Matrix is aimed at enterprise sized organizations and it shows.

I am an old fart and still find pretty solid deals on craigslist.

They can still eat shit since they STILL fund anti-lgbtq organizations, to my knowledge.

I got a free year of perplexity.ai which gives me limited access to claude sonnet and yeah, its honestly pretty good.

Actually I think the Bush example is a bad one because I think that aspect of the 2016 election was memory-holed.

Originally the media was pushing Jeb Bush vs. Hillary Clinton, and Clinton herself was so fucksure that was going to be the match up she pushed her media contacts to focus on lunatics like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, trying to show people how crazy they were. She underestimated two things here.

1. People being tired of both the Bushes and the Clintons. Trump came in as an outsider and shook things up, as no one was enthusiastic for Jeb “please clap” Bush. Clinton used the fact that she was essentially funding the entire DNC apparatus to put the finger on the scale because no one was really excited for her either, although she never had an equivalent “please clap” moment.

2. How people saw politicians like Bush and Clinton as maneuvering and calculating and following the winds of popularity rather than facing difficult problems head on. As much as Clinton was right to peg Trump as a lunatic, she underestimated (I did and still do too, I don’t get it) Trump’s charisma. Her self assuredness that it would be her vs. Bush was a total misread of an era where people were sick of current politicians in general and any kind of outsider became appealing (the explosion of interest in Bernie Sanders is snother example in the same period).

Anyway I think the push for Bush . Clinton alienated a lot of voters from both. I remember it was a common complaint I heard at the time from both people on the left and right.

I mean, I feel very called out right now.

Instead of .local my internal network domain is .evil.lair with a landing page saying “fuck off” and nothing else at https://evil.lair/

The description for my local domain is “Volcano Lair on Spider Skull Island.”

You think that’s bad, how about using your law degree to lobby on behalf of oligarchs.

That definitely puts them at the bottom with fraud and treachery. While working for a defense contractor merely falls under wrath and avarice, a slightly less severe circle of hell.

At least he was a good pianist.

Slop Kitto

Now do Glub Shitto gang

Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie

Why do people keep helping him???

Why does the rest of the world keep rolling over to his idle fucking threats???

It isn’t portable enough and usually you need a reason to be at the hospital, not just hanging out.

Hospitals tend to have uninterrupted power supplies.

…what does this have to do with anything?

I love my local LLM voice recognition on my PC through Speech Note on Linux.

I mean Trump is doing roughly the same just not with words.

But even if the technical side of security is top notch, infiltration would be trivial…

Yeah really bad opsec all around in a LOT of these groups, but I’m not really sure how you organize without a means of communications. I think collective ownership of the means of communication is just as important to laborers as collective ownership of the means of production.

Honestly, I’m really less worried about myself and more worried about people in more dangerous situations where the cost of such a thing dwarfs even the cost to me. There’s tons of people out there who are being actively monitored by their governments and they simply can’t afford it. Like all the dirt poor immigrants being deported to countries they have never been to.

I think his name was Cornelius.

Literally anything. Clothing. A bed. A UPS so I can safely update my six year out of date BIOS that is causing issues snd the constant, random power outages here don’t make me feel safe enough to just do it whenever. A car. Insurance for a car. (Or being able to afford to live in a city with good public transit) Gender affirming care. A place to live. Privacy. Safety.

Oh yeah and my cancer meds that I am forced to live in poverty for and the threat of losing then dangles over my head if I lose my medicaid. Which is possible now.

See if you let gravity do the work and then change the orange portal to point up the hill… Job is done! Now you’re thinking with portals, Sisyphus.

Oh even one better, catch it after it falls from the hill with the blue portal, allowing the momentum to continue into a glorious neverending arc where Sisyphus’ eternal job is automated and done.