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And the fascists aren’t thuggish? I think you have your priorities backwards, bub. Rotting for fascism is rooting for evil, full stop, end of discussion.

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> If you google "farmer [name] activist"

> …some have already tried to sell…

GOOD.

Let’s get these homes out of the predatory grasp of the Parasite Class, and into the hands of working class people who desperately want to get off of a rental merry-go-round, which treats them like a captured market to be soaked for every spare penny they have.

> …costs have gone up by 5.3%. So how are they going to make up those costs, exactly?

Ummm… maybe by taking less than a 15-50% profit margin? They have A LOT FURTHER to go before ANY landlord starts losing money.

Remember: landlords do not provide housing. They hoard it and then ransom it back to you for far more than it is worth. They are parasites constraining the supply of homes such that not only has purchasing been driven into wholly unaffordable levels, but then you also have no choice but to pay whatever rental rates they demand.

In a perfect meritocracy, those who are best skilled will rise to the top. And many skills do not depend on nature or nurture.

Just look at the IT industry. For decades some of the best and brightest came up through the ranks with zero formal training, just a thirst for knowledge, a passion for the subject, and (in many cases) an autistic drive for order and perfection. It’s only been in the last decade or so where degrees have started to increase in importance, and for many job applications they’re just a Nice To Have.

> Jonathan Ross, the murderer

Not just a murderer, but a state-sanctioned executioner and fascist.

How is this anything other than a flagrant violation of her constitutional right to free speech? This is the government suppressing her speaking the name of the executioner, which was already publicly published.

If I was her, I would be launching a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the government for a violation of constitutional rights.

Sooooo… not only are companies kneecapping juniors by refusing to hire them, thereby starving the employee pipeline of future seniors, but now those very seniors are tapping out?

Sounds like the entire software dev field is going to implode violently within a few years, causing many companies to go titsup due to a sheer lack of experienced devs. Only those who have a war chest large enough to allow them to pay through the nose will still be standing.

The problem is that the company is burning existing customers - for whom the hardware has already been long purchased - to subsidize new customers coming in during this time of higher hardware costs.

And burning existing customers costs a lot more than soaking new customers. Churn always costs far more in lost revenue than a slowdown in new customers. Plus, it impacts market image in a deeply negative way.

Anyone who values democracy is automatically an anti-fascist.

Democracy is _inherently_ anti-fascist.

>For my whole career I've made it a point to read every resume sent for a job. If someone took the time to write I will at least take the time to read it.

The reason why you are so discouraged is because you are a unicorn.

Companies have been looking to automate the application process for a long time, now. AI is just the latest dehumanizing tool employed to seprarate wheat from chaff long before any human needs to look at the results. And the reason why people are using AI to rewrite their CVs is precisely because companies are using AI to do the filtering. It is an arms war, started by companies, in which applicants have NO CHOICE but to use AI or remain unknown and unseen.

>Which itself is a symptom of companies getting drowned in AI generated resumes.

I would say that it is the exact opposite. IME, it is a tsunami of companies using AI as the gatekeepers as a cost-saving tool, instead of a human in HR, forcing applicants to use AI to get past AI.

It’s an arms race by the greedy looking to save a few pennies of payroll, against those whose CVs are just sufficiently non-standard, and so are culled in nearly 100% of AI filtering, so they have no choice but to use AI to write their CVs.

Canada and Europe welcomes all scientists. Many of our workplaces are 100% English-speaking, and you don’t have to pay out the nose for healthcare - you pay less for it on your taxes here than you do in America, and there are zero additional costs on top; no co-pays, no deductibles, no medical insurance needed.

Considering how many greenfield projects are reaching for Electron, and how few of them are moving off of it, I would say not.

Until Electron based projects have viable competitors that aren’t using Electron, this nightmare will continue. There is absolutely no justification for consuming 300Mb to 4Gb of RAM when a native app doing the exact same thing typically uses 5% to 0.05% as much memory.

While - “back in the day”, which is to say in the early 2000s - I made a fair number of websites with dark or near-black backgrounds in order to be “edgy”, I never liked dark mode for a computer or device as a whole.

Even my office reflects this: my walls are painted with the whitest white of paint I can find outside of a surgical bay, and 4×4,000 lumen corn lights @6,000K are installed in the ceiling fan. For reference, this is the equivalent of 10×100W light bulbs.

I like to see shit.

>Because plastic is not and has never been recyclable.

It gets even worse when you realize that of all the plastics with the recycling logo, only type 1 and type 2 can be recycled. Types 3 through type 7 cannot be recycled except under limited conditions with very specific recyclers, which less than 5% of recycling jurisdictions have access to. And those recycling plants are usually running at full capacity - there just isn’t demand for the recycled product.

Aside from Type 1 and Type 2 - and even some of those cannot be recycled - most any other type of plastic should really be thrown in the trash. At least in the landfill they are secured and entombed such that they are unlikely to break down into the wider environment.

Beyond the NYT, there have been many publicized incidents where companies have burned through their entire year’s AI budget in just the first few months of this year, or companies suddenly getting sticker shock when the rates jumped - I saw a screenshot of one dev’s billing dashboard where it went from just a few hundred in one month to over thirty thousand in the next, all while using about the same number of tokens.

