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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 4h

He does have some credibility when it comes to "will be in literally any movie if you pay in cash," I guess.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 4h

Later they will battle Eckankar for Top Cult.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 6h

This one absolutely baffled me the first time I heard it on the pharmacy line. The phone tree started out identifying itself as automated! Why put in a weird little pretext? Real call centers usually have headsets that screen out that sound, too.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 7h

I think that deep down in American culture, across most of the political spectrum, there's a belief that right wing violence is fundamentally legitimate, even if it is scary or undesirable. They're scared of it because they think the right 'gets to do that' on some level, and other people don't.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 9h

And the whole point of having resources, money, power, etc., is to use them to get what you want. You have to be almost comically economics-brained to look at someone choosing 'getting what they want' over 'moderately increasing their chances of getting what they want' and call it irrational.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 11h

Anthropic isn't just unhappy that people are being mean to its computer program because they believe it's a little guy, it's also because they're using people's interactions with it as training data, right?

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 11h

We're already seeing random politicians sensing the change in the wind and moving against their own coalitions to oppose it, as well, like with Gingrich and apartheid.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 11h

The biggest difference, which I think is what has kept Israel sailing along through apartheid to genocide, is that both of those countries were utterly economically dependent on the black people living there. Israel isn't, which turns out to be a recipe for a bad result.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 12h

Too many people who have only encountered them in other countries, and are trying to go with how they remember them working, I guess.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's the Nokomis water-goblins, they're escaping again.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"If you want to go somewhere outside of walking distance, your risk of death will be much, much, lower!" vs "If you want to go somewhere you'll have to watch out because the automated air traffic control has good days and bad days."

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's such an obvious lure for urban explorer types that I sometimes wonder if the Parks department isn't quietly maintaining it in order to make sure that they have a safe place to go mess around in.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Calling on people to attack Somali Minnesotans and then adding "If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue" is as openly begging for right wing terrorism as it gets.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There was no scenario where there wasn't a war there, even if the North was willing to say "good riddance" to the Southern states. They needed to expand their slave empire, couldn't compete with the North on expansion, and knew it.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He also just put out a statement urging people to attack Somali Minnesotans and saying that the federal government would have their backs if they did.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He's still mad that he called for a race war and people didn't do it.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"But you will never need to go to the effort of appreciating art or literature again - your assistant will just do it and report back about how it felt! Why are you looking at me like that?"

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am convinced that tech CEOs believe the appeal of AI is that it will let everyone live a kind of downgraded version of their own lives, and can't make sense of why everyone reacts to descriptions of that with such horror.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It will promote attentive driving! Anyway it wouldn't be that dangerous. You would see the debris from the last car a block away.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's nice to see them there, but I can't help but think it would have been more effective to leave them as circular holes surrounded by two for lengths of rebar sticking straight up around the edges.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's usually called intuition, but honestly I think it's just a matter of experience in the long run. Life would be easier if it were different but deep down our brains run on quantity. "Now, in our next course you will be doing this for 15 years, and..." is unsatisfying, but...

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm a big fan of check lists, even for people with a lot of experience, because of how easy it is to accidentally blank out on a step if you've done something a million times. But I'm pretty what you're describing is "being good at a complicated job" and that it usually looks like this.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Attention Iran: Please Do Whatever You Feel Like We Will Not Retaliate For At Least A Month"

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's baffling because now that AI can generate music too, why would it bother dealing with a whole bunch of pre-made songs?

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You can tell how frustrated they are that they haven't managed to find a way to do Bush v. Gore again.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We're all the way to "Vote for the Crook: It's Important" here? Yikes.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love the bit where she gets mad at him for creating a paper trail, and writes him a note about it. There should be a paper trail of everything. Paper trails are the best.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This may be the case, especially with some of the stranger stuff some people are reporting.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

These things always sound spooky and then I check and it's just a list of things I've bought with "May be a [thing] hobbyist!" It's the same data they use to recommend you buy another bottle of shampoo the day after you bought one. It's as insightful as it would take to generate those results.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It may have been a low point for the US, but the attempted coup on January 6, 2021, did get us one of my favorite, uncomfortably accurate, newspaper headlines ever (from Kenya).

Headline is "Who's the banana republic now?", with the classic picture of Richard Barnett sitting at Nancy Pelosi's desk with his foot up.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*[cynical comment about liberalism and immediately focusing on what will still allow you to have inequality goes here]

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's worth pointing out that while The Difference Principle gets the most attention* it's not only not the full result, it's the tail end of the account. It only even starts to apply once you have equal-and-equal-value rights and opportunities, which is most of the game.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You're supposed to be able to leave them wherever you want after you use them, and I don't see how he wasn't doing that.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My cover band Serious Questions For The Machine, however...

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There are so many high tech fancy pillows out there, and the best one I've ever had is a sack full of buckwheat husks. Not even a fancy yoga nonsense one, just a sack about two thirds full of bran.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Recommended for adults over the age of 45" ?

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And even with English it's mainly just the French word for the animal.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I was three I was able to get on a bus headed to a nearby town to visit my friend! (Almost every adult nearby went "Absolutely not, kiddo. Get off the bus." But that is an important fact! People are not sociopaths and will help keep kids out of danger.)

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What I love is the combination of Trump's history of betraying everyone around him, and the fact that as soon as any of them actually get the pardon his power over them vanishes. This still could all end in the funniest way.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This and Minnehaha Falls are both really strange looking right now. They barely exist.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If bikes were even remotely new, or if kids took to them too hard, you would absolutely see the same panic over them.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

While the rationale for that makes sense to me, I think that cars are good enough at protecting drivers from head-on collisions that we should design in the opposite direction. Every time one of those breaks away, it sends a pole flying and leaves an out of control car still careening around.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I mean, it's not like you're taking a different risk than everyone else on this plane of existence, right? Might as well get the extra pay.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There isn't a firm line when watching Fox News and getting lied to turns into watching Fox News to get lied to, but it only takes a few times before it's pretty clear which one is happening.

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A lot of the industry overlaps with the rationalist cult, and for them the answer doesn't matter because they assume that it would instantly be a god with magical powers and we will be the slaves. Don't try to make too much sense of it. They think being smart in a particular way does that?

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I would be much calmer about "efficiency mode" if windows had the slightest ability to tell what processes are in the background. Instead it just locks firefox every so often. Yes it is using a lot of memory. That is because it is the foreground program, that I am using!

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We don't even need to - this is the specific definition for the term for chapter 171!

A screenshot with MN Statute 171.01 (Definitions) with the definition of the term "person", reading
""Person" means every natural person, firm, copartnership, association, or corporation."

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busillis @busillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also, re: claiming to move too fast to be regulated, I have yet to see a good argument why MN Statute 171.02 Subd 1 does not apply straightforwardly to these things. We don't need to play "WORLD of THE FUTURE!" games with these people. We have applicable regulations already!

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