meyotch @ meyotch @slrpnk.net

A cranky biologist who means well. My hobbies include long walks off short

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Nah, if you are feeding the Zuck, not my team. The principled creatives aren’t there.

It sucks to try to make a living as a creative. But giving your efforts to support social media platforms controlled by the worst people is inexcusable. Zuck literally and provably helped the fascists gain power.

The creatives I can respect create because they are compelled to. They work jobs and create when they can. They share their work on less shitty platforms and in actual real life.

I remember at my first job in high school in a store on Main Street. We had a sidewalk sale with other business owners.

My innocence was lost when my boss instructed me to place higher prices using our ordinary white stickers and then cover them with ‘discounted’ orange sales stickers at slightly higher prices than normal.

These dicks just do it at scale. Amazon is a tawdry crime organization. We all know it.

Boo hoo, losers. Your device has a power switch. Influencers have a warped and inflated sense of the value they create. They can stop at any time and use their skills in other ways.

Making good content is hard, but ‘good’ content doesn’t have an expiration date. Shallow brain-rot content does and that’s what the algorithms reward.

The entitlement that influencers have is nauseating. There are many creators out there laboring in near obscurity and producing useful content all the time for little or no compensation.

They are tools for Zuck and fools for propping his platforms up. It sounds like a hard slog, but they can stop any time.

It was surely used as an opportunity for conservatives to push their agenda, but I am super sceptical it is a cause in any way.

First, HIV hasn’t been an automatic death sentence for over 25 years.

Second, Reagan was elected before AIDS/GRID was even a known thing.

The rise in conservatism is an engineered backlash that began at the dawn of time. Look up Smedley Butler and the Business plot from the 30’s. Look into Roger Stone and his determination to make sure no president would ever be held accountable as Nixon was for Watergate.

Conservatism is just a smoke screen for a small, way-too-wealthy cabal to get some popular support for their desire to own every damn thing everywhere. It always has been. This goes back long before the Magna Carta even.

I posted a snippet of the Declaration on Insta today without any explanation.

I am now at home awaiting the arrival of the unmarked vans.

The Bosses are scared shitless his ideas will get traction.

First, they will try to discredit him.

When that doesn’t work, they will have him killed, which, if discrediting doesn’t work will be a huge mistake. That was the exact playbook they used with MLK.

No need to be sorry. I also love injecting innuendo into every possible situation!

Ha! The word roots literally mean ‘a foot and a half’. It means I like loooong words!

sesquipedalian

All 18 inches, baby!

As should every Democrat.

Give us proper open and honest primaries, bitches. This strong Dem isn’t falling for it any more. Represent the People, not your donors, or lose your jobs. It’s quite simple.

Don’t despair. We’ve never actually tried having honest primaries. I think it’s worth a shot.

Listen here, you little shit.

JK, you are correct. I prefer punishingly steep progressive taxation over asphyxiation as a solution.

Then WHY THE FUCK AREN’T WE ACTING LIKE IT!!!!

Sir, I apologize for my inappropriate display of emotion. But seriously, I think almost everyone would agree with this statement if asked in a vacuum.

Omg, tho, what if it turns out that progressive candidates actually start winning?

You may enjoy, if you aren’t already familiar with, FDR’s Four Freedoms concept.

There are FOUR freedoms!

If the Democrats don’t run honest primaries in every god damn race up and down the ticket, we will know who to blame if they can’t win.

Yes, that’s about all it is. “Low water activity” and a lower pH. Same reason jams and jellies don’t ferment. They can get moldy over time, but fungi have always been better at low water activity environments.

The entire world is burning. We are bound together, like it or not.

Wisely distributed foreign assistance directly contributes to our security and prosperity at home in the US.

Now is the point in history where we have to actualize these wonderful ideas. The US Constitution is a flimsy piece of paper. The only strength it ever had is that which we lend to it, collectively.

It’s all on us.

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I don’t buy it.

A diversity of regulatory approaches especially in such a complex subject really does need the 50 state laboratory.

In fact because states are smaller markets, it might encourage the development of more smaller companies. A complex regulatory landscape gives an efficiency edge to players who focus product development in specific states.

Anything to keep this shitshow happening in a more democratic way is fine by me. Anthropic and that Altman fellow seem so desperately out of touch with humanity, I welcome any disadvantages we can give them.