oh yeah he’s an enthusiastic techfash

oh boy do i have notes on this fucker, going back to jan 2025

and a better personality with better opinions

defending the only work you can get

it’s run by neoreactionaries

oh boy are you in the right sub to hear about it

donor-advised funds

neovim is hearty fashtech now https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/117167738907856218

the fuckin make a wish foundation is more effective than EA

bup-pow!

where’s the rationalist smoking gun? or is that just The Argument?

Ezra Klein so centrist, he could both-sides a Moebius strip

ah but if you assume a perfectly spherical polity of uniform density in a vacuum at absolute zero,, klein will still be wrong

there’s this: https://nymag.com/news/features/ezra-klein-2014-2/

While Klein is being circumspect about the operational details of Project X, he suggests that breaking-news squibs could be very short and attached to constantly updated background articles, a bit like Wikipedia entries written by professional journalists. Long features might be regularly freshened up.

yeah, it was so inept and un wikilike that you would hardly believe it, but they honestly thought it would compete.

I wrote a thing a decade or more ago I can’t find now, about the early history of Vox’s “explainers”. They were literally wanting to replace Wikipedia as a go-to.

Apache is terrible as an SSL terminator IME

fwiw, that HP cult doesn’t have a body count (that I know of)

countdown to Comedian Sex Pest Scandal in

I’m using Zencastr cos the free tier is the right price and I’ve found my way to evade most of the AI crap thankfully. “New recording” on the front page or in existing sessions seems to take you to the bit that actually does shit.

I just record with it, I grab the MOV and WAV files and I put it together from that and (after much faff) upload to YouTube and Libsyn. I shudder at the thought of Libsyn going AI, cos otherwise they just do a good job of hosting the mp3 files and running the RSS and I can get onto Apple without having to interact with Apple.