I’m not necessarily disagreeing but I’m shuddering at the new of industry of lawyers it would require to make that a semi-functional ecosystem. There are certainly contemporary examples of this business model. (Ironically ML is handling a lot of the work these days, but you still need the lawyers.)

Can we fast forward to the part where AI is maintained by all and benefits all? Pandora is out of the box and there won’t be peace until we find harmony with this new entity.

Yeah, yeah, I know - if only.

America is a terrifyingly broken country.

It’s like ‘every day is backwards day’ crossed with an infinitely-recursive manifold.

I saw a headline this morning that hedge fund managers are bullish on diesel. And the logic here seems to check out from what I skimmed. Will be interesting to see how this develops. A consumption downturn might kick the can out further.

I do support the argument that further complexifying essentials before the great decomplexification is a bad idea. However, burning a ton of fossil fuels to build alternative power sources is not a solution unless it is basically free energy - renewable alone is not sufficient justification. We need volitional degrowth. We won’t get it, but that’s what we need.

Not to diminish any particular arguments, but this is how these conversations always play out in my view:

Stop burning fossil fuels.

But we are in overshoot.

Yes

But we won’t be able to keep up agriculture.

Yes

But we won’t be able to keep up industry

Yes

But we won’t be able to keep up consumerism

Yes

But people will die.

Yes :(

But the rich will loses their riches

Yes

but but but

It doesn’t matter what the cost is, that’s the solution. The rest is simply consequence - and it grows greater by each day we ignore it.

Just because an ask is nigh impossible, does not mean that it is foolish or that it comes from ignorance.

c/collapse… such a lovely sound to it, even here at the end of civilization.

(refering to having decentralized from r/spaces)

And advertising customers. Great company all around.

The elite are trying to whip everyone back to the office to avoid a commercial real estate crash.

Yes, but I’m surprised the author doesn’t even mention CMBSs.

Hm. Maybe I’m missing something but I’m not seeing a million ‘successful’ AI startups pop up overnight like during the Dot Com Bubble. Most of the AI investments I’ve seen have been from major corporations that can pivot and eat a little loss. I do see several resume and business-plan writing services but it just doesn’t seem like much of a parallel, to me.

The article doesn’t address this disparity, it just pretends like it’s an equivalency - citing only megacaps like GOOG, MSFT, etc. Clickbait headline, I guess.

twitch plays pokemon, airliner edition

Majestic!

aka building dual power

…I’m too informed to believe that a hand gun would be useful against these assault weapons, sorry.

I grew up around these things, you see - and hated them for years. Then at one point I realized I was just about the only leftist around, and just about the only person without a gun around, and the math clicked for me: It’s a much stickier situation than anyone really wants to acknowledge.

I’ve seen them carried around frequently while in the US - people carry them openly displayed on the back of their trucks. Who’s to guess how many have guns in their cabins and trunks? I’ve also followed the US’ wars closely enough to know that modern warfare looks like a bunch of armed citizens in a hilux, and that a state border won’t be saving any leftists stuck in southern Illinois when the RWDSs return.

Edit: I’m standing by this one. Disagree as you will.

If you find a hole hidden under geological eras, and it was made just for you and you knew it… you wouldn’t feel tempted at all to just… take a step in… a unique hole unlike any other in the world, this one welcoming you like your own shadow with its depths… and confirm that someone really did carve out your exact silhouette?

It’s certainly something I could imagine happening in a dream. Like my recurring dream of driving off of bridges.

There is a Buddhist element of reincarnation going on which might be lost on some foreign audiences, but the feeling it is trying to summon should be familiar - a strange familiarity of something that should be unknown to you, an inexplicable intuition, something that feels like it could be from a past life, a premonition, deja vu.

If none of this is relatable to you, that’s okay, but it is relatable to myself and many others. Hopefully you don’t have recurring dreams about driving off of bridges, either.

The surreal aspects beg you to drop your hyper-criticism and to look for deeper imagery. I love it. And he can do it in such a short form, while also managing to singularly capture the psychological horror as well as anyone.

Imagine present day Stephen King telling stories through a one-shot manga. The action wouldn’t even be started before he ran out of paper! Of course, King has his own masterful way of conveying horror and it works very well, too.

When visiting Hollywood, I have learned that the ideal parking spot is in a tree, which is just about the only place where other cars can’t reach you.

I’m pretty sure all of the people you don’t want having assault weapons in states like Illinois already have them.

I’m not so sure the ones those people dream of targeting have yet acquired reciprocal defenses.

Happy to see less guns around, but I do worry about the pre-existing distribution of them.

All this probably happened because we stopped to geoengineer by outlawing ships blowing sulphur into the air which created additional cloud cover.

You have your causality running backwards… this was already here, and the sulfur was masking it. This happened because we put so many GHG in the air.

It works, and without wrecking havoc on the overall system.

Europe is the one that initiated the sulfur reductions. With the additional dimming data now available, they reviewed it to determine how much damage had been caused. The conclusion? The benefits of reducing sulfur actually outweigh the damage of unmasked warming. The plan for further reductions was upheld.

If we mask radiative forcing, we don’t want to be doing it with sulfur. That leads to acid rain, ocean acidification, and asthma and other diseases. CaCO3 is a candidate. The long-term consequences of any candidate is unknown. Except that we know that the less sulfur raining down on us and the fish in general, the better.

lol ok

I get it, English speakers don’t speak other languages, and the rest of the world is invisible to them. Old news.

But over in Japan the net was in an uproar over Barbenheimer (not in a good way, if that wasn’t clear). See here and here for my favorite products of the backlash.

I honestly thought this might have been retaliation in a meme war… and I thought it was hilarious. Too good to be true?