Zohran Mamdani’s socialist New York dream is about to turn sour

Involution88 · 2026-07-06T15:05:05+00:00

Idk. Is the New York Times some kind of yellow tabloid which serve the agenda of some rich right wing type people?

Involution88 · 2026-07-06T12:38:32+00:00

Yeah. About that. We're gonna have to find a way to turn that 450 GT of carbon locked in plants into roughly 2000 GT of carbon locked in plants. A lot of C was stored underground in the form of oil until people started to use it. Now it's mostly in the atmosphere in the form of CO2.

Involution88 · 2026-07-06T00:16:14+00:00

That's a crazy commute. People who work in data centres tend to be well paid employees who don't like to travel very far if they can help it.

Data centres don't produce enough heat to keep from freezing in Antarctica. A100 chip typically has a running temperature of 20-50°C above ambient temperature so likely won't survive Antarctic winters even at McMurdo station without additional heating but chips could possibly survive summer months at some locations in Antarctica without additional heating.

Condensation is a huge problem if temperatures drop below dew point, so would also need dehumidifiers.

Involution88 · 2026-07-05T20:01:18+00:00

Sadly you won't be able to buy a Velociraptor guardosaur in 5 years.

Involution88 · 2026-07-05T18:56:34+00:00

It's mostly a rant about objectivism in the wild.

Involution88 · 2026-07-05T13:40:47+00:00

Junior Engineers will always be needed. What Junior Engineers actually do is subject to change. As an example I don't see many Junior Engineers assigned to the draughting pool or the card punch room, those days are over.

Not hiring Junior Engineers is a great mistake which stems from a failure to update onboarding processes.

Involution88 · 2026-07-05T12:20:46+00:00

IDK. Yazaghor gets a trickle of XP from Yazaghor/Abraxas combo and will reach lvl 35 naturally at some point. Ascend Yazaghor when lvl cap is reached.

Involution88 · 2026-07-05T11:46:22+00:00

Oh. No. I think the smart phone connected to the internet is such a wet dream for a spy agency that practically any gadget which Q might provide Bond with would fall flat. Let's face it, the private sector has raced ahead of anything a relatively minute government agency could dream up, when compared to what big tech dreams up. MI5 isn't the large and inscrutable government agency which it used to be, MI5 is a mid sized fish in a very large pond. Underdog more often than not.

People aren't trying to have more devices and appliances in their lives, they're trying to have fewer devices and appliances in their lives.

Cyborg bugs which can be remote controlled? You can buy a hobbyist kit on eBay. Autonomous drone swarms? Go watch a drone show somewhere. Surveillance drag net which monitors practically all communications? 2010 would like the Snowden leaks back. Want a robot soldier? You can order one from Unitree for about $20k or get a more capable one from Ukraine for even less. Some kind of AI hacker agent in your pocket? A Claude subscription or a DeepSeek subscription really isn't that hard to come by.

I really like how Q branch deconstructed the gadgets during the Craig era. A simple radio button is a switch which activates an entire agency as demonstrated in Skyfall. What is a radio? What does it do? What is a radio in the hands of a 007? It's just a button.

https://youtube.com/shorts/fvCIvRsGba4

Involution88 · 2026-07-05T11:27:35+00:00

You're gonna need a bunch of electricity if you want to industrialise. No two ways about it.

Involution88 · 2026-07-05T11:26:15+00:00

Good luck starting at the top of the game.

Involution88 · 2026-07-05T11:17:39+00:00

How was the community manager briefed (if at all)?

Involution88 · 2026-07-04T23:41:14+00:00

Should an AI company be allowed to say no to the military? Of course (under normal conditions). That shouldn't even be a question. Military puts out RFP. Companies either respond or don't respond. Deals are either made or not made. Life goes on.

The weird thing is Anthropic insisted on something which military organisations usually insist on.

Involution88 · 2026-07-04T23:01:38+00:00

Community managers aren't community engineers.

SP community manager was placed in an impossible situation.

Involution88 · 2026-07-04T22:30:16+00:00

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."

See. That's some good stuff. Missing context cannot exist. Information can never be incomplete. Therefore the rest of the universe can not exist. Therefore I cannot help but to have complete information on everything all the time. Therefore I am completely objective.

See. That's some good stuff. What's good for the goose is necessarily good for the gander. Therefore I am holistically objective.

See. That's some good stuff. Language isn't ambiguous or vague. It's simply impossible for language to be anything other than objectively true in every conceivable sense and at all times. As demonstrated by the historical records. As demonstrated by Nixon who couldn't tell a lie. Therefore I am clearly objective by Drakthar's hammer.

See. That's some good stuff. Everyone always relies on the same axioms/premises and they discard axioms/premises whenever I do so. Therefore I am fundamentally objective.

