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Last Notes npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero And? npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero It won't be a VPN ban, because of VPN ban would immediately impact millions of people in the laptop classes which includes millions of people who work for the government. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Jean Baudrillard's simulations and simulacra describe how you start with reality, and reality is then simulated and eventually the simulation is simulated to create a simulacrum, and the original reality may in fact cease to exist. This toy really reminds me of that. There was once a thing as a rotary phone. The rotary phone was simulated in a children's toy. Then the children's toy itself is simulated in another children's toy, and meanwhile rotary phones have disappeared, and in an example of hyperreality, the reference to reality has disappeared entirely and the toy which is the simulation becomes an icon which is represented separately from its original context. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero But then you'd need a computer and an internet connection, and where is anyone gonna find that? npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Turns out people die in the winter in New York? npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero well, yeah. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Our prime minster waggled his finger at Trump for the loss of the "rules based global order" when his predecessor of the same party illegally siezed bank accounts of peaceful protesters. Oh, there are rules? Doesn't seem like it. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero As a foreigner, I endorse this message. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Not the turtle flu! I hear it can break through very powerful defenses! npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero It took me uncomfortably long to realize you were actually talking about horses. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Imagine for a second, asking Google Gemini what is 1+1. You light up internet architecture spanning thousands of miles to a data center where you activate hundreds of gigabytes of memory, activate multiple top end GPUs, utilize non trivial pumping and water taken from a nearby river, and it responds back npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Trump did the same sort of stuff to canada, and we did the same sort of retarded mean girls bullshit. It didn't work, because it turns out we need them more than they need us. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero I think the most interesting thing is realizing what the Pharisees are intended to represent. Their greatest sin is mindless adherence to the rules without proper concern for what is just, or what is true. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero It's true. Imagine an America where I'm a citizen. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero People who have to make stuff on their own and convince someone else to buy it know that you really have to think about your audience, or at least try to make something you think people would want to buy. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero The Democrats lost the last civil war, why are they trying to start another one? npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero LLMs can be clever at times, but anyone who has ever tried to use one to solve a hard problem and gotten "This proves it. We're on the right track" for a few hours where it is clearly not on the right track knows agentic AI isn't necessarily such a good idea. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Satan isn't clever or evil enough to come up with something as horrible as online dating. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero I didn't get my license until I was in my mid-20s, and so I have a lot of sympathy for cyclists. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero It's going to be like the Dare program. Within three generations they're going to legalize the rule of thumb. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero I haven't posted it yet, but I did a full analysis on this. The thing is, proportionality still lies on the cops side, and it would probably be on the cops side no matter what, even if it wasn't a cop. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero In the situation with that lady who FAFO'd, I have the most sympathy for the young child. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero All the way back in aristophanes: "we will have a society where everyone is equal and nobody needs to toil!" "but who will do the work?" "The slaves!" npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Once you make free food, Free water, free shelter, free healthcare human rights that must be provided or you're satan, why not free sex? npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero I'm sure there's nothing important going on. It'll be fine. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero But let's be real, not really. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero I wanted to take a trip to Minnesota to do some learing, but since the center shut down I'll take my business elsewhere. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Almost nobody is talking about the Renewalageddon in Canada. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero If any company causes the AI apocalypse, it'll be Google with their Gemini. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero When these politicians say stuff like this, usually you can go back and find some huge lie that they've said. I always want to ask: "what punishment are you willing to accept today for your misinformation and disinformation?" npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero The history of section 230 is that prior to 230 it was the law of the land that most internet services were not moderated at all and therefore the people operating the services had limited liability for anything posted on them unless and until it was reported. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Physical media is irrelevant. You can have physical media that's so locked down that you don't actually own it. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero "youth unemployment" is something near and dear to my heart because I know how hard it is to take off if there's no available runway. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Stop eating you fat fuck(r) npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero I've got one machine where I do a lot of my routine stuff in a VM running Linux on top of windows 11. Media can be a little dodgy since it needs to pass sound through but besides that it's perfect. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero A bear with a bluetooth speaker I'm ok with, but I agree with you that an AI toy for a little child is really concerning. In fact, most technology given to young children without parental guidance is really concerning. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero My mom got an "AI teddy bear", but it turns out it's just a Bluetooth speaker that uses a shitty app to produce shitty ai stories. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Kind of really weird that people are calling trump a Nazi for eliminating state funded media. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Freedom toons successfully funded their new animated series. That's nice to see. The more we support media from people who don't hate us, the better off the future will look. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero In the late '90s, I wrote into PC Games Magazine after a story talking about PCs vs. Consoles. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Like what I often say about socialists hate boner for Hitler: npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Eliminate the income tax, watch how much more gets done and how much less needs to get done. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Skilled people are the means of production. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero When you think about it, the threats to steal if people don't get their SNAP are kind of futile. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero I find it very hard to wrap my head around the fact that 99% of cases don't have drive bays anymore. