Google, killing one of its products because their executives make shit decisions? Unheard of.

Key:

Things musk aligns with: ✅

Things musk does not align with: ❌

Neutral: 😐

• 😐Prepare for trouble!
• 😐And make it double!
• ❌To protect the world from devastation!
• ❌To unite all peoples within our nation!
• ✅To denounce the evils of truth and love!
• ✅To extend our reach to the stars above!
• 😐Jessie!
• 😐James!
• ✅Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!
• ✅Surrender now, or prepare to fight!
• 😐Meowth!
• ✅That’s right!

Uhh, hmm. Fuck

I guess now that USAID is being defunded and the government has turned off their anti-russia/china propaganda machine, private industry is taking over the US hegemony psyop game. Efficient!!!

/s /s /s I hate it all

If Paris Marx is the little domino that causes total collapse of US hegemony, I’ll join the patreon at the highest tier forever

Early covid (july 2020) interview:

https://archive.is/Sesfj

charitable take: he has the good sense to not make any major claims about the pandemic, other than to speculate that it would worsen his go-to metric of “extreme poverty”, which is… fine, i guess.

neutral take: nothing extraordinarily damning other than his usual takes.

uncharitable: this is of course early pandemic, so maybe pinker hasn’t found the angle to sell his normal shit with.

Side note: does pinker ever wonder about why extreme poverty has been reduced? I can’t imagine he thinks it’s anything other than liberal democracy and US foreign interference, when the real answer is like, China (a country that Pinker definitely believes is counter to said liberal democracy and the US) continuing to develop economically. Basically i want to him to squirm as he tries and fails to resolve the cognitive dissonance.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/08/comic-steven-pinker-certified-grief-counselor

I don’t keep this link on hand, I just google “pinker comic” and find it.

Pinker tries not to be a total caricature of himself challenge: profoundly impossible

specifically this caricature:

Has Klezra Ein ever used the term “useful idiot”?

David Gerard: keikaku.jpg

Tracing Woodgrains: malding

Well, I can see the distinction being important. I’m sure the adult baby/ageplay crowd don’t want their good reputation stained by these chuds

Only big dum-dums wouldn’t buy Dr. Swlabr’s Brilliant, Life-Extending Snake Oil! Use it in a poultice, as a liniment, or as an emollient! The smartest use it instead of the fertility-sapping seed oils!

a startup offering IQ screening for IVF embryos

Is this… the perfect grift?

the answer is yes, in a self-own sort of way

Wasn’t there some big post on LW about how pattern matching isn’t intelligence?

Goddamn

offering sora will only make them sore-er

I used to cry wolf. I still cry wolf, but I used to, too

also that bluesk (idk what the bluesky equivalent of a tweet is) is sign-in walled, I can’t read it

A few years ago, maybe a few months after moving to the bay area, a guy from my high school messaged me on linkedin. He was also in the bay, and was wanting to network, I guess? I ghosted him, because I didn’t know him at all, and when I asked my high school friends about him, he got some bad reviews. Anyway today linkedin suggests/shoves a post down my throat where he is proudly talking about working at anthropic. Glad I ghosted!

PS/E: Anthro Pic is definitely a furry term. Is that anything?

Hey, all I’m saying is, abject despair is worse than despair with a lil’ hope

I’d feel better about this if I believed the democrats were willing to do anything about it