Matthew McLeod

A cash teller machine, but the screen is just displaying an Internet Explorer era error message.

Things you don't want to see at your teller machine

"what if the bullshit-asymmetry principle was a government" is real tiresome

not respond to a mental health call.

The word "TEAM" written in large, with the negative spaces in the upper-case "I" forming the lower case letter "i", and the caption that says "There is an I in Team, it's just hidden in the A hole"

It's (unknowingly) referring to the trope about there being an 'I' in Team's a-hole.

I hold my face between my hands
no I am not crying

I hold my face between my hands
to keep my loneliness warm
two hands protecting
two hands nourishing
two hands to prevent

my soul from leaving me
in anger

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

Yes. There's no good arguments for supressing people. Meanwhile, wealth is disbursed/created by what our collective defining of 'externalities'. We've yet to learn we need to minimize those externalities, not just hide them somewhere we don't care about.

It's too early in the afternoon for this.

You and your hypothetical commentator are using different definitions. 'Utility (has a function)' and 'utility (is ultimately useful)' vary dramatically in their implications, particularly as the latter is subjective, and LLMs are mostly poised to further entrench capital power, not uplift anyone.

I needed and resent that.

"elder scrolls" is just me looking at my phone

neologisn't.

okay, I'm just trailing the news. This should never be this volatile though. bsky.app/profile/meta...

this can't be good.

tauri + anything. Dioxus is looking neat. echarts is near unbeatable.

Yeah. "You own whatever you can destroy" mentality. He's been roleplaying a mobster his whole life, and has been used by the real ones.

human behavior is always in sway to resources, but is modulated by the social structures we create, in service to principles, ideology. What ideologies have us addicted to attention, and feeding everyone anxiety and alienation? How do we structurally transform away from replicating that?

And more - the modern mindset is now past the idea that actual wealth was intrinsically the relationships and groups we formed; but rather what we believe we can have despite them. "Can care for my own, so my own can care for me" -> "FY Money".

Damn nanny state, keeping me alive to complain about it.

Too much seems like the prelude to pursuing conflicts worse than trade wars. Just for the distraction.

Somehow, the stupidity multiplies enough to become incalculable. Fittingly, this makes me approach my limits.

"... that's just the cacocene epoch"

methinks the lawyers had too much to say, and mostly about the impacts to commercial relationships. No-one feels untouchable today.

And a way to deplatform anyone who doesn't have the type of credentials you specify (who are already marginalized), and/or deplatform anyone who has the specific credentials you specify (those activists).

Would be good to get a media/social team member to set up an official domain as a handle - you're allowed your own servers here.

There but for the disgrace of GOP go I

This is worth the read: archive.today/2025.02.15-2...

As everyone knows, the best security is a perimeter made entirely of newly-hostile states.

I can only imagine what he would say of a nation that elected and empowered this farcical fool twice.

On top of ethically disgusting; this is how you breed enmity.

Crypto is fringe-crap ito issues/policy that concerned voters, to anyone who isn't laundering and/or grifting. It's not an approachable asset class for the precariat, and it's not a technology solution to legitimate enterprise.