Harry Bator

Spec Sit @LearnCap | Recovering Lit Major @Harvard | 0pinions my own | "Who rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm”

[Cimaron (Tar & Feather Advocate) @CimaronH]

@LoschbourStev Odd red specimens in the front row there. Never seen any like that before

[CAT @cattttang]

so excited to host a cozy sundays x claude create-a-thon with @ZJangda and @AnthropicAI on june 1 in nyc at the beautiful @AmbrookAg space 🤎

if you’ve been meaning to meet the coolest builders around, try out your vibe coding with artifacts, and grab some tasty snacks, comment or dm me for the luma :)

[Harry Bator @harry_bator]

@noampomsky The part in the forward about The Drums leading to drugs sets the tone 😂😂

[Harry Bator @harry_bator]

@13Y4TT @noampomsky The latter. It incited a moral panic among coastal types -- partly because they thought Chua was 100% serious (rather than a normally strict parent engaging in hilarious self-parody), partly because they're the chief proponents of being parented by one's own children

[Harry Bator @harry_bator]

@noampomsky Can I interest you in a hopeful take about Japan's pop culture presaging America's in the last 34 years? Or perhaps a grim take on culture industries being tiny and insular, and the Anglo-world one being particularly psychologically deranged? Maybe just a plug for the manga?☕️

[Harry Bator @harry_bator]

@noampomsky Blue Lock is 🔥, but it's a shame the snoot commentariat convinced everyone that The Sopranos is Very Serious ArtTM vs. an absurdist comedy full of lovingly rendered Italian-American stereotypes. Paulie's scenes are literal slapstick. Tony's shrink's shrink is absolute gold.

[Harry Bator @harry_bator]

@athenakan_ "Popular packages include strictly verbal harassment, digital stalking from abroad, & theft of hugely over-insured automobiles in Big Lebowski-esque disrepair -- just remember to remove your CCR tape from the deck prior to your service date."

[Harry Bator @harry_bator]

@aashaysanghvi_ @semil Casting a vote for the same Differentiated POV but a more appropriate Kirkland beverage for this receptacle form factor. Contemplating a vote to add paddles and receptacle-appropriate gameplay as well

[Harry Bator @harry_bator]

@aashaysanghvi_ Whoops --inadvertently demo'd my libertarian shitpost bot

[Harry Bator @harry_bator]

@aashaysanghvi_ Trying not to whine about LLMs driving an explosion in paperwork. "I can barely do my taxes" becomes "LLMs abstract away my taxes" becomes "grimly envisioning the apocalyptic future where even LLMs can't parse my med insurance." Solution: abolish environmental review 🤣

[Harry Bator @harry_bator]

@mohibjafrii I have a non-Twitter founder in mind who is hunting exactly this, exactly now

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[Harry Bator @harry_bator]

“for that reason, your parents would be very proud if you pursued chem & industrial management degrees specializing in the production of Mountain Dew-colored Ooze, which is a necessary chemical precursor to both the turtle’s charming fraternal hijinks and their much-maligned but clearly effective ‘tough on crime’ approach”

[Harry Bator @harry_bator]

“so, you see, if the whole country naively adopts anti-police/prosecution principles, these pizza-scarfing adolescent sewer dwellers become not just a charming slice of ‘90’s Americana, a cautionary reminder of the peak crime wave, and a novel suggestion for solving Manhattan’s housing shortage, but our sole line of defense of people and property.”

[Harry Bator @harry_bator]

@PalmerLuckey upvote: interesting double standard in fan entitlement vs anything w/ the “art” label, where fans assume their own ignorance instead of authorial failure

eg, Akira movie, a super compression of source manga that, like the bible, trades narrative continuity for brevity + thematic coherence.

in Akira’s case, either

a. newbies think the vague/jumpy narrative + characters are artsy postmodernism and don’t realize there’s 5k pages of source material stuffed into 90 min.

b. viewers know the work by reputation (ie, cultural gatekeeper opinion) and so do the background work/reading themselves, don’t expect it to be served up to them

[Harry Bator @harry_bator]

@JWTheCountry @EHunterChristie @robert_zubrin No such assertion. Always willing + often happy to be wrong. Your comment was v general and reframed OP's note to mean something -- globalized sovereignty, adherence to policies of the dead -- different than it does as written. A wise man also said we should take our own advice.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"The overeducated are worse off than the undereducated, having traded common sense for the illusion of knowledge."

@naval

[Harry Bator @harry_bator]

@McCormickProf @McCormickProf exactly right. Building more complexity into the speech regulatory Rube Goldberg machine only places us further at the mercy of admin enforcers and the broken selection mechanism for them

https://t.co/HA5d4Ya3eH

[Harry Bator @harry_bator]

@BillAckman @BillAckman exactly! Have to unwind, not expand/repurpose, the tortured policies, bureaucracies, and hiring/advancement incentive structures the trio unwittingly copped to before congress:

https://t.co/HA5d4Ya3eH