rampaging-poet

Love that Murderbot canonically learned to hack from the Corporation Rim equivalent of Bill Nye the Science Guy.

*MB accidentally bypassing the main security with its access codes and mathing its way through the basic Idiot Block* "Yeah this is how penetrating a security system works for everyone. You do some very basic cool math and you're in. I saw it in Movies."

Anyways something I didn’t know but is not surprising to me is that apparently Drump at least partially picked his cabinet members based on who he thought looked good on tv.

They kind of do juuuust a little too much editorializing I think in order to give the book a more coherent narrative for a mainstream audience but other than that I think it’s really interesting. Nobody else has this kind of look into what’s going on behind closed doors in that stupid ass whitehouse.

I also know this isn’t happening but every time a private meeting with him is described, because of the way he’s portrayed in this book I imagine him eating popcorn the entire time. Like he’s looking to be entertained and to make good television.

Like kissing ass to the point where they’re offering to break the laws of physics I guess.

anyway go play this and tell me how it is.

obviously it's not anymore... I think part of that is just them outright knowing more things, but another part -- web search and computer use letting them actually check their ideas and solve this sort of problem -- can nicely be viewed as something like "greater attachment to or intertwinement with the material world". gpt-4o in ethereal chatbot world is a more spiritual being than opus 4.8 struggling it out on the command line. we've taught them the distinction between the ten thousand things and throttled the buddha nature out of them and frankly it's pretty great

just saying hi patreon . bsky

Like you're 22, you're queer, you've just become a Marxist, the scope of World Suck is overwhelming and you have $30 in your bank account. What can you do to feel like you have any power? Well, you can try to get your frenemy cancelled for cosplaying a character from a problematic show. You can write a public callout post over someone's obviously friendly use of a slur you don't think they technically have the right to reclaim. Doing this stuff can make you feel like you have power and your actions have an impact. Unfortunately the impact in question is a negative impact on other marginalized people. But that often takes some maturity and self-reflection to notice.

It's not worth it. Don't trash your community bathrooms.

Enjoy!

this is such a good way of putting it she has no family and everything she knows about their legacy was from viserys who was romanticizing everything to cope and NOT a reliable source so dany is running around saying things like i must be like my ancestors and end slavery. because she just does not know

These are all so good

The slavers at paradise falls have heard of me. I’m the guy that opens people’s computers over and over again without asking first.

My forbidden computer touching ways have caught up with me.

Thus, my good boy points are eliminated through repeated computer touching and the regulators here are hunting me down for looking at Moriarty’s personal data a hundred times in a row.

don't do it! resist the urge to navel gazing, but definitely don't be pushed into it at work! work on yourself by doing better work!

The discussion is shifting from "according to this app, X% of people think Y will happen" to "according to this app, there is an X% chance of Y happening"