There are whole chapters in Dawn Of Everything about this
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There are whole chapters in Dawn Of Everything about this
Some view it as hyperbole; others don't even know what the words mean. But it's all textbook. Textbook history, textbook political science, textbook psychology, textbook social psychology. Elementary stuff, not obscure. And it's happening in real time, right before our eyes.
Engaging in the great Labor Day tradition of avoiding my family
"Ground" wth?
They could just call the grounds crew to bring the backhoe and wrap things up in one go
I had a lovely dream about Biden attending Trump's state funeral and it ended Jake Tapper's career forever
It was a quarter of a Big Mac he found in a drawer of the Resolute Desk
It's obvious and plain that tyrants love having dependents around to bully, and not the other way around
A real legal pickle
the other thing is that this is so easy to predict and the only reason so many of our pundits have a hard time with it is because they have fully bought the idea that Trump is some pure representation of what the Volk wants.
An actual child could do a better job of describing politics in the US right now than our most sophisticated pundits are doing, because a child wouldn't be concerned whether or not he sounds like a sophisticated pundit.
Any useful codebase is going to be of a certain size, have defined coding/testing/org standards, have business requirement contradictions, etc. and those things produce gigantic context windows and can lead to generative messes that are expensive to clean up.
I do a lot of AI-assisted coding now and I think this is right, but the timelines are overstated. There are still problems that tilt the risk/reward to the John Henry side.
That's just not believable. When you're off by a few degrees that's "poor wording", but you inverted your position completely. Context is important here, "defending gender norms" isn't an obscure thing, it's the load-bearing pillar of the new centrism your contributors advocate.
I'll be honest, I've never seen a democrat say "no please don't implicate my precious bill clinton", I don't know where you're getting that.
I would also like to hear your explanation of this. It seemed like a 180 reversal. bsky.app/profile/alex...
These people are going to meet God one day and they're going to have to say "I paid for a YouTube ad that proved that SOME PEOPLE were getting enough calories to survive and they SHOULDN'T HAVE" and God is gonna press the little red "Straight To Hell, Boy" button under his desk
There's a weird ad on YouTube showing people in Gaza City eating food with a gotcha tagline "there is food in Gaza, any other claim is a lie" as if not starving was some kind of shameful secret
What's the roadmap for that? Be specific.
Seriously it will be like "Let me summarize what I've accomplished: ✅ Performance ✅ Reliability ✅ Single-responsibility principle ✅ Scalability" and there's zero tests.
I know it's not the point but you can't just call something a "nameless evil" and then immediately name it
Evergreen
Good progress, let's keep this up team
Ooh nice I made one similar to this (sweet corn, goat cheese, pickled red chilis) modeled after a pie from Beethoven Market
Claude Code is just as good as a junior developer (lights money on fire, won't write tests)
Vim in the streets, emacs between the sheets
If I remember correctly, this film begins with an NFL player gunning down an opponent on the field, and ends shortly after our protagonists carjack a civilian and land his car in a swimming pool.
The point of this is not that it will work, but that it will form a pretext for election denialism and chaos after votes are certified.
Does he know the word "semblance"?
This is just the "hire more women guards" tweet
STREET KINGS is great but I think it's funny they introduce the bad guys as "straight monsters" and one of them isn't smoking his cigarette right and the other one is Common.
Pretending not to know things
I don't know how to explain Trump's pedophilia, and I don't care to find out, but his various other pathologies all lead straight to his rotten father and mother.
His brother Fred Jr. explains the rest – a sensitive, capable person who tried to build a life for himself outside of his toxic family, whom Donald and Fred Sr. ridiculed and hounded to suicide. Every time you hear Donald call someone a "loser" it's just a proxy for what Sr. thought of Fred Jr.
Trump's daddy issues explain pretty much everything.
Well I heard there was a secret chord (Bb7#11b13)
Frogs don't get a box
I heard some of these "Sun" Chips have sharp ridges on them
This is fking beautiful
Immigration isn't a kitchen table issue, measles vaccination isn't a kitchen table issue, the economy isn't a kitchen table issue, troops in the streets isn't a kitchen table issue, public corruption isn't a kitchen table issue, sex criminal in the Oval Office isn't a kitchen table iss
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Went to the park for a run in one East Texas town of about 8000 and witnessed a white drug dealer serve a white mom and dad while their two kids played. Where are people getting their ideas about small town safety from?
I heard @amandacarpenter.bsky.social say crime and homelessness is shocking to small town folks but whenever I visit my rural Texas folks it's house after dilapidated house with trash and broken down cars in the front yard.
I have folks in a three traffic light town that are like "we have to drive all the way through town"
Would it surprise you to learn this entire series by Kate Conger is left ragebait?
"Holding it wrong" also applies in many cases
His income depends on technology (without which he ironically wouldn't have a following or a podcast) either not working or being actively malicious.
This guy is a grifter and a fraud
*savvy (derogatory)
Whatever you think of Brian Merchant (I think about Blood In The Machine just about every day), his views on this are appropriately nuanced and informed and he doesn't indulge in the hysterics that are fashionable on Bluesky. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/on-agi-mas...
