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@librarycommoner.bsky.social
My ADHD brain sampling a weird intersection of doomscrollable interests. Do people still use capital letters? I'm just barely literate in Korean.
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I don't think it's ageist to say someone who keeps falling asleep during important *televised* meetings shouldn't be in charge of the nuclear arsenal of a global superpower
December 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I don't think it's ageist to say someone who keeps falling asleep during important *televised* meetings shouldn't be in charge of the nuclear arsenal of a global superpower
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the likeliest explanation is that trump has a bunch of low-level physical ailments (like every fucking old person does) that nevertheless collectively disqualify him from being president. you know, like joe biden
Guys, lots of drugs are administered via veins in the back of the hand.
December 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
the likeliest explanation is that trump has a bunch of low-level physical ailments (like every fucking old person does) that nevertheless collectively disqualify him from being president. you know, like joe biden
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there is this almost miraculously interesting new technology, and in the span of that time, in the face of extreme intention to shift it toward something better, liberatory even, everything has consolidated into the worst versions of the systems of hyperscaler control.
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 AM
there is this almost miraculously interesting new technology, and in the span of that time, in the face of extreme intention to shift it toward something better, liberatory even, everything has consolidated into the worst versions of the systems of hyperscaler control.
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Basically every humanoid robot demo since the year dot has been some version of the "Look! The King is in full command of his faculties!!" playbook. Limited, heavily-scripted appearances with intense stage-management, dozens of frantic people behind the scenes and the inevitable bed-shitting moment.
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Basically every humanoid robot demo since the year dot has been some version of the "Look! The King is in full command of his faculties!!" playbook. Limited, heavily-scripted appearances with intense stage-management, dozens of frantic people behind the scenes and the inevitable bed-shitting moment.
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You've got this.
December 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
You've got this.
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That's not what they're learning. What they're learning is that the mass public hates lockdowns and the consequences of them, and it's politically easier just to let it rip.
This is very bad, but it's not 'capitalism' at work here. It's a mass public with bad priorities.
This is very bad, but it's not 'capitalism' at work here. It's a mass public with bad priorities.
By Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social
"The UK says it won't even bother when the next pandemic hits. The lesson most countries have drawn from covid is that letting the old and weak die is better for capitalism. The pandemic was a waymarker on our journey to a harsher, crueller world"
"The UK says it won't even bother when the next pandemic hits. The lesson most countries have drawn from covid is that letting the old and weak die is better for capitalism. The pandemic was a waymarker on our journey to a harsher, crueller world"
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
That's not what they're learning. What they're learning is that the mass public hates lockdowns and the consequences of them, and it's politically easier just to let it rip.
This is very bad, but it's not 'capitalism' at work here. It's a mass public with bad priorities.
This is very bad, but it's not 'capitalism' at work here. It's a mass public with bad priorities.
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@dsquareddigest.bsky.social and I had a NYT piece on this and have more coming soon www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
December 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
@dsquareddigest.bsky.social and I had a NYT piece on this and have more coming soon www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
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This is correct. That’s why here in the Trump Administration LLC we’re bringing back Battleships & Riflemen and massive parades!
“Spending heavily on traditional symbols of might risks shortchanging the true sources of American strength: relentless innovation, rapid adaptability and a willingness to discard old assumptions.”
What. Again, how much did venture capital pay you to write this?
What. Again, how much did venture capital pay you to write this?
December 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is correct. That’s why here in the Trump Administration LLC we’re bringing back Battleships & Riflemen and massive parades!
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"I am Spartacus" but for sex pests
December 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"I am Spartacus" but for sex pests
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I almost made an exponent analogy for LLMs yesterday, now I'm angry I didn't.
You don't want to have (0,1) skill developers and hand them these tools. You just can't afford it. Bad devs are now worse than ever while great ones spin gold on four worktrees simultaneously.
You don't want to have (0,1) skill developers and hand them these tools. You just can't afford it. Bad devs are now worse than ever while great ones spin gold on four worktrees simultaneously.
my new-old blog is not as cool as @nonbinary.computer's but I like the bells and whistles I stapled into it and I proved a lot of things about How To Build Software, to myself at least
in this installment we try to figure out how to at least name the phenomenon where people turn into slop conjurers
in this installment we try to figure out how to at least name the phenomenon where people turn into slop conjurers
Cognitive exponents and LLM leverage
I know a few people for whom LLMs have been a near-immediate multiplier of attention and effort. I know a lot for whom LLMs clearly make them worse at thinking and doing things. So: why?
ed3d.net
December 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I almost made an exponent analogy for LLMs yesterday, now I'm angry I didn't.
You don't want to have (0,1) skill developers and hand them these tools. You just can't afford it. Bad devs are now worse than ever while great ones spin gold on four worktrees simultaneously.
You don't want to have (0,1) skill developers and hand them these tools. You just can't afford it. Bad devs are now worse than ever while great ones spin gold on four worktrees simultaneously.
