Pseudospectre

Stormy yearns for the fishing lure

The first ends in a military victory and retreat from the planet, but Earth can always send another force

I assume it is kind of like “they won the battle, but the war was still to come”

The first one is very self-contained, I haven’t seen the others

^ Imma tell my kids that’s what Engels was talking about with “quantity becomes quality”

“Noam shoots the whole Dept of War”

One hopes this is true, because it would be very funny

Juries were never going to be a reliable bulwark.

But this is an absurd conviction.

Wrote about the brightness of winter nights last year

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Cracks appear in Pacific nuclear tomb as sea levels rise Cracks have appeared in a concrete dome holding 120,000 tonnes of contaminated soil and debris from Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests.

Cracks have appeared in a concrete dome holding 120,000 tonnes of contaminated soil and debris from Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests.

I analyzed the Proud Boys donor list. The most common occupation was real estate (realtor, mortgage broker) — the same parasitic class that was over-represented among Jan 6th rioters.

a man in a suit and tie says " i know that trick " while holding a piece of paper ALT: a man in a suit and tie says " i know that trick " while holding a piece of paper

When someone asks for a time estimate before they have fully explained their request:

So, moderate, some right-wing pro-choice, and progressive women vote in D primaries, and progressive men vote in D primaries

I wonder if this is the converse of how black voters are more conservative in the Dem coalition because they’re often D even when they’re right-wing

I guess this is a roundabout reminder that the only somewhat long-term solution to making a living under capitalism is collective bargaining, not individualist hoarding of leverage

Autocomplete may allow the intensification of labour, Codex will ensure the interchangeability of developers though, which is much worse

Co-pilot, etc are just advanced autocomplete, Codex allows you to ask questions about a codebase to get up to speed on it quickly

I was talking to a friend about Codex (the LLM coding assistant) and it occurred to me how it is basically a tool to stop programmers hoarding knowledge of how their code works, tools of that specific nature will probably do more to break development labour than anything else

It's so crazy that we've normalized a situation in which "more powerful opponent ceasing strikes" must be an explicit, special "ceasefire" condition -- because otherwise we've somehow bent language and logic to accommodate the idea that a "ceasefire" can happen without that

I think I may have cracked it

can this be a solution?

read Marx

For those keeping score at home:

I informed Grammarly via email precisely what I thought of their appropriation of my name and reputation and received an email from their head of litigation promising a full response by the end of the week.

To be continued...

Watched Sinners for the first time yesterday and it was very good

“You gotta be NatMogging, Mr. President.”

Opinion | The Danger of Being a Palestinian Citizen of Israel

Someone got mad at me for calling "Israeli Arabs" what they actually overwhelmingly are (Palestinian citizens of Israel) and for saying that the vast majority of them don't have access to a public bomb shelter in Israel.

Both are true, sorry, and the NYT is finally allowing it to be talked about.

Remember when the IDF had a squad dress up as medical personnel to enter a hospital and execute an injured man in his hospital bed

US strategic goals are not the same as Israel's strategic goals, part 1

Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.