jorts.horse is back??

it’s what comes after yog and before oth

are too!

it was black monday

we’re all fighting an existential fight against the machines

no, you’re fighting the ruling class. the machines are just their weapons.

justice and playing politics are not compatible. full stop.

obviously playing politics trivializes the horror of the actions because it means they obviously didn’t care enough to take action as soon as possible.

we’re so deep in red/blue sportscasting that this very basic moral point is now invisible to most people. it is undoubtedly felt, but no one can even name it anymore.

fuck that

nothing says “the democrats are a legitimate party and not just playing electoral football” like waiting until the end of october to pursue damning claims against their political opponents

this shit is undoubtedly true but let’s not pretend the democrats give a shit except as points

no. they should be put into an open air zoo with glass walls and live-streamed cameras everywhere. all their material needs should be met, but they will be allowed no clothing and no privacy for anything at any time, always aware that they are never anything but watched by billions who hate them.

a process is what it does, or, in this case, doesn’t

depends on what you mean by “heal.”

nature can bounce back surprisingly quickly. we saw that during the lockdowns. it’s a thing that gives me hope.

but also, so much irreversible damage has already been done; we’re in a mass extinction, after all. it will be millions of years before we have a similar level of biodiversity as we did before humans took over the planet.

the world’s richest man, backed by the full military and economic authority of the united states, israel, and russia, is probably relishing how much “he’s getting himself into.”

the dude is probably creaming his pants at the thought of being the ancap god he’s always wanted to be.

this is literally a scene in the movie “brazil”.

no, i want the complete specifications for critical public infrastructure to be public so there are no secrets at all

are you saying am/pm change happens one second after 12? because no, they happen at the instant of 12.

friendly reminder that capitalism subsumes all criticism of itself into itself

“pivot to ai” is the first i’ve heard of him. if you have examples of this behavior in other contexts, i’d love to have a look at it.

i’m worried about the direction linux is going, and i am particularly worried about linus himself.

that said, the pivot to ai guy gets his bread buttered by being anti-ai. a number of people on the fediverse maintain their followings in part by constant, vociferous ai bashing.

i also hate ai! i think it’s dangerous and one of the worst things humanity has yet created!

but i can read the mailing list, i can look at the patch, and this is so overblown it’s nuts. nothing about what went on with this patch matches the descriptions people are giving it. someone even pulled a “i don’t understand the rcu that well” quote in order to make their point, but that quote isn’t from anyone really involved in the patch at all. it’s just cherry picking a loosely-related message in order to have something to scream at.

and, i hate to say it, but this is pretty common with dave and his crew of hangers-on.

it frustrates me to no end that the people who are most visible in the anti-ai camp are people like this, because it undermines everything when it’s so trivial to point out how they’re blowing things up way out of proportion in order to maintain their rage machine

if you’re buying the dip, that’s you

this is correct in a fashion. when he says “we” he means “everyone”, as you say, but to him, “everyone” means him and his allies. he says “we” in this crowd of people, but the crowd of people do not understand that, to him, they are nothing but objects who are there to adore him and adulate him.

that’s why he doesn’t even think twice about saying these things. it literally does not occur to him that this crowd can do anything other than praise him for taking so much for himself.

some time ago, trump was about to take off with some press on the plane, and before it takes off he wished everyone a great flight, then followed up with, "You know why I say that? Because I’m on the flight. Otherwise I wouldn’t care.”

if you want a deep look into a narcissist, this is just about as raw as it gets. not just that he thinks it but that he has no qualms at all about saying it. he simply says it because he wants to and nothing else matters.

is it a dark secret if everyone knows?