i don't think fable is coming back within the next month, because the government has no reason to give a shit if anthropic can sell it and has more leverage i am posting this entirely so that people can dunk me for it if i'm wrong :)

i think that historical experience shows we would in fact make way more bombs

Hey remember when the assumption by everyone on this website was that Biden could easily and obviously bring Israel to heel

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

Exurban people when the cornfield that's sprayed 2x a year with cow manure slurry is replaced with a data center: it's poisoning the water

There's just a certain fin de siecle absurdity of someone whose only achievement in life is having opinions on the internet ending the career of someone who managed to get into Kyiv in 2022 in the middle of the initial Russian invasion to interview Zelensky.

It also always means democratic presidents can’t run on their records, because someone somewhere will always be suffering. So like, Biden was not allowed to say the economy was doing well, even though it was, because that was insensitive to everyone who had it hard.

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Your digital existence has a real material cost, servers, electricity, storage, bandwidth etc and someone is covering that bill. If it's not you, then you are not the one whose interests are being served by the arrangement.

You know one of the boons of AI is people using it as a search engine because it means they are finally paying for a search engine which is a cleaner incentive than freemium. Paying for your online services was always the answer to the ad driven hellscape.

look forward to the movie about how fare-evasion is praxis.

heh

“grit” really is the most unbalanced and overpowered character in advance wars. you can knock out half the war room maps by just spamming artillery

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Two thoughts: a) 40k is particularly bad for this and b) I think it's rather more fun to write modern military tech and magic working together. I personally believe that the scrying-directed Storm Shadow is massively undertheorised.

What this tells you is that the HAND OF THRAWN Duology should have been the end of the Expanded Universe.

I don't know if I quite believe this, but "people get really, really angry when you take away their permission structures" does actually fit a lot of behavior you see these days, The Era of Infinite Internet-Enabled Indulgence

One of the biggest failures on the left was that we decided "its not our job to educate you" was a reasonable stance. It knows why this happened, concern trolling and energy draining sea lioning made education deeply asymetrical but we should have tried something else instead of giving up.

No you guys categorically hate AI and shit on people who use it even if they are doing it well, safely, and as a disability aid. You dont hate slop you love slop as long as a robot didnt make it.

We have an unhealthy unspoken media agreement in this country that you can’t point out that someone harbors objectively insane, delusional beliefs that should disqualify them from being anywhere near a position of power if said beliefs are colorably linkable to a mainstream religious worldview.

A horror movie where the horror is "simply having to live in the past"

Joseph McCarthy lived in a time where it was impossible to go to large coastal cities in America without tripping over a Communist plant of some sort. However very few of them seemed to attract his interest. This was because rolling back the New Deal was really his agenda, and Cold War a pretext

the funniest thing about this, though, is that a maximally uncharitable view of Soviet penetration into the US actually makes McCarthyism look worse

The key part of Trump’s appeal is as something the virtuous people can inflict upon the perfidious politicians (who are captured by “urban” and “cosmopolitan” interests)

They don't want the Democrats to earn their nonexistent vote. They want to replace the Democrats as the other majority party in this outdated 2 party system. All without having to make serious efforts.

A few lefties are losing their minds over this, and insisting the way to win is to activate habitual nonvoters. To which my response is: be my guest! Give it a try! See how it works out.

I have knocked doors for basically every campaign here in Bergen County NJ since Obama 2008. Knocking doors is probably the most demoralizing thing you can do if you actually care about politics. The public just does not fucking care.

people with robot girl pfps posting 'datacenters are destroying the planet' from their cyberpunk aesthetic accounts. bestie my culture is not your costume

also: in this picture, german activists fuck their entire country and funnel money to russia for energy during a war in which russia clearly intends to eat the continent

I’ve said this before, but the cooption of Kirk as a generic “civil discourse” icon unintentionally made him useless as a martyr to the right—he was just a martyr to the pundit class.

Thinking of all these kids tonight, as the Jehovah's Witnesses are apparently lifting their prohibition on blood transfusions. Sorry you weren't born 30 years later, kiddos

I am a professional software engineer and you are making the world worse by clinging to a delusional fantasy world so that you can imagine all you need to do is complain and wait

The war I am currently working on a history of still doesn’t have an official reason for starting- the closest we have so far is an officer crossed the border, got drunk, lost a bar fight, came back with an AK and opened fire. Troops followed the next day. That regime would be toppled in ~6 months.

for Hegseth in particular, his entire professional career and the reason why he has the position he has right now, is because he defended war criminals who were actually staring down the barrel of prosecution in his capacity as a Fox News host and it caught Trump's attention

I remain very annoyed at the "actually everything is a war crime and every US government official is a war criminal" crowd because now that we have the actual pro-war crimes administration it's very hard to get people to understand that this is actually quite a bit different

All the policy nerds are like “why does all the latest Democratic messaging assume voters are innumerate morons who care only for treats?” and, uh… I have some theories about how they reached this conclusion.

“Every farm that is subsidized, every Romantic idyll that is coddled, every aesthetic sustained by the state signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

This was important enough that I felt a need to upload it. I wish I had gotten it out when I started writing it around the death of Alex Pretti and not 'when we're invading Iran', but, you know.

Well. I'll be issuing a post at 6 AM PST tomorrow. With this in mind, I should be able to write something about our invasion of Iran shortly before we detonate a nuclear bomb over Greenland.

this comparison is going to drive a subset of people insane but this site is essentially Taiwan for the centre-left/left-wing power users of Twitter

in a weird turn of events the chief sufferers of mental health stigma are not thirtysomething multiple degree havers who have a mild anxiety, but people who are in actual danger of being arrested. good to know the former actually don't /really/ have much empathy for the latter

Well everyone is always telling me to actually get an avatar and an icon so I guess I'm stealing Franzy. If irhottakes can be a neoconservative Starfire then I can be the deranged whip-wielding perfectionist I want to see in the world.

if we're doing this again i feel obligated to say something in support but i basically haven't got anything new it is actively harder to make any changes to the criminal justice system if the people who consume the most attention are saying things like this

where are they going to get enough ysalamiri to make the spaarti cylinders viable

TELL THE TRUTH. CARE WHAT’S TRUE. Lies are poisonous and you’ll pay a price for telling them. And someone will always be a better liar than you.

There are very few things I believe more strongly than this: If you orient your politics around things that you know are not true, or don’t care if are true, whether because it sounds good, or you think it’ll impress people, or any other reason, you are planting the seeds of your own destruction.

This is just one of many scenarios that would end this in as little as four swift moves. We are currently teetering at the precipice of oblivion.

I think these arguments are extremely popular not because they are particularly convincing but because they create a permission structure for what people perceive as the fun thing

people like talia jane would rather slander a lib as a collaborator than lose an argument online.