The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win.
These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.
![CHAPTER TWO
A Theory of
Technology Evolution
The Law of Accelerating Returns
The further backward you look, the further forward you can see.
-WINSTON CHURCHILL
Two billion years ago, our ancestors were microbes; a half-billion years ago, fish; a hundred million years ago, something like mice; ten milion years ago, arboreal apes; and a million years ago, proto-humans puzzing out the taming of hire. Our evolutionary lineage is marked by mastery of change. In our time, the pace is quickening.
-CARL SAGAN
Our sole responsibility is to produce something smarter than we are; any Problems beyond that are not ours to solve.... _There are no hard prob-lems, only problems that are hard to a certain level of intelligence. Move the smallest bit upwards [in level of intelligence], and some problems will suddenly move from "impossible" to "obvious." Move a substantial degree
bvious.
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CHAPTER TWO A Theory of Technology Evolution The Law of Accelerating Returns The further backward you look, the further forward you can see. -WINSTON CHURCHILL Two billion years ago, our ancestors were microbes; a half-billion years ago, fish; a hundred million years ago, something like mice; ten milion years ago, arboreal apes; and a million years ago, proto-humans puzzing out the taming of hire. Our evolutionary lineage is marked by mastery of change. In our time, the pace is quickening. -CARL SAGAN Our sole responsibility is to produce something smarter than we are; any Problems beyond that are not ours to solve.... _There are no hard prob-lems, only problems that are hard to a certain level of intelligence. Move the smallest bit upwards [in level of intelligence], and some problems will suddenly move from "impossible" to "obvious." Move a substantial degree bvious. ТУ, 1996
Chapter 2 is the intellectual core of the book, presenting the “law of accelerating returns.”
@adambecker.bsky.social already wrote the authoritative debunking of this idea in his book, More Everything Forever. (Which is excellent and you should purchase btw.)
still writing my essay on artemis (im slow srry) but @chanda.blacksky.app just posted one on it and she is MUCH more qualified to talk about this than me, and the text is fantastic pls give it a read and share it
news.chanda.science/archive/dese...
Why are golfers still wearing paunchy little synthetic polos and low-rise cigarette-leg stretch chinos that look like Suitsupply Havana pants from 2014. Can we please introduce the City Boy silhouette to professional golf. Can we get Scottie Scheffler a copy of Popeye Magazine
Yet for all this efficiency, for all we've done to increase the viability of mobile, desktop, workstation and server, we're burning more power than ever before on datacenters and servers for this "AI" crap that can't reliably do math.
We're burning down the world for bad math.
What the fuck.
My best friend spent 3 months watching this back in 2022. There’s an article out there that says that they are the only film critic to ever make the claim that they sat down to watch the entire thing and it’s “impossible to know” if they actually did.” I was there, they totally did, and wrote this:
This week, our co-founder @tinavasquez.bsky.social wrote this essential piece for Prism about reckoning with allegations against César Chavez, and what this means to the Latine movement more broadly:
Image of a Paris bike-lane filled with people on bikes with the text saying “bike-lanes mean business.” Provided by the Urban Truth Collaborative.
How many more studies does your city need proving that people on bikes and on foot spend more on shopping streets than people in cars?
But the store owner LOVES parking in that spot right outside…
Bike-lanes mean business. #UrbanTruth
Amazing book recommendations 🙏🏽
Evicted exposed the myth that eviction is a personal failure, proving it is structural; Palaces for the People obliterated the notion that cities depend only on physical infrastructure by uplifting social infrastructure. Here are books by Black & Indigenous authors also dismantling urban untruths. 🧵
road cyclist going up hill kid sitting on side of road with bike Avid cyclist can't believe your kid bikingto school needs bike lanes, "they probably can't even climb Tourmalet."
Avid cyclist can't believe your kid biking to school needs bike lanes, "they probably can't even climb Tourmalet."
Thank you! This a great reading assignment list!
Alright fam, here it is
Moby-Dick Rocks!!!; or, put down the AI and read a fucking book.
by
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
earrings by Ear Art by Ebony London
Something we love to see: More and more bikes being used in campaign announcement videos.
While certain LA officials have started questioning the opacity of LA28's budget, at the heart of LA's conundrum is a decade- old bad deal. Despite having an unprecedented 11 years of lead time when the games were awarded in 2017, the host city contract was approved hastily by LA's council and then-mayor Eric Garcetti. "LA's leverage was only viable until the city signed the host city contract, and Mayor Garcetti and the council agreed to give that up within a couple of weeks in August 2017 in exchange for a relative pittance in promises from the IOC," says deMause. "For whatever reason, he decided to roll the dice and hope that the 2028 Games would be financially viable just because 1984 was. And nine years later, with two years to go before the opening ceremonies, the dice are still rolling."
While certain LA officials have started questioning the opacity of LA28's budget, at the heart of LA's conundrum is a decade-old bad deal.
There are a few councilmembers still on council who voted for this deal in 2017. It's not too late for them to do the right thing!
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i dont think i ever shared that preorders are open! really the first book of its kind, the history of the US government’s removal of Indigenous children, from colonization to today
Here's a short thread about some political and intellectual icons and their work at, and appreciation for libraries.
Exactly! Better to stay away.
he clearly needs to eat more
Legend
Quote box featuring a photo of Susan B. Anthony wearing a ruffled dress and the quote from her: "Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood."
Women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony realized the importance of the bicycle as an instrument of liberation -- one of the invention's most significant legacies
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Susan B. Anthony!
February 15 (1820-1906)
South pas!
PSA reading “Hey there neighbor! We all want to feel safe, but your Ring camera is sharing everything with ICE, including every person that walks by.” Cartoon smiley faces saying “Ack!”, “Oh no!”, “That’s terrible!” A cartoon shouting “What to do?!” Text: “Turn it off! Or, cover the camera and use audio only.” A drawing showing “You” cutting the stream of information from Ring to Amazon to ICE. Text: “We keep each other safe” surrounded by drawings of hearts.
hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
It’s infuriating and dispiriting how cozy scientists and science communicators were with Epstein. Not just creeps like Krauss and Horner, but former SciAm editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina corresponding with Epstein in 2014-2015. “He’s done so much for science, I think that deserves some fun!”
I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵
The revelations surrounding Casey Wasserman are deeply disturbing. Even the appearance of ties to people connected to unspeakable harm undermines the credibility of our efforts and dishonors survivors everywhere. LA28 cannot claim to represent the values of this city without addressing these concerns head-on. Casey Wasserman must resign.
"LA28 cannot claim to represent the values of this city without addressing these concerns head-on. Casey Wasserman must resign." Another call to step down from LA City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez
