Name somewhere more protected and through which more wealth flows in the setting? The High Lords and the Adeptus Mechanicus basically run the Imperium, as much as anyone can be said to
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Name somewhere more protected and through which more wealth flows in the setting? The High Lords and the Adeptus Mechanicus basically run the Imperium, as much as anyone can be said to
Holy Terra + Mars
Good
you should play Helldivers
"what if we did audio logs but they were good" sidenote is the ODST venture the fault of Helldivers? I am assuming yes
well, half correct they have dignity as people they just choose to forsake it, and should be ashamed of that
MMO guilds
he seems to have switched sides (for now), so hey, they need a right wing crank of their own back
Sunk (time investment) cost fallacy
now picturing someone archiving Fox News entirely in .rtf
Moldbug
It's a phrase I've pulled out on occasion over the past 9 years, for Reasons
the banality of surreality
This is a fun tool and you should play around with it to see how your income would stack up in other parts of the world. I think people do not grasp how diverse incomes really are between countries.
"Elon Musk has made his AI put on a new production of Cats and we will be making it mandatory viewing in school curricula"
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Some of the brightest lights I’ve known have been forced to eat shit repeatedly in their careers. And they were the “lucky” ones—in that they were able to stay in the game. Many more just got completely pushed out and we never know about them except as faceless statistics.
“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃
how many AI technologies could you write this exact sentence about?
Or you just need to revise how old you think juniors will be by the time they get first jobs
I keep forgetting that part and every time I am reminded I wince
Quite possibly, yes. Though as that last Nordhaus link shows, they also seem preoccupied with identifying their opponents over pursuing their stated goals, sometimes. (That's the text of a conference keynote, mind you.)
(To be absolutely clear; I think he gets a lot of the basic facts of these situations right! But I think his arguments and follow-up solutions can go badly off the rails, e.g. the fission promotion stuff)
Not as big as it was in this 10 years ago, but again, my point is that there is a legacy to their ideas and arguments. That ideas evolve with time is normal, but the framing and positioning matters.
In the second specifically: Nordhaus positions himself as predicting the movement. He is also the loudest voice for ecomodernism. It is not unfair to critique the two together when powerful figures use their terms as smokescreens for power.
They have a lot of reasonable ideas but the way they talk about them - and about those who disagree with them (not a problem unique to them, granted!) - gives space for cooptation and extremism.
That paragraph is immediately after one talking about how the only solution capable of doing that is nuclear fission.
They've drawn the link themselves quite explicitly in the years since. Have Nordhaus and his colleagues's own words: 1. thebreakthrough.org/articles/abu... ("participated in a panel with ... Klein") 2. thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-2...
Oooof.
(Though he stands by much of their past work together, on which one's views may vary)
In the name of that fairness: Ted Nordhaus has specifically and explicitly disavowed his past associations with Michael Shellenberger, which is worth noting. thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-2...
I will give several of the authors credit that I don't think they agree with the broader project these words have been twisted towards -- many of them seem as sincere as Klein does! -- but that doesn't remove the fact that the terms and frames they prefer align with, say, Musk or Thiel.
But they've been, collectively, publicly advocating things like nuclear fission's wide adoption and scale-up and natural gas with CCS for ~20 years, in the name of "human prosperity", while downplaying challenges and disadvantages with those techs and arguing renewables "can't meet human needs".
The origin point of a lot of this stuff is the aforementioned manifesto: www.ecomodernism.org/manifesto-en... (PDF at top of page here) Skim the authors; key people include a range of academics from the very serious to the often-accused-of-climate-denial. Also Schellenberger, who went full racist
Day ending in -y, really
the AI partner ecosystem is going to be its own entire genre of short form video horror that some regulator will pass an anti-porn law over only to create some loophole that causes new nightmares
It wasn't co-opted, it came from them. Eco-modernism types have always talked about "abundant human flourishing", and the alignment with these groups and people has always been close enough to make the arguments uncomfortable.
Why are people once again falling for, quote-posting, and spreading an account that has posted 3 non-replies in 9 months and is now spreading false rumours about unusual activity at Walter Reed due to normal gate closures at normal times? The account is obvious bait.
I don't care how many times you all screenshot his posts you can't make me read anything said by Nate Silver post-2019.
That aspect only intensifies as it goes. One of the late game optional areas has a zone name pop up of "The Path of Pain".
"A scholar's politics should be invisible in their research and teaching" is also a standard that is only remotely applicable to a tiny fraction of academic subjects. The vast majority of them are inherently political! And if a student asks how research/funding works, an honest answer is political.
Oh, damn it. deadline.com/2025/09/grah...
it's almost as if the entire thing is constructed and bad, yes
it's not aristocracy if you have to be appointed to it
Throughout the years I was TAing in Canada there were a *lot* of instances of "oh, wow, we failed to make sure you had the English skills to be here, this is irresponsible of someone at a way higher pay grade than me" students. Blatant institutional money grab. Far from a majority! But it happened.
Three simultaneous reforms needed: 1. *much* stricter oversight of the trades colleges, since there were genuine "letting in 2000 students, taking their money, then they all just go work and drop out" problems 2. TFW program reform 3. better enforcement of TOEFL standards at universities
1. time served 2. British citizenship 3. British noble title 4. money
Conrad Black has been broken since long before Twitter existed. Also, he gave up his citizenship, we should stop platforming him like he cares about the country.