Not saying there isn’t some small schadenfreude there, but hallucinations increase with every AI generation, there are very real and negative cognitive side effects from using AI to any material amount, and AI build-out (with no small amount of digital surveillance infra hiding under the trench coat) is making it hellishly expensive to get any serious computing power these days, with no relief in sight for the next half a decade.

What’s to take seriously? The vast majority of people don’t want anything to do with AI. They don’t want it, they don’t need it, and young people in particular are seeing just how thoroughly it is corrupting the capitalistic framework that violently coerces them to be profitable to someone else, least they suffer destitution, homelessness, starvation, and even death. AI is quickly creating an ensconced Parasite Class that has all the money, and an unemployable bulwark of people at the bottom who cannot find employment no matter how much they need to.

AI was developed to help capiatlists solve a problem that has always vexed them: how to obtain labour without having to pay for said labour.

AI is a way for wealth to access labour without allowing labour to access wealth.

>AI builds your campaign and writes your outreach.

Ah, so oodles of wild hallucinations. Sweet.

Adopt the Scandanavian model: studying is done outside of the class (at home, or wherever it can be done), work/assignments are done in class. Essentially the teacher only stands up and addresses the class if they see a persistent subject issue that needs addressing across multiple students. Otherwise students are working on their homework in class every day, to allow the teacher and high performers to wander and assist other students as needed.

This allows the classroom itself to completely ban any ability to access AI while doing homework/assignments, while the studying itself has access to AI in order to assist with subject questions for clarification or deeper dives.

Reposted several times, I believe. But JFC, that nosebleed price.

If anyone wants a low-cost dumb phone, I would heartily recommend the AGM M9 ($59.99 CAD, https://ca.agmmobile.com/products/agm-m9-rugged-4g-ergonomic...) or the AGM M8 Flip ($129.99 CAD, https://ca.agmmobile.com/products/pre-sale-order-agm-m8-flip...). Both of these links lead to the Canadian site, alter to your own region as appropriate.

The only downsides to these are the storage: the default is about half of what the Commodore phone has. But when you are dealing with a dumb phone, do you really need the space? The M9 doesn’t even come with a camera, so it’s not like you are going to be needing to store photos. And by the looks of it, there is no mention of the camera in the M8, despite it being there in the photos.

This is exactly the kind of write-up - with honest assessments, like questioning the non-existent methodologies of other products - that make me look further into a product.

The downside is that I am careful on installing apps, to the point where I uninstall very few apps for every generation of Mac I invest in. Which typically only gets EoL’d when MacOS is no longer being released for it. This usually provides me a 5-8 year timeline between major changes.

With that said, two things: thanks for not making this a subscription, and I will definitely be buying it the next time I uninstall a program that I have used in any significant manner. Like Office 2024, if it ever ends up following the same path as Office 2019. Or whenever Outlook Classic gets thoroughly deprecated and is no longer available.

The common aspect with altitude around the world is hypoxia - the lack of oxygen - and dramatically lower air pressure. I wonder if anyone has looked into this. Aside from specific cultural groups like Tibetans, most humans aren’t genetically adapted to high altitude living. It takes a fair amount of acclimatization for the average person to live at high altitudes.

For anyone looking for a true feature phone at a great price, the AGM M9 appears to be the one to go for, only $59.99 CAD:

https://ca.agmmobile.com/products/agm-m9-rugged-4g-ergonomic...

My own take is that there are three levels to meaning:

Genetic legacy, societal legacy, and simple vibing.

Most anyone who has had children that have outlived them have satisfied the genetic legacy. Yes, that dilutes very rapidly, but it’s there.

Societal/civilizational legacy is where you are remembered by many after you have died. Thomas Edison and Nikolai Tesla achieved civilizational legacy. So did Cleopatra and Alexander and Genghis Kahn. Rush Limbaugh? Not so much. He failed at leaving a legacy.

The final level is vibing. Finding yourself, understanding yourself, finding peace within yourself, and being one with the universe. Enjoying every day that comes along. Finding satisfaction in everything you do.

Might help if the link lead directly to the article instead of a landing pad:

https://blog.musicallyut.in/2026/06/02/the-mote-in-ais-eye.h...

Edit: WTF? A redirect? Why can I not reach the blog article with a direct link? Why am I being auto-redirected to https://musicallyut.xyz/ ? This is Not Good usability.

Scratching my head over some punctuation and phrasing… what’s with the multiple sequential commas in the beginning? I also don’t know the author… are they ESL?

Good parents walk with you until you are an adult, and take occasional steps with you even after that.

Good children honour that by walking with their parents to that final rest.

I am already doing that for my Octogenarian parents, having had a sabbatical morph into the opening stages of EoL prep. Thankfully mine are still kicking, with only a failing body on one side and early dementia on the other. They’re still functionally present, and deeply appreciate the shouldering of tasks that are slowly slipping from their own ability to handle.

Oh, fun: anti-malware, anti-spyware, or anti-adware protections are giving me nothing but a blank page. Maybe don’t write a website that has user-hostile behaviours?

More than that: does this guy not know of ZFS and RAID arrays? Like, you only need a little more than two dozen 24Tb drives in a stripe to get to that size. Twice that if you want redundancy.