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Oh yeah I got that no worries.

As a C++ programmer some Rust people can come on a little strong, as if I’ve never thought about the importance of memory safety before and don’t know how to write secure code (well excuse me for building on top of decades of libraries that no one thought to write in rust in the '80s).

But that’s normal programmer flame war stuff. Rust people tend to be young and enthusiastic about security which is all good.

Based Linux is another non-Woke option if you want a Debian based system that supports systemd, Wayland, XLibre and the GNU tools.

Do… do you think he realizes that Debian is “woke”?

Also I wonder what his beef with Rust is? Is Rust woke?

I saw this food on social media the other day which was allegedly caused by a Chat-GPT recipe: https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyfoodporn/comments/1p60tfw/my_wife_tried_a_chatgpt_crockpot_recipe/

Wow highly recommend reading all his comments where he doubles down on how everyone else is in the wrong (for wanting maintainable code that isn’t a legal liability) while he is in the right (for being brave and bold enough to type prompts into an LLM to create code that he won’t stand behind).

It’s almost as if he went in there looking for a fight.

Lool, look at these two quotes next to eachother:

One caveat, though: even if I didn’t type the code myself, I own it — and it’s my responsibility now.

vs.

Beats me. AI decided to do so [write the copyright as someone else] and I didn’t question it.

Quadball is officially better than any sport that doesn’t let transgender people compete. There I said it.

Granted this is a particularly low bar nowadays.

(I also lament that this makes things really rough for the trans men for whom this is not a fad, and for whom earlier transitioning would be a huge quality of life improvement.)

Like dear cis people are you OK? Is society not transphobic enough for you? :'(

Are you worried that if a teenager is allowed to explore their gender a little that it will cause a bunch of precocious little cis girls to accidentally glance at a vial of testosterone the wrong way and grow a fantastic beard overnight?

When I started estrogen (later than I should have and fuck you Idaho) I was absolutely 100% sure that it was the right thing to try, and that I’d stop if I didn’t like it. Never looked back (estrogen is tasty and I encourage everyone to try it at least once), and I had years before there was much you could call permanent.

But of course it’s not the “permanent changes to bodies” that made me a 6ft tall amazonian beauty that people like Aella are concerned about. “What if we accidentally trans one of the cis??” fundamentally assumes it is OK to accidentally withhold critical medicine from countless trans people just to be “safe”.

As background: the Kaufmann report that prompted all this is a load of absolute garbage. As discussed fairly extensively on social media (example).

As for Aella’s addition: oh god why did I read this?

The methodology was apparently running a “Big Kink Survey” which was “trending on TikTok” and had “very good SEO”. I suppose this is the right data needed to draw conclusions about what rate 14 year olds are transgender.

The whole this is also full of weird gender essentialism (I never want to read the word “biofemales” again).

I think this is evidence for an increasing split between afabs and amabs

But don’t worry she’s very pro trans (JK Rowling sense):

Despite having been cancelled by the more radical subgroups of trans people, I’m nevertheless very pro trans.

Which is why she wants to make a massive reach and be concerned that maybe trans people are getting too much healthcare:

I think it’s unlikely that 11.5% of afabs are actually trans men in a way that would last through adulthood. If my data is measuring any real trend in the world, and if that trend meaningfully increases permanent changes to bodies, then this high percentage might actually be quite bad.

… Nevermind that her data doesn’t even touch on stuff like rate of HRT, or regret rate; these “concerns” are all pulled out of thin air.

I expect her methodology was great but I don’t actually know what it was.

Science!

I tend to think of Toys (1992) for these sorts of themes though I haven’t watched the film from start to finish since I was a kid. It’s about the militarization of a wealthy family toy factory and has a lot of scenes that stuck with me.

It’s a Christmas family movie that reviewed horribly so definitely counts as a cult classic, but those who like it tend to really like it.

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The article claims that Google didn’t “fall for the same trap” but that’s not correct, all this garbage is indeterministic so the author just got “lucky”.

It’s like saying “four out of five coin-flips claimed that an eagle was the first US president” – just because the fifth landed on heads and showed George Washington doesn’t mean it’s any different than the rest.

But here I’m preaching to the choir.

Honestly Hanson is so awful the rationalists almost make him look better by association.

But wait I thought the reasoning AIs were going to come up with fantastical sci-fi solutions to all our global warming problems! Maybe we didn’t shovel enough coal at them?

A lot of companies use “vibe coding” an excuse to offshore software development work to cheaper countries without anyone noticing.

But yeah it’s not gonna work out in the long term for a business that:

• Encourages people to submit random nonsense to the codebase instead of doing actual work
• Removes all entry-level positions
• Lays off anyone who knows what they’re doing

That’s how you get a codebase that kinda sorta works in a way but is more evolved than designed, full of security holes, slow as heck, and disorganized to the point where it’s impossible to fix bugs, adds features, or understand what’s going on.

The last time someone looked into this it was with dolphins, did not go well, lead to more human-dolphin sex than communication, and ended in a dolphin suicide.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me

Ugh reading more of this and it’s awful.

He writes that women are attracted to men who could beat us up or control us. He writes that the reason for this attraction is so we have a chance to marry the man and prevent these bad things from happening.

His “science” assumes that women think like they do in shitty erotica written by men for men. Even by rationalist evo-psych standards this is pretty poorly thought out.

And yet, per Steven Pinker, “a middle-aged congresswoman does not radiate the same animal magnetism to the opposite sex that a middle-aged congressman does”. What’s the deal?

OK other straight ladies here, raise your hand if you’ve ever felt that middle aged congressmen, as a whole, “radiate animal magnetism”. Anyone? Anyone?

In this exciting new research direction in the making-stuff-up field I build upon previous work by Myself et. al in the making-stuff-up field.

I apologize to bring you the latest example of the intersection of US fascism with silicon valley tech industry.

This time the Whitehouse have decided that UI design is kinda important (gee I wonder if there used to be a department or two for that): https://americabydesign.gov/

Well nothing wrong with a little updating of UI anywa–

What’s the biggest brand in the world? If you said Trump, you’re not wrong. But what’s the foundation of that brand? One that’s more globally recognized than practically anything else. It’s the nation…where he was born. It’s the United States of America.

To update today’s government to be an Apple Store like experience: beautifully designed, great user experience, run on modern software.

Oh god kill it with fire.

The web design of their website is also worth remarking on here:

1. The title text that reads “AMERICA by DESIGN” is an SVG. The alt text is “America First Legal logo”
2. The page contents are obnoxiously large and obnoxiously gray before they fade in.
3. For some reason Every single word gets it’s own <span> element to make the obnoxious fade in possible. Because I guess that’s what happen when you fire all the people who actually know what they’re doing.
4. They managed to include a US flag icon with only 39 stars which is too few stars to be official and too many stars to be visible at teeny sizes
5. The favicon is just 16x16 pixels of the word “by” in cursive that’s so blurry you can’t actually tell that’s what it is.
6. If your browser width is between 768px and ~808px there is overlapping text at the top.

The tech bros tied to this? Joe Gebbia co-founder of AirBNB, along with Big-Balls. Maybe others but those are the two who were retweeted by the twitter account.

Edit: also this part:

©2025 National Design Studio

Someone ought to remind them of US copyright law because official federal work is in the public domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_the_federal_government_of_the_United_States