gnomicutterance

the otherwise nameless woke menace that’s coming for their precious bodily fluids.

aaaaargh I wish I could draw.

every single bathroom bill requires that the most masc, bearded trans guys legally have to use the women's toilets because they were AFAB. It has never not boggled my mind.

(Except that what it actually means, obviously, is that those trans guys are prohibited from peeing and perforce existing in public, because anywhere with bathroom bills is somewhere where a trans guy is sure as hell putting his life at risk by using the women's toilets. Goddammit.)

(Edited to add: I know this is obvious to everyone. But it's still enraging.)

…ew

oh lord I cannot imagine how they would torment nexus the tao te ching.

...wait yes I can. they'd decide that LLMs are the tao. "What's perfectly whole seems flawed, but you can use it forever." "To know without knowing is best." "If those in power could hold to the Way, the ten thousand things would look after themselves."

yeah, I knew about kurzweil reading machines for years before I connected them with ray kurzweil, and I don't know how much of his tech ended up in speech rec during the scansoft / dragon systems / nuance / lernout and hauspie katamari years, but that tech has enabled me to be an independent working adult for more than 20 years. So I owe him a debt of gratitude, but also, he needs to not be on his bullshit.

that would explain npm.

From the comments:

Insect welfare (unlike woke identitarian proliferation) is not a priori wrong.

a community whose commendable openness to unbiased discussion of any idea, uh huh.

if we're lucky, silicon valley will be eaten by a grue.

He also wants us to know that Hannania is much less right than he’s made out to be

Also he doesn't grasp that people hate Hanania because he's a racist, not because of where he falls on the forced left/right spectrum.

also here for "well the opposite of left wing views is racism"

thanks for saying it aloud my friend

Here's the "what did you like least" survey entries the organizers say they classified as "edgy people":

"all the racism stuff" = "edgy people". Yup.

They do buy mosquito nets, although it's unclear that all malaria net charities do so in culturally-appropriate ways where they'll be used as intended. I believe they've stopped with the large grants to deworming charities, which is good, because the effectiveness of deworming programs is extremely controversial. Depending on where you direct your money at that parent website, it might go to EA Funds, who send a lot of money at global development but has also paid a ton of salaries for people researching LLMs and AI. Or it could go to EffectiveVentures, which might have spent your money buying a castle. For reasons.

If you support mosquito nets, you can give to the mosquito net charity directly, cut out the overhead. Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières does good global development work if you don't mind giving to a huge organization that by necessity has higher overhead. Avoid the Red Cross and you should be fine.