Tyler DIR DIN 🧭

Seraphically free from taint of personality

[Tyler DIR DIN 🧭 @SquaresToCubes]

@jack24dd30 @eigenrobot Counter: I'm going to move to a small town and provide a fleet of these to the neighborhood watch, doing facial recognition and vehicle tagging. "The cops shouldn't have all that data!". Not the cops, everyone has access to all of it.

[Tyler DIR DIN 🧭 @SquaresToCubes]

@benedictsred I see, he got the trots

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

You are allowed to stop pretending fake shit is real. In fact, you have a moral and epistemic duty to stop doing so.

[Tyler DIR DIN 🧭 @SquaresToCubes]

@meekaale Allowing the inhabitants to alter their home is part of the Timeless Way of Building

[Tyler DIR DIN 🧭 @SquaresToCubes]

@selentelechia mine has made his position clear through fashion

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

Today is Fracture Day - the fifth anniversary of the final fracture.

On June 5th 2020, over a thousand public health experts published an open letter giving sanction for Black Lives Matter, a Marxist terrorist organization, to ignore COVID lockdown restrictions and riot in the streets, looting and burning down our cities, because "racism is a public-health issue".

And nobody in the rest of the establishment pushed back.

This was the original Fracture Day. The day that the confidence of the American people in technocrats and experts irreparably broke. It was the day we realized that even the most supposedly disinterested of our institutions had been captured by overt enemies of our liberty and our civilization.

There was no going back from that moment. Afterwards, the words "trust the experts" became a grim joke.

Every year on Fracture Day, remember the truth. When "experts" and institutions seek to control and censor you, allegedly for your safety, you dare not assume that this is being done for your benefit.

For the sake of your civilization and your posterity, you must reject them. You must not obey. Resist them - if necessary, with the considered violence of our ancestors who fought the first American Revolution against tyranny.

[Tyler DIR DIN 🧭 @SquaresToCubes]

@eigenrobot Ha, I got Shevek.

[Tyler DIR DIN 🧭 @SquaresToCubes]

@doodlestein As soon as I told my agent its commits would be automatically rejected if it didn't specify in changelog every test it had changed and why, that hook became unnecessary as it never tried to cheat a test again.

[Tyler DIR DIN 🧭 @SquaresToCubes]

@IXianVernius I prepared to charitably steelman, but this person simply did not read house of leaves

[Anna Khachiyan @annakhachiyan]

Basically the problem with our society isn’t even “women” or “phones,” it’s that the built-in short-term perks and amenities created by general affluence make it so that no one is willing or able to iterate past their immediate whims and imagine what their life will be in the future or acknowledge that they too are subject to aging or consider what this will look like at scale. Affordability is a huge factor, of course, but partly a self-reinforcing one.

[Matt Bramanti @mattbramanti]

dude pulls up the box while slapping the milk jug down over the bat

sprays a bunch of oven cleaner inside

tosses the corpse in the coffee can

hands me his clipboard, and i sign

honestly the best interaction i've ever had with the City of Houston

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

each parenting “issue” is a fractal trapdoor into true philosophical problems that have no answer - it’s a shame that so many notable philosophers either didn’t have kids or, apparently, didn’t find raising them very interesting (which, admittedly, may have been the style at the time).

here is just one example:

A) a child is presenting picky eating. first question: is this actually “a problem”? is this a pathology, or is the child learning “how to eat”?

in some situations, eating the wrong thing will kill you. so, surely the child has to go through some process wherein they learn how to assess food. is “picky eating” just us seeing this process from the outside? or, is it a serious pathology in a nascent stage? that’s two totally different ballgames.

B) now, whatever answer you chose there determines how you deal with it. now, there are wrong answers based on your input. because if this is a natural stage of development, where the child is learning “how to eat”, how to select foods - interrupting it is bad. if that’s the case, you’re interrupting a vital development process.

but, if that’s not the case, and you’re seeing an actual problem developing, it’s the opposite: in that situation, letting it develop is a dereliction of your duty. you’re making a huge error.

so, which is it? there’s literally no way to check this. it’s entirely up to you.

