baltakatei
@baltakatei@sopuli.xyz
/ˈbɑːltəkʊteɪ/. Knows some chemistry and piping stuff. TeXmacs user. Owner of reboil.com .
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 17 hours ago:
That exception probably would be twisted into permission to add an “AI summary” section to each article.
- Comment on where? 1 day ago:
Pink haired one is kind albeït a bit slow. The white haired one is probably smuggling contraband and is not afraid to trample you in an emergency. Beating up Beavis for snickering at their horse ears constitutes an emergency.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 5 days ago:
The advertising industry.
- Comment on Imagine driving a new car... 6 days ago:
Top image: Yuki Nagato during a fight scene in the anime episode The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Part IV (2006-06-04) which was an animated version of chapter 5 of the first light novel in the series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2003-06-06).
- Comment on Captain's log, Stardate 44614.6. We have encountered a large space dumpling. 1 week ago:
a large … dumpling
So… a dumple?
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 1 week ago:
1/3 of US renters not paying their rent in a coördinated strike for one month would unwind a lot of landlord loans and collapse Wall Street which is where Trump stores his wealth.
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 1 week ago:
“You are reading at college level.”
Translation: “You are baseline literate.”
- Comment on Tennessee grandmother wrongly jailed for six months, latest victim of AI-driven misidentification — facial recognition is jailing the wrong people, but police keep using it anyway. 1 week ago:
No one loved her enough to fight to free her, so she wasn’t worth much to society anyways. — the local DA, probably
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 2 weeks ago:
That sounds like a very expensive chronic issue.
- Comment on US foreign policy circa ???? 2 weeks ago:
Given Studio Sunrise’s logo on the bottom right, it’s probably Gundam-related. That, or Daily Lives of High School Boys.
- Comment on bold words 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 3 weeks ago:
Cargo cult happiness.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 3 weeks ago:
Fuck Kansas.
- Comment on Life advice from the pedophile in chief himself. 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the summary. I’d’ve only watched it if he died mid-speech.
- Comment on sfw cat trend 4 weeks ago:
Airplane ears… murder eyes… lacerations on her body… At least one artist was harmed in the making of this image.
- Comment on Every so often, it's important for our community to pause, heal, and reflect together on what's truly important and why we're all here. 4 weeks ago:
The Corn must grow.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 4 weeks ago:
Texas flips blue is on my Bingo card.
- Comment on More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster 5 weeks ago:
Reminds me of a quote from Small Gods (1992) about an eagle that drops vulnerable tortoises to break their shell open:
But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection. One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
- Comment on outlawing pedestrians 5 weeks ago:
Keeps the poors out. — Cave Johnson, probably
- Comment on Without getting into current politics can someone describe to me what an authoritarian regime looks like? 2 months ago:
“Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.” — Mort (1987) by Terry Pratchett
- Comment on Hamster life 2 months ago:
Like a watermelon but nutty?
- Comment on It will trickle down any second now 3 months ago:
The only peaceful way I see wealth being redistributed is if Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg use regulatory capture to reform government in order to raise their own taxes. Such a scale of philanthropy hasn’t been seen since the robber barons Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller donated to build libraries and improve public education. Had those Guilded Age monopolists they also used their wealth to compel the US’s legislative branch to raise taxes, bolster anti-trust laws, and prevent the acceptance of consumer welfare doctrine over plain anti-monopoly policy, then I’d argue their donations to improve public education would have gone much farther.
That said, plenty of non-peaceful ways exist much like there are many ways for an iceberg to flip over.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You don’t need to play Eve Online to know Market PvP is cutthroat, but it helps.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
WinCo?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The Secret of NIMH lore.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 3 months ago:
It is not a novel about good things or a good future.
If I recall correctly, Snow Crash expands upon Stephenson’s short The Great Simoleon Caper in which the US Government tries and fails to delay its inevitable bankrupting as its citizens evade taxes en masse by using cryptocurrency. The full anarcho-capitalistic collapse and dissolving of centralized powers continues in the sequel Diamond Age when automated education at-scale finally becomes creative enough to invent machines capable of bypassing the last technological barriers against printing weapons of mass destruction. Usually, I’m in support of stories in which centralized power is decentralized and fewer people are in command; Stephenson’s works of fiction explore this space but with armchair passivity, neither arguing for or against the politics of their fictional characters. In this sense Stephenson is conservative; post-cyberpunk instead of solarpunk. Stephenson is more likely to blow up the Moon, kill all the main characters, or fast-forward three thousand years than to try and dream up a plausible pathway for us, the readers, to live in a world not controlled by billionaires. This is why you hear so much of Stephenson from the likes of Microsoft or Facebook; socialist alternative stories such as those by Kim Stanley Robinson tend to recommend assassinating billionaires or purposefully collapsing the housing market for the sake of preventing billions of deaths from climate change, all prospects that are not profitable to the ultra wealthy such as Jeff Bezos who hired Stephenson as a consultant for their rocket company, Blue Origin.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 3 months ago:
Actual hot take.
- Comment on "enjoy the show" 3 months ago:
“It is February 27th 1933 and I am Marinus van der Lubbe, a somewhat slow young man who was just asked by some very brave good protestors to help set a small fire in a strangely unguarded nice building they doused with flammable liquids. What should I do?”
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 3 months ago:
- Neils Bohr, from a Jewish/Danish banking family.
- James Clark Maxwell inherited land and wealth in Scotland.
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz… look at the size of the wig on the man!
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 3 months ago:
“Clearly something you want me to do because you keep on paying, lol.”