irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 44mI mean he's correct though, Carrie was not the villain in any meaningful sense. Like you can empathize with someone and understand why they did what they did and still think it was horrifying 000
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 2hIf someone with financial stake in a technology tells you something about their technology and doesn't demonstrate it to you, or demonstrate verifiable evidence of it to you, and you print what they said, you're engaging in advertising and you should charge them appropriately. 0101
Reposted by @irongremlin.bsky.socialInfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 4hSaying these affirmations every day makes you stronger. Believing them makes you smarter. 7786172
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 2hI think the more appropriate analogy here is television; perhaps it is but it's changing the way culture is transmitted overall at the same time, so it's difficult to extricate it's effect from the broader story of just living in the world of today 000
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 2hDo you feel this is a problem to solve or are you just hoping people will accept the reality of the situation and stop using Tinkerbell thinking to clap a fiction into existence? 000
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 3h- your analysis of any kind of art is doomed, because you'll be forever blind to the vision the artist was trying to express, and trapped in a viewpoint entirely defined by your own expectations. 000
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 3hI think something people not involved with art often neglect to understand is that the ability to "read" a craft is the bedrock of that craft. Skill in execution is actually LESS important. If you can see it, you can make it, and if you can't you can't. If you don't understand this - 100
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 4hI'm earnestly confused here as to what sort of damage is required to not connect treating a person as an "inanimate sex doll" and "rape." Like what fucked up shape do you have to bend your soul into for this kind of thought to exist in your mind? 110
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 16hBeyond beef is hand's down the best beef that isn't. 030
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 23h- how we went from "organization with poorly defined authority local enforcement can escalate to" to "masked paramilitary secret police" because believing that we've been here forever doesn't arm us with the tools to recognize where this starts. 000
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 23h - for establishing a given individual was a target for detainment, let alone deportation, however until recently they were still operationally bound by the 4th. Again, to be clear, none of this is meant to defend ICE's existence or prior operation, I just want to clearly illustrate - 100
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 23h- and even then this wasn't really something they did unless local law enforcement asked them to, and most of those people got their day in court. ICE has, in theory, always had the authority to summarily deport non-citizens, and it's never been entirely clear what their evidentiary burden was - 100
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 23h- ICE did not trawl arbitrary locations and arrest bystanders on suspicion of being non-citizens, they responded to specific local requests or intelligence indicating specific people or groups. Even going after reports of migrant day laborers wasn't a thing that happened at all really until Biden - 100
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 23hI want to start by saying I don't believe ICE should have ever been created, I fully support abolishing it, and I don't believe anything like it should ever be created again. But, for the sake of accuracy, ICE has not in fact always operated in the way it currently is - 100
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This idea of law as a shield a citizen may hold against tyranny is basically the only good thing about this country and I refuse to surrender that to some shallow material concept of law as "whatever the state is willing to enforce." 100
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It is my position that warrantless arrest and rendition is and always has been a blatant violation of the 4th amendment, (and to a lesser extent US law itself) and to rule otherwise is to undermine the role of constitutional law and the bill of rights specifically as a guarantor of civil liberty. 100
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You're right and you've done right by your daughter. I wish just "knowing how to respond" was enough by itself. I know that it hasn't been for many. 050
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026As a professional software engineer - although there might (is likely to) be an answer that you do find that works for you, you should not expect this to be a quick process or feel at all bad that you're having challenges. This is literally a thing people build careers on, it's a whole discipline. 010
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I more meant that I think his read on electoral dynamics on the right is such that he thinks scoring points with doddering grandpa is enough to win the day, and that he'd be inclined to dismiss intelligence to the contrary, as opposed to I think he's dumb enough to believe his own bullshit. 000
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026- but having them is literally impossible in the public space now, so instead we end up with an environment where any actually good ideas for how to address any of these problems end up aborted in favor of flinging shit at each other over perceived allegiances. 010
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I understand that this is the internet and so nuance is dead and this ship has long sailed, but it sure would've been cool if we found a way to differentiate 'product' and 'product design decisions' from 'underlying technology', because there are actually valuable and separate conversations there - 120
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026My apologies for the unclear communication - I have no stake in suggesting aaron isn't some weird cultist; it's already well established that he's a ridiculous asshole so this is par for the course. I am just against allowing these rat fucks to colonize my language. 010
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm sorry I came across as combative or pedantic. This experience from my end is like seeing people talk about the phrase "hanging out" as a thing only skinheads say to each other. It's deeply confusing and kind of alarming. 000
