@dgerard Do not mess with HP, they have the *real* orbital weather control lasers! /s

@barsquid Ahem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Rise_(novel)

@gerikson The name predates the white nationalist band by *several centuries*. Per wiki: "In classical and medieval literature, ultima Thule (Latin "farthest Thule") acquired a metaphorical meaning of any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world"."

I suspect they renamed the KBO Arrokoth precisely to avoid the unfortunate recent connotations of the name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule

@dgerard We need to yank Dilbert Stark's driving license and chauffeur and force him to travel everywhere on an e-bike or sailboat for a year or two before he's allowed to have anything to do with Tesla again. (Or to use his private jet.)

Actually, Dilbert getting e-bike religion might be the best thing he could possibly do for the climate …

I've met Pinker and it is my considered opinion that he is an elitist dick. (Sticks tongue out.) Srsly, not surprising that an eminent prof at Harvard provides emotional felatio for the moneyed class at every opportunity. @skillissuer

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/9372418

@self Really? And here I thought Mastodon existed for the convenience of Reply Guys like that!

@dgerard If you're looking at awful.systems via a Mastodon client you never see the sidebar. Or even any indication that it isn't a Mastodon server.

@dgerard "B-B-BUT prison is meant to be for TEH POORS!! This is WRONG!!!"

@dgerard Whiteness is a movable feast. (Ask anyone who's Jewish, or LGBT+, or Italian/Irish in the USA in the 19th century or Hispanic in the USA before/after the 1970s).

@corbin @sneerclub AIUI scammers are more easily scammed than average folks precisely because they think they know all about scams and nobody can fool them. It leads to complacency.

@saucerwizard Rationalism overlaps with TESCREAL and stuff like Extropianism and Cosmism which was invented by a straight-up Russian Orthodox theologian and philosopher, Nikolai Federov, in the late 19th century, to provide a teleological imperative for space colonization. It borrowed its structural skeleton from Christianity.

@dashdsrdash

The rapture *of* the Nerds, and I got the phrase from Ken MacLeod, who says he got it from someone else (but forgot who it was).

The design patterns of Christian fundamentalism show up strongly in singularitarianism (minus the God'n'Jeezus show). Not surprising given its ancestry lies in Russian Cosmism.

So advocating for "the uploaded" is like advocating for the souls of the elect in heaven, after the ain't-happened-yet Rapture.