The Elder Millennial urge to swim out past the breakers, watch the world die
27.02.2026 04:22
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The Elder Millennial urge to swim out past the breakers, watch the world die
⚠️ Anthropic:
“We cannot in good conscience accede” to the demands of the Department of War.
Concerns about the Department’s potential use of AI for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons have not been resolved.
I would be so good at this. This is such good bait.
This is well put. So *many* technologies are joyous and progressive. The web was invented in a PUBLICLY FUNDED UNIVERSITY! It is, in fact, an aberration that the fascist VCs think they're the default with their approach to tech. They were only ever supposed to be a tiny fraction of the ecosystem.
I say this as someone who has strong leftist values and also works with and plays with LLMs.
The answer as ever is “well it’s complicated and there are real issues that we must choose how to engage with.”
Personally to me “progress” would be more a rise of local models outside of investor capture.
As a passing observer here, I’d like to offer the perspective that “development of LLMs” is not necessarily “progress”.
Progress can be measured along any axis. Investor-captured technological progress often encodes a conservation of extant power dynamics.
So in that sense, pro-AI is conservative.
As someone who was tortured in ABA over autism this push is pretty obviously about cleaving off a subset of the population to do more of that too. Or otherwise throw away. So 1) I don’t support it & 2) they said I had severe autism in childhood and so I still assert that label now to make a point
Thank you!
Anyone on my network familiar with social supports in Canada, specifically in Edmonton, where a disabled autistic guy might turn for help? He’s about to lose housing and internet access. He’s brilliant but physically hurt, and he’s about to be on the street in this winter.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
it's wild how big tech forced technology on us that
* doesn't work the way they say it does
*most people are ill-equipped to use, and
* induces psychosis in otherwise stable individuals
And all anyone ever says is "better get used to it, it's here to stay"
I'm speaking, of course, about printers
Wonderman is an autistic-coded work of art exploring the loneliness of giving a shit in a world that doesn’t, and telling a story about what it’s like to be hard-wired against defection.
I really loved it a lot.
You've got to entertain the dumb ideas. Otherwise they'll never invite their smart friends over.
In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.
This is awesome and my mind immediately goes to, can we apply this concept to navigation in semantic latent spaces. Ima chew on this for a bit, thanks!
Oh cool! Enjoying this formulation, will dig in deeper soon but tagging @defenderofbasic.bsky.social in case yall have not crossed paths
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Any moots in Phoenix AZ?
Three people I really appreciate following right now are: @mekka.mekka-tech.com, @lookitup.baby, and @lizthegrey.com.
Love this. Magic system ontologically emergent from structure of the universe.
Answering earnestly:
Make time for Joy! Joy is a powerful weapon.
Some people will break down. Most won't.
I keep pointing out that what cops do to Black folk is measurably 10x to 100x worse than what ICE does to immigrants. And yet, we are still here.
"Strong Black woman!" is survivorship bias.
You don’t understand. I must eat gnomeshrooms.
Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
I just thought everyone should see this
Fearful Asymmetry A collection of writings exploring a specific view into complexity. The essays here will touch on dynamic systems, math and cellular automata, software engineering and philosophy. I've got this... shape? In my head. It's too big to just name it, but enough of it has finally breached the surface that I think I can start to taxonomize it. We're going to touch on everything from Taoism to Cybernetics; from Joyce to Kojima; from Cellular Automata to Quantum Mechanics. If I can stick the landing, I'd like to create a body of work that taken together gestures at something that's simply too large to describe directly - but I think I've finally got enough of the moving parts identified that between them I can at least start to sketch out the shape. This is an experiment. I don't know if I'll succeed. At a minimum, though, I hope to at least provide enough thoughtful musing that a certain kind of mind won't regret the time spent reading it. I'd love your company on the journey, to hear your thoughts as I try to lay this stuff out, and for us to collaborate on the Borgesian task of identifying the thing that so many of us can see but so few of us can describe.
How's this for a pitch for my new substack?
unstriver.substack.com
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
LONG, LEAN, HUNGRY ONES
In 1245, Pope Innocent IV composed a letter to Güyük Khan, requesting that the Mongols cease attacking Christian lands in Eastern Europe. This letter was carried all the way from Lyon to Karakorum, where it was read to the Khagan... www.greaterrealityarea.net/long-lean-hu...
“It’s dangerous to confused self-expression with communication” phew!
shb (@himbodhisattva) on twitter: (me): so we bundle instructions and data together into “cache lines” to improve efficiency (medieval peasant): wouldst thou not fear false idols when fetching from yon predictive oracle? (me): well, yeah. that’s why we invented “speculative execution” (peasant, trembling): and when this prophecy fails? (me): then we must perform “branch misprediction recovery,” restoring the righteous state (peasant, grimly): truly, thou art plagued by thy hubris, courting divine retribution with each cycle
Well, those boots were not made for walking
