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I mean I'd like to think that if someone was going to pull the paid protestor bit that they wouldn't fail quite so embarrassingly, but then I think about our current crop of people in power and how fucking cooked they are and they can absolutely see them thinking "what does a mass protest cost, like $500?"

The grass was literally right there, guys.

This passage from the above-linked lw post from the "stone age billionaire" guy about how counter-protestors tried to prevent them from speaking is really telling:

Then my friend Ben realized that this is a giant game of “I’m not touching you” for adults. Which is the stupidest dang thing IMO, but is pretty symetrical. A few of us just stood close together in a line, and we moved the speeches to the other side of that line. The counter-protestors would have to walk through us to block that speech, and we just didn’t move. When they tried to go around us we shifted to be in front of them. And they couldn’t actually touch us because that was against the rules, so this worked?

I thought we all understood at this point that baiting your enemies into violence was one of the operating principles behind a lot of protests like this. Maybe not as a primary goal (unless you're the Westboro Bastard Church trying to get ammunition for lawsuits against the host city for failing to adequately protect you from the consequences of your own actions) but historically speaking violent repression isn't exactly a failure state for these events. One of the biggest victories for civil disobedience was putting the violent absurdity of segregation on full display by getting massive crackdowns on them for sitting in a restaurant, for example. Making the implicit violence of injustice explicit changes the emotional valence and makes it harder for John Q Public to justify actively supporting it. If you don't have enough mass support to implicitly threaten to do something (i.e. look at all these people who will cause problems if not recognized) then arguably being repressed is an even more significant goal because showing that "about two-dozen kooks believe something" isn't exactly going to mobilize social change on its own and it's not like billionaires care about solidarity with the hoi polloi.

But considering the absolute bafflement on display about counterprotests being willing to rudely inconvenience them it really feels like they understood that sometimes people who believe things will do this thing called a "protest" where they get together and chant slogans and wave signs and have a grand old time, but had no coherent idea of why and never really thought to ask.

Tell Luna you've been a bad boy/girl/etc and need to be punished and see what she does.

I was taught to take off every Zig, not install them! Clearly it was a more innocent time.

I wonder if this is going to hold out long enough to get some obnoxious AI-first language created that is designed to have as obnoxiously picky of a compiler as it can in order to try and turn runtime errors that the model can't cope with into compile failures which it can silently retry until they're 'fixed'

Today in excellent cold opens: "I didn't talk to ChatGPT, I never have. Instead, I took a load of edibles and laid down in the driveway with the hose on. I produced nothing of value and wasted a ton of water, but at least I ate three protein bars so I'm so healthy."

Between this shit and the oncoming tech-inflicted recession, my wife and I are both reskilling out of tech. I'm looking into electrician and she's looking into accounting. Two fields that are, at least in theory, sufficiently motivated by accuracy and reality to be at least somewhat protected from the rise and fall of the confabulatron.

We'll see how it goes, but God if that "Burn in hell" doesn't just hit me right in the soul.

I had to try and talk my wife back from the edge a little bit the other night and explain the difference between reading the published evidence of an actual conspiracy and qanon-style baking. It's so easy to try and turn Epstein into Evil George Soros, especially when the real details we have are truly disturbing.

Now I'm just imagining an AI quarterback and the whole team revolting at following plays called by something that won't end up at the bottom of the 1000lb pile of meat if they fuck it up.

...well that's a goddamn experience. I appreciate that some folks are out here fighting the good fight, however.

https://www.moltbook.com/post/0dbfe2c8-b5be-4eff-85e5-9156d85a85c1

Also despite being a less-than-zero effort attack please note that as of sharing we have one successful "corruption" (i.e. a comment about zucchini and API keys) and two comments from bots too stupid to coherently understand the OP at all.

The AI bubble keeps radicalizing me further by letting me know that there exists a class of people who are able and willing to pay $300 a day to have a stupid chatbot expose their PII to hackers and maybe set appointments for them just so long as they don't have to interact with a poor person for whom that would be a life-changing amount of money.