"Learn to (sign up for Claude) code." is the new "Learn to code.".

Ambient Trek: Utopia Planitia Construction Cam - The Federation Prepares for the Dominion (STA4) YouTube video by Some Star Trek (Playthroughs)

Construction Cam - Utopia Planita Constuction Yard.

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This goes extra intensely for academic writing, in my opinion. If you're using gAI to think (because that is what writing is) why should anyone read it? And sending AI generated writing off for peer review is just...

Ground News - Palantir Sparks Backlash with Manifesto Denouncing Inclusivity The defense contractor distilled CEO Alex Karp's book into 22 points ranking cultures and calling for AI weapons development.

"What did you expect; did you not notice our name?" - #Palantir this weekend.

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Dostoevsky writes like there’s about to be a permanent embargo on words and ideas so he has to use every word and idea before time runs out

They’re not people lacking skills. They’re people who have the skills to see specifically why the AI is degrading their specific work environments, productivity, and products and who are pushing back against AI enthusiasts who lack the skills and expertise to see the problems.

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

Point 21 is the giveaway, some cultures produce "wonders," others are "regressive and harmful." Once you accept that hierarchy, you've quietly been given permission to apply different standards of verification to different actors. The form of verification stays, but the democratic function doesn't.

Notice: the stacks model doesn't say these people are stupid. It says each system fails at a specific architectural layer. Technocratic systems fail at deliberation. Populist systems fail at verification. Conspiratorial systems fail at epistemic posture.

Hmmm maybe we should nationalize Palantir and then do the private equity thing to it.

Public equity

these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.

Rewatching S3 of #SNW.

Seems like the Metrons are behind both the prison and the various experiments on Batel, Ortega, Kirk, Gorn, and Illyrians to create the prison and Beyonders.

Ambient Trek - Border Wars, Log 4. The Battles of Vulcan and the Core Worlds (STA4) YouTube video by Some Star Trek (Playthroughs)

Ambient Trek - Border Wars, Log 4. The Battles of Vulcan and the Core Worlds (STA4)

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#StarTrek #Gaming #AmbientFocus

Alaska the federated state seems like an odd culprit.

Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.

Moping post.

Bodily re-experiencing is shit.

Recommend not having #cPTSD.

Blaster Beam is back with Craig Huxley YouTube video by Blaster Beam

Blaster Beam goes *bwong*. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj4f...

Yes. And universities, hire religion scholars.

(…and to those doing so, reverse your foolish plans to close Religious Studies departments).

The doctor.
A physician.
A good doctor.
The Great Physician.

I hear you there! I found VS Codium and been able to avoid that there. vscodium.com

As mental crack cocaine?

Translated from the German.

"If you were in charge of Star Trek what would you do?"

More Star Trek.

A thousand federated mastadon servers just rebooted.

I forgot.

James Roberts, as it turns out.

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I am partial to Autocracy through to the end of Robert's Run.

I've read everything I could electrically get my hands of and make sense of (at least in terms of the Transformers comics).

I'm partial to Autocracy through the end of Robert's Run.

Prime died so that Duke could live.

Black and white line art concept sheet titled "FORTRESS TIBERIUS." Center shows a humanoid Transformer robot with "U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701" printed on its chest. Left column shows three views of the starship in vehicle mode. Right column shows two robot head close-ups. CBS, IDW, and Hasbro logos appear upper left.

Colored comic book cover reading "Star Trek vs. Transformers." A large red and blue Autobot robot hovers above the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, which bears an Autobot symbol in place of the Starfleet delta. The robot holds a glowing white orb. Pink and purple cosmic rays radiate outward behind both figures.

Reminds me of this comic from back in the day.

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Barber, John, and Mike Johnson (writers). Philip Murphy (artist). Star Trek vs. Transformers #3. IDW Publishing, November 21, 2018.