Wow, that Elias Mouawad guy has the techno-fascist goon look nailed.

• Criminal defense attorney defending crooked cops, looks like someone Peter Thiel sends to kill you.

Yeah, I would tell this joke to my son now that he’s 17, but 7 years ago, I would not have. My brother 100% would have.

Brilliant!

• Begins project to print out all essential data and move it into three ring binders, then format hard drive.

This is a different world. Stop asking yourself “What tooling is available to me?” and start asking yourself “What tooling do I want, that I can describe to Claude?” Most of the interfaces I interact with recently are interfaces I designed.

tl;dr: Fuck Cursor. It’s yesterdays vibecoded garbage.

I grew up around wealth. Wealthy people who have been poor sorta get it, but can lose it depending on who they hang out with. Wealthy people who grew up wealthy and went on to be wealthy adults don’t understand what lower / lower middle class life is like, what it does to you to live your life with intermittent low level financial stress and peaks of high financial stress. They can have empathy for it, they can see you’re struggling, but the behavior associated with financial instability looks to them like a series of bad decisions and choices they could never see themselves making. Their peer groups overwhelmingly come from the same economic class they do, so they have no social model for what a person making those choices is going through.

Most especially, the human brain uses peer feedback to calibrate it’s own sense of right and wrong and what’s real and what’s not. Wealthy people who spend no time with less fortunate people actually can’t process those people’s lives as something immediate or directly present. They can only think about it abstractly. They can’t connect it to their own inner life. They can be moved by the plight of people in need, but they genuinely don’t get it.

Also, they’re just as short sighted, shallow, selfish and superstitious as any other demographic, and they have inflated senses of their own intellect and capabilities (due to only getting specific kinds of peer feedback), so they tend to be offended (rather than self reflective) when presented with the idea that they don’t understand something.

If we select leaders (of either party) from the upper class (I.E. those who can afford to run for office) we will ALWAYS get willfully out of touch psychology from our leaders. And when we select someone else (A Mamdani, an AOC), it will always look to the wealthy like this person is unhinged (because their actions and rhetoric don’t fit into the rich person’s calibrated sense of reality).

Double standards much?

Release the Epstine files.

“many prominently feature American flags”

Of course, they’re targeting a certain demographic known to be highly susceptible to bullshit.

Case in point, the article doesn’t even list the Epstein files and its list of the alternate realities Trump has created.

Also Trump’s a rapist, release the Epstein files.

Why no Qwen?

Point Claude at it, tell it to get rid of this, open a pull request, start a git brewhaha.

Open source it so we can test it against Qwen or gtfo.

tl;dr: screw reddit. Good bye forever (again).

I had to go back to reddit about a year ago to promote local mutual aid organizations and protest groups. I had turned my “since 2008” account into nothing but over the top abuse aimed at u/spez and vulture capitalism during the RiF debacle. I made a new account and engaged a little bit. I commented now and then, because you have to have minimal amounts of activity to post on some of the local subreddits.

Two days ago, I got flagged by automoderator for mocking a conservative on r/politics. I apparently had like 8 hours to tell the mods I was sorry, but I had no idea I’d been flagged, because I hardly go on reddit so I didn’t know. They gave me a three month ban and when I messaged them to be like “why was I banned?” because it didn’t make sense to me… I hadn’t done anything that objectionable, a mod very condescendingly told me “You had 8 hours to respond to the complaint, but didn’t avail yourself of the opportunity. You may protest the ban in 3 months.” I seriously messaged them back with “enjoy your enshittification train to corporate town.”

I hope I never see a snap again. Maybe they are better now than last time I have to deal with one, but why when we have flatpaks and appimages? Why do they suck so much?

If you know rich people, this is par for the course. I’ve been hearing them say this kind of thing for years. And they 100% believe it’s true.

When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. It’s really true. Throughout all history, every time the rich are asked to give up a meaningful percentage of their wealth to create more equality they feel oppressed and get angry. It’s just a human thing. We have to build systems that don’t care if the rich whine and are “rich, dumb idiot proof” or the cycle will just continue.

Just have AI scrape Twitter for people complaining about applications they wish existed, and have the AI make them.

I mean… in 2026, this is probably a viable business strategy tbh.

The tri-stat system was as elegant as it was exploitable. It was so easy to blow up planets by taking entirely too many minor defects.

So… it’s genre accurate is what you’re saying.

Yeah, I missed this one too.

Don’t talk about your mental health with an AI seems like pretty basic common sense to me, as someone who interacts with them constantly.

This article seems like it was written by a PR firm for big AI.

2014 called. It wants its controversy back.