Alice Valiant

businessmen worrying if the mad king might hurt their bottom line

waiting for my woke bus at the trans bus stop

There's two cardinal sins of talking about or working with AI that I think deserve instant excommunication:
- Cookbooks
- Necromancy

yet again... @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social

the thing about "former gifted kid" discourse is that some of us never stopped being gifted and talented and better than everyone else so it's hard to deal with all of these burnt-out losers trying to cling to our coattails of success talking about how hard their lives are for being worse than us.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

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I am going to be accused of glorifying violence. and, no. that was never my intention. glory is for soldiers. glory is for people who will be remembered as the good guys. I will never glorify violence. what I do is something worse

another example of how knowledge is a curse, how the world is a Pandoras Box we keep opening

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!! 👏👏👏

your horoscopes for the week of august 3rd, 2025

(my job application to @theonion.com for a job they aren't hiring for, part 4)

finally, freedom from freedom

to count, you first must have an ontology that defines when two things are distinct objects

i am deeply distressed at the ephemeral nature of desire and fulfillment. i drink at a well and walk away, temporarily sated but parched eventually. i would like to live with a thirst i cannot slake

who cares about having sex. oh it feels good? so does going to church and letting the lord into your life. grow up

evil is when a mustache twirling villain ties a damsel to a railroad tracks. doing cost-benefit analysis on how much money a human life is worth is just mathematics

i started writing a book last year on the history of leftist scientists, technologists, hackers etc and then trump got elected so i compressed what i saw as the most important points into this essay and now its done and you can read it

wedontagree.net/technically-...

estradiol valerate vial superimposed on an american flag shown with heavy film grain reclaim your birthright text in the top right corner

radical body autonomy is what freedom is all about baybee

fuck desire marry language kill cognition

whats important is that I have a privileged epistemic standpoint and people listen to me in particular

i love to promote a social condition and then reify that social condition into an object that i can claim came to exist

all trains delayed due to all of the operators getting a case of the mondays 🤪 and walking into the tunnels on foot 👉🚇 never to be seen again 🫢

i have plucked out almost every hair on my upper lip in a display that spectators are calling “intense” and “she definitely has something wrong with her”

hate your job? hate your family? have problems? need to leave? step into it and never leave! go there! go in the wet. the wet will love you no problems in the wet just water it's salty •the wet doesnt have capitalism just go in the wet.

boosting my puzzle box because I want to slurp on the attention juices

makes sense to me

i have Meanwhile Elsewhere sitting there, waiting for me to finish other books.... and here you are, telling me that yet more books remain? diabolical

you could also divide it up into parallel workloads - a frontend and a backend agent communicating over JSON payloads, for example.

i mean basically you're starting an engineering department with a bunch of clumsy junior engineers who ARE StackOverflow copypasting

from what i can tell, the pros have multiple agents working at once and toggle between them