Oldboy Bebop

LMAO

i mean this both on the micro level: people were doing digital phrenology before LLMs, and on the macro: juicero and theranos required no generative ai. code fluency and familiarity with a codebase is no real guard against any of this, and may actually contribute to the problem.

Same guy that campaigned for the conservatives in the UK in 2017 and ate absolute shit. Pay no mind

Iranian monarchists when this whole thing ends with some ice-chewing psycho IRGC general in charge after cutting some kind of deal and a de facto Kurdish separatist state and also they can't even go to Dubai anymore

Almost certainly

whatever the big apocalyptic fears from AI + weapons, the most realistic fear is that it's used the same way a sloppy commander is happy to launch raids based on suspect tips from informants. The AI is a permission structure for targeting, an oopsie-doodle generator that leaves dead civilans behind

Remember when we had a deal with a certain country that was ripped up by a certain admin just so they could do some bombing at the behest of an insane ally.

Also of note: they want to require an ID to go on the Internet or use Internet services like Discord, etc.

ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK you oughta know by now

I don't think there's any utopian cypherpunk goal at the core of this technology. It's a selfish and scorched earth attempt to strip autonomy and good judgement from the world for cash like copper wiring. The loss of public trust then becomes a way to sell privatized versions of what was lost.

Arguably the best fit too

There are a lot of shitass apples we let skate by just because decent apples exist

I asked you because I've seen you post Labor Notes before! Web3 made me very cynical that any kind of fintech is going to liberate anybody. The goal you describe is a good one, even though I don't think open source software will get us there by itself

I'm just some jabroni so pay me no mind if this is annoying, but I figure you might know: has anyone written a non-libertarian explanation of why it's good to introduce financial protocols into social media protocols? I'd like to read a defense of this from the left if one exists

In this case decentralization, and atproto, are a technical solution to the social problem, “we can’t trust that our bosses or we ourselves aren’t fuckwits”; when what is needed is a social solution to demonstrating that the people running a particular institution are not, in fact, fuckwits.

thought this country was cooked for a long time but when I rung up a celsius at walmart and saw klarna pay as a checkout option I knew

Nick Land and all his fellow travelers read for filth in one sentence

Everything about this is offensive, including burning taxpayer funds to host what any EU resident with a VPN can already see

Eye-popping amounts from crypto now pouring into Illinois

Good, I only meant to poke a little fun. I've occasionally seen "all settled land is stolen land"-type arguments that seem to be deployed to minimize the Falklands invasion, which is absolutely bonkers to me. That may not have been your intent at all!

Every time I see this take from someone in a commonwealth country I feel like I'm watching another SpaceX rocket explode, no offense

If anyone needs to sit with "You can’t escape what you don’t like about your life because you can’t escape yourself" it's Fred. That said, it's funny that he already has Scott Alexander hedging

Minimally some Botox. My man's forehead is smooth & shiny like a linoleum floor

White and Black hands grasping, united, one is labeled Coinbase, one is labeled pedophiles. They great together for money.

We should all be skeptical of the marketing around PBCs and purpose trusts. AI companies are using new corporate forms to mitigate against the risk of public backlash.

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The token standards persist in less incredibly-stupid use cases (without endorsing them). What's wonderful about NFTs was the collective recognition of/attempt to immunize against top-down imposition of cultural and financial value to something worthless. The NFT-AI analogy isn't about worth, though

What is it with P.E. dudes who hate railroad workers? Ackman's like that too

DCCC Vendors Work for Corporations Lobbying Against Democratic Policies The DCCC has blacklisted vendors that work with progressive challengers, but it continues to pay those whose corporate clients work to block policies like net neutrality and Medicare for All.

Lobbyist Cheri Bustos will head a new centrist Dem dark money group, Next American Era. Her clients include AI and crypto giants, not to mention ethanol.

As DCCC chair, Bustos implemented Nancy Pelosi's blacklist of consultants who were working for progressive challengers.

Anthony kiedis looking well