welp, if the rent guidelines board has staggered appointments, i guess we just need to keep mamdani in office for several years.
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welp, if the rent guidelines board has staggered appointments, i guess we just need to keep mamdani in office for several years.
fascism's evil is sufficient to fight it, but it's also just bad at making things happen (things that aren't "let's all kill each other"). it doesn't make the trains run on time, it keeps you from having better trains, and in the end the train gets blown up.
yes, it gets into difficult to stomach territory because the moral aspect is so overwhelming and constantly relevant. but using people (capable of an almost infinite diversity of capacity) only as tools to carry out some small amount of tasks is incredibly stupid and shortsighted. freedom = more.
yeah, it turns out that effectively doing the things that power life is hard actually. what a surprise that focusing all of one's efforts on hurting people hampers the whole "make things, make money, avoid disaster" effort. (this is not a problem for con men)
worth noting that Silver speaks of left and right winning as if its a cyclical, orderly and regular engagement kind of thing, bc he is very very very stupid and concepts like history and struggle are nothing to him.
like, the path back to responsibility and rationality isn't suddenly traversed by changing an opinion or losing an argument. if you seriously think about this person and where they're at with an attitude like this, what should they or the people around them do? how does it actually happen?
i'll post into the void and note: if an adult earnestly talks about "a wake up call re: incorporating AI into my professional and personal life," it's an indicator that, for this person, so much has gone wrong, so much learning wasn't done, and yet they're a functioning citizen. what to make of it?
same experience. "it's not like i can't play civ games, and i played my share of koei when i was a kid. AND YET"
yes. i loathe "accelerationism" as "it's good actually to make things worse and undermine the protections we have, to Wake People Up," but also trump called a lot of bluffs. it's worth learning more from that than "calling bluffs works" or "bullying works." like "*why were they bluffs*??"
doubling down when you've made a mistake sucks.
it's not terrible to misread a post, but it's a good idea to slow down and reread after your critique gets an angry reply. we *are* in the aftermath of lockdown, even though the pandemic continues. there was nothing to correct in the first place.
does that work involve more than posting? does it interact with any "systems"?
this is exhausting. why do you think the usa still functions? please go outside and do actual work to help.
it was already answered above (local officials).
probably you'll stop them by doing this.
i know this all ends in blocks and nothingness, but also: please think about the idea that there is "no precedent" for "trump cannot do this" specifically around laws and the constitution. do you really think he has done everything he wanted to do, and was never stopped by US law?
the reason you don't know how to convince people that "these people violate rules" means "these people can bring about literally anything with their infinite power, and there are no systems in this world" is that the latter doesn't follow from or mean the same as the former.
pro-newsom / "BUT STOP INFIGHTING" is instablock.
"so like, intersectionality means that my identity can mean i am NOT bad, but that some people who share my identity deserve to be murdered. that's it right? can we just get clear on who we're allowed to hate now, at least? like, as a leftist i mean."
white ppl + the concept of intersectionality = okay, let's back up and move real slow...
“It’s specifically there so when we want to wonder what an AI would do or think, we have it right there,” this is a college professor...
big fan of aftermath, but i agree with this call for accountability. this is a huge story, with implications both for games and way beyond.
the comments lead me to believe that hn commenters are not any tech savvier than they were when i stopped reading 10 years ago...
i hate that it's necessary to interact with people who just make stupid shit up. "have the child do embodied things, Because We Don't Engage With Reality and Become Dysphoric." why do people want to legislate based on stupid shit they make up? "I Think Baby is Life at Conception" just idle thought.
when my bsky time is over i will turn into a car and be driven away
refuse to correct typos on reply to deleted post.
