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*lin-manuel miranda hip hop voice* ay yo the dao that can be spoken is not the eternal dao
December 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
*lin-manuel miranda hip hop voice* ay yo the dao that can be spoken is not the eternal dao
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It's fine to be skeptical of this, but some folks don't understand what this information means.
It may sound silly, but oceanic freedom of navigation is predicated on "flying the flag of a sovereign state." Any ship caught flying false colors can be legally fucked with by any state's navy.
It may sound silly, but oceanic freedom of navigation is predicated on "flying the flag of a sovereign state." Any ship caught flying false colors can be legally fucked with by any state's navy.
December 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
It's fine to be skeptical of this, but some folks don't understand what this information means.
It may sound silly, but oceanic freedom of navigation is predicated on "flying the flag of a sovereign state." Any ship caught flying false colors can be legally fucked with by any state's navy.
It may sound silly, but oceanic freedom of navigation is predicated on "flying the flag of a sovereign state." Any ship caught flying false colors can be legally fucked with by any state's navy.
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I've once again caught the insolent, insubordinate computer doing exactly what we told it to do instead of what we would have liked for it to do
December 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I've once again caught the insolent, insubordinate computer doing exactly what we told it to do instead of what we would have liked for it to do
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Trimet is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer
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December 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Trimet is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer
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Correct
December 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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you think becoming a programmer will be a lot about solving novel problems in interesting ways with code and i'm not saying this never happens but a lot of the daily work is like some guy pushed a change to pandoc and now nothing works anymore so you have to go make the compatibility tweaks
December 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
you think becoming a programmer will be a lot about solving novel problems in interesting ways with code and i'm not saying this never happens but a lot of the daily work is like some guy pushed a change to pandoc and now nothing works anymore so you have to go make the compatibility tweaks
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For my part, I'm pissed that the "tech industry" is now basically just the software side of Silicon Valley - there tons of problems that we could be studying and using technology to solve, but none of them allow infinite profit with almost no capital investment so they aren't glamorized as "tech".
December 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
For my part, I'm pissed that the "tech industry" is now basically just the software side of Silicon Valley - there tons of problems that we could be studying and using technology to solve, but none of them allow infinite profit with almost no capital investment so they aren't glamorized as "tech".
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if you want to turn back time about ten years you're a democratic reactionary. if you want it to go 50, 100, 200 years you're the other kind
December 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
if you want to turn back time about ten years you're a democratic reactionary. if you want it to go 50, 100, 200 years you're the other kind
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It is our burden to build worlds where technology yields optimism rather than pessimism.
this is still true.
Ceding techno optimism to the right is a generational scale mistake
December 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It is our burden to build worlds where technology yields optimism rather than pessimism.
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Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
December 23, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
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OK, seriously. This is wild.
Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;
Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
OK, seriously. This is wild.
Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;
Judge Jay Bybee (1) raises a new issue — the Domestic Violence Clause of the Constitution — to consider in the troop deployment cases; (2) extensively details its historical application;
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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fortunately i already treat computers with mistrust, professionally, and am employed primarily to attempt to herd vast and inherently somewhat unknowable monsters (distributed systems with too goddamn many queues and caches) so i feel like these will probably translate reasonably well
one reason the framing as "AI" is so bad is that it makes people think "interact with this like a person" when in fact the only way to make it remotely useful is "interact with it like an extremely powerful but extremely weird user interface"
This is really a huge part of why upper management is so in on AI. They think it will let them manage computers the way they currently manage the people who make the computer work. It will not.
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
fortunately i already treat computers with mistrust, professionally, and am employed primarily to attempt to herd vast and inherently somewhat unknowable monsters (distributed systems with too goddamn many queues and caches) so i feel like these will probably translate reasonably well
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They didn’t have ChatGPT when I was a newborn and I was repeatedly killed.
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
They didn’t have ChatGPT when I was a newborn and I was repeatedly killed.
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We spent the entirety of the 2010s hearing about what kind of socialism would come after the inevitable downfall of capitalism and I think nobody really expected "neoliberal technofascism" to be the likeliest actual answer
I feel like there's something kind of interesting that some of the highest profile Silicon Valley firms (Tesla, OpenAI, Palantir, Anduril) have outrageous valuations given their current revenue that seem in no small part predicated in them taking control of the United States government
I read this future of war / we’re not ready piece with interest and it’s strikingly shallow.
Surveillance and targeting have advanced, yes. That’s in my 2018 book. Much of the rest reads like tech company hype marketing.
AI will make bio weapons that target one person! Well, it sure can’t now.
Surveillance and targeting have advanced, yes. That’s in my 2018 book. Much of the rest reads like tech company hype marketing.
AI will make bio weapons that target one person! Well, it sure can’t now.
