Chris Beiser

if you think you are a leftist and u also think that jay graeber is the most important political target of this moment, or indeed, even that she's wrong on the object level, you are genuinely not serious and you deserve to lose. sorry.

re:fantasies about minimalist software, rewriting the stack, eliminating all dependencies

everyone talking about "le labo" … nobody talking about "le labor"

Let me answer honestly: I did eat your plums. I found them in the icebox, and I'm not going to pretend I didn't know you were keeping them for breakfast. I understand if you're upset by that. There's one more load-bearing detail I should mention: they were so sweet, and so cold.

Dustin Moskovitz getting addicted to bluesky is so funny. The "no gap larger than four hours" label is one of my favorite details on this app. Labellers in general—truly great content.

The time has come for Woke 2

Here's what I'm proposing:

anti-tech people raising alarm bells are so funny because they aren't very good at knowing when to go with "it's a scam" versus "it's fundamentally regressive / evil" and if you get it mixed up you're probably helping them out

Reply to @egg.computer

normal people—they have ill advised sex, take alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone, drunk drive—healthy coping mechanisms. but look at you. workshopping "bits." posting pictures of your butt to a highly replicated decentralized datastore. ignoring the world, numbing sensation, flattening experience itself

AI is like a railroad for the mind. Someone's gonna try to tell you that's bad but I love trains so I can't be convinced.

in a generalized manner i think a big problem is that many people do not consume information anymore

George Pearkes @peark.es

It remains so funny to me how many people who claim to be socialists thought the Biden Administration was a disaster for the working class when the objective truth is it was a disaster for the bosses.

This new Construction Physics post says lots of interesting things about Bell Labs, but it misses the most important fact:

The purpose of Bell Labs was to burn as much money as possible, because a regulated utility sets rates based on overall spending.

www.construction-physics.com/p/the-influe...

The Influence of Bell Labs

We’ve talked previously about Bell Labs’ long, storied history as an innovation engine and a generator of new technology.

i can't believe we're still litigating "there are no technical solutions to social problems in 2023 when the Xunzi comprehensively established that technical solutions are the only way to solve social problems in the 3rd century BCE

The source for this claim also says that Palantir caused not just Covid, but also 9/11. He also says that Alex Karp sent hitmen after him.

I am not really a fan of Palantir but I do not think this is a credible guy.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social

A “former Palantir executive recently confirmed what many have long suspected. In a public stmt, the whistleblower said it plainly: Palantir intended to take over the US government, & many of his former colleagues are now installed inside the federal apparatus. He called it an occupied nation.” 1/

what Barack Obama would say if you walked up to him in a video game and pressed A

Anti-AI sentiment is going to put us years behind in pursuing the long-run important leftist issue: Token Inequality.

Between the inanity of "67" and the crude appeal of "69" we find the prospect of a genuine revitalization: the Spirit of '68.

A guy lands in an American airport in 2030. In the terminal, he shouts, "Who supported Trump in 2024?"

Everyone looks down. Some shuffle off. Finally, a man says "I did. I wasn't politically aware at the time. I regret it."

The guy says, "finally, an honest man—can you watch my bag while I piss?"

more than marx, they hate max weber

Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social

The Pentagon has abruptly scrapped its entire social science research program. The decision “is short-sighted and harmful to U.S. national security,” @jaylyall.bsky.social told me. It “suggests they don’t care about better understanding threats the U.S. faces,” says @busbyj2.bsky.social.

Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research

More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted

thiel really said "we will build the societal scapegoating machine from rene girard's book, "christ compels us to stop building the societal scapegoating machine"

on.ft.com/407WVSF

A time for truth and reconciliation

Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets

Reply to @egg.computer

Scot Lenoir, the Evolve CEO, was previously involved in some light fraud in the early 2000s: www.plansponsor.com/ncfc-subsidi...

workshopping a viral bluesky post

this one's for the shitposters. the mentally ill. the dumbasses. the provocateurs. the folks who post hog on main. they're not fond of mods. and they have no respect for cloutseekers. you can QT them, reply, report for hate speech…the one thing you can't do is ignore them. because they never log off

lots of people say you should go to a "top school" to meet smart people. not true. smart people are everywhere. what's unusual about is that they have many smart people who are well adjusted.

In 2019, one of the phrases of the time was "Data is the new oil," which activists used to mean it was a dangerous, extractive industry which it would be a mistake to build dependence on. But in Washington, that was taken as, "Data is a strategic resource that the US should maximize production of."