I imagine Andrew brought them on day 1

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I’d like to echo YNIH, this has been a wild ride. Thanks for history and the analysis! Reinventing the wheel but worse (i.e. rizzless Scientology) is certainly a trope with our subjects, isnt it?

On a side note, as someone who has enjoyed the occasional temporal lobe seizure, I wonder if Lydia ought to have a quiet word with a neurologist. The déjà vu might be a portent, but not the one you feel that it is.

At times you need to ask yourself, does the devil need more advocates? And how much does he even pay?

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That time we sneered into the abyss and it leered back at us

Ironically, I left that peer group because they wouldn’t stop platforming Bitcoiners.

That must have been a trip

High-theta in-ethics a+ sneer

Ugh, *yes. *

And I really do sympathise with the urge to avoid being seen as extreme (imagine being percieved! by people!) but that urge leads so many clued-in folks to pose the problem of bullshit engines as a halved-loaf problem when it’s a halved-baby situation, and the opposition isnt going to give anyone credit for being nice in the newspaper.

Semiotic voids.

You really nailed it here; they’re human slop chefs.

If you place your head in the beam line, that’s updating your pions

Doctorow says that we have to believe people when they say that LLMs are helpful for their work. Do we also have to believe people who say that alcohol makes them better drivers?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/how-to-burst-the-ai-bubble-strike-at-its-roots/

A nice person develops a digital version of the Little Free Library for banned books. Hackernews spends a hundred (edit: three hundred) comments arguing over whether it would be better to share Nazi shit instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547985

I mean, Perseus is right there for dudes who want to be manly space cowboy kinglets.

It’s got “German Worker’s Party” right there in the name!

–guy who got bamboozled

The AI hype wave is the Dancing Plague for people who can’t dance.

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Anything to avoid paying people for their time.

I wanted to give you a high five for telling APS where to go. That was rad as hell.

Noice

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