I hear ya. I mean, Stross's George Clooney stood and fought the horrors, while ours ran away to France. (The book really captured the unique American flavor of High Weirdness and the stickiness of Amerca's belief in its own mythos, didnt it though?)

In the here and now, I try to remind myself that they're the ones who suck and that they should hide.

When Woke 2 comes we're going to be insuffferable.

Hero!

Here's a screenshot in case it vanishes:

Opus 4.6 is More Corn (ft. Dr Weird and Steve)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6TMOMTtAMBI

It does seem kind of vulnerable to a determined gonzo journalist, doesnt it?

Axios publishes an ad for Anthropic. tptacek bravely defends a corporation from unimpressed fellow hackers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902909

Edit: tptacek implies that Ludic no longer stands behind Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI, which I don't believe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906403

tptacek explains that the one armed bandit addiction loop is good actually:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905142

Imagining an LW enjoyer attempting to tackle Proust and getting straight armed into the Shadow Realm.

heh heh

It’s a classical liberal thing.

I put on my cloak and phrygian cap

Heckin yeah, are you going through a union?

Tangentially on topic:

Just finished The Regicide Report by friend of the instance Charles Stross. Hell of a finish to the main series! I'll likely start a re-read of the whole series soon, and I'm hopeful that it'll win all the awards.

Had a couple of shower thoughts afterward:

1. In the previous novel, a bunch of American computer bois with brainworms concocted a plan to disassemble the moon and turn it into orbital datacenters, which is lol

2. Ghislaine Maxwell is the Iris Carpenter of pedos.

3. Keeping speculative fiction ahead of current events must be exhausting.

Tradesmen sharing tales of the worst bathroom they've ever encountered (positive). A++

Also, you dont look your age

The vibes were wretched. Why do people to have to battle emotional abuse from a goddamned web browser?

but hey, at least this way we now just know and don’t have to guess. so much easier

+1, yeesh. Btw, if Dingus McGee there resides in the UK, might some of that shit might be legally actionable? I'd certainly have strong feelings about being defamed by the representative of a rather well-funded technology company lol