The amount of times a doctor has dismissed my concerns about a medicationβs impact on libio or avoided the topic is so annoying. And once again it all goes back to how much internalize puritism society is strangled by that we canβt acknowledge the value of pleasure
I very strongly agree that substantive intelligence involves metacognition which involves value drift and thus paperclip maximizers are excluded.
As it happens, I argued this point a decade ago! humaniterations.net/2016/05/16/t...
We should take people who say these things seriously and take their ideas seriously. This is actual no-shit eugenics if taken seriously. The implicit claim here is that things like MRI machines or pharmaceutical medications were a mistake. In the age of HHS Sec RFK Jr itβs not just harmless granola.
I've always found it ironic that the left came up with postmodernism but the right actually lived it, perfected it.
βPiracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.β
-Werner Herzog on NPR just now π₯
I encountered someone who was totally confused by third person omniscient. They couldn't understand why characters didn't know what the narrator did.
"Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It would allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship, endangering the most marginalized members of society."
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
My Long Covid came from an infection acquired in a doctorβs office.
Healthcare settings are deadly now.
How is everyone so fucking ok with this???
curse of Apollo
Logistics is woke. Supply is woke. End-state planning is woke. Force protection? Believe it or not, woke
Over 400 scientists have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on the deployment of age-verification technologies. The letter suggests the widespread deployment of untested AV tech is making the internet less safe.
www.politico.eu/article/age-...
PANEL 1: The IMPORTANT PUNDIT is standing on a soapbox with a megaphone on the street. One or two people are watching. He motions with his thumb behind himself. PUNDIT: Hello! WHAT IF Mattie had all of "her" skin ripped off in one big piece like a clementine? PUNDIT: This is "its" house by the way! PANEL 2: MATTIE, sitting on her couch with a book. The voice from the megaphone comes from outside. VO: What if someone did that. Just if anyone has a big knife, for doing the thing I talked about. I'm just wondering aloud! PANEL 3: MATTIE leans out the window, yelling. MATTIE: Get bent, asshole! PANEL 4: Back on the PUNDIT. everyone is raising a knife of some sort. PUNDIT: Can you believe that language? PERSON IN CROWD: SO uncivil. PERSON IN CROWD: Let's go up there with our blades
so uncivil | patreon.com/lubchansky
"There are valid concerns and criticisms to be had about immigration."
No there aren't. Fuck you. Don't concede that absurd shit. Abolish every border. Let hundreds of millions in. Why are you justifying violence to keep folks out? Why are you pretending like nations aren't moral atrocities?
i think left-liberals sometimes have a hard time seeing what's going on here because "capitalism" has come be a substitute word for all social ills. but american media consolidation is a nascent planned economy.
"Americans have been so Prussianized by sixty years of a garrison state and 'wars' against one internal enemy or another, that they are conditioned to genuflect at the sight of a uniform." - @kevincarson1.bsky.social
c4ss.org/content/24158
The reason we don't have good ventilation and testing is because people keep pushing vaccines as the only thing anyone needs to do.
Just like you are doing right now.
You screenshotted people sharing this Bloomberg articleβwhat in it doesnβt hold up to scrutiny to you? www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
the whole point of technology is to subvert "the natural order," because the natural order is disease and decay and suffering and famine
i don't think transgender people are an example of oncoming transhumanism & techbro debauchery and anyone saying as much does not have our best interests in mind. changing ur sex is no more a perversion of the natural order than eyeglasses
transgenderism *is* transhumanism
eyeglasses *are* a perversion of the natural order
appeal to nature fallacies are dumb, stop letting "tech bros" negatively polarize you against genuinely good and cool things
I didn't expect to live to see *another* superpower succumb to the failures of central planning
"Unalive" "grape" "seggs" This has got to stop. Do people hear themselves? Its like talking to a particularly sensitive toddler. We can't remove serious words from our language just because we're afraid some fickle algorithm will show our posts to less people
Noticing how decentralized civil society in Minneapolis has been far more potent of a check on power? Well yes, it's kinda like you *want* robust civil society. So robust, in fact, that you don't have anything like a state.
I just fundamentally do not understand "I put a lot of effort into writing something so I deserve to be paid for my labor"
I pour so much into writing with the intent of changing people's minds. To turn someone away for lack of funds would be mindbogglingly profane, totally undermining my effort.
It seems like the majority of people are just looking at the headline and interpreting this as another "whoops! user data got leaked! our bad!"
What was actually exposed was code used in Persona's software. Code showing that this company is doing A LOT MORE THAN CHECKING YOUR AGE.
butlerian jihad is cancelled. the computer is our friend. billions must live. trillions must live.
Isn't a judge supposed to know the law? I mean, isn't that the point of having judges in the first place?
