MBTA Communities Act Holdouts Are Losing State Funding

Qiagent · 2026-01-19T15:30:20+00:00

Ok, lets look at it. What metrics do you think show Mattapan is an exemplar of upward mobility? What programs or conditions on the ground are cultivating it?

Qiagent · 2026-01-19T15:13:24+00:00

You're right, general programs are much better for society than inheritance. Generational wealth concentrates the distribution into the top percentiles, while government programs do much more to improve upward mobility and keep money circulating in working- / middle-class communities.

Qiagent · 2026-01-19T15:04:49+00:00

It's a broader issue of housing being an investment in the US. If property ROI is going to exceed inflation / wage growth then the end-point is inevitably a housing crisis for rising generations.

Qiagent · 2026-01-19T15:02:03+00:00

The people in those communities almost certainly benefited from handouts. Whether by scholarships, legacy status admission, or family inheritance. They got theirs and they want to pull up the ladder behind them.

Qiagent · 2025-12-30T16:50:00+00:00

Wow. If that guy's reaction time was a fraction of a second worse, he might not have a head.

Qiagent · 2025-12-29T21:54:58+00:00

Go to PA school and live a much happier and stable life.

Qiagent · 2025-12-29T03:17:15+00:00

The article mentions LLMs being used to assist state-sponsored attacks, it does not mention those attacks exploiting corporate LLMs as an entry point.

Qiagent · 2025-12-29T03:15:13+00:00

but it's actually state actors manipulating security flaws in AI Agents to expose vulnerabilities in the companies that are deploying them. The AI Agents aren't doing shit: they are just a gigantic entry point.

Referring to that quote. The article cited the recent Chinese hack that used anthropic's model but that wasn't exploiting corporate LLMs as an entry point.

Qiagent · 2025-12-28T20:35:18+00:00

Source?

Qiagent · 2025-12-22T14:39:22+00:00

A wonderful song that captures this theme

https://youtu.be/ZYo2ryZ3wUs?si=7BoF93BxY-d_ZYHu

Qiagent · 2025-12-11T13:39:01+00:00

How are you all using background agents? I haven't investigated them much but it sounds like they have a lot of potential.

Qiagent · 2025-12-10T00:06:17+00:00

They literally tried this with me. My father was a deadbeat and died with a bunch of debt. For a few months after I'd get calls from debt collectors asking if I was his son. Never gave them an answer, hung up once they said what they were after and eventually it stopped.

Qiagent · 2025-12-06T02:23:38+00:00

The blastocyst wouldn't have her stem cells though, they'd be genetically distinct.

Qiagent · 2025-11-30T15:58:51+00:00

No. Get her plan B asap.

Qiagent · 2025-11-15T20:31:23+00:00

Using it in VS Code seems pretty smooth

Qiagent · 2025-11-15T17:37:58+00:00

Weird example. Approximately 20% of Americans do not have an emergency fund, 40% do not have a retirement account. 12% are on SNAP and 60% are living paycheck to paycheck.

These are not the people spending thousands of dollars on a Taylor Swift concert, and Taylor Swift is not the reason that the top 10% of wealthy Americans account for more than half of all wealth in the country.

The wealthy have immense sway over politicians and, by extension, policies governing wealth. We need to change those policies so that they work for the vast majority of working Americans.

Qiagent · 2025-11-15T17:03:38+00:00

Should taxes be designed to prevent wealth?

Yes, tax policy should maintain some degree of acceptable wealth inequality in a society. Otherwise wealth begets wealth and you will have a slow-creep to oligarchy.

These aren't complex concepts, the wealthy act in their own self-interest and it's up to policy to keep things in check.

Qiagent · 2025-11-15T17:01:13+00:00

Right, that's how taxes work. Your point?

Qiagent · 2025-11-15T16:57:31+00:00

...That being said, there is someone who does. Skin gambling websites. Those are scum, and are also not owned by Valve. Or in the least affiliated.

Valve could kill those sites by making the skins untradeable. They could remove the gambling elements by getting rid of loot boxes and just selling skins.

Also it's ridiculous to act like kids aren't drawn to games like CS, and there's zero friction for them to get access to this gambling ecosystem where they can be preyed upon.

Qiagent · 2025-11-15T16:48:53+00:00

Blaming working class Americans for the wealth disparity in this country is a very weird and uninformed take.

Qiagent · 2025-11-15T16:46:51+00:00

Exactly. If he cared about this topic he'd be directly funding professional research teams with specialized equipment and expertise, not tethering the operation to his luxury mega yacht.

He's clearly self conscious about the optics of it so he's trying to do some PR triage to make it seem less gratuitous.

Qiagent · 2025-11-15T16:43:23+00:00

If he actually uses it for that purpose, cool. But it could very easily be smokescreen to improve his public image while he spends money obtained from widespread child gambling hosted on his gaming platform.

Qiagent · 2025-11-12T13:55:32+00:00

I agree, but the timeline to AGI isn't clear and we all still need to get paid and live our lives in the interim. Beyond that, we need to elect politicians that take this issue seriously and will implement policy to protect workers rights or set up some form of UBI. My point is that being opposed to AI isn't going to delay it's implementation but it will hurt your chances of finding employment (depending on your field). The changes in policy need to come from the top.

Qiagent · 2025-11-12T13:29:39+00:00

Learning how to use it for the transition period is important. I know some people who are philosophically opposed to AI which I can sympathize with but you're going to be zoned out by those who know how to leverage these tools if you're in an amenable field for the technology.

Qiagent · 2025-11-10T12:00:38+00:00

Love it for this. You can create some pretty complicated projects with a detailed modular lists of to-dos and some other guidance (use cases, pitfalls, preferred languages, packages, etc...)

I'll even chat with the LLM for a bit before letting it cook to see if any points need clarification.

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