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thought a bit too hard about it and just kinda kept grimacing at the decision so I flipped a coin and I suppose I stand for the white rose. looks like I've got to brush up on richard apologia
This post is for the 3 Lady Malys fans I know. Also lets give her ARMS.
Almost Nobody cares for the Dark Eldar, and They 100% are not going to defeat Slaanesh Because The Thrist Prince gives GW money, so theyr Lore IS kinda... Stuck, together with The rest of The Eldar Race.
Every Eldar should Unite and Kill The Pink Horror? Probably! WILL THEY???
NO, BECAUSE GW WILL HAVE CALGAR OR TITUS DO IT.
ABOUT the art, I don't make The Rules. If two characters have opposite designs, they should kiss. If One is blue and and the Other is Red, Kiss and make purple. If One is COOL and calm and elegant and the other one is a living Car Crash, Kiss. No I AM Not biased. It does Not Matter of They haven't EVEN MET in Lore, this is Just How It works.
Also Drukhari Politics are 90% sleeping around and finding out and killing the person afterwards.
Lady Aurelia Malys, The Archon of The Poisoned Tongue, My favorite Archon! And also what Would probably happen if she met Lelith and didn't Kill her in like 3 seconds! She is The best designed Drukhari ever, in full armour, with a VEIL, WITH A BLADE FAN AND HER ARMOUR HAS A TAIL. She also kinda humiliated The Laughing God in a Mind Contest and now has a rock for a Heart but details, she is as close as a Drukhari gets to bring a Harlequin without being One, probably One of The smartest Eldar ever.
And Vect IS a slut.
No, Yvraine doesn't count as Drukhari anymore, She is on her own pedestal in my heart.
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I’m on tour with my new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI. Catch me in LA TOMORROW (Jun 19) at Skylight Books, and on SUNDAY (Jun 21) at Kepler’s in Menlo Park. After that, it’s Toronto, NYC, Philly and Chicago.
Back at the height of the blockchain bubble, I made a hobby of pointing out that crypto weirdos were palming a card. I used this formulation:
if: problem + blockchain = problem – blockchain
then: blockchain = 0
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
You see, blockchain weirdos kept insisting that they could solve problems related to trust and institutional design with "smart contracts." Rather than having to trust a board of directors to steer an organization, you could just have a self-executing institution, the "distributed autonomous organization" or DAO.
So for example, if you want to buy a copy of the US Constitution at a Sotheby's auction, you could set up a DAO to raise and pool the funds, eliminating the need to find trustworthy people to receive, hold and deploy these funds:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConstitutionDAO
However – and here's where the palmed card comes in – the DAO can't go to Sotheby's and place a bid on the Constitution. Instead, the members of the DAO have to elect a guy to receive all that cash, walk into Sotheby's, get one of those little ping-pong paddles last seen at the State of the Union in Chuck Schumer's withered claw (emblazoned with the brave slogan "You're hurting my fee-fees") and raise the paddle during the bidding.
That guy doesn't have to go to Sotheby's. That guy can simply walk away with all the money. Members of the DAO are trusting this guy with their entire collective treasury. Indeed, since the DAO has no corresponding legal entity, it might even be that members of the DAO can't sue this guy if he steals all their money – and even worse, without a limited liability structure, it might mean that everyone in the DAO can be sued for anything bad this guy does with the money.
Which raises the question: what's the point of building this insanely complex hairball of blockchain-based smart contracts to raise and hold the money if you're just going to hand it to this guy and trust him without limit? Why not just have that guy set up a Zelle account and a Whatsapp group? In other words: the problem that the DAO is trying to solve is the difficulty of trusting people with the keys to the kingdom, but no matter how much blockchain you sprinkle on this DAO, it ends with this one guy walking around with all your money, which he can steal with impunity if he so chooses.
Or, put more succinctly:
if: problem + blockchain = problem – blockchain
then: blockchain = 0
This turns out to be a really good way of assessing policy prescriptions for their soundness and foundation in reality, because – as the blockchain swindle shows us – it's possible to come up with entirely fictitious solutions to entirely real problems. The problem of designing a trustworthy institution that can't be betrayed by its leaders and whose operations don't consume all its resources is a real problem – it's quite possibly the real problem – but adding a DAO does nothing to solve the core problems of institutional design, and actually makes some of those problems worse.
There's another real problem with a fictitious solution that is – surprise! – tied to another tech bubble: digital sovereignty.