But if you're a hand weaver facing down the first power loom, arguing that it can't do your job is *demonstrated* to be the doomed position. Arguing that it shouldn't change your job is *definitionally* reactionary conservatism. Smashing it with hammers feels noble but ultimately will fail.
And it's not hard to understand why. People feel threatened. Some of the worst people we know are doing the threatening. Their idiotic gooner fans are thrilled. It adds to the stochastic flood we seem to be trapped in.
I've held this view a long time, and usually mean it flatteringly - leftists work to conserve the environment, the working class, human dignity, the American system of government, all noble things! - but it's hard to argue this anti-AI sentiment is anything but classical reactionary conservatism.
There are many people on this website who can make nuanced, thoughtful, informed pro/anti arguments about LLMs and the fact that they're drowned out by the "useless slop plagiary" consensus shows we've been applying the "conservative" label to the wrong people this whole time.
The thing is, though, that those who have found industrial uses for these things aren't asking the approval of doubters.
They couldn't make it past the minimum qualifications
It's just a matter of geography; Chavín, Teotihuacan, and Ukrainian megasites were architecturally sophisticated
It's not unlike the prosperity gospel stuff
I get that people feel threatened and that Sam Altman is a repulsive wormtongue but this isn't an effective way to fight back.
People who are trying to get an LLM foundational model to do arithmetic and count b's are really missing the point
I feel strongly that people are choosing deliberately stupid evaluation criteria.
I run and lift weights and at no time has either of those pursuits been pleasurable.
One thing I love is a 5000rpm fan whirring at ear level, I am very smart
Among other things, free-range parenting is strongly correlated with self-involved, distant, emotionally immature parenting.
There's an aspect of parent peer pressure that's hard to explain, but none of us want to be seen not helicoptering even though we all know it's a bit excessive.
Illicit miniature horse racing promoter, reading the last paragraph: "yes, yes, YES, oh, dammit"
Never liked the "two kinds of people in this world" frame but Disco Elysium definitely cleaves "it's humanity's only achievement of any value" people and "WTF it's barely even a game" people.
Drum machines absolutely caught shade
Fully charged
Oh and I forgot credits! Want to know who produced Let Her Dance? Want to know who played bass on Still The One? It'll tell you!
Also my friend said "oh dang i know somebody who has Tidal? That's like knowing somebody that has a boat."
Tidal rocks in every way. Sound quality is excellent (a lot of stuff is uncompressed), algorithms are solid and the curation is top tier. Also, it's music-only, no goofy podcast bros.
He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime He asks you with a grin if you're having a good time He fines you every time you slam the door I ain't gonna work for Maggie's brother no more
He cheated his way through a third-rate business school
Government data is a critical input for companies making CapEx committments fwiw
do the people who try and kill someone with kindness know about hammers
"We're gonna have it fixed so good you'll never have to vote again..." Trump 2024
I don't know her but I've been surprised to discover how many of the parenting podcasters are psychopaths.
Wow, Ritchie Torres sucks
Feels like I could turn any Gen Z into a puddle of goo with the first 8 seconds of any Pharcyde track chosen at random
Like, both of us learned Charlie Parker and Louis Armstrong but you couldn't be fucked to listen to one Beastie Boys song, good god
There's a million of those "Millennial reacts to" videos but it's killing me that John Batiste doesn't know "Sabotage", what even is the GenX legacy
This did 10d12 psychic damage, I am rolling death saves youtu.be/xIk0_uFV-rU?...
Democrats are talking about Epstein now because they sense an opportunity to damage Trump. They’re being opportunistic, and some people are speculating beyond the evidence, but the evidence is real because it was a real criminal conspiracy!!!
Also news to me that Ghislaine spent a lot of time in the spa at Mar A Lago.
Oh Texas is hot? Glad we sent you out there to discover that, Meriwether Lewis, looking forward to your report on the Oregon Country
This album is so dope
I think a lot about the thing Graeber/Wengrow observation that elected office is an offshoot of competitive political competition, in the same mode as sports and early warfare, and that the only true representative practice of democracy is sortition.
The coup was supposed to be that, why is this any more salient?
I've been saving my Levi's 510s for a moment like this
Another facet of this is that Trump, his lackeys, the Project 2025 crowd and the gen-z manosphere Nazis and "business conservatives" like this guy all have divergent non-intersecting goals. Even within the administration they're working at cross purposes.
again the utter stupidity of all this is crushing. under Biden construction was booming, fat contracts for companies and good pay for workers, manufacturing coming back. and then most of the people who specifically benefited the most from that elected a fascist imbecile who is tearing it all up
That's right. And in that way, while Trump isn't really the worst of these guys, he is the singular lens that can focus their evil. Nobody else has the juice that would bring the Voughts of the world to power.
Most Youtubers, for reasons that are beyond my reasoning, will not use a short shotgun condenser mic. This is why they fail.
We need to court the stupid vote