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For some reason reading the readme this song started playing in my head:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=z769...
“doll commands an army of claudias”
This is insane sci-fi shit
This is genuinely one of the best reasoned pieces of writing on US-Taiwan relations by anyone running for Congress I’ve seen in recent years. Even as someone who believes that strategic ambiguity has value in 2026.
Everyone, go check out @katmabu.bsky.social!
yeah, the idiot VC class thought they were buying in on fascism as a way to squeeze money out of managed decline oligarch style, then the singularity started hitting
Why do we think that abundant software will be any different to this?
Is software an important input to lots of other products and processes? Obviously.
Are there lots of small and subtle variations in different kinds of software? lol.
I am truly not worried about the future of this profession
I can get clean, cold, good tasting tap water for about a tenth of a penny per liter. I still pay $2 for 750ml of spring water from across the country in a glass bottle, merely because I find it mildly more enjoyable and convenient.
This is so decadent its almost impossible to imagine in the desert
You would think that water abundance means there's no market for water, but no! There's a market for spring water, mineral water, alkaline water, distilled water. In bottles, cans, jugs or through a municipal pipe.
All the subtle variations magnify in importance.
In a world where water is scarce, you can make a living selling water. When water is abundant you can make a living growing wheat, or brewing beer, or weaving linen, or a million other things which require water as an input
You *also* can make a living selling water in a world of water abundance.
Imagine we are living in a vast desert speckled with tiny oases. A few meager villages eke out a living by selling water to travellers passing through.
Then the climate shifts and it starts to rain more often.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing for people living in the desert?
or, Rust is the worst programming language, except for all those other languages which have been tried from time to time
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worship of ashes vs preservation of fire
what's really funny though is that trad objection to Novus Ordo as heavy-handed centralized alteration of rites of the Church... is actually way more true of Trent than it is of Vatican II!
wen concord?
Past that point, the tax code should ensure the money is either public or in e.g. publicly audited non-profits with independent directors
The wealthy can compete for status by how big their personal foundations are or how many lives they've saved. The government could give awards for this!
For which service, Society should charge a hefty management fee: Rapidly escalating income and wealth taxes (I'm partial to Land Value Taxes) so that it's effectively impossible to accumulate personal wealth more than 1000x the average (around $1M in the US)
Contemporary American mythology is that billionaires are superhuman - either super-heroic or super-villainous.
But really we should think of them as mostly regular humans put into highly irregular and inhuman circumstances. Which they need the help of the rest of Society to manage.
In a better world, NIST would fund Living Computer museums in a dozen major cities with taxes.
In a less ideal, but still decent, world, the Allen Foundation is like a Rockefeller Foundation for technology. And the Seahawks are owned by Seattle fans like the Packers.
In our world, vultures.
Or look at Paul Allen, who did a lot of interesting idiosyncratic things with his money like the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_... or making the Seattle Seahawks the best run team in the NFL
Important accomplishments of capital vision that his estate immediately began dismantling after his passing.
it is not a coincidence that Warren Buffett is an outlier on both well-adjustedness and giving to charity
The philanthropy is a containment vessel for the radioactive byproducts of wealth
But we can't expect the modal billionaire to have the discipline and prescience of the Oracle of Omaha
Yes. As a capitalism-sympathetic social democrat, I believe we have a duty to markets to ensure money can act as a disciplinary measure. We have literally reached the fail state of money. Elon can lose 90% of his wealth and functionally lose no practical value. We broke the invisible hand.
It is also extremely bad for people who might otherwise be productive members of society
A billion dollars means you can buy a yacht, but in exchange you can no longer have friends or normal relationships with your family
A tax on wealth, for the mental, emotional, spiritual health of the wealthy
meme from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace: " i know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards"
OpenAI CEO: Sam Altman. Alt-man. An alternate man
Anthropic CEO: Dario Amodei. Amo-dei, from italian "lover of God"
DeepMind CEO: Demis Hassabis. Hassabis from Arabic "hisab", meaning "calculation"
earthstuff is highly sorted by buoyancy, most of the stuff we can get at is lightweight silicates. but the solar system as a whole has much more interesting heavy stuff in it (gold, platinum, tungsten, iron, iridium, etc)
asteroids have not been sorted by gravity and are abundant with this stuff
e pluribus unum motherfucker
*whispers*: statically-typed functional programming, equational reasoning, dependent types, property testing, formal proofs
a better world is possible
hear me out: Marxist campaign where the villain is feudalism and capitalism is a historically progressive force on the road to communism
At this point, I think the biggest mistake of Brexit was that it didn't also disconnect all of the undersea internet cables connecting the UK to the rest of the world.
The argument against is if Beshear's KY polling doesn't generalize well to other red states, or if he's weaker wrt Democratic base. Which is all fair, and I think the primary should be a good filter for that
Maybe the better characterization pre-primary for Beshear is "high-ceiling/low-floor"