Irony: the people who are happiest with the non-deterministic nature of genAI are also the people most certain that human programmers are in fact deterministic.

Eat shit.

Blocked so many people earlier I got rate limited, it was fucking awesome.

Bluesky team needs to get way more aggressive about banning the ingrates.

I cannot express adequately in words how much contempt I have for this position. THIS IS A YOU PROBLEM. Don't want to be always interrogating media for signs of Corruption? Then simply DON"T DO THAT.

San Francisco Solved Metro Vandalism With One Neat Trick The age of the fare-gate society is here.

I wrote about the "architecture of good behavior": fare gates, drugstore plexiglass, speed cameras, leaning benches, code-access toilets, and other mechanical frictions in our shared spaces, nudging us along www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I suspect it's more that you like for people to see you on a regular basis.

That's because you are assuming people want to see YOU on a regular basis. Maybe they don't. And you're intruding on their right of solitude.

@loweringthebar.bsky.social

I mean it got used as a cudgel because it's an obviously evil thing a right-wing movement did.

Don't want to be cudgelled? Don't commit the Holocaust!

There is one thing that cannot ever be Art, and that is a lie. Liars cannot be artists. Art, however imaginative, is concerned at its very root with truth.

If the artistic class embraces lies it must be replaced utterly.

This also goes for your faves, del Toro, Miyazaki, Gilligan.

When ChatGPT came out I had no particular animus towards the class of person who churns out what passes for 'art' in this self-absorbed era, and now I think it is a moral imperative that every one of these people starve to death.

The thing about “viewpoint diversity” is it’s an affront to legitimate scholarship. What counts as knowledge should have to earn that status - but right-wingers want cheat codes so their shoddy “research” will get as much hearing as serious peer-reviewed work.

Cheap beef in US should be seen as a 20th century anomaly akin to nonpartisan alignment of the two parties and our manufacturing dominance post-WWII.

Beef getting more expensive is a return to historical norms, with an increase in global demand production constraints, fueled by climate change.

beef should cost 5x what it does

Gonna get a lot of ‘But Black Dynamite, *I* benefit from climate destroying corporate welfare!’ If ever we crack down on climate destroying corporate welfare

"Beef did not used to be a special treat" man wait until you hear about premodernity

One way we know the left is bullshitting about wanting action on Climate Change: leftists apparently can't live without cheap ground beef.

You're not getting good climate policy in a world where beef is as cheap as water. Come the fuck on.

I'm bummed that there aren't enough milirant vegans on here to add new axes to the price of beef discourse, or at least climate activists. Somebody should be showing up in everybody's replies telling them that eating beef makes them worse than an AI user.

Guy who thinks that a French peasant could afford a kilo of beef from 2 hours of labor

This is such a funny historical reference because the only people who could come close to affording a kilo of beef in 18th century France were the ones being guillotined.

"This is not an unreasonable stance" yes it is! It always fucking has been!

You should never have been able to afford beef.

The core of the vibecession debate is a question about politics:

DO MATERIAL CONDITIONS MECHANICALLY DRIVE POLITICAL OUTCOMES?

If you can find way to model consumer sentiment as a function of measurable economic indicators, the answer is "probably yes." If you cannot, the answer is "probably no."

Yeah fair enough

...he's also honoring the results.

People recognize why attacking the Pope as "WEAK on Crime" is hilarious but will then try to use crime statistics as a proxy for morality in religion vs irreligion debates.

If I see one more person say Vance is responsible for Orban's defeat because of fucking Polymarket...

there are like two "grifters" in the world and the great freaks of planet earth are not on the list

One of my more crank ideas: an institution with deep historical tradition of this thing, broad political neutrality, and the ability to guarantee it will exist in perpetuity to the extant that any human organization can should play a key role in development of open source software. The Vatican.

In general I find that the real stochastic parakeets are posters who use terms like “distraction”, “complicit”, and “DNC” as substitutes for thought. You’d be better off chatting about eugenics with Grok