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Do a survey of Canadian tech workers who moved south or (fewer) to Europe lol. I guarantee you "they pay 2-4x" is a major response.
#3 could be done by using government tech and engineering jobs to force wages in those industries up towards industry standards. we under-pay and it causes a brain drain consistently.
I like that my dumb before bed post sparked actual responses lol
this is a significant part of our national history (not joking)
at least it's not the way Canucks fans talk about the entire province of Alberta
the secret is that Canadians are smug about three countries rather than one (the US, the UK, and France)
One of the most common things I tell colleagues here in Asia who apologise for their English accents is "don't, you speak more languages better than I do, the accent is proof of that"
every time lol
Analysts, journalists and scholars have been so shaped by a late 20th century world under US hegemony that they assume a global system shaped shaped by a dominant power is the norm Yet for long stretches of history the world was defined by disorder and chaos with no hegemon
Record temperatures come amid scientists’ warnings that climate change is causing more frequent extreme weather events.
Don’t think anyone likes dwelling on that one right now, but yes. Asia too.
Whoever taught Tumblrites the concept of appropriation can never be forgiven
This might be your funniest post, Don
the formal term is "alt-academics without institutional jobs" tyvm
Marketplace of ideas, what a bad fucking metaphor. If it ever truly existed, one must then imagine the unregulated marketplace of ideas. The black market of ideas. The wet market of ideas (well, that was Twitter, but now it's here). The futures market of ideas.
No imagination necessary, that’s what it means now
The series epilogue in 7 has always felt like a fan fiction a teenager stayed up until 3 am to finish in one go on a school night
New Folding Ideas, it's good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKPM...
Phil
hey i didn't say it to *you* I kept you out of it lol
time to open the Bad News app and scroll until I see a cat
(Tangentially, anime is also an outlier in that initial quoted list in that quite a lot of it very much is intended for adults, which makes these conflations and generalizations harder)
If you meant the sale: Rosetta Stone sells a package with all their languages for lifetime access, which is what I was referring to. I paid $280 CAD in 2023 for access to their entire online system in perpetuity
I have no earthly idea, the only Korean words I know are foods
Rosetta Stone is better if you go for Japanese. Also regularly goes >50% off on sales for the lifetime purchase option
“Meta wants to put the manosphere podcasters out of work”
That seems on brand for at least 20% of the community so that’s probably effective advertising tbh
Every piece of news about him makes me look forward to him washing out of the 2028 primary for someone with morals even more
Well, the list of books being banned from EPSB is appalling. And it's very likely that an author on this list will get their other works pulled too, especially in the absence of teacher librarians. There are books on this list that changed my life. This is what the UCP is taking away from kids.
Pretty much, but if it’s buying hardware, the question of where the money goes does come up
It does make me a little paranoid that their website is super gung-ho on libertarian American terms though lol
There's some Linux-first platforms that already have these, see: puri.sm/learn/hardwa... (I have not used any of their products and do not know of their quality)
I'm not sure we can call it a fad when it dominates most industries and is the terminal Entry Level Workspace solution for new hires and juniors, though. It doesn't go away.
I hover between 110-130 depending on the test and whether I slept properly that day. 10 years ago I could hit 150 but also I was 24 lol.
Voice interaction definitely has use cases, but it has probably just as many "uh, you should not do that here" cases.
Oh, yeah, definitely agreed. Academic research is also full of these - any Zoom call could be an interview or a research chat with confidentiality concerns, etc. This very much sounds like a tech someone pitched based on watching too much Star Trek without thinking about how it looks in context.
I am also an outlier in that even though i speak very quickly when left to my own devices I can still type even faster than I talk, so, this stuff is all "no, no thank you, never" for me lol.
The pitch in the press releases a few weeks back was very much "a voice version of the Windows Recall feature everyone got mad about earlier this year", so this one boils down to "there's a reasonable way to do this and then there's what the marketers are saying".
I'm not sure we can call open offices a "fad" after nearly a century of bullpens and open plan offices existing
unless they permanently log off the day they become rich, I don't think we even need to press x, the burden of proof is theirs
I feel like we can safely assume "poorly"
As someone who works in an open concept office: if two people have a Zoom call at once, no one else can hear themselves, sooo
okay I now have to share the absolutely terrible idea I had in response to this prompt yesterday: Tom Clancy's Bear as in this one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(n...
Northern BC + Newfie family + strong Maritime influence from time out there for a bit + travel all over the country. I confuse people.
auto-voice detection and transcription has convinced me whatever my mix of Canadian accents is, the bots don't get it
Dan
ah so *you're* the person Microsoft is picturing with their "voice as first class interface, no one works in open offices anymore" Windows 12 pitch
also smog
CNN is reporting that the perpetrator's name was legally changed in 2020 after a petition filed by their (using that pronoun since it's in some question) mother in 2019 (perpetrator was still under age at the time) edition.cnn.com/2025/08/28/u...
it sounds like you're just describing rubber ducking with more arguing with the duck
I think you're describing a remedial boarding school, not a group home