Omg my heart sank

I read the comment above yours in your profile pic’s voice before seeing it. Watching with little man for first time and he just met Nibbler!

I watch a lot of YouTube about everything nerdy and celebratory to every detail and facet about the global apocalypse. Yesterday for the first time in months, a novel idea got through to me… dude was talking about the overblown reactionary movement to which I initially ate my own vomit… yes, I consume this drug, but yes, I am cognisant it’s really bad, so don’t tell me it’s all okay… Something along lines of “everyone thinks it’s like the industrial revolution. It’s not. It’s like the Internet or mobile devices. We just forget how big a change those were now that they’re normative, so it sounds psychotic to compare AI to such “small” shifts in society like the Internet or mobile”… and I felt a fuck ton better. Copium or not, it’s nice to hear a grounded take (he backed it up), and neither a sycophant or chicken little diatribe that feel respectively like sociopaths with heads in the ground or click bait unsubstantiated drama.

Not undermining what AI is doing to people, society, and the ecology. But now that I type that, thinking what to follow, anyone remember Mary Poppins? How normal it was for little kids covered in soot missing fingers at the dawn of the industrial revolution. We just need regulation which is the actual fundamental shift problem, as demand for political action is no longer democratized now that the Citizens have United.

Am I a douche? Lying to myself?

Yep BBS. So much of Halt and Catch Fire hit home.

Pre Internet

Same Had to look at sub

Look into Mercor

I was working deals with them and Symantec during the whole thing… seems like ending up on Broadcom side was a death blow for everyone I know

That’s why I like selling at startups. I find engineers I like, making something valuable and helpful. These days most work comes from eng friends or old bosses recruiting. I make their equity valuable. I excitedly create new engineering jobs as I create demand for them to keep up with deal flow and appreciate every hire. If I sold car parts, I’d know how many kids every motherfucker on the assembly line has. Too many MBAs in tech now, no regard for humans let alone the ones creating the thing they’re making a living on.

In the first half thought you were understanding how the rise of populism and autocracy happen

You ever see the doc on how Apple built and modernized China’s entire technology manufacturing economy in a way that had they not, we’d probably not see them as nearly the competition they are?

So I even mask my autism like my old man?

Mmmm home sweet home

So you’re saying we should blockade the blockade? /s

COVID masking worked too

Every invention this century…

Slow clap

Do it. It’s only getting worse. I’ve spent more than I want to admit on hardware the last couple months and it’s only got me wanting to spend now on remaining items on my list.

Btw check out fractal node… 10 hdds… I have 2 z2 vdevs in there. First were 2tb. 2nd are 10tb. Think I have almost 30 usable total.

Inspiration for Bad Guys character?

18/20 jfc… This was probably a quarter of that before being a middle aged dad and inheriting my father’s clothes.