People who unironically use that word in a derogatory fashion sound like those who still believe in things like the disney portrayal of the world.

Weird cus that is exactly how centrists sound to everybody else lol

They have managed to make being rational and level-headed a curse word. "

No, it is conservatives that despise rationality and level-headedness and it is precisely centrists that sat by and let this mode of thinking proliferate even as leftists were sounding the alarm.

Centrists were busy wringing their hands in nervousness about all the things conservatives told them about leftists and barely noticed when January 6th happened. This pattern can be demonstrated ad naseum across modern neoliberal societies.

You are mistaking a worship of the status quo with a sense of reasonableness and a desire for justice and equality.

And, of course, just in case you’re the type of centrist hack who says it doesn’t matter that he’s a violent authoritarian fascist because you can “separate art from the artist”, Modretro has done the rhetoricians (i.e. me) a favor by announcing a special Anduril-themed version of the Chromatic, covered in Anduril branding and made of “the same magnesium aluminum alloy as Anduril’s attack drones” last December. They were sold as a limited edition directly through Anduril’s merchandise store.

They sold out day one.

As a form of protest create README txt files everywhere that say things like “I wish I was using linux” and “friends don’t let friends use windows”.

Does “no censorship” mean “no moderation”?

I have said it before and I will likely say it again, Sam Altman is the Rasputin of Silicon Valley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin

In late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a faith healer for Nicholas’ and Alexandra’s only son, Alexei Nikolaevich, who suffered from haemophilia. He was a divisive figure at court, seen by some Russians as a mystic, visionary, and prophet, and by others as a religious charlatan.

The extent of Rasputin’s power reached an all-time high in 1915, when Nicholas left Saint Petersburg to oversee the Imperial Russian Army as it was engaged in the First World War. In his absence, Rasputin and Alexandra consolidated their influence across the Russian Empire. However, as Russian military defeats mounted on the Eastern Front, both figures became increasingly unpopular. In the early morning of 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916, Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conservative Russian noblemen who opposed his influence over the imperial family.

Historians often suggest that Rasputin’s scandalous and sinister reputation helped discredit the Tsarist government, thus precipitating the overthrow of the House of Romanov shortly after his assassination. Accounts of his life and influence were often based on common rumors; he remains a mysterious and captivating figure in popular culture.[1]

Lol nope, out of principle I will never pay for this even if I didn’t already hate Google.

It feels so condescending to the user, so unconcerned with their agency that I could never bring myself to support this choice with even a tiny amount of money.

Finance people are honestly so willfully stupid and blinded by their beliefs about economics, the writing has been on the wall for awhile now for AI.

The day that private equity and public investors liquidate the servers and sell off Discord’s IP after their future bankruptcy will be a very happy day.

That will be a glorious day!

“There are Islamophobes out there that are waiting for the right moment, and what we call permission to hate, and after Bondi and things like that, where terrorists are perpetrators, are Muslim, then that gives them permission.”

Speaking from one glass house to another, it is very darkly ironic when majority Christian demographics start to get Xenophobic because they claim another organized religion is inherently violent.

Like… have they checked the scoreboard recently? Christians should be the most adamant about claiming things are more complex than “Religion Make People Violent” because if it was that simple than Christians are basically screaming at us to lock them up before they start another crusade when they scream at us about how Islam is somehow inherently violent or dangerous…

…Of course the idea of judging majority Christian demographics wholistically (which includes people who don’t really consider themselves Christian but grew up immersed in a Christian societal context) is a really bad one right? That would be cruel and missrepresent the massive diversity and breadth of people who follow and are impacted by Christianity right? So…

Oh believe me I have also seen precarious tall stacks of rocks that manage to stay standing for much longer than you would expect. Usually it is because they are surrounded by a forest of other much more solid formations of rocks or the ground is solid and well suited to support a base stone.

Sometimes though I see someone waving to me smugly from atop a precarious stack of rocks amidst a sea of other precarious stacks of rocks and I chuckle to myself and wave back condescendingly… and then feel guilty about the ugliness of pre-emptive disaster tourism.

There was a time when tech talent would uproot their lives for the US because it offered collaboration, publishing, company-building and a big conference circuit. Now they run a gauntlet at the border, where even a green card or citizenship does not guarantee they will not be hassled.

Thus it can be seen how when industries aren’t mitigated in their self defeating behavior by unions, the associated job market and domestic industry can be driven to collapse and there will be zero ability to slow the process down once it begins spiralling.

Unions, even if you are a super smart techbro who understands EVERYTHING about the world better than other people because you understand computers… you still need Unions or else the company you are working for will inveitably blow itself up and leave nothing but a crater behind.

Aid groups have estimated that over 100,000 people fled el-Fasher as a result of the siege, or over a third of the former population of 260,000. Experts at the Yale University Humanitarian Research Lab have said that satellite imagery shows the city was turned into a “slaughterhouse,” and British lawmakers said this month that they’ve been told that a “low estimate” of 60,000 people were killed over the course of just a few weeks during and following the takeover.

The atrocities have renewed calls in recent weeks from lawmakers to cut off the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which supplies the RSF with weapons, from the international arms trade.

yes but gestures at spaceship it is org mode tho!

org mode and pandoc :P

How do you get all the candy into the baseball bat tho?

The muscle memory is hard to fix

Also this is software, we should celebrate and embrace the fact that the same tool can be customized to look and be organized differently to maximally ease users into learning it. This is one of the super powers of software!

No thanks, I prefer human DJs and you should too, they are better.

I actually think a multipurpose digital screen could be quite useful and fun on a refrigerator, not needed or necessary at all but I think in a less enshittified timeline an open source version of this, possibly even an e-ink screen, could actually be nice. It would make far more sense as a whiteboard type object that you attach to your refrigerator though and obviously this entire concept is predatory on so many levels it is mindboggling… but the idea of having a sort of communal digital screen on a refrigerator isn’t a bad idea itself I don’t think as hard as it is to imagine a reality where an appliance like this was designed in good faith.

These violations could trigger provisions in U.S. law that should block military assistance to individual units of the Philippine military who can be credibly accused of committing gross violations of human rights.

The “Leahy law,” a term for two such provisions that came into focus during Israel’s war [edit genocide not war] in Gaza, ensures that no foreign military unit guilty of human rights violations receives U.S. assistance until it has taken prescribed remediation efforts. Its namesake, former U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, was banned from the Philippines in 2019 after supporting a critic of Duterte.

“A major goal of the Leahy law is accountability,” said John Ramming Chappell, the advocacy and legal advisor at the U.S. program of the Center for Civilians in Conflict. “This is a cornerstone law when it comes to human rights and security assistance in the United States.” Chappell said that, while the white phosphorus incident would not fall under the auspices of the Leahy law, it “raises questions about how security forces in question are identifying civilians and determining civilian status,” a duty of allied militaries under international humanitarian law.

The Leahy law has had little effect in stemming human rights abuses within the Philippine military, despite a history of U.S. government concerns with its behavior. Charles Blaha, who served as director of the State Department’s Office of Security and Human Rights from 2016 to 2023, said his department focused on the Philippine police, who killed thousands in Duterte’s deadly drug war, and did not recall the law being applied to military units involved in the counterinsurgency

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“Human rights can get outweighed by other factors,” Blaha said…

go for it fool!