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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 1h

"If your business cannot prosper without breaking the law, then it is not a business - it is organized crime" deserves to be printed and framed, to say the least

Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · May 26

If your business cannot prosper without breaking the law, then it is not a business. It is organized crime.

Like those dependent on slavery, child labor, or wage theft, it should go out of business as soon as possible.

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 8h

Dem establishment to Republicans

Joker- You Complete Me

YouTube video by Nikola Sabolić

www.youtube.com

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 1d

Jamie is a great soul, is doing the essential work of tending to public forests, and is amazing at writing about it too. And his photos from all the trails are a thing of beauty. I'm glad I stumbled upon his Twitter account a couple years ago.

Jamie Tommins @jtommins.bsky.social · 2d

a few words about the government shutdown on public lands
jamietommins.substack.com/p/shutdown-b...

glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 1d

4000 km2 is *40 millions* of 100m2 (~1000 sqft) apartments.

Honestly I expected them to stop doing that by this point. They spend energy on building entire neighborhoods, then - on maintaining them, and then they just demolish them. All generates immense amounts of waste and destruction.

Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 1d

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"the excessive vacant housing stock in Chinese cities reached approximately 3986 km2 in 2024."

[1539 square miles of -empty- climate killing business as usual high embodied carbon emission buildings]

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Resource and the environmental burdens of excessive construction in China's urban housing sector

In China's complex urbanization process, excessive construction has led to large-scale housing vacancies, hindering the development of low-carbon and …

www.sciencedirect.com

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 1d

Otherwise, all of the things he mentioned would be simply reinvented and reinstated.

"It's tedious work, worse than cross-stitching: we're gonna have to kill the dragon in each one of them."

glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 1d

What David didn't mention is the amount of cultural wealth/garbage, depending on how you look at it, that would have to be shed in order to make this transition. Possible, necessary, by no means easy or quick

David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 1d

One of David Graeber's most interesting pieces was from 2013 called - 'A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse.'

Here is an extract.

"What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial
form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field,
or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead
started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver?
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We might be forced to conclude that the real business of
human life is not contributing toward something called the
economy but the fact that we are all, and have always been,
projects of mutual creation."
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- David Graeber

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 1d

I thought I was gonna start shrinking already. No, still 6'1". Making measurements an annual tradition, curious as to how it goes from now on

glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 5d

Thinking about all this now made me realize that I'd still keep on waiting for my expiration date. Keep looking over my shoulder. For years onwards. That's meaningless; I think I'll just keep on working instead. It doesn't really matter where that work lands me anyway at this point. Ripeness is all.

glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 5d

The entire past year, I kept looking over my shoulder. Waited for the consequences of my promise to catch up with me. I didn't know if I'm gonna be here next year, or even next month.
You begin to let go of certain things in that state. Make peace with others. Appreciate some others still.

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 5d

Another year. Feels surreal, and a bit wrong. Like I broke a contract.

When I turned 25, I gave myself ten more years. Of "this", whatever it was. If things didn't change, I'd to work myself into the ground.
Since then, some things did change. Others, didn't. It left me in a weird limbo state.

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 6d

Vacation in your 20s: finally! Finally there's time for all my ideas, plans, aspirations! I'm gonna do everything, be everywhere!

Vacation in your 30s: *sleep for three weeks straight* *just to be able to function for another year*

glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 6d

In case anyone wondered: “clop” means “stinkbug”

Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 6d

Big extortion campaign underway from major cybercrime group: Execs at large orgs are scrambling as they are being extorted by the notorious ransomware group Cl0p which claims to have stolen data from them via Oracle’s popular E-Business Suite apps. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Cyber Group Extorting Executives With Claims of Stolen Data

Executives at large organizations are being extorted by a notorious ransomware group, which claims to have stolen data from them via Oracle Corp.’s popular E-Business Suite applications, according to ...

www.bloomberg.com

glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 7d

Also this is how I find out… she was just touring, attending events, giving speeches. Raising awareness.
Never stopped until the end. One of the absolute greatest, ever, ever.

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 7d

One of my strongest convictions in life is that this century must be defined by Dr. Goodall’s work the same way the 20th century was defined by the Einstein’s work.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 7d

Reflecting on yesterday's conversations.

These days, a Russian citizen must go an extra mile (quite a few actually) to prove that they're not a piece of shit.

I'm fine with it, but something tells me that we'd all greatly benefit from a world where more nations adopt this approach to life.

glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 7d

It just hit me why I'm still awake at this hour: it's all my landlord's green tea.
That, and our long talks about history and languages.

Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 7d

I had no caffeine today. Mistakes were made

glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 7d

Backend-related logic shouldn't pollute the logic of your framework, nevermind force architectural changes onto it. Grouping seems to be backend-related logic.
Backend can be passed around as a dependency injection, for example.

glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 7d

So potentially you have:
1. The original loop without grouping;
2. Grouping then dispatching it to either multiple CPU cores or a GPU.
First, these aren't all backends you might have in the future. Second, it might be better if the backend does the grouping instead, esp if it can be done once.

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 7d

It's been a long while since we've used that word for something properly insane, but this is absolutely, most definitely that

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 7d

Things like this are such a gut punch to learn about, every time.

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 8d

Another excerpt from Meditations on Moloch:

"Like all good mystical experiences, it happened in Vegas. I was standing on top of one of their many tall buildings, looking down at the city below, all lit up in the dark. If you’ve never been to Vegas, it is really impressive. Skyscrapers and lights in every variety strange and beautiful all clustered together. And I had two thoughts, crystal clear:

It is glorious that we can create something like this.

It is shameful that we did."

glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 8d

Yes to all of this. Also all that capex that is going to be useless a few years from now.

JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 9d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 9d

The more I hear about this guy the more he seems to be just another Noah Smith or Matt Yglesias: someone I'd be surprised anyone is still taking seriously. It's almost like generation of bullshit while lacking both principles and any intellectual authority is a sustainable business model these days.

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 9d

And this continuous useless brouhaha in the media only asserts the backdrop for his beliefs further. Y'alls thinking is confined within the framework of rivalry and domination, but you cannot "outdominate" a nuclear superpower. Once nukes enter the picture, history can't help you anymore.

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 9d

There is no point after which Russia doesn't retaliate with whatever it has. That point doesn't exist. It matters not what someone thinks regarding the RU vs NATO dynamic, who started what, etc; what matters is what Putin believes to be true. Because he's acting according to his beliefs.

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