You guys are going to feel so dumb when I get my $17k worth of checks he’s promised.

It’s probably just taking so long because he doesn’t use an auto pen

That’s pretty cool. Llms are great for this kind of thing, I’m hoping they can bring hacking to the point you can cobble together random hardware and make it work

I think that’s where the magic is. It’s like mighty putty - it’s not great as a building material itself, but it fills in gaps and let’s you stick all kinds of things together

Humanity will probably either wipe itself out in the next couple hundred years or last for a long ass time

Either we’re going to get our shit together and start being caretakers of life, or we’re going to end up like Venus

Even if modern society gets destroyed and we started over technologically, the easily accessed fossil fuels are significantly depleted. We might redevelop in a greener way by necessity, or even just find stability as preindustrial societies

Or we just get our shit together. We’re going to have to do some terra forming if we want to return to comfortable Holocene conditions, we’ll need to change how we live, but we’re going to have to make some big adjustments soon no matter what we do. Hopefully we take that opportunity to grow as a species

I mean…I don’t disagree with you

But there’s a hard truth I know I’m still grappling with

None of it matters. Most of our allies are not at a level they will engage with the truth of the matter. If their faucet is blocked by a tree root, they’ll be further convinced, and if they always have water they won’t be unconvinced

So if they care about water, good messaging means that water becomes the stand in for the right to privacy. Nothing you say (or at least nothing I have tried to say) will make them understand the privacy implications. I haven’t convinced a single person that privacy is actually critical to democracy. And trust me, I’ve tried a lot of angles with many different people

We just have to accept they’re pointed in the right direction, and that trying to educate them can only hurt the cause. They won’t be ideologically won over, but on the flip side, it’s not really about water for them either

Even if we did reach them on the issue, that wouldn’t wake them up. They won’t care about the next issue, like the cameras, until they’re worried that agents are laughing over their genital pics or something, whatever they latch onto next

So just let water be the metaphor. They’ll cheer with us, they’ll march with us, and they won’t blink when you tell them AI water usage is eroding their rights

Nah, people latched onto the water use for some reason. We’re rolling with it

Our enemies have long had no understanding of why they opposed making things better for everyone, when they come ranting about Amazon stealing our water we need to welcome them to the cause and tell them the bad guys are developing mad Max militarized AI tanker trucks to steal it harder

It was utter garbage for a while, like such bad writing and so obviously formulaic that I’d get pissed off about it. Especially the Dr strange one…I was pissed because i was excited for another dr strange one and it wasn’t even enjoyable. It’s makes no sense, they did nothing with the characters, it was like a whirlwind trailer to set up new overarching plot lines

Part of it might be that my expectations dropped to the floor after that, but I’ve found that after they cancelled everything and course corrected they’ve gradually gotten better. If doomsday is good I’ll probably get invested again, I am excited to see the mutants get involved in the main plot

The spider man series are still good though, aside from lady web…I don’t know what was going on with that

It would basically take an afternoon for you to come up with one and practice it enough to use it. That’s how I got mine as a child. It doesn’t have to be cursive, it doesn’t even have to be your name, and it’s not hard at all to do

I don’t care what most people’s looks like, but if you’re going to have it appear on people’s paychecks or official documents seen by the public?

I think in that case, it does reflect on you as a person. It’s like showing up to the store in boxers and a stained wife beater… It’s legal, and I don’t care if you dress strangely or even go naked in your own home, but people should have enough respect for themselves to at least wear athletic shorts in public. Or throw on a bathrobe or something

It’s a very very low bar, but if you can’t meet even that it’s a cause for genuine concern about your well being. Everyone should have some level of dignity as a person

Mine has style. It’s not fancy or intricate, but it’s a nice mix of sharp and curving lines for the prominent characters that can be read if you already know what it says, and I can fire it off in about two seconds with a nice rasping sound

I learned cursive very briefly when I learned handwriting, but I’ve never really used it. I still can barely read it. I spent a little time in grade school coming up with it with some good suggestions from my older sister (since it didn’t have much style in real cursive), but it’s not like I put very much effort into it. I just decided one day if people were going to make me sign my name on things, I didn’t want it to look terrible. And for reference, my handwriting is shit, barely readable to the average person

Literally anyone can do it. It doesn’t have to be cursive, it doesn’t have to be readable, I once knew someone illiterate who just neatly printed out their name all caps. There’s no rules to it, it doesn’t even have to be cursive, it doesn’t even have to spell your name, it’s entirely a matter of style

All of these examples, including my first attempts at my own as an actual child, were better than Elon’s.

