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"Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief..."

\- Alan Greenspan

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2009/03/30/...


Tech oligarchs: "Nothing can stop the software we are making from escaping and destroying everything."

Clueful types: "Did you try air-gapping it?"

Tech oligarchs: "Be realistic."


At this point I’m less worried about some malicious AI “taking over” control of critical systems and more worried about some rich doofus giving control to AI.

Already happened. Kegsbreath has AI picking schools to blow up.

It's not "pushing policy" if the policy has a popular mandate.

Compare the respective numbers of Democratic and Republican presidents in your lifetime who attained the office while losing the popular vote.


Popular mandate is surely 65% as the bare minimum. 51% is not a mandate, it just shows they hate you slightly less than the other guy.

The last decade has taken the edge off Hanlon's razor.

In violation of their own name-squatting policy, Github has refused to rename or remove an account that is squatting my legal name even after I sent them a scan of my ID proving that it is my legal name.

Unfortunately drawing attention to it would likely invoke the Streissand effect and be counter productive so I can only wait until the frabjous day that github goes dark at last.


Prisoners are in prison as punishment. Not for punishment.

That is a concept that eludes many.


> What's so interesting about tiling managers?

And of that interesting stuff, how much can't be had just by configuring the window tiling shortcuts in floating window managers to have the best of both worlds?

https://uli.rocks/p/tilling-xfce/



> The funny part would be when one would be promoted into management, and instantly became incompetent in the estimation of the other workers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle


> Yeah because addressing the city council with your middle fingers extended is totally mature and appropriate of adults.

I think by reaching adulthood, let alone public office, most people have seen middle fingers before. Moreover there is no statute against being in public bare-handed.


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