"being open to" vs "being convinced of' (some delusion) is a matter of pushing the question (and the object) back. you believe all of sorts of contradictions, which is fine.
still: there must be some level of delusion because imperfect knowledge yields incoherent reality, but we insist (very understandably and practically) on using classical logic-ish logics when we play our various games (who am i game, what does it mean to care for ppl game, etc)
also, even though the Sopranos is all about whiteness, what it means (what kind of forced delusion it entails), who gets to be white, what the consequences of shared lies are etc... the Wire has actual stories about characters, and deals with systems, not just symbols of systems.
yes. "but you'll vote for him against trump right?" no. this is why he needs to not run. he is shit. not complicated.
and, paradoxically, if left/center politics DON'T give them that chance, they'll always be out-evil'd by the right.
i'm speaking out of my depth, but i think a lot has to do with how conformist people (essentially, at least in aggregate?) are. when a bad/evil idea is widespread, politicians have to give voters a chance to be good. they'll come around eventually, but they'll say/think evil shit on their way.
back in 9/11 times, libs had a pretty easy time understanding that "IT'S COOL THAT YOU'RE MUSLIM, BUT YOU CONDEMN 9/11 RIGHT???" was racist. leftists can at least do as well around this form of antisemitism, come on now.
it's wild that people don't see "you are accountable to ME and you, as a jew, must clarify to me whether you are a zionist" as flagrantly antisemitic. if one can ride their intellect to understanding basic feminism, antiracism, etc, they ought to be able to spot such antisemitism in themselves.
online tone clarification: it does *not* sound great.
thinking, without the individuality, context, or effort. sounds great!
absolutely, 100%. see also: how captivated audiences (especially current tech thought leaders) are by Blade Runner and "what if robot/AI is like a human?" where the unspoken subtext that makes the idea powerful is clearly fear that "the Other" is a person (in US context, this is entirely about race)
i see her showing up with people i respect and i'm like "no no no, friend... no no."
directly "resisting fascism" by endlessly emailing people and asking them for money.
if there's bad to be done, and people with means who intend it, there's no trick to "make it impossible." resiliency comes from empowering those who are attacked. a better system is great, difficult to game communication networks are great. unequal power and resources ALWAYS matter.
i think the irresistible aspect of "billionaire proof" is similar to the promise of bitcoin empowering economic behavior (and, ahem, laws). it's not just a formal property of "our system" that allows it to be attacked and gamed by those who have a lot of power. there's no tech safeguard shortcut.
at least as long as he's been a public figure, he's always been this dense.
the time she cornered a murderer and manipulated him into the delusion that she was his mother, just to fuck with him (already had evidence he did it and had convinced local police). long mind torture scene. murder she wrote = earlier, better hannibal
(myself, i can write a decent policy, and i can recognize good or bad pedagogy, but i cant design good pedagogy)
"if ppl would only follow my policy" = stupid "design my policy to get the most out of what ppl actually do" = smart "design my pedagogy based on what ppl actually do to help them follow my awesome policy" = the dream, but no one with those skills gets support
yeah, earlier on there was this pseudo fear-mongering about "it thinks like us, what happens when it surpasses", but it's never actually thought like people, so the thing it *actually does* is never going to be "do what humans do only better." it cant improve on a thing it doesnt and cant do at all.
there's been a fundamental argument happening around "are resources (at any scale) limited or not?" for longer than any of us have been born, and it's mindblowing. once one sees they're on the wrong side of it they need to rethink.
an example is white supremacy... the very recent history of our current "AI bubble" / obsession should make this obvious. you don't need to be *that* in the know to know who timnit gebru is!
yes, and of course there are better systems for dependency, control and manipulation of information. those very systems are being used to hype AI to impose its religious function (:. it's not that genAI *isn't* an effective tool for surveillance, disinformation, etc but it's not the primary one.
Strongly agree re: shared knowledge. Also: in practice, easy to automate = well documented and designed. Which part is the real virtue(: ? (in IT context, I think "not worth thinking about" = at best a task for team members to graduate from, at worst a failure of planning / strategy)
so crushed i failed to close the second paren that im quadruple posting in shame instead of delete and repost. things ive automated to avoid maintenance are local fileshare/media stuff, niche use laptops, and (absurdly) musical instruments. all broken.
((lol this is so autobiographical it gets embedded in 2 parentheses, but i HAVE tried to automate out maintenance on personal things bc im lazy and only intermittently a nerd--and those things *invariably* have broken!!)
