bhost gird
sincere externist, commie, and lover of Annihilation (both the book and in general)
fuckin the bookman for more books 😔
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- thousands of chuds sacrificed at his feet every day just to maintain this level of lucidity
- Keane fans will say they know a place and then take you somewhere only we know
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- depending on the race, they can also weild chanclas with martial proficiency
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- "everything on blockchain" <<<<<<<< "everything carved into blocks"
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- as Musk's Memphis data center chugs away on natural, thank god local power is pushing back. they'll never get the returns they promised investors, so they'll just keep throwing compute, and the energy needed to make it, at the problem while dodging calls for actual results.
- god willing we can nationalize these data centers if/when we get through this, wind down all that can't be sustained renewably, and hand the rest over to NOAA and the NSF.
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- idk how I'll ever shake the personal shame of being into Bostrom/Less Wrong like a decade ago. Feels like the least I can do is let people know about the fanatic machine-god cult behind all these AI boosters.
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- you wouldn't believe what this dude could do to a penny
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- he looks like he needs to be burped, the burpee man.
- After the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵
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View full threadAnything? Never go full Luddite. Would you agree that there is a difference between developing your thinking through learning to express yourself in writing, and the ability to regurgitate some theory or fact?
- counterpoint: always go full luddite, especially when you recognize the luddites opposed a specific *type* of technology
- Every day I wake hoping that I'll log on to the news that it happened
- and if it happened to both of them?? I'd take the whole month off.
- The first domino falls! Today Lehigh County, Pennsylvania became the first US pension fund to suspend new Tesla purchases in its actively managed funds 👏🍸🎉 #teslatakedown substack.com/home/post/p-...
- @comraderobot.bsky.social another one for the brown slop pile
- They’re being canceled :( pitchfork.com/news/jonny-g...
- Comparing their situation to Kneecap while trying real hard not to say they disagree with their protest was the nadir of the statement.
- agreed, but also really fuck with that word usage.
- In 1995, divers near the Ryukyu Islands off Japan spotted these elaborate mandala-like art in the sand of the ocean's floor. They were elaborate 2 meter wide sculptures with fluting, shell ornaments placed at ridges, sand sorted by granularity, both consistent in design & unique. (📷: BBC Earth)
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- I think what's wild is that, beyond us appreciating it from some ecoligical perspective, those structures *do* look cool. Like, I know we can't say I appreciate it for the exact same reason, but that it's beauty isn't lost on us speaks to some common thread tying us to fish and birds and so on.
- they should make a classical guitar that's as fun to practice as it is to play
- I keep going back to how somehow we got *the* worst guys running the country now. Like, okay, George Bush was bad but “cocky Texas Evangelical with oil money” is an identifiable type of guy. When you draw a two of spades, you might not be happy but you’re not shocked cuz you knew it was in the deck.
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- if a madman threatens my loved ones I reserve the right to be horrified when they come under attack and shocked at the brutality that's directed at them. your opinions here speak to a profoundly rotten soul with no respect for empathy or pain. genuinely, fix your ugly little heart, dude.
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- Do you think there's any way to increase capacity for that type of altruism? Make it easier for people to be good to each other in times of crisis? Just my opinion but I think people want to be helpful, like it's part of our nature, and wonder how we can empower the resilience in that.
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- if they have any fresh performative resistance I'd appreciate a bushel or two
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- coming off Pritzker speaking God's honest truth the other day, hearing this curddled my soul. Just the most soul-less looking/sounding dude on the planet. Just an empty suit full of bad ideas
- Only 14 Democrats voted against confirming Trump's ambassador to Italy. The vast majority of Democratic electeds talk like things aren't normal and then act like they are.
- the fuck is Booker doing on there, dawg. go back to the steps at this point.
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- checked into that thread, you either have the patience of a saint or are a masochist. maybe they're not mutually exclusive.
- god i wish i was high
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- you're savoring the idea of tent cities, dude. is the logical arguement in the room with us or does your weird pro-genocide schadenfreude count as a rationale?
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- ahh, a dipshit AND a ghoul!! hard to imagine hell will ever burn hot enough for the likes of you.
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- yeah they might make out (god willing)
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View full threadahh, my bad. *my brother in christ, you asked the question you asked what would be better messaging and they explained in details you refuse to engage with that chasing approval is a fool's errand.
- also, imagining that a slogan, which was a compromise from abolish the police in the first place, was what ended the movement's push and not brutal police repression is a choice you're absolutely making.
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- my sister in christ u asked the question
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- this is genuinely a setup for a twilight zone episode
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- it's certainly taking up all the air in here, sheesh
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- parallel lives takes me to the cleaners so regularly I'm becoming threadbare
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- no, let's. ICE is bad for obvious reasons, police are bad for less obvious reasons. if we don't take the opportunity to educate people on why those reasons are often the same we will continue to be a country run by police unions and cop NGOs.
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- I think that's the big difference, there are social situations where you expect to be exposed o engaging with strangers and others where it's not the norm. If I'm at some game I'm kinda putting myself in a place where strangers commune for a common purpose. The Train or a Plane is Not the Same™
- i genuinely hate the ongoing AI discourse. it's got all the usual characteristics of online discourse (people talking past each other, false equivalencies, intentional obtuseness) but now it's also causing a schism in the group I most closely identify with, tech-adjacent social-good-enjoyers
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- to be fair, all things held constant we're already in a world-ending scenario, just not one directly tied to AI though pretty explicitly tied to capricious energy and resource consumption
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- Will happily take the stance that I'd rather one person's home be heated than for google to exist.
- I think this kinda brings us full circle to the water arguement, though. The amount of water/energy/resources its using at the end of the day are scarce and we should be concerned how scarce resources are used on an overheating planet.
- any resources we're organizing around ultimately frivolous endeavors (from AI girlfriends to Shein to single use plastics) should be scrutinized on their social impacts at both ends, moral hazard AND waste. I think there's room to do both.
- Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs ("Hard mode" no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR)
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View full threadHis Massey Lectures for CBC are another good bit of his work that's easily available and accessible and what I usually refer people to BUT there also used to be a BEAUTIFUL AND ASTOUNDING podcast called General Intellect Unit that covered all things systems, complexity, and commie cybernetics.
- genuinely love ever single person I met in that podcast's discord. Also, yeah, I know the feeling you're talking about, like there's some system of knowledge perpetuating itself across a network of hope, struggling for a better and brighter future, entelechy as he'd call it.
- MASSIVE Beer head. Did you know he was friends with Brian Eno? The coolest thing about Brain of the Firm is that it's second-edition release was broken into two parts, the first that was published before his time in Chile (management calculus) and the second was a retrospect of his time there
- it's wild seeing him go from talking about recursive system integrity to being like "we didn't have a supercomputer down there, so we had to use the real supercomputing, trust and relationships and coalition building".
- how do I mute a specific style of glasses. I've tried to mute "natalists" but that freakass couple keeps showing up on my TL
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- better than "working class" discourse, unless you got hit with that too in which case mega condolences, that would send me into the woods
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- congrax!!
- so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.
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- like the brain of a toddler
