Notices by Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)

@tiffanycli
Promoting “the general welfare” is literally in our founding document.

@inthehands

That’s the last time they don’t download a copy before a presentation.

#history

“this is not the beginning of a new game. It's end stage Monopoly, but militarized.” 🔥

- @jnl

"Rights are not granted, they are taken by force."

- #NoamChomsky

I keep forgetting about the impending bubble collapse that was going to get blamed on #KamalaHarris:

A few days ago, the well-known venture capitalist #MarcAndreesen started to spill the beans, saying on a podcast “we're increasing [graphics processing units] at the same rate, we're not getting the intelligent improvements at all out of it” – which is basically VC-ese for “#deeplearning is hitting a wall.”
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/confirmed-llms-have-indeed-reached?r=8tdk6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

#Wolfenstein #DukeNukem

The entire #American Experiment was a leftist project and always has been: https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/08/13/skeptical-of-god-kings/

@tofugolem

“We’ve been running what was essentially the broken beta of the first representative #democracy for almost 250 years, and it was built to not be upgradable.”

https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/11/03/what-comes-after-america/

#enshittification, but of the #American Republic

@quinn

the #hypersane are still among us: while they might seem to be living in a world of their own, this is only because they have delved more deeply into the way things are than those ‘sane’ people around them.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-hypersane-are-among-us-if-only-we-are-prepared-to-look

Tracking polls is an effective way to delude yourself into thinking you know what’s going on.

Nobody knows, and the people who tell you they know are lying to you and themselves.

My $0.02.

#statistics #pvalues #math #analytics

#babies

#bookstodon

The only Confederate flag that matters

#ProPublica has earned and deserves the subscriptions of any #LATimes and #WaPo cancellors.

@BeAware