sicktriple

I'm perfectly fine with growth and capital accumulation, given who's accumulating it and how much.

Capitalists love to pretend socialism is when everyone lives in a hut. Do you think 19th and early 20th century socialist movements were about convincing workers to live in Namibia?

The market seems to be doing what it does best just fine, actually.

As with all things, the root of the issue is the incentive structure. Once again, we see the incentive of limitless growth and capital accumulation at all costs turns out to be harmful, actually. Waow.

Economic warfare against the US is charity and kindness to a sizable portion of the world's population, especially when the US uses it's global hegemony as warfare against them. Neither system is perfect, but lets not be disingenuous.

Recession indicator?

Any lever by which it was once possible to impose "stop" is now completely bought and paid for many times over in the US. There is simply no way in which popular sentiment can meaningfully be imposed upon our society.

Mainstream software development has been gutless and captured by MBA culture for decades at this point. Just like all other aspects of culture: video games, music, television. We can only optimize for one thing, money, and everything is downstream of that. It seems quaint to even point that out nowadays, since we've been living in the rubble of creativity for so long.

That's not to say these things don't exist but as always you need to go out of your way to find them, because people who are prioritizing the creative act typically aren't going to be prioritized in our attention-focused slop world.

Classic Conservative move of building a strawman and arguing against it. None of these deals would involve taxes, EU "laws" (whatever that means) or border agreements. He's using the boogeyman of "ew brown people" to scare his base.

Apparently, even Canadian conservatives are happy to grovel at the feet of the Burger Reich and their supreme leader.

Not really, since this is just inventing new and exciting ways to give mice more brain diseases

On the "Principles for a New Utopia" page, the first line is:

>"Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."

They cite Marxist philosopher Fredric Jameson (and misspell his name, incidentally), but I've always attributed this phrase to Fisher. I guess citing kpunk would have probably made the simulation we all live in actually implode.

Google citing Mark Fisher was not on my Postmodern-hell-world bingo card.

Private here means "trust me, bro".

the root of the root of all evil: NAT

Anyone else feel like making a new internet and starting over

I somewhat sympathize with the poster here, I too am a chronic distrohopper and if you are just the type of person with shiny object syndrome it can be really exhausting constantly being yanked around by your interest in other distros. I've been on gentoo for a year now and that's the longest lasting install I've ever had. Planning on keeping it that way, but you never know.

I also have a macbook that I use for certain proprietary apps that don't have Linux clients and it can be a weirdly peaceful experience just knowing you're locked into macOS's stack and there aren't a myriad of options you could install at any moment should you get bored.

That being said, macOS sucks.

I already practice this. If you can't be bothered to construct a coherent sentence as a form of interpersonal communication, you can also go fuck yourself. Its beyond degrading.

Before anyone hits me with the "oh what about people who don't speak English" -- I legitimately don't care. I'd rather do the extremely human and now seemingly endearing ritual of trying to figure out what you're trying to say in our respectively broken interpretation of human language than read one sentence of Claudeisms.

For me the big one is whenever I type "sys" to get system settings, it pops up for a half second and then for some reason the top result is like "reset some system setting" and then I invariably get flashbanged because it turns off dark mode and there's no confirmation dialogue lmao. Maddening.

Meh, AI is deep in it's diversification stage -- there are soooooooo many players in the game right now and basically one maybe two will survive once the dust settles. All these frontier labs are fighting tooth and nail to be the one left standing. Apple is making a measured approach saying "hey, we're probably not going to be the Google of AI, but the smartest thing for us to do is to put infrastructure in place so that once there is a contraction (which there will be, think the search engine landscape in the 2000s) we're relatively ahead for relatively little effort/cost."

With the admin we've got over here now, I think this comment is a little bit like the kettle calling the pot black, wouldn't you say?

It's called metaphor. Please reserve your erm akshully's for someone else.

Look, if I'm a cyclist, then it wouldn't really make a whole lot of sense for me to buy and ride an ebike, would it? Like, if I enjoy cycling, and I want to do it because it feels good, makes me happy and keeps me in shape, then why in the world would I buy and use a machine that does it for me?

If I was a door dash driver or something, and I just wanted to get from A to B, then yeah, maybe I would ride an e-bike instead. But I like cycling. I'm not going to stop liking cycling just because someone made a robot that also can do cycling.

RCS has been an absolutely unmitigated disaster, and it's just a black box when it breaks. There's no reason why messaging in 2026 should need to have cell carriers involved whatsoever - everyone's phone is connected to the internet, every phone should have an IP based messaging app by default.

I'm really hoping they're doing this to pave the way for an RCS implementation. If it can be done, GOS is in the best position to make it happen, and without RCS, chatting with normies is both extremely inconvenient (large group chats straight up do not work) and categorically insecure. If I could convince all my friends and family to use Signal I would, but they just think I'm on about some weird Edward Snowden shit, and they just write me off as crazy. "Why would I checks notes download software to solve a problem when I could use the one that came with my phone?"

The Century of American Humiliation continues

The government isn't typically facilitating the check. In order to verify your age, you will be required to hand over your ID to a third party, who's privacy and security practices are likely: "Trust me bro."

Seeing as how these companies get hacked all the time, (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selli...) , I don't think it's unreasonable to resist this.

Furthermore, I think many folks have reservations about requiring an ID checkpoint to utilize a computer. Obviously it's not that bad yet, but I don't think it's hyperbolic to state that the landscape is certainly trending in that direction, and it's absolutely not unreasonable to point out that governments and institutions to have a material interest in setting up access controls on who can and can't use the internet (read: participate in society).

Yes. Once the application of force happens outside the state's monopoly, they'll shut that shit down so fast.

Pretty sure this is just slop, but generously engaging in good faith:

Big "bedtime is slavery" vibes off this one. Just because you've had every option afforded to you by your mega IQ and elite status doesn't make you a martyr because you get anxious about going on LinkedIn. There are kids who live their whole lives in absolute misery until they get blown up by a US/Israeli bomb. Whether or not you get to work at a startup or not is not tyranny.

This whole culture is so cringe. There's great dignity in being comfortable with your work. Find something that you feel is a noble toil, and just do it to the vest of your ability. I know janitors and chefs who I respect infinitely more than some SF dork whining because they can't decide which startup to work for.

If you told me in 2001 Francis Fukuyama would be writing articles for the largest socialist magazine in the U.S. I would have said... well I probably would have just been confused since there were no large socialist magazines in the U.S. (and there still arguably aren't), but it's still kind of weird.

I don't see a problem with this. AI can be useful but the pressure to use it as a shortcut to mastery can be very strong. Kids need to develop the reflex to think critically before they reach for the LLM.