Beatricks 🎃

don't let your sadness become despair and don't let your righteous anger become interpersonal nastiness, I've been seeing both a lot lately and we're going to need to avoid these if we want to have any hope of building a future for America rooted in love and justice instead of cruelty and cynicism.

the amount of political mailers yall receive in SF is *insane*. I guess that’s downstream of government by ballot prop.

"You can't block someone just for being annoying!" Those are actually the most important people to block

the idea that a city's social services should be paid for one-by-one by these insane discretionary deals on a development-by-development basis is just madness. it's such a tremendous drain on the general prosperity in return for ???

i think cities should enable development according to impersonal rules and then levy impersonal taxes on land to pay for impersonal social services free_speech.png

Bryan Johnson is a tool

Blue Velour just doesn’t hit the same

Nicholas Cage is: Velour

Turns out the combination of sycophancy and lack of persistent experience of reality is irresistible COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/clankor PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

he was right and he was right to say it

100% of early computer research was military, and not dual-use, either. It was specifically for war.

The internet was a DARPA project. The graphical web browser was invented at a lab for calculating nuclear payloads. UNIX was developed as part of the Bell System, inextricable from the MIC. Cell phones are based on military radio technology. GPS was classified .mil tech. Let’s gooooooo

If we’re going to go all the way to “there is no ethical way to work in tech in the United States, full stop” I feel like we should get on with it. It’s a defensible (no pun intended) position, let’s do this

bring back shame for being a huge fucking racist in public

harrington was right, you all fucked up by allowing marxist-leninists and other ultras into your organization

“percent of new housing that is below market” is also just a batshit metric to optimize because you can hit 100% while only adding one new unit, which obviously doesn’t help much of anything

Boston’s chief planner is a true believer in the San Francisco model, in which you make it impossible to profitably build apartments by-right so developers are forced into a politicized discretionary negotiation with the city, which relaxes the rules in exchange for below-market units.

aHhhhHhHhhh

what in the world have Bluesky done to scrolling on mobile Safari 💀

This is one of the larger left-of-center Facebook pages, and I do feel like a few years ago, left-of-center people on social media with large audiences were not using terms like “goyslop”?

the true nature of anthropic is as an accenture competitor

There's a tendency in anti-AI spaces to - because AI is reactionary-coded, thought to be inherently fascist - not consider the ways in which one might be falling into those same traps. I've been beating this drum for a while, but hopefully this is blatant enough to make it unambiguous.

hooooo boy we don't like this no we don't > If you don't speak English, you need to find a different community. We cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated. Since you don't speak English, you can't even verify yourself if it translated correctly. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

I'm sorry but banning non-English speakers because machine translation is unclean is more fascist than anything in the AI space except maybe Palantir's XAI enterprise account

there are lots of things that as an engineer you really should learn how to do but most software is not that, it's just boring wiring of this piece to that piece. a bunch of stupid nonsense that only gets in the way of doing useful work

one thing the advent of llms has really brought home is just how much of what we generously call "software development" is absolutely bullshit busywork that benefits no one and teaches you nothing, just boxes you have to tick on the way to making some dumb garbage

Sam Alito: Nothing overtly racial about these statements!

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

NATHAN FIELDER: So now that you’ve seen it, can you tell me what was funny about that bit? ELIZABETH HOLMES: *smiling like the Smile Demon from the Smile horror movie series* The guy took a really long time to describe what his family’s act was