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Maybe MTG actually has some moral convictions that are leading to her breaking from the traditionalists on these issues

Other way around, she’s breaking up with the NRX/dark enlightenment faction (the technologists) as the traditionalists don’t want a surveillance state.

The goal seems to be oust Trump and replace him with JD Vance. I’ll cheer this administration eating itself alive, but I will also call out this “maybe they’re not so bad” complete horseshit narrative every time I see it.

This is absolutely what is happening, Trump is basically a figurehead who’s beholden to a bunch of people unlike in 2016.

Really all what Trump needs to do is to keep the AI bubble afloat until next year, if it crashes before then his administration is toast.

They didn’t, in their eyes all of this is “revenge” for for the 2020 riots and woke. That all being said, I do think the government is employing Strategy of Tension in order to make the masses screech for a surveillance state.

Agreed, it’s a bit of shame because I like the idea of GNOME but the execution and project priorities are just terrible.

LXQT is also good for people who want a Qt based enviroment but don’t like kwin.

*BSD is looking better and better.

Agreed in the long term, linux is becoming a mess imo.

Honestly not surprised, GNOME has been tying itself to systemD for years and this was inevtiable. Won’t be surprised if Void and other non-systemD distros take the same path.

Unfortunately Thiel’s ideas do have a solid chance at manifesting into reality, but in his case he wants to build entirely new cities rather than co-opt old ones (keep an eye on Trump’s “freedom cities” btw).

End result is probably going to turn coastal cities on the west coast into “autonomous republics” that are politically detached to the rest of the country.

IMO balkanization is inevitable but a clean cut “national divorce” is wishful thinking, it’s going to get messy but I could be wrong.

It would be faster, but note that eMMC is the worst kind of solid state drive out there and you should replace it as soon as possible, or at least don’t store anything critical on it.

I’m not wholly opposed to your idea but it does solve the second issue but indirectly.

1. Some farmers get arrested/put out of business
2. Other farmers can’t hire/abuse immigrant labor (maybe set up a reward for every successful report)
3. Farmers go out of business
4. New farmers who use sustainable practices and give a damn about work conditions take root instead

Agreed, if someone was really concerned about “protecting jobs” they’d arrest the farmers that hire and abuse migrants.

Bit controversial but honestly deserved, most of those farms are growing water intensive crops AND only hire migrants so they can blackmail them for terrible wages.

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…you are in a technology community? They’re barely defending anything either, just a reasonable take about people saying the same thing about earlier technologies.

The people the paper talks about are the masses who think LLMs are “intelligent”, then outsource their frontal lobe to Silicon Valley datacenters because it’s seemingly easier. People who see LLMs as tools are much less (if at all) affected by this, if anything it’s a trap for people who already have lower critical thinking skills in the first place and want GPUs to think for them.

Microsoft reported the same findings earlier this year, spooky to see a more academic institution report the same results. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf Abstract for those too lazy to click:

The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) in knowledge workflows raises questions about its impact on critical thinking skills and practices. We survey 319 knowledge workers to investigate 1) when and how they perceive the enaction of critical thinking when using GenAI, and 2) when and why GenAI affects their effort to do so. Participants shared 936 first-hand examples of using GenAI in work tasks. Quantitatively, when considering both task- and user-specific factors, a user’s task-specific self-confidence and confidence in GenAI are predictive of whether critical thinking is enacted and the effort of doing so in GenAI-assisted tasks. Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking. Qualitatively, GenAI shifts the nature of critical thinking toward information verification, response integration, and task stewardship. Our insights reveal new design challenges and opportunities for developing GenAI tools for knowledge work.

Too little, too late.

Good point.

Just mentioned SystemD in another post of mine.