Telorand
@Telorand@reddthat.com
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 12 hours ago:
Considering your comments, you don’t seem to know what the point I made was.
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 13 hours ago:
Thanks! I appreciate you noticing.
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 1 day ago:
Cool, know what job could easily be wiped out? Management. Sam Altman is a manager.
Therefore, Sam Altman doesn’t do real work. Fuck you, asshole.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (24 October 2025) 2 days ago:
It’s resistant, though, specifically because you can fork it. Don’t like where things are going? Like the features of a previous version? Fork that version and run with it.
It does mean extra work for somebody to maintain that forked version, but the option is nonetheless there.
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 5 days ago:
Cool, and I bet it will be just as trustworthy as WhatsApp (i.e. not at all).
- Comment on AI-powered CRISPR could lead to faster gene therapies, Stanford Medicine study finds 2 weeks ago:
Same
- Comment on This hidden electricity drain can have a massive impact 2 weeks ago:
It’s good to know what we can do to reduce our own use—we all have to live on this planet, after all—but these kinds of articles pop up and, at the very least, make people think their efforts will have a meaningful impact. They go to sleep thinking they’re solving the problem (barring extreme situations like war-driven scarcity, for example).
But if every household stopped using electricity, many countries would still have a massive energy problem on their hands, because households aren’t really the problem.
- Comment on AI-powered CRISPR could lead to faster gene therapies, Stanford Medicine study finds 2 weeks ago:
This is actually an excellent use case for AI. Physics and chemistry as scientific disciplines are lots of complex pattern recognition and manipulation. AI is just a pattern recognition and generation engine, despite what the tech bros and apologists like to tell us.
What these engines generate will ultimately be vetted by experts before it even goes to trials. Scientists don’t just take things on blind faith simply because a robot or even another expert comes up with something; their entire deal is to understand their particular field of study in great detail, after all!
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 2 weeks ago:
You are correct, but who said it would be the Democrats doing the work?
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
This is one of the things that frustrates me about my current boss. He keeps talking about some future project that uses a new codebase we’re currently writing, at which point we’ll “clean it up and see what works and what doesn’t.” Meanwhile, he complains about my code and how it’s “too Pythonic,” what with my docstrings, functions for code reuse, and type hints.
So I secretly maintain a second codebase with better documentation and optimization.
- Comment on Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation. 2 weeks ago:
Precisely. Notice how they didn’t answer, because they can’t without ruining their little game of special pleading.
- Comment on Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation. 2 weeks ago:
When is a fetus a human?
- Comment on Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation. 2 weeks ago:
That sheriff has since been arrested and indicted on felony counts in an unrelated sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation case. He has also been charged with aggravated perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury. EFF filed public records requests with Johnson County to obtain a more definitive account of events.
At least his side of the story has a happy ending.
The rest of the story is bonkers, though. The headline could not possibly do it justice. This is one you need to sit down and read with a cup of tea.
- Comment on YSK: It's Bandcamp Friday, 100% of proceeds go to artists today (until 12 a.m. PT) 3 weeks ago:
Wait fr? Like Act 3 of their Mega Man story?
- Comment on Why do people say "as sweet as canned beans"? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never heard this expression.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 4 weeks ago:
If the stranglehold billionaires have on the world begins to diminish, I’ll start to suspect it’s been on purpose. Until then, they’re just fucking idiots who made worthless trash.
- Comment on YSK that designer psychedelics are a thing now apparently 4 weeks ago:
The science is certainly interesting. It is disheartening who is behind it, however.
- Comment on YSK that designer psychedelics are a thing now apparently 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know what other data they have, but Mindstate’s Phase 1 trial size was only 47, and how effective it was wasn’t actually documented in the article (other than vague “it was safe and well-tolerated” language). It’s obviously not poison, but whether it actually treated anything is still an open question, and how effective it will be for people in general is another; they’re aiming for the FDA to approve the drug on it’s own, and just producing a neuroplastic mental state may not be enough without guided therapy.
I sincerely hope for a drug that’s effective at treating various mental disorders, but the funding on this is practically the “who’s who” of Conservative/billionaire ghouls:
Founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator and the founders of OpenAI, Neuralink, Instacart, Coinbase, and Twitch, Mindstate has built a set of AI models that connect biochemical data from different psychactive drugs to more than 70,000 “trip reports” compiled from a variety of sources—from official clinical trial datasets and drug forums to social media, Reddit, and even the dark web.
Behold the new faces of Big Pharma. These aren’t the sort to do things for the benefit of humanity. It might turn out that this is exactly what is promised on the tin, but I will be surprised if this is not gated by a steep price tag.
- Comment on YSK that designer psychedelics are a thing now apparently 4 weeks ago:
I’m not going to look at the Xitter thread, because fuck fascists, and fuck Elon. If you have other non-fashy sources, I’d be happy to look at them. Real research has papers, not Xitter threads, and Dillan DiNardo is a venture capitalist with a company trying to develop and sell designer drugs. Not exactly an unbiased source.
