jslezak

Hm I don’t follow. The objects aren’t moving, and what’s the point of pulsing the light

What an appalling comment. You can’t possibly justify what you’re doing so you pretend it’s something “the left” did first. Did the left deport students because they wrote an op-ed article, or went to a protest? Did senior administration officials call for jailing opponents for thought crimes?

What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

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They are the billionaire Silicon Valley people who thought it would be cute to use their insane wealth to back a fascist seizure of power by Musk and Trump

Please direct questions on this to Marc Andreessen, Peter Theil, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Mark Pincus, Joe Gebbia

We’re about to watch a bunch of “libertarians” and anarcho-capitalists with kindergarten-level opinions about how societies function realize that markets require strong state regulation in order to function

There’s a reason there’s no stock exchange in the jungle

A show-down between a politician and a court whose majority was either appointed by him directly as naked partisans, or by his party

At least one of whom flagrantly accepts “gifts” from right wing activist business leaders with business before the court

By my count we’re down to 1 co-equal branch then

I must have missed the part where a bill was passed on this

Or where the incoming administration announced this policy during their campaign

Maybe it was in the announcement where they committed to canceling pediatric cancer research and US AID, which I also missed

That’