I’ve mentioned before that I believe that Elon turning Twitter into a Nazi bar cut Bluesky’s business model off at its knees. They’re founded by Dorsey, weirdly (or cunningly) absent from the current techfash scene. I’ve always felt the vibe to be coiners and libertarians and “they can’t cancel you here”. Then they got a totally unearned user base because of X, and they’re simply not ready to handle it.

AFAIK there’s no revenue model, Jack or another VC is still footing the bill, and if there’s too much trans stuff on there the funding will dry up.

I have stock firefox on mac and the first 2 tiles on the new tab are sponsored

a lobsters is mad that a middling Perl project gets upvotes just because it’s “braincoded”

https://lobste.rs/s/bu1a84/i_brain_coded_static_image_gallery_few#c_um9usd

By “openwashing” I mean the posts about AT protocol are running cover for Bluesky, the company. It’s basically reinforcing their narrative that if you don’t like what they’re doing, “just” start your own PDS. By focussing on the technical nitty-gritty, these posts ignore the structures in place keeping Bluesky in the dominant position.

An analogy, Bitcoin code is also open, but 1% of coin owners own like 90% of the coins. I’m not making any excuses for BTC here, but I seem to remember a bunch of similar articles breathlessly explaining how BTC “solves the Byzantine generals problem” while totally ignoring the ownership profile.

Is it just me or does it feel there’s a concerted effort to boost the AT protocol in tech venues? Maybe I’m paranoid but it does feel like a bit of openwashing going on.

Bluesky wanted to be Nazi Twitter, then Elon purchased Twitter and stole their market.

I think I read Starship Troopers before I saw the movie, because a small scene reveals that Johnny Rico is of Phillipine descent (his mother tongue is Tagalog) and I remember wondering if that would be part of the movie. Samuel R Delany mentions that scene as something that made him felt included in SF.

I was very young when I read it but even then I could read it as proto-fascist (or rather military-authoritarian, a bit like cod-Roman Republic)

Because the Terminator franchise is from Hollywood, the heroic resisters to SkyNet are Americans. Someone didn’t watch the movies very well.

OFC the OG Terminator was a scary foreign man with a pronounced accent…

ffs Andrew Lee’s Joseon has a space on soj.ooo

jfc

Thanks for taking the time to expand

Interesting to note that apparently Anduril is very bad at their job. Their shit doesnt even work properly.

doesn’t matter if you can grift USGOV for money

suckless is what opened the door to an entire subculture of fascist racist FOSS enjoyers to me, a door I sincerely wished had stayed closed

ok plz explain what “waffles” means in this context

what fresh hell is this

Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar stable coin (HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45471573)

One of the many annoying traits of rationalists is their tendency to backproject classic pieces of literature onto their chosen worldview.

Guys according to LW you’re reading Omelas all wrong (just like LeGuin was wrong)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n83HssLfFicx3JnKT/omelas-is-perfectly-misread

Always fun trawling thru comments

Government banning GPUs: absolutely neccessary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452400

Government banning ICE vehicles - eh, a step too far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440664

Let’s not forget the perennial favorite “humans are just stochastic parrots too durr” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452238

to be scrupulously fair, the submission is flagged, and most of the explicit rat comments are downvoted

This is the dumbest timeline.

Some Rat content got shared on HN, and the rats there are surprised and outraged not everyone shares their deathly fear of the AI god:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451971

“Stop bringing up Roko’s Basilisk!!!” they sputter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452426

“The usual suspects are very very worried!!!” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452348 (username 'reducesuffering checks out!)

``Think for at least 5 seconds before typing.‘’ - on the subject of pulling the plug on a hostile AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452743