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it really does crystallize now. they believe that there is one human behavioral template and anything that diverges from it is the creation of online activists, postmodernists, and other bogeymen
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
it really does crystallize now. they believe that there is one human behavioral template and anything that diverges from it is the creation of online activists, postmodernists, and other bogeymen
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who could have predicted that China would not hold up its end of the bargain? I mean, me, in print, and also anyone else with a working brain, but nevertheless.
1) Impose massive tariffs on China
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump to Unveil $12 Billion Bailout for Farmers
The financial aid comes as the agriculture sector grapples with the fallout from the president’s tariffs.
www.wsj.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
who could have predicted that China would not hold up its end of the bargain? I mean, me, in print, and also anyone else with a working brain, but nevertheless.
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Today’s Germans didn’t murder Jews, today’s Japanese didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor, and today’s Americans didn’t land on D-Day. Of course we all inherit the world made by those who did, but we can’t take personal credit or blame for it.
December 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today’s Germans didn’t murder Jews, today’s Japanese didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor, and today’s Americans didn’t land on D-Day. Of course we all inherit the world made by those who did, but we can’t take personal credit or blame for it.
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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sidechat but I hadn’t thought about it till now but steam machines running emulators are going to be a huge threat to consoles right
i keep seeing ads for fake gameboy+emulator that has "21,000 games"
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
sidechat but I hadn’t thought about it till now but steam machines running emulators are going to be a huge threat to consoles right
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Exactly, you'd have exactly the same problem in a centrally planned economy with the same people. Really, what we should have learned from COVID was that now is the time to go all in on ventilation and disinfection infrastructure for any and all closed spaces, starting with public buildings.
December 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Exactly, you'd have exactly the same problem in a centrally planned economy with the same people. Really, what we should have learned from COVID was that now is the time to go all in on ventilation and disinfection infrastructure for any and all closed spaces, starting with public buildings.
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"The Myth of the Constitutional Sheriff"
While ICE is the face of Trump's lawlessness masquerading as law, ICE isn't the key to how got here.
Sheriffs are.
Sheriffs empowered by myths.
3 Experts help unravel their deep roots & bitter fruits. 1/
barnraisingmedia.com/the-myth-of-...
While ICE is the face of Trump's lawlessness masquerading as law, ICE isn't the key to how got here.
Sheriffs are.
Sheriffs empowered by myths.
3 Experts help unravel their deep roots & bitter fruits. 1/
barnraisingmedia.com/the-myth-of-...
The Myth of the Constitutional Sheriff
How Richard Mack led the rise off the constitutional sheriff movement, one of the most serious threats to American democracy since the Civil War.
barnraisingmedia.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"The Myth of the Constitutional Sheriff"
While ICE is the face of Trump's lawlessness masquerading as law, ICE isn't the key to how got here.
Sheriffs are.
Sheriffs empowered by myths.
3 Experts help unravel their deep roots & bitter fruits. 1/
barnraisingmedia.com/the-myth-of-...
While ICE is the face of Trump's lawlessness masquerading as law, ICE isn't the key to how got here.
Sheriffs are.
Sheriffs empowered by myths.
3 Experts help unravel their deep roots & bitter fruits. 1/
barnraisingmedia.com/the-myth-of-...
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In ancient societies, economic power followed political power. Under feudalism, they were the same thing. In capitalism, they're nominally separate. And where you guys are going, economic power dominates political power
December 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In ancient societies, economic power followed political power. Under feudalism, they were the same thing. In capitalism, they're nominally separate. And where you guys are going, economic power dominates political power
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the Thai-Cambodian conflict is at least partially about control of the scam/gambling/prostitution compounds along the border.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
Are Scam Compounds the Real Cause of Thailand-Cambodia Fighting?
Intense strikes targeted “pig butchering” syndicates on the border.
foreignpolicy.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
the Thai-Cambodian conflict is at least partially about control of the scam/gambling/prostitution compounds along the border.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
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The negative consequences of the tariffs were always obvious and foreseeable, the admin just didn't want to listen and now just wants to paper over the damage by throwing money at the most-politically-powerful victims
December 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The negative consequences of the tariffs were always obvious and foreseeable, the admin just didn't want to listen and now just wants to paper over the damage by throwing money at the most-politically-powerful victims
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There’s nothing more representative of the elite impunity that has caused at least 700,000 excess deaths in the first year of Trump 2(USAID cuts) than the claim that it’s not the job of people who shape popular beliefs to shape popular beliefs.
The answer is no, it's not the job of journalists to never criticise the left in case it drives Joe Lonsdale to be more sexist. You could just as easily argue that leftwing over-reach caused that and it would be better if it had been inhibited by more scrutiny. Reality is more complex than either.
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
There’s nothing more representative of the elite impunity that has caused at least 700,000 excess deaths in the first year of Trump 2(USAID cuts) than the claim that it’s not the job of people who shape popular beliefs to shape popular beliefs.
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also you know what else is dangerous to individual liberty? a totally unconstrained executive, which we're seeing right now thanks, in part, to kavanaugh's own actions as a justice!
December 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
also you know what else is dangerous to individual liberty? a totally unconstrained executive, which we're seeing right now thanks, in part, to kavanaugh's own actions as a justice!
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December 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM