oh yeah I remember that propeller image, I think that was the cover image for the book, or the dust jacket, also reminds me of another book with photos of patterns by Philip Ball

the woke mob takes Japan

anything but the actual useful thing right

we need a funky synth/guitar revival for real

the era of struggle sessions is over, only snuggle sessions allowed from now on

dunno about them fighting but having a tamagochi type critter tied to the account would be pretty sweet

neat

hey youtube viewer, like star trek? anti-gun? vote for Harris!

doombots stay winning

the code worked really great for the most part, it caught us off guard how mostly well things went

maybe some flashy casino type games that give a dopamine hit, edit: oh you mean like a real gamer… maybe some pro golf games

I skipped Signalis due to people mentioning the politics were centrist but the ambiance does seem cool every time I see something related to the game

<clears throat and approaches the mic> mi mi mi mi, fa fa fa fa, sol sol sol sol

uh oh, time to enter a query to MS copilot… ‘tips and hacks to unbrick a nuclear plant’

little fellow jumping around

they love to brag about it

Claiming that his products “changed the course of history by stopping terror attacks,” Mr. Karp said that Palantir had also “protected our men and women on the battlefield” and “taken the lives of our enemies, and I don’t think that’s something to be ashamed of.”

‘it’s all market forces pulling the levers here, we don’t run the company at all… in fact we will now proceed to fire ourselves due to irrelevancy’

longtermist techbro whisperer argues that’s ok because it wouldn’t lead to complete collapse:

One finds the same insouciant attitude about climate change in MacAskill’s recent book. For example, he notes that there is a lot of uncertainty about the impacts of extreme warming of 7 to 10 degrees Celsius but says “it’s hard to see how even this could lead directly to civilisational collapse.” MacAskill argues that although “climatic instability is generally bad for agriculture,” his “best guess” is that “even with fifteen degrees of warming, the heat would not pass lethal limits for crops in most regions,” and global agriculture would survive.

also from 2023:

“We barely have enough water and you’re diverting even more for others to use,” says Yang Kuanwei, a tomato farmer bemoaning government water policies in Taiwan’s southern Tainan county, where chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC, is building a state-of-the-art factory.

In 2021, an absence of seasonal typhoons left reservoirs so parched, chipmakers like TSMC were forced to truck in water to keep factories running.

For the third year in a row, rice farmers in southern Taiwan have not been allowed to plant their crops. Instead, the government is paying them subsidies to not grow rice this season, because it uses scarce water that semiconductor plants nearby need.

“When there is no rain, things grow at the wrong time,” says Zhang Meixue, head of one of the local farmer’s associations in southern Tainan county, once one of the island’s prime rice-growing areas. “Growing rice protects the local ecology by locking in moisture and keeping ground temperatures stable.”

‘we’ll coup who we want, I enjoy freedoms that grant me main character plot armor’