Note to the Peanut gallery: this guy knows about paperclipmaxxing but not this more famous comic. Curious. lmfao

Unfortunately, Babbel has slop integration too.

Oh hey just in time to let my subscription lapse.

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.

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

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

Wow, they invented a way to make people feel good about getting a PIP

Also LWers: https://youtu.be/AFj3tuNukTs

116 million

There’s no way that what they’re buying is worth that much.

This author seems to write what is fairly typical escapism porn LNs. According to this summary the plot is about as stupid and problematic as you might expect for such a thing. If the Alya-san anime goes well this will probably get at least a manga.

All this is just adding up to: hack author is formulaically chasing trends and trying to parlay some genAIed trash into a manga and maybe an anime.

Truly a gift that shall keep on giving