nutty.land
Haskell, climbing, blacksmithing; occasional SCAdian. I work on the core Zcash team at https://electriccoin.co and build software for worker-owned cooperatives at https://aftok.com by night.
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Perl. And it was good.
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"Plaintiffs and the citizens of Los Angeles face a greater harm from the continued unlawful militarization of their city."
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"Regardless of the outcome of this case or any other, [Trump's invoking 10 USC 12406 against a governor's wishes] threatens serious injury to the constitutional balance of power between the federal and state governments, and it sets a dangerous precedent for future domestic military activity.
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They’re asking that the sanctions be levied against the individual attorneys and have noted that precedent exists to support the court prohibiting the government from reimbursing them.
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And again, I find it telling that the very arguments made for why we must push immediately and desperately into AI—that it will create infinite wealth and intelligence—suddenly vanish when it comes to sharing that wealth with IP holders or using that intelligence to build fairer systems…
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The boot will never lick you back.
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You can't obstruct an investigation which doesn't exist. An investigation can't exist without a suspicion of a crime.
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When a cop tries to enter a place the law doesn't allow them to enter, because they have no warrant and no valid suspicion of crime, you send them away. You do not enable crime from the people who are supposed to prevent it. Standing in the way to protect innocents is not just legal, but important
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For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.
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This was coming, and if they had waited patiently they might have made a much more convincing case for a takeover (as part of response to "looting" after a natural disaster for example, or more actually major protests).
But nope, Miller had to have his quotas met and settle high school grudges.
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The “way less politically viable” assertion is one I disagree with. Everybody understands rating systems, they’re ubiquitous in our everyday lives. Approval doesn’t give voters any ability to express nuanced preferences, and that’s a stumbling block; it’s why people think they want RCV instead.
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STAR voting is even better on these issues: starvoting.us
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Like, you write some CSS, is it correct? On various devices? What does correct even mean? Humans can go “yeah that looks okay” but that judgement is deeply subjective (and usually results in hours of arguments about what “looks better.”)
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The state space that you have to deal with to get ELF encoding right is also kind of microscopic compared to the state space that CSS has to manipulate. I have be using claude for some CSS stuff recently as well and I think that the lack of a correctness oracle is a huge problem.
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So many people behave like they believe they’re living in a novel, and I don’t know what to do about it. The stories have taken over. Ubiquitous entertainment has utterly broken people’s brains.
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This labeler is really helpful:
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Oh wait, I get it, this is the ETH folks who are *interested* in privacy hacking on stuff and you’re wanting to interest them in atproto. Never mind!
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What does Ethereum have to do with privacy?
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"Defendants have also not shown that any of the protests have rendered the President 'unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.' ... Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act is imminent, if not already underway."
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It cost my family $500 per person for round-trip tickets to Helsinki last January. We stayed in youth hostels; it was fantastic, and *far* cheaper (and more enjoyable) than going to any theme park could ever possibly be.
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There are some people who are genuinely deserving of vigilante justice.
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At the expense of the fundamental human right to freedom of movement? GTFO.
It makes no sense that where someone is allowed to exist depends on the location of their birth, something that they have no control over.
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It's the specific, publicly authorized & legitimate capacity for violence that requires the police be denied a separate, independent form of collective power. The professional agents of public violence must not be able to act independently of democratically legitimate leadership.
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Colorado is pretty great.
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I continue to believe that whether or not AI can “reason” is almost irrelevant. People can use it for things, and they’re going to use it for both good and ill and that’s going to have profound effects on society. Do we end up at AGI? I can’t tell, but capabilities are going to continue to increase.
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The X model of “pay for extended posts” is actually a good one. And the whole “spaces” integration or whatever it’s called is a good idea too. BlueSky would be well served to crib the good ideas and charge for them.
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I keep hoping that some day we’ll get a functioning micropayments system for the internet. What Brave is doing with BAT could be genuinely transformative if people could get it into their heads that it’s better to be a customer than a product.
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I don’t think going to X is the answer though; X is useless in an entirely different fashion.
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There are plenty of folks here with whom to have useful discussions, but unfortunately with a profile as high as yours the noise is likely to drown out the signal, and sufficiently aggressive blocking or muting is probably way too much work.
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and my feeling is one of love. i understand my work is not for everyone and i also understand some folks need to find community through mockery. i am excited to read a few of their books and hopefully give them a good review
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Laws against immigration, laws that try to ban people from freely moving across borders, laws that try to target both them and citizens to ban voluntary exchange (employment, renting, etc.) to enforce a scheme of keeping people out of the country. The whole premise that's desirable is wrong.
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And yet again, this requires a system of total surveillance.
It makes no sense that where someone can exist depends on where they’re born. I dream of a world where laws make sense.
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There is no pretty, inoffensive way to enforce this scheme. You can muddle through with widespread nonenforcement, or you can have an aggressively ugly crackdown, or you can accept the laws are themselves bad and should be repealed. But there's no combination of effective and civil libertarian.
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Sorry, it was after that, when they’re moving the barricades
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I've long held that if you walk from Honduras to Texas then you're exactly the sort of person I want in my country! That's an amazing amount of effort!
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humans have been migrating for millennia, the thought that some jagweed racist colonial government thinks it can dictate which patch of dirt belongs to which group of people is utterly absurd when you take two seconds to consider it