In related news there is a rising industry of services to detect, fix and remove generative code and slop and substitute tested human-made products, for when your vibe-coded project turns out to be completely buggy.
A quick reminder: LLMs can’t logic or do math. They can only pathway through their autocomplete hyperminds for previous instances of parts of the solution.
2026 Progressives and DSAs are to the right of Eisenhower.
The United States of America has long lost the plot, but then I’ve been reading up on it’s shitty history. It may never have had the plot.
This time, I hope the survivors throw the fucking Ring into the fucking volcano.
George W. Bush still tortured and sent PMCs to massacre entire villages. He is not redeemable.
Frankly we should have been pissed enough to revolt with Reagan. And then we should have been pissed when Ford pardoned Nixon.
Corruption is giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the people. Id est, treason.
I can tell you one that is super applicable to the current era:
Garbage in, garbage out.
It’s a 1980s programmer’s adage in response to the belief by business owners that computers could solve their problems without data, or with limited data, or with inaccurate data.
Cut to the era of LLMs in which we’re asking glorified autocomplete to answer deep, philosophical or religious questions, or complicated political questions or complex logical dilemmas, when they were trained on Reddit and 4Chan.
There’s a 1970s corollary;
The computer is always right.
This is from the tendency of clerks and bureaucrats to, when confronted with conflicts between reality and the data fields in a computer database, favor what the magic box says.
Again, we’re seeing magical box thinking in the present day.
This may be the pipeline we need towards an effective movement to defund and ultimately abolish police forces and committees with unchecked power. We now have a long running data set of incidents in which they erect and abuse systems of control.
They can’t help themselves but immediately engage in corruption and abuse of power. You’d have better luck getting a dog to guard a steak.
We need to start treating corruption as treason, giving aid and comfort to enemies of the people.
It’s not unique to Americans. Many countries have an unhealthy relationship with FIFA, although gridiron football is only slightly short of gladiatorial blood sports. (It doesn’t kill participants, only reduces them to a shell of their former selves.) German football hooliganism is notorious.
I can’t speak for rugby or hockey, which also look dangerous but don’t have leagues as powerful as NFL.
Also the US has boxing and mixed-martial-arts cage matches. I don’t know if those have near-equivalents outside America.
Oh that raid! I remember the event of the raid, specifically but didn’t know it was a Kushner building. Wow!
I assume by he you mean Reagan and not Krugman.
Krugman is a dyed-in-the-wool Keynesian.
In elementary school history, I learned supply-side (trickle down) economics came from Taft, and they failed spectacularly then. I think the only reason it comes back is because it gets resurrected by the owner class, as a justification to break the 3conomy in their favor.
Seriously, the only reason to not have a dictatorship it to make societies more public serving. We really need to start recognizing government capture efforts and capitulation are nothing short ot treason, aiding and giving comfort to enemies of the people and state.
Perhaps the survivors will figure it out.
I’m out of the loop.
Swifties are Mike Pence white? Are they Mike Pence xenophobic?
I learned pretty much this from a Kurzgesagt and maybe some comments from Hank Green. This is not deep cancer lore that only cancer experts know.
During the Reagan era, lobbyists were allowed back into Washington, and officials on both sides (or non-partisan) were quickly captured.
Paul Krugman has a great comment about it. Paraphrased, politicians tend to listen more to well-dressed, well spoken lobbyists than they do nerdy economists.
This doesn’t show the severity of it.
A better pie chart would show:
~ The top 0.001%
~ Everyone else in the top 0.01%
~ Everyone else in the top 0.1%
You’re likely already guessing how the pie looks with those groups figured in.
Note that absolutely everything above $30 million is pure capital. Its only purpose is to make more money.
Note that people this rich can do a lot of incompetent and heinous stuff and still fail upwards.
Note that a considerable number of the ultra-wealthy think of working class humans as NPCs and would rather replace us all with machines that cost twice as much to maintain.
There’s a conspicuous number of comments on this post eager to affirm correlation is not causation.
At first I thought the meme was referring to all the people I severed ties with, because to them, torture, genocide and college rape are controversial and require nuance.
Pelosi has always been a centrist Democrat, in politics for the money and captured by lobbyists. Just a slightly different set than Republicans.
But yeah, it means she’s self-dealing when she betrays her own constituency for the buildout.
Your identity as Muslim does not affect whether I give a fuck about you. I want everyone to have life, health, dignity, and personhood. I don’t care what their religion is.
And sure, I disagree with some Muslims who are authoritarian, or violent, or misogynistic. I also disagree with Christians who are authoritarian, or violent, or misogynistic. It’s the authoritarianism, the violence, and the misogyny that I take issue with.
I had a recent train of thought like this not long ago when Talarico affirmed MAGA talking points about trans athletes in women’s sports.
The number of trans athletes active in the US is about ten. The number of sports injuries involving trans athletes is less than that.
Bit this raises a question about the safety of women’s sports, or all sports, for that matter. Injuries are ubiquitous in sports, all cis-on-cis, with exceptions fewer than a rounding error.
And then that raises the concern of full-contact gridiron football, which is a TBI machine from varsity, through college, to professional. If we’re worried about sports injuries, do we stop caring when it might cut into billionaire profits?
I’m still sore with Talarico about it, but I’m not in Texas.
The problem is no one cares when your daughter gets dunked on by someone else’s cis-daughter. CIS-on-cis injuries in women’s sports are ubiquitous. If youre XX and still built like a brick wall, (the same mold as our women firefighters) then you’re just a ringer.
No, they’re worried about trans athletes and their potential for harm, even though there’s about ten such athletes throughout the US, and the instances involving injuries are about a handful.
And similarly no one cares about the severe (life-changing) TBI machine that is full-contact gridiron football, varsity, college and professional. Then we revel in the blood and profits.
The trans issue is pure right wing propaganda, and essentially just a means for MAGAs to signal their presence to their fellow cultists.
Actually, they serve two purposes.
One is visibility. They let the public and the state know there is a strong public objection to what is going on. It lets quieter objectors know they are not alone.
And two is provocation. All the state needs to do is work around the protest, and manage it as gently as possible, but too often they give into temptation to send in riot control and bust heads. Fascists are totally into the power trip.
When they do put down protests brutally, it rallies onlookers to the cause. Bystanders become sympathists. Sympathists become activists. Activists become militants. This is standard COIN theory and has been for a very long time.
The US should have learned this lesson during the International War on Terror, during the 2014 Ferguson unrest, during the 2020 George Floyd protests. But this regime is not big on learning things.
The argument I hold against conservatism, even classic conservatism is that there are too many people who are miserable, too many people in crisis. And to disregard them, to fail to acknowledge and respond to their state is wrongdoing against humanity.
Of course, post-Nixon conservatism endorsed dehumanizing and disenfranchising the lower strata on the social hierarchy.
MAGA, who disregards everyone not MAGA is the natural progression.
And they don’t realize the plutocratic class even unperson them, and will cut even into themselves as they can.
The face-eating leopards come for everyone.