I hate how the Bible is being used as a nationalist prop. Nationalism was a theme of the old testament and Jesus called his followers to move beyond national identity. But that’s how fascism works, it apropariates instead of actually creating something new.

That’s awesome! If you’re worried about the religiosity then you might be surprised. My pastor will often say “we welcome both your beliefs and disbeliefs” and that is how I knew my atheist heart had found a home.

They only start caring once their own children come of the closet. Not a minute earlier

Is that a generalization though? Seems like if there’s an exception then it proves the rule. Conservatism isn’t an aesthetic choice, it is a belief structure that hierarchies are not just good, but they should be set in stone.

OP isn’t stating they can’t change, but it has to personally happen to them in order for them to get perspective. That means the education or activism has to come from someone they already care about for it to matter. This is why when my ultra conservative Dad visits, we all go as a family to the most queer Church in town.

Just what I’ve been looking for, it supports offline playing!

Anyone know the exact issue this came from?

Our current government is all too happy to build weapons with borrowed money. What taxation does is it causes deflation, and a wealth tax has the benefit of deflating the power of the ultra-wealthy.

People are right to point out that he should not simply cut a check to the government, instead he should lobby for higher wealth taxes like he lobbies for patents or voucher schools. Anything less is just free PR.

I swear they algorithms are optimizing for eyeball time, but what we get instead is an uncanny valley where your brain lingers to spot the difference from reality.

Exec laughs in accountability and fires people

Receipts: https://m.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/netanyahu-money-to-hamas-part-of-strategy-to-keep-palestinians-divided-583082

Netanyahu literally gave Hamas seed money because they don’t want a viable two state solution.

With a bar that low, it would be easy to improve. Would throwing in books by Ayn Rand make the situation better?

I didn’t realize we were bombing them into being tolerant, before we used to do it to make them a democracy.

Feed it Marx and Vaush clips and have it make 196 memes

With all that dysentery, lack of food, shelter, constant threat of getting blown up? Ehh maybe 2 days cuz I’m twice as old as the average person there.

Proprietary software makers: our software is more secure than open source because the public can’t go looking for bugs to exploit.

Proprietary software:

Sounds like the credential life cycle would be equal to (or smaller than) the grace period: 1 month

So what happens if you start your airbag in an area without cell reception (so it can’t verify your subscription)?

Fantastic read, shared at work and now following on mastodon. Also had this thought in regards to my own work:

… I find it reflects a similar problem we’re having with our code base: “simple is not always easy”. This article points out that Generative AI does what is easy/cheap, when what we really need is simplicity (or simplified complexity)

There’s probably another article to write about this, I would title it: “Generative AI won’t solve your Cynefin domain problem”

American/white/Millennial: Center-right. It recognizes the limits of capitalism without collectivizing the means of production.

And now we accelerate the process with generative AI, resampling data into “new” content for profit. But I can’t shake the feeling this will be an undoing, like it somehow devalues the collated data becauce it becomes so abundant (and synthetic).