Ah, this is obviously perfectly consistent with Trump's profound intellectual curiosity and deep understanding of military history. Can't think of any other reason.

Just a reminder that the modern Right’s pretense to caring about free speech is sheer bullshit.

I woke up this morning and immediately panic-purchased a giant air purifier, climate apocalypse is going great so far

He also signed a law lowering the standard for criminal prosecution so that even if you mishandled such info accidentally you would be prosecuted bsky.app/profile/kfile.bsky.socia...

We can’t abandon the rule of law because cultists don’t like it applied to people they like,

Brian Armstrong of Coinbase tweets: “If you're in NYC head over to Wall Street to see our History of Money exhibit across the street from the @NYSE, which couldn't be more timely. Money is not static - it has continually been improved over time - and crypto is the most important technology we have to update the financial system. Crypto can't be uninvented. It's here to stay. What we need now are sensible policies and rules so we can all move forward together.” I have highlighted “Crypto can’t be uninvented” in yellow.

“You can’t put the genie back in the lamp” always conflates products with technologies to create a sense of inevitability. It implies we are the ones who need to adjust and adapt, not the genie.

big if tru

trump has been indicted yet again: here’s why that’s bad news for joe biden

it's going great over there lmao

“I promise we’re not all like that” Right-wing extremists have embraced South Florida’s crypto scene and Governor Ron DeSantis.

thorough, important deep dive into connections between #cryptocurrency & the far right (including DeSantis, Oath Keepers, Sovereign Citizens, etc) in Florida by @silverman.bsky.social www.jacobsilverman.com/p/i-promise-were-not-all... #fascism

I hope partisan polarization doesn't result in a lot of people on the East Coast getting sick in unhealthy air. But I fear the worst – especially for kids of parents who've been disinformed into believing masks don't work & are a tribal signal instead of a protection like goggles, helmets, & gloves.

The Supreme Court Is Corrupt Because It’s Conservative It isn’t a coincidence. The court is corrupt, both judicially and ethically, because of the extreme ideology six of its justices serve.

Michael Tomasky gets it right: "These justices & their supporters believe they are on a mission to rescue America from people like us. There is so much more to do, & the clock is ticking. So the lies are justified." newrepublic.com/article/173228/supreme-c...

Marc Andreessen says AI will 'make the world warmer and nicer,' because even though it isn't sentien... Andreessen wrote a 7,000-word blog post lauding AI's potential and warning against "full-blown moral panic" from cultish "AI risk doomers."

thanks to Marc Andressen's sudden, totally good-faith pivot from #cryptocurrency #blockchain to #AI, you can cross "full-blown moral panic" off your #cyberlibertarianism AI bingo card www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-ai-empat...

And yet Alex would never have fooled any democrats into supporting him in the primaries

look when you’re right, you’re right

In 2023, conservative activists have advanced the theory that "woke" corporations are pushing a radical, pro-LGBTQ agenda.

But a Popular Information investigation reveals 25 rainbow flag-waiving corporations have donated $13.5 million to anti-gay politicians since January 2022.

bit.ly/3IYWCBP

that’s the good shit

www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/tw...

Twitter numbers (59pc decline in y-o-y advertising) is instructive in a couple of ways. First - you can destroy a business by thinking your own dumb narrow worldview has any market value at all. Second - extreme right wing ideology (+ spam) remains narrow and unpalatable (at least to advertisers)

good fucking riddance to Chuck Fucking Todd Todd was the worst of the both-sides dipshits

hey, I wrote a thing: "good fucking riddance to Chuck Fucking Todd"

Varn vlog on “community”: what if that word doesn’t mean what we think it means? What do we do with a desire for collectivity? What can we build if we turn our attention to social reproduction as production?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JfvKba0bhBU&t=1s

Particularly given a wave of complaints about the cruelty to advisees of one of these parents. Kinship can be a brutal business.

"I benefited from privilege. Therefore, this is how it should continue to be."

Freedom of speech, unless you criticize the platform.

They folks who understand how propaganda works have managed to define election denialism as “political speech” (and therefore to moderate becomes “censorship”) … my sense is that things are going to get worse on this front before they get better. If they get better.

www.dropbox.com/s/deuu0h47nl3p9jm/Przewo... . As Bruce Schneier and I have argued - www.bostonreview.net/forum/forum-henry-farrel... - this means that democracy is vulnerable to feedback loops

for the origins of every bad idea that went into bitcoin, the best documentation is @dgolumbia.bsky.social's book "The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism". https://t.ly/6jj-

he shows his working in full. all the ideas were bad from the start. there are no good bits.

unfortunately evergreen skeet

Sam Altman's Worldcoin project incentivizes a black market for biometric data taken from people in developing nations "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome." Sam Altman's Worldcoin project, a dystopian effort to use chrome orbs to scan the irises of people (often in developing nations) in exchange for vague promises of crypto compensation, is encountering even more difficulties. In April 2022, BuzzFeed News and MIT Technology Review both published in-depth reporting on some of the technical and ethical issues the project has run up against.

Now, the project is facing reports that people in China, who are not allowed to sign up legitimately, have been purchasing iris scans from individuals in Africa and Southeast Asia in order to circumvent the restriction. According to the news outlet BlockBeats, Chinese individuals have been engaging in "eyeball speculation": buying biometric data scanned en masse from villagers in Cambodia, Kenya, and elsewhere by people who then sell it for $30 or less, allowing the buyer to receive the associated Worldcoin payout (currently ~$20). Worldcoin has said they are rolling out various measures to try to discourage this activity, including changing the in-person sign-up process. However, the project acknowledged that they have not figured out how to prevent this, writing: "Despite these precautions, it is important to acknowledge that they do not entirely safeguard against collusion or other attempts to bypass the one-person-one-proof principle. To address these challenges, innovative ideas i

Sam Altman's Worldcoin project incentivizes a black market for biometric data taken from people in developing nations

May 18, 2023
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vibecamp is the TPOT/post-rationalist meetup

past renowned guests include Curtis Yarvin, creator of neoreaction and Tucker Carlson guest

why works for bluesky

hmm, i think we've worked out how the totally not nazis are getting in here