I really hate how my group has shifted to doing weekly status report meetings first thing Monday morning. It is destroying my soul.
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While Dark/Magic is my headcannon, Dark/Fire is my OTP. Is it better to be the best ending, or to be the true ending? Social Justice Ur-Priest.
Cassandra is not doing great right nowAI is the logical extrema of those kinds of problems, where my labor is co-opted against my will to directly undermine my own immediate labor interests and to profit fascists who want me dead.
But the pattern is not *new*. Search engines and other automated indices have, for all the immense good that they do, also taken a lot of creative labor out of its original context in ways that can undermine or subvert the original creative intent.
Trash Panda
swachterApparently my ongoing evolution into full crone includes dropping bangers like "it's reprehensible that a bunch of men stole everything we ever wrote and want to sell it back to you" and "aren't you scared that the most unethical people who ever lived know so much about you" and "we eat three billionaires and the rest fall into line" on unsuspecting grad students who are trying to tell me that AI can be used for good
JPcrush this wherever you encounter it. crime numbers have not appreciably changed - what changed is that SF got a mayor that billionaires were happy with, and the doomloop narrative machine was wound down. rents are up 20% in the last year, homelessness is still really bad it's just been relocated 10 feet outside this guy's line of sight. tech is a scourge, SF is not a progressive or leftist city, it's been ravaged by decades of neoliberalism.
Clayton CubittRepost in the wake of the recent centrists vs Mamdani/DSA discourse
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Thomas FuchsLeft-wing parties in Europe could OWN making human life safe, comfortable AND in harmony with nature.
Instead they’ll be like “well sorry that you suffer and die when it’s 44°C out, but air conditioning is completely out of the question”.
They could frame it as “there’s this amazing thing that will make everyone safe and comfortable in hot and cold times, eliminate all emissions from heating, save everyone hundreds or even thousands of Euros in energy costs each year, and be a big investment in European companies and local tradespeople plus make us independent from Russian gas!”
Eric Stein �You're obsessed with issue cycle time, I'm resurrecting tickets from 10 years ago to finally work on them because the conditions have changed and their hour is finally at hand; the prophecies are fulfilled when the time is right.
We are not the same.
Greg EganLots of regrettable silliness here: two papers by Max Planck (!) have been retracted, probably by some automated process that based the decision on the same material appearing in another journal (which was far more common at the time, and even Einstein did it) and a rebuttal to a work being published under the same title (but not author) as the thing being rebutted.
But the funniest line in the article is:
“Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.”
AnarchoNinaWrites"Trump, who has been the subject of three assassination attempts over the past two years, added darkly: “I’m sorry to say but the assassinations of those who oppose them is a very important element of their ideology. Assassinations are a big deal for them. They are animals!”
Two of them were wingers. Literally, other Nazis are trying to kill Trump and he's like "this is why you must let me destroy the left/install the Pork Reich."