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by davidw 8mo ago
Sure, this is correct. But... these are strange times. I'm old enough to remember Bill Kristol the neocon from the Iraq war days and the other day he was quoting Chuck Schumer on Blue Sky saying "Abolish ICE!". Me from 2002 w
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by davidw 8mo ago
This is doomerism, and I get the pull of it, but I have been trying to avoid it lately, because at the end of the day, it is doing the work of the fascists for them. It is "complying in advance" to prematurely admit defeat. We are
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by davidw 8mo ago
I think corporate media is mostly lost. We need to build something new. Pay attention to things like The Bulwark or Liberal Currents. It's really early days for all that, so who knows where things go, but people like Bezos would rather
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by davidw 8mo ago
It's kind of ominous. I could see people in a science fiction thriller finding a copy of the image and wondering what it all means. Maybe as the show progresses it adds more of the tentacle/connection things going out further and
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by davidw 8mo ago
Kissing up to the bully just means they come back to extort you for more the next time. I don't think it's even rational behavior.
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by davidw 8mo ago
May shame and disgrace follow them for the rest of their lives. Having been around for a while, to go from optimistic, but sort of naive techno-libertarianism that was once a thing in Silicon Valley to kissing up to a would-be authoritarian
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by davidw 8mo ago
> It's incredibly sad to see the high trust environment that was open source be eroded by AI. And all that after AI coding was basically built on the back of open source software.
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by davidw 8mo ago
It doesn't help to figure this out that this moment is one where a lot of programming jobs are going away...
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by davidw 8mo ago
I thought I read that they borrowed it from the actual military, which tends to be a little bit more cautious with these things.
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by davidw 8mo ago
Interesting, but how's it work out when people believe in "alternative facts"? That seems to be a pretty big problem in many places. I think I can find some common ground with people who have different views on corporate taxa
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by davidw 8mo ago
At least you can't buy ChatGPT a nice RV or expensive vacations.
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by davidw 8mo ago
Setting aside the merits of this, complaining about big money in politics while your site proudly displays a Twitter link is a bit of a face-palm.
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by davidw 8mo ago
The work is getting your local or state government to do the things . I thought that was quite obvious.
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by davidw 8mo ago
I did not write 'individual habits' - you did. Things like zoning are not individual choices at all. But they are something that you and a few friends might be able to influence at city hall.
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by davidw 8mo ago
None of this "lulls" involved people, nor lets anyone off the hook. These are things that ordinary people without a lot of money or power can work on today in a country like, say, the US, where the federal government is in the h
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by davidw 8mo ago
And almost all of them have plenty of other benefits too: Multifamily housing is generally cheaper in high land cost areas. It helps solve the housing shortage. More bikes and transit and fewer cars means cleaner air and fewer traffic death
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by davidw 8mo ago
Work on local things to make your own city better. Plenty of stuff that's not too difficult, even if it won't fix everything: * Multifamily housing is much more energy efficient. Is it legal to build throughout your city, or does
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by davidw 8mo ago
The WeRateDogs guy broke character and put out a video attacking that ad https://bsky.app/profile/weratedogs.com/post/3mejrtyvkyc2o
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by davidw 8mo ago
50 myself, and started coding with a Commodore 64, but only really picked it up seriously with the advent of open source software, and that feeling of being able to dig around any component of the system I wanted to was exhilarating. I thin
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by davidw 8mo ago
It's impossible to tell without opening the box the particle physics is in.
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by davidw 8mo ago
$3000 might not be much to a wealthy software engineer in the US, but to, say, a college student in Portugal, it's a big expense. Open source software democratized software in a huge way.
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by davidw 8mo ago
"Not as good and costs a lot in hardware" still sounds like I'm at a disadvantage.
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by davidw 8mo ago
Yeah I've always run Linux on my computers for the past 30 years. I'm pretty used to being in control.
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by davidw 8mo ago
Yes, this is where it's at for me. LLM's are cool and I can see them as progress, but I really dislike that they're controlled by huge corporations and cost a significant amount of money to use.
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by davidw 8mo ago
I am not really happy with thinking about what this does to small companies, hobbyists, open source programmers and so on, if it becomes a necessity to be competitive. Especially since so many of those models have just freely ingested a who
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by davidw 8mo ago
This seems like a pretty reasonable approach that charts a course between skepticism and "it's a miracle". I wonder how much all this costs on a monthly basis?
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by davidw 8mo ago
Me too but I also wonder how much I'm influenced by knowing that that is supposed to happen.
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by davidw 8mo ago
It's pretty useful to the students! That kind of "wait, no, not THAT kind of housing, not HERE" is textbook NIMBYism. There may have been some student protestors, but the money behind the legal challenges were all wealthy loc
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by davidw 8mo ago
Fortunately, this egregious nonsense lead to the CEQA rules being modified so that NIMBYs like these can't weaponize them so easily in situations like this. https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/06/ceqa-urb
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by davidw 8mo ago
They're talking about using environmental rules to block homes for people to live in, inside cities. Using land efficiently in walkable places is one of the most environmentally friendly things we can be doing, and supposed "envir

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