Covert conversion therapy by setting you up with the absolute worst humanity has to offer.

"Surely Google will make a smart decision" is a hill surrounded by corpses.

Matt Yglesias Considered As The Nietzschean Superman

How is anyone able to read this article beyond this "Charlie Brown Had Hoes"-ass title?

realizing that all the promises of ending this stupid world were just marketing for some tech/finance bros

and yet still no international agreement to first strike rogue data centers smh

I was already saying no after reading this opening line:

Let's go on a journey—a journey of pure speculation So, please give me a little cognitive latitude...

:)

Pee Doom, aka Postal 2

🧑‍🍳 😘

oh they can be 100% sincere about their humanitarian ideals. But investor RTO, need for revenue streams to cover expenses, general market forces - these will always outstrip and determine the final cause of a company. Ideals don't matter, eventually, at most, PR in the service of expanding market share, intentionally or not.

In Texas, it certainly does not mean the police state is coming. If anything, maybe a come of hicks with badges to stand around for 15 minutes, but usually just means "stay were you are because we don't know wtf to do and aren't funded to do anything anyway."

May someone train an AI on it so that SneerBot will be mocking the Rationalist Bot Collective long after we've become bones deep in the earth.