(i dont like to say too much about myself on bsky, but this is coming from someone who has "stood up" and owned several IT and infosec systems, including designing and deploying quite a bit of automation...)
i dont want to criticize without too much context, but "the point of automation is to make maintenance go away" sounds like someone who's never been responsible for infrastructure. the (insofar as its good/you want it) point of automation is continuous improvement. you still track automated stuff.
need a world where one can get depressed / uninspired and just fuck off for a few weeks, then a baker muscleman does some silent sweet thing and it's back to going on foot pedal flying device dates.
hard to believe this is even real... it's not a paragraph, it's an outline. jesus.
fear: empowering people broadly will allow them to scam and exploit me reality: disempowering people broadly is why powerful people are allowed to scam and exploit me
the whole SNL legacy is just hopping the line between "speaking truth to power" and "isn't it hilarious that i'm so privileged i can do whatever i want and not give a fuck." moderate/left have a lot of trouble seeing how close that is to "ppl who make me uncomfortable are bad."
right! like, samuel beckett enjoyers laugh at the absurdity of ace ventura, and at best tolerate (but in fact are blind to) the virulent transphobia, etc... and maybe the absurdity *is* funny, but the JOKE is "can you believe i got away with that? i just SAID that to her, can you believe it??"
i also feel like, even though i am an anonymous person who 99% replies, it's still 100% valid that "people whose perspectives i like and whose words i want to read" may not fully overlap with "people who want to read my words." it would be weird if that WEREN'T true.
i've totally had moments of "the right can't do humor bc they come from the wrong place," but then i realize that's so much cope; i have seen comedies about baseball made in the 80s. i've seen successful comedy careers of white guys complaining. i noticed how frat-adjacent alternative comedy was.
its interesting how, regardless of your education, you ought to see this is true re tech bro "materialism." pre-philosophy school it's like "i bet brain more complicated." post-philosophy school: "oh, computer and tech are more complicated too! so much the worse for positivists/tech bros/etc."
I don't have any like, big data / study insight on this, but i think if it weren't for Rudy, bsky would be unrecognizable relative to what it is now. it would be so much worse, and not just for Black users. the debt is large.
accessible to provide a sensationalist headline to sell papers and clicks. maybe points to some flaws in the system...
IMO appreciating the difference between "echo chamber" and "having boundaries and self-respect" is kind of a social media maturity litmus test. copious blocking is wisdom. I've caught 1 or 2 stray blocks from people i follow and i respect it actually.
i dont mean to be condescend in the answer being so simple yet "things are complicated, don't infer too much" but that's really IMO what's up. the deeper/finer grained you go in recent history, more you see stuff that just became "acceptable"now was always there,ppl that had it worse still lived,etc
similarly, you see women STEM PhDs in many decades; there hasn't been a decade where women in STEM aren't being disciminated against. as for the flavor of particular times, varies by so many factors (geography, $$, etc)
70s before my time too, but its the same dynamic as @chanda.bsky.social implicitly mentioning above and below: don't confuse successes or basic human interaction with the norms and systems being good. Black ppl in USA were revolutionizing the music of the entire world while it was illegal to vote.
similar to how the 80s were a time of racial harmony, bc Black people were in punk rock, the Beastie Boys existed, etc. then identity politics "resegregated" us; I've heard this ridiculous argument/belief more than once from older white leftists/liberals.
i mean how important is protecting against discrimination against legal speech, really? or speech generally? i mean, in terms of say, enshrining values in some sort of document, like a mission statement for a nation or a legal system.
a viable career strategy for white men is learning to see who's powerful and who isn't, make friends with people that help you, and act like you confidently belong in relevant scenarios. these 3 things are helpful for anyone, but can be completely sufficient for ppl like fallon.
yes!!! i watched robert altman's 3 women the other day, and it had me thinking a lot of fairty tale theatre, among other things. shelley duvall was so good.
