om man ringer ~10 gånger får man vänta i kön

och körarna för ansökan om medborgarskap är så länge att regeringens mål för processtid är redan nått

contains addled themes and language

we're not so different - medieval topics, skip intro chatter abt current events if you like
american prestige - skip news episodes to taste, great geopolitics commentary
sold a story - about how reading education got butchered
never post - internet culture magazine
fall of rome - pre tides wyman

Past lives = tides continued
Age of Napoleon does what it says on the tin
Sinobabble has two feeds, one of them a history of china
Odd Lots has fascinating interviews with odd nooks and corners of the economy, best enjoyed selctively
ones and tooze - similar, more shallow but shorter

I'm pretty sure there was an article not too long ago about finetuning an LLM on victorian letters or somesuch and thereafter having it exhibit those moral attitudes

both somewhat intense reads, though

Lem mentioned

Embassytown (Mieville)
Blindsight (Watts) (free online!)

And what awaits these clients in Texas? Unspeakably cruel and inhumane treatment.

1. Rotten food. I had a client explain she had to make a half-pint of milk and an apple last every day because the other meals consisted of spoiled or rotten food. One client wasn’t fed for >36 hours.

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Were those separate or linked conversations? Cause i reckon paperclip chainmail would capitvate most kids

Well, there's two more alternatives: a) keep organizing into larger viable systems or b) build god, and b) seems to have more traction atm

Another one for the "to read" pile^^

...just not a viable one. My best go at thinking about that interdependent, but not cooperating top level is an ecosystem?
And you're basically in a race against time to either organize yourself into viability before something big enough to it out of balance comes along or cease being a system.