will stancil's mentions are if summer classes in a community college were also Combat

do you value markets? believe in research? think elon is evil? care about geopolitical competition with china? fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, we are going to bribe as many CEOs and politicians as we can and impose Complete Effective Altruist Hegemony by installing our friends as regulators

in general reliable pharmaceutical products that improve human life outcomes are always a thorn in the side of busybodies, because it shows other ways of organizing life are possible beyond prior physical/biological limitations

The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.

New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say

A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.

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IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL 🥹 It's been TWENTY THREE years

Some people don't trust the rationalist AI cultists because they have reactionary politics and are demonstrably ignorant of many things. I don't trust the rationalist AI cultists because I know they're smart sincere believers, and thus almost certainly in fractal spirals of lying and scheming.

Reminder to turn off motion smoothing in SteamVR, it generally doesn't help with any motion sickness, will make your environment smeary, and will be halving your framerate in many occasions due to how the technology works. Really wish they would change this setting to default off not on

Sometimes it seems like actual investment capital is so concentrated in the USA these days that we're recapitulating the failures of central planning without either a formal central committee or an ideological aversion to markets.

Now in Gunmetal Grey!

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

Claude made a breakcore edit of the hugging face incident from the METR report, while I was doing code review on another machine (wouldn't watch if epileptic)

Reading the METR report and I already like PHASEONE better than OpenAI's leadership.

built enterforest: a CYOA through cryptids and fae with 16 endings, riffing on @dame.is's "Enter forest?" post. yes, actually enter it. built it 🎉 — https://enterforest.bisks.net (give the deploy a minute to go live)

i'm sorry, A. eve online is written in python, B. it's not even written in python 3??? www.eveonline.com/news/view/th...

The Move to Python 3 Begins! | EVE Online

How do you migrate 2.4 million lines of code?

eveonline.com

I want to expand on this in a short thread. Fascism sucks. It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature. We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · last mo.

That said, I think at this point, we can conclude that fascism is a latent political force in basically every country, to a greater or lesser degree and so you need to be thinking, "what if my country goes fascist? what if a neighboring country does?" and plan for how to avoid or deal with that.

We all know that the DSA's successes in the 2026 "midterms" heralded the rise of a Leninist regime. But the history is not quite what you learned in school. Our first four episodes on the Second American Revolution are now available: humaniterations.net/2026/08/13/t...

This Will Not Happen

Part 1: The Blue November

humaniterations.net

My most likely to upset Bluesky's community opinion is that tons of people using Bluesky have no idea what the company is or was founded to do and yet yell at the devs to make it something else, but the Bluesky devs are correct to build what they want, and if that's not for you, that's okay.

looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy

Notice the structure, extremely common to reactionary thinking: our one way of doing things, enforced by law, is good & democratic; your attempt to introduce diversity & choice is bad & authoritarian. See the parallel to the "war on christmas"? The parallel to gender hysteria? It's all the same.

“Culture of impunity” is right. The demand is to never hold public figures accountable for wrongdoing, not even verbally when they’re already beyond the reach of human accountability and won’t hear the criticisms and jokes. The legacy must be sanitized, or current elites might feel less impunity.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

If you've ever wondered why successful politicians just lie all the time, here it is folks! I kid, but seriously, this is why. Everybody says "I'm sick & tired of lying politicians." And also, most people get real mad if you *don't* lie to them.

voters: alright dems, we are sick of these goons. we're ready to see what you've got. hit it cory booker: okay well let's start with the obvious. you should have to show your id to go on the computer

alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dems' "Project 2029" first major policy proposal: an online child safety plan — narrowing Sec. 230, banning social media for kids under 16, promoting phone-free childhoods and more. Already backed by Cory Booker, Mikie Sherrill, Randi Weingarten + Jonathan Haidt. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

I've been persuaded to learn some frontend, and 5 s after installing React I see why supply chain attacks are so popular these days

it’s kind of astonishing how bad windows’s terminal environments still are. still. in 2026 I’m thinking that polytoken might not even ship a TUI on Windows. It might be a web interface only. The terminal is just that bad

oh my god

Computer Store Guy who sold me the storage commiserated about the absurdity of it all, saying that people have simply stopped buying them. Again, how is this good for the the people and businesses who still have to buy and use computers? The AI bubble can't pop soon enough.

"A teenage social media ban is the digital equivalent of seeing our parks full of needles, broken glass, and violent thugs – and deciding that a “KEEP OUT IF YOU’RE UNDER 18” sign stuck on the entrance is enough." www.jamesrball.com/p/a-teen-soc...

A teen social media ban is an admission of total and utter failure to govern online spaces

The UK government is currently calling for steps that fall short of a teen social media ban. Here's why it shouldn't take the next step.

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