I’ve decided that the both the response to AI and the response to fascism is to lean into talking to more old friends and community, and so far it’s going great.
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I’ve decided that the both the response to AI and the response to fascism is to lean into talking to more old friends and community, and so far it’s going great.
We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.
Blog: “Socialize the Plan” . On AI and Code Review - laughingmeme.org/2026/03/05/s...
OH: "All the discussion about paperclip maximizers is a smokescreen to avoid discussing the implications of profit maximizers"
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
Google AI tells me this is another name for the S?
Jealous
Just a reminder that just the growth in wealth of the US billionaire class since 2020 (start of the pandemic) is more than enough to fund UBI. There are other conversations to have about AI, but that's an important one.
Blogged: The Code has _always_ been the easy part - laughingmeme.org/2026/02/09/c...
Screenshot of laughingmeme.org on August 05, 2003
laughingmeme.org on August 05, 2003
https://web.archive.org/web/20030805190306if_/http://www.laughingmeme.org:80
@volts.wtf I'd love it if you'd do an episode on how China's EV roll out and China's move to cities are interacting. Anything interesting or novel they're doing around e.g. charging infrastructure? Other impacts?
But oatmeal raisin. Sometimes we’re in lesser of evils territory.
Yeah, but could we get these heart warming messages about turning 50 vs 30 please?
Who would use an emoji when we have perfectly good emoticons
if being part of the union does not entitle you to any of the benefits of the union, we do not, in any real sense, have a union
Primary.every.democrat
Updated my yard sign.
I had this heart stop moment for a second there when I confused ProPublica with Politico
How many millions of compute cycles have been spent summarizing the latest Mary Meeker report and could that work have been cached and shared?
Behold! If you need to buy polar bear toys or elephant feeders, there’s a place for that! Which also makes rain barrels.
www.wildlifetoybox.com
A Slackbot message reading, “Welcome to #politics! People in this channel tend to join #drinking and #insomnia, too.”
Thank you for that, Slackbot.
OH: "Nobody wants to psychologically own voting for the dumbest guy alive three times, so they make up complicated stories about it"
Yep. The "4D chess" justifications are out of control right now.
Do you miss American manufacturing or do you miss large union memberships and income tax rates on the rich well north of 50%?
I’m not going to read your “how to defeat fascism” post if it’s on Substack, a platform that actively supports fascists.
I mean we Brexit'ed this week, so I understand your confusion that we might also be a place that would care about mass shootings.
You sound British
Haunted question I got asked and can’t shake is what if @greatdismal.bsky.social’s most influential coinage won’t be “cyberspace” but “the Jackpot”
Screenshot of All The President’s Men, of “Deep Throat” (Hal Holbrook) smoking a cigarette in a dark parking lot with the subtitles “The truth is, these aren't very bright guys, and things got out of hand."
Forever timeless
Economists today are feeling a little like climate scientists for the last 30 years.
Not a fun club.