Dokes

Nerd of all trades, once ran a comic/game shop, then software engineer, now project manager. Eastern Roman in the SCA. City planning enthusiast.

[Dokes @argyre42]

The current state of twitter, in song form

https://t.co/EL4jwUV4FR

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@edzitron Vibe accounting!

What could go wrong?

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@DanBop119459 @civ_exp @ExMister_Axe @Polymarket Everything I'm seeing about quantum spatial demultiplexing is exploratory experiments and conversation about potential better images *of* space, from the ground.

There's no way that's ready to be launched to somewhere you can't reach it to fix. Could be, later. But not now.

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@DanBop119459 @civ_exp @ExMister_Axe @Polymarket Plus, there's a *huge* difference between "this technique is theoretically possible" and "we've made this technique small enough and reliable enough that we could launch it on a satellite"

and another huge leap to actually awarding, let alone completing, the contract to do so

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@5sosliker Those numbers are for late GenX in the 2000s, not for millennials in the 2010s

[Lathrix @Lathrix]

To the people of Clacton.

Regardless of your opinion of Farage, you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now in the history of British politics.

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@Favwontmiss But yeah, that really would be the best way to optimize a workplace... if the workplace is able to commit to the bit

(Two layoffs in a little over three years and I am disillusioned on the matter)

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@Favwontmiss You go "from pet to threat" very very quickly.

At first it's all smiles and kudos

But then you touch something that's a load-bearing piece of bullshit they want to want to fix but also really want to ignore

And you poke them right in the cognitive dissonance (unwelcome)

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...gally didn't matter if his policies are good and he's someone you can work with.

But someone willing to abuse power in one area is willing to abuse it in others.

When a serial harasser gets caught embezzling, you shouldn't be surprised, but most packs of good ol' boys are

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Fwiw, I've been anti-Platner since the tattoo dropped. I'm sad his crash took this long, and relieved it happened while there's still time to swap him out.

But everyone taking an establishment victory lap, like they didn't run *Cuomo* last year, is annoying me greatly.

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But now it's fully confirmed that he IS someone who'll abuse power, which means he can't be trusted with it.

We as a society make the mistake of thinking of SA in isolation, sometimes. People argued that Cuomo's history, or the mundane abuses of regularly parking his car ille...

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@hecubian_devil I feel like I'm losing my mind. Did everyone forget the establishment trying to run Cuomo in 2025?

I disagree with Sliwa on 95% of issues except a) cats and b) contempt for the nepobaby with a vetted track record of"slapping fannies and killing grannies"

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@BoCash989 @rowanfornow @hotdamhistorian ......the other wing of the party ran *Cuomo* in 2025.

Deceitful people who abuse their power can be found with any political affiliation.

The measure of a group is how they respond when abusers are discovered.

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This.

AI is frequently not the root problem; a lack of ownership is.

How many decades had that one lawyer been signing off on briefs without reading them, that he was so comfortable not reviewing it?

The AI was just more of a fuckup than a human, so it revealed his habit

[Taylor Poindexter @engineering_bae]

You are responsible for everything you create. Whether you used AI or not.

AI makes it easy to complete a task, but not reviewing what AI spits out is doing yourself a disservice and putting an unfair burden onto your peers.

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@Sukidovi @Zarish5062 2) make it so women suffer, even starve, if they don't marry

(2) is both harder to do and less individually necessary to accomplish in a collective hunter-gatherer society, but easier and more useful in a city with hierarchy, inheritance, swords, and control of grain

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@Sukidovi @Zarish5062 I do think there's one underappreciated factor, which is how frequently women die in childbirth (something like 20-30% pre-modern-medicine)

IMO there's two general strategies to convince women to get pregnant anyway:

1) make it as comfortable, sacred, and rewarding as possible