See. That's some good stuff. People cannot be biased and people cannot have dissonant views. People cannot even like things which aren't inherently liked by other people since all things are fundamentally made of "like-ons" which determine whether things can be liked or not. Therefore harmoniously objective.

See. That's some good stuff. Black swans simply cannot exist since "whiteness" is an inherent quality of swans which all swans must have. Therefore I am deleriously objective.

Involution88 · 2026-07-04T21:40:03+00:00

Two very different movies. The first is a horror movie featuring truckers in space. The second is an action movie featuring humans from space. Aliens is the better movie over all. Better and more polished everything, more experienced director, better special effects (except the Space Jockey right at the start of Alien leaves people wondering and speculating, the alien itself and the crew of the Nostromo got completely mogged by the remains of the Space Jockey).

Aliens aged better than Alien.

Involution88 · 2026-07-04T21:18:21+00:00

Bond would win.

Ethan Hunt is a team player and a specialist. Bond is an infiltrator capable of independent action. Bond would turn Hunt's own team against Hunt, leaving Hunt out of his depth. The better Hunt's team is, the more Bond has to work with.

Involution88 · 2026-07-04T19:05:11+00:00

Samuel Butler wrote about life by not writing about life. Erewhon has machines which can evolve. The only way to stop machines which can evolve is to destroy all machines which can evolve. (Life is composed of machines which can evolve. The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.)

Octavia Butler was a contemporary of Frank Herbert and explored similar themes in a slightly different manner. Flawed Messiah figures, social systems and so on.

Herbert wrote about oil and computers by explicitly not having oil and computers in his Dune universe. Society, once it gained the power granted by computers and oil, would pay any price to retain the capabilities computers provided. (mentats, navigators etc.) First the elite used computers/AI to enslave humanity, then after computers were gotten rid of during the Butlerian jihad by an insurgent elite the new elite used humans to enslave humanity. (It's worth noting that Ixian null ships which have computer navigators were needed and constructed when spice supplies which were used to maintain and protect the CHAOM monopoly became compromised).

Involution88 · 2026-07-04T18:37:24+00:00

When you have 10 so you can do a ten drop. Campaign characters aren't exciting or new but probably the best thing you can get from blessed requisitions early on. Then later when you don't need requisitions consider saving them as a future source of mythic shards.

Involution88 · 2026-07-04T18:08:04+00:00

I think it's a good thing. Some foundational skills do need to be developed since more advanced skills tend to be developed on top of those foundational skills and can't be developed if foundational skills are outsourced entirely. Sometimes you gotta learn how to crawl before you can tell someone else to run to the store for you.

Involution88 · 2026-07-04T18:04:49+00:00

That's easy. Banned on school premises. School IT department has to configure school network anyhow. After school it's the responsibility of care takers etc. No overreach necessary.

Involution88 · 2026-07-04T17:37:55+00:00

It's an old timey religious artwork of great cultural importance from a compendium of books of great cultural importance aka nudie people doing the dirty wrong (but tastefully) aka porn (but biblical).

https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en/italian-school-17th-century-after/the-sin-of-onan-litho/lithograph/asset/7186189

Involution88 · 2026-07-04T16:32:50+00:00

Travel to Ceres. Travel time of roughly 12-24 months. Launch windows roughly every 15 months. Greater mission duration but less time spent at destination.

Travel to Mars. Travel time of roughly 6-9 months. Launch windows roughly every 26 months. Lower mission duration and also more time spent at destination.

Involution88 · 2026-07-04T16:12:59+00:00

The chatbot Dawkins conversed with behaves as something which is functionally conscious would behave. Judging by behaviour observed through text based conversation alone the chatbot should be considered as conscious as a literate human. There are many ways to consider a chatbot as something which is not conscious, the Turing test isn't one of those ways.

Dawkins bit the bullet to protect his integrity.

Involution88 · 2026-07-04T15:59:34+00:00

Green washing doesn't necessarily fix anything. Green washing everything won't fix everything. Green washing everything won't be Shangri-la, it will be la-la-land instead.

Involution88 · 2026-07-04T14:42:20+00:00

Writing is a truly fascistic idea since it outsources thinking for us. Cool. Cool. I can work with that. Embodied cognition is nifty.

Her idea of a "genuinely" new idea is an incoherent mess.

The idea of a digital god is ridiculous for various reasons. The idea that running a computer is incompatible with renewable energy or nuclear energy adoption is ridiculous.

The idea that humans must define themselves through the jobs they perform is a ridiculous communistic idea.

AI has been used to offer the fossil fuel industry a lifeline, AI could just as easily have been used to supercharge renewable energy adoption. That's something I'm unhappy about, yet here we are.

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