elon’s gonna send us all an oath where we all have to agree to be “hardcore” as citizens or be expatriated.
@inkican “especially violations of your privacy. we pursue those very seriously.”
“we emphasize trust and accountability, your trust and our lack of accountability.”
@inkican not really.
it’s gonna be unreal when shit gets real.
"they invented a philosophy — a 'science' they called it — under which greed is reason. then they wondered why things didn't work out."
look at least if we end up with a warlord called “hagsex” the aesthetic will be something other than cyberpunk.
@sqrtminusone i meant a jewish/american word for smoked salmon. but whatever works!
“never go on Lox News. it’ll only be a total schmear job.”
@phillmv when i was 6? 7?, we went to Israel and picked up arab hitchhikers. there was no apartheid then. in the 1990s, after PLO and intifada, i held out hope for the Oslo Accords. Rabin didn’t need to be killed. Netanyahu might have been a shoe salesman.
@phillmv i do know. i mean it was always broken, but as our grandparents’ youth, then ours, attested, it was improving, had improved. we lived in a paradise made from extrapolation. it seemed like reasonable extrapolation.
yeah, i think we all face quite a test now. we took for granted humane incentives (tho capitalism was boiling-frogging them away). who will each and all of us become now that alignment is totally sprung, there may be terrible consequences for not being terrible?
i almost envy gen z, gen alpha. the only world they’ve ever known is broken, corrupt. most times and places are. they can grasp for the reins, move forward.
people my age are, one way or another, lost. grief, guilt, nostalgia. we knew a better world. we had our hand in breaking it.
@chrisp i saw this one! it was a legit "think of the children" (wtf have i let my child do?) read. pretty icky.
what fraction of yourself is now at the mercy of waves made by madmen playing in the surf of what once was our civic life?
@realcaseyrollins @henryfarrell @ryanlcooper i'm sorry you've been so "browbeaten" by "the left". it sounds like it has been difficult for you.
A very good account of why "tech" (meaning not developers or tech workers, but high-level tech executives and VCs) and the US Democratic Party are undergoing an acrimonious divorce.
(It remains to be seen just how blissful their new marriage to the Trump Republican Party will ultimately prove to be. Enjoy your Mar-A-Lago honeymoon!)
by @henryfarrell https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-did-silicon-valley-turn-right
ht @ryanlcooper
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@admitsWrongIfProven yes. there would be a ton of impact. automotive and construction supply chains would be a mess.
@admitsWrongIfProven (this was the mess that inspired the poll.)
@eevee@queer.party it’s beautiful.