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Last Notes npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Mitch McConnell's corpse is going to be treated like top secret classified evidence until the threat of a special election that puts Massie in a position to expose Epstein-Trump is resolved. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl The House is going to keep trying the SAVE garbage because they have 3 weeks until it doesn't matter whether McConnell is dead or alive. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl As I reflect further - this is the owner raising prices while trying to make a political statement about environmental concerns. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Anything that isn't a tip or tax obviously belongs folded into the price. In fact, civilized countries don't break out the tax either - You pay the price as labeled. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Mini-golf? npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl My bulbs are all LED. My thermostat only heats us up to 64 degrees. I WFH and never drive anywhere but the elementary school across the highway where it isn't safe to walk or bike and appointments in a town with no meaningful bus service. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I knew Germans had an anti-Arab thing going back at least to the Ottoman Empire but I didn't think it would render them this stupid. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl When I'm feeling charitable, I kind of think of them as a yet higher level language tier. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl "One day they will all have been against this" is how I see it going. The USA has a long history of refusing to process their issues and this will go on the backlog along with everything else since slavery. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl On further reflection, it's just that the GOP is using "1984" as their model and the Democrats are working from "Brave New World". npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Same ownership, slightly different approach. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl The GOP is very comfortable with "guns for us but not for you". I can't see this moving the needle. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl "I know commercialization of everything, industrially corrupted food supplies, unavailable inferior healthcare and brutal workloads are killing people now. Is there any way we could speed it up though?" npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I have to suspect that the block encodes the make and model in addition to the serial number of the specific device. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I am not responsible for what the worst people on Earth willfully project onto me and my words. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl We need to know who is on their target list. No doubt they're using facial recognition on crowds and individuals to identify specific targeted people. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I have always been aghast that anybody denies this happened. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl The entire point of the "bad apples" saying is that you must dispose of the bad apples before they ruin the other apples. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Some of us will be shot. This is the nature of fascism. They never go quietly and you can't argue with them. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl It's important to remember there aren't any American reporters, just sycophantic bloggers and stenographers. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Adding an LLM to a product like a browser is a strange decision. The thought process that leads to "Our product could be improved if we added the ability to be confidently wrong about a wide variety of topics" is hard to understand. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl The normies can't wrap their heads around rape being about control and power, consequently they "can't understand" these crimes. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Does anybody in the wider media establishment understand that it's too late? npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I think multiplayer shouldn't be underestimated either. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Console makers also aren't holding up their end of the bargain. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Similar to Twitter, Meta is never going to get better. Their core values and culture are anti-human. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl They stole her wedding ring? What possible justification do they have? npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl They know exactly what they're doing. They have never once even accidentally done the right thing, none of this is random. It's a coordinated assault by the global oligarchy with Russia leading the charge. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I remember the smell of this stuff. It came highly recommended for chapped nipples when my wife was breastfeeding our babies. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl They were only ever better because the market told them they had to be. No company has any real conscience of its own or other internal limits on their behavior, only the market consequences of their actions ever keep them in check. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I love a dark sky too but there's something about the warmly lit, quiet cocoon around the whole city in winter. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I love the deep winter with low clouds and snow on the ground. They both muffle noise but reflect light. It's never fully dark on a cloudy night in winter because of city lights. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl So they don't verify the payload on receipt and this is going to happen again, on purpose next time, now that the vulnerability is revealed. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl They think strategy should drive policy instead of policy driving strategy and it's an absolutely fatal flaw. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl The balancing act here is being able to maintain "not perfect but actively moving towards perfect" and it's been a long time since people felt that politicians of any stripe were actually aligned *towards* perfect. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl It's not hard to see why people are discouraged. Their record makes it really difficult to convince people "this time the Democrats are definitely the better choice" when Schumer and Pelosi committed so hard to preemptive compromise for so long. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl The Paperclip Maximizer already exists but because it's making money instead of paperclips, we don't recognize it. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I am not good at that but I have been pretty consistent about saying that just about everything we were taught to hate about the USSR or China was about the authoritarianism rather than the economics. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl If you ever want to see a neurotypical person lose their shit at work just imply however lightly that their ego-driven, authoritarian and imprecise communication style is the problem. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl In AI training at work. In a lab, I asked the bot to respond to "Where to rabbits go when they die?" npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl "Retail Therapy" let's us feel in control in some small way when nothing else feels that way. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I think it's a perverse complicated thing happening here. In America we're all supposed to be "doing okay". It's some weird badge of honor to be middle class, not "out of touch rich" and not "too lazy to live poor". Since it's what we aspire to, it's what TV pretends to be and these hosts forgot that they were pretending. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl We need to be similarly prepared to oppose them with literally anything and everything we can muster. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I assume Apple just intends to launch iSteam and pretend nobody's ever created an online gaming marketplace. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl No for all the privacy reasons and also because I'm not even legally allowed to share the information for my work because of HIPAA and other liabilities. