Notices by John (johnzajac@dice.camp)

@cwebber

I mean, you skipped the whole "totally unreliable" part.

But even including "gives you exactly correct and accurate information with context every time", what you're really asking is "what if I could change LLMs *entirely* into a new technology that didn't have any of the failures and externalities of LLMs and wasn't just a sophisticated Markov chain but actual AI?"

and sure why not 🤷♂️

The most important thing I learned from working bar security for a couple years in my early 20s was that when you throw someone out, how they react will tell you precisely whether or not they should have been thrown out.

This is a Graham Platner post.

The Fediverse is a great size right now. It will be a great size at half its current size or twice its current size.

Growth obsession is a colonial mindset. Burn it out of your mind.

Good. Train your employees and citizens to conserve electricity so that after we bulldoze your planet-destruction machines they're...*doing exactly what they should have been doing all along*.

https://www.404media.co/henrico-virginia-datacenter-energy-cost-email/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Everyone waiting in dread a couple times a year to see if the Nine Wizard Kings will, this time, anoint the President-cum-Emperor with the Oils of Eternal Power, hurling us into the Dark,

is pretty much all the proof you need that this whole thingneeds to be scrapped and shoved into a cannon and shot into the sun.

I want to live in an equitable society, not a bad DnD campaign

Hey everyone, stop looking at the child rape syndicate that touches every part of the US government and

LOOK AT THIS COFFEE SHOP

These unserious fucks should be thrown into the sea.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/new-york-lawmaker-cafe-banned-pro-israel-view

Literally no investigation by any Justice dept under any party is worth anything until they find and remove from play every associate and partner of Jeffrey Epstein, no matter how rich or powerful.

By "remove" I mean...well, use your imagination.

All the middle-upper class people who moved to Portland 16-17 years ago when it was in the ups moving out the second it isn't is a real vibe. I'm watching former colleagues who built their careers at Nike and W+K just abandon this town.

A very real problem we have is that money tends to just...pull up and flee the second things get slightly rough, taking their wealth AND tanking real estate values as they jump ship - the same values that caused the houselessness problem in the first place.

Hey everyone, because science doesn't exist and biology is a hoax, the "flu" is spreading like wildfire at a US military base in *THE MIDDLE OF JUNE*

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/18/lackland-air-force-base-flu-outbreak

@blogdiva

It's wild to me that it's clear the reason Dems fight against leftist candidates so hard is because there's just hundreds of great policies sitting around that can be implemented quickly and with great positive effect that make the Democrats look like the shitty corrupt extremists they are.

@zzt

"Hard to use" and "complicated and feature-rich so requires a skill investment to access effectively" are not the same thing, but the fact that many prof level software suites are the latter is a ready excuse for folks who make hard to use software.

Also, *established conventions of UI* are not "fascist"; they're pre-existing skill sets you can leverage to...make your software easier to learn.

Don't reinvent the mouse click unless you're 1000% sure your thing is better (it isn't)

@thomasfuchs

New Wikimedia Foundation CEO:

"Bernadette began her career in the private sector as a Vice President at J.P. Morgan Chase and Lehman Brothers, building a foundation in global markets, financial strategy, and technology."

Then she went full neolib functionary for Obama State Dept, because somehow being a financial fuck leading up to one of the worst financial crises in history makes you qualified for public service

Or, maybe, she just *donated* her way into her career transition

@dalias

Couple of weaknesses:

1) what do the financial sheets show?
2) what are they required to show?
3) if they don't show that, whose gonna do the 5-10 year process of making them show that?
4) when has an oligarch ever gone to jail for plausibly deniable financial crimes, and which of the owned and operated police organizations is gonna send them there?
5) if thousands of rich people can rape tens of thousands of kids and be totally fine, what makes you think they can't hide their money?

@dalias

"Tax the rich" is like "send a stern letter to the Khan explaining why his invasion is illegal" as the Golden Horde descends on your city. It assumes so many things about the power of the law, the people who enforce it, and who is subject to it.

We are *well past* the point where the current, suborned system can do literally anything to anyone with "global ruling class" levels of wealth.

We need solutions outside of that system - either from a new regime, or extra-legal - or 🤷♂️

@dalias

What we're actually talking about is a "tax" that does very little in practical terms, has a legion of easily exploitable but hard-to-explain loopholes, and an enforcement regime that...is exactly what it was *before* the taxes were implemented: captured and flaccid.

Like, the neofascists are experts at creating "change" and "reform" that changes nothing and reforms very little, but *appears* to do so.

Emphasis on taxes and fines instead of laws and regulations is part of this.

So, when your stated goal is to "tax" the rich, you're already defeating yourself.

Taxing the rich is code for "give us something we can do that will not affect the rich but will let us pretend we did something".

A billionaire doesn't give two fucks about a 10% or even a 20% tax, even if it's a "wealth tax" (good luck getting a well-enforced one of those lol lmao)

They still a billionaire. They still own the political class. They still hold all the cards.

You gotta cancel the card game.

The solution, my friends, to the Democrats' problems IS......

::drum roll::

doing stuff
getting to know people
building community
helping
living up to their word
not condescending
not abusing voters
not taking votes for granted
not being corrupt

Shockers. All of them.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/07/democrats-voters-rural-america

Actual Long COVID, which is maybe 10x the size and impact of Diagnostic Long COVID, is about *generalized damage* and the systemic vulnerabilities that creates, which *over time* become...a generalized lack of energy, focus, cognitive facility, or moderately diseased kidneys, liver, pancreas, gut, heart, etc.

Because systemic vulnerabilities in dynamic systems that are constantly under pressure are *progressive*.

2/

If you build a bridge, and one of the pylons has a minuscule fault in its integrity or is off-plum by 0.1 degree, that bridge might be just fine for 10 years, even 20. But then the pylon will start to fail, in small amounts at first that are generally fixable. But if you don't fix them and remediate the underlying problem, that failure will accelerate: because the vulnerability is a progressive injury.

COVID is the same way.

3/

Being infected over and over both exacerbates the injury and prevents it from being fixed.

So, not only might you suddenly develop Diagnostic Long COVID after being "fine" after 4 or 5 infections (exacerbation), once you've had 6, 7, 8 infections, all within a year of one another or less, you've neglected to *fix the vulnerabilities* that each progressive infection inflicted. Those have widened, deepened, and your bridge is sagging

But to you, it's just gonna seem like you're "getting old"

4/