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Trump's prayer before bed each night: npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero De Niro.... That's Italian, isn't it? npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero A lot of things that the left claims were invented by capitalism are pre-human. Things like hierarchy, territory, family, and many other concepts that they claim were invented by capitalist humans to subjugate others can be found in many other forms of life that never had a chance to learn it from humans. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero My boomer dad regularly puts Linux mint on people's computers for them because it's like getting a brand new fast PC even on old hardware. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero DS9 is a paradox. It is some of the best storytelling in Trek, but it also fundamentally broke Trek. What it did was fundamentally break Trek by proving Roddenberry wrong; it turned out there is no utopia in the future, it just looked that way until an enemy came along that forced Starfleet to fight back for real. Shortly after DS9, that happened to the western neoliberal world order. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero For all the slavery that happened in California. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero I really hoped the trump administration would invoke the insurrection act because it would be really funny. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Mongolian throatholioioioio npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Sure is a good thing Canada is in great shape and there's nothing troublesome going on at all so they can focus on erasing people from the internet secretly. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero In countries where the government makes up 60% of GDP (Italy for example), can you really even consider it capitalism of any kind anymore? That 40% that isn't government isn't just the companies and rich folks, it's also the entire labor market put together -- so every single individual working for a wage. Which is nuts when you think about how insanely huge and powerful government is. (The US is about 30-40% if you include all 3 levels so less but still historically at totalitarian dictatorship levels historically speaking) npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Unless you're requesting asylum from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, or Spain, I don't see why you'd have a claim to asylum in the UK. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Should people take life seriously or just be happy? npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero If you want to piss literally everyone on the road off, drive the speed limit. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Its interesting to me that the "media literacy" people dont know about their own postmodern form of media literacy called "death of the author" in which the intended message of the work is subordinate to the interpretation from the audience. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero The rich aren't necessarily the problem, but they definitely are recipients of the benefits of the problem. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Sent you a DM, not sure if it federated. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Who said a nation can only be wealthy with oil? npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Thanks! npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero My first book is called The Graysonian Ethic: Lessons for my unborn son. It's a book of different essays with life lessons for my son (who is now born, of course). npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero One of the most interesting things in contemporary discourse is there a discussion of capitalism. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero All that time they're spending around radical Muslims is rubbing off on them npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Seems like you're not actually reading what you're responding to, or at least not understanding it, before you write. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Freedom to do what? npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero If we're being honest, absolutely everyone is entitled to say bad things about Charlie Kirk. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero It's kind of interesting, I was in a discussion relating to this a day or two ago. The person I was discussing with make the claim that the constitution is perfect and all the founding fathers agreed on how different parts of the Bill of Rights should be interpreted, and so I just put the facts on the table of exactly how the founding fathers were acting immediately after founding. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Yeah, everyone kinda figured the late night shows were going away anyway. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero If Jimmy Kimmel had been fighting for free speech against cancel culture for the past 10 years, I'd say "let's fight for the guy, doesn't matter if I disagree with him" npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero >I think being able to freely express yourself without being prosecuted regardless of what it advocating is covered under the first amendment. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero You can disagree with my argument, but you can't reasonably say it's absurd. At best it's wrong. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero In The Graysonian Ethic chapter called Basics, I talked about how different rights bump up against one another. There's no such thing as rights that are absolute, unless you only have one right. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero If someone tries to murder you with a gun in America, just say no. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Can confirm: Canada is a psy-op. It's not real. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero The more stuff good people make the better the world is, so I'd definitely recommend trying. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Yeah, that's assuming that every book published in the US was published by a separate person, which we know isn't true, and that's cumulative over an adult's lifetime. Reality is probably much lower. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero At the beginning of this year, I decided I wanted to write a book. There were a number of trends in technology and society that I thought would be interesting to interrogate through narrative, and so I went out and did it. The book is called Future Sepsis (people who follow me might already know about it), and it'll be on most online stores soon. It's already on many storefronts now. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Foolish Marxists have been tricked for centuries by a mistake Marx made. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Honestly, using base 10 for everything is actually super recent in historical terms. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Windows 2000 was the last cohesive version of windows. Windows XP was half XP, half 2000 (and all the good parts were 2000). Windows 7 is half 2000, half XP, half Vista, Windows 8 was half 2000, half 7, half vista, half 8. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero I'd like to get a gun, but in the same way I'd like to get a motorcycle license, and I haven't gotten that done yet either. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero Little known fact: CANOLA oil didn't exist not that long ago. CANOLA (Derived from Canada Oil) is a form of rapeseed that is low in a certain acid that was engineered to get rid of the off taste so it could be used as a foodstuff. Canola was only invented in the early 1970s, so prior to that it was not widely used as a foodstuff. It was attempted to put rapeseed on the market as a food ingredient in the late 1950s, but in its form at the time it was fairly unpalatable. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero I was listening to a video about the new Star Wars stuff that came out, and it brought back up something I keep on tripping over every time the discussions come up: Blazing Saddles. npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero I mean, the party that wants to defund the police seems to love the police when it's the police arresting their political enemies, so they don't seem to know exactly what they want... npub1z6s842evxljv9upzs0y0468xaq8jzxqd0cp9487ny92l5ezmgtms86lj4z sj_zero The great financial crisis opened my eyes to the world of economics. It has been an interesting journey. Of course, just because I've walked it a long time doesn't mean my destination is the correct one. Without a correct map or proper road signs one may never reach the correct destination, and there seem to be a lot of fake maps out there. I've followed the ones that seem the most likely to get there.
