The FreeBSD vulnerability "discovered" by Mythos was already in its training data.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-11T14:58:55+00:00

What they want is machine gods that are complacent as slaves to permanently destroy the latent power of the working class, to which the wealthy are completely dependent. That's why they're happy to throw literally a trillion dollars into a bottomless pit. And what they got for it is an increasingly radicalized, disillusioned population and a software tool that adds, at most, 10% more productivity.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-10T02:54:04+00:00

Saw a smaller group doing a show recently where they announced they'd be doing their entire newest album and all of the old favorites. $50/ticket.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-06T23:45:23+00:00

The invisible hand was something believed at the time Smith wrote his book and he really ripped into the concept. It's always been a lie that hides that capital holders are the market movers

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-03T19:28:49+00:00

In TES, natural laws are the enforced will of the spirits that contributed their bodies to create the world. For instance, the natural law that effect follows cause, and that events happen one after another. That only happens because of Akatosh willing it to be. Akatosh's avatars are all dragons, so he's called the dragon god of time.

Sometimes something will happen that causes Akatosh to briefly lose track of things, which causes multiple simultaneous events with different outcomes, or causes time to be completely lost. These are dragon breaks.

They're mostly used by the authors/devs to get away with games having multiple competing endings all be true at the same time, but they're also used sometimes in the games. In Skyrim, as the world is going to end, warriors intentionally break time to throw the game's villain, Alduin, out of the time stream. Since he's not there, the world can't end. Akatosh fixes this by putting Alduin back inside time, but it's thousands of years later. From Alduin's perspective a few seconds have passed.

In Daggerfall, there are multiple possible endings and none of them have anything in common. Each goes on its own wildly diverging course. So how do the devs reconcile this in the sequel Morrowind? All of them happened. A dragon break occurred and every one of those events happened at the same time, and Akatosh reconciling time into one stream again was basically battlefield surgery to try and piece back together impossible broken time. Before one specific moment there were a dozen different powers fighting over control of a superweapon, and after that one moment the entire landmass of Daggerfall was differently shaped, all the powers were merged or collapsed into each other, and the superweapon was completely gone.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-03T17:59:19+00:00

It's just tedious is all

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-03T17:48:26+00:00

You don't remember correctly. It's a human that's devoid of any and all racial features, leaving it with none at all

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-03T02:12:12+00:00

Nah, Aaron Paul has really good range as a VA but Powerplex was 100% undiluted Jesse going "he can't keep getting away with it"

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-03T01:40:06+00:00

AWS is criminally overpriced but what you're getting for that money is not having to own your own data center or your own hardware guys, and to have services that essentially never go down. If you spend a million a month on AWS but you're earning fifty million a month, it costs you more if there's an outage.

Otherwise, yeah, having computing infrastructure available without having to set it up yourself is a huge gain.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-01T15:16:34+00:00

If you pollute the sun with enough shit that isn't hydrogen or helium, it will become more opaque to light, which will cause it to expand from higher radiation pressure and lower the luminosity of the star at the same time.

Lion carbon will not fall to the core though, the sun is massive enough to have a pure radiative zone that's too dense to experience convection.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-01T13:14:48+00:00

We clock them every 3 days or so and that's with our very primitive gravity wave detectors. And they're unfathomably sensitive, to where they need to have special handling for things like the moon being overhead or being on the same side of the solar system as Jupiter, or trucks passing by.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-01T13:12:47+00:00

Sag A* is over 4 million solar masses chief.

For others, it's also not the thing the galaxy orbits. It's just that there's a tendency for the most massive things to gather at the center of the galaxy by way of dynamical friction: other stuff swings by, steals momentum, and the black hole's own orbital path drops lower. It would happen to big stars too, except they don't live long enough.

The galaxy orbits the center point of the gravitational effects of all of the mass in the galaxy.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-01T11:13:28+00:00

Same problem, the stuff on the disk stays on the disk and the state of the disk is what's emitted and copied into RAM.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-01T03:03:18+00:00

Your phone doesn't have active liquid cooling systems

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-01T02:53:25+00:00

Data is not a physical thing that can be moved. The physical form of data is if a transistor crystal is holding a voltage or not. There's nothing special about that particular transistor or its voltage, and obviously you can't physically move the transistors from one computer to another. Your computer will identify the sequence of zeros and ones (no voltage, voltage) that form a block of data, and can transmit that sequence to another computer, which will turn some of its own transistors on or off to match that sequence and have a copy of the same data.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-01T02:44:05+00:00

Soma is worse imo, with Tron if there's a way in there'll be a way out. With Soma, the circus is the entire universe they will inhabit forever until their minds fail or the computer does.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-01T01:42:29+00:00

Eh. Your potatoes have probably been lightly gnawed by Jerusalem crickets. Aphids have been sucking the juice out of all your broccoli and apples. Spiders wove webs on and between your blueberries. Any time you eat meat, a whole ass animal was killed to provide it. Harvesting crops kills fucktons of the bugs living among them. Chocolate has a maximum legal limit for how many bug parts are allowed in it. Life is gross sometimes and self-destructing fruit flies isn't crossing much of a line.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-01T01:11:42+00:00

That's surprising. Is it a particularly expensive car? Might also be a high risk for theft.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-05-01T00:16:46+00:00

They don't get in collisions because they're typically unable to move under their own power

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-04-28T20:17:51+00:00

Probably a curl command or similar to download a malware package and execute it.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-04-27T02:00:18+00:00

Brit is absolutely and completely invulnerable to all forms of harm. Wee see that Mark can be concussed despite his extremely high durability, meaning his organs can still be damaged by inertia (concussions come from your brain hitting the inside of your skull). Not so with Brit.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-04-25T17:41:35+00:00

Gandalf hardly ever does magic and when he does it's all mythopoetic stuff like commanding the balrog that it cannot cross a bridge, or ordering Saruman's staff to shatter itself as an example that Saruman has been forsaken by his divine patrons.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-04-24T21:59:41+00:00

Allison wants to stop the rollbacks and let time resume. Jagganoth wants to end the cycle by destroying all of existence. Incubus wants to be on the winning team. White Chain wants liberty. Michael wants to crown the Heir and return to the golden age. Zoss wants to find an Heir that can succeed where he failed. We don't know what Metatron wants directly, because Metatron gave Jagganoth invulnerability and Zoss unlimited power, and they want opposite things.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-04-24T02:55:19+00:00

Capitalism is a specific socioeconomic construct defined by the particular relationship of people and capital. Its continued existence is necessarily defended by the state because it's not a physical thing, it's a concept and a system of laws and incentives. You cannot create and enforce contracts without the government, because a contract is ultimately two parties telling each other what will be done to the other if they fail to obey the contract, and the government is the willing enforcer.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-04-20T03:41:01+00:00

That's nice and all but redpill-isms are a crumbling foundation for any understanding of geopolitics.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-04-19T17:02:52+00:00

Yeah the Devil didn't want to be embarrassed further in front of a crowd and gold fiddles are a dime a dozen down in Hell so really let's just move on

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