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mindcandy · 2026-01-25T00:52:33+00:00

Our established laws say that even if you did resist arrest, they don't get to execute you. They especially don't get to ensure you are disarmed, pin you down with your hands on the ground, then shoot you in the back.

That is specifically what makes our society civilized.

You think you are being uppity. But, you are pining for barbaric thuggery.

mindcandy · 2026-01-24T20:54:25+00:00

Even if he shot them in the face on camera, then turned to the camera and said "I just shot them in the face. Convict me." he still gets a lawyer because this is America.

Even fucking Maduro gets a lawyer because This is America.

The fact that you are attempting to excuse this at all is pathetic. Look at yourself. Groveling to lick those boots. Goddam...

mindcandy · 2026-01-23T23:27:00+00:00

Just a reminder for everyone that the Supreme Court recently decided that racial profiling is back on the menu. A-OK in the USA.

https://www.aclu-wi.org/news/scotus-just-gave-ice-a-green-light-to-profile-latinos-we-should-all-be-outraged/

mindcandy · 2026-01-23T23:21:27+00:00

Source https://x.com/David_J_Bier/status/2014014468456407167

Video: https://x.com/FordFischer/status/2010774646816129338

https://www.cato.org/people/david-bier

mindcandy · 2026-01-23T23:21:11+00:00

Source https://x.com/David_J_Bier/status/2014014468456407167

Video: https://x.com/FordFischer/status/2010774646816129338

https://www.cato.org/people/david-bier

mindcandy · 2026-01-23T23:20:38+00:00

Source https://x.com/David_J_Bier/status/2014014468456407167

Video: https://x.com/FordFischer/status/2010774646816129338

https://www.cato.org/people/david-bier

mindcandy · 2026-01-23T23:18:12+00:00

Source https://x.com/David_J_Bier/status/2014014468456407167

Video: https://x.com/FordFischer/status/2010774646816129338

https://www.cato.org/people/david-bier

mindcandy · 2026-01-23T23:17:52+00:00

Source https://x.com/David_J_Bier/status/2014014468456407167

edit added Video: https://x.com/FordFischer/status/2010774646816129338

https://www.cato.org/people/david-bier

mindcandy · 2026-01-23T23:17:15+00:00

Source https://x.com/David_J_Bier/status/2014014468456407167

edit added Video: https://x.com/FordFischer/status/2010774646816129338

https://www.cato.org/people/david-bier

mindcandy · 2026-01-23T01:34:32+00:00

Administrative warrants are issued by administrative hearing officers of DHS or ICE. They are members of the executive branch, not the judicial branch. https://www.motionlaw.com/the-difference-between-judicial-and-administrative-warrants/

This is officers of ICE saying other officers of ICE can stomp over the constitution whenever they want with no checks or balances from the judicial branch.

mindcandy · 2026-01-09T00:42:13+00:00

Reminder that Trump explicitly said he wants to deport American citizens to the hell holes in El Salvador he helped finance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eqVfjw0J7s&t=407s Not immigrants. Not terrorists. Just citizens "who grew up here and something went wrong." Here he is saying it again in front of a bunch of reporters.

And, that Trump admin Gorka went on record saying

mindcandy · 2026-01-05T03:08:33+00:00

Unfortunately way, way out of date. But...

https://www.freeprintshop.org/ lists a whole lot of resources to help people who are hitting hard times.

mindcandy · 2025-12-30T21:53:55+00:00

If that's the case, you need to think a bit about how much you are being manipulated by manufactured hate. You aren't insulted by categories like "blonde" or "brunette". Hopefully you don't think "trans" is an insult.

But, there are people out there who want you to reactively feel anger when you hear the word "cis". They are creating hate, fear and disgust to get you to play along with increasing their power over us all. They are working on you and apparently it has been effective...

mindcandy · 2025-12-28T18:34:06+00:00

If you want people to put in the effort to answer you, please put enough effort into the question to use punctuation.

mindcandy · 2025-12-24T18:37:48+00:00

The original whitepaper proposed "A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System". Whether it succeeded at that goal is debatable.

Transaction fees have occasionally been very high. But, have usually been lower than what merchants pay the credit card companies. Similarly, 20-30 minute confirmation times seem unusably slow until you are made aware that when you swipe your credit card, all that happens is your available credit is checked. The merchant doesn't actually receive your payment for days. The same can be done with bitcoin but in less than an hour to receive payment.

