MC (same handle elsewhere):

if anyone's out there, my handle is the same here as elsewhere, I think I'm close to done with this garbage

@TheKindAnGentle @jmontforttx

@jmontforttx California citizens voted to ban immigrants from benefits but a unelected judge overturned it and flooded the state with mroe migrants every year since and thats why you have human shit and dirty needles on your streets

Wait until you see T-E-X-A-S. You'll need an extra-wide screen.

@Gweipo77 @cafreiman You think they don't teach math in college?

@burntbulb @cafreiman Are you saying that there's no payoff to being able to read and write and do basic math? We need people with basic skills. We don't need people who spent 4 years learning to spit back propaganda that has no value to others.

This is a fair point, but it’s also wrong to externalize the costs of the choice via student loan forgiveness.

@feedbackboop @cafreiman Says who? And what makes one worthy of being collectively funded and the other not?

@burntbulb @cafreiman the education of children and adolescents serves a different social function than a four year university degree for adults. the community college level serves as a bridge between the two.

@viemccoy @ForecastFire Before I discovered cybernetics and all the modern splinters like industrial engineering and OR, I used to describe a vision of "psychological/information engineering" and people looked at me like I was crazy

@ForecastFire the best way to describe my work is adversarial cybernetics, but nobody understands what that means

Great Q. The modern western left's relationship to cybernetics fits three buckets: 1. "what's that? robot arms?" -- by far the most common. I thought this too. Most people have simply never encountered the word outside of sci-fi. 2. "behaviourist 💥 [vine boom], technocratic 💥, positivist 💥, unmarked universalism 💥, reductionist, 💥, totalizing 💥 , scientistic, 💥, mechanistic, 💥, Cartesian, 💥 panoptical 💥, managerialist, 💥, neoliberal. 💥💥💥" — Mx. Actual Critical Theory Degree. - Honestly, this ain't wrong. The cybernetic concepts that dispersed and thrived in the US are the managerial/engineering cybernetics. Cybernetic concepts fed directly into scientific management, operations research, and the kind of systems optimization language that corporations love. 3. "this is the knowledge we need to manifest [insert preferred governance structure] or harness and steer existing structures". xenofeminists, cryptanarchists, soviet revivalists, Beer-heads, Bookchin-pilled municipalists, and so on. IMO, cybernetics naturally attracts anyone involved in serious attempts at new forms of coordination. Cybernetics is largely forgotten by everyone, not just the left - yet it was arguably the hottest trans-disciplinary scientific movement of the mid-20th century. The Macy Conferences (1945-55) brought together people from neuroscience, anthropology, mathematics, psychology, and engineering to ask foundational questions about information, feedback, and communication. It had ENORMOUS buzz for decades, and its fingers are in every little pie. Unfortunately, the field fractured. Cybernetics is more of a meta-framework like "the theory of evolution", not a domain-specific discipline like geology. The parts that were easiest to operationalize split off and became their own disciplines, like: AI, computer science, control theory, cognitive science, systems engineering. The harder philosophical questions ("what does it mean for an observer to be part of the system they're studying?") led to second-order cybernetics, which was intellectually rich but institutionally homeless. The Biological Computer Lab, the leading cybernetics research center in the US, got defunded in 1969 when the Mansfeld Amendment cut military support for research without direct weapons applications, and Heinz von Foerster refused to reframe his work to fit. No undergrad programs were ever established, and the movement lost its center. Even still, concepts born from cybernetics are everywhere: neural networks, feedback, black box, information theory, homeostasis, self-organization, even the prefix cyber- itself. Sadly, almost nobody recognizes they came from the same intellectual tradition, or WHY they emerged together. source: Stuart Umpleby's 6-hour lecture on the fundamentals and history of cybernetics is the best single resource i know of: youtube.com/watch?v=obvzUj…. For a book, check E. W. Kuppers' A Transdisciplinary Introduction to Cybernetics (2023)

@ForecastFire What do you do now? Your options are either computer science (NOT software engineering) or become a heterodox economist...?

