General strike, anyone?
11.03.2026 15:32
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General strike, anyone?
Sad, not sad.
GenAI makes it easier than ever for an extrinsically motivated person to attempt, badly, at skipping past all the boring stuff that is *the* reward for intrinsically motivated people.
They'll proudly produce a mound of dogshit in a sweaty hope that someone will buy it.
An intrinsically motivated person will write or draw or program or whatever, even without any other reward. It'd be hard as hell to even stop them.
An extrinsically motivated person will stop doing it the moment they can't get rewarded for the output.
One of the biggest and most obvious divisions that genAI evangelism reveals, is people who are intrinsically motivated versus people who are extrinsically motivated.
There is no way to restore functional science agencies without Court reform
America is about to learn how tiny the federal gas tax has been all this time. 18¢ per gallon, unchanged since 1993 and not tied to inflation. Fill your SUV’s tank and you can buy half a pack of gum on Uncle Sam.
Why any reasonable person actively subscribes to the NYT confounds reasonable people.
A new whistleblower report alleges that a former DOGE engineer told co-workers at his new job that that he “previously had unrestricted ‘God-level’ access to the SSA’s systems” & that he possessed copies of SSA’s “Numident” & “Master Death” files, which he planned to use at his new job. 3/10/26…1/
Remember the mystery a few weeks ago, about how and why xAI was spitting out people's government names, even people who have only *ever* used a pseudonym professionally?
Having followed Bill’s work since the CATALYST conference at Champaign-Urbana, his shade (ha!) here is always makes me smile.
He has affinity for certain repeated two and three letter consonants?
Unpopular opinion: net-evil billionaires employ anonymous professionals at various rates of compensation. Let us put in the crosshairs of public opinion their pilots and ship’s crews and their families who turn a blind eye. I am NOT saying DOX them; I AM saying shun them.
Representative Frost was fabulous in this interview.
A lot of progressive users of Bluesky are eager to see the platform remain in the light, to not see it go the way of Twitter, to never see it become akin to Meta, Inc. (Rhetorically, how will you grow and improve Bluesky without crossing any of these thresholds to mass abandonment?)
That was refreshing. And, the insidiousness of so-called fairness that passes for “journalism” (which actively normalizes moral bankruptcy through gaslighting) is well called out.
“way” is written “Way,” Elon, you continuous failblog.
Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.
I can’t not think of children of Sandy Hook & Columbine in particular, let alone Las Vegas with adults. The rights to the full expression of rugged individualism shall not be infringed, no matter what. What Heather Cox Richardson illuminates points to the sad hang up driving MAGA/Prog2025.
Exceptional journalism. One of her best Letters from an American, imho. And, I tie it back to the Sandy Hook massacre and Columbine before it that curtailing the full expression of rugged individualism will not be infringed for any reason, ever. Here we are.
it would be pretty funny if a fuel crisis caused regime change in the US before it did in cuba
Yes! and, “old guard” household name, front page for two+ decades Dems need to be shut TF up, and sat TF down while AOC and others lead, by us relentlessly and ruthlessly at a minimum.
The image accompanying the online sale of Brandy Lee’s updated 2019 edition of their prophetic warning not to re-elect Donald J. Trump: “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President”
Yes, because:
Yay, Colin Koopman. :)
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I thought I was seeing a Xenomorph towards the top of a modern British building in London recently but shook my eyes and it was just mechanical works.
My instinct some years ago to switch from low clearance vehicles to high clearance 4wd, in a evacuation scenario, seems less and less dumb by the day. 🐤🐤
The reporting here is comprehensive.
