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So much of "protect the children from capital" is "protect capital from the responsibility of children" and a nice way for the middle class to wash its hands of the responsibility. Or maybe its better to make it, to clear their own bad conscientious. excellent point. yes their a...

This is taken from the middle of a ponderous substack essay found here . The essay is what it is but this bit sticks with me, especially in regards to a need for control. The bolded bits are my doing. But I don't include the imaged article under discussion, as found on the substack- so if you are in...

When it comes to kids, God only knows. It's a bellyflop. Kids and devices and then turning into adolescences who know how to weaponize them is frightening. Turning grey just at the thought.

The middle class is the conspiracy :) More seriously, I haven't a doubt there is plenty of support with solid reasoning. So much of it is a slow motion car crash in progress: take this technology and those people and this economy and that tendency. There is a sense of inevitability to some of it tha...

I am very aware that complaining about who controls a popular tab can come off as petty and yada yada yada. There are plenty of people who are more aligned with me who would become tyrants with that power too. Frankly, I am GLAD any popular post button slows down or doesn't work. These are nightmare...

I do think twitter has degraded quite a bit tho. every day my non posting account acquires a couple of porn bot followers the main problem is that the feed having popular and new is now, almost, useless. popular hangs around for days, the same posts, the same people. new is mostly random bots and c...

Which reminds me I forgot to add the hubris of medical doctors to the maelstrom.

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and this separates him from the rest of the tech weirdos how?

We are talking about a guy who plans to own human slaves at some point. And by all indications, that's bog standard for the silicon industry.

It's like we took the mania of engineers and injected'em with the malevolence of writers.

From A PC game to a bunch of bastards in the void: How does Void Bastards Work? A game that changes how you play it. ------------- Void Bastards is fun for a few hours with a solid concept but its not enough content to make any of it work for more than the initial few playthroughs. Maybe that's beca...

got anythin' recorded?

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I've been on a hip-hop kick lately.

Brass tacks is that Musk is not better than what came before, outside the shortest of scales. A different kind of bad.

It's a question of would you prefer Mussolini or the 24/7 star chamber.

https://twitter.com/magdajtaylor/status/1790406063474274466 This angle is obvious but there was other impropriety the minute the so-called portal started. I'm incredulous that they thought it was to garner any other sort of attention. Half sentimentalists tryin' their hardest to earnestly communica...

https://twitter.com/magdajtaylor/status/1790406063474274466 This angle is obvious but there was other impropriety the minute the so-called portal started. I'm incredulous that they thought it was to garner any other sort of attention. Half sentimentalists tryin' their hardest to earnestly communica...

Typhoon wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 10:58 pm

NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 10:11 pm

“I would rather be right than rigorous.”

— Stephen Hawking

Gotta be annoyingmaxxing yourself to get to the heart of our condition:



Then there is Wittgenstein's Poker incident

Freeman Dyson: a thoroughly disagreeable character