Semantichrist

@semantichrist.bsky.social

Long suffering techie, #RhodeIsland USA. Noise/industrial musician in band State Vector Collapse. Educator. Synth builder. VJ/DJ. Pro diversity, pro LGBTQIA+, pro direct action, pro DIY. I endeavor to help (good) weird people manifest (good) weird things

"You can’t pay for anything by card anymore. That stopped being a thing in the 2030s. The Data Lord doesn’t take AmEx. It’s half a pint now, or a full pint every two months, and you’re on a monthly plan. Hold your arm out, and I’ll get the tourniquet." buff.ly/mI21wrK

It’s Cute How Grandma Doesn’t Even Know How to Blood Tithe to the Data Lord

“You can’t pay for anything by card anymore. That stopped being a thing in the 2030s. The Data Lord doesn’t take AmEx. It’s half a pint now, or a full pint e...

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Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

platner's playbook of using the language of liberatory struggle to imply that he is the victim of a conspiracy (perhaps by "zionists") is sickeningly familiar to anyone who has ever had to deal with the awful, miserable, drawn out process of removing an abuser from a radical or liberatory space.

you can tell who sees programming as a craft vs who only sees it as a means to an end based on their opinions of LLMs