Erik

New Beforecast is up! buff.ly/2mCFTLA

I don't actually believe this, if only because I think the actual root of all reactionary thought is Terminal Abstraction Brain. you just have to be screening your thoughts and hitting yourself over the head if you find yourself getting angry or sad over blurring of "natural categories"

talky jev talking to opus is making me fall out of my chair laughing > "led band they're called lady lead live led leading stone the rock... led les less least are the band the leads but" >"led zeppelin!"

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Ink & Switch's approach of being forward-looking while staying uncompromising on both the value of intention in what you make and the necessity of shaping the world to match your and your community'´s system of values is (in my opinion) the most essential message in software right now

my take is that an alarmingly low number of people understand just how bad cyber warfare alone could go. doomers going on about x-risk but not the very real and present problem of infra cyber defense and the very disastrous consequences that could have

I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia

"I think Black people should be able to use the same drinking fountain that white people do as long as it's safe and fair."

updated my priors

Extremely cool person translated lore into Sumerian

48% actually. I keep this graph on my phone

Thank you @danluu.com for making the ultimate case against Ed Zitron: bsky.app/profile/danl...

youtu.be/TyE1XUnAqwA

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

@faineg.bsky.social just walked out of the other room and reminded me I made this. It's not actually the ending of the movie, but the scene works perfectly

I’ve been striving to do this as well, one salient thing I’ve arrived at particularly with gen ai art / music / writing is the loss of specific authorship, how this removes it from the chain of being and erases discussion around the piece and thereby any possible emergent culture

Baby is never too young to listen to the progressive metal masterpiece Lateralus by Tool.

For the three other people that will find this funny.

"As all rivers are lost in the sea, which shows no sign of their presence, so will all peoples be lost in the widening confines of our Republic, with an ocean-bound continent for its unparalleled expanse & one harmonious citizenship, where all are equal in rights, for its gentle and impartial sway."

bsky.app/profile/rekm...

Love this! www.notus.org/perspectives... (The suggestions from the 15 other WaPo veterans fall well short of the moment.)

ambrose bierce on columbus does not hold back:

My new book, Lost Worlds, is out today! It tells a new story about how humanity went from hunting and gathering to the cusp of "civilization" that incorporates all of the stunning new archaeological work of the past couple of decades. I'm really proud of it! www.harpercollins.com/products/los...

Dawkins is a great example that when you have a naturalistic view of "real patterns" but don't have a process ontology, you will end up in metaphysical dualism unintentionally. Minds are not software, they are what specific bodies are doing as they engage with the world.

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

A tale told by, like, a Very Low IQ Person, like, a not-good-brain person.

Ultimately my politics is whatever maximizes the numbers and kinds of AdP:s over time.

Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

No one called out the idle rich quite like Mary Wollstonecraft

hello again! i found this book of tech logos from 1980-1990, what a score

Much like baby must one day “hate mommy” to self actualize, the young hacker news commenter must theorize that reactivity is the original sin of UI complexity