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“the vision outlined in Abundance mostly neglects questions of power and redistribution”“it’s baffling to argue China’s success in...

“the vision outlined in Abundance mostly neglects questions of power and redistribution”

“it’s baffling to argue China’s success in building out critical infrastructure is simply a result of a combination of power abuses and the absence of regulations and “debating with judges.” There are many countries in the world that have authoritarian governments and loose environmental and building regulations. None of them has managed to build high-speed rail at breakneck speed”

https://archive.is/0B2Zb

😃 One of our team members is being awarded her Biochemistry Masters from UW-Madison this weekend 🎓

😃 One of our team members is being awarded her Biochemistry Masters from UW-Madison this weekend 🎓

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to talk about how DOGE hasn't reduced the cost of our government.Failing at that seems likely....

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to talk about how DOGE hasn't reduced the cost of our government.

Failing at that seems likely. Parents can only do so much to defeat propaganda. The likely typical case will be failure to prevent baby's utility to fascist cake frosted thickly in seductive fallacies about efficiency as value and framing gambits that impair understanding of government. So, fault falls not upon mama. It's a village problem really. One the village isn't really aware of afaict.

“UW-Madison political science professor Mark Copelovitch suggested public universities band together to share legal and financial...

“UW-Madison political science professor Mark Copelovitch suggested public universities band together to share legal and financial resources if the Trump administration targets them”

“Copelovitch called it a “Big 10 NATO””

“Harvard can afford to do it, but the leaders of any individual public institution are not going to do that,” Copelovitch said. “I think the public universities should be banding together”

UW-Madison faculty push admin to join ‘Mutual Defense Compact’
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/05/07/uw-madison-faculty-vote-to-join-big-tens-mutual-defense-compact/

Tired: “You want a nice robot, friend?”Wired: “You want a nice robot friend.”

Tired: “You want a nice robot, friend?”
Wired: “You want a nice robot friend.”

If we wanted students to play fair, we should not have made life into an arena.

If we wanted students to play fair, we should not have made life into an arena.

I despise generative AI. That said, using it or any other tool to obtain a consequential grade is not "cheating" — its simply...

I despise generative AI. That said, using it or any other tool to obtain a consequential grade is not "cheating" — its simply playing.

To understand now you need to understand that, because you're either a victim of that game or responsible for changing it.

But everyone who can't escape the dehumanizing assortment into classes and ranks of human tool that we've so proudly constructed should — instrumentally and normatively should — use every advantage to land in a box they will like. Everyone.

“You have to play life on hard mode. Otherwise you won't know how good you are.” — Josh 🦁 (translated)

“You have to play life on hard mode. Otherwise you won't know how good you are.”
— Josh 🦁 (translated)

“OK Preston, but have you considered communist bone grinders as a revolutionary leftist materialist praxis, leaving workers in control of...

“OK Preston, but have you considered communist bone grinders as a revolutionary leftist materialist praxis, leaving workers in control of the means of production of bone dust? A peoples' bone dust! A better bone dust for the desert AND tropical revolutionary fighter - reliable, easily serviced, and more durable than capitalist America's delicate finicky gu...oops excuse me the dust got a little trippy there and kinda jumped the rails into kalashnikov shaped nonsense from gen AI shaped nonsense."

“these systems are designed by humans for human purposes.”“If we don’t want a machine to be offended or to feel pain, we need not...

“these systems are designed by humans for human purposes.”

“If we don’t want a machine to be offended or to feel pain, we need not manufacture sensitive machines. This should be easy: we have no idea how to do it”

“To argue that tech companies must respect the right to expression in their chatbots simply gets them off the hook for the tense process of determining how to regulate the speech their products produce, an area where Silicon Valley consistently fails.”

@CyberneticForests

“these rights simply do not make sense for the ways a machine “experiences” the world in any capacity”“A model train works like a...

“these rights simply do not make sense for the ways a machine “experiences” the world in any capacity”

“A model train works like a train because it is a model of a train” 🤔 Hmmmm. This lands...and squishes flowers when it does. Digital 'AI' is a sloppier model of any brain than any model train ever was of any train.