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I don't think these people operate with that degree of intelligence, it'd require listening to people they might not want to hear, which doesn't appear to be their thing. 120
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Interesting. Updating "your" priors, "ones" priors, or "their" priors (the phrase used here) are phrases older than I am, and I am significantly older than lesswrong. I'll admit "the" priors would make me do a double take, perhaps the distinction is the lack of possessive? 200
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Half joking here but can you use a bribery conviction as a fraud defense? 010
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hey. I'm a white guy from Alaska. There is no version of the native sentiment that they'd like control of that land back that can be understood without ethnic context. Promise. I've lived it. I also sympathize with it, FWIW, but there's no version of that that doesn't see whiteness as a problem. 110
Reposted by @irongremlin.bsky.socialHandy Devine 🇵🇸🏴 @almightybob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hemingway eat your heart out 253059736
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That is also part of the poem, or at least, that's my read of it - It's not just about finding the joy of the craft it's about accepting the mark that going through the motions has left behind on you and learning to value that. 020
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Times tables were tedious for me. I probably didn't need the last couple hundred or so of those I filled out. At the time. 30 years later I'm glad the grooves they wore in my brain are as deep as they are. We're not always aware that we're growing when we're growing. 120
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Do you think someone whose entire career is built around public communication in this very format doesn't know that when you spend fewer words talking about something it seems less significant? A choice was made here, a very deliberate one, to focus on talking about the Democratic candidates. 000
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why are the two Democratic candidates with SA scandals that you can't vote for mentioned by name and not a Republican candidate someone might actually have a choice to vote for? Do you think people who run a newspaper are unaware of where the reader's attention goes when they read that headline? 100
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think someone interpreted your October 1 comic as an imperative 080
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There is no down like being down clowns. You need you some clowns. Circus, nobody needs a circus. 000
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's almost like people have some sort of different perspective on these sorts of things based on whether or not the transgressor of a particular more is a business representing the commercial interests of an extremely powerful industry or just some random dude off the street with a genuine interest 100
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026But a political party that constantly immolates its own platform is an insufficient foil to the forces arrayed against us in the present moment, and if we decide to be timid in our primary for 2028 we are going to fuck this country into Stone Age 2.0 whether or not we win the white house. 100
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If you read the rest of what I've written here you might've surmised that I'm not defending Tom's choice. I'm saying that the decision might be one I disagree with but the premise on which that decision was based was not false. Postponing fascism for 4 years is better than fascism now - 100
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026- successfully impeaching the president you're in deep enough that you're not a likely yes vote. This might reduce public confidence in a negative result but if they're wrong that's survivable and if they're right you have problems no procedural solution would ever address. 000
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The answer to the conundrum is to seal the record until successful impeachment proceedings or the end of the presidential term, whichever comes first. It's not perfect but it avoids the obvious issue of legitimate fear of immediate reprisal. If you're worried about personal consequences of - 100
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I find it fascinating that people like this piece of shit can be successful and assholes will still call this a "meritocracy." 010
Reposted by @irongremlin.bsky.socialMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this. 32819197
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026No dude. They could afford to because they also had other people helping them. That's just what life looks like when the cost of participating in the system isn't "literally every scrap of your spare time or we'll give your job to someone else and you can fucking starve in the gutter" 020
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Someone please fucking tell me where you don't have to wait ~2 months to see a specialist because it sure as fuck isn't the United States 1131
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I stared at this an embarrassingly long time trying to figure out how 4*9 could yield 66, and for some terrible, terrible reason I feel compelled to let everyone know just how stupid I felt when I figured it out. It was quite stupid, the answer is "quite." 030
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026- at least, as a matter of shit to argue about on a public platform. I'd tell a friend privately I thought their decision was kinda stupid in a heartbeat, but that's a different message for a different audience. 000
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think I agree with this point, but honestly as much as I disagree with that as a personal decision I feel like there's infinitely more value in chasing Tom Morrello's vote and never getting it than selling out the platform to some mythical swing voter, so boxing about it feels wasteful to me - 210
irongremlin.bsky.social @irongremlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026TBH the only reason I bother is because it's by far the best way to digest political news I've ever found and people stopped doing RSS for some reason. Unfortunately I'm deeply stupid and so I keep trying to -talk- to people which is almost always a mistake. 020
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