuPhc

seeing a lot of conversations about Proton: please do not allow yourself to be dragged back into security all-or-nothing thinking. the 404 media article is very good www.404media.co/proton-mail-... the takeaway here is that somebody paid for an address that could be linked via other data to direct

thus has it ever been. Luddism is not technological conservatism, it's labour strategy. we can make arguments against environmental racism, labour exploitation, bias, inherent error, lack of productivity, laundering of responsibility. these are not passive positions!

buddy of mine dug up this old Lanier piece that hits really hard cseweb.ucsd.edu/~goguen/cour..., Agents of Alienation. it makes the case for that agents are primarily an ideological technology in that they require people to surrender agency/criticality/autonomy. this connects interestingly to

This week I finally wrote the beginner's security guide I wanted to see in the world. Here's 8 tasks you can do right now, with plenty of vetted resources and the "Cliffsnotes" style summary on why you should do things, risks and limitations, and even what NOT to do. Enjoy! hashman.ca/security-101/

this is a good article and i agree with the conceit that water isn't the central issue. what's frustrating is that POWER is. data centers weren't built yesterday and LLM data centers aren't FUNDAMENTALLY different from existing data centers in terms of consumption and e-waste. there is a fantastic

i think you should play Elsinore

also they tried to pay workers in socks, in a town where a lot of people make socks

Lily's latest is both comprehensive and stylish, it grabs the thread of surveillance and tugs, bringing the rest of modern culture with it

i'm gonna reread it, and i invite you to check it out

"The problem with the clown concept," one [radical clown] later explained at a DAN meeting, "turned out to be that most Americans do not think of clowns as funny. They think of them as scary. On the other hand, most Americans think the idea of someone beating up a clown is very funny."

i think that approaching a work on its own terms is vital in the sense that i want to have a feel for what i think a work is trying to tell me, i think my taste is going to dictate how i receive the work on that basis i.e "i get it, i just don't like it"

tolstoyposting is back!

i think "isn't for me" is probably more of an expression for "i recognize craft in this thing but i don't have a meaningful reaction to it" for me, but maybe the criticism of politeness still makes sense in that context. maybe "i don't have a reaction to it" ALSO warrants further thought?

i have used this album on road trips twice and have not been thrown out of the vehicle yet

ugh this is so incredibly cool

there's also a long and proud tradition of divination being fused with artistic practice but imo divination is compelling when it increases or shifts the space of artistic decision-making or when it provokes response from the artist. the system is ALSO usually the product of artistic decision!

this is a direct consequence of big ball bowling achieving cultural cache over candlepin. big ball perpetuated the illusion of an ordered and boring universe, candlepin embodies the spark of chaos that allows us to see ourselves and others anew as we regularly witness the improbable

i think there's a lot that's just fundamentally backwards in the piece's argument. the right wing patriarchal self help grift is a bait and switch that replaces confidence, community and self improvement by resentment and domination, the goal isn't to reverse that bait and switch, but to pre-empt it

the Liberal overton window ranges from "well we can't/won't address your conditions but we can make you 'safer'" to "we can't/won't address your material conditions but can harm people you don't like" and these are two rhetorical approaches for the same program

I forget whether I shared the full video I commissioned from @onispumoni.bsky.social but here it is, very important work

okay i ran it back, better the second time

garlic scape puree and mozzarella

I am EXTREMELY proud to officially launch New Session's third issue: Adaptations you can read it on telnet at: `telnet issue3.anewsession.com` or on web at: web.issue3.anewsession.com

"i don't believe that personal morality should be grounded on hope that is calculated on the probability that things will work out the way you want them to work out ... we need people who are grounded in the belief in a single humanity, that battles are fought regardless of the calculation that /1

We're proud to announce ✨The Mod Update✨ store.steampowered.com/news/app/301... 🐈MOD MUSEUM: a tour behind the scenes of Skin Deep 🐈MOD HANDBOOK: a guide on how to get started modding 🐈WORKSHOP UPLOADER: a tool to upload mods to Steam Workshop Very happy to keep the mod tradition going! 🙌

a sharp critique and, to me, a clear call for PKP to do the bare minimum to hold to its stated principles and refuse contracts from Israeli universities

no scab software

i feel like "minister of artificial intelligence" is the kind of underhand pitch that writers of alternative papers in the 60s would spend their whole lives training for

kill gameplay

what's rare is the political and labour conditions that allow for their extraction increment.com/energy-envir...

we don't need threads in chat apps, we grew up pulling context from 5 overlapping text conversations and we liked it that way

if you're planning an action you should ask yourself and each other: who could do us harm and how do we mitigate this. the best way to not be worried is to have a plan

we had it in 2017 with "kids in cages" and "families separated at the border". these things describe a global system of border enforcement that's unconscionable wherever it happens. these framings stopped happening in 2020 because now the dems were in charge of the same system.

get Naloxone trained, be a WMD countermeasures specialist

theoutline.com/post/8686/ca... an old but pretty good article touching on Canada's political economy