The shift will be “you can make more paperclips. Make the paperclips faster.”

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They’re doing the ai murderbot episodes too.

Thank you. Not enough people recognize this.

Additionally, groups with an agenda can reinforce this trend.

Gift wrapped for Putin and Xi.

Voting for neither is the same as voting for both.

More like supported and slightly reluctantly aided.

I expect there were guardrails that Israel was careful not to cross. You know, like completely flattening Gaza and demolishing southern Lebanon.

It’s still AIPAC fueled genocide, but I definitely preferred the slower version to what we have now.

I lean into it intentionally sometimes. Some of those things sponsor the things I like, and I want those things to be keep happening, so I’ll buy some Pagoda egg rolls that I never would have touched otherwise.

That doesn’t work with the really intrusive ads though.

I bet it’s great if your business is Spirit Halloween.

just have a magic 8ball sitting on your desk

I kind of like this, with some modification. It’s a magic 8 ball of Stack Overflow answers. It’ll try to find the one you need. If it’s too hard to find that or if it doesn’t exist, it’s just gonna find the one that sounds good.

yeah, it gives you the answer it thinks you want based on your prompts.

I’d be interested to see what prompts they used to, uh, prompt this response.

Forever wars are a bit easier if you find someone else to fight them for you.

Then you’re waiting forever on vulnerability patches. Especially if there are layers, and each layer waits to update.

Larger standard libraries do a lot. It’s a lot harder to sneak vulnerabilities into the basic C# or Java or C++ libraries than it is to add a vulnerability to something one dude maintains in the javascript ecosystem.

And since javascript libraries tend to be so small and focused, it’s become standard practice for even other libraries to pull in as many of those as they want.

And it stacks. Your libraries pull in other libraries which can pull in their own libraries. I had a project recently where I had maybe a dozen direct dependencies and they ended up pulling in 1,311 total libraries, largely all maintained by different people.

In a more sane ecosystem like C#, all the basics like string manipulation, email, or logging have libraries provided by Microsoft that have oversight when they’re changed. There can be better, third-party libraries for these things (log4net is pretty great), but they have to compete with their reputation and value over the standard library, which tends to be a high bar. And libraries made on top of that system are generally pulling all those same, certified standard libraries. So you pull in 3 libraries and only one of those pulls in another third party single library. And you end up with 4 total third party libraries.

Javascript just doesn’t really have a certified standard library.

(This certified standard library doesn’t have to be proprietary. Microsoft has made C# open source, and Linus Torvalds with the Linux Kernel Organization holds ultimate responsibility for the Linux kernel.)

We’re about to get hit with the biggest propaganda campaign in history.

Just sneak in the narrative that the US needs to build a wall to keep the Canadians out and we’ll build at least a small section (while grifting for the rest).

I’ve heard great things about Malazan. I should probably pick that up.

Sanderson is a great airport read.

I wouldn’t recommend it outside of that context. It’s nothing special.

I understand the intent, but this is not phrased well.

prevents your messages being spied on by Signal, but ironically they’re probably one of the most trustworthy actors in this whole chain, so the fact that it’s protected from them, while commendable, is not particularly valuable security

It’s extremely valuable security, because most companies, even if they don’t want to spy on you might be compelled to by court order. And those companies often think their security is sufficient because they have good intentions, and they expect the government to have good intentions when they’re going as far as getting a court order. (I also suspect more court orders are justified than not, but a few bad subpoenas spoil the bunch.) The fact that they physically are unable is quite important.

All your points about how things around that can fail are valid.

I will say that double posting is a completely reasonable solution. More orgs should be the gateway where they can be seen, and have the visibility of the big platforms, but they also offer Mastodon as an alternative. If enough orgs do that, it enables people to just… move.

It’s hard for users to move when 75% of their content is exclusive to X. And it’s hard for orgs to move when 75% of the users are on X. Double posting allows this to move to 10% X exclusive content, 60% content that’s available everywhere, and 10% exclusive to open platforms. After the orgs move the content, it’s so much easier for users to move, and after the users move, it’s easier for the orgs to move.

This should be a cooperative thing. And afaik it doesn’t take that much effort to post the content to two places.

Vance is VP. Trump isn’t fit to serve. Not much of a choice.

Personally I think anyone reasonably smart and competent will do less damage, even if they have bad intentions. I could be wrong.

But I do think you have to be just the right level of fucking stupid to do as much damage as Trump has.