good! i stopped following it that closely post end of twitter 3 years ago. i do remember trepidation around non deregulation policy.
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good! i stopped following it that closely post end of twitter 3 years ago. i do remember trepidation around non deregulation policy.
non issue, not nearly enough pictures to engage a kindergartener
i genuinely struggle with these stories, with discovering what exactly the people who rule over us believe, it is always a shock to my system
Isaac Chotiner interviewed Biden's close friend and last ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, and in the interview Jack Lew explicitly defends Israel killing children. Lew's defense of this is so offensive that Isaac Chotiner interrupts him twice and then says outright that he's wrong.
that’s what we need here / i think how it works in qc? is there a registry i can look up? how do i know a lord ain’t fibbing?
what’s the enforcement mechanism? technically a lot of these moves are also illegal but good luck proving your building was malicious unmaintained. does rent stabilization bind the unit?, ie rents can’t float to market between tenants above a certain price increase?
these people’s books would show large financing costs on the assumption they could squeeze the tenants and short of a rental unit registry to enforce rent regulations on a per unit basis not clear to me how to tackle this on a good faith basis
a common pattern in Toronto is: - private equity firm/REIT identifies a building with low rents - they borrow a lot of money and buy the building - they buy out or harass existing tenants to leave (ie refusing to fix anything) - as units turn over they renovate and score higher rents
about to head off to canoe in algonquin park for two nights and three days with two kids problem: weather forecast says it’ll be 10C and rainy. of course, my partner does not think this is a problem, so to psych myself up i’ve been chanting MISERABLE IN THE WOODS 2025 WOOHOO
the point here is that nature produces people who exhibit characteristics from both phenotypes and often can still reproduce. bimodal but not a binary. some people really do have both. so insisting on a strict binary is (drumroll) a social construct. there are two, but also a spectrum
everything i have named is a real kind of intersex condition but there’s over a dozen types/i don’t know all their names off the top of my head. ambiguous genitalia is typically how intersex individuals are diagnosed so i suspect there’s a few different conditions that produce it.
we’re so close! yes we’re on the same page now. phenotypes are not strict binaries. you can be naturally born and develop traits associated with both phenotypes. bimodal, not a strict binary. what sex are you if you have both a penis and a vagina?
let’s say you’re an androgen insensitive individual. you don’t produce gametes (iirc typically infertile) but while you have testicles your body looks externally female since your cells don’t respond to testosterone. what is this individual’s sex?
okay but sex are you if have ovaries and a penis? what if you have a vagina and a penis but don’t produce gametes? what if you produce both sets of gametes?
basically, Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed.. Scott (1998) 😉
in summary the claim isn’t that there is a secret third gamete only that what we commonly think of “the set of organs and hormones and traits” that belong to one sex or the other sometimes naturally both manifest in a single individual. bimodal but not a strict binary
this range of traits is controlled by a number of different genes and processes, so you can’t sample a single cell to figure it out. some people are mosaics: in útero two twins merged into a single being, who now have some cells with xy and some cells with xx and so both sets of hormones organs etc
this paper is about the evolution of gametes. we’re not talking sorting gametes by size. sex as commonly understood is about the set of organs/traits that are correlated with a sex. some people/animals are born with both a penis & vagina, or have an overlapping set of 2ndary characteristics
thinking about the political economy i wonder if it has to do with the advocacy work being ultimately funded by real estate developers/some tech (also why so many of them are if not hostile then curiously silent about public housing, dislike rent control, only care about deregulation)
i’m not? i just feel like i understand the underlying impulse. why were you so quick to call me fucked up? 2025 has been a hard year for everyone
its a symptom of the death cult grinding us into paste
which part? ppl without kids don’t understand what it’s like to be a parent. i can’t read up thread because that dingus blocked me but there was a lot of “why are parents like that???” and imho the answer is having kids makes you 10x more anxious and we live in a sick society.
absolutely it’s unhinged behaviour it’s crazy no one should do it i just understand the causal mechanism. our society drives people insane
hi friend, my kids aren’t old enough to read yet and i am pro banning phones. take a second and re-read my post; i am saying that i understand the impulse to check in constantly because we live in a sick society, not that it is good or worthwhile
tbh kids are so segregated away that imho most people without kids don’t really understand the experience
i’m explaining the underlying psychology. i’m all for banning cars guns phones in class maybe phones in general tbh and prison for zuck personally
not to mention car centric built environment. every single moment of modernity in my lifetime has been a one way ratchet removing your autonomy and trying to squeeze the joy out of your life
i feel like i can tell who is a parent and who isn’t by reading this thread. having a kid gives you 10x the anxiety you had before. no, it’s not rational, but also we live in environments designed to make you go insane (shootings, media boosting crime, ecological collapse, rise of fascism, etc)
if by manipulated algo we mean “infiltrated the management structures & won over the owners”, that feels more accurate; it’s not an accident that youtube and facebook have been pushing and boosting far-right content by default for 9-10 years, it’s an active editorial choice they leaned into
i think it’s more “industrial waste product (desalination brine) can be used to generate power”. also is that photo just the power generator or the whole desalination plant?
