Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@lwriemen @dajb our tao of tech can explain that one https://blog.weareopen.coop/the-tao-of-wao-55ffe5f80395

@niedlichenacktschnecke @coolbean
it's kind of a long story but if I have to shorten it, long time ago an insufferable nerd called Yudkowski created a blog about the power of logic and reason.

2 minutes later they had all proven with facts and Bayesian statistics that some people (themselves) just had innate high IQ thanks to their superior genetics. 3 minutes later they had proven with facts and logic that their school bullies, the feminists who scare them, and Black people as a whole have genetically inferior IQs.

5 minutes later they had proven with facts and logic that an AI God was inevitable and nigh upon us as the biggest existential threat to humanity and... (do I want to explain acausal punishment and the Basilisk? I said I was going to shorten it...) ... you'll go to super hell unless you give them money to code the AI God be a good God. I assure you there's a genetically fit, very logical argument about why this is real.

if this feels familiar to you, yes. the AI doom cult that we were mocking back in 2009 is mainstream now. their asinine Effective Altruism concept is mainstream now. like a lot of repentant ex-techies I was adjacent to this subculture once, but luckily I saw where it was going with "human biodiversity" (racist pseudoscience) and jumped ship long ago, curing myself of any faith in logic and reason in the process. like a lot of people who read too many of their blogs, I kinda kept tab on these weird rich dorks all along. it's kinda bizarre to see the AI apocalypse nerds hit big time repeatedly like this. at least Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality never went mainstream.

no no monkey paw jokes please, I can't take it.

then they started polyamory houses for the improvement of facts and logic (=cult organising with systemic abuse of women) and then a lot of them started realising that they don't actually like freedom for inferior people, completing the metamorphosis of technolibertarians to technofeudalist neoreactionary fascism. then leaked emails showed that influential community leaders had been fascist sympathisers from the very start and were hiding it in order to recruit more nerds to the cause of breeding the smartest white babies. gasp.

"that's the short version?" you should see their blog posts. by which I mean no, you definitely should not. there's absolutely nothing of value in This Part Of Twitter. that is not a place of honour. what is there is dangerous and repulsive to us

If only her were directly related to Biden, he'd be home free. Unfortunately for him, he's just a environmental lawyer who successfully sued Chevron. Alas.

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Moved by local paper article about a new, super niche art book, I wanted to contact author/artist because reasons. No contact info on the website. Hell, I was surprised there is a website . Still the only possible connection point is Instagram, which I still will never use. It's getting harder and harder to support local businesses and artists online...

Humans Will Continue to Live in an Age of Incredible Food Waste - https://www.wired.com/story/food-production-energy-waste/ "Food production has never been higher—or more costly. Yet the amount that goes uneaten remains shockingly high." just absurd

WHO Director-General @drtedros at a media briefing on 10 December 2024:

"We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense. It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.

The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to."

If someone is already a millionaire, we want to make them work twice as hard to get to their second million. 10 times as hard for the third one. 1000 times as hard to get to a billion.

We want people to get to a certain level of wealth and say to themselves; this 'net worth number go up' game is rigged. I'm going to find other ways to distinguish myself.

(4/?)

Football federation Fifa, which competes with the IOC for the title of most corrupt international sports body, just gave one of the world's cruelest dictatorships the World Cup.

Human rights? What's that?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/sport/saudi-arabia-2034-world-cup-fifa-bid-spt-intl/index.html

Insurance is not health care.

The media needs to stop referring to Brian Thompson as a healthcare executive. He was an insurance executive; a corporate exec in a capitalist society.

Denying health promotion and disease prevention care is the antithesis of healthcare.

Microsoft will soon cut off Windows 10 security updates, and says "up yours" to people with (somewhat) older computers who would happily use Windows 11, but now will be blocked

Intel and AMD appreciate this very much.

If you aren't ready to put your older but working-fine computer in a landfill, and further pollute the planet, you have a better option:

It's easier than ever to install and use Ubuntu or Mint or some other Linux system.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24312928/microsoft-windows-11-older-hardware-tpm-support

"Karlitschek isn’t just saying words he thinks you want to hear. Many years ago he was one of the founders of OwnCloud, which he helped fork into Nextcloud when he saw software that he helped create being used in an open-core mix in which important functions were being released under proprietary licenses": Nextcloud Takes on 'Teams' With 'Talk' - We Have Screenshots - FOSS Force https://fossforce.com/2024/12/nextcloud-takes-on-teams-with-talk-we-have-screenshots/

I've had a draft on the back burner for a while comparing the Luddite revolution of the 19th century to the IWW-led strikes of the 20th century and how breaking private property was a key strategy in both, and how they both fell apart only after violence against people was brought up. I'm not sure what the 21st century example would be, maybe not having a large labor movement anymore means there isn't one. I still can't quite get my thoughts together and haven't gotten very far on this.

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THE TOXIC AVENGER #3 is out today! This one features major revelations that were a core part of my pitch to reimagine this series. Fans of Toxic Crusaders will be pleased.

Featuring three covers that rule IMO by Fred Harper, Sophie Campbell, and myself.

Awww, f no!

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Hi cooperators! Is anyone aware of US federal tax code that exempts (or provides a deduction to) a business owner from paying capital gains taxes on the sale of a company to the workers, and in which the transfer of stocks is not involved?

cc: @Matt_Noyes @mattcropp @dajb @ntnsndr @GuerillaOntologist

So the dead CEO was also doing insider trading and using his employees to train AI, besides just getting rich from the suffering of clients.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/unitedhealthcare-tells-employees

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