@DetroitDan yeah, he is open about endorsing views that by recent (though now more contested) standards have been beyond-the-pale racist. he's very openly on the other side of most questions i consider important — i want social peace and social democracy, not social division to render social democracy impossible — but that openness is a refreshing contrast to the disingenuous dissembling of most of his political compatriots.
#RichardHanania celebrates our miserable current state of of hatred, conflict, and social division as a feature rather than a bug. "Diversity is our strength" precisely because social division sabotages the political prospects of social democracy, despite ongoing massive public support for social democratic change. If you take for granted as "truth" that impotent government is essential to prosperity and flourishing, conflict among the plebes is to be encouraged. https://www.richardhanania.com/p/diversity-really-is-our-strength
if you are using contemporary LLMs, you want prompts that amount to linguistic one-way functions. they should generate output that would otherwise be difficult or annoying or time-consuming to produce, but is trivial to verify.
don't you just want to unlock new features?
@arclight good point.
do we love our apps?
I have been told things you would never believe.
Back the blue!*
* As long as they ignore our crimes, but beat the crap out of them for theirs.
Ovid superintends his exile.
A sculpture of Ovid surveils Piata Ovidiu (Ovidiu Square) in Constanța, Romania.
“Too many limits on national policy autonomy can also produce a backlash against the global economy. One consequence of the erosion of national sovereignty under hyper-globalization was an increase in economic anxiety and the sense of a loss of control among many citizens. These are circumstances that exacerbate xenophobia and out-group hostility.” @drodrik https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/economic-implications-of-global-governance-decline-by-dani-rodrik-2023-06
Kind of an aside, but Dems getting tough on Pharma's rape of the public purse would help defang some social issues. Both anti-vax and anti-trans activists lean on claims that what they deride as quack, harmful medicine is, with Dem's political contrivance, pushed on the public for Pharma Profit$.
These arguments would be less plausible if Democrats were plainly not on the side of Pharma Profit$.
see @pluralistic on Dem's latest, unpersuasive, version of "getting tough". https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/commissar-merck/#price-giver
@JoshuaHolland @GottaLaff it’s only masking that can really hurt you.
@DetroitDan (thanks!)
@failedLyndonLaRouchite i wasn’t criticizing (your post or really endorsing it either). just rephrasing the Barr-endorsing tweet in an attempt at mild humor…
@failedLyndonLaRouchite even Satan agreed this was over the line.
@HamonWry it used to be VR was going to be a place for fantasy. now it’s going to be a place for normalcy.
much of superstition is just reading reality like a novel.
#MoeTkacik on private equity, reviewing two recent books that both aptly characterize the industry as *plunder* https://prospect.org/culture/books/2023-06-02-days-of-plunder-morgenson-rosner-ballou-review/
Got to love the #FreeSpeech coalition. https://www.rawstory.com/new-college-florida-desantis/ ht @GreenSkyOverMe @fawfulfan
some people can never die, will be forever young. https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-astrud-gilberto-dies-20230606-2uwzmrfs55dafeb5kp5tdreqci-story.html