I think this is a response to them. Nintendo already told the White House not to use their IP. This is like the third or fourth time they’ve done this.
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I think this is a response to them. Nintendo already told the White House not to use their IP. This is like the third or fourth time they’ve done this.
Cat: Yep that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here…
I only know about her because of Doppelganger, and even then I've been graced to never have encountered her in the wild.
A screenshot from Metal Gear Solid 3
I think this is the plot to Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
Please share regardless!
LORRIE MOORE How to Become a Writer First, try to be something, anything, else. A movie star / astronaut. A movie star/missionary. A movie star/kindergarten teacher. President of the World. Fail miserably. It is best if you fail at an early age — say, fourteen. Early, critical disillusionment is necessary so that at fifteen you can write long haiku sequences about thwarted desire. It is a pond, a cherry blossom, a wind brushing against sparrow wing leaving for mountain. Count the syllables.
Lorrie Moore
It’s all ELIZA effects induced by loneliness and language, just like it was in the 1960s. Would help if these things weren’t marketed as “modeled on the human brain.”
1/ "Higher energy, fertilizer and transport costs – including
freight rates, bunker fuel prices and insurance premiums – may increase food costs and intensify cost-of-living pressures, particularly for the most vulnerable."
Excellent report by UNCTAD
unctad.org/system/files...
The media can’t focus on more than one thing at once but has seemed oddly uninterested in covering the war in general, let alone its consequences. We’re living though an era of hypernormalization.
The super-rich are a threat to democracy.
To challenge ultra-wealth we must first understand it - by understanding the dreams and fears of the super-rich.
The latest in the Economists 4 Future Anti-Fascist Economics Debate series looks at just this: www.econ4future.org/articles/gre...
War and then war as a little snack.
Funny coincidence. I recently was thinking about reading his other book, Fantasyland which I also think is super timely.
AlphaFold isn't an LLM, even if RL and some ML techniques are applied in that domain. Honestly, I think of LLMs as Big Tech trying to commoditize what they gave away for free via transformers.
End of @edzitron.com's latest piece is🔥but there's something even more insidious about our current era.
The past wasn't determined to go one way. Even if the AI bubble were like the dotcom bubble is that inherently desirable? The general disinterest in why the last bubble happened gets me.
Literally just read your newest and nearly spat out my beverage when I got to this line. Asinine and criminal that this has been underreported.
I think a little redundancy and inefficiency in speech is fine. I liken things like this to clearing one's throat or some other affect. This will even be more humanizing in the age of AI.
My suspicion is that this is an indirect appeal to the dumb admin that the war is just wrong at every level, especially the one they care about.
I think most normal people reject this war on moral grounds which is why polling shows support started in the toilet and will only go lower.
Yeah I wrote a long thread about it. I’m just surprised that critics seem to be just be accepting the framing of the article. Guess I forgot how the internet works for some reason.
Kind of sad that the article’s framing is being normalized. It’s a terrible article that doesn’t get its subjects right. Like the only “left” positions on AI are Sanders and Bender? They don’t even understand the view of the one other “leftist” they name (Doctorow) and just map him to Bender.
Hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, and discrimination are viruses, magnified by suffering, carried in buckets, spilled onto the world.
We cannot eliminate them by actions that magnify hatred, ignorance, fear, greed, discrimination and suffering - only by actions that relieve them.
(10/10) Fascism doesn't care about economics for the sake of managing a sound market. It cares about capitalism/property (above markets) as a means of power. That's why I see a loose connection between conservatism and extreme notions of property rights that exist in the liberal tradition.
(9/10) I suspect the reason I'm foregrounding property rights in my analysis of US fascism is that separating capitalism and markets is a core part of my political economy. That means I ultimately see "capitalism" as a political and legal governance structure that has economic consequences.
(8/10) Why did US billionaires in 2024 and 1933 enable then back fascism? While I don't think fascism is capitalism's final boss, I do think it can sometimes be capitalism's pit bull (one that eventually runs off the leash).
(7/10) If US slaveholders is too anachronistic, consider the Gilded Age. Capitalists used state violence to discipline labor. Ultimate expression of this kind of dominance culminated in the failed Business Plot of 1933. The richest families in the US fomented a fascist movement to capture the state.
(6/10) I want to be careful because no two fascisms are alike. This obsession over market participation does not manifest the same way across different types of fascism. But in the US context, arguably there's a line from conservative property rights extremist (for lack of better word) to fascism.
(5/10) To an extent, fascism is concerned with capitalism via the governing of who should be considered a legitimate participant in the market. Basically, a question of which businesses embody the state's/elite's preferences. Capitalists are generally fine with this if they're "the elite."
(4/10) I don't mean to anachronistically call the early US a fascist state. I'm pointing out that the extreme notion of elite property rights lends itself to some characteristics we see in Trump and explains the line from Heritage to Trump II.
(3/10) What connects the US conservative project to fascism is the movement's clear articulation of who/what the state is for. It invokes a vision of democracy that expansively defends the property rights and freedoms of the "right" elites. A core part of the US's "heritage" at the founding.
