"Marxism advances by transforming civil society into the basis of proletarian power." - Gramsci, of the Frankfurt School. That is the thesis behind the project that has been inflicted upon us for almost a century; it is the "Social Marxism" which acolytes dismiss as conspiracy.

This is why your ancestors believed in Omens and Portents. They understood what it meant to have the favor of the gods.

For serious software I’m firmly in this camp now. Feels like there’s definitely camps forming.

Poor bastard that nearly lost his head is now blind on both eyes.

listen up, we have to vote for the man with the nazi tattoo so he can stop the man landing rockets and curing the blind from making any more money, otherwise we’ll get fascism you see how stupid you sound, yes?

Because the Epstein stuff has been front page news for years and the average person doesn't really grasp that the rape of britain was the equivalent of like 500 Jeffrey Epsteins?

LLMs are hard to create a moat around it's stateless compute that you can switch overnight when a better/cheaper option shows up all the commotion you see is downstream of this fact as companies flail around trying to fight this

In the late seventies I crossed the Atlantic on the QE2. I went First Class, which I paid for with my first real paycheck. We had a mandatory dress code for dinner. Black Tie and commensurate formal wear for the ladies. It was one of my favorite memories.

If this happened in the UK the girl would have been imprisoned for life

saw a tech lead in enterprise i used to argue with get laid off, dude spent 4 years almost in the same position i was the tech lead of an adjacent team and wanted to move things forward, ship products and improve the lives of our fellow engineers - he wanted to argue about code reviews and variable names, always nitpicking things and wanted to be included in all decision making, to make the decision i quit the job after making the whole enterprise roadmap of AI for my team, this was back when chatgpt was just getting popular, i wonder on what step of roadmap they are on my team shipped a product in record time and is saving the company several millions every month and i had to fight every PM and VP to get things out while the other team was only worried about getting more ownership of the product and headcount it became very obvious how and why people play politics in large companies, i wonder now with AI what is the excuse going to be and where all the political experts going to end so it’s always funny to see how the frontier labs are getting ex-FAANG engineers, sometimes it’s not a good thing, i interviewed many of them and you just end up with people who look good on paper, who can do leetcode but there’s just no juice in them and they need constant hand holding i guess it’s really hard to find passionate people and sometimes the job is just a job but many people in tech ended up being drones that want an easy career, is it wrong? of course not, but huge comps and even token spend on these people is hard to justify nowadays so i wonder how the tech landscape is going to change

More uptime than Wikipedia, and less bias. Or at least different bias, more likely. Most encyclopedia articles are written by "guest experts". I bought these on eBay from a library and then spent 3 days removing stickers, but it was worth it!

honestly hilarious watching the tech nerds meltdown over this. Anthropic's strategy to regulatory capture the AI industry and use government powers to crush their small-scale competitors backfired hard. Whoops!

Google got tired of all the vibe coded simulators built on 3d tiles and said - screw it, flight sim on web, free for all - no need to burn api credits. The deeper lore here is that flight sim has long been an easter egg feature exclusive to the legacy earth pro desktop app.

Counterpoint: a bunch of dudes on dirt bikes hitting sick jumps over humvees with Marines in dress uniforms standing in front of the White House is cool as shit and everyone kind of knows why someone like you hates it

This kind of technology is what will separate “environmentalists” into people who actually care about the wellbeing of the Earth vs. people who just want to see human endeavors fail

Fable isn't the first. In 1999 the department of defense blocked exports of the PowerMac G4 for crossing the 1 gigaflop threshold. Steve Jobs turned it into an ad.

This is an amazingly written piece. Notice I didn't say it was a good piece, I said it was amazingly written. Do you remember that scene from "My cousin Vinny?" Where they're talking to the two kids in custody, and Vinny is explaining how he's going to win the case? -- He's going to show you the bricks. He'll show you they got straight sides. He'll show you how they got the right shape. He'll show them to you in a very special way, so that they appear to have everything a brick should have. But there's one thing he's not gonna show you. [turns the card, so that its edge is toward Billy] When you look at the bricks from the right angle, they're as thin as this playing card. His whole case is an illusion, a magic trick. It has to be an illusion. Nobody - I mean nobody - pulls the wool over the eyes of a Gambini. ESPECIALLY this one. --- The mother Jones showed you a bunch of bricks. A bunch of cases of self-defense claims involving white and black people. What they don't show you is the edge of the card, that all of these cases might involve self-defense claims, but the actual evidence is all different. Trayvon Martin wasn't in any danger but he assaulted someone by slamming their head into the pavement. Calling Jordan Neely "innocent" is a stretch. The guy was having some kind of psychotic episode screaming And yelling about how he was going to hurt people. Quoting tariq nasheed, one of the worst race grifters on social media is about as responsible as quoting the my pillow guy on facts regarding election integrity. Comparing the case to Kyle Rittenhouse is also hilarious, because Rittenhouse was assaulted, by white people. As soon as you take a look at the arguments in this mother Jones article, the cards they present are just as thin as a deck of playing cards, and not bricks at all.

In Feng Shui, the fact that 80% of autistic people are bullied or used by 'friends' is because their mental layout is often an 'open Ming Tang (Bright Hall)'—no scheming, no defenses, straightforward. This extremely pure 'Qi field' easily attracts 'Robbing Wealth Afflictions' (people who plunder under the guise of friendship) and 'Hidden Arrow Afflictions' (betrayals from behind) in complex social Feng Shui. The post's grim data reminds us: 'Water that is too clear has no fish; a layout too open invites thieves.' Autistic individuals don't need to change their inner 'pure water quality,' but they must build a 'Xuan Guan (Spiritual Screen)' at their social boundaries. This screen acts as a 'buffer and filter': making the turbid energy of 'scheming' and 'calculating' detour at the door, allowing only the 'vital Qi' (true friends) tested by time to enter the inner chamber. Remember: Your kindness is expensive; it must have Feng Shui 'edges' and 'thresholds.' Don't let just anyone march straight into your natal layout.

The idea that this Big Boy was rotting in a parking lot in Pomona, CA for six decades until Union Pacific rebuilt every component to get it working again is actually awe inspiring.

He asks why there is an obsession with historic slavery while vast-scale modern slavery is ignored? Simple answer. This obsession against present day Britons who never participated in the slave trade or profited from it is driven by activists who want to destroy our country by self loathing, guilt and vast reparations.