I yell at the road when people drive badly, too.

Activist, prolific novelist, EFF organizer and analyst, and then some. Lived and worked in both countries and deeply involved in digital rights and intellectual property policy. Probably worth paying attention on this particular issue.

Also, major exaggeration on the ‘every word’ whinge. He’s prolific and targeting the fediverse.

Wait didn’t MEC collapse into / get bought by a regular corporation?

Horseshit.

Triage works well here once it kicks in. It can take a long time to see a specialist, but if you have a good GP who is concerned about life-threatening disease, the system goes into very high speed.

Chronic disease is another issue, but that is more a problem with philosophy than implementation.

I guess the solution is for people with conservative values to stop associating so freely with subjugation addicts? Once conservative identity is dissociated from a wide spectrum of racist and classist bullshit, not to mention that we are entering an extinction level event of our own doing, then maybe the guilt by association will go away.

Opinions are often based on premises or observations or claimed facts, which are sometimes very objectively wrong.

I get what you’re complaining about but the ‘sanctity of opinion’ isn’t a strong argument.

And yet, nobody who trumpets this as an issue really thinks hard about it as a philosophy. They just say stupid things like I am an absolutist, all speech should be free.

Then they turn around and complain about being defrauded lol.

As Gramsci pointed out you need broad coalitions between key groups like educators and bureaucrats, but it has to also extend to radical action groups as allies with some social insulation between them to manage public morale and maintain an alliance.

It’s interesting what is going on in Syria right now.

Yeah, the overall plot of the show is that people who are perceived as terrorists are often liberation fighters with a nasty edge, and it’s hard tell the difference between evil and righteousness sometimes. The narrative perspective shifts and changes and so do your sympathies with the characters. It is a harsh critique of runaway, capitalism, but not necessarily fully anti-capitalist or pro communist anything. It ends up with a pretty centrist message in some ways.

It’s great to see Vancouver acting as Vancouver, both future and present, pretty rare considering how much is being shot there.

To be fair, he focuses on some struggles more than others. In Ministry it’s more about a few activists and one relevant bureaucrat organizing from top down and bottom up, and not really about labourers other than vignettes for context. Character development over plot for KSR, usually.

I thought that it wasn’t handwaved away so much as discussed as being developed by a particularly skilled group as part of promoting a populist freedom oriented crypto, and funded internationally over years by the Ministry but as a minor project that blew up due to network effects kicking.

In that respect I thought it was realistic and while background to the main plot and characters, included as one of the better solutions that together all add up. I didn’t mind it as reference rather than story, but thought “that would be an interesting story in its own right” and since KSR is not a software dweeb and typically doesn’t go there, I would rather read a version by Stross or N. Stephenson.

My line for computational adequacy was crossed with the Core2Duo. Any chip since has been fine for everyday administration or household use, and they are still fine running linux.

Any Apple silicon including the M1 is now adequate even for high end production, setting a new low bar, and a new watershed.

The cartoon is a critique of capitalism, not automation. Maybe most voters or readers are missing that.

Anton Petrov is a solid science commentator. He mostly just reports and doesn’t do much conjecture unless he’s reporting on public discourse about the issue. He doesn’t rely on charisma, slick production, or sensationalism, even if he has ti play the algorithm game. Examine his extensive channel on youtube.

Knives are cool tech until you stab someone. People are less worried about the LLMs than they are about the stabby bits, like expropriation of others’ work.

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• Tell me about some of your favourite people when you were a child.

• Do you remember any interesting sounds from your youth?

• What was it like learning english? How did you start?

• What were your first impressions when arriving in the USA?

These are all just conversation starters of course. You have to be ready to jump on the thread of a story she really wants to tell and pull on it to get more details and viewpoints.

Using sensory anchors like sounds or smells will really get your questions closer to memory triggers. “What did your favourite bakery smell like?” And then stuff will come up, like shortages or foreign treats, and that’s maybe a good story to follow.

Basically whenever possible, encourage her to “tell me about” life back then, and follow up with short questions asking for clarification or details.

I am pretty sure that a lot of Tesla drivers just traded in their BMW.

If you plan some violence and include jury nullification as some viable part of the plan, and publish that shit online, not only is it kind of useless and lousy opsec, but it will attract heat that is unwanted and unnecessary. It’s literally a conspiracy to undermine nullification at that point, like a false flag. So no, don’t do that, and I back the mods on this.

I have to use an AppleTV for various reasons, so I settled on a simple SMB share on an old mac mini server and the (subscription) Infuse app, it’s been rock solid as a player on all devices and very low effort.