the truth machine made me realize that i never have to lie again

tales of symphonia taught me that trusting everyone you meet is not as stupid a decision as it looks

and simulacra and simulation taught me that no one needs to lie in order to fool you

lots of learning about what it means to tell the truth

y’all really fell for the “empathy is a disease” meme

the most incredible thing about conservatives is their ability to self-replicate. when i die in a natural disaster caused by government cuts the only thing you’ll remember about me is that I’m from a red state, fuck em

stallman was right all along I’m going back to the cathedral, everyone can go to hell

close enough. even proximity to perfection is perfect in a way

i am not very smart. So be patient with this question, and answer patiently.

are they going to run out of people? Russia and Ukraine?

this is why openBSD will run the spaceships 20000 years from now if we make it as a species

we keep imprisoning or killing him

i wish for a world where we can communicate with experiences instead of words, we would understand each other so much better.

thanks for the truth, truth guy :)

Tom Sexton likes to say that rich people are poor people with money

if we could expand this conversation, i think that to a degree the reverse is true.

i think the neurotypes (we might call them paraphilias actually but you’d be surprised how many people can be reduced to a paraphilia) that connect sex with power imbalance (age, wealth, intelligence, strength, or just legal context like contracts and political relationships) also tend to hoard (valuable things, money, information, connections, data, favors) and these tendencies strengthen each other in a stronger way than most people understand

if you’re interested in what I’m saying, look up “impunity architecture”, especially if you’re Marxist because i think a lot of people think this is inherent to capitalism and it isn’t at all.

hey folks i got graphene, do i need to worry about this or is this what the sandbox is for?

GrapheneOS is okay for personal use but not for corporate use. If you’re smart you can absolutely run Headscale (worth noting that you cannot run a cloud instance of tailscale because the tunnel is coming from a foreign place, and once again do not do this if you’re representing a large business) and connect with your local LLM. this is both legal in China and smart to do in any country with any software, not just LLM stuff.

if you are in China temporarily on a business trip remember that most of the people being oppressed are people who are at risk of corruption on a mid to large scale, and remember that running your own private communications server like prosody or matrix through a headscale tunnel might raise eyebrows if you’re loudly recruiting in your region trying to get everyone to use it. as it turns out this is also true where i live, Lexington Kentucky, as police were skeptical about my obsession with privacy.

but also we keep in mind the sheer size of the largest human government in the world. there’s about 35 million public sector employees

this was so fun, thank you