For the other links, the first is showing the antianxiety potential of the substance DOI and how scientists were able to document the mechanisms of its effects better (which leads to the possibility of targeted drugs). The second is about a new drug, dubbed JRT, that is able to harness neuroplastic effects without hallucinogenic ones; they’re targeting schizophrenia, which is good news for anyone that suffers.
Maybe the wealthy will be able to pay for their own custom molecules, but I am skeptical that bespoke psychedelics are on the horizon (at least for average people).
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
“Incidental”—this is Meta we’re talking about, and you can exchange them with any other technofacist and it still applies.
But I wholly agree with you that they know exactly what they are doing. This is how they get people to “participate” in their platforms and algorithms, whether they want to or not.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
…but this is a basic mistake.
They just fell prey to one of the classic blunders!
- Comment on A robot programmed to act like a 7-year-old girl works to combat fear and loneliness in hospitals 4 weeks ago:
Oh good, now they’re taking the jobs of certified comfort/support dogs? The solution nobody asked for, JFC.
- Comment on Money Power 5 weeks ago:
You’ll have to pardon me if I don’t buy into the “they’ll destroy themselves” prediction. I’ve been hearing that for the last ten years at least, and it’s based upon the faulty assumption that they’re too stupid to see the danger before them.
No, they’re not destroying themselves, they’re intentionally causing it. They already have ammo, guns, crypto, art, etc. They have military force. They have a surveillance mechanism in Palantir. They know they don’t have to preserve anything, because they have 10x the resources and connections the rest of us have. The biggest failure of the left is to assume that the monsters at the top are as stupid as their fawning cultists at the bottom.
Our best bet is to join together and start embracing a communal mindset. Don’t hoard guns, hoard seeds. Learn how to forage. Make a community garden. When shit hits the fan, you can’t eat bullets, and you won’t be able to shoot your way out of it.
- Comment on Money Power 5 weeks ago:
We Americans already know there’s a problem. You are so late to the party in bringing this up.
The Democrats weren’t/aren’t a means of prevention; they were/are the least-bad, weakest opponent we could have been fighting. Instead, people chose the stronger, better-funded, more strategic, more ideologically driven option, and now we’re watching in horror as every institution that kept us limping along crumbles.
Continuing to vote for either party would have led to the same outcome eventually, but Democrats would have at least bought us more time to act.
It’s a systemic failure and if you are not willing to change the power axis in society you are bound for all of this.
Great, how do you propose we do that?
- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 5 weeks ago:
Fools.
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 5 weeks ago:
Let’s not talk as if it’s all we can do; it’s one action amongst many. Besides, let’s not forget that these companies would 1000% be in favor of democracy if they thought it was profitable. They’re fascists, but if their ideals hurt their bottom line, they’ll change their tune, because they have shareholders to appease.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 5 weeks ago:
As soon as all shit hits the fan guess who starts earning more.
A tech farm in <insert developing country> who will vibe code a patch for half the cost? (h/j)
- Comment on Republican senator targets overseas facial recognition site(PimeEyes) over ICE doxing 5 weeks ago:
And she/they will miss the point, that doxxing and surveillance are bad and harmful, because their ability to empathize or draw a reasonable conclusion is fundamentally broken.
- Comment on Twitch starts requiring face scans to watch mature streams in certain countries: Your face is now the key to unlocking gambling and hot tub content. 5 weeks ago:
Respectfully, they’re more like happy bedfellows with overlapping agendas but uniquely different end goals. They appear to be the same, because they cooperate often.
- Comment on Russian fake-news network back in action with 200+ new sites 5 weeks ago:
…but it is time to admit that American society lacks the capability to implement meaningful political and criminal/judicial reform to address the challenges outlined by the article.
That’s by design. Friends across the pond talk about mass protest as a solution, but not only is the US akin to a bunch of countries loosely allied together (300M people), but we do not have the job/civil rights protections necessary such that everyone can protest safely. If you get injured during a protest (or worse), you have to pay to get treatment. If you “say something the wealthy don’t like,” you can lose your job, get smeared all over social media, and be blacklisted from future employment. If you snicker at a public event or sit quietly on a campus, you could wind up in jail or in front of a judge who will be more than happy to take cops’ words for it that you are a public nuisance or were resisting. Our “right” to protest is functionally a guideline, in practice.
US becoming an authoritarian/nihilist mafia state is not good for global democracy
I have some bad news. We’re already there. This is already a Mafia State, and although the lower courts still seem to be on the side of the people, the Supreme Court has been handing the Executive Branch more and more power when asked.
…and I have very good American friends (both far right leaning and centre right).
You should reconsider those friendships, because they are the reason we are here at all. They are the problem, and befriending the American far right is just befriending fascists. If you care about the future of global society and democracy, you cannot also hold space for the far right.