December 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
We spent the entirety of the 2010s hearing about what kind of socialism would come after the inevitable downfall of capitalism and I think nobody really expected "neoliberal technofascism" to be the likeliest actual answer
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"As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free," goes harder than any Civil War song has any right to go.
December 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free," goes harder than any Civil War song has any right to go.
This is almost certainly just shorthand for the distinction between generation and transmission, which it turns out is kind of important, not least if you're someone who could plausibly use a colocated generation facility.
In the bottom 0.1% of the massive mountain of errors, broken arguments and cotton-brained ignorance at play in this classic Yglesias work, but when you generate electricity, you aren't "making electrons", you are pushing them around!!!!!
The heart doesn't 'make blood' folks!!!
archive.ph/wip/XN3RL
The heart doesn't 'make blood' folks!!!
archive.ph/wip/XN3RL
December 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This is almost certainly just shorthand for the distinction between generation and transmission, which it turns out is kind of important, not least if you're someone who could plausibly use a colocated generation facility.
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This is a good example of why people who think "marketplace of ideas" means "a way to find a winner" are wrong, both in criticism or praise of "the marketplace". Marketplaces aren't defined by winners, they're defined by letting losers push their wares too, again and again, if they have the money.
Companies test out products and most of them are rejected by the market. That's how it works. If people reject this again (and I can see why they might) then maybe the tech bros aren't as smart as they think they are.
Glassholes were driven from polite society. It could happen again.
December 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This is a good example of why people who think "marketplace of ideas" means "a way to find a winner" are wrong, both in criticism or praise of "the marketplace". Marketplaces aren't defined by winners, they're defined by letting losers push their wares too, again and again, if they have the money.
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Kids should absolutely have mandatory "Personal IT" standards in elementary and middle school, which are integrated into their subject matter classes.
You gotta be able to write essays in a word processor, tabulate and graph data in a spreadsheet, and convert between file formats. And zip files.
You gotta be able to write essays in a word processor, tabulate and graph data in a spreadsheet, and convert between file formats. And zip files.
i feel if you take a typing class, know what files and programs are, and can do some basic troubleshooting of tech you'll be golden for the future
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Kids should absolutely have mandatory "Personal IT" standards in elementary and middle school, which are integrated into their subject matter classes.
You gotta be able to write essays in a word processor, tabulate and graph data in a spreadsheet, and convert between file formats. And zip files.
You gotta be able to write essays in a word processor, tabulate and graph data in a spreadsheet, and convert between file formats. And zip files.
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The US had a remarkably successful Presidential system, but that system depended on Congress still ultimately holding the whip hand, even in policy matters it delegated to the executive.
We weakened that control badly from the New Deal onwards, & Unitary Executive Theory is the nail in the coffin.
We weakened that control badly from the New Deal onwards, & Unitary Executive Theory is the nail in the coffin.
We know, based on loads of comparative evidence, that presidential systems are unstable and prone to clientelism, democratic backsliding, and the like. SCOTUS is doing its best to amplify all the worst aspects of presidential systems. They're cutting the wires that hold the system up.
the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The US had a remarkably successful Presidential system, but that system depended on Congress still ultimately holding the whip hand, even in policy matters it delegated to the executive.
We weakened that control badly from the New Deal onwards, & Unitary Executive Theory is the nail in the coffin.
We weakened that control badly from the New Deal onwards, & Unitary Executive Theory is the nail in the coffin.
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having a complicated one right now because I think image generation is bad, nano banana delenda est, but SVGs are just XML which means it's Just Text which means stuff that would give me RSI in Illustrator is a three sentence prompt and some generated Python away
December 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
having a complicated one right now because I think image generation is bad, nano banana delenda est, but SVGs are just XML which means it's Just Text which means stuff that would give me RSI in Illustrator is a three sentence prompt and some generated Python away
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One quick note, the antihistamine protocol will not help most people with anything other than the COVID vaccine. For shingles, the preventative is to be INCREDIBLY super hydrated! Like, "peeing waterfalls" levels of hydrated.
December 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
One quick note, the antihistamine protocol will not help most people with anything other than the COVID vaccine. For shingles, the preventative is to be INCREDIBLY super hydrated! Like, "peeing waterfalls" levels of hydrated.
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“It’s really exciting to me that air quality improved throughout the entiremetro area,” said Fraser. “This tells us that congestion pricing didn’t simply relocate air pollution to the suburbs by rerouting traffic. Instead, folks are likely choosing cleaner transportation options altogether”
NYC’s congestion pricing cleaned the air. This is also what happened when EZ-Pass was put in place in NJ.
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“It’s really exciting to me that air quality improved throughout the entiremetro area,” said Fraser. “This tells us that congestion pricing didn’t simply relocate air pollution to the suburbs by rerouting traffic. Instead, folks are likely choosing cleaner transportation options altogether”