neuromancer is brilliant prose first and foremost, and yudkowsky not being able to realise this is so very symptomatic

matthew sheffield out there on bluesky reports that dawkins, unsurprisingly, got one-shotted by claude.

i’m still remarkably happy with fedora’s kde on my laptop, but i’m also very content with the current state of wayland (with obvious caveats about use cases and personal idiosyncrasies).

i’m running xfce on a remote ubuntu box at work though, using rdp for connections, and it’s, well, fine. lacks some things i like in full DEs, but it’s perfectly adequate for the job.

(both beat fucking windows 11 when it comes to being usable for me)

the post itself is talking about vapourware too: fortunately none of these features will really land this year in any usable form.

enjoy the yank (and no labelers) :-)

:-)

there’s this. (though i find it useful to know who not to rely on if/when things get worse: for example i already know our neighbour from the apartment a floor below did write many missives to our cooperative’s administration, without having a single reason.)

like i said, the actual value of that little exercise is finding people who are fine with killing up to 50% of the population for no reason whatsoever.

they seem to be mostly angry that banks didn’t write their vision of the post-singularity paradise.

and of course there’s absolutely nothing in the books that suggests it’s a problem. (hell, there’s a good chance there actually is a lively japanese folk dance fan community there despite the fact that earth was never a part of the culture.)

agree, plus: that blog is yet another case of people just not comprehending the scale of Culture’s civilisation and Culture’s culture. a Culture orbital is not just a fancy space station ffs.

(i’m entirely unsurprised by the number of genocidal ghouls in that hn thread)

green and purple. :-)

a very neat test to find people who are perfectly fine with the general idea of genocide.

i think you’re (you plural, not you singular) making the typical western mistake regarding both putin and ukraine:

• putin was always an angry russian imperialist, he has built his position entirely on imperialist adventures (that were ignored by the west because who cares about chechnya or abkhazia, or other impossible-to-pronounce peoples of caucasus, really)

• the russo-ukrainian war started in 2014 with the invasion of crimea and then donbas, after ukrainians decided they don’t really like the russian-friendly oligarch who used russian disinfo to get elected. and notably that was what shifted the ukrainian support for dropping neutrality in favour for joining nato; until 2014 ukrainians favoured just tightening the political and economical ties with the european union.

putin didn’t descend into the imperator madness recently, he started with it, it was what buoyed him to the top.

reportedly they dropped the whole video thing, including from chatgpt.

requiescat in picem, sora

and frankly, i’m not a catholic anymore, and i did look around for matches.

heh. thiel’s sermons about antichrist annoyed vatican enough for its a.i. adviser to rhetorically ask “should we burn peter thiel?” in an article titled “american heresy: should we burn peter thiel”. as the children twenty years ago were saying: lol. lmao.

sources:

• original article in french
• the monastery’s summary

i kinda wonder what will destroy this cult first, the financial fraud investigations, or the multiple rape accusations, because both are going to happen.

if you only hadn’t compiled aella’s numerous interesting takes including her very idiosyncratic (and dangerous to anyone involved) ideas of consent.