I think cranks deserve sympathy.
It's weird that contributing to the accumulated wealth of human knowledge requires subordinating one's self to profoundly antagonistic social forms! It's also *really* hard to dig into a topic outside of a social context that could make the effort feel worthwhile!
It's weird that contributing to the accumulated wealth of human knowledge requires subordinating one's self to profoundly antagonistic social forms! It's also *really* hard to dig into a topic outside of a social context that could make the effort feel worthwhile!
December 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I think cranks deserve sympathy.
It's weird that contributing to the accumulated wealth of human knowledge requires subordinating one's self to profoundly antagonistic social forms! It's also *really* hard to dig into a topic outside of a social context that could make the effort feel worthwhile!
It's weird that contributing to the accumulated wealth of human knowledge requires subordinating one's self to profoundly antagonistic social forms! It's also *really* hard to dig into a topic outside of a social context that could make the effort feel worthwhile!
Widespread moral panics about new forms of media are as old as the written word. Our shits adaptive. And if it isn't then we probably need to ditch our approach to discourse anyways, so fuck it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Widespread moral panics about new forms of media are as old as the written word. Our shits adaptive. And if it isn't then we probably need to ditch our approach to discourse anyways, so fuck it.
This is a really cute and human reaction from Fukuyama. It's also a clear example of AI lowering the barrier to entry for programming, which seems unequivocally good and empowering.
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This is a really cute and human reaction from Fukuyama. It's also a clear example of AI lowering the barrier to entry for programming, which seems unequivocally good and empowering.
Oh man, that's so crazy. Thanks for bringing this stuff to my attention, I never would have heard if not for your posts. I really appreciate the consistently thoughtful commentary you always bring to the table.
December 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Oh man, that's so crazy. Thanks for bringing this stuff to my attention, I never would have heard if not for your posts. I really appreciate the consistently thoughtful commentary you always bring to the table.
Genuinely can't tell if there's actually an absolute monoculture on bluesky or if it's just a case of discoverability being dogshit compounded by a UX that's excessively focused on limiting interactions. Or maybe a symbiotic combination of both.
December 14, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Genuinely can't tell if there's actually an absolute monoculture on bluesky or if it's just a case of discoverability being dogshit compounded by a UX that's excessively focused on limiting interactions. Or maybe a symbiotic combination of both.
Avoiding negative polarization by periodically reminding myself that failure and regression has been the default for the left for pretty much it's entire history.
December 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Avoiding negative polarization by periodically reminding myself that failure and regression has been the default for the left for pretty much it's entire history.
The assertion that technology is political in some vague indeterminate sense appears perfectly obvious, but articulating a concrete sense in which tech could reasonably be interpreted as political is really hard. This can explain why contemporary tech discourse is so frustrating.
December 12, 2025 at 5:38 AM
The assertion that technology is political in some vague indeterminate sense appears perfectly obvious, but articulating a concrete sense in which tech could reasonably be interpreted as political is really hard. This can explain why contemporary tech discourse is so frustrating.
Horkheimer on type theory in his 1937 essay "The Latest Attack on Metaphysics." In retrospect this bit really undercuts the conservative philosophical position he's trying to shore up here in a funny way.
December 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Horkheimer on type theory in his 1937 essay "The Latest Attack on Metaphysics." In retrospect this bit really undercuts the conservative philosophical position he's trying to shore up here in a funny way.
It is necessary to put the square pegs in the round holes.
June 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
It is necessary to put the square pegs in the round holes.
Kinda sucks that politics is mostly just building cargo cults around dead socio-political traditions of the 19th and 20th century.
June 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Kinda sucks that politics is mostly just building cargo cults around dead socio-political traditions of the 19th and 20th century.
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I’m going viral on the other app because I posted “acab includes my mom because she grounded me” i’m facing a lot of verbal abuse & mockery from people that haven’t read a word of mom abolition theory or even watched a video or read a zine or even an article or even a twitter post or even a skeet
March 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I’m going viral on the other app because I posted “acab includes my mom because she grounded me” i’m facing a lot of verbal abuse & mockery from people that haven’t read a word of mom abolition theory or even watched a video or read a zine or even an article or even a twitter post or even a skeet
Gonna start posting again. I forgot how, but fuck it.
June 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Gonna start posting again. I forgot how, but fuck it.