i'm all for staking. specifically, i'm all for staking the bloody vampires.

being a member of the old boy club beats ideological differences.

just to note that reportedly the palantir employees are for whatever reason going through a massive “hans, are we the baddies” moment, almost a whole year into the second trump administration.

as i wrote elsewhere, those people need to be subjected to actual social consequences of choosing to work with and for the u.s. concentration camp administration office.

i hereby propose a new metric for a popular publication, the epstein number (Ē), denoting the number of authors who took flights to epstein's rape island. generally, credible publications should have Ē=0. this one, after a very quick look, has Ē=2, and also hosts sabine hossenfelder.

there's this lovely nostalgic thread by the very dude working for baikal, and you can play the game “spot the serb in the thread without looking at the names”.

yet another programmer who imagines that having computer science baccalaureate gives him an insight into human biology. sigh.

i find the level of ms apologia unsettling. remember, we're only a few news cycles away from the time ms almost shipped windows with spyware and keylogger built-in

it's not “hating your post history”, it's just realisation that you're a shitty debatelord and talking to you is waste of time.

at one of the places i worked this kind of data was called assnumbers.

the technical term is either “confabulation” or “bullshit”; “hallucination” is a misleading label coined by the ai pushers.

the fascism is strong in those

• ‘at rest’ → we're using filesystem encryption
• ‘in transit’ → we're using TLS

neither is end-to-end encryption, the data is not private to the service provider.