tech guys are speed running all potential sci-fi horrors. they really did just take the opposite lessons from all the books we all read.
like who even thinks "hey lets build the brain in the vat thing" after hearing about boltzmann brains all your life
maybe we should have kept bullying nerds
The small risk that "biocomputers" could be sentient makes building them deeply immoral. The fact we are doing it without first having figured out consciousness is kinda horrific 2 me
I'm pretty confident they aren't sentient but like the small chance they r makes me horrified by their existence
Billionaires don't want billions bc they want a luxurious, happy life. That's not what billions buys. Exquisite luxury for life is what $100M buys.
Billions buy something very different: Control over other people.
The wealth tax is an issue of fundamental freedom and functional democracy.
there has gotta be a name for this. it repeats in so much stuff.
the constant warnings of danger can serve to just desensitize us and normalize it
climate change is another example. all we talked about in the 90s-2000s and now everyone is like guess we all die whatever
I feel like we beat torment nexus discussions to death so much in the past decades that now we are starting to get actual torment nexuses everyone has tuned out
reminds me of how nuclear dangers were all academics talked about until it was an actual thing and then people were like whatever
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
Every ten minutes or so I just mutter to myself that everything is so fucking stupid right now.
I knew someone would put LLMs in autonomous weapons but the fact our military is gonna do it is bonkers
They are gonna cause skynet but instead of having goals and going rogue it is gonna be a language model glitching from bad prompts
This dystopia is so fucking dumb
Vincent Van Gogh - To Theo van Gogh. Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, on or about Sunday, 3 or Monday, 4 June 1888.
You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays
lots of lefties have this fucking idealized view of other leftist countries because they think the poor people there support e.g indigenous people or queers because they r kinder or more loving or some shit when really what happened is the leftist movements there won the progranda battle
I genuinely believe that even a muslim trans woman could be elected to the presidency if she offered a clearer narrative 4 why poor people r suffering than MAGA
poor people are not conservatives they r poor and conservatives were the only group that offered them narratives for why their life sucks
neoliberals try to convince u that poor people give a shit about anything but their constant distress because they don't want you to know how easy it is to get them to vote for anything and anyone that offers a path out of constant suffering
Because they saw it happen in other countries
Policies that supposedly r cared about in red states and make progressives unelectable r only cared about because progranda convinced them that their suffering is being caused by whatever it is
e.g lots of people really think trans people r hurting them financially because of gender affirming care
It is always some centrist both sides type of guy that assumes I'm MAGA because of my background
This says a lot about why people from red states like humans like Sanders and hate e.g Biden or Newsom
Democrats have judge poor people vibes
Stop thinking centrists r more electable they aren't
Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.
They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
The science doesn’t seem so settled after all, and it’s important to understand what happened here. The approach of left-of-center Americans and our institutions — to assume that when a scientific organization releases a “policy statement” on a hot-button issue, that the policy statement must be accurate — is a deeply naïve understanding of science, human nature and politics, and how they intersect. At a time when more and more Americans are turning away from expert authority in favor of YouTube quacks and their ilk — and when our own government is pushing scientifically baseless policies on childhood vaccination and climate change — it’s vital that the organizations that represent mainstream science be open, honest and transparent about politically charged issues. If they aren’t, there’s simply no good reason to trust them.
This is anti-vaxx logic. It is not "naive" to accept the conclusions of experts in technical fields.
this is the meme. sherry is based af
it took me until my 30s to figure this out.
also making a lot of autistic women friends helped me figure it out. autistic girls very much mask by being bubbly and they do it because it works
weird + unfriendly = creepy. weird + friendly = cool
I don't know who needs 2 hear this but the trick 4 not making people dislike u when u r weird and misread social cues is to be kind and friendly
Weirdness makes people anxious and if u relieve that anxiety by being friendly they stop caring u r weird. U just become interesting and cool instead
I can’t doomscroll because I am not doomed; I will never die
this dynamic is why billionaires always have some disabled open source autistic trans dev as their arch nemesis. they fucking hate us because we undermine so many narratives they use to frame themselves
whether someones perceives me as autistic/disabled or just sociopathic seems to depend on whether someone thinks I'm rich or not
Messed up and kinda funny
this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit
you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table
you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from
Every single day I wish Poison Ivy was real
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/t...
Finally! A chair for bisexuals.
My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
