Julia, Mother of Runes

It looks like the South Sea Company is a sure bet!

"We will continue shooting messengers until we get only the news we want to hear."

"Five years out" is both the typical time a startup has to show it can be profitable or sell to keep from and the typical CEO contract length.

There are lots of great YT channels and books that demystify math, stats, & tech. A weekend of research can give you enough of a background to at least spot bullshit.

I never noticed how much of the reporting on AI is couched with the "it's early days and a lot of functionality is still being built" language, which is the same thing we heard about the Metaverse and NFTs.

On the downside of lawyers being able to tase narcissistic oligarchic windbags who won't shut up is that they might be able to charge lawyers to represent them.

"Let us turn away from the spectre of dictatorship to the stable hand of monarchy" is certainly a position.

Black Hat character from xkcd giving a stump speech that says, "A vote for me is a vote for high unemployment, war, workplace theft, and texting while driving. I believe every citizen's voice should be heard in every movie theater in the country. If elected, I vow to put an end to the Olympics once and for all. My administration will raise taxes on small business and use the money to install a video game console in every lifeguard chair in the country. We will manufacture and sell crystal meth, and use the proceeds to give tax credits to anyone who practices medicine without a license, We will engage in money laundering, but only to support terrorism. Every decision in my administration will be made by magic eight ball. If our country is invaded, I will surrender immediately. Vote for me if you love hunger. Vote for me if you hate your friends. And if you vote for me, I promise you this: Every one of you will be twice as attractive and half as smart."

The administration took the "worst campaign possible" from Randal Munroe's "How To" and made it a reality:

Once again, the Supreme Court fails to do any meaningful analysis about what makes a classification "suspect" or "quasi-suspect" and just decides to shit on the political scapegoat of the moment.

Hopefully we'll at least get a good Folding Ideas video out of this like we did for the metaverse.

"First as tragedy, then as farce."

"Avocado Paste"

Omelas but it's Matt Yglesias in the basement?

I think I'm starting to finally see the forest now. Tech companies tried to do 20 years of R&D in three and wound up with a bunch of half-baked pre-products they now have to try to sell because shareholders and CEOs can only think about the next 90 days and MONEY NOW NOT LATER.

Welcome to the scampunk dystopia, which is like the cheap knockoff of the cyberpunk dystopia where the only evil plan of the megacorps is keeping the grift going for another week.

I listen at work while I read through all the database providers' pitches about how their AI is going to change the way I do research.

CEOs are impressed by LLMs because the LLMs are smarter than them.

We have managed to build an economy that combines the worst parts of a centrally planned economy with the worst parts of a free market economy with the benefits of neither

some people are asking what the better messaging would be, & it's calling the republicans weird perverts who want the government to go around inspecting people's genitals. walz was on to it before he got pulled backstage and told to knock it off

A democrat toppled a three-term mayor who'd won every election by double digits in my hometown with this ad:

I was taking a drink when I read this and now I need to find a microfiber cloth to clean my monitor.

This is literally my entire life.

Opinion | Trump's message to trans people is clear: Detransition, or potentially die My question to everyone reading this is: When is enough enough?

For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

YouTube video by Behind the Bastards Part One: That Time eBay's Private Spies Went To War With Some Bloggers | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

Here's a great podcast exploring the stalking scandal

OK, I think "Scampunk" is definitely the genre we live in.

"Queen Brahne was impressed."

Looking forward to this! When I used to teach common law methods to students from civil law countries, this was my point: England never adopted Roman law because harmonizing local customs worked so well. Also writing a law code is work and Henry II was too busy drinking with Thomas Becket.

During Episode 8 of Season 2 of Andor as the Imperial cops moved into the crowd, I thought of the podcast and said to my partner, "It's the situation we've seen time and again. Soldiers in a crowd. Tensions are high. A gun goes off. No one knows for sure who fired it. It was probably an accident."

I've played them all

I think this set was specifically marketed at me sometimes

BREAKING: CBO projects the Republican budget reconciliation bill would lead to 8.6 million people being kicked off their health insurance in the next decade.