FINALLY Palestinian chef Sami Tamimi speaks out on Gaza, appropriation and his falling out with Yotam Ottolenghi
these past couple of years has taught how most people are sheep & the only comfort i can draw is that they don’t feel strongly about the fascism either, they’re just going with the flow
you can trick people into buying itunes gift cards but you generally can’t tell them “ignore everything you know”, at least not in a *single* shot
espera lá somos nós a fazer a grande substituição na frança?
another angle is people are gullible sure but LLMs are gullible in ways that don’t make sense to people. i’d trust a person reading an adversarial text more than an LLM right. so whose values are being expressed? if we’re in a dark forest sitch poisoned input is gonna be super common
is it better at it than _the average person you would *normally* ask to research the question_? ie a knowledge worker who has research skills and understands how portfolios work? there i’d say probably not by contrast the average person is terrible at harvesting crops cos that’s a learned skill
imho we have to be careful about these comparisons. when ppl talk about “this LLM is an expert at task x” often the task has been defined down or the target population has been defined up, to wit: the average person has a high school degree & doesn’t read books bsky.app/profile/davi...
*no credible evidence, whatever
more narrowly i am not a philosopher of mind/language but reading the machine say “there are no credible sources” irritates me profoundly. CREDIBLE TO WHOM? who are you to judge credibility? lol. it’s all cognitive sharp edges
the evil giant egg man who would happily sell my children into slavery says this is the future and frankly opposing every thing he says is in 2025 a useful and good heuristic
what trips people up is that the lizard people vcs hyping up crypto and the metaverse in 2021 — which, is it fair to say that its only purpose is gambling and fraud? — are the same folks hyping up LLMs and promising that it will replace your doctor your therapist your best friend
Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... Feels like a good day to re-post this column: Even in war, attacking medical facilities must remain off limits. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
Mark Carney did this. He ran against a quisling troll so vile, so obviously corrupt, that despite representing the ineffectual incumbency everyone hates he squeaked by — and then within two months went back on every significant campaign promises
Graffiti Artists Assemble
MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry
Also the underlying mark cuban quote is plain wrong can you imagine warren suggesting the us gov’t take TEN PERCENT IN EQUITY god were out here talking about 1% wealth taxes
the curse of being a lesbian is that your girlfriend will look better than you wearing any article of clothing you own
in 2025 it’s effectively a tarpit for progressive energy. it will only waste your time
remember when biden resigned for kamala and the us news was like How will we cope with so little time before the election??? and they still had 3x more time than the longest Canadian election ever
funny how wanting to hang out around nazis is a sign of intellectual curiosity and rigor
the idea that twitter is a place for effective activism is frustrating because if your activism goes against the goals of one of the most evil men alive today he will go out of his way to silence you & render it ineffective, ie the word “cis” gets auto censored & i’m sure queers’ reach is penalized
this is so sweet!! i feel like i have to watch it now
kids are great, they’re something else
> Those who leave Twitter are sacrificing their ability to advocate for the change they seek. girl i can’t use the word “cis” because it gets auto censored wake the fuck up
additional thoughts: - what does it mean to advocate for *staying* in the nazi bar? - what does that say about you? - she seems to have a very naive view of what an adversarial algo platform can do; if x were to become useful for advocating for something opposite to elon’s interests he will stop it
thoughts i had while reading jerusalem demsas’ essay on why it’s OK to stay on twitter: - of all the things you could have written about to inaugurate your new centrist pub you chose this? - i wish i could explain to you that you deserve to exist with dignity - libs prefer nazis over queers i guess
store person, grimacing: shoe size 12? that might be a challenge beca— me: sigh yes i’m familiar with that challenge
the eggman wants to trap us inside robots surprisingly plausible
when i see stories about this i think about how they’re signalling that they want to be lied to archive.ph/2025.08.22-1... “i want 50% of code to be written by an AI by the end of the week or you’re fired!” “sure boss yep there you go boss yes ofc boss except the mission critical inner loops”
it was foolish to spend two generations boosting their power, and the power of their shareholders, and yet even now people in “our” coalition are allergic to doing anything about it
(want to reiterate i fully agree with your stance that it IS our job to educate, it is our job to show we deserve dignity, that our lives are in fact enviable because we live in freedom and in joy free just i guess tactically we have to do it without embedding THEIR vitriol and critiques)
could you really reach anyone who wants to be ruled over by a king? or are you just a foil, will you just be a stooge that shores up the propaganda? this is not a hard and fast rule but i’m inclined to believe better to invest same effort applied elsewhere they still need us to legitimate them
re: your panel @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com it depends on the debate! i recently saw a promoted debate b/w curtis y*rvin and some presumably non fascist philosopher over whether we ought to be ruled by a despotic CEO or have some kind democracy & the framing felt stupid & insuperable
