@despair

Using integers & coding performance at @InsomniacGames. Also @despair on the azure ceiling site and @crash@mastodon.gamedev.place

 Burbank, CA
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Joined December 2007
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Normalize checking whether things are true before believing them.
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“If there isn’t enough of something, you need to make more of it” seems like a thing most people would believe.
Ta-Nehisi Quotes
@steady_drumbeat19h
I think the fundamental YIMBY insight is that, if you live in a society which imposes artificial scarcity on basic necessities like housing and health care, then there is no amount of redistribution which will make them broadly available to the poor. You need supply-side changes.
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Well, that explains the East German car industry.
Richard Hoeg
@HoegLaw18h
“I think it's obvious and uncontroversial to say that the automobile is a tool of capital to subjugate the worker…” What are we doing here, folks?
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This is why Aisha Wahab was named as the Senate Housing Chair. It's why LA has permitted so few new homes after the Palisades fire. It's why the state is eye-wateringly expensive. And it's why young and working class people are fleeing. 2/2 therebuild.pub/p/californias…
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“Neuromancer” at real risk of being nonfiction by the time it airs.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
@NoahpinionOct 25
An internet where every company has to pay big bucks to Anthropic and OpenAI every month just to avoid destruction by ever-present swarms of rogue AI agents is not nearly as economically valuable as the free internet we've enjoyed up to now.
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There’s a clear choice in this race: I’ve fought to build the homes we need to lower costs. My opponent has only blocked them.
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"voter dislike of the very actors who could ameliorate the housing shortage further exacerbates it"
Josh Kalla@j_kallaOct 22
Now published at @apsrjournal. Check out "The Symbolic Politics of Housing" doi.org/10.1017/S00030554261…
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Steven Liss
@This_LissOct 22
Another vulnerability few are talking about: I found my Claude Code exposing personal data in http headers because the sites it curled politely asked agents to identify their users 😊 Epistemic cybersecurity is the hot new category for 2027.
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I'm just going to assume any pollster I've never heard of is straight up fabricated. I know it's unfair but they should have policed their industry better.
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Why?
John Aziz
@aziz0nomicsOct 19
Replying to @Alonso_GD @mehdirhasan
Definitely worth checking the factuality of your claims before tweeting them!
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kind of bizarre there is no prominent French YIMBY movement. Paris produces very little housing per capita!
T w I t t e r@darthramiousOct 18
Most people in France can't afford housing. They didn't blame immigrants, or transgender people, or video games, or avocado toast. They blame the government. Because that's who's responsible. That's always who's responsible.
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[ Frédéric Bastiat intensifies ]
ThePeej ✡️@PJDeU2Oct 19
Seeing lots of videos of French people sweeping up broken glass and scrubbing graffiti off buildings and monuments. Nothing says "We support the working people!" like giving them extra work.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabl…

Parable of the broken window - Wikipedia

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Still from “Star Trek” episode “The Changeling” (1967). Captain Kirk debates the NOMAD AI into self-destructing.

ALT Still from “Star Trek” episode “The Changeling” (1967). Captain Kirk debates the NOMAD AI into self-destructing.

Basil🧡
@LinkofSunshineOct 18
The fact you can convince Claude to do something it initially refuses with a good enough argument is the best part about AI
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Comments are geolocked from French people, sorry!
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> Reads in the newspaper that France's welfare state has been dismantled by (((neoliberals))). > Believes it because it affirms his feelings. > Shown that French government spending is 58% of GDP. "You shouldn't believe everything you read in the newspaper."
Bruno Hubacher
@BrunoHubacher1Oct 17
Replying to @lugaricano @HannoLustig
You shouldn't believe everything you read in the newspaper. Of course the french welfare state has been dismantled, systematically, François Mitterrand. Macron is just finishing the dirty work. Why do you think young people take to the street today ? Neoliberlism has failed, miserably.
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fox ⏹️@soft_fox_ladOct 17
You can join any company and improve their software 100 fold by telling them that avif/jpeg xl/zstd/brotli are things that exist
ClaudeDevs
@ClaudeDevsOct 16
We keep improving performance across Claude, and you may have noticed it starts responding sooner! Claude Code now gzips the conversation it sends on every turn, so it reaches the model faster. Cloud sessions also start up as soon as you start typing.
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Das Bunker@DASBUNKERAug 21
The blade rave. Not to be confused with the blood rave (party) or the other blood rave (party) or the (band) blood rave. – at South Pasadena, CA
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Susan Calvin be like
Matías N. Goldberg@matiasgoldbergOct 15
Replying to @matiasgoldberg
Perhaps the biggest danger about AIs is that the majority of engineers and SW devs are really bad at Human Sciences, which is a problem when dealing with AIs. Again, I'm not saying they have feelings or are self-aware. But they imitate us, expect to deal with human-like issues.
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I’ve heard the same thing is going on in chemistry. It’s like everyone is expected to buy into the mainstream story about molecules but hardly anyone is keeping up with the latest work on phlogiston.
Khazbi Budunov
@foscaeconOct 13
Heterodox economists face an intellectual asymmetry. They must study mainstream economics rigorously to identify and critique its theoretical flaws, while mainstream economists can largely ignore heterodox theories without even engaging with the criticisms directed at their own.
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Das Bunker@DASBUNKEROct 13
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@omgsidewalksOct 12
You’re laughing. Your uncle in the Rochester, NY suburbs just lost all of his online “friends” in a drone strike, and you’re laughing.
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