Evergreen. Wish it weren't. War Is A Racket - Major General Smedley Butler www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH...

This is pretty neat www.justinwetch.com/blog/colorsc...

I believe the commerce secretary may be uh, being economical with the truth.

Humans are awesome

Trilly fits

What's the situation on ATProto labellers for genAI content? I don't block or filter anything yet, but I would certainly like to (the not-people/meaningful)

Imagine how much more they could get away with if they could just feign concern, accountability, contrition. For even 5 minutes. They're being undone by the classic narcissistic trait of being unable to be wrong.

The people who would dehumanize others to "protect you", will always dehumanize you to protect themselves.

Stochastic state terrorism

Outside, my eyes are stinging - the air is acrid with smoke, the awful smell of homes on fire. I look to see the helicopter I can hear, thinking they've brought out the bucket, and it's dangling a crypto ad banner, dappled in partial sunlight through the haze.

Another day, another dollar based hegemony.

Bluth UN

Even the most ideal hypothetical transition to a hypothetically more sane US administration will have the rest of the globe reconfigure to price in this history. The conferred hegemony is no longer implicit, rather conditional, and volatile.

That was a very Don Quixote Don Keynote. I never thought 'tilting at windmills' would remain relevant.

Remember to relax, and take breaks youtu.be/DVprerMi5Dg

Poe's Law has never worked so hard

yes, the tail wags the dog, but try wag the dog by the tail, and it might just bite you.

Trillian sus

Pluralism is the weirdest thing for a federation to be allergic to

We cannot allow any authority to demand more respect, than they respect their office and its responsibilities.

Externalized self-hatred gets so far, because it will stop at nothing.

Increasingly, hiring processes seem to becoming an inverse Turing test.

Every country has policies that are crimes elsewhere. We practice diplomatic immunity to enable any sort of international diplomacy to exist. The consequences for everyone if violence and this supposed 'strength' are believed to be legitimate tools of foreign policy are catastrophic.

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www.horg.com/horg/ all I want is this much free time.

zeitgeist

Nothing much. Was thinking of staying in, and catching up on my browser tabs. You?

fragglet.github.io/sdl-sopwith/ It's 1986. Someone over my shoulder is trolling me, tapping the turbo button on and off.

Trying to work outside

hadn't seen this in atuin before. Mondays seem busy (and TIL 137 -> OOM)

Things you don't want to see at your teller machine

"what if the bullshit-asymmetry principle was a government" is real tiresome

I hold my face between my hands no I am not crying I hold my face between my hands to keep my loneliness warm two hands protecting two hands nourishing two hands to prevent my soul from leaving me in anger — Thích Nhất Hạnh

"elder scrolls" is just me looking at my phone

this can't be good.

Too much seems like the prelude to pursuing conflicts worse than trade wars. Just for the distraction.

Lots of backlash for phrasing. Maybe something like "... a draft proposal for how users can express their data-use rights and preferences for privacy, reproduction, and storage; including for research, archiving, and other automation". ML is old tech; content theft is what needs the "No" option

"Diplomacy"

*exhales loudly, audibly pained*

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"fake economy"

How much for that egg on your face?

A totally normal thing to do. In the last moments of East Berlin.

maga yaga

I see you all, collectively (and "ILLEGALLY"!) colluding on where to go for lunch.

All those pretend Tesla rebrandings should be called fauxwagen.

-> thread. "Is your aid program in service of racism, bigotry, American businesses? Why not?"

What's so hard to understand? We'll just stop cheap labor, cheap imports, alienate allies, make new enemies, cut off tech and intel sharing, and do everything ourselves, just us. But not you. You're not Us. *You* should be afraid. It'll be Great. If Great means Alone. So Great.

RIP Jean “Moebius” Giraud (1938-2012) left us 13 years ago today. What an influence on the world of art, from comics to film and design.