The idea that queer spaces are a uniquely American trait is also horse shit.

There is none? Lmao.

It's calipers. In the current culture it's calipers for her. I hate the commercialization of estorica. You should have to join some sort of order and take a blood oath to abstain from marketing and social media to do it. Esoterica used to be a contest for who can be the weirdest guy and come up with the hottest take. But in the modern era a lot of it is complaining about other races, complaining about boyfriends or cheat codes for women. The gnostics were so good at it they all got murdered.

DeepSeek is probably going to be the straw that breaks the camels back in terms of full mask off fascism vs keeping status quo of polite business fascism that America loves. Let me explain, keep in mind, a pro-move would have been if TikTok did this.

So for those who don't know DeepSeek is covered by the GPL. The current bill to ban DeepSeek and "imports of Chinese tech" basically has a problem.

• Source code is free speech
• GPL'd source code exists before the ban
• The way copyright works if that if I make a change in DeepSeek no matter how minor it becomes a derivative work that I can then release.
• Therefore PiggySeek is my freeze-peach not China's

Essentially the US has to destroy the last 100 years of jurisprudence in multiple arenas (free speech, copyright, etc) to effectively create this ban. The reason the TIkTok ban was ruled legal is because by the US law, your speech is your speech, the platform is the platform, so there is a technicality there that can be used without talking about chilling effects. GPL and OSS enables "their" speech to be "your" speech in terms of software.

With the tech industry dollars and demand time table behind this.... well let's just say it's the time of the cool zone folks.

This process was already killed and ignored once with encryption where the government made the issue go away by loosening requirements and not prosecuting, despite a ruling against them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

If we're getting USSR style academic censorship we should at least get a USSR social economy

Severance never faces the fact that the flaw in its own conceit is much more salacious than anything the show does. The main flaw in Severance's concept is that we're biomechanical machines and not electronic robots. So the side effects of grieving a wife will still severely affect the performance, mood, and mental health of your "innie" because their chemical and structural precursors are all there. Which is literally more horrifying of a personal story than the "omg we're doing slavery as an evil cult but we won't say wink" that Apple TV writers do in this shit.

Imagine that your only existence is 9-5 and for whatever reason you're always ill, you never feel good, you wake up like this and you go to sleep like this. You have no way to improve this situation because you cannot leave your prison, you have no way to even figure out what's going on. Instead it's a big old "who dun it" with all the ChatGPT style hallmarks of hack modern writing. The real horror is that not only can this go horribly wrong, someone might attempt it because they're stupid enough to think it will go right.

The concept of Severance is literally a torment nexus in and of itself, not because it's done by an evil cult. That's why you'll see a bunch of libs on BlueSky and Twitter praying for Severance IRL like people prayed for Squid Games. This is the exact hack lib writing problem that the US Office, the Good Place and Lovecraft Country had -- that it's capitalist realism.

The Office and The Good Place are obvious. The Office becomes flanderized cuteness about how work is quirky and not an unstable arbitrary constructed system made by morons, unlike the UK version. The Good Place discovers capitalism and then pretends that there's no reason that humans should be responsible for it's creation and existence in the view of cosmic justice.

Lovecraft Country is actually one of the worst fucking ones. What's the central conceit? "Lovecraft was racist." It doesn't go any deeper than that. Yes Lovecraft was racist. Yes cosmic horror as a genre has it's roots in fear of the unknown other. We know that applying that to races is bullshit. That's a baby brained thing. But guess what, the fear of a group of people whose intentions are unknown, unknowable, capricious, and they wield great power to affect your life -- yet you have seemingly no way to fight them. You know who that is? I'll give you a hint:

But no we have to remind everyone how good and liberal and virtue signalling we are as a writers room of an HBO TV show. Channel Zero Butcher's Block for all its faults at least presented a clear interesting story and didn't shy away from, "oh yeah these people are interdimensional beings who are extracting value from this community and are literally eating its members because they owned a factory once but it stopped being profitable."

By the way Lovecraft Country was literally written by a white guy. He even looks like Bradley Whitford's character in Get Out:

Stock prices are not a perfect reflection of real value. The price can easily be distorted by the beliefs of people with money, who can spend that money on Tesla stock to own the trans. This doesn't translate to wider market dominance or profitability of Tesla's bad products.

This is because capitalism is actually a bad price discovery mechanism for securities. In commodities markets corrections are quick because there's a real input-output happening to the commodity. A security's value is literally greater fool theory. You could rig a commodity market but you effectively need a near monopoly/monospony/cartel to do it over a long period of time. There is no "running out of stocks" because stocks aren't used for anything. So there's effectively no real floor for any security. This is exactly why they were able to do financial fraud for such a long time in 2008. The securities system crashes based on speculation and technicalities not realities, reality can help get it there but it's not guaranteed.

I am in software so it's the least bad option. Software options are like:

• Scams
• Waste
• Terror
• Neoliberal Helping

Imagine a Coke Freestyle Machine that only serves seltzer, but instead of plastic cups you have 2 glasses. This machine is a vending machine that's just installed on the street. There is nowhere to wash the glasses.

This is an older design, but it shows the glasses well.

This is the "classic" design that's Sovietana

This is a modernized replica that you'd use with paper cups

Thanks Regan.

Prisons are closer to a hybrid financialized gulag system than concentration camps. The ultimate goal of concentration camps is permanent removal. The ultimate goal of gulags was economic extraction. US Prisons and Jails function in this way in the sense that many governments in the US use prison labor. However this goes further in the sense that the bodies of prisoners are typically commodities in and of themselves when you're looking at the interplay between private for-profit prisons and the various governments they contract with.

But we've had actual concentration camps for immigrants along the Southern border for decades, these camps are also hybrid financialized systems because some of them are also run by for-profit companies.

America is simply the synthesis of the horrors of humanity with a financial twist!

Bumping Lena's story she's the OG of DIY HRT on the web. Full process is here

You can distill your own models based on your own models, the fact that OpenAI isn't doing this is more evidence that they are "competing" via investment capital and not tech.