Came across this song by Ben Caplan recently: The Flood

I keep thinking about this part of the second verse in particular:

After a dutiful lifеtime of dreams
Trickling riches and muffled screams
The centre can’t hold, it gyres to the extremes

Ahhahhinated

Every western leftist suddenly disavows your project and starts wringing their hands over the rights of fascists

Fellas, I’m starting to think innovation is not some innate racial characteristic, but a product of the material conditions and political economy of states.

Daily reminder that LLMs do not process words as words but as tokens - basically number IDs. There is absolutely no room there for any kind of understanding to take place. The one thing these things have been optimised to do is output text that is statistically similar to other text

Standing Awkwardly world finals

I fear they’re not doing it fast enough

Ooof. Did not know that

GURPS stays winning

Fanon has some great insights into the colonized intellectual in “Wretched of the Earth”

lol, same with the “doesn’t go on strike” bit. They can straight up shut down your entire operation (or sabotage it) unless you pay up

Oh no! A ghoulish billionaire is gonna throw money around DC to get business friendly legislation passed. What a strange and unusual turn of events, truly a threat the status quo!

I don’t. I hope he rigs a shotgun and and wires it to the AI as his next piece of performance art

Edit: the shotgun should be painted at his face, I feel it’s important to specify with these ghouls

Fuck it, lathe me up fam, I’m going in

Trump dances around the Epstein shit for a few more weeks, while setting things up for a nothing burger to actually be released. Just before it’s about to go out, his heart gives out. The US suffers a collective psychotic breakdown seen only in the schlockiest of 40k fiction. Balkanization quickly ensues

Smh my beanis head, dudes would sooner invent sacred geometry than eat a legume

Any real accounting would show a mile-long line of ghouls arguing which one gets to kill him

Absent militant organising following a clear and politically coherent programme (I.e. a vanguard party) violent protests are still just a pressure release valve