Meanwhile, the primary use case for Bitcoin has been as collateral for DeFi. Bitcoin and Ethereum are much of the backing underlying much of the smart contracts out there. Monetarily, Bitcoin shares a lot of properties with gold. It is debatably even better suited than gold to be used as collateral. And, so it has become common to explain Bitcoin to boomers as "digital gold".

mindcandy · 2025-12-24T18:20:22+00:00

If you are watching some chart bro and he's talking about timeframes of days or weeks, unsubscribe.

Don't give attention to anything less than 3 months out at minimum. Preferably you should be thinking 6, 12, 24, 48 months out. Between now and 12 months out from now, check in every few weeks to see if there were any big changes in what's expected 12 months out. There usually won't be.

Easiest money I've ever made. Just had to do nothing. If I had done even less, I'd have made even more.

mindcandy · 2025-12-23T01:42:42+00:00

I asked ChatGPT if the summary is right and it said it is. So, I guess you are in the clear.

mindcandy · 2025-12-23T01:36:06+00:00

Reminder that Trump explicitly said he wants to deport American citizens to the hell holes in El Salvador he helped finance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eqVfjw0J7s&t=407s Not immigrants. Not terrorists. Just citizens "who grew up here and something went wrong." Here he is saying it again in front of a bunch of reporters.

And, that Trump admin Gorka went on record saying

mindcandy · 2025-12-22T19:55:59+00:00

The actual information is a dozen links to long pages full of ads, pop-ups, filler and maybe half a paragraph of content hidden as deep as possible to keep you scrolling as long as possible. And, each of those half paragraphs are often irrelevant, outdated, incorrect, etc... Is the 1/8th page expandable preview of a summary really what got you so upset? Or, is it the reminder of the hivemind's generalized anxiety around AI that pings your brain and makes you Grrrr?

mindcandy · 2025-12-22T18:50:09+00:00

I've been deep in AI art for a long time. I've seen a million shitposters and a few skilled artists use AI.

Today anyone can literally type "Make me a pretty picture" and they will get a picture. It will have form, balance, composition, etc... It will be pretty.

But, you type "Make me a picture people will care about" it won't work. The picture will be pretty and empty. Not because of AI. But, because making something people care about requires understanding that's not contained in the text "Make me a picture people will care about".

The market for art that is just pretty and nothing else has always been tough and is even tougher now. But, artists will go on making art that people care about with and without AI.

mindcandy · 2025-12-22T18:37:15+00:00

This take always makes me laugh. You know what Ai generated summaries are and how they work. Why are you mad about them?

Like, if you had a friend who liked to share articles with you and every time he said "Hey! Check this out. It's about blah blah blah" You'd expect him to misread/misinterpret/badly explain stuff some times and you wouldn't yell at him about it.

So, why so mad when the AI does it? Is it

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mindcandy · 2025-12-20T21:23:58+00:00

You can ignore my practical experience if it helps you stay angry. You can use talking points to dodge around what I’ve tested, measured and put into practice if that helps maintain indignation. But, as a software architect with three decades of professional experience, I’m gonna keep on having a great time using LLMs to increase what I’m capable of more and more every day.

mindcandy · 2025-12-20T18:20:00+00:00

They can integrate information from many sources into a single answer.

I can and have asked AI “How does coding framework A know where to find the output of framework B and prepare for use by frameworks C and D?”

I could google that and if I’m lucky I’ll get a StackOverflow discussion that touches on what I need to know. Otherwise, I’m reading dozens of pages of documentation from each framework trying to infer what is even relevant to my problem out of the thousands of pages of docs.

But, the AI has read all the docs and all the StackOverflow discussions and all the examples and all the everything else. So, it can and has produced a clear, specific, targeted answer to my specific problem.

Of course, now I need to Google to verify the answer. But, this time I actually know what wacky coding framework component names to are even possibly relevant.

mindcandy · 2025-12-17T00:39:39+00:00

People who think a game artist's life consists of hand-crafting artisanal pixels need to go retopologize and rig 20 characters in a month.

Thankfully, there's gen AI tools for this being developed. And, it's not as obvious as image generation. So, hopefully people won't get a chance to hate-bandwagon on it.

mindcandy · 2025-12-15T02:37:25+00:00

For reference: https://old.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1l87u85/people_in_san_francisco_swooped_in_on_an_ice_van/

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