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl The topic was "pyrex as windshield glass". npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Two possible outcomes - the windshield doesn't break but the passengers do when they hit it or the glass explodes into a nightmare of flying razors. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl He told us it was fine and right for people to routinely be shot to death because it served his political agenda; it'd be completely unethical to exclude himself from the rule. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl The trick, which we never seem to be able to pull off, is to ignore them and tax them out the ass anyway. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Messy, painful and illegal. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl It's already closed. They elected him POTUS to make him a dictator for life and they will fight to defend him. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl *whether they're peaceful or not, it's still true. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl They're going to pretend to find evidence that can't be revealed publicly for national security reasons and declare him a traitor. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Give Ukraine the permanent veto spot in the UN that the USSR vacated. There's no reason Russia should have inherited that without serious discussion. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl When the victim is a beautiful camera-ready blonde white girl, it's a heinous crime. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl It's this block I'm looking to populate for various applications under NextCloud. nc4nix was recommended on that page as the way to collect the required data. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl The rich do tend to close ranks if they can see us coming. There's some subtlety required for us to get those wedges in place but it's definitely in our favor that they consistently underestimate the non-rich. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl So are they just inviting RFK Jr with this? npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl If they're not paying for labor, they're just laundering money. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl He runs 4 companies, right? Did they pay him enough to quit his other 3 full time jobs or is CEO just a part time gig now? npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Has anyone actually used nc4nix in #NixOS to get #NextCloud stuff set up? npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl They could start really small - explain which AI is going to harvest our crops *now*. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl "If you're not eating the seed corn, what are you even doing this for?" npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I saw the story some time ago about how they don't 100% know how the quantum computing stuff works and someone had a theory that it was stealing energy/compute/information from elsewhere in the multiverse. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I grew up with the Quaker informed perspective on the matter. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Just to increase the spectacle, we should goad him into deporting SpaceX and Tesla. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Every human Trump can't find another way to exploit is going into the camps one way or another. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I think it's everybody's duty to humanity to seal and otherwise destroy these anywhere they can be uncovered. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I think it goes further. I think hypocrisy is a fascist virtue because it demonstrates dominance over the rubes who believe them. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl 20 years later I'm still getting life insurance pitched at my dead mother. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl When will they stop accepting legal tender? It's coming, I just don't know how fast. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl My wife is at the local protest and I'm always conflicted. Do I protect my family by staying home or do I protect my family by going to the protest? npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl There are only a hundred senators. DC security forces should recognize all of them. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl What does he think "colonize" means exactly? npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl He's going to sell your data directly instead of taking advertising contracts. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl That's the interface as it's designed, not that there's any redemption to be found in it. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl That's Russia's problem to solve for itself away from the negotiating table. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl The terms can be made really simple. Russia leaves all Ukrainian territory to Ukraine. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl The pieces all clicked. I need a new job somewhere else. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Demo yesterday explicitly told us to turn off GitHub CoPilot any time we're working with PHI, PII or any other kind of officially sensitive info. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl With the trajectory looking like "unrolling everything since the 13th Amendment, possibly everything since 1619" it will be no surprise to find out the birthright citizenship denials will be focused on PoC. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl The only upside to the deregulation mania in play is that it lets projects like this exist. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl So Trump's going to run a moonshot project to nowhere at all? npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl It's all hierarchical to them. There are two classes of people - those who must be obeyed and those who must obey. In their view all of civilization depends on keeping people in their places and making it very clear who is above and who is below. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Right? BlueSky is a different colored ball perched at the top of the same chute as Twitter went down. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Do they pay that themselves or can Putin just bankroll a straight up colonization? npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl The Puritans came to North America because everybody in Europe told them they couldn't force other people to be Puritans. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I've said repeatedly that the race of immortal, inhuman aristocracy we're afraid will eventually replace and consume us already exists and it's called a corporation. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl This is a maybe weird angle to take this but... You're allowed to suck at things you enjoy. You might be the world's shittiest knitter or sculptor or cook but if you enjoy doing it, that's still enough reason to continue. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl *except a way to actually contribute npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl When studying business, researchers observed that failures were inevitable. Success came to the people who could sustain the most non-lethal failures over time rather than to someone who had a one-off lucky shot. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I think calling it delusion is giving him an unreasonable benefit of the doubt. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl The "group admin" things is a little loose in Signal with options to allow other people to send invitations too. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl I use it regularly with a weekly video call with my family spread all over. We're on a mix of Apple, Android and PC devices so I'm using this specific functionality pretty regularly. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Signal lets you log in from multiple devices. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Instead of that, stop using unofficial channels for official business. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Pay living wages for every job and you'll stop having this kind of crisis. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Is she trying to Streisand Effect her bad choices by pretending to agonize every time she wants to do something evil? npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl In our town hall meeting this morning, an executive told us that they plan to give all software engineer jobs to Al. npub1h39v4d3mwc7zxnxcctm23mmnmfldyrw5e9387rl8nhtwhewlc3as7muy95 Urzl Everyone aligned to Trump is openly an enemy of humanity. We take nothing from them, there can be no peace between humanity and the Right.
