HELLGORITHM

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weekly sprints where the team’s story point velocity is above average.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

lawsuits good. lawfare better. the left has got to learn to pick the weaklings of the liberal-fascist alliance and start turning them into piggy banks for better lawsuits

A game streamer I’ve gotten into recently is Rhadamant. Found him while learning Ostranauts. Dug into his channel and turns out he’s into exactly my type of shit. If you like management, automation, simulation type games, he’s a good one.

Another reason to not use AI is of course that it's a vector for not only corporate censorship but outright manipulation. You are prompting a system built by and designed to serve corporations' version of reality. And open models won't save you; they're distilled from the corporate models.

They call it cloud computing because they run it on big shitty methane generators that create a “cloud” of smoke in poor neighborhoods.

A young woman from Virginia was in the middle of a road trip when police pulled her over, because Flock flagged her vacation route as "suspicious." This is unacceptable — where we drive is none of the government's business.

The first personalized mRNA cancer vaccine has now succeeded in a phase 3 clinical trial, reducing the risk of melanoma returning by 42% compared with standard immunotherapy alone. www.sciencealert.com/world-first-...

Defender PSA: 1. Today’s macOS update from Apple does NOT appear to remove the compromised eMudhra intermediates from /etc/ssl/cert.pem, as far as I can tell 2. Today’s macOS update from Apples DOES clobber manual changes to /etc/ssl/cert.pem and so you will need to reapply them

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Hope you had a nice time dude!

Just remembering one of my favorite tweets ever

its very funny that there is now a claim that code is cheap because like.. you're still paying devs and now you're paying Anthropic too if you were a solo dev, code used to be free, you weren't paying yourself, but now you pay Anthropic code is actually more expensive now lol

No, fuck that. Just ban it. I’m so sick of mealy mouthed Democrats refusing to take a clear position on anything. Online gambling has been an abject disaster. It’s the next opioid epidemic. Ban it.

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

this is probably true and also points to a failure of our culture to properly constrain digital tech. no one goes around saying they’re a hammer-person bc we have witty aphorisms warning against that, eg: when your only tool is a hammer everything looks like a nail. where’s our anticomputer slogan

When a woman was *killed* by a Disney World restaurant that lied about food allergens, Disney told a judge her grieving huband couldn't sue because he'd signed up for a trial of D+: lawreview.missouri.edu/infinite-arb...

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Between Tim Sweeney being an absolute AI chud and the harassment of our beloved @kenney.nl, we've decided to cancel our previously announced Epic Games Store release for Shape Sender Deluxe 🚮

Capitalism is the economic system in which everything you enjoy is eventually owned by people who hate the thing you enjoy and hate you too

It is in a lot of ways just an abdication of responsibility, of taking a role in forming the political environment. It's the fundamental problem of shallow popularism; you assume you're just a powerless actor reacting to the "preferences" of the "median voter", which is a loser's way of thinking.

There's a constant low-level discussion on English-language bluesky about the electoral consequences of transphobic rhetoric from left-liberals but I think it's honestly worse than "they might not vote for you", it's more like, you're cutting yourself off from political labor and talent.

Change in Abstract

Better parents have committed suicide

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

I spent all day writing the thread in my head about how Bolsonaro's win was the culmination of a 20-year project to end Brazilian democracy, with the participation of both domestic elites and foreign actors like the US state department and Meta. This is all true, of course, except he didn't win.

The shit I put up with

every vibe-coded project right now: "Hey guys! Check out this cool thing I built. It's basically ready or at least will be in a few months. Let me know if you find any bugs because I'm kind of tired of finding them myself."

If you recognize this don't forget to take your pills today

Flu shot was easy. Last year’s COVID booster was easy. This year’s COVID booster is kinda on top of me rn

Espousing transphobic policy "strategically" just being transphobic. Espousing racist immigration policy "strategically" is just being racist. Enabling bigotry, whether or not in the name of political expedience, is still enabling bigotry, and enabling bigotry makes you a bigot.

There are no “great conservative thinkers” and I don’t think there ever really have been. When your raison d'être is to justify your contemporary status quo, few avenues for innovative thought remain. And as the status quo changes, so too must conservatism. Obsolete from the first breath.