Matt Cropp

Cruise control works at lower speeds.

There's one road locally that's 25 but has stretches that intuitively feel like 40, so I kick on cruise control for that stretch to avoid accidental lead-foot.

That old twitter post about climate change being a series of photos and videos posted online by other people until one day you’re that person except it’s hearing about the secret police kidnapping people and unpersoning them

Cope

I wonder how high unemployment can go with tariffs still causing inflation, I guess this is one of those natural experiments where we all get to learn the answer together.

Baseline, “AI” is like every other form of mechanical reproduction. It substitutes for technical competence—orthogonal to the quality of substance or expression.

If you’re looking for a 70s downtown manhattan scene to push back on AI, it’s conceptual art.

Romanticist/naturalistic fallacy ideas contain a bunch elements that can, with the right nudges, easily tip into Blood and Soil ideology. From there...

They don't have a choice. Let's say you replace him with a competent car CEO that turns Tesla around and they start growing..the stock is still only worth 10-15% of its current price. When your valuation is based on magic thinking from your cult leader, you can't get rid of the cult leader.

Gotta say, the proportions of the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom are really wack. The transition between the arched windows and the pedimented one is real awkward. Having the pediment of the temple front stop at the level of the cornice is also really hunched over.

Like classical physics breaking down as you approach light speed, the laws of capitalism can’t handle multibillionaires. If you have $100B you’re no longer constrained by things like rationality or financial pain thresholds. With that much money Nothing Matters, and that fucks the whole system up.

I'd settle for 50% that is evenly distributed among every child born that year.

The law, in its majestic equality, permits rich and poor alike to contribute a spare $100k or so in income to tax-advantaged savings accounts every year.

The arc of the moral universe is long… Good luck!

Well into The Parable of the Talents territory at this point...

a cartoon of homer simpson says i sleep in a big bed with my wife ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson says i sleep in a big bed with my wife

Me when the timeline starts discoursing about some minor e-celeb who I've never heard of:

If the media environment has absurdly cursed us to be forevermore led by celebrities, President Weird Al is someone I'd trust to helm "Reconstruction II: Finishing the Job".

Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Pardon.
Pardon who?
Pardon in exchange for “Trump was never involved.”

Everyone is celebrating him for his (obviously wonderful) songs but I am also celebrating him for releasing all his works into the public domain and insisting he retained no copyrights over any of it.

It really seems like the only way to sustainably achieve that would be via the elimination of the profit motive by requiring AI to be owned either cooperatively or as a public utility.

Otherwise the incentive to route around restrictions seems too great to effectively contain.

Winooski is the most diverse school district in Vermont with a large new American/asylee/refugee population.

What the actual hell was CBP looking for? This suggests a very specific pre-existing investigation that was done in coordination with the FBI to target him in particular.

When "art" takes the form of capitalized intellectual property, the art critic becomes, by necessity, an appraiser vis a vis the elements that contribute positively and negatively to the work's valuation.

bsky.app/profile/matt...

Farce singularity

He finally Really Fucked with the Money (Fed independence).

Live footage of Trump's visit to Murdoch to ask him to not release the Epstein kompromat in retaliation for Trump credibly threatening Fed independence: youtu.be/yuBe93FMiJc?...

Burlington Vermont almost suffered this fate in the 60s, but due to a bunch of factors we ended up with a nice park rather than a highway on our waterfront...

Ethereum-based things and other protocols based on proof-of-stake are orders of magnitude less power-hungry that Bitcoin and it's proof-of-work based peers.