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rob @bisks.net · 9h

what are we watching here

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rob @bisks.net · 17h

rolly just keeps climbing

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rob @bisks.net · 19h

moneypuck has the sens over the caps? huh

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elder millenial great wolf lodge

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tired: solarpunk future wired: steampunk zeppelin future

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yea on further reading he ran a popular pro-sterilization influence campaign but maybe didn't pull the strings apologist, cheerleader, defender, but _maybe_ not quite ever in charge / holding the knife

"ich bin ein hamburger"

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let's get you to the seasonal migration blimp

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didn't he also "do a genocide" in the modern parlance, re the coercive sterilization of 8m indians? and then defend the same ideas until his death this year?

this is what they call pacing the frontier

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conservatism for cultural things protects what a lot of people want, which is to not learn things / have to change the hours listed on the door but I hear ya, I have taken a lot of meetings where one or the other side is not in 'normal hours' and it was fine and good

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but... all my three letter acronyms... yea if the agents want to use some other system I suppose for linguistic clarity we could pick some time zone of convenience it does mess up a ton of socio-cultural embedded knowledge re when to wake and eat and when stores are open etc

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(I would however support a revised cult that achieved the same end by deploying a series of mirrors and possibly batteries and lights to make the unified day/night cycle it suggests a reality)

unfortunately useless for scheduling meetings with people when they are awake instead of asleep stopping counting the thing does not in fact make it go away

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ver 🗿 @ver.ooo · 21h

Max Planck planking on a plank at the Max Planck Institute

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yea I think the other option is to fly or float the population between eg northern norway and patagonia, for their respective long summers

honestly with how cheap shipping costs are its not so impossible bigger timezone change though

planckmaxxing

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ok yes yes berlin contains multitudes but what I’m saying is its cold and maybe it doesn’t need to be we can pick it up and move it south, perhaps via boat to the northern coast of libya

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yea the scyscrapers in the image are part of the deal!

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Twisters was scifi futurism

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we can get our climate figured out before we go do massive geo engineering projects… …so long as we don’t forget the geo engineering projects green the sahara refill the salton sea pump massive desal up to the top of the colorado river

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universal basic mediterranean climate

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reimplementing my dependencies from scratch to own the libs

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our plans are measured in megabytes

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this rule is what biden’s dept ed should have done to pair with loan forgiveness to make student loan debt as a problem go away

the for profit, private nonprofit, public distinction is only very loosely related to the quality of the program vis a vis is it a debt trap the rule mechanically punishes debt trap programs and stops students from getting into a mountain of loan debt

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his freopp college roi stuff is genuinely great! I think georgetown cew, third way, and some others are also pretty good on this, but the freopp one is “real” and interactive not just a pdf dept ed’s college scorecard is really great data

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yea I linked him bc I follow his newsletter and he was on the rulemaking and both his journalism and opinion on this is by and large pretty solid, he is my go to reference for college cost stuff it sounds like we have a pretty wide gap in how we evaluate sources to pay attention to

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but also, the actual text of the rule matters, the actual text of the bill matters judging only by the fact that trump is an asshole (or that someone from aei wrote about it) doesn't in fact help you understand the contents of the rule or the bill

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idk man not trying to trigger you I guess I take information from all sources and try to evaluate it with some discernment based on what I know of the biases of the authors and their orgs if your version of that process means dismissing aei associated ideas out of hand, that's fine

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prestoncooper93.substack.com

trump has gone after dei explicitly and shut off funding to a lot of stuff out of spite, he's a scam artist but... the actual rulemaking and transparency bill themselves, on their face, are pretty reasonable prestoncooper93.substack.com/p/five-takea... things happen that aren't just trump

Five takeaways from the higher ed accountability rulemaking

Plus: Which programs are likely to lose student loan access, and new warnings on the FAFSA.

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reading through and these quests are so good!

can you let everyone sign in with their login and give them an oar?

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its good to post earnestly and state your beliefs clearly and argue for them! thanks for doing that even in response to the incessant dunk culture that wants only to mock and laugh and never to engage at the object level

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what other would you like? there's still time!

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I thought it was spelt Qwen

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“apply it” lol

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oh man I love this medium 300 codepoints is ~ "one thought" which means we can have chained / branching / transcluded conversations that sprawl, async, but are also loose enough and freeform enough to allow for endless combinatorial expression also there's api access and communities and norms...

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I am mostly pretty optimistic fwiw, I just wanted to make the case that a fairly concrete "pretty bad" scenario is not really that weird to worry about I don't think we're totally doomed, but I also don't think it's like, smooth sailing ahead either

training or just filling in the gaps between the agents spiky capabilities with the skills that humans are already capable of!

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yea I guess I hope so! they mostly thought to do "normal" kinds of hacking which include internet social engineering but exclude multi-year airgap-crossing-via-usb-stick levels of sophistication