is this where Yud gets his style from? jesus fuck.

that’s a big oof from me dawg.

RE: “liberal” as a label: the way that I define “liberal” is pretty much purely in the classical sense, and it still covers the “modern” “left-of-center” sense, because someone who claims to be a left-liberal that still supports the underlying liberal politics is actually disconnected from any actual leftist ideology. Most left-liberals are willing to throw actual leftists and leftist causes under the bus so that their sports team party can get into power.

First thought: “Who?”

Second thought: “No, Hugo”

Anyway, I know nothing about this guy. His wiki page listed an imdb page, and know you get to know that he has a Bacon number of 3.

I looked into this because I was curious. There’s a wikipedia article that discusses abundance, titled “supply-side progressivism”)

So it appears the earliest mention of liberal tinted Reaganomics is Miles Kimball’s opening blog post “What is a Supply-Side Liberal” on his blog “Confessions of a Supply-Side Liberal.” I am not going to investigate his politics at any real depth, so I’d say he’s mostly a liberal/centrist.

I think my understanding of “abundance” before reading that wiki page was that known liberal quantities Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson wrote a book on it, and therefore must have invented it.

Oh Abundance, the repackaging of Reaganomics by liberals to court conservatives, is having a conference and has booked right wing speakers? Nobody could have predicted this

This is truly nothing: Aella (credited as Aella Martin) has a Bacon number of 3

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the answer to all those is yes. To synthesise the bigger idea, as the saying goes: scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds. Gladwell caters to a huge audience that is centrist, leaning somewhat liberal (though he flirts constantly with race science and straight up racism, see his writings on Korean Air). As liberals move towards fascism, so must he. Of course, it’s the most marginalised that are going to be targeted first.

Enemy of awful systems Malcolm Gladwell is a full throated transphobe

Y’all are having fun without me? Wow, rude

Fatty Lumpkin’s Headshrinking and Sundry?

Actual suggestion: maybe mount a roller blind to the ceiling. Might need extra weight to tension the blind but also might not.

Also, you probably don’t need a totally green background, just enough to make masking easier. You could conceivably tape a big sheet of green cardboard to the back of your chair and see how that goes.

Also: idk how hard or easy this is but if the camera position is fixed and the rest of the scene is static, maybe there’s software that can just mask out the static scene?

Mount camera to ceiling, get a green rug, record lying on the ground (jk)

“Moloch”, huh? What are we living in, some kind of demon-haunted world?

I’ve followed Jose Andres on insta for about 6 years now, and while I’d love to only have nice things to say about him and WCK, I know that there is resentment/resistance to the actions of WCK, for good reason. This is the first thing that pops up, a page detailing how WCK works with the IDF and how that is not in the best interests of Palestine. What’s also really gross, ghoulish and troublesome is that, despite the fact that Israel has literally killed WCK volunteers, Andres still works with them, and is largely pro-israel. That being said, everything about this is fucked anyway and I imagine that if you’re donating, your heart is in the right place. But, uh, yeah, adjust those sliders.

E: ok I have fully read the page. Fuck Andres, fuck WCK, please do not donate to them. Donate to UNRWA instead, or any organisation that is actually willing to call what Israel is doing a genocide.

I agree.

it would be nice if expressions of that disdain were not modeled after actual bigotry

My armchair linguist take is that the same process that comes up with terms for shaming people for their choice to be shitty is pretty much in parallel with the same process as creating slurs. That being said, yeah, let’s not do “w*back”. If we’re going to do this, we’re going to need some sensitive editing.

Also, the easiest thing is to call out the action directly, e.g. “promptfondler,” but there’s a ton of slurs that are of the form “verb-er”. This one is a lost cause, in the sense that “verb-er” is such a core part of the English language.

But I don’t know. another name for that process is “empathy”.

Absolutely. And empathy is commodified, abused or otherwise exploited as well, which sucks. Like, advertising leans heavily on your ability to feel empathy. And many kinds of scams. It’s not just AI stuff.

You can do that with plushies, with pet rocks or Furbies, with deities, and I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing; it’s like exercising a muscle, If you treat your plushies as deserving care and respect, it gets easier to treat farm animals, children, or marginalised humans with care and respect.

I think many muscles operate in pairs; empathy is the “agonist” in an “antagonistic pair”. The “antagonist” isn’t something like apathy; it’s the ability to tell when your empathy and other emotions are being played. In this sense, it’s fine to mourn the loss of Google Assistant, because how exactly could that be exploited, beyond a replacement product (as you’ve noted)?

Philly, where robots go to die

>50 min read  
>”why company has perverse incentives”
>no mention of capitalism

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I saw a real stupid post (reposted on the sneersub, I think) about how all the people wanting OpenAI to reinstate o4 after GPT5 was released were soldiers converted by o4, and that o4 had achieved the superpersuasiveness that Yud froths over. Good to know that a pair of googly eyes probably has the same level of persuasiveness.