The fact that NSPM-7 wasn’t THE headline since it was signed on September 25th is an utterly damning indictment of our media and what they focus on. There have been a multitude of things since then that are also utterly damning indictments of our media, but NSPM-7 was like, the whole fucking game. It’s saying “I’m gonna paint with a broad brush and tell the FBI and other DHS orgs and internal security bullshit to surveil and persecute people I don’t like, and whose ideas I don’t like”.

So much for keeping the republic.

Aside from the “cops aren’t out there to save lives” points that others have mentioned… In case you were not aware:

“Rubber bullets” are lead slugs covered in semi-malleable resin/plastic/rubber. They can - and do - kill people when used improperly/carelessly. For instance, a headshot with one of those can kill, or leave the victim with a permanent severe TBI.

Also, they’re WAY bigger than 9mm pistol bullets, meaning they can’t be used in a pistol (generally you need a special weapon to fire them), and clip size is severely limited, and semi-auto action is (afaik) basically a non-starter.

Hey, I’ll answer a question with a question:

why the fuck were you all so fucking hunky dory with being asleep at the switch in an obviously existentially fucking important juncture?

Uh. Where in France did you go? If you only saw Paris: there’s a lot more to France than Paris.

To white Europeans who oppose immigration

Don’t have a specific place nailed down yet, but somewhere in the EU most likely, or Japan (I speak the language a bit)

Aaaaaaand this sort of shit is why I’ve resigned myself to the fact that we’re not recovering from this, and that I need to get the fuck out.

And if anyone is on iOS and wants to give their beta app a spin:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/d7aPfftU

• just don’t use it
• become extremely knowledgeable on how it works, so that you can have coherent and pointed arguments with people on the pitfalls that the systems have. You don’t need to use it to understand the technical foundations.
• understand the infrastructural shortfalls - that is, investment cycle/ROI impossibility given the generational cycles that have become apparent in ML infra, the power requirements and impact (both direct and second order), as well as the broader ecological impact (beyond just power, but also exacerbated by the makeup of most energy grids outside of China)
• understands the copyright and licensing implications and hypocrisy that the vast majority of LLM and generative platforms have made an implicit yet pervasive part of their training sets, and how it is currently understood to be algorithmically impossible to excise one particular element from a training set post-training (thus implicitly violating GDPR’s “right to forget”)
• check out the studies that indicate over reliance on generative platforms can meaningfully negatively affect cognitive aptitude and reasoning ability.

There’s a lot more you can dig into, and that is by no means an exhaustive list. The more you learn about the nuance of how this shit works, the more you’ll be able to poke huge fucking holes in pretty much any argument anyone makes.

I’ve worked in healthtech and biotech for nearly a decade at this point. I have a nuanced understanding of the by-design inefficiencies inherent to the American healthcare and insurance system on a bureaucratic and technical level.

There are of course teams of heinous legislation that enabled this shitshow to evolve into what it is today, but the HMO act definitely was a primary initial driver for bootstrapping the system that we have today. I don’t mean to be reductive, but I do mean to zero in on initialization and inflection points, and that was a pretty damn big one.

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Lmfao that quote is incredible

Yeah, not shocked. Apple never used AMD CPUs. GPUs, yes, but I don’t think you’ll have much luck outside of specific Intel SKUs (or at least, SKUs that are architecturally very similar to ones they used in actual machines sold by Apple.

Yeah - not recouping the sunk costs would just be the bubble popping. And the fact that they’re still pumping the bubble when it’s comically fucking obvious to anyone with more than a handful of brain cells that it’s all just snake oil bullshit is truly incredible, and more than a bit baffling, considering how much money is going to go up in smoke as a result.

You’re defeating your own point while trying to prove it.

There were no managers in 1970, and then, as a result of the HMO Act, an entire (and entirely unnecessary) middleman industry was created and filled with people.

The comment you’re replying to isn’t “lying with data”. It’s illustrating that healthcare in the US had an explosion of unnecessary and parasitic bureaucracy as a direct result of the HMO Act.

Yeah, every 10th government you get a free republic

Aw man Bill Burr went too? Goddammit.

Man, the things that influence stock prices these days can get pretty fucking stupid

I recently had an interaction with my healthcare provider on their chat platform, and the most recent response they provided was very obviously LLM generated. I called them out on it; they haven’t responded yet.