an example that’s stuck in my mind is ten years ago david graeber visited the west bank and his take away is that environment was designed to breed fascism in everyone’s heart and that is what comes to mind when i think of both “inevitable” and the many other environments designed to breed evil
i like “homophobia as a fear of what makes us human” angle because being gay is perfectly natural. the more we look the more gay sex animals seem to have, 5% of birds are intersex and so on. what’s unnatural is enforcing such rigid norms — what’s unnatural is filling your heart with hate
two meditations on the word “homophobic”: - it ironically literally means “fear of the same”, when it actually represents a fear of what is not normal, what is different - you could also misread it to mean “fear of man”, ie a fear of what makes us human
i suppose the fantasy was that ppl who spent a lot of time defending liberal ideology would not immediately crumple the second their self interests were threatened even a little
i’d like to respond to the rest of your thread but there it feels like we’re casting the current end game as inevitable instead of the actual total victory, the intentional desired outcome of the governing coalition after 3 generations of effort towards this goal
i meant in the sense that i don’t know that we feel shy about applying the “g-label” to other conflicts! it’s always easier to add up the moral score if you’re not directly involved. the ambiguity the sense that it’s a trap happens if you have sympathy for the perp 😝
most people are ideologically incapable of parsing this argument but “if it adds net new private cars to the road then it is a catastrophe” is probably the strongest objection
lol and the equivalent for a human cab driver would never get reported. it’s a tricky issue! hard to get over my deep distrust of the companies involved. i rode in a waymo exactly once and it felt unsettling mostly because it felt like i had less control over getting out (“eh here’s fine thanks!”)
no platforming is very effective but it’s only ever applied to ideas that threaten the status quo. dunno what’s actionable in there beyond “most punditry & policy debate is bullshit”
to circle back and chew thru this, eh idk. i feel like on a micro level daily i bear witness to scores of people wasting time engaging with what are clearly specious arguments, a pantomime of bullshit, time that would be better spent advancing better ideas
what exactly is the moral trap though? this is only a sensitive issue because of who the perpetrator is
i thought i saw a post this or last year about how waymos deadheading around big events clogged the streets, tho that applies as equally to uber the other “regulator asleep at the wheel” story broadly we can prob all agree that “your very own on demand private car but cheaper!” is a disaster 😝
does a third party get to keep track of data and look into accidents or is it all still on “just trust me bro”? iirc the griping is also about how they add to congestion and have elaborate accountability sinks ultimately downwind of feeling like there’s a toothless regulator asleep at the wheel
Not only do I want all the drugs we already have decriminalized but I want them to make new recreational drugs and I want them to make them often
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ftm macduff mtf lady macbeth feels right
it's don't kill yourself thursday. repost to don't kill yourself
In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:
The old world is dying, and the new world is so fucking stupid dude
a lot of people posting shit like “if isaac chotiner called me i’d hang up” but that’s weakness to me. i’d pick up and simply defeat him with my fun anecdotes about myself and how cool i am
you can’t win arguments made in bad faith, because they’re don’t care about being right or wrong — they only care about you losing. by no-platforming i always thought: starve their propaganda of attention, focus on your own positive arguments cc @interfluidity.com
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reactions: - i immediately started giggling. it really is a brutalist cube built atop of a highway - “carvalho grove”? ah so northeastern seaboard - it’s kind of handsome! - wow does it ever encapsulate the year 1976, this is a picture of modernity
i saw the computer modern and i thought that’s cute this b got some css going but then i saw the table style in 3.8 and now im like oh yeah this was generated from latex that is the level of punishment happening here
sadly its the law and we must all adapt (to seeing the nice photos)
have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...
kinda reads the opposite: the coding editor startup has to offer support for the single most dominant story in programming right now, but they’re skeptical and incentivized to believe people will keep typing in code editors vs handing it all off to an agent
i can forgive it in the slides app but in the docs oy vey. david will hate the faux environmental angle but there was a whole paper on how everyone is (my interpretation) juicing engagement via dark ux patterns: computingwithinlimits.org/2025/papers/...
another thing that drives me nuts: they’ve added a 🆕 option for hallucinating images, in the insert menu; it’s placed *above* the option for uploading an image. in my BUSINESS DOCUMENTS surely i am uploading screenshots or meaningful diagrams more often than a bullshit illustration, no?
the way they lavish praise on donors you’d think hospitals are utterly dependent on them except i looked it up once and its <10% of their budget, just reputation laundering
google docs inserts a sparkle icon, that i’ve only ever clicked by accident, every time i select text. being force fed it is definitely an experience i have.
it’s because we’re cool and original and unorthodox thinkers
naturally it is because we are discussing “AGP Mart”
He’s always on your mind
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.