one way to understand why very rich people so often go mad is to realize they have long been surrounded by the kind of persuasive but truth-indifferent sycophantic affirmers that OpenAI and its peers have only recently made accessible to the rest of us.
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likewise. i’d be very glad to help.
to understand what’s actually going on you have to play the weird revolution record, but backwards, it’s tricky.
it shouldn't be to bad for still-active typepadders, like @chrisdillow.bsky.social, to migrate their archives to a new home. but all old links will break, unless whoever ends up with the typepad.com domain consents to maintaining CNAME entries (basically aliases) to wherever the new blog lives.
oh fuck. @chrisdillow.bsky.social's is a typepad blog too. stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com ( typepad is shutting down arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025... )
GLP-1 agonists, drugs like Ozempic and newer, perhaps better, variations.
A nice indie web search engine, marginalia-search.com via Manav Rathi, Viktor Löfgren
if he's dead it's only because he's got a canny knack for what would make him popular.
"As is often said — and is ever true — Republicans would be content with a dung heap, as long as they are at the top of that heap." www.technologyasnature.com/2025/08/30/c... (warning: doomsterish)
i really don’t want a superpower or a cheat code. i just want to do a good job.
somebody needed to put the ass in assassin.
what if they — Vance and his shadowy backers — arranged the whole thing?
we all have a second amendment right to our sandwiches now.
which 2020s new tech will be remembered as more transformative, GPT or GLP?
the Constitution doesn’t explicitly bar a deep fake from exercising Article II powers.
“centrists, the largest component of the British politico-media class, aren't actually liberals, neither in the broader sense of defenders of civil liberties against authoritarianism, nor in the narrower sense of advocates of free markets (their's is a capitalism of managed mkts + corporate graft).”
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sometimes i think i have mitochondria hypochondria.
you worry that you’re self absorbed, but it really is all about you.
they're working on it…
it turns out some people are unimpeachable whom i’d never have thought to apply that adjective to before.
