the reasons he thinks programmers aren’t workers seem to be threefold (a) they earn too much, (b) they don’t sweat enough and © they align with their bosses. and – to me at least – is obvious, that he only deigns to use the word “worker” for people who do (hard enough) manual labour.

this – from a dude who has a baccalaureate in italianistics, magisterium in linguistics and studies for phd in history – is an obvious intelligentsja stereotyping. lad thinks he’s punching up, and in reality he’s punching down.

i’m not a fan of military industry, but that doesn’t make me claim the workers there are not proletariat.

fortunately the account (that i never interacted with) has my account blocked, so i couldn’t make them angry by pointing out they’re engaging in typical intelligentsia behaviour of assuming that only heavy industry workers are workers.

so potentially many times infinite number of angels (or devils)

depends on the size of the pinhead

oh the infighting!

also, used it to good effect.

thanks. telling.

don’t the pre-ipo companies do that only if extremely distressed?

yes, precisely. he’s a fucking creep.

cofnas’ suspension proceedings from U of Ghent (do read the full suspension letter here) generated a reaction from the eugenicists: an open letter; the signatories, among many other names, some even probably not white supremacists, include some of our favourites: j michael bailey, pinker, shermer and hossenfelder.

at least that. considering that as a working psychiatrist he didn’t mind posting details of private lives of his patients and write about his disdain for them,

i would be very, very happy to be fooled in this instance.

so unless it’s a very clever ploy, it seems that jms has lost the plot:

The standalone book of Harlan Ellison’s I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM is taking preorders, with writing essays by Harlan, and since MOUTH was the first AI story, for fun we fed it into an AI system and asked for its opinion. The reply is fascinating.

yeah, he got got very badly.

i wonder what the bluesky’s brandon paddock (brandonlive.com), the microsoft’s ms word ai architect has to say about it.

sometimes you neet to transform the graph to achieve the expected results, but generally yes.

there’s a new variant of the old crypto affinity grift around, too: banning crypto projects is transphobia.

there are two things that are obvious in his blog: first, michał is an incredibly privileged dude (who doesn’t notice his privilege because, coming from poland, he sees himself as underprivileged), and second, the moment people finally leave the vicinity of the formalized skeptic movement is strictly dependent on how much misogyny and racism they tolerate.

2017, three years post gamergate, is quite much.

westerners and their clever takes about eastern europe, eh.