The heritage foundation is just the white-collar KKK

the "left" broadly advocated for open access community owned gigabit fiber networks while the right coddled monopoly access to the detriment of progress and affordability for four decades

I think we should outlaw doing business and teaching religion Sure, only a few outliers among businesspeople get powerful enough to buy politicians and destroy democracy, and a small minority of youth pastors diddle kids, but the pattern is alarming and we need to shut it all down just in case

It would be hard to reconcile the glowing reports of The Crazy Productivity Gains From AI from a bunch of apparently-respected devs with the actual work products I've seen come out of the YOLO/GasTown school of thought if I had never seen someone go through a manic episode

I bet that "economic prosperity or trans rights" guy feels really silly right about now (This is a joke. Of course I understand that such people are incapable of introspection)

I know hypocrisy literally doesn't matter to power and pointing it out is pointless but I still gotta balk because this is the president who oversaw the first DHS and invented the "supected terrorist" loophole to due process still used today

And it's fucken ironic because I can still basically immediately identify the baseline prosaic style of AI writing and it's more "TED talk" than "James Joyce"

It's so hard to get smarter and stupider at the same time, but that is my task and there's no sense complaining about it

Most non-operationalized ontologies are intellectual masturbation. Most operationalized ontologies about people are fascist. Object-oriented inheritance is a way of giving your conceptual frameworks cancer, whether or not their representation is a codebase. I've been told I'm really fun at parties

It's hard to overstate how much my weird little projects and experiments used to keep me sane and how difficult it is to have the energy to do anything on them with most adjacent ideas being overtaken by unfathomably evil efforts and while survival has gotten gradually more difficult and uncertain

The paradox of the white girl is embodied in capsaicin. Every foodseller seems to know to temper spice for us, and I can't call them wrong, I have met many a white girl who prefers it thus. But we are also most prone to diseases of excessive phlegm, for which strong spice is among the best remedies

young people gotta know that 9/11 cooked my parents' generation so hard it makes perfect sense to me that half the dems couldn't look at a messaging savant like mamdani running circles around quislings with sensible light-socialist policies and hear anything but "balla da li" on loop in their heads

fuck a year of the linux desktop we in the year of the linux riot girl squad keep up

I still think the idea of an "AI arms race" is ridiculous, a whole cloth invention of lunatics who know nothing of war or research, but I've also been conditioned by my entire lifetime to assume anything good for american stock markets is probably bad for almost every living human, so...

If it's socially acceptable to debate whether we allow people healthcare based on their demographics or causal theories about their needs, I just want to put out there that living past 80 is by any reasonable standard unnatural and a car-centric lifestyle is a bad and often voluntary health decision

i have a lot of complicated feelings about 2xko and riot but like, the investor class is the devil

Yea that's the funniest part to me. The inability to have a calm discussion is obviously way more on the boosters who have both larger platforms and *the power to actually affect the thing being discussed*, which they are *actively using to do bad things*, but their beef is with random atmospherians

As I sit in a bath with my sinuses on fire, I think of how even if we purged the nazis today we'd still have ruined both our research and medical capacity at the national level and will probably have to deal with at least a decade-long plague era

Nena tried to warn us, but alas, it seems we did not have some time for her

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

Getting nerdsniped by the jump routing paper. Anyone know anything about it? I have a use case that I want to make work with decentralized routing, but still prioritize finding the fastest direct route for some services

Controversial take I know, but maybe we should stop the people who are trying to build concentration camps

I think probably the greatest lesson of the collapse of American hegemony is that doggedly sticking to your principles, even if your principles are shitty and evil, is more electorally effective than either true willingness to compromise or the pretense of only acting when there's "political will"

Just checked a youtube video from my phone for the first time in a while and dam, the sound balance and sheer volume of ads makes this whole website unusable Really can't trust a tech company with anything

"My ten-year-old neighbor doesn't like it when I call her my girlfriend and doesn't even want children. Is this the end of western civilization?" - Joe Rogan's next special guest, probably

there are kids choice awards everywhere for those with the eyes to see

Deploying parallel algorithms is communist! I mean, it's literally organizing workers to process shared resources toward a common goal. America's spirit of rugged individualism requires that our work be single-threaded and blocking as god intended

"The entire agency of DHS needs to be dismantled."

If your computer updates without your permission it's not a Personal Computer it's a Corporate Computer

O right if anyone follows me on here is to be at Frosty Faustings and wants a tarot reading hit me up when I'm not in a bracket

I think celebrating every victory is important and good I also think that the national democratic party will squander most victories the people win by trying to sound "reasonable" to their fascist "colleagues" in washington We either dismantle this thing or it eats us, there is no third way here

Man @kayin.moe was absolutely right and now I have all these fighting=game-brained takes on silksong that I have no idea what to do with

You ever have a dream where you wake up and immediately call bullshit? I had this dream last night where two avatars (like Avatar the Last Airbender, I know it doesn't work that way in the show) were in a tense standoff and then a brief fight, and the newer one took away the powers of the older one

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming. no, those people shouldn’t get a break.

I actually think it's pretty easy to explain. Younger people didn't buy into an older neoliberal elite's prejudices, the older neoliberal elite absolutely lost their shit at the notion that they might be called on to change, and fascists exploited that reactionary moment

I checked out some algorithmic feeds around atproto and I'm in such a bubble that many of them look very similar. I kinda like this? Seeing the same cluster of accounts is more like a community than being strapped into the clockwork orange chair by billionaires (who somehow manage to be huge losers)

The boy who cried wolf is not a story of a child treated unfairly. When someone lies often, to stop believing things on their word alone is simply the only feasible option

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

I am seeing quite a few nurses calling for a nationwide strike over the killing of Alex Pretti. I think we are seeing one of the largest workforces being radicalized before our very eyes.

Real "mark 👏 the 👏 vans 👏" energy here for sure

ok this has been way too much internet and I just barely woke up. gonna go do some rabbit chores or something, fuck

This guy's amazing. Also, it's really weird to me that "third world" became a shorthand for "poor" for so many people at all. The term just meant "not aligned with either of the cold war superpowers". I guess the "first world" just decided that made them fair game

We all need a little joy And maybe a little whiskey

Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun. Any second now, I'm sure. He was a white guy, if that helps? Hello? NRA?

I have lost all patience with self-proclaimed cynics desperate to pretend that their quisling cowardice in the face of evil is wisdom.

One of my biggest takeaways from the world economic forum is that Indonesia is the only government that knows what to do with money

I'm fine, but I'd rather be coarse

O yea I'm in a tournament next week huh

Okay that's something at least

getting drunk and watching the WEF as a family, AMA