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you, une personne from the first half of this meme: cult of the operator but leftistly

me, a 後半者: cult of the operator but niceistly

As soon as my Japanese finally got good enough to read grown-up writing I looked up whether Mishima in his youth was into Weininger, and: of course he was

That Claude response starts out the gate with absurd howlers from a linguistics pov though. Kind of surprised as I rarely see blatant hallucinations like that anymore, and I prompt Claude a lot specifically on linguistics and humanities topics

The Dig is one of my favourite podcasts, so it was a real honour to be able to chat with Daniel about all things AI

It always seemed similar to Kant's argument against knowledge of the thing-in-itself, as I understand it (I do not understand it), and I wondered if you could apply Hegel's argument contra Kant, which I also do not understand, to this one

Windows Forms is still a thing, it hasn't been modernized or improved much but it's still being maintained and kept compatible with new .net and Windows versions and everything. I personally just ported a winforms app from .net framework 4.8 to .net 10

And his angst that he's wasting his time faffing about with "altruistic" pursuits for which the world won't reward him, when he should be getting rich like Elon

Yeah he's gesturing towards all that and giving the impression he's constructed something from all that, has he actually constructed anything though

Excerpt from original Roko's Basilisk post by Roko. From https://basilisk.neocities.org/

Like the "oh-so-very utilitarian" bit here,p less an argument or construction and more a gesture towards a vibe about utilitarianism

Also notice here the actual point of the post - it's really about the *unfairness* of the basilisk (really really about the unfairness the world to him personally)

I'm not sure I agree, like if you read the post, he really barely bothers to actually construct anything, mostly he just gestures towards some fads and anxieties trending on lw and in his head at the time

Yeah, you're right

lol, "it" expands to "evolve" which expands to "survive technological adolescence". MUCH AS "du hast" expands to "you make me complete" etc

It's like that one Rammstein song or that one late 90s pop-punk song where giant Pamela Anderson eats the band in the video

Any time

It's a single question (exists as a single question entity in the platonic realm of forms), just expressed via three utterances

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are the werner herzog penguin memes meant to signal an esoteric embrace of ichioku gyokusai

I like how "foreign countries" as a bloc - which ones? all of them! - now get parallel billing with "extreme radical left" and Communists

For better or worse I do feel like a cyberpunk protagonist

One of many problems

La policía migratoria de Trump mata a tiros a un hombre en Minneapolis El presidente de Estados Unidos asegura que los agentes del ICE “tuvieron que protegerse” y acusa de insurrección a las autoridades regionales

La Gestapo de Trump ha asesinado a un hombre en Minneapolis

but why can't (existing or new) deterministic formal languages already scale to arbitrarily high levels of abstraction? why do you have to bring in natural language and non determinism to get there?

La fil du matin qui redonne espoir dans l'humanité et la bataille contre les nazis.

PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum in Davos – January 20, 2026 YouTube video by cpac

Here is the full speech from Carney:

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It does make me think of the Marx "all that is solid melts into air" passage, except Marx thought it was good/necessary

First ever use case for the Saudi prince's The Line found

I get why a distinction between "America" and "the Trump regime" may seem immaterial to many Europeans. But Trump's domestic political weakness is something Europe can exploit, which in turn strengthens the hand of opposition within the US. Plus, the distinction is *extremely* relevant stateside.

Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

This is not a small thing. It's <the> thing. The entire ballgame. For all of 🇺🇸's many faults, we have done this better than ~anyone else for ~forever now, & we're going to do it again, & the people who don't like this are eventually going to lose again.

Alice Adère-Degeer, ouvrière de combat à l’origine du droit de vote des femmes - Axelle Mag À quelques mois des prochaines élections, retour sur le parcours militant d’Alice Adère-Degeer qui s’est battue pour le droit de vote des femmes en Belgique.

Libéré, le secrétaire permanent relance la grève mais rien n’y fait. C’est un échec total pour les ouvriers. Le syndicat est par terre, il faudra attendre la grève de 1936 pour s’en remettre réellement. Certains grévistes sont licenciés comme Alice Adère:
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