[redacted] enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, father of ninjas
@dgerard hey, I saw your bsky post and had an idea. Have you weighed in on Nscale and the UK’s sovereign scafolding reserve? I hope that it gets noticed by the wider public, because that shit is 10/10 hilarious.
It gets better! According to Trashfuture, Nscale never even bothered to buy the scaffolding yard, which is still in operation.
https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/unlocked-scaffold-to-heaven/
Ars sure drank the koolaid didn’t they?
Yesterday i explained something so bleak to my therapist she asked me if we could pause for a minute so she could think about it. I’m getting close to winning therapy i can feel it in my bones.
A lateral move from pointing at the unbelievers and screeching, really
Hey, he’s posted here before!
That story is rad as hell. I was ready to run through a wall for those folks at the end. Appreciate you, Robert!
It sucks. :(
Honestly, the article reminds me of Scott Alexander, but succinct. “Here are several true things and an absolutely batshit wrong thing, presented together with equal earnestness.”
The wrong thing being “Believing that LLMs are trash is a mental disorder (not really but wink wink).”
Why do this now, when it’s all coming apart? It’s baffling.
A hackernews notices that HN autoflags 404 Media articles. A little downthread, dang bullshits unconvincingly in reponse.
This really seems to be the case.
Wew, Cory Doctorow sure is posting through it
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/normal-technology/#bubble-exceptionalism
Labor theory of value, but worse
Never have so few been so unsatisfied to be so correct.
I’m calling it Anthropomorphic accidentally on-purpose forever now.
I like this. News is a frittata, it needs time to set before consuming.
The great chain of bleating
Hell yeah!
It’s 10 pm on a Sunday. My FIL is texting me business plans from the slop hole as I try to get the last kiddo down to sleep. He wants me to read them to my wife, who already mad at him about it.
Thank you all for being an island of sanity.
Shitlibs running to sign up for claude is peak whatever the fuck this moment is.
You can’t just go around telling people that their loop isn’t strange enough
Nifty, thanks!