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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Filing this away in my “Mao was right, let’s ‘abolish’ the landlords” folder

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Strap in and start blasting the Depeche Mode.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pokemon Go To The War Crimes

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Eeps: 90%. I have found something to disagree with:

Everybody loves Puerto Rican music (please get on this, you’re missing out)

I cannot stand reggaeton, so this is a no from me.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

note: rust is mentioned 41 times by name in the article

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Eepy Status*: about 20% of the way through. This is all I have to share so far:

Bjarne Stroustrup? More like, Blarney Should-Shut-Up.

*yes, short for epistemic status. Don’t like it? Good, mission accomplished.

Edit: Eepyness: 60% of the way through.

This is a masterclass in tea spilling. So many shots fired at fucking everything. I am in awe.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Ah you see, the moment you entered the realm of numbers and estimates, you’ve lost! I activate my trap card: 「Bayesian Reasoning」 to Explain Away those numbers. This lets me draw the「Domain Expert」 card from my deck, which I place in the epistemic status position, which boosts my confidence by 2000 IQ points!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 4 days ago (7 children)

General sneer against the SH: I choose to dismiss it entirely for the same reason that I dismiss solipsism or brain-in-a-vat-ism: it’s a non-starter. Either it’s false and we’ve gotta come up with better ideas for all this shit we’re in, or it’s true and nothing is real, so why bother with philosophical or metaphysical inquiry?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 4 days ago

I don’t have the time to deep dive this RN but information dynamics or infodynamics looks to be, let’s say, “alternative science” for the purposes of trying to up the credibility of the simulation hypothesis.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 21 points 4 days ago

Despite the lack of evidence, this idea is gaining traction in scientific circles as well as in the entertainment industry.

lol

 

Didn’t see this news posted but please link previous correspondence if I missed it.

https://archive.is/XwbY0

 

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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VoughtCoin (the-boys.fandom.com)
 

TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.

It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

 

Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.

 

As is tradition I am sharing this link without having listened yet.

 

The video game in question:

 

Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!

As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

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