@hex@kolektiva.social2026-04-12 06:55:51
I wanna jump one more time on the whole "distraction" framing, because this is a point that needs to be hammered home (and I need a reminder to write something longer).
Attacks on trans youth are not a distraction from other types of coercion, they are central to it. Attacks on trans youth come from a conceptualization of children as property, which is literally patriarchy in the Roman sense of the legal objectification all people who share a household as belonging to a man. This legal structure, Roman slave law, continues to be the root of property rights and therefore the foundation of capitalism.
But colonialism also extends from it through the infantalization of colonized people as a justification for oppression. This can also be turned inward again manifesting as the justification for police (that is, some people "can't handle themselves and need external authority to act right").
The #Epstein stuff isn't some weird thing that rich people get away with, it's core to how wealth works. Money isn't useful by itself, it's a proxy for power. One manifestation of power is being able to violate laws that constrain others (this is the "freedom of the monarch" that Graeber talks about in Dawn of Everything). The war in Iran, especially the threats of nuclear weapons and genocide is not a distraction from the #EpsteinFiles, but rather a manifestation of the same thing.
Power must be demonstrated to affirm that it is real. War is a demonstration power. Violating the law without consequences is a demonstration of power. The most taboo things are using nuclear weapons and child sexual abuse. He has already done one of those, and he is going to do everything he can to do the other.
These are not distractions, these are all manifestations of the underlying thing that we need to fight. But we need to make sure we're fighting it as a single thing. We have to tie these things together, because if we do not then we risk reproducing the same thing again but worse.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-11 20:36:17
Anthropic says Claude users on the free plan can now create files, connect to external services, use skills, and more (Will Shanklin/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/anthropic-beefs-up-claudes-free-tier-as-ope…
@benb@osintua.eu2026-02-11 11:48:35
'Russian army is not preparing to stop' — 3 toddlers among 9 killed in attacks on Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/russian-army-is-not-preparing.html
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-02-12 11:05:02
«Stoolap - High-performance embedded SQL database in Rust»
Have any of you tried it before and what is your experience with it? Can it be used in the same way as SQLite? I ask because the open source project is relatively new, i.e. are there certain arguments to (not) use it productively?
🦀 https://stoolap.io…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2026-02-12 16:45:07
Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
ARBITER: Is the accused satisfied that his defence has been fully and fairly prepared?
BLAKE: The charges against me are totally false. I am not guilty, therefore I offer no defence.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/211 B7B4
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-13 00:04:28
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115883445350346364
I think the technology could be used responsibly for narrow use cases (e.g. writing code is a narrow use case), with the very important caveat that the training data needs to be properly licensed and authors properly compensated (unless they licensed stuff free for commercial use); as well as companies offering it being transparent and honest about what LLMs actually do.
Anyway, even if that’s the case (and that’s a big if and certainly not the case today) I have serious doubts concerning the long-term financial sustainability of companies like idk Anthropic.
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-03-13 10:10:42
Isn’t it time we had a back-up plan ‘just in case’ things do go catastrophically wrong?…. - resilience.
Rupert Read
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-03-13/isnt-it-time-we-had-a-back-up-plan-just-in-…
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-03-12 19:28:59
I'm seeing/hearing this more and more often. 🧐
Which one do you prefer, are you a native speaker? 👈
Note that I'm not asking for being grammarist here.
I know which one is "correct".
This is about shifts in language, dialects, etc..
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2026-02-12 16:45:07
Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
ARBITER: Is the accused satisfied that his defence has been fully and fairly prepared?
BLAKE: The charges against me are totally false. I am not guilty, therefore I offer no defence.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/211 B7B4
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2026-02-11 16:50:47
Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
AVON: But not in this case. Helotrix is one of the oldest colonies and the first to gain independence from the empire.
TARRANT: Until the Federation grabbed it back. Come on Dayna.
DAYNA: Right. [They exit]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/100 B7B4…
