on the bright side, a military under Hegseth might struggle to defeat Greenland.

a through line of the Trump Administration’s actions is testing the proposition nothing the Federal govt does matters or is any good. will people really die if PEPFAR is halted? is NIH just a job program for dorky Democrats? doesn’t FEMA just step on better informed states? isn’t the military just foreign aid?

section 230 at the very least should not apply to paid content. https://freeradical.zone/@tek/113884711130516385

people are constantly accusing the federal government of being a jobs program, but that’s just Congress.

@MFDOOMALLCAPS My mirror speaks very differently to me.

[new draft post] Hard information, soft information, groupthink, corruption https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/01/24/hard-information-soft-information-groupthink-corruption/index.html

@Natasha_Jay i’m confident it’s true.

@ZaneSelvans it’s a bit of extra burden but not huge. i should try out some of the multinetwork clients, though. i feel like my hand tweaking is still necessary (for the mentions, because my Mastodon instance allows 500 chars but BlueSky only 300), but maybe they do a better job of automating or assisting with these things than i imagine.

@ZaneSelvans @openvibe i’m doing it by hand. i post in one, and if it’s not a reply or quote post, i copy the text and post to the other, editing mentions as necessary unless i forget to. (some quote posts i reproduce on the other side with a link, but lazily not most of them.)

in my dream, once you ran AI software on a microchip it didn’t matter what you ran afterwards. the microchip had become sentient.

@shalf #jealous

a bit more seriously, though yes it’d take some work to get the apparent quality high, make sure the citations are real, etc, would this be so different than the role of a think tank? https://zirk.us/@interfluidity/113880345230884176

a great thing about LLMs, if there’s not already a literature that supports your position, there can be one pretty quickly!

in business and in France, ROI is king.

if the muzzling of US public health agencies is making you anxious, try a cool glass of raw milk to calm your nerves.

(nb: please don't!)

@Jvmguy Yes. Edison. Ford. Maybe some Howard Hughes too.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell i don't want to! i think there were proxy services? i'll try to , find get better at that, find out about those.

if you know anything about Einstein… i know the dead can't file defamation suits, but i feel an exception should be made. https://x.com/ElonClipsX/status/1882075236272595181

@ouguoc ( of course! )