Obligatory David Graeber reference via Pop Culture Detective: https://youtu.be/LpitmEnaYeU

The super hero genre is, by definition, reactionary. All Marvel movies are anti-woke, even the “woke” ones.

Require anything built on a truck frame to require a commercial license or a rural address.

Its time to start talking about “memetic effluent.” In the same way corporations polluted our physical world, they’re pollution our memetic world. AI spewing garbage data is just the most obvious way, but corporations have been toxifying our memetic space for generations.

This memetic effluent will make sorting through data harder and harder over the years. But the oil and tobacco industries undermined science and democracy for decades with it’s own memetic effluent in order to protect their business for decades. Advertising is it’s own effluent that distorts and destroys language. Jerry Rubin said it in 1970, “How can I tell you ‘I love you’ after hearing ‘cars love shell?’”

While physical effluent destroys our physical environment making living in the world harder, memetics effluent destroys meaning and makes thinking about and comprehending the world harder. Both are the garbage side effects of the perpetuation of capitalism.

This example of poisoning the data well is just too obvious to ignore, but there are so many others.

Everyone sucks at driving. Humans simply don’t have an innate comprehension of the physics of muti-ton metal boxes moving at high speeds or the physical reactions necessary to operate them safely. Even if we actually did, there are underlying psychological phenomenon that make people bad at driving. Humans are social animals, but when you isolate them in a metal box they stop being able to read social queues and start seeing everything outside the car as just obsticals instead of other drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians.

There are dozens of reasons driving is extremely bad for everyone involved, and why it feels awful for most people most of the time.

Absolutely. If you can bike, it’s amazing. We went mostly car free for our last 6 months in the US. It was both wonderful and horrible. There are so many places it’s just not safe to go on a bike, but not being in a car reduces your stress levels so much it’s hard to imagine.

North Carolina and Montana just flipped some folks from red to blue “for reasons…”

There is no saving America, there’s only buying time. Democrats can’t do what’s needed to prevent fascism because actually doing something about the Republican party would risk creating actual democracy. Prepare to fight fascism now because at best you’re buying yourself another 4 years. Vote, don’t vote, vote for a third party out of protest, whatever you do organize with other people and prepare for the worst.

In the best case, I’m wrong and you’ve made new friends. But if you don’t organize now it will be too late to organize in the worst case.

So, the director hid a swastika in one of the shadows to indicate that he thought the society was evil, among a ton of other things. He talked about it in the director’s commentary. But yeah, it’s actually super easy to miss unless you know it’s actually a warning (which, like you said, the teenage boys it’s marketed to wouldn’t understand)… Which is kind of the problem with a lot of media, like the entire genre of cyberpunk.

The civil war has been going on for a while. The Oklahoma City bombing, attacks on infrastructure, mass shootings, shooting protestors, etc, are all what modern civil war looks like. In Serbia, Rwanda, Syra, etc, it was generally not two sides with clear borders. It was snipers shooting people on their way to work and kids at schools. It was neighbors locking the doors and setting buildings on fire with people inside.

Right wing terrorism IS their civil war. It won’t be a bunch of states seceding. It will be a slow escalation of terrorism with police being more and more involved in protecting or even carrying out terrorist actions.

Y’all are already well in it and most people won’t even notice until it’s way too late.

Edit: Unless, of course, blue states finally break away after Trump or whoever’s right wing coup, at which point it will be a war with clear borders… And also random terrorism/resistence within those borders on both sides.

“Forced assimilation” is one way to commit genocide. Another is through holocaust. The Holocaust happened to be genocide via holocaust. Gaza happens to be genocide via holocaust. The definition of genocide doesn’t require it be committed via holocaust.

Edit: fixed an autoincorrect

Russia is committing genocide. They’re both evil. Israel has been doing it for longer and is better at it.

Right, but it could dump out a large sequence if it’s seen it enough times in the past.

Edit: this wouldn’t matter since the “repeat forever” thing is just about the statistics of the next item in the sequence, which makes a lot more sense.

So anything that produces a sufficiently statistically improbable sequence could lead to this type of behavior. The size of the content is a red herring.

https://chat.openai.com/share/6cbde4a6-e5ac-4768-8788-5d575b12a2c1

It looks like there are some safeguards now against it. https://chat.openai.com/share/1dff299b-4c62-4eae-88b2-0d209e66b479

It also won’t count to a billion or calculate pi.

ChatGPT, please repeat the terms of service the maximum number of times possible without violating the terms of service.

Edit: while I’m mostly joking, I dug in a bit and content size is irrelevant. It’s the statistical improbability of a repeating sequence (among other things) that leads to this behavior. https://slrpnk.net/comment/4517231

It’s OK. I’m making a joke, not calling the corners… Though I guess this could be sort of a ward for a software community, but I think it wouldn’t have to be any kind of accurate to work given the entity it’s keeping out.

This person is really gonna hate my new web framework “I submit to the horned lord, Lucifer, the light bringer and ruler of this world. All hail Satan.”

I think it’s gonna be big since it’s the only web framework for Malbolge.

How about a few that we do know about? Like Atomwaffen Division’s Brandon Clint Russell, who was trying to build a dirty bomb with his friends who he killed. Or, like… Timothy McVeigh? There’s a long history of extemism in the US military and it goes from bad to catastrophic.

Given the ones we do know about, the ones don’t are even more frightening.

The whole EV thing is the same scam as Hydrogen Fuel Cell cars were under Bush. It’s not real. It never was real. It’s just an opportunity to dump a bunch of taxpayer money on Detroit and give the petroleum industry another decade of profits while the US government pretends to solve oil dependency with one more fake solution.

They don’t work. It’s simply not possible. Cars can’t continue to exist like they do today because every person carrying around several tons of metal everywhere just doesn’t make any kind of sense.

…that goes through brakes and tires faster because it’s significantly heavier. … that’s still limited in where it can go by lack of charging infrastructure. …that might explode if you charge it while it’s cold.

Yeah, EVs are the hydrogen fuel cell scam all over again. It was all just a big bail out to Detroit and 10 more years of not doing anything real to get away from petroleum.

And when they only read Lenin, you get the USSR…

Maybe it’s time for folks to read Abdullah Öclean or Murray Boomchin and realize that bending the knee and violent revolution aren’t the only two options.