I simply refuse to use an OS that leans so hard on trying to modify my behavior. It would be like living in a house that constantly tried to control what toilet paper I used or if my fridge started "awarding" me "points" based on what I eat.

Fuck every last bit of that.

This lines up with school disruptions.

I'm sure that's not the only contributing factor, but I'm also pretty sure you don't upend kids' lives (don't forget the impact on parents - lots of people lost jobs, which also disrupts kids schooling) across multiple years without disrupting their math training.

Oh, also, the shitbag trolls here are funny. Now that they can't pretend the white kids aren't pig-ignorant, this is suddenly all about testing.

This is a very specific form of writing. It is kind of, but not quite journalism, not quite fictionalization, and not just an attempt to influence other market participants.

The author is trying to tell the story within the form - A Titan of Finance is making a Bold Bet with big implications for the little peoples' 401Ks!

Various folks with input to the story all have their own angle and want to steer it to their advantage. Everyone outside the story who is paying attention can see the bubble, but have the same problem Burry has - the old cliche about the market staying irrational longer than you can stay solvent still applies.

So little investors have skin in the game but very little range of motion other than getting out of the market. Big players are betting against bubble blowers, which means they need their story to "win" on a timeline that doesn't lose them a ton of money. Meanwhile OAI, NVidia and similar grifters are sucking Tubby's stump in hopes of a bailout.

It is all high drama, with lots of players trying to influence the story. Think of it as multiparty participatory propaganda trying to steer things, with the eventual outcome determining how many Grandmas have to switch to dog food for dinner.

That's just fair use, right? Then the robots puke video back out on demand, fantasy sportball people can make their teams win, or folks can have their team fuck or steal from target or whatever people do with LLMs when they aren't building scams and throwaway code. And nobody will have to care about Google or Disney's goofy little money war.

There, I fixed it.

Yeah, that happened too, and also helped push me away from new music. But I think I was on a declining-interest path already.

Bandcamp is also still good for buying MP3s. Of the small amount of music I've purchased over the last decade, most of it has been from there.

A designer lock-in-a-sock.

I assumed it was a large-scale money laundering scheme.

I'm getting older, and like a lot of people, have paid progressively less attention to new music over time.

It seems like humans "imprint" on music around puberty, so what you listen to then tends to stick.

I do have favorite acts I still pay attention to, occasionally go to a show I pick up new stuff occasionally but don't seek new music out.

I used to pay a lot of attention, though, and ripped all the CDs I had. That's been added-to over time, and I'm pretty sure if I were limited to just my collection for the rest of my life, that would be totally fine.

My tastes tend not to be popular stuff, and the streaming services don't really cater to me anyway. They don't have a lot of music I do, they don't don't have my playlists, and I have no interest in robot muzak. There's just no reason to subscribe.

- Continue pointless noodling about with ui. We haven't really pissed off a significant segment of our dwindling user base in about a year, so go big.
- Sprinkle tripping robots over more features. Think of novel use cases that haven't been tried before. (Let the robot restyle CSS, maybe.)
- Buy at least one random company and integrate it poorly. Have we considered lawn care?
- Volunteers are still stubbornly hanging on. Try to single out hard-to-find talent and use the robots to shit all over their work. Don't be an asshole, that makes them think someone cares. Just make it clear that we value them less than the cost of electricity it costs to replace them, poorly.

We have a language cop. Everybody watch your referents - it isn't enough that you demonstrate your compliance with their ideology, they are relentless.

No, I mean fucking unhoused, Angela Pickles.

I was pointing to the historically anomalous mercantile streak this regime has.

Explicitly taking stakes in private companies is a lot more problematic than a lot of people seem to think.

Republicans used to claim 'picking winners and losers' was a bad thing.

I 100% believe they won't bail out the industry as a whole.

I also 100% believe they would "take a stake" in particular companies in return for... certain considerations.

I am less worried about college kids' word choice than thug trash beating up people in the streets, the President subverting democracy and disease running rampant.

I don't share some of your concerns, but that's fine; I expect you don't share some of mine. But it does sound to me like you're much more familiar with Republican critiques of Democratic policy than actual Democratic policy. One such thing is you putting the words of activists into pols' mouths and pretending that's the official capital-D Democratic line. It isn't - activists are activists precisely because they want to change the current party line. This is literally

. None of which is to say I'm a rah-rah fan; only a few of them actually come anywhere near reflecting my policy preferences. But given a choice between a getting a cold and getting measles, I'll take the cold.

It is about denying a win.

It is also about the overall fascist project - they have sold themselves on the need to dominate and crush. Being forced to negotiate is a big power-balance setback for them.

And it is also about Trump's BFF. Right now Holy Mike is refusing to swear in a new (D) representative. That rep just happens to be the deciding vote on releasing lots of juicy Epstein documents. Documents that have already been confirms by members of this admin to mention Trump.

Just remember the phrase, "Everything Trump touches dies." It hasn't been wrong yet.

Data centers might end up looking like that empty mall you drive past, but at least they don't implicate you in a child rape gang including the US president.

Everyone else might want to think a little bit about their 401K allocation.