Chris Beiser

how things became how they are, and how they could stop being that way

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

Pretty fucked up how, starting in the 13th century, Big Tech enclosed the commons, deeding the land to feudal lords and forcing smallholders to rent the land they worked.

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

@eshugerman i like that he didn’t go up to the donor limit

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

@andy_matuschak @AndyMasley it seems if the externalities are measurable and commensurable they should most likely be priced in general rather than for particular parties !

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

@AndyMasley we do not gotta hand it to him on his proposal on the matter (ending democracy)

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

@davidad this usage of “spine,” which treats it as an independent meaning rather than a metaphor, is as far as I can tell a tic completely unique to language models, also frequent in openAI’s models.

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

@DeepDishEnjoyer personally i do believe this reading list needs more women

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

@ben_mathes @saltwatersoph I'm not against that one, but I think part of the reason there are so few trips is that with a dead-end transit line, there's no reason to put anything near the end, whereas looped traffic gives a reason to build stores and restaurants all along the line.

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

@asciidiego who do you think wrote those wikipedia pages

[Hussein @HusseinHElafifi]

The scandal is not that Ferrari made a family car, but that it revealed what was always already there: the fantasy of virility needed the child seat hidden in the trunk, as its obscene supplement. The true horror is not the minivanization of Ferrari, but that Ferrari was always a minivan of the ego.

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

People aren't mad about the Ferrari Luce because it's ugly. They're mad because being the greatest family car ever made, having two attachment points for booster seats, represents the end of bachelor fantasy. It's symbolic castration, pure gender, it's Gamergate for cars.

[😈 @turtlekiosk]

it's always too late to stay the same

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

@CharlieBecker80 @Ol_Wall @digitlartifacts @EmericanAconomy Well, I think Oliver is being dumb and annoying. Eat shit.

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

@Ol_Wall @digitlartifacts @EmericanAconomy i don't think you should be sending people replies like this.

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

@tobyshooters @meekaale there‘s one that’s a little topical at the moment, given the renewed focus on the Rerum Novarum…

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

@kilobytes_ they teach it in CMU's intro 1 class

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

@teortaxesTex He never internalized that for mechEs and aerospace, a fast-moving place with exciting work was scarce, whereas for software, it's been table stakes—and that this changes how unpleasant you can be to employees without them leaving.

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

Don't care what the haters say. The new Ferrari looks sleek.