Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@1br0wn @Frederik_Borgesius

A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free, yes and eternally young

-- Donald Fagan, "IGY"

@bruces There should be a second button for "just delete enough that they won't be able to recreate me without splicing in some frog DNA"

@beebrookshire Incredible that people don't notice this by themselves. The damn things will say anything except "I don't know". You wouldn't put up with this from an employee or colleague for even a day, yet people already losing jobs to these things.

@evacide
Meanwhile, in Iowa...
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/03/17/iowa-senate-passes-bill-banning-citizens-police-review-boards/

Y'know, Lucky Charms added blue diamonds in 1975, but it wasn't until 1998 that Pfizer made them actually do anything

@mshelton Well there goes my investigative tactic of just using the username "Mom"

@ColinTHFC I saw a proposal to do basically that with one of those barges they bought to house asylum seekers.

@jmaris They defeated the Massif Central. But at what cost? At. What. Cost????

@alexlunaview Because the EU famously likes having its chain jerked.

You may not be given the option. Certainly not with the same long list of broad accommodations and carve-outs.

@annaghughes Oh won't someone think of the ants

(teasing. this was nice to read.)

@Jeramee @1br0wn @void_friend

Good thinking. I'm just going to redirect to something called "dream journals of the woefully unmedicated". Enjoy the next generation of AI hallucinated content.

@1br0wn @void_friend

(... reads blog entry. Quietly whimpers something that sounds like "any IP blackhole lists?")

I've just donated to archive.org for the first time. We've entered the age of memory-holing and we stand to lose far too much, far too quickly.

@woozle @bruces "Aren't blue states net contributors to federal funds, anyway?"

Overwhelmingly so. NYC is a gigantic economic powerhouse as well. Attacking it is like giving yourself a splenectomy with a pizza cutter

I wonder to what extent airlines with routes to and from Canada rely on connections through the US? For the safety of its citizens and visitors, I suspect Canadian airlines and their partners are going to have to open more direct routes to other countries.

@neurologo @juniyonul @bruces
It depends what you mean by "easier". You may not understand the position that some professionals and academics are in.. The US has only been an autocracy for three months, and people, companies and institutions haven't adapted yet. These things don't change overnight.

The time is rapidly approaching when international conferences will no longer book the US, but for a time there will still be people who need/want to go to the US for some part of their career, and right now they have hard choices to make.

@martinl @bruces Yeah. And putting enough stuff on there to look realistic is getting into secret agent territory. It's horrific that we're already at this point, and yeah, most people are much better off simply staying away.

@juniyonul @bruces
I don't keep much work on my laptop; it's basically a thin client for office servers, VMs, remote desktops, etc. If it's possible to do your work/presentation via a network tunnel or VPN, probably best to do that. Perhaps not even bring a computer, ask them to make one available to you.

@juniyonul @bruces
I wasn't suggesting bringing a computer, let alone the one you backed it up to.