it was just a bunch of kids who liked to twirl around.

NOT GOOD!!!

Open, legal court proceedings in which each person's rights are vigorously protected.

what kind of due process would apply to Guantanamo detainees?

his humiliations are like potato chips, once you take one you'll find perhaps despite yourself it is far from your last. ht @jedgarnaut.bsky.social

turn left, the vaguely female disembodied voices says. i find myself twirling the wheel madly until all questions are answered in sharp communion with a tree.

maybe since by "the left" people sometimes mean social democrats and other times foreign policy "tankies" and other times identity politics radicals, and the Venn diagram of those tendencies is very far from a circle, maybe you could use more descriptive language?

"the…Court ruled…NLRB needs 3 members to have a quorum…until Trump appoints a 3rd NLRB member…NLRB will not be able to issue decisions. Trump cld opt not to fill any…vacancies + prevent the agency from issuing decisions for his entire term." @mattbruenig.bsky.social www.nlrbedge.com/p/trump-fire...

i used to have a higher opinion of drug addled degenerates.

(You have good taste in software!)

No. You always pay people to do the boring stuff. It’s a job like any other. You’ve got to keep even people working for love fed. But there’s no special sauce in that. You don’t need blitzscaling. The UK already pays people to maintain their firms’ accounting software. That’s not what they’re after.

The modern software world turns more on the people doing the work out of love than the people organizing the work into things that appropriate cash flows. SV in recent years has become adept at the latter. The former is a side effect it sometimes happens to finance.

the world’s biggest, yugest, highest IQ AI! Sample output: covf covfefe vfe covf efecovf!

Silicon Valley wasn’t always thus. The last 15 years have curdled it. They used to make stuff from silicon there! The Chinese actually make the God machines now. We owe contemporary Silicon Valley nothing. In its 2007 incarnation, yeah, it was great. God machines without fascism then.

“No, I do not want AI to ‘polish’ me.” @thebloggess.bsky.social thebloggess.com/2025/01/28/n...

from @alonlevy.bsky.social pedestrianobservations.com/2025/01/28/p...

Replicating Silicon Valley is replicating monopolistic extraction, endless surveillance, plutocratic distortion of politics, a cradle for eugenicist cults, elevation of overt fascists. Maybe, um, don’t do that?

Guys, really. Our apparently brisk GDP growth is down largely to rentierism, attaching ever more, ever larger tolls to everything. It’s not meaningful prosperity. We are miserable. Don’t emulate us. Stick with Universal Scandinavia. cf @crookedfootball.bsky.social crookedtimber.org/2025/01/29/t...

“governments of the ostensible ‘centre-left’…are incapable of reviving neoliberalism in its progressive, internationalist guise, but are also unwilling to properly embrace the legacy of postwar social democratic nationalism.” @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...