You could do it right now. Take half a day picking out a style, you could look at fonts for reference, fill just a couple pages to practice, and you’re done. Hell, you could hire someone on fiver to design it for you if you wanted. Either way, it’ll naturally become easy and faster as you use it

For most people, it really doesn’t matter that much, I wouldn’t comment if the average person didn’t have a good one. But if I were going to be a CEO or politician, where other people might actually see it? Where it’s going to end up on people’s paychecks? I’d go back to the drawing board and put a little more than an afternoon into it. It’s just a matter of dignity

That’s one thing, but like… Can we take a moment to appreciate how shit his signature looks? It’s not just unreadable, it has zero style. Isn’t he supposed to be a CEO or something?

Yuuup. There’s people overseas always demanding Americans take back control and stop the madness…

It’s like, my brother, you have no idea what you’re asking. We have so much to fix. We don’t even have the mechanisms to fix the foundational problems yet. We are working on it, all of it, while also fighting like hell to avoid letting tens of millions die for easily preventable reasons

And the world’s most powerful interests are fighting every single little step of the way

So, sorry to depresses you, but I do appreciate the empathy

This is huge… if it goes through

Like I said, this is huge, if it goes through

$200 billion isn’t a slap on the wrist, it’s a real punishment. Facebook can’t just cut a check and continue on, they’re going to have to make hard choices if they are made to pay up. Florida alone could still drain the company dry on this case, but more importantly it sets a precedent

Since we don’t have a functioning system of corporate punishment, it’s all case law. I’m sure Facebook is going to fight it with everything they have, so it’s not nearly over… But if this goes through anyways? That could change things

Fuck if I know. We can revoke a corporate charter through an act of Congress for any or no reason, we have trust busting laws that allow courts to split a company, individual states can decide to restrict or kick out a company…

We have mechanisms to do these things, but we don’t really have a system of corporate criminal punishment. It’s one of those problems of using an early version of democracy… Courts can fine and impose sanctions, they can prosecute individuals for their part, but as time went on instead of legislating a system of corporate punishment it’s just been left to case law

Which doesn’t work out well, because corporations have grown to the point they can dump more way money into legal defense than the courts can put into prosecution

So the answer to your question is basically that it doesn’t matter how much they violate the law, they’re to big and too powerful for the courts to handle them with the tools available

Normally I’d agree, but if one of the more populated states fined meta at this rate it’d be a corporate death penalty

For context - New Mexico has a population of 2,124,222, making it the 36th most populated state in the country.

That’s under 1% of the country. California has 39,355,309… No company currently in existence could survive a 4 trillion dollar fine

This is huge… if it goes through

Thank you, that’s one less mystery to keep me up at night

I’m really curious about the context of that slide

To be blunt, you advertised it instead of organizing it

Very few people are going to show up to a game night where they don’t know anyone. Especially if they don’t have a vibe check from hearing about it from someone they know directly

And if there’s only one person there when they show up, most people are going to feel very awkward. It’s likely they’d peek through the window and bail out

You need people to buy in. You need at least a core group that will be there before the start time so people will see a game night going on if they do show up, and to spread word that its a good time. It’ll grow organically from there if everyone has fun, and that’s the point where you can advertise if you want to keep growing

How you find that group I can’t help with, but it can’t just be like an RSVP on Facebook or something. You need to communicate with people directly what you’re trying to do and organize with them

I’m confused. Why would you bring up astrology for astrologists? Of course astrologist study astronomy

Myers Briggs is complete pseudoscience, if it helps. Literally nonsense made up whole cloth by some mother and daughter

I miss how cool I smoke cigarettes. I don’t miss the taste, or regret that people now tell me I smell like candy

They will if they stand to miss out on money if they fail to do it. That basic level of incentives is all that works at this point