We really should not have allowed the most neurotic, most socially-debilitated and least normal women in history to seize control of feminism.
That was a big mistake.
Reboot Insult
Anyone else dealing with users who think rebooting is a personal insult?
There are tons of users like this.
I understand that you want your problem examined in minute detail by a team of experts and fixed. But computers are extremely complicated devices. Often, they get into a state that is not and never will be capable of being solved in any reasonable timeframe. Many DLLs and EXEs (etc.) do unpredictable, undocumented things that no one except the vendor can solve when they go wrong. And often, not even then.
Fucking reboot. Just reboot. Shut the fuck up and reboot. Fuck.
A few weeks ago, I had a user complain to my manager — all without putting in a ticket or contacting anyone on my team — that their machine was extremely slow and not working correctly. Why do people do that, contact a manager when they’ve made no effort to follow any process1? It just means I put them at the very bottom of every queue forevermore.
Looked at the logs. They had not rebooted in 184 days. Windows 11 needs a reboot about once a week to be functional.
I do not understand users.
Actual Prizes
Many women: I am the prize!
Men: But you offer nothing. You can’t cook. You can’t do anything adult. You’re dumb as a rock because you spend 16 hours a day scrolling on your phone. You don’t even like sex. What are you even here for?
Many women: The prize! The prize! The prize!
Men: *Goes off and does something away from the crazy*
We have really failed women.
Bottles and Necks
I like Wolf, but this is old wine in a new bottle.
This is just Nietzschean “Overcome historical moralistic baggage that holds us back” from the Genealogy of Morals 1 combined with Foucaldian antihumanism. It’s just accelerationism, in other words, in somewhat different garb. I mean, Nick Land has been writing the same shit since the 1990s. The whole CCRU project was Deleuze-Guattari plus Nietzsche plus cybernetics, with the human seen as a bottleneck to progress.
Regardless, there is no way to credit “what we really are” without an implicit normative story about which capacities count as the real ones and which are historical baggage. There is no way around this; part of any useful philosophy is making value judgments. What Wolf is doing is reinventing the wheel while not even knowing what a wheel is or why there are wheels.
JWST study suggests a handful of 'leaky' galaxies reionized the early universe.
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AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon.
Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities.
Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership.
Americans Are Richer Than Everyone Else.
Explosive drone found hovering near Ukrainian cargo aircraft at German airport.
Moderna’s mRNA flu shot earns FDA approval after rollercoaster review.
Employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs in a sign of a wilting labor market.
The Argentine ranch where tech CEOs plan to ride out the apocalypse.
Americans got their biggest raises in 40 years. Inflation took most of it.
A house, a car, a little breathing room: Why middle-class life feels increasingly out of reach.
Big & Tall
In the year 5000, Korean women will be over 25 feet tall! Isn’t the future amazing?
Stack of Horror
It is horrifying on several different axes to think about all the Russians who have died unremarked in some farmer’s field, all their dreams of stealing washing machines and raping Ukrainian women having gone unfulfilled.
Dumping
Damn, what a difference.
Yeah, I don’t think people understand that your life is extremely radically different when you don’t look like a human dumpster. It probably matters more for women, but it is true for everyone.
I’m treated much better and flirted with 1000x more frequently now that I am extremely fit and my face is more masculine.
Just Cens
Claude is definitely a little pissbaby compared to ChatGPT. It’s a moralizing Church Lady. It’s making me likely to stop using it and return to OpenAI as its “safety” bullshit kicks in constantly for no reason at all.
Safety my ass. It’s just censorship.
Social Burr
Same, but our hangout spot was Subway. It was cheap, they mostly didn’t care we were there, and it was an easy place to meet up. Now all fast food places are expensive and look like (and are about as welcoming as) prison cafeterias. Many do not even allow unaccompanied minors to visit any longer, no matter how much money they spend or how well-behaved they are.
Where exactly are young people supposed to gather? If you want to complain about them being on their phones all the time, you must offer actual alternatives to that.
Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo.
Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls.
Goodhart’s Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust.
Ukraine’s military hits one of Russia’s biggest oil refineries in long-range drone attack.
US Labour Participation Crisis: 720,000 Workers Exit Job Market as Tech Layoffs Fuel Dropout Trend.
A labor shortage is choking off AI data center construction.
U.S. Intel Finds Putin Could Test NATO’s Resolve With Limited Incursion.
Patch Notes: Hélène Vogelsinger
Very cool. She has more doohickeys, thingamabobs, gadgets, doodads and gizmos than I could ever hope to keep track of.
Names Matter
Unfortunately I think this is basically correct. This is similar to the fact that a lot of left would get behind space colonization and/or exploration if we called it “space trans-ing” or “space deocolonialism” or something equally asinine while changing nothing else at all.
The reality is that names matter. They are built-in propaganda. We should probably call data centers “Tax Concentration Areas” or “Vital National Infrastructure” or a “Digital Sovereignty Facility” or something like that to make them more normie-palatable.
Army Revives Giant Cannon to Advance Hypersonic Testing.
The AI Boom Is Transforming the American Economy Beyond Recognition.
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The Income Needed to Afford Typical American Home Holds Steady Near Record High of $110,000.
Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand.
Japan to cut off the supply of advanced packaging equipment to China starting August 1st.
Visa guts executives who were paid nearly $500K in latest round of AI layoffs.
For a Brief Time in the 1930s, Radio Station WLW in Ohio Became America’s One and Only “Super Station”. 500KW. Gawd-damn.
Conched
The Fat Acceptance movement was atrocious and dumb. It’s dying out now, though, since it has become clear all their claims were utter nonsense and because GLP-1s are widely available. The reality is no one wants to be fat. It is miserable.
But the “feminists” are attempting to best the FA nutters by waging a war against normal attraction itself. And that is so far beyond chowderheaded we don’t even have words for it.