burned through my weekly Claude usage already *sigh* guess i have no choice but to play the new Deadlock update all week, my hands are tied

does Michael Tracy think it's possible to commit sex crimes? like just on a basic philosophical level does he believe in the concept?

my time is coming... soon...

Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 7h ago

Three! Osborn, Cooper and Talarico ads (or aligned PACs) are going all-in on pedocon theory.

uh oh, nobody tell Donald

me watching my 0-4 Skywrath Mage get Pudge hooked for the fifth time in five minutes

i had to cut it for length, but the main argument against "we need wealth taxes to lower wealth inequality" is that there's no historical evidence of wealth taxes lowering wealth inequality to any meaningful degree at any point in time anywhere in the world it's just kind of begging the question

Steve Randy Waldman@interfluidity.com · 12h ago

I'm a huge @liberalcurrents.com fan, but not at all a fan of this piece by Cameron Cummins-Smith. For most of the piece it argues against strawmen, missing the point of wealth taxes — which is not, not at all, to "raise revenue". www.liberalcurrents.com/tax-the-weal...

stolen from someone else but too funny not to repost "No comment on the magnitude of sacrifice, but Burnham is going to suffer way worse than Jesus, that can be sure."

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · yesterday

is it controversial to say this might be a more noble sacrifice than Jesus on the cross?

speaking of closing tax loopholes, if the IRS was able to collect all taxes owed since 2000 it could mean today's national debt would be $8 trillion lighter some new fiscal analysis from yours truly, link below

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 18h ago

"A common argument I hear in favor of wealth taxes is about the ability of wealthy people to leverage their assets as a form of untaxed income. … If it is true that the asset-rich are skirting taxes with loans, the obvious solution is to close the loophole." www.liberalcurrents.com/tax-the-weal...

it's finally here! been working on this one for a while but now we can all agree to stop talking about wealth taxes, right guys?

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · yesterday

"Let us look at wealth taxes both past and present so we might learn what makes them tick—and why so few places have kept them around." www.liberalcurrents.com/tax-the-weal...

is it controversial to say this might be a more noble sacrifice than Jesus on the cross?

babe i swear none of those messages were me, Muse must have gone rogue or something, of course i would never slide into your sister's Facebook DMs

hail mary shot call: i think within two years Rufo will make a facetious but not really facetious argument that white-only colleges should be allowed because HBCUs exist

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · yesterday

i hope people are ready for the pivot from immigration to domestic racial segregation among "polite" right wing spaces in coming years i give it til 2028 before the conversation goes from "heritage American" to "cultural homogeneity" to "i'm Just Asking Questions about interracial marriage"

i hope people are ready for the pivot from immigration to domestic racial segregation among "polite" right wing spaces in coming years i give it til 2028 before the conversation goes from "heritage American" to "cultural homogeneity" to "i'm Just Asking Questions about interracial marriage"

nothing better than a beautiful Philly Cheesesteak from Jalen Hurts on a Monday night

the Eagles are getting stunted on by "Case Keenum" in 2026 what a beautiful sight

Folks, “we can avoid mass AI-induced unemployment” does not imply “we can avoid mass AI-induced labor market disruption” and you shouldn’t conflate the two

"[Anthropic] plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming years, according to the prospectus" 518 billion? with a B? over how many years are we talking here

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · yesterday

oh shit it's here www.reuters.com/business/fin...

i'm not ready for the Anthropic IPO can i get a little bit longer to accumulate capital please

oh shit it's here www.reuters.com/business/fin...

EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs

Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will ​transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. The ...

reuters.com

oh my fucking god they're just doing Austrian Economics For Everything

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · yesterday

no, "rationalist" isn't ironic. they specifically contrast themselves with empiricism -- and they literally believe that they can derive everything in their light cone from first principles to the disappearance of the last neutron.

tragic update: my university has condemned me to the permanent underclass (they won't pay for a max subscription)

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 4w ago

wonder if now that i'm technically a grad student i can convince my school to pay for a big boy claude subscription

waking my laptop up every 5 hours to do ten minutes of work before putting it back to sleep is gonna give Claude ADHD

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · yesterday

i need a wealthy suitor to sponsor a max AI subscription for me

I see people putting AI in the same bucket as NFTs (speculative technology that will go away when the bubble pops), but I think the internet is the better comp. Sure there's some early bubble-y activity, but the underlying technology is real it's going to dramatically change things.

James Medlock@jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2d ago

I keep expecting AI progress to plateau, but with the opus 5.5 release it seems clear that is not happening.

i need a wealthy suitor to sponsor a max AI subscription for me

the man is a human paperclip maximizer but for GPUs he is secretly hoping the AI safety fears come true so he can negotiate an NVIDIA contract with the autonomous nanobot swarm formerly known as San Francisco

Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · 2d ago

Jensen is probably the most Jobs-like CEO left in the industry, in that he has a completely monomaniacal focus on producing and selling more GPUs no matter what. Things which are not relevant to that goal, such as knowing where you live, are discarded to fit more GPU sales ideas in his brain.

just had a horrifying realization that my closest allies on AI policy might end up being the Matt Stoller brand of anti-trust obsessives may god help us all

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 2d ago

mfw AI regulatory policy is going to get polarized into "we're building Skynet (bad)" vs. "we're building Skynet (good)"

i made a deal with the devil to draft a Patriots player to my team and this is my due i incurred a karmic debt and i am being punished for my crimes

Marcus Mariota is about to beat the Super Bowl champs

data centers are the equivalent of a $10 pack of cigarettes

Subscatter@subscatter.bsky.social · 2d ago

"There is water wasted on dumb stuff already so lets just ignore data centers" is the dumbest take lmao

talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 3d ago

yes, i am saying this. literally this. i am saying that you should not care about water for 16,000 people when "growing alfalfa for export in deserts with approximately zero precipitation" is literally orders of magnitude more water and vastly more pointless.