hackernews: We’re going to build utopia on Mars, reinvent money, and construct god.

also hackernews: moving off facebook is too hard :( :( :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42779776

LGB-Trillionaires?

All I can figure is that they want to build a hydraulic empire but are too lazy to work through the practical difficulties of plumbing.

I’ve been seeing Ed references in the wild lately. May the wave continue to build!

This might be a good basis for a sticky post in NotAwfulTech!

Google+ but worse

When you encounter a situation where Abort, Retry, and Fail are all solid options.

Tired: Veblen goods

Wired: Veblen words

How did pg get stuck in write-only mode?

Keir Starmer methodically applies clown makeup, ultimately transforming into a fully-realized Rishi Sunak

Read a rumor that zuck’s marriage is falling apart, which scans.

A second divorced man is about to hit the tower.

Day 3 is solid gold.

SV uses LLMs the same way that Orks use red paint

Is this the leaked script for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money?

Another proposal for naming our militia: The Cassandra Division

Our Motto: “Sic diximus vobis”

LLM Use cases:

1. Crime
2. Laziness
3. Congratulating Donald Trump for anything ever

hackernews having a normal one (EDIT: Then things got worse)

HN Title: The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800

In the top comments:

dash2 55 minutes ago | next [–]

Here’s an interesting extract:

We find evidence of nepotism for 5–6.6% of scholars’ sons in Protestant and for 29.4% in Catholic universities and academies. Catholic institutions relied more heavily on intra-family human capital transfers. We show that these differences partly explain the divergent path of Catholic and Protestant universities after the Reformation.

This relates to an important paper providing evidence that indeed Protestantism was associated with scientific progress: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4389708

red016 3 minutes ago | parent | next [–]

i’d be more interested in jewish numbers than protestant or catholic

The thing that’s most baffling to me is how the difference in ground game had zero impact. We were pounding the pavement, doors got fuckin knocked. The GOP did less than zero, firing their entire staff responsible for in-person outreach and gave 100 million to PACs run by grifters who put it directly into their own pockets.

Unless we’ve missed a trick, retail politics as it has existed is dead.

The bad guys have definitely learned a new sort of trick. Haven’t wrapped my head around it yet, but it is bad, innit?

Personally, I’d love to see the Luddites be rehabilitated as a result of the Great Bullshit Collapse. They were just regular folks fighting for dignity in work, and it’s tragic how successful the bastards have been at erasing them from history.