Shafer Brown
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Smart, disabled, trying my damnedest to be kind. Part-time wolverine, full-time nerd.
jonny (good kind)RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115832534415373032
keeping up to date with "AI" skills is extremely easy actually, the most sophisticated setup i've seen is just a bunch of markdown files begging the necrotic grooves left in the statistical skin of language to pretend like they are different character archetypes wrapped by a (n assemblage of) IDE and CLI tools.
the "skill issue" FOMO trap is just a trap and the question was never "whether they work or not" but rather "how they reconfigure the dynamics of informational power by dramatically consolidating it in the owners of informational capital."
a libi rosei wake up. the year is 2---. the country i happened to be born in is at war. again. i had no say in the matter, and i will have no say in the next one. i give money to the guy on the street corner. i make some art. i try not to think about the supply chain for each of the material goods that surround me. i manage to not cry. i try not to yell too much in traffic. i wonder how it ends.
Ramsey Nasseron a zoom call Chuck Moore the author of Forth announced that Windows updates have rendered his otherwise working colorForth system inoperable and unfixable. moving to another operating system would amount to a rewrite. as a result he said it's "time to move on" from Forth.
several people on the call thanked him for changing their lives with his language, for giving them a lifetime of joyful work and a powerful simple way of thinking about computing, to which he responded "I can only hope it was worthwhile"
mhoyeTo spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".
ToastieI've never published anything so close to my heart. Hope ya love it.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-11/heavy-metal-is-healing-teens-on-the-blackfeet-nation/
Glyph@nick I think you might be interpreting what I said metaphorically. I do not mean we must stand fast to our principles and purity and not debase ourselves to make arguments to bad people, I mean quite literally that a pretty significant chunk of the opposing coalition sincerely believe that we are corporeal demons, sent from hell to test them. The first case you have to make is that we are human beings, which is unfortunately exactly what a demon would say https://wordandway.org/2023/02/13/democrats-devils-and-democracy/
Democrats, Devils, and Democracy - Word&Way
Contributing writer Rodney Kennedy writes that we will never understand conservative evangelicals until we understand the theological construction of the dominant trope that "Democrats are devils." This has become the most successful propaganda campaign in American politics.
ArtemisThey think it's a game. They think we're trying to score points.
Charlie Kirk is apparently the first time it's becoming real to people that this isn't just a game...that they could get hurt.
They're shocked and aghast. "How can you be so callous?"
We've already lost so many to their violence, & they are scared *for the first time* & don't understand why we shrug & say "oh, this is just how the world IS now. You didn't know?"
Correct opinion, correctly stated:
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
Erik Uden 🚩What I find among the most fascinating cultural phenomena to observe is that people believe all sides are playing fair. Many, especially among the left or liberal spectrum, think that once they've just told the right argument or elaborated on the best point, alt-right figureheads will concede and see it their way.
While it's always good to be able to explain yourself, do you truly believe historical oppression and subjugation was honest?
Governments will call whatever you do equivalent to supporting a crime, make up reasons with tangential or invented evidence for why your persecution is actually justice. No, we're not oppressing the political opposition, the people who we are fighting against are actually “activist judges” and we are against them “abusing” our legal system. We are not against teachers with certain political and scientific beliefs, or of certain skin color, we are against “woke” and “DEI” teachers, and them having to do a PragerU purity test to see if they're woke is just to protect our kids. You wouldn't be grooming our kids, would you?
We're not oppressing protest against a genocide, you're just all in support of a terrorist group, and weirdly every activist group in the country can be labeled as terrorists by arbitrary standards. You didn't make a good point about our complicity in the largest humanitarian catastrophe of this century, your point is actually deeply rooted in antisemitism and I'll shift the discourse entirely there in order to not discuss whatever you're saying.
We are not skipping due process, we've just redefined immigrants as a “foreign invasion” and hence we don't need to tell you where we keep them, grant them the rights to call a lawyer, their family, or what flight they're in and to what country they're deported to.
I've actually constructed a fictional reality in which I'm always right, everything I do is synonymous with justice, and everyone in my way can be disappeared with falsified police logs stating they actually wanted to be deported.
You were never fighting a fair game, there was never a debate. Something needed to happen, and the arguments you're deconstructing are the best justification for that. They're not actually the reason, they're meant for the common masses to stay silent, to silence their inner voice which is telling them that everything is going deeply wrong, which it is.