@ForecastFire Shame, because it's basically exactly what I want to do, so I went into industrial engineering instead. IE cries out for a home to unify all its scattered theoretical foundations!

@rowanfornow Clinton's Law: one-quarter of the country is irredeemably deplorable

what's the floor here? at least a fifth of the country literally thinks Trump is ordained to rule by Christ so it can't get too much lower, right?

@LinkofSunshine hold on now I'm actually trying to figure out if you can construct braess's paradox with housing

Reminder than you cant believe building more lanes increases traffic without believing building more houses raises rent through induced demand! Theres a near 1:1 correlation with density and rent prices!! Theres a huge demand for density, causing building houses to increase rent

@MegaBasedChad @IAmJakeHuffaker He's correct but lacks reading comprehension so basically your average student

@IAmJakeHuffaker What a non sequitur, this whole situation really has little to do with information dispersion. Our Princeton students in such a state. Oh heavens no!

The Econ 101 models are almost always correct, the idea that they aren't is just cope made up by the softer sciences

@junhagemay Not enough people working in colored pencils these days, very cool!

In Japan, we kind of have a Twitter rule that if something goes viral, you get to promote whatever you want, so here’s my little self-promo. I usually draw colored pencil art like this. Her name is Biko-chan, and she’s my original character. I want to make friends with people in the U.S., so starting today, I’m going to draw an Americanized version of Biko-chan. I’ll be posting little progress updates every day, so if you’re interested, I’d be really happy if you followed me. x.com/junhagemay/sta…

ごめん。 ｢日本人が思うようなアメリカ人になりなさい｣って言葉を聞いて、最初に浮かんだのが2リットルのコーラ片手に特大ピザ食ってる肥満デブだったので、自分の中の雑なアメリカ観にちょっと申し訳なくなった。

@junhagemay Sometimes we enjoy being fat slobs too. Hopefully not all the time though.

@KingLouieJones @negen_x @pankendev I'm not dodging, I'm just not sure what you're looking for. Do you want me to start with the alphabet and work my way up, or...?

@burntbulb @negen_x @pankendev You're dodging.

i'm convinced a cornerstone of the conservative brain is on some level they perceive the world as having maybe about 60 people in it

@tautologer We are witnessing the birth of "open source means that it's secure because everyone can look for vulnerabilities" actually being true instead of just a thing people say

we will likely find out soon whether the Linux kernel is offense-dominant or defense-dominant

@jameszimmermann Fair but there is a twinge of "I'm too good to be a *working* musician" in this

Movie concerts are cash cows so orchestras can’t say no to them. Musicians found them fun at first, but once novelty became the norm it got pretty demoralizing: The concerts are long, you’re not the main attraction, and most people leave during the credits. Lowbrow stuff.

@KingLouieJones @negen_x @pankendev I said conservatives don't understand anything, which seems to include what I said as well.

@burntbulb @negen_x @pankendev That's what I thought

@ApoStructura Would be better served by nationalizing healthcare and getting costs under control first, otherwise that's where all the money goes

The U.S. could literally do $20,000/y UBI today without raising taxes if there were no other forms of welfare. If you discarded every program except military/infrastructure/law enforcement/debt repayment, the U.S. federal government would have $20,000 left per adult to spend.

@JamieBonkiewicz Put it on a bingo card

I’ll save you some time on the Iran address: • It’s Biden’s fault • 48 hours • Two weeks • Some incoherent gibberish • We’ve won • We are way ahead of schedule • It’s a little excursion • We have obliterated them • We’ve knocked out all their ships • I could open up the Strait of Hormuz • Go get your own oil • They gave us a present • NATO are cowards • Something about Nuclear weapons • Allies are useless • We need allies • Nobody’s ever seen anything like it • Fake news • DEMOCRATS • Obama • More gibberish • I know more than the generals • Greatest foreign policy ever Am I missing anything?

@OrganizerMemes majorigami

Need a scoragami bot that tracks the Supreme Court decision Makeups like "This is the first time KBJ and Alito are sole dissenters on a case, they disagree on 86% of rulings"