C) now, you can coerce the kid into eating, somehow. you can make them do it - usually with some type of bribery. so, let’s say you could get into a situation where the kid will eat the things he doesn’t want to eat, because you, the authority figure, are kind of making him do it (or getting him to do it).

is that good? is that teaching them to trust authority - and you? now the kid is eating all these healthy foods, and they’re doing it because they know you’ll give them a cookie later.

is that bad? are you teaching them that their mind and body might be telling them something, and that they should ignore it if an authority figure tells them to? is that a good thing? we’re almost already at: are people inherently good (can develop naturally) or bad (must be brought into submission), aren’t we?

so: listen to your body (which is telling you to only eat hot dogs) , or, trust authority (instead of yourself)? again, no way to check your answers here, it’s just entirely up to you.

so, here’s a kid who always eats all their healthy food, because they want to have cookies later - versus a kid who eats what their mind and body is telling them to eat, which right now happens to be only a handful of things.

which kid is in a better position? is the first kid failing to learn to listen to their body? now one of the most important basic actions to their life (eating) isn’t self directed or in response to actual bodily needs, it’s all subservient to a pleasure seeking desire (cookies) that’s being used as a coaxing mechanism by an outside force (the authority figure, you). they’re eating for outside “reasons”.

is the picky kid developing the ability to self direct their own eating - which seems like a pretty critical skill, or, are they on track to become one of those people who eats only chicken nuggets?

there’s no way to know any of this. and it’s all a microcosm of extremely large important questions - even just here we have: the individual vs authority, the mind body dichotomy, the question of innate intelligence, and more - that likewise have no concrete or fully resolved answers anywhere.

all this plays out in a situation where you have total control, basically, and are playing at the highest stakes possible. so suddenly, all this stuff you’ve read that was always purely abstract is right in front of you requiring hard immediate answers all the time. just eat the food - your body is far more intelligent than people think - but, it’s wrong right now, just listen to me and trust my authority, but later, question all authority, just, eat the food bro. it’s good. bro. just eat it.

[Tyler DIR DIN 🧭 @SquaresToCubes]

@fleshsimulator Surely I can trust you'll point out the interesting digs going on before a single unsourced "recipe decoding" post showed up. Questions about it were ignored, boards were slid, interest was redirected. I don't even know it was wrong, but it was not natural.

[Tyler DIR DIN 🧭 @SquaresToCubes]

@EmperorBag @chip_bennett @jimiuorio Reductionist nonsense. I "trust" different members of a society to have some values and other members to have others, and there's often a lot of overlap. If you *actually perform* otherwise, you're super disconnected from reality or live in shocking levels of non diversity.

[Tyler DIR DIN 🧭 @SquaresToCubes]

@EmperorBag @chip_bennett @jimiuorio This is how nature always works.

Were the button bet anything but life itself, I'd entertain the idea of blue.

[Tyler DIR DIN 🧭 @SquaresToCubes]

@EmperorBag @chip_bennett @jimiuorio "social trust" is not binary, or even a vector - I trust different parts of a society to perform differently based on context.
I would prefer to live in a society that understands you take care of yourself first, to build up the abundance to be able to share.

[Tyler DIR DIN 🧭 @SquaresToCubes]

@eigenrobot it had a pretty good run tho

[Kosmopolis Jones @RevanWashington]

@memeticsisyphus The crazy thing about this is liberals think this is an invalid hang-up on the part of right wingers. Like bro you want govt employees running every aspect of our lives, shouldn't you be a little concerned it can't even choose teachers who won't beef with 7-year-olds?

[Tyler DIR DIN 🧭 @SquaresToCubes]

@deepfates Software is the greenhouse, software is the trees, software is the fruit.

[Tyler DIR DIN 🧭 @SquaresToCubes]

@doodlestein Think hard from many different perspectives about what was missed during grooming that allowed this bug to precipitate