if you, like me, were wondering what the point of that 25 hour non-filibuster filibuster by Booker was, here’s one potential answer.
Booker held a filibuster that wasn't a filibuster - and he scheduled it to let him avoid attending his own committee's probe of his Big Tech pals. […] Oh and Booker and Dems provided unanimous consent to advance a Trump nominee right after Booker's speech.
Ah, the highest form of art appreciation: badly designed surveys.
Cyberpunk is when cool coat*
*said coat is a trench coat, not a duster
poor Musky lost custody. Couldn’t handle Grimes, now he mangles rhymes.
quirk-washing TREACLES
I can’t wait to be quirk-washed, I’m ready to hang up my pick-me hat and let the new yorker do the work for me
can’t remember where I heard this quip but:
“I used to be a utilitarian. Then I turned 13.”
Oh, we value logic, you’re just bad at it.
I suspect a large portion of people in EA leadership were already on the latter train and posturing as the former. The former is actually kinda problematic in its own way! If a problem was solvable purely by throwing money at it, then what is the need for a charity at all?
I hate this phrase but this is “saying the quiet part out loud” in action.
How I sorta think about it, which might be a bit circular. I think the long content is a gullibility filter of two kinds. First, it selects for people who are willing to slog through all of it and eat it up, and defend their choice in doing so. Second, it’s gonna select people who like the broad strokes ideas, who don’t want to read all the content, but are able to pretend as if they had.
The first set of people are like scientologists sinking into deeper and deeper levels of lore. The second group are the actors in the periphery of scientology groups trying to network.
Amazing. Who would have thought that an idiot regressive trying to turn the clock back to the 50’s would be such an impediment to e/acc.
Also: I mean trump is still accelerationist, just not in the way (all) the e/accs necessarily want. For the e/accs only concerned about the tech side of things, trump is demonstrably decel. But trump is accelerationist for the cryptofascists.