Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:
- waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality
- promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out
anton 🇺🇸
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- “kids shouldn’t read too much because they’ll run out of books” is like something a roald dahl villain would sayReplying to @eduleadershipLet's say your kid reads many years above grade level, as mine do and always have. Guess what—that just means they run out of books to read faster than everyone else! What's the goal here? How does it benefit the child to pay $$$ to push them even farther out?
- programming is a trade masquerading as a profession because it's done in an office in front of a computer instead of at a worksite
- i do not understand the fentanyl economy. crackheads are not producing income, how are they buying the fent? you can say oh they shoplift and sell that but who is buying the shoplifted Tide pods except other crackheads ? where is the liquidity in this ecosystem?
- andres freund: genius programmer responsible for one of the most widely used pieces of software in the world, just single-handedly stopped a huge attack from happening. nyt journalist: 'i am too fucking stupid to understand his work and won't even try but it's very boring!!!'
- what exactly is wired’s purpose in publishing this article ? it includes names and personal details of the young men in question - what is intended to be achieved? in what sense is this in the public interest?
- Replying to @atroyn- living five adults to a two room apartment - being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you
- announcing stable attribution - a tool which lets anyone find the human creators behind a.i generated images. stableattribution.com
- Replying to @atroyn- 'totally not illegal taxi' taxis by private citizens moonlighting to make ends meet - everything slaved to the needs of the military-industrial complex
- The whole internet loves Paul Atreides, a charismatic leader of the Fremen of Arrakis! *1 book later* We regret to inform you Muad'Dib is directly and knowingly responsible for the deaths of 61 billion people
- Replying to @atroyn- mandatory workplace political education - productivity largely falsified to satisfy appearance of sponsoring elites
- Replying to @atroyn- the plight of the working class is discussed mainly by people who do no work
- for the longest time i thought pilates was something like yoga then you find out it's something done on machinery that's clearly designed either for torture or the weirdest sex you've ever had and it changes your perspective on women forever
can we go to pilates together
