Notices by JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)

multiple waymos have been torched in LA partly because it's a car that is self-evidently not owned by an individual but a massive surveillance corporation, and relays everything its cameras record to the same cops who initiated the riots. anyone pearl-clutching over that specifically is showing their true colors.

@glyph leftists don't want violence either, we just accept the necessity of it in defending society against the right. if fascists take over your hometown and start arresting people and you fight back you didn't suddenly become leftist, you simply found yourself in a different power dynamic closer to reality.
in general we should reject characterizations of violence as a political valence. much of the unspeakable violence of our current era has been in the defense of liberal centrist order.

Tech people must resolve to treat Palantir employees in their spaces - conferences, meetups, hackathons, etc - identically to how they would treat the masked gun-brandishing irregular-uniformed gestapo out there right now arresting every latina mother and child they feel like.
Palantir are the computer job counterparts of those thugs and one wouldn't exist without the other, and they should experience 100% identical social consequences.

digging around in my 2K Marin-era (2008-ish) archives and came across this outstanding error message, props to whatever IT(?) person decided to phrase a simple seat license conflict as "Human Combat Required":

fediverse server software that prevents anyone with the words "polymath" or "autodidact" in their profile from seeing or replying to you

honestly very keen to play Big Walk, i had more or less this exact idea about 22 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ez7AP4-GM

@clarity and yeah sometimes they say "not profitable" but mean "profitable but doesn't scale up infinitely, which you must always and unwaveringly feel compelled to do"

i am not saying they are "not smart", i am saying that smartness as a concept conceals how the world actually works - that societies and processes and organizations and tools are what "make people smart" - and that these people are part of a rotten, sick, deluded society/organization with fundamentally flawed processes and frameworks for evaluating reality, which prominently include "the concept of smartness".

@charlesrandall it's the same way so many people can still believe that the earth was created ~6000 years ago. it's sustained on pure faith and social context.

when the social-economic maelstrom that is the current LLM hype wave fizzles or collapses there's going to be so much "how could so many smart people be so wrong?" and it's imperative you do not accept their framing of themselves as "smart people" - they are, in judgment and values and intellect, deeply compromised from living inside a machine that harms humanity for profit.

[suddenly growing a flowing gray beard] what if the little guys you must keep safe... were the workers of the world...

gerrymandering game genre boundaries to create a new "little guys you must keep safe" category that includes Lemmings, Pikmin, Chu Chu Rocket, etc

everyone who helped build this vision of the world, defended it, justified it, normalized it, insisted there was no alternative, profited from it - should be obligated to a weeping mea culpa before the entire world

@jonny "only crimes are occurring" is an incredible list item

@clarity lol @ any american making that argument

"will Half-Life 3's story bridge to the Skibidi Toilet fictional universe" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

feels like if the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event were something that happened in a story, its impact crater would still be extremely obvious on our world map 66 million years later. but no, even something that big kinda gets erased by eons of continental drift, erosion, changing sea levels, etc. it was only when we excavated shocked quartz and tektites from there that we confirmed it was where the Big One came down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater

worldbuilding is when: (pick any 3)
- floating islands
- there's an area called the Zone
- a giant tree, no like *really* giant
- world map is fucked up in some way
- lost civilization that was more technologically advanced than current civilization
- non-spherical planet
- history refers to "the Old Empire"
- big ass wall with all of recorded history written on it somewhere
- ancient legends talk about a technological thing in poetic / allegorical terms
- aliens did something sneaky

if your "beautiful, elegant, futuristic" huge ring-shaped HQ requires a truly colossal fuck-ugly parking garage that dwarfs it, it's not actually a very beautiful elegant futuristic HQ now is it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEO7RCD7jVg FF6's "Searching for Friends" really has gotta be one of the best moods in its parcel of game history. It would be unreasonably hard to pull off at AAA scope today: entire world destroyed, your party scattered to the far winds, but you hope they're out there somewhere, and reunite one by one with a cool airship.
Definitely not thinking of this in the context of the ongoing destruction of the centralized social web, nope.