It's a genuine problem that everyone in the world (outside of China's sphere of influence) is glued to America's tech platforms. These platforms steal everyone's money and data, and every country has signed a trade deal with the USA promising not to let its own technologists and entrepreneurs go into business making add-ons and complementary goods that remediate the defects in America's tech exports:
What's more, Trump's response to finding himself in this poker game that's rigged entirely in his favor is to flip over the table because he resents having to pretend to play at all (as November Kelly so aptly put it). His incontinent belligerence on the world stage sees him making bids to steal whole countries and he's recruited American tech giants to help him in this chaotic program of lunatic imperialism. When other countries' public officials make decisions that Trump dislikes, he gets companies like Microsoft to disconnect whole institutions from the internet, deleting their files, email archives, calendars and address books, and depriving them of the ability to connect to any service tied to their Outlook accounts:
Which means that if Trump wants to steal Greenland, he doesn't have to roll tanks into Nuuk – he can just brick the country of Denmark. He can shut down all their ministries, every large firm, every household. He can shut down their iPhones and Android devices. He can kill their smart-speakers. He can hormuz the world's supply of Ozempic, Lego and ferociously strong licorice:
This is the digital sovereignty risk. It's also the digital sovereignty opportunity. If countries repeal the laws that the US bullied them into accepting, laws that protect US tech giants from local competitors who block their plunder of data and money, they can turn America's tech trillions into their own tech billions. As Jeff Bezos likes to say, "your margin is my opportunity":
Meanwhile, repealing these US-protecting laws would enable countries to extract their data from US platforms so they can move it into domestic alternatives, and bypass the software locks that block them from updating phones, cars, tractors and ventilators to protect them from remote killswitches:
The digital sovereignty risk is having your country's government, businesses and industries terminated by Trump. The digital sovereignty opportunity is making billions of dollars by producing and exporting products that defend people from Big Tech plunder and Trumpian killswitches. That is the real world.
But many "digital sovereignty" advocates are living in an imaginary world, in which the digital sovereignty risk is that Trump will shut off their country's access to AI.
This is where the "if problem + blockchain" formulation comes in handy. If Trump shut off Canada's access to Chatgpt, Claude and Grok tomorrow, nothing would happen. No significant business, no federal or provincial ministry, no municipal government depends on these products for anything essential. And if Canada were to build their own local AI to sub in for Chatgpt, Claude and Grok, it would lose tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars. Worst of all, a national AI strategy does nothing – not one solitary thing – to protect Canada from Trump shutting down our ministries, our companies, or our tractors.
In other words:
If: digital sovereignty + AI = digital sovereignty – AI
Then: AI = 0
If you think AI tools are nifty and want Canada to invest in AI, then first, please stop pretending that this has anything to do with "digital sovereignty." Not only is this a transparent bit of nonsense, it's a dangerous one, because digital sovereignty is a real problem, and AI does nothing to solve it.
If you want a good "national AI strategy," try this: save your money until the bubble bursts, and then buy your GPUs and hire your talent at 10 cents on the dollar and put them to work refining open source models:
Buying AI at the top of the market is nuts. That would be like shopping for Aeron chairs and foosball tables in March 2000. If you just sit tight for a couple months, you'll be able to find bankrupt dotcom entrepreneurs selling these at knock-down prices out front of their formerly overpriced office space in the Mission, in the time-honored tradition of former Wall Street millionaires selling apples out of their Rolls Royces:
https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/323794
(Literally: I bought a "dining room set" of six $1500 Steelcase Leap chairs in the summer of 2000 from a failed dotcom CEO on Van Ness for $25 a piece – still in the original plastic!)
And in the meantime, please let's stop pretending that digital sovereignty has anything to do with "national AI." If Trump takes away your AI, everything is fine. If Trump takes away your iPhones, Office 365 and tractors, your country grinds to a halt. This is just not that complicated:
If: digital sovereignty + AI = digital sovereignty – AI
Then: AI = 0
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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reading books set in parts of the country you’ve been to is always funny. Like huh irl I’m pretty sure that restaurant in London was closed by the time the story took place but I get you’re massaging reality, now while you’re at it can you please nuke that one pret where I had a bad experience three years ago
Can the Host’s vicious rampage please spare the indoor market near the bus station at Leeds they had some good Indian food stalls back when I used to visit. Also maybe don’t torch the Playhouse. Take a diversion and go murk old Humphrey over in Tadcaster instead
Exaaactly. Another funny one is when they’re filming in the right place but the process makes it look hilarious if you’ve been there. Like the cast are going to place X and they and they are indeed filming in the right part of the country, they’re even on the right road, but they’re blatantly driving in the wrong direction. Blorbo just teleported to a park in a different town during the last scene transition. There is no way to get from point a to point b that quickly.
Complete diversion from the original topic but it’s been a while since I was ‘round that part of the world so I went to google to see if the old ghoul was still kicking and yes, to this day the Flood King of Tadcaster wanders around firing people for no reason, malding at mobile phones and ordering steak and ale pie to get the taste of eating shit at employment tribunals out of his mouth
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reading books set in parts of the country you’ve been to is always funny. Like huh irl I’m pretty sure that restaurant in London was closed by the time the story took place but I get you’re massaging reality, now while you’re at it can you please nuke that one pret where I had a bad experience three years ago
Can the Host’s vicious rampage please spare the indoor market near the bus station at Leeds they had some good Indian food stalls back when I used to visit. Also maybe don’t torch the Playhouse. Take a diversion and go murk old Humphrey over in Tadcaster instead
Exaaactly. Another funny one is when they’re filming in the right place but the process makes it look hilarious if you’ve been there. Like the cast are going to place X and they and they are indeed filming in the right part of the country, they’re even on the right road, but they’re blatantly driving in the wrong direction. Blorbo just teleported to a park in a different town during the last scene transition. There is no way to get from point a to point b that quickly.
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