We're emotional cripples Using emotional crutches Because we're hurting so much we can't walk through a day without them

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down For sure as the valley of death I open up my wallet And it's full of blood

If there's one place on Earth presently worth nuking it's Silicon Valley

The destruction of systems... Everything is getting destroyed by capitalism. Everything we've built in the past, everything we're building right now. It's not that "the world is changing", it's that there's an invisible force devouring everything.

Leave Patel alone, at least he's useless Imagine the kind of animal Trump is going to replace him with

Hey everyone, this shouldn't happen. This can still be prevented from happening.

Spread the word. Never know when you might need these.

Alright, since this website seems to have recovered, time to make people here uncomfortable again. Thread 1/

Running a centralized global social media platform is one of the hardest technological endeavors there are. That said, no need to make it even harder by neglecting the underlying infrastructure. Judging by how long it's been going on, this is clearly a problem with the underlying infrastructure.

Just when I wanted to post another scathing thread that I spent the entire morning writing, this website went down for half a day. Maybe the Universe is telling me something.

62 million, in February alone. This is war. They're waging a war on women. And even in that, they're being cowardly and pathetic.

Isn't it incredible to witness a major organized religion and the main driving force behind colonialism in the past thousand of years - to be dismissed when it dares to question colonialism of today

Our dog's concept of "treats" is very different from other dogs: at some point, she clocked that *we* always "treat" ourselves with something "extra" after the main meal, and now she demands it for herself too. She'll wait until we finish the main meal, and then everyone gets some "treats".

If this becomes a movement, a-la backlash against Tesla a year ago, then okay. This could create a backdrop for change. But until then it's just further fueling their resolve to build a country-wide digital concentration camp. Which they're building anyway, so maybe this needs to become a movement.

Biden is a war criminal. Period. Just like Netanyahu is. You're literally defending a war criminal with "but look at all these beautiful wind turbines".

People who put puppies in cages, on a chain, only to feed them three times a day and otherwise condemn them to a life of loneliness and neglect, must die horrible deaths. Preferably all at once.

Wanted to say something about these Swalwell and Gonzales situations, but. Not going to. Not going to help anyone anyway. One thing though: socials are great, and the speed of the consequences is a testament to that. This is a good part, we'll need to take it with us into the future.

I know, Substack is simple; but, please, try to find ways to divest from it, and migrate off it. If you're a content creator and you rely on this platform, migration will likely take a while until all your subscribers move away with you - which means that the best time to start is right now.

Orban has been a Putin's fortress within the EU; Magyar's victory could spell doom for other supporters of his, too. On the one hand, I'm curious how this is gonna play out. On the other hand, if Putin can't have what he wants via soft means, he'll consider it an escalation. War becomes more likely.

The White Anglo-Saxon Jesus demands human sacrifices

Reading the comments on this makes me realize again how fucking dumb leftists can be sometimes. What’s this supposed to achieve? You can’t deal with Thiel and Karp yet you still want another one of these fuckers go all tinfoil hat? Well congratulations, you’ll get it now

Why is Biden trending? Unless he's in The Hague it's misplaced attention

istg about 90% of people who code for a living should've never been allowed to

I don't know why but the entire "the Kurds took the guns" thing is cracking me up so hard. Makes me wish they really did

On the other hand, Congress doesn't want to remove him either at this point, because all of a sudden it's going to look like he could be removed this entire time. Sunk cost against prospective reputational damage. And the fact that this cost will be even higher if they don't might be not enough.

A couple factors to consider, amidst all this bullshit. First, if Trump and Vance are doing Putin's bidding, which they are, this war will drag on for as long as possible. The whole world is suddenly distracted from Ukraine, Russia is amassing money while the US is wasting munitions, etc.

This is from 2 0 1 7

So how many millions of people will suffer and die until the midterms again

I don't understand the constantly exploding "AI tooling" ecosystem. Okay, I get the endless "X is dead, use Y" posts, engagement farming is business, but what's in it for the authors of these "tools"? Vanity/"reputation"? The "Big AI" payroll - for making another money sink? Data theft/scamming?

Happy Angine de Poitrine release day to all who celebrate

Google knows this, which is why they're already releasing open-source models targeting local/device segment. Possibly other tech giants will follow suit. Instead, this space needs to be taken by decent people who make things for themselves and each other.

Hasn't Kegsbreath violated any UCMJ rules already? Subchapter X in particular? Shouldn't he be trialed or whatever?

Linux is tiny, resource efficient, and, if done right, virtually unbreakable. Create a small department to migrate critical infrastructure and teach people how to use it. Save money on contracts in the process. What the hell is this.

Had no idea there were plans to send someone to the Moon, where did that come from

Important context to what we're doing, here and everywhere

I'm not sure it's this simple anymore, nor that this simplistic outlook helps anyone. So I have a teammate, he transitioned from Dev to DevOps in the past couple years. DevOps is a lot, he did struggle quite a bit; then at some point, engineers were "prescribed" (forced) to use Cursor. 1/

Certified scum and not a tech bro

By equating anti-Zionism and antisemitism, thus turning regular people into hostages of a rhetoric, the US "far right" fulfills an essential task of grinding anti-Zionism to a halt. Then the media, instead of questioning it, water it down for the masses. Everything about this is a psyop.

Yep. That's... the main reason I've been avoiding other Russian speakers like fire for years, in all countries I've been to since.

TIL that coffee is the single best source of antioxidants, I’m really missing out on this thing

My social battery has been covered with mold for a while now; gotta find a human-shaped reason to get outside every now and then

I usually don't weigh in on such topics. I'm also extremely skeptical about tech. That being said: I'm starting to think that AI companionship might greatly benefit women and possibly young people; and, since it's unstoppable anyway at this point, it needs to be done - correctly. Some thoughts: 1/

I really want to believe, yet I do not believe that they won't fuck up the next one. Because that's how it works in this environment: every tiny bit of political credit must be burned and cashed in.

Thinking of learning Ukrainian again. My first language was Surzhyk but I remember none of it, I was like 2 years old when we moved up north. But since I am both, it makes sense for me to know both languages too. The only question is where the hell am I supposed to practice it

On the concept of democracy through the systems/complexity lens: what it's supposed to be, what it presently is, and a way to make it great again (possibly for the first time)

This is actually a great point that many are feeling but missing: this seething mess is nearly completely uncontrollable. The only thing powerful enough to control it is markets, and markets control it all the time, but no single authority/think tank/messiah can ever possibly do it on their own.

The only thing I miss from Twitter is spaces. Spaces were great. This place would greatly benefit from people being able to "hop on a call" like that. Couldn't be a separate Atmosphere app either because of security/privacy/trust concerns.

For anyone truly curious about "stunning victories" throughout human history, I highly recommend this fascinating document aptly named "Reality Check" civilizationemerging.com/reality-check/

*stares in infrastructure*