huntthesnark.bsky.social
constantly unreinventing the wheel
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There's a Hegelian narrative that civilization is a march toward coordination, on which the nation-state is a stop. (Marx thought class solidarity was the next one.)
What's interesting about colonialism is the nation-state was deployed as a dis-coordinating technology, quite intentionally.
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I'd argue that the idea of the modern state didn't even take its currently accepted form until 200 years after that, the "springtime of the peoples," and, hell, it took decades even after that for "Italy" and "Germany" to exist as such.
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Here at Luca Brasi's, every patron is drowned in one of our lovely fish tanks before being seated!
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DHS was an entirely bad idea when it was instituted, is still an entirely bad idea, and it should be abolished.
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Um, you do understand that social media's entire purpose as a product is to see and interact with content they want but not content they don't, right? They are literally bubble-making machines.
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No! That sounds fun.
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I got so into TotK that, alongside the benefits you mentioned, I also stopped spending money on other games, so really it net saved me money.
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white centrists will look you dead in the eyes & say “it’s not fair to depict ICE agents as cartoon villains” while ICE is Gestapo kidnapping 9 year olds from courthouses.
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Can't wait for them to acquire the streaming library of Dramarrhea!
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I tried to explain this to the technician the last time I got on EKG, but for some reason he threatened to call the cops.
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Khanna's been an Elon stan / apologist for a long time. Not surprising that he took the opportunity to cape for his buddy when it arose.
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I got nausaged at a Jane's Addiction show in a converted K-Mart in 1990 and have never really recovered.
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Is Miller's wife still following them both?
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Cosmic nope
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A lot of the people who are hyped about AI feel that way precisely because of the negative long-term results.
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What I'm seeing rn is budget for projects with "AI" in there somewhere, asking for aggressive projections of FTE savings.
At the same time, headcount reductions are being mandated, project or not. It looks like pressure from both ends that adds up to: "You're using it. Better figure out how."
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I mean, Lourdes is still a thing, isn't it? The miracle of reducing labor costs is one so many desperately want to believe in.
In the end, it probably has domain-specific uses, but it isn't the "everything machine" and is more bubble / scam than anything else. But those can go on for a while.
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You have more faith in corporate America than I do. I certainly hope you're right, but the meetings I'm in don't point that direction at the moment.
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I've always assumed--on, I'll be clear, zero direct evidence--that AI monetization had settled on the drug-dealer model: Businesses go ham on AI adoption because it's the cool thing, workforce and labor investment shifts past a point of no return, then they jack up the price.
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Pretty sure that one is 18+ on Steam.
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The Biden admin's response to covid--both the vaccine rollout and the bottom-up economic support that as, you know, a nice bonus lifted millions of children out of poverty--might be the biggest achievement of the federal government in my lifetime. All of it now totally discredited. So sad.
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Back in the days when real men were not afraid to show their thighs.
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That's a really good tip, thanks!