10000%
my own path from childhood to employment has always had me thinking "do what you do with integrity, but release entirely from the results." pretty bleak (:
i see below you say you have no idea (:. the above are "ideas" of mine, but not like suggestions, just brainstormed "why could this be the case?"
i'm curious what you think drives it. aggregate of a lot of cope? mistaking a genuine appearance of such bought bias for such bias (when in reality there's another explanation, like word of mouth / critic mindset leading to homogenous reviews)? pure misinformation w/in game dev industry?
it's pretty annoying that so many people are working with a model of the world where they need "everything to change" / "we're in a new era" for things to be different and important. myself i'm partial to the "i didn't know / was wrong, oh now i know!" model.
it's notable that such antisocial behavior (NPD) gets pathologized by the mental health profession. whether such thought is valid or not, it *just is* the case that when someone needs to dominate all the time, they separate from basic rational behavior. it's not a neat package / hollywood story.
--and of course really predictable. if i can't be responsible for myself and the people around me, so i perpetuate a bad system... why would i be ready to be responsible for myself and the people around me just because the system ends up failing me?
the drama of believing that if you pay into an evil system, you deserve to get what that system promises as an output, and then when you don't get it you need to commiserate with people who were either not welcome in, preyed upon by, or resisted that system... is exhausting. shameless.
lol that's a block
would you believe the advice has actually been common on the left since before even this century, and that the idea that "the left" tells people to be ashamed of being a man is profoundly stupid?
"give men advice how to get laid" treat people you're sexually interested in like human beings, cultivate self confidence and genuine interest in things, and put some effort into conveying that in social scenarios. you don't need to trick people into sex. "no, like real advice"
i don't mean to ascribe this belief to the quoted speaker, but "the privileged had it but no one else did" is like believing that the problem with euro colonists was that they don't share existing wealth with indigenous people. of course there was inequality in america, but the trend is destructive
(the question of: could a Black woman win in 2024, or could Harris have won in 2024, is like... of course the answer to both is yes, it just depends what variables you change. and there are so many reasons that people don't vote, believe conspiracy theories, etc etc. it's too hypothetical)
i agree: there's many reasons she lost, you can't infer from it that no Black woman could win, and further, a Black woman could win. i also think the contrapositive of the original statement is likely false: had she not run, dems would likely still have lost. the context of the election was very bad
"i'm not a transphobe, but i'm obsessed with creating a taxonomy of types of trans people and listing which ones should be allowed to do which things."
working class, etc. if the targeted group is such that the listener feels sympathy inflected with a little bit of shame or distaste, all the better.
the infuriating thing about AGAB discourse on social media is that most ppl understand the real opposing sides here are "people who need to make terfy generalizations" vs not, but the temptation to "WELL ACTUALLY I SAY AGAB SOMETIMES HERES WHY" is too great for many posters to resist.
we must hurry up and do all those things we're being forced to do before the guy forcing us goes to jail or dies.
this is literally the only take on this commercial that i want to hear. yes, there's other stuff to unpack... that *probably won't* be getting unpacked by this exhausting flurry of people shocked by the commercial.
trump voters believed obvious lies that we and several other shills softpedaled or ignored. turns out the lies weren't true
(final ramble follow up: men gloating about how awesome and feminist they are to women MIGHT end up getting them laid, but explaining and living feminism around other men might be a bit more helpful! [obviously women noticing a man's feminism isn't bad, but it doesn't demand a parade])
(same thing for basically every relationship of violent privilege; non-queer queer "allies" roasting transphobes/homophobes but not interrogating how their own behavior harms queer ppl around them, men championing women; the list is long)
to put it another way, it's important for white people to not pile on individual white people for some racist shit *when the pile on is used to hide (consciously or not) one's own racism*, and there can be growth, learning, healing there. Black people don't need to hear about that *at all* though.
even if you abstract away from fame, i think if you really look into the incident it's one of those things where 1) yes, it's good for people to own and name the racist shit they've thought and done, not hide, and 2) it's perverse to make that heroic, 3) it's cool if ppl he hurt don't forgive him.
yeah, heard he was a pretty racist mayor too. you can kind of take your pick for the cancellation reasons.
"let's not fight 'amongst ourselves', it's what they want!" (time passes) "i can't believe he's betrayed us and our ideals!"
The hardware store experience ™️
when i was younger, i very intentionally and forcefully figured out my values and tried to live them. i did pretty well, but i was still a jerk whenever i felt attacked (which was a lot). later i realized i just couldn't be smart and ethical AND always dissociated. need to take care of yourself.