I think we’re (culturally) evolving to be like the non-social big cats — terrified of each other, with intimacy and sex as only a means to an end or as an exercise of power, and who live isolated most of the time.

This is the PMC lib utopia.

I've intentionally stayed quiet on Covid policies of late. It's not fun arguing against the zeigeist. But a quick reminder of how problematic our local media has been.

A quick thread (ugh)

— Paymon Rouhanifard (@Rouhanifard) May 19, 2022

The Covidians are an interesting case. Some of their criticisms are correct, but the problem is that they expect society to live in lockdown for years and years at a time, or worse, for something that is not even achievable. It is extremely like fundamentalist religion in this respect.

Yes. We need many more Solyndras. The safe projects aren't the ones that need public help with financing. https://t.co/ps6903Noe2

— JW Mason (@JWMason1) May 19, 2022

A billion crying libs won’t make this untrue. If you’re trying for great things, some percentage of it will end in utter failure. That’s the way it should be.

The unfortunate thing about MeToo is about 10% of it was anything real and the rest of it was about competition for scarce jobs and PMC bullshit.

Could’ve been different. Wasn’t.

Great thread. The EV revolution required both Tesla and government policy support. In all the story of cleantech success, it's always the same: The combination of policy and private sector innovation and competition have done the job. We need both. https://t.co/w6j4LJM4j5

— Ramez Naam (@ramez) May 20, 2022

Right. No Tesla, it would’ve been 20 years later for EVs. I know it’s cool to hate Musk now (and there are some good reasons to do so), but that doesn’t change the history at all. Most people understand nothing about anything.

It’s a complete triumph of corporate propaganda that even open source people believe that users being able to make their computers do what they want them to do is Bad. The best, most effective authoritarian is the one that lives always in your own soul.

You should know that if you’re in a relationship you’re really just dating an aged-up minor. Think about that and then turn yourself in to the police

— merritt k (@merrittk) May 19, 2022

I think a lot of this talk on the right and the left of everyone being pedophiles is just the desire to regress to childhood due to terror of sex and sexuality. Lately, the left frames any desire for sex as being some sort of pedophilic yearning. And the right of course is calling everyone and their sister “groomer” in the past few months, too. All of this emerges from the same place. Fear of and horror about sex is powering a lot of American cultural conversations now. See also:

Man idc about the “sex in movies” debate (if you don’t want to see sex in a movie there are plenty of sites that can warn you and you can not watch them) but I just saw a post that was “the characters can’t consent to us watching them” and man some people are on one

— nonbinary cardinal copia (@aardvarkwizard) May 18, 2022