people are pointing out that this is obviously antisemitic, and it is, but one notes that this is sort of the natural endpoint of building your entire political identity around cultural criticism.
Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago
Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago
The reasoning of Nagarjuna, the most important figure in Mahayana Buddhist thought beyond the Buddha, whose central writings claim to expound the teachings of the Buddha himself, has an internal logical structure that is machine-checkably coherent. rollofthedice2.substack.com/p/the-intern...
The Internal Logic of Buddhism Is Verifiably Correct
And I’ve proven it. Conventionally speaking.
rollofthedice2.substack.com
If you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign …
ai is cool and all but did you know some guy discovered we can make hashtables way more efficient?? genuinely novel result and i see no one talking about it here
look. leftist bluesky might seem bad sometimes but it is nothing compared to leftist tiktok
look if it was up to me we'd all be brachiosaurs munching around in Jurassic fields with no technology or any of that but we're here and technology exists so it is what it is y'know?
I keep thinking about how some of the biggest bubbles in history had fundamentally useful technology behind them, it's just that the hype always outruns the economic efficient implementations resulting in horrifying negative externalities we overlook decades later. History is rhyming.
there are anti-ai arguments i am sympathetic to, but copyright infringement will never be one of them. i havent spent my whole life torrenting movies and bypassing paywalls to suddenly decide that the concept of intellectual property is anything other than a regressive lever of institutional power
imagine getting dunked on by Playboy for being weird about women’s bodies
Playboy@playboy.com · 6d agoWhat are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...
ok i still think anthropic is evil tho, that's just not the reason.
mlf.@mlf.one · 6d agoreminder that the "anthropic are shredding books because they're evil" story is ~disinformation, because the book shredding is as far as anyone can tell *required by US copyright law* and not, in fact, something anthropic chose to do because they're evil.
lets fix that problem real quick and things should be banging
Thorne 🌸@ens0.me · 6d agoother than the whole transphobic global fascism problem, I quite like the future
we shouldn't be ripping books up and throwing them away. a civilized society doesn't do that.
"Oh we shoved the whole Internet into a biblically accurate shoggoth and it turned out a bit of a pervert" my brother in Christ this is direct causality
if AI is at odds with a capitalist society i think maybe that says something good about AI. much to consider here
Big Joel@bigjoel.bsky.social · last wk.there are increasingly common arguments against AI that are like "it will destroy the world, we are inventing skynet" and idk about all of that. but to me it does seem totally at odds with a capitalist society where IP is protected
this is not at all an exaggeration of how people on here think about ai lol
Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · last wk.Me: (being murdered by the AI paperclip maximizer) Bluesky: Actually it can't 'murder' you. Murder implies intent.
i feel like the whole huggingface openai glm saga is good evidence that, unironically, the best way to stop a bad guy with an llm is a good guy with an llm.
🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵@huwupy.kawaii.social · last wk.or roon (noted fool) is being a good soldier for the evil company he works at that's begging for regulatory capture to try, futilely, to ensure an american oligopoly on capacity "who should have nuclear weapons" is perhaps the analogy we should use; this does not have a clear answer
graffiti is the perfect example of something that is almost never a real problem with any real harmful consequences but it occupies an outsized place of concern among well-to-do urban liberals for reasons I personally cannot understand MORE PAINT
why is the jeanbaudrillard.bsky.social handle on here controlled by a Hillary Clinton dead ender in 2026 😭🥀
jeanbaudrillard.bsky.social@jeanbaudrillard.bsky.social · 2w ago'the left' made 'everyone' care about civil rights, as a matter of 'historical fact' fixed it for ya
