JD Vance is probably among us as we speak. He could be any username…

Is he you?

I wish, but no.

Fyi our album is now on streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple, Youtube, etc) under Constellation ATX.

Most of the time, if I’m listening to anything, it’s a playlist of Boards of Canada on shuffle - usually while I work.

Otherwise, my music taste is pretty stalled these days wrt new music. Unwound got back together and I saw a couple of their shows, one in LA and another in Austin. The Blood Brothers also reunited and I have a ticket to see them in Dec. Melt-Banana just released a new album I haven’t listened to yet.

My friend’s band, Yuppie Killer, released their discography on streaming sites. They’re a hardcore punk band of expats in South Korea from 2012-2017.

I play in a band, Constellation, and we’re sending it to be mastered this week. Kind of throwback to 90’s post-hardcore like Fugazi (yeah, we got cowbell) and Drive Like Jehu. Really excited about it.

“Surely Google will make a smart decision” is a hill surrounded by corpses.

Matt Yglesias Considered As The Nietzschean Superman

How is anyone able to read this article beyond this “Charlie Brown Had Hoes”-ass title?

Christ, there’s so much backstory here - just scrolling through long descriptions of Gerard’s views and just thinking “based, based, based, based.”

it’s an empty paper bag left in an empty parking garage

There’s currently a loud minority of EAs saying that EA should ostracize people if they associate with people who disagree with them.

people who disagree with them.

Oh, it’s racists. The vague description is because it’s racists. It’s a woke cult now because some people don’t want to associate with racists.

tap a well dry as ye may, I guess

Before we accidentally make an AI capable of posing existential risk to human being safety

It’s cool to know that this isn’t a real concern and therefore in a clear vantage of how all the downstream anxiety is really a piranha pool of grifts for venture bucks and ad clicks.

A year and two and a half months since his Time magazine doomer article.

No shut downs of large AI training - in fact only expanded. No ceiling on compute power. No multinational agreements to regulate GPU clusters or first strike rogue datacenters.

Just another note in a panic that accomplished nothing.

I mean, I agree with the sentiment behind the sarcasm, but also feel the same way about the internet in general. Sometimes it’s learning the same lesson in a new context. But Roko’s basilisk though? Quite a cliff.

In its reaction against both EA and AI safety advocates, e/acc also explicitly pays tribute to another longtime Silicon Valley idea. “This is very traditional libertarian right-wing hostility to regulation," said Benjamin Noys, a professor of critical theory at the University of Chichester and scholar of accelerationism. Jezos calls it the “libertarian e/acc path.”

At least the Italian futurists were up front about their agenda.

“We’re trying to solve culture by engineering,” Verdon said. “When you’re an entrepreneur, you engineer ways to incentivize certain behaviors via gradients and reward, and you can program a civilizational system."

Reading Nudge to engineer the ‘Volksschädling’ to board the trains voluntarily. Dusting off the old state eugenics compensation programs.