Urbane Myth

I am living in the dystopian cyberpunk future of my dreams.

@RGA This is Major Tom to tech support I’m clicking on the tab But it’s acting in a most peculiar way And the menu ribbon looks quite different today

@Colin_P_A_Jones @RGA The background has gone blue And there's nothing I can do

Imagine being prompted to sign in with Authenticator from here

@MojoboJomo It's been done as an experiment/art exhibit in Belgium: humanpowerplant.com/2017/09/18/pro…

why wouldn't this work? like, all that wasted energy going nowhere, why not use it? But I probably don't know anything about this

@timecaptales Slop has been a useful term for a good long while it seems.

In the summer of 2000, as the Harry Potter series was quickly becoming a global sensation, legendary Yale critic Harold Bloom gave one of his most unpopular takes, calling 35 million readers wrong

@BanderaBeau x.com/VitaeKate/stat…

"This is the stupidest war in history" For fucks sake stop challenging them...

@pplsartofwar Firing the chief of the Chaplain Corps is a _really_ bad sign.

Firing these three leaders means Hesgeth had a catastrophic disagreement with how the military is managed, its doctrine, and its moral compass. That is a morale problem. And these three clearly had major objections to this war.

I suggest the more neutral terms "Moon Occupation", "Moon Invasion", or "Moon Domination". Colonization is too Woke sounding. ;)

I am sold that there is something to the overkill hypothesis but I think sometimes draw a perverse conclusion from it--that people everywhere and always are ravenous despoilers--when the real story is that in its wake Holocene people worldwide innovated more sustainable ways of life, which is how any of us are here. We look at the modern environmental movement as some kind of singular civilizational achievement and can't imagine that, say, indigenous American practices of 500 years ago were themselves the innovations, reforms, and technologies of people with experience of great ecological loss.

I've noticed there appears to be a fundamental misunderstanding about how the oil and gas industry actually works, especially in the US. So let me try to put this into proper perspective. You can’t dramatically increase oil output without bringing new wells online. There is no magic dial you can just turn up when ever you need more. From leasing and permitting, to site prep, to drilling, to completion, to production, the process can take anywhere from 4 to 12 months. So companies don’t respond to today’s prices, they respond to where they expect prices to be over that entire window. If the expectation is that current conditions are short-lived, there’s very little incentive to ramp activity. If the message being communicated is that the conflict is already over, or close to it, that reinforces the idea that by the time new wells come online, prices will likely have normalized. Because of that, we’re unlikely to see a meaningful increase in rig count in the US in the near term, and in fact, activity has already begun to trend lower. The only thing that reliably drives higher activity is sustained confidence that elevated prices will persist long enough to justify the investment. In other words, they are waiting for a clear signal that current conditions will last, not just spike. In this case that signal would probably be an openly communicated commitment to a lengthy ground war. Everything I've just stated is basically a fact, although I'm sure some will disagree about specific details. Now here's where the speculation starts. If someone were trying to plan for this potential disruption in advance without a clear understanding of how the industry works, they might assume Venezuela, the country with the largest oil reserves, could simply be brought in to offset any future supply disruption. And from that perspective, you could imagine taking aggressive action in an attempt to force that into reality. But that was never a realistic short-term solution. Even under ideal conditions, increasing production there would require tens of billions of dollars in investment and many years of development before meaningful volumes reach the market. Unfortunately, having reserves is not the same thing as having supply.

@policytensor The Arabian plate is converging with the Eurasian so the Hormuz strait will close by itself in a few millions years effectively rendering this entire issue irrelevant.

@CJHandmer @CSI_Starbase "If your enemy does not surrender immediately, keep macerating civilians" -- Sun Tzu

@CSI_Starbase I agree that Iranian leadership should recognize that the war has progressed not necessarily to their advantage and capitulate.

Here’s some important food for thought for every human being on this planet. Is it moral to collectively punish an entire civilian population for decisions made by a ruling class that represents less than 0.5 % of their country? The answer matters. Because the precedent we set today becomes the rules of engagement tomorrow. We are actively rewriting the script that could one day be used against our own families, our own cities, our own children. In other words: would dropping 2,000 lb bombs in the middle of New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney, Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Damascus, Cairo, or any other city on Earth be an acceptable way to force a government to capitulate? The question isn’t about any one conflict. It’s about the standard we are willing to live and die by when the tables inevitably turn.

asking a vibecoder in the throes of AI psychosis what their 100k lines of code do

but some of their beauty made it into other languages (that also get a bad rap for hw reqs)

Everybody is twelve now

@ripplebrain What a strange coincidence that I recently learned how to sail.

Man was not meant to soar like a bird through the sky anyway

@SalvMattera "Awareness" is a lightning rod for discontent.

Earlier tonight I threw on my N95 and went to go see Slavoj Žižek speak. I don't agree with a lot of his ideas, but I've been a fan for a long time because I find them interesting. One of them in particular feels deeply relevant to the current situation with Long COVID: what Žižek calls Cynical Ideology. As he would summarize it, "they know very well what they are doing, but still, they are doing it" The government isn't operating under the old model of ideology - it is not denying Long COVID exists. Even the people directly responsible for this mess, such as Jay Bhattacharya, acknowledge it openly. They express concern, they fund RECOVER, they post awareness infographics, and then....they do absolutely nothing that would actually change outcomes. The Minnesota DoH post that I flagged before is a perfect example. The people who wrote it probably genuinely believe they're helping. They're aware that Long COVID is real and serious. They acknowledge the history of post-viral illness. And yet, the net effect of their acknowledgment is to normalize the present inaction. The awareness IS the ideology. It structures reality in a way that makes the current state of affairs feel like progress rather than abandonment. Žižek argues that modern ideology doesn't work by lying to you. Instead, it works by telling you the truth in a way that ensures nothing changes. The acknowledgment almost paradoxically becomes the control mechanism. How to break through this? Not sure yet.

The current moment on here feels like March 2020 right before COVID started hitting the US hard. The online justifications, tension, and debates are quite similar.

@afro_hamza @ididathing1 invented modern drone warfare: youtube.com/watch?v=969XGZ…

for context of engineers being addicted to Jihad heres a video of Hamas manufacturing their own locally made sniper rifles ‘ which is derived from the Iranian AM50 Sayyad.

@nocontextmemes Let's learn the Privacy Song!