@BenRossTransit @Alon Biden hasn’t actively supplied a high-collateral-damage campaign to bomb the Kurds as a part of his diplomatic strategy with Erdogan.
@Alon @BenRossTransit maybe the “bear hug” will work this time.
i’m in terror, though, that the personal calculation from Bibi (who is served by delayed accountability) and the politicoreligious calculation from the right is that there will never be a better time for what they perceive an inevitable war with Iran, a formula of “defensive participation” only by the US ceases to be credible once Americans are hit, future administrations may not be so deferential.
@Alon @BenRossTransit i guess i’m a latent antisemite who’s learned not to say ZOG but still think it? this seems more a kind of defense mechanism than a reasonable take on what’s happening. A very large fraction of the US public, I think the majority, believes Israel has behaved badly in Gaza in ways we ought not to have enabled, and think leaving decisions on Iran to Israel but promising ironclad defensive participation invites getting drawn into a foolish war.
@Alon @BenRossTransit i sure hope Hebrew language media is aware of how much Bibi is risking the Israel-US relationship post Biden (or perhaps post a shift in approach from Biden).
Biden is not serving that relationship well, when much of the US public sees the administration as unaccountably enabling indefensible behavior. To use an overworn analogy, Biden has been the kind of “ironclad” friend who never fails to hand a drunk friend the car keys.
@BenRossTransit @Alon he doesn’t defer to Erdogan in ways that much of the US political community perceives as adverse to US interests.
conducting diplomacy quietly is quite different than deference. there was no question the US was seeking Turkish acquiescence to Sweden’s accession. with Israel, the US is actively participating under terms many of us view as dangerously adverse to US interests, whatever quiet armtwisting there is or isn’t.
@BenRossTransit @Alon none to which Biden is so unaccountably deferential despite maintaining a patina of critical independence in public relations terms.
trump : erdogan is maybe analogous to trump : putin, since trump was oddly, counterproductively deferential to both figures (in different ways).
@Alon That’s one difference for sure.
But “everything” I think is overstated. There are, unfortunately, some similarities too.
@weilawei@mastodon.online maybe the attitude was “if it be your will…” (God’s, Elon’s)
what’s right and what’s wrong with this analogy?
biden : bibi :: trump : putin
when generative AI finds its ouroboros it metamorphoses into degenerative AI.
Lifehack: Buy two AirTags and mount them as earrings. You’ll never lose your head again.
i’d much rather be defended from war than be defended by war.
@zzypt that often happens for a long time before a kernel panic, in my experience! but there’s a very discrete, short “whoosh” at the moment the mac puts up its multilingual panic notification.
why do mac laptops make a little “whoosh” sound when they kernel panic?
(i’ve been hearing a lot of that today. my laptop is basically a doorstop now. applecare is a good warranty program, but i am unhappy with the frequency i find myself using it. lots of time lost.)
many components of computers have to be manufactured in large-scale, distant factories, but that doesn't make local-first software not a great idea.
some aspects of the training of AI systems may necessarily be large-scale and distant (and perhaps regulated or even public), but that doesn't make local-first AI a bad idea.
the closer to locally controlled your computation (defined socially more than geographically), the more likely it is to tilt toward the liberatory rather than the dystopian.
someone should write a mystery novel in which the murder weapon is a paintbrush and then a hose to quickly spray away a very temporary white line.
from #DavidRosenthal #DSHR https://blog.dshr.org/2024/04/elon-musk-threat-or-menace-part-4.html
"So that's all there is to Autopilot. No radar, no lidar, no GPS, no map, no geofencing, no proper driver monitoring. It just uses the camera to follow the lines. It doesn't disengage if it can't see the lines, it just keeps going."
If you're in LA, go see my sister #AdelleWaldman this weekend. https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/schedule/
(Is there really such a place as the "Albert and Dana Broccoli Theatre"? If my real name were Broccoli, I'd be so good for you.)
@davidtoddmccarty i'm accepting "stone-washed" as part of my identity.
@artcollisions no, it’s on the patio of a little deli where we’ve just had lunch, in Tarpon Springs FL.