harmbugler

Free lawyers for a vexatious litigant, what could go wrong?

I only know two vibe coders, but can confirm that they don’t know the history of the business of software development.

FUCK YOU.

STRONGLY WORDED LETTER TO FOLLOW.

Well, put your hand on your head like you would a mouse. If you push forward what happens? You look down. There’s no “correct” way here.

You’re not kidding. While reading this post, I checked in on ThatOnePrivacyGuy’s VPN table in Google sheets. At the bottom of the table, there’s a link to ThatOnePrivacySite.xyz (the real site) but an ad popped up, as if it was the link you should click on, to ThatOnePrivacySite.net (a fake site). How are people told to ‘just do 10 minutes of research’ supposed to deal with things like aggressive dark patterns and soft linkjacking?

Edit: The fake linkjacked site recommends ExpressVPN as the top VPN. Haiyaaa.

Do you have a flag?

Just heard about Neil Gaiman, did he?

Sincerely, thank you for your service.

Indeed, fuckwittery crosses all age barriers

This is it for me. I’m tired of swimming upstream for my privacy.

He could’ve shown up at the Supreme Court holding a shotgun with “OFFICIAL ACTS” engraved down the barrel, but noooo

Yep, South Park’s not on the list of products targeted specifically at GenX.

If you were wondering, here’s that list:

I rather quite like the marshmallow version.

Indeed. Wise decision for everyone else too.

It means he’s anti-antifascist, or fascist for short.

This is a good insight that has wide application. For example in the context of investing: every portfolio is always fully invested, even 100% cash which runs the risk of not meeting the investor’s goals.

However it’s not always true in all contexts. For example in formal games, there may be a no-risk path to victory for you, where every move can be dominant. In this sense there is no risk in taking those dominant moves to win the game.

The position can be benign: funding and promoting the arts. I am, however, not going to bet on the Israeli culture minister being benign.

You remind me of this quote from Richard Feynman, flawed human, brilliant physicist and gifted communicator:

I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe…

I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.

Attributing genocide to a state should require a genocide, no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_capitalism

Authoritarian capitalism, or illiberal capitalism, is an economic system in which a capitalist market economy exists alongside an authoritarian government. Related to and overlapping with state capitalism, a system in which the state undertakes commercial activity, authoritarian capitalism combines private property and the functioning of market forces with restrictions on dissent, complete lack of freedom of speech or significant limits on it, and either a lack of elections or an electoral system with a single dominant political party.

Next stop, elimination of the Democratic party.