Nick Hall
Computerer, lapsed poet, hardworking Pittsburgh taxpayer
- I understand this view but find it unsophisticated. Even if we grant that it was always going to be heard as Defund the Police Completely Somehow rather than Defund the Police by Some Amount Obviously, it shifted the Overton window in a way more measured and accurate slogans would not have
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- Classic tool-focus vs user-focus nerd fight. LLMs have formal use cases in that they do something someone wants. Who cares? Really, who are the "pseudo-Luddites?" I think people see that use cases can be socially useless or harmful, and so are irrelevant, and so aren't what they're talking about.
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- I didn't fully agree with Manufacturing Consent because it suggested more intention than I think exists, but I'm very glad I struggled through it. The analysis of the corporate and cultural role of powerful liars at the core of traditional news media has kept me sane
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- let them eat cake but make it pedagogy
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- The rich and powerful think ai is becoming agi because they don’t understand human intelligence or care to. To them it is obviously what their predecessors thought it was, mechanical, a list of rules. They must insist that’s true because their status came from forcing people to pretend that it was.
- [texting all republicans] Found your institute
- Thought process indistinguishable from my child arguing “but I WANT to jump on your neck” only enhanced with the royal we
- Shoutout to my fellow preschooler parents right now having to listen to someone prattle on incessantly about inane nonsense they just made up and also listen to their child
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- Had not heard or recognized this but it scans, and would explain a lot
- Every bully and bad boss I've had showed me that people don't really hurt each other because they are smart and cruel but because they are stupid and powerful. Cruelty kind of _is_ just stupidity and intelligence, broadly-defined, kind of the only legitimate power.
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- I have no opinion on Stancil. I have no opinion on the discussions in his posts or their replies. I don't think they are really discussions. I think they purport to discuss in ways requiring well-defined terms, which posts and replies don't use. So I agree this (type of) site (of exchange) is broken
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- Replied to rather than reposted the ai trolling by the youtube comedian. But that type of “argument” is so malign and metastatic I feel like the reply is an evergreen form: Stop making up a guy who said that [x] is [y] The real people you’re mad at said that [x] is [x] And [x] clearly sucks ass
- "Are WiFi-enabled induction stovetops happy? Do toasters that print photos on toast contemplate the nature of art? No but I wrote that they do to annoy you into clicking this link."
- Welcome to the resistance, Trump's own current lawyers.
- Lowering energy
- Whether in service to his KGB handler, his degenerate golf buddies' drunk rants, his oligarchs saying oligarchy will make men men again, his immaculate toddler id, his stochastic cult of myopic huckster yesmen's latest random emission, or just him hating his country for telling him no, this is it.
- The opposite of antisemitism isn't zionism. The opposite of racism isn't "colorblind" fantasy. The opposites of things are not necessarily their negations. Idiots who think in simplistic binaries are taking over and it's going to kill us all.
- Omg 🤌
- Musk is, and has always been, little more than High-IQ Man™ And IQ, when presented as an innate quality rather than psychometric astrology, is just abstract eugenics.
- Scarier result to me is the first and staunchest one, 62% to 29% FOR mass voter suppression. I'd guess it's because the proposed form (impractical and pointless ID at that scale) seems fine to most people who don't grasp the racist history of US voting or probability theory. But it's the ballgame.
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- So far gen ai like cryptocurrency has exactly one clear, non-trivial use and that is crime www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/04/...
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- Need a shorter way to say Every Accusation is a Confession, perhaps a name for the instances? Accufessions? Confusations!? asharangappa.substack.com/p/whats-the-...
- I get that reporters have to call balls and strikes or whatever but they do not have to hang around the minors and little league games and officiate dugout fights
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- I think the common style of popular science writing fueled the current anti-science movement. Phrasing "the median person identified in this study did x significantly more than y" as "most people do x" imagines a numerate reader. But the real readers take it literally, know that's wrong and get mad.
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- This + DOGE being a heist of granular data on the electorate + Musk/Trump being essentially Surveillance/Attention Capital barons + decades of GOP wins being voter suppression + Trump's policies being facially illegal = the reasonable surmise that they have bet on never facing a fair election.
- Very disappointed to learn that the Monty Hall problem considers a car preferable to a goat
- Look I'm fine with "beg the question" coming to mean "raise the question." (😭) But it used to mean, more usefully, "make an argument that pretends its premise is true," as the vp does in this fascist tweet. Also even if immigration were "illegal," due process IS ONLY RELEVANT TO ILLEGAL THINGS.
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- Their incompetence would be embarrassing if it wasn't intentional www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...
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- Reposted by Nick HallEvery person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...
- "It's just using Jews in a very cynical way." I try not to talk out of turn but that analysis of this shit is extremely on point.
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- Anyway in happier news
- Damn they really got nothing when dear leader's dead
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- If I planned to suppress the vote with targeted social media campaigns I would simply steal all of the structured, comprehensive financial, employment and other data about everyone
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- PVC ass spaceship
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- Shit. Otoh my garage full of half-built bikes is now a market hedge right?
- So much of the trade war feels like the early pandemic, I think because the defining social crisis in both cases was the menacing and incompetent people in power. The pandemic would have felt extremely different with another president
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- Soros needs to buy a newspaper and make the slogan Every Accusation Is a Confession
