Not to facedox too hard, but my old roommate is on the ballot for governor.
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Not to facedox too hard, but my old roommate is on the ballot for governor.
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If social media companies still believe in the first-order utilitarian frameworks that caused them to clamp down on speech around covid (suppressing discussion of things like vaccine skepticism and lab leak), then i think they have an obligation to clamp down on anti-waymo speech.
I for one think institutional credibility is a real resource that can be spent down trying to ban inconvenient narratives, and do value letting people express dumb opinions. So I don't support social media banning anti-waymo speech.
But if you are doing utilitarianism without institutional credibility and don't value the freedom to express dumb opinions, but do value safety then maximum self-driving expansion is clearly the way to save lots and lots of lives. And attempts to slow / sabotage it need to be aggressively stopped.
I guess there's no real official statements from anyone (except X and to a lesser extent Meta, but I'm unsatisfied with Zuck's follow through) about why the rules changed around covid narratives (accumulated decreases in lethality, rejection of speech control as a tool, less govt pressure)
If Diablo II: Resurrected is going for nostalgia, they should require Daemon Tools to play it.
I went to an “American style” cafe in the airport for breakfast. They offer ham and cheese croissants and don’t have drip coffee. For shame!
People like to say “only in SF,” but I’m at a pizza place in Amsterdam and a table of women next to me (two millennials and their mother) are talking about Elizabeth Holmes, Caroline, SBF, and for some reason (what don’t I know?) Demmis Hassabis.
The DoD vs AI labs kerfuffle is really just SaaS “you will own no (software) and be happy” ToSocracy applied to FedGov.
"Alcoa Aluminum Corporation placed a series of advertisements in leading American magazines to promote aluminum for a variety of design fields, including aircraft framing, automotive fabrication and architectural construction. I was commissioned to create a speculative advertisement which appeared in Time magazine depicting the use of aluminum in a high density cliff community overlooking an urban riverfront."
-Syd Mead, referring to this 1969 artwork
The most deranged thing about the modern software shop is that I need to 2FA every 24 hour to view my Google Calendar but I can pull and push out source code with an ssh-key file that is not tied to the machine and never expires.
I watched this Veritasium (who I'll admit is a bit cringe to still like in 2026) video about the not-so-mystereous disappearance of Amelia Earhart recently. What struck me more than the chain of events itself, is the way Derek (the creator of the channel and "Mr Veritasium " himself) portrays a character like Earhart.
In elementary school Earhart was a bold brave pilot and a symbol of women's achievement. In Veritasium Earhart was overconfident to the point of foolhardiness, and when conditions stopped being ideal the hubris lead to tragedy (c.f. Krakauer's Into Thin Air). Derek does try to assign some blame elsewhere suggesting that Thompson should have taken on more responsibility to correct her (which it self is kind of backhanded).
I just can't imagine 10 years ago a big channel putting out a video about this icon of women in aviation and how her death was the result of overconfidence and being in way over her head. And if he somehow did I can't imagine the video not getting brigaded and Derek not getting cancelled.
Tfw you think of a good pun but the llm doesn’t get it and tries to correct you.
scheduling reblogs for 12/31/24, 8/25/2033
Oh my god, the mad man’s done it again:
See you next year!
Pentiment Act II moral intuition spoilers. Folks who haven't played Pentiment, I recommend you stop reading and go play Pentiment (by Obsidian Entertainment -- their most interesting game since New Vegas imo) right now. (Or at least scroll to the next post and put Pentiment in your backlog.)
If you still are here and haven't played Pentiment (or just need a refresher), in Acts I and II the game presents a murder and leaves the player to solve it. Though there are a lot of suspicious characters with motives and circumstantial evidence, there doesn't seem to be a single suspect with an iron clad case against them for either murder. Still the game makes you pick someone to pin the murder on.
In Act II specifically, there is deep unrest among the peasants and even from some of the burgers about rising taxes, interpretations of leases, and access to the woods by way of the abbey who are the feifholders of the area. The unrest turns into open revolt when the town carpenter who leads the unrest is murdered, leading to the peasants sacking the abbey and driving the monks to hole-up in the abbey library.
With all that out of the way...
It's kind of nuts how many fans seem to excuse Brother Guy's embezzlement from the abbey because he claims to be funneling the money for the benefit of the oppressed Jewry. I'll give committed utilitarians a break here even though I'm not one (at least certainly not at the micro scale), but it seems like a large portion of the fandom excuses it because it is "for a good cause" without it even giving any second thought to who he's harming. It's clear that the abbey being broke is a direct cause of the Abbey putting the screws to the farmers. Guy himself suggested to the Abbot taxing the farmers harder to make up for deficits (and even if he didn't its the obvious play).
Does any of this make Brother Guy directly guilty of the homicide? No. But it is pretty clear he is more responsible than anyone for the unrest that lead to the peasant uprising.
I don't fault anyone who threw a different suspect to the mob on their own earnest weighing of the evidence (or just to see all the endings, it is a game after all), but I am kind of shocked by how many fans go oh Smol Brother Guy he just has a kind heart and is trying to help the oppressed Jews. It's not his money to give, and the abbey and by proxy their tenants are really suffering from the loss of the fruit of their land.
Pentiment out here making me feel bad for not keeping up with the folks who used to be important in my life
The radical DST idea that we are almost but not quite ready for is to smear it 1 minute a day across two months.
Networked clocks would be fine, but there are still a few too many non-networked clocks.
Using a man's murder to virtual signal about how evil your political opponents are before the bodies are even cold isn't really that admirable, either.
yeah this is fucking ghastly
"I'd never use a murder to score political points, now let me make this murder about my political opponents and how I hate them"
I think on balance I’d rather have people be performatively magnanimous and then immediately self congratulatory without taking a breath than performatively vitriolic about these things 🤷♂️