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what are your favourite blogs/magazines/newsletters etc? where are the good articles at? i hunger for weird articles
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the man is holding her hair as if he has never touched a woman's hair before and he's worried he'll drop it
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pizza is a good one. the dough isn't that hard to make, and a pizza stone isn't that expensive, but it still has a certain magical "you MADE this?" energy to it
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I think it's moreso a great tool to *avoid* learning things at an entry level. To actually learn it, you have to read the docs and comprehensively understand. An LLM will just feed you the solution and give you a misleading explanation of why it works.
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well yeah
if you "have any opinion but a high one for black people," you'll be vilified too. that's just an indirect way of admitting that you're racist
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currently what programming with an LLM looks like is, "do this. No, not like that, like this. Not like that either. No, do it THIS way, not like that" over and over.
The notion that they're almost better than humans is laughable
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yeah I always thought "confabulation" was a better word than "hallucination" for what AI does. People with certain types of dementia or brain damage can lose memories and then "fill in the blanks" with confident recollections of entirely imaginary events.
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yeah pro-cop policy and rhetoric exist at every layer of government. But the ones siccing the cops on protestors are mayors
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I mean, the president doesn't run the police, and he does run DHS/ICE. I don't totally disagree but I'm just sayin
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neither are unsupported assertions, but that didn't stop you, lol
but go ahead, keep trying to sell me on your sinking ship
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"Low-budget aesthetic" also covers a lot of different factors. Practical effects can be cheaper than CGI, but they also look completely different.
There's looking cheap to look cheap, and there's looking cheap because you want to use specific cheap tools.
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It can be poseur-ish, sure. Some people probably do do it merely because the other cool kids do it too. But if they sincerely love that aesthetic, I think that love is reflected in the art regardless of the budget involved.
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Is there really a point to any aesthetic? If you like it, you like it. There's a reason why these people are fond of the low-budget b-movie aesthetic, but at the end of the day, the only reason they use it is because they're fond of it.
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It's because low-budget productions are often the only place that interesting stuff can get made, and because interesting stuff often gets slipped into low-budget productions that nobody's paying attention to
Being cheap is creatively liberating, and so the aesthetics of cheapness can feel creative
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you couldn't pay me to live there
this is measurable. I work in software; I'd make more if I moved to the bay area, and I have friends who did. You literally couldn't pay me to.
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yeah the reason they're winning has less to do with hypocrisy (andrew tate is a huge hypocrite) or being annoying (andrew tate is extremely annoying) but simply with money.
You can buy popularity. What Tate actually does, the thing that made him famous, is a content creation pyramid scheme scam.
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self-help grindset content may be a good vector to reach men, but if it inspires those men to become ordinary business owners, it has fixed nothing. We have to be compatible with mainstream culture, but we can't merely reaffirm it, because it buttresses a system we are trying to undermine.
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that said, when "good people start businesses," they need money from bad VCs, and are eventually forced to compromise their values or exit. The leftist critique of capitalism is not that the people in charge are evil, but that the system is structurally evil irrespective of how moral people are.
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i agree with some bits and disagree with others
the left definitely has aesthetic problems. There's something reactionary about dudebro manfluencers, sure, but there are toxic aspects to anything fun. We can critique them, but our core messaging must still be compatible with mainstream culture.
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they don't understand ambivalence. you need the push and the pull. the hot babe who's totally into you has to also be an edgy vampire who can't control themselves.
if there isn't some degree of discomfort, there's no tension. you might as well read the wikipedia article for "blowjob"
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so true bestie! white people can become Hyperboreans instead. Nothing weird about the creation of revolutionary new racial identities for white people
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oo, that's a fun rule of thumb. Let's take it to its logical conclusion: When these AI models plagiarize existing art and violate copyright, we can press charges the way we would against a human artist or author. And then we'll send ChatGPT to jail.
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What key part of Marxism depends on the labour theory of value? It was considered sound in Marx's day, which is why he uses it, but neither class analysis nor dialectical materialism really depend on it.
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can you launch in Canada next? i want to buy books from you đź’ś
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OH it's reflective
i thought it was like. a commemorative plate depicting someone getting fondled. and i was like "kinda tacky imo but ok"
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those advisory bodies currently aren't powerful cuz they aren't democratic. they're all appointees, & the US supreme court is a good illustration of the problems there. i generally think unicameral is smarter but tbh the senate hasn't caused huge issues here in canada so i can't complain too much
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eh parliamentary systems have issues. A senate/HoL is of questionable worth and parliaments tend to still be first-past-the-post, which is terrible
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Came here to suggest that. It's weird and beautiful in a way that could have been disconcerting, but the protagonist's serenity and sense of wonder make it all... something I haven't seen before.
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who is this woman? why does anyone listen to her?
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i liked the first half of the novel. In the second half, all the drama goes away and it's kind of about nothing
and yeah, what was good about the first half was the internal monologue
so, not surprising imo that the movie was dull
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They're actually rather bad. They only look good at small scale given simple problems. Nobody's job has been replaced by an AI agent because agents just can't build anything of substance.
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no, the correct advice for women is to shop at The Gap™. Only The Gap™ will suffice. Shop at The Gap™. Shop at The Gap™ every day. Wear only clothing from The Gap™. Venerate The Gap™ and think about nothing else.
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I loved Best Young Woman Job Book. It's about having to do gig work to live as a writer. Not usually a big memoir reader, but I snapped this one right up.
www.emmahealey.com/bywjb
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tbf adam smith was pro-regulation, pro-tax and much smarter than the libertarians who tout his name today
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you can be coerced you by having food withheld, though. this is obvious. idk why you're pretending not to understand.
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im not killing you
your body is killing you by squirting all your blood out through a hole in your chest which i just happened to put there
it's not my fault you can't handle your own blood
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well yeah, because full-time jobs have inflexible hours. how many people supplement full-time work with part-time work, or work multiple part-time jobs for a total in excess of full-time hours?
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do you know what food was like before the FDA was created? it was packed with fillers and additives that were literally poisonous. people died. it was really, really bad.
i think libertarians don't realize that we tried things their way already and it killed people. regulations are written in blood
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I think it's a discoverability issue. We have the infrastructure now to all publish stuff on the internet, but the structure of internet media means we all only hear about the same few popular movies, albums, and games.
It's like how there used to be thousands of websites and now there are a dozen.
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i noticed the image of the state you embedded is lower-resolution than the one google's displaying at the url you cited
in case you're interested, dezoomify.ophir.dev will let you download google's full high-res original
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honestly I blame show-don't-tell. If you don't have interesting set dressing for an appallingly fancy lobby, just say "the lobby was appallingly fancy" and move on.
If that's too terse, decide what's missing and add it. A movie set needs set dressing no matter what, but prose can skip that
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honestly I still like nanowrimo. It's not a good way to write a novel, but it's a good way to convince yourself that you can write a novel
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nah—if there's one thing I've learned in the past couple years of my career, it's to never guess how things work. That's how you break them.
Relying on an LLM to tell you what's correct is as bad as guessing imo
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eh, I mean, it's not so unusual to port a bash script to python
porting an sdk to a new language perhaps. pulling chunks of a monolith out into microservices when you need to switch to more scalable infrastructure
it happens, though I agree it's not a common outside of small scripts
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even the AI boosters are starting to become uncomfortable with the impact that it's having on their minds
dcurt.is/thinking
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it's like when there's a storm in the air. It's coming. It's coming.
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ok how many times do i have to say "america is also bad" before you'll stop using "america was also bad" as a comeback
you're arguing with someone who isn't in the room
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what? he took power after lenin died, in the '20s
i'm mostly talking about his activity in the '30s anyway
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the USSR had promise for a while, post-revolution. But by the time Stalin came around, that promise had run dry. The government was extremely repressive and the people got, like, basic social-democratic handouts. Nothing to write home about.