Chris Beiser

the bluesky devs need to apologize for not fixing my mental health issues

it's crazy how all the guys emailing epstein were also publishing psych papers with fake data

church of latter day saints is one of the biggest salesforce users

not to be too woke but the focus on "being held accountable" is tacitly carceral

Can Woke 2 Go IRL? Even Thomas Chatterton Williams Thinks It’s Possible The very intellectual and the very online have an answer for why Trump’s cultural revolution hasn’t really taken root. They’ve also got memes.

I make a small cameo in this piece, alongside the venerated @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social. I am pleased to confirm that we are indeed going to win.

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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

my experiences with people who have printed out my posts is that if there's one it's a good sign. but if they start printing out many, that's a bad sign.

my friends tell me that eating microplastics, and bpa in general, weren't as effective as actually getting on estrogen but not trivial either. maybe worth it but probably not worth the other health costs.

If you would like to argue for bringing back elevator operators, you are welcome to do so.

I am not. There are power-law distributions in branch utilization, so the first ATMs have the largest effect. The doubling of tellers from 1975 to 1985 is part of their effect.

Online banking creates teller-like jobs that aren't captured because they're not at branches; it's not apples to apples.

The consensus in the literature is in fact that ATMs drove an increase in teller jobs, as the reduction in telling activities allowed bank tellers to instead move into a more sales-like roll, and lighter bank branches to expand into more locations. Please note the absolutely massive 1970→1980 jump.

once again i would like to point out that contrary to expectations, ATMs did not reduce bank teller employment, with ATMs introduced in the 70s and bank tellers peaking in 2005.

bank tellers did see qualitative changes in the job, however. and online banking did later reduce bank teller employment.

either the kyc hurdles from the banking partner end up much worse than paypal, with major withdrawals constantly raising SARs, or someone systematically violates AML.

and if you want to compete at violating AML, you should not be located in the US

i find her extremely annoying and grating but the approach described doesn't really sound like it can be made to comply with the law?

"stop hitting yourself" mentality alive and well on this website

the true technology enjoyers have a much more sophisticated understanding

easy times lead to RAM surplus
RAM surplus leads to bad software
bad software leads to hard times
hard times lead to RAM shortage
RAM shortage leads to good software
good software leads to easy times

- volition and reflection augmentation

- serendipity as a service

- step tracker for the soul

- community-based structured experimentation

- local-first research interface (probably currently involves a 512GB Mac Studio, an DGX Spark, and a massive RAID setup with all of Anna's Archive)

Darrell won't say it, but I will: it's time to defund the fire department.

the harry potter generation is already at military startup / vc fund age but it's very much just a different demographic

so, so, so much

now that the scaling is over the scaling can begin

we've got a lot of scaling to do

a lot of you lot turning into the elementary school teachers who hated wikipedia

From a marxist standpoint most anti-AI takes are just vulgar workerism. Ludd was not exactly a Hegelian.

this year, men are getting serious gifts like:
- a drastically oversized houseplant
- a copy of TaPL
- the three foot tall Miffy wall clock that looks like a giant wristwatch

Between the inanity of "67" and the crude appeal of "69" we find the prospect of a genuine revitalization: the Spirit of '68.

i feel like i'm holding a toddler back by the strap of their overalls as they try to run into a fire

i think in a strict sense that's what i'm doing here but i feel spiritually like i'm doing something different.

they think it's accidental…

its really funny seeing people act like these ads aren't supposed to be defaced… you're definitely sticking it to the man by posting pictures of an advertisement. ragebait economy.