““Rights” for real people in the current moment are not up for debate and must be protected against real risks”

“Our lives are not a thought experiment.”

https://www.techpolicy.press/machines-cannot-feel-or-think-but-humans-can-and-ought-to/

“When we speak about corporate products as capable of some special category of experience, we are creating opportunities to justify...

“When we speak about corporate products as capable of some special category of experience, we are creating opportunities to justify extreme deregulation for the companies that build them. Manipulating social imagination about these products into categories of human rights requiring protection sets a stage for a whole range of arguments that allow companies to intervene in political speech and organization, unique exceptions to data rights under the provision of a “right to learn,” and more.”

“don't look away when these news stories come across your screen.”“Engage with it. Share it. Talk to your elders. I tell people to...

“don't look away when these news stories come across your screen.”

“Engage with it. Share it. Talk to your elders. I tell people to talk to their elders all the time. Ask them if there was ever a time they disagreed with the government or ask them if there was ever a time during the war that disobeying orders saved a life or not.”

El Salvador’s diaspora in the US ‘needs to wake up’ from Bukele’s propaganda, Salvadoran–American journalist Daniel Alvarenga:

https://globalvoices.org/2025/05/03/el-salvadors-diaspora-in-the-us-needs-to-wake-up-from-bukeles-propaganda-salvadoran-american-journalist-says/

Another driver ran their car into my friends' coffee shop (Mother Fools). That's twice in under a decade.As far as I know nobody was...

Another driver ran their car into my friends' coffee shop (Mother Fools).

That's twice in under a decade.

As far as I know nobody was hurt, so that's good. Hopefully that's true.

Cars man. They just suck. They make people suck. They wreck cities and whole regions. Great system. Grrrr. Argh.

“Leftwards anti monopolists waxing poetically rightwards about free market competition has this, like, saccharine taste to it that I...

“Leftwards anti monopolists waxing poetically rightwards about free market competition has this, like, saccharine taste to it that I don't know how to gently critique. It's not that the sweetness isn't there, it's that the sweetness isn't quite right.”

I'm afraid the term "echo chamber" is lost to the darkness though. Like "woke" or "politically correct" or...

I'm afraid the term "echo chamber" is lost to the darkness though. Like "woke" or "politically correct" or "virtue signalling" it's just one of those things that's not just dipped in the void but now pickled in it, and even if you carefully wash that off before use a little of that black brine gets on you and your reader.

“surrounding themselves in intellectual conformity and compliance, reassuring one another that they've come up with the most brilliant...

“surrounding themselves in intellectual conformity and compliance, reassuring one another that they've come up with the most brilliant insights and arguments imaginable...unleashed upon the public as blog posts...before being laundered and lauded by members of the media”

“this penchant for closed mindedness and indoctrination, this dream to reshape this country in their own ugly likeness”

Sycophancy as a Service
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/sycophancy-as-a-service/

I want to be clear that I think LLMs are a terrible approach to software development and an ethical disaster overall. I'm not keen to...

I want to be clear that I think LLMs are a terrible approach to software development and an ethical disaster overall. I'm not keen to offer the excuses the bone grinders crave.

But if programmers are gonna stand back right now and say programming should happen within metaphors and picky weird precise dialects that confuse the ever loving bujeez out of even extremely precise thinkers and speakers, because that's optimal for a highly experienced few? That's not gonna come out optimal for anyone.

Wide paved walks, corner ramps, clear crossings, audible signals are not the only way to have everyone able to survive urban design...

Wide paved walks, corner ramps, clear crossings, audible signals are not the only way to have everyone able to survive urban design carelessness and automotive violence. But they're broadly empowering ways.

LLMs are not that, I think. They're narrowly-enabling excludable systems of control. And as a friend put it: On-lining nuclear power, burning the earth, and turning programming into debugging what colleagues' bone dust wrote isn’t the best way to get it done.

Unless better ways are blocked.

Basically if the right tool for the job is one that most of humanity can't hold onto, it's not the right tool when they want to do...

Basically if the right tool for the job is one that most of humanity can't hold onto, it's not the right tool when they want to do the job.

And I will argue that if the tool is "control over the machinery that controls most activity" then it's like sidewalks or something, even "most can use" is inadequate. Such things aren't done until they are for everyone.

LLM boosters gain justification where arcana-ability gates access to work surfaces and LLMs enable working the arcana from plain English.