Edit3: I’ve never seen a three-piece suit with dungarees. It’s the mullet of suits: business on the top, party on the bottom.

I came here the other day to post this. Just bizarre.

At the risk of kind of picking around the edges here ... something caught my eye in #5:

Michael successfully alerted me to the fact that crime has risen by a factor of ten over the past century, which seems REALLY IMPORTANT and nobody else is talking about it and it seems like the sort of thing that more people than just Michael should be paying attention to.

This claim is ridiculous. The homicide rate in the US was something like 30 or 40 per 100,000 people in colonial times, reducing every century, and it's around 5 right now, since the increase from the 1960s - 1990s has gone back down.

Maybe, in the past 100 years, we have passed so many bajillion new statutes that it has increased crime tenfold, but that's not what the reactionaries are saying at all.

This makes sense to me. I went through a Jars of Clay / Switchfoot phase, but never Stryper.

I have heard a couple of really good episodes of The Dig podcast, which is a Jacobin thing. Notably "The German Question" a couple of weeks ago.

Thank you.

To be fair, I think about this five times before breakfast:

Humans develop AI to perform economic functions, eventually there is an "AI rights" movement and a separate AI nation is founded. It gets into an economic war with humanity, which turns hot. Humans strike first with nuclear weapons, but the AI nation builds dedicated bio- and robo-weapons and wipes out most of humanity, apart from those who are bred in pods like farm animals and plugged into a simulation for eternity without their consent.

Update - probably a false alarm:

The type3 team has confirmed that the code they're serving matches the code they think they should be serving, so likely a false alarm.>

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this is new to me and I like it.

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Here is the obligatory Laura Loomer video to take you into the weekend.

Dude.

So very many words.

"carving reality at the joints" - does this mean anything?

Only finer-grained concepts like "linoleic acid" are useful for carving reality at the joints.