We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.
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We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.
Johan van Zanten in @trouw.nl, zaterdag.
Just last week I was in the queue for a club for over an hour and this guy just waltzes up to the bouncer, shows him his eurosky handle, and is let right in.
“Any simulation is inherently algorithmic—it must follow programmed rules,” he says. “But since the fundamental level of reality is based on non-algorithmic understanding, the universe cannot be, and could never be, a simulation.”
Same reason why “Artificial General Intelligence” is impossible.
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
To take this seriously a sec: when your political-economic system allows massive inequality to explode, it creates a class of people who have no material problems but do have the resources & power to make their trivial irritations the central business of politics—at immense material cost to others.
I don’t remember Trump campaigning on Americans needing to make financial sacrifices for foreign wars. bsky.app/profile/atru...
I'm deeply skeptical that the "questions" from the vaccine-hesitant are actually good-faith. Once you've decided that decisively discredited weirdos you found on the internet are more trustworthy than doctors you've bought into an epistemology that facts can't penetrate.
Something something active boycott against their pro MAGA public stance
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
It’s been around for decades.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN
don’t let anyone rob you of your joy about kristi noem getting fired. we get to have a day.
Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.
Painting of a snowcovered trail.
Painting of the Great Falls of Paterson, NJ
Painting of Hemlock Falls, South Mountain Reservation
Painting of a park trail in a sunkissed park, late uatumn afternoon
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Physical confrontations and brawls between Nazis and antifascists were a regular occurrence in the German parliament (Reichstag) at the end of the Weimar Republic. This guy would have fit right in.
he what
This ghoul has finally been fired. But make no mistake, Stephen Miller is still in charge of DHS and especially ICE.
WHEN I MOVE, YOU MOVE bomber jacket drop cc: @rachelholliday.bsky.social onlyny.com/collections/...
There’s nothing quite like starting your war of choice with a war crime.
Geniale poster in #Someren 😁 ❤️💚 @sdsomeren.bsky.social
This applies to 98% of my LinkedIn feed. You know who you are.
Ik moest hier van huilen.
Oh my god they killed Claude!!
so many problems both like Societally Big and literal just person-to-person interaction for me are rooted in the other person being deeply uncurious
every day now i wake up and ping her over signal and hope for a reply. one of these days i know i will not hear back.
israelis target civilians.
israelis target hospitals, doctors and patients. they will eventually target the hospital her father built.
mass casualty events are their specialty.
