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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • This is the correct answer of any well adjusted empathetic human. Even those I hate the most I don’t want tortured. I want them to stop being evil pieces of shit. Imprisonment or death are solutions to stop them from being pieces of shit, and if necessary it should be swift. Sure, I can understand the desire to inflict pain upon someone who murders my family or rapes a child, and I would do it myself in certain circumstances, but that doesn’t make it “right”, moral or just.

    Ideally the monsters would just develop empathy and stop being evil, and devote their lives to doing the opposite. The probability of that is essentially zero, though.




  • Only do this with no electronic devices on your person, or with them packed away in a faraday bag. Everywhere you go with a bluetooth or wifi antenna is being logged by a dozen data brokers, and the gov has access to all of it.

    You might get away with it once, but your radio fingerprint in range 2+ times of an incident is a pattern that’s easy to spot.

    This goes for ALL resistance activity, including simple protesting. The nazis are building lists, and they can use those lists to destroy your life in many more ways than assault and imprisonment (e.g. covertly limit your employment opportunities, housing options, or credit/loans).

    EDIT: I suggest you leave your device at home, charging at your bedside. The faraday bag is an easily detectable anomaly (unless you make it a habit). If you need a device for maps/gps etc, your best bet is to buy an old android where you can physically remove the wifi and bluetooth antenna from the device.



  • Backups. Tape is still the cheapest and most resilient option for long term storage. Considering how expensive hard drives are now, changing your backup strategy to use tape instead could save hundreds of millions vs buying the equivalent amount in hard drive storage. Add the AI cybersecurity threats, plus the likelihood of regional turmoil and data centers being targeted in warfare, and how valuable pre-AI data is, I imagine there’s a desire to replicate existing backups for redundancy, and keep more of it in air-gapped cold storage.


  • Surveillance capitalism follows the same rules as capitalism; do whatever is most profitable. The deception/manipulation/propaganda algos are 10-1000x more valuable when they’re able to target you as an individual; across all accounts, space, and time. The users hardest to swindle, who already gave a shit about privacy/anonymity, have already left.

    Most advertising on reddit is guerrilla marketing, and reddit either runs their own bots or explicitly enables them to inflate activity and engagement.







  • Don’t kid yourself. I have a background in both statistical learning and programming, but because I’m not a fucking moron I’ve considered the entire AI boom a mass mental illness of idiocy and incompetence… but this will play out just like outsourcing.

    Outsourcing was initially sold as THE solution and performed by the vast majority of business and political leadership — who are incompetent morons seeking nothing but quarterly KPI/cost improvements — which resulted in massive failures, bankrupcies, onshoring etc etc… But was ultimately refined and mastered to the point where most jobs could be offshored again.

    Remember; Detroit manufacturing never recovered. 99% of manufacturing offshoring was ultimately successful on a multi-decade timeline. 15 years ago I worked in a business park that employed over 10k people for a single corporation. My role there was specifically onshored from a failed offshoring. Today, all of those “service-based” jobs have now been automated or offshored, and the business park is a ghost town that will most likely be demolished and replaced with a data center.

    AI will fail short term due to the gross incompetence of political and business leadership, but most human jobs will be automated away over the next 2-3 decades regardless. They only have to be cheaper than humans. They do not have to be “better”. Tge fact that this will destroy capitalism and revert to fuedalism is irrelevent. Once we wire these models into robots and have them learning through interaction with the real world (which is cataclysmically psychotic), the automation of all human labor could take place within a single decade.

    Don’t worry, though. We fundamentally can not control AI, so even if the fascists use it to mass murder billions, the most likely scenario is that they all die at the hands of their creation in the VERY near future.