i think this fully completes the rotation of the old guard out of Google leadership

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 14h ago

demis moving from ceo to chief scientist, @jeffdean.bsky.social starting his own company so, uh, complete gdm rotation i think

i watched SPEED (filmed in the summer of 93) the other day and its very striking how the sky is like dark brownish gray in the background of half the movie.

RIP to everyone who succumbs to nostalgia not me though I don’t miss anything except my childhood when everything was better

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

Things that have improved: Air travel safety Blood lead levels Cancer detection/treatment Cholesterol-lowering drugs Queer rights Workplace harassment Support for interracial marriage All consumer electronics Refrigerants Solar/wind power Crime levels Genetic engineering Nuclear stockpiles

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterday

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

i support [$democratic_candidate] for [$public_office] and believe that their politics is a perfect fit for [$state]. I would drag my [$genital] over [$harmful_object_or_substance] to vote for [$democratic_candidate] this fall.

Keith@mosheroperandi.bsky.social · yesterday

I support the winner of the Michigan Democratic primary as the future senator from Michigan.

listening to the local Mexican radio station, one host was recounting his enthusiastic support for SFPD using drones as an alternative to car chases. lmao. the idea that all non-white people are police abolitionists (or only temporarily un-woke) is a fatal delusion of online leftist subculture

Today is the day from “There Will Come Soft Rains” https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf

Just saw a road runner in the street and had to swerve to avoid it. Yes, I'm in SoCal this week.

Kevin Drum Memorial Lead Hypothesis Remembrance Post

Sure median real income has grown but these results are skewed by the 50% of people who earn more than median. Remove them and the numbers go way down.

especially coming on the heels of MeToo and with BLM later in the summer. "Things can quickly change across an entire society" was very frightening for them and they expending massive amounts of money and effort to try to prevent it from happening again.

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

‘I bought this before he went crazy’ sticker on a 1938 VW Beetle

Important PSA

Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer@isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 4d ago

Gospel singer: I'm gonna live forever, Cause I'll never ever die! Choir: Hell never ever die! Singer: I'm gonna live forever, Cause I'll never ever die! Choir: Hell never ever die! Die! Die! Singer: I'll never pay for my hubris! Cause I'm going to kill God! Choir: Kill God. Kill him dead!

Don't siege COVID; take it immediately.

this is easily remedied by requiring abdul el-sayed to adopt a numerical code specifying which AES he is, such as AES-256

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 5d ago

it should be illegal for a politician to share a three letter initialism with an encryption algorithm, or indeed any of the 50 to 100 or so abbreviations i personally actually know by heart

Guys, the best weapons to protect your neighbors from ICE are NOT GUNS They are CAMERAS, WHISTLES, and a well-organized RAPID RESPONSE AND NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH SYSTEM. ICE is better-armed than you'll ever be. But they like to rely on secrecy, and you can make it much harder for them to be secret.

galaxy brain

I would have bet my house against the LLM approach being useful for mathematics. I was wrong, and for this crime, I deserve never to have a good life. Only people who correctly bet on this at the right time should have a good life.

They like Trump and want to help him.

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

CNN's Richard Quest sat down for a slice of "ugly pie" with the owner of the MidPoint Cafe on Route 66 to see how her business is doing amid concerns about affordability across the US.

Showing the kids Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Again, I am dumbfounded by how the Evil Queen manages to screw up a simple poisoning. There are lots of normal non-magical poisons to choose from that *can't* be cured by loves first kiss. What's wrong with cyanide, eh?!

Its complexity may intimidate, but 𝘗𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘰 rewards gamers with surprising mechanical richness. ★★★★☆ Category: Object Permanence Games Publisher: Mom

By contrast, when Biden was President, the same business press promoted arguments for tighter monetary policy in hopes of engineering a recession, including constant promotion of Epstein associate Even-The-Democrat-Larry-Summers' arguments for tighter policy www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/s...

The 'greatest tragedy' would be if central banks don't finish the job on inflation, Larry Summers says

Central banks not finishing what they have started on inflation would be the "greatest tragedy" for the global economy, according to former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.

cnbc.com

the wealthy (who control the business press) want expansive, stimulative monetary policy when Republicans run government and restrictive, recessionary policy when Democrats run government. So you get articles like this saying inflation is fake when a Republican is in charge.

CNBC@cnbc.com · 6d ago

As Warsh’s Fed faces pressure to act on inflation, these indicators show it’s at its lowest in years

Am I allowed to write wrong things on social media without a bunch of people jumping down my throat?!

Once again, this is how San Francisco and Silicon Valley’s economy actually works:

Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 6d ago

In all the AI economic doom scenarios the AI rents all accrue to big tech but reality probably is that they’ll accrue to people whose parents bought SF real estate in the 60’s

there is a reason this essay ends with a quote from a stasi officer. since the election, i have become extremely interested in the question of authoritarian regimes, and how they can be defeated. some remarks, on prairieland.

Prairieland: A Tactical and Strategic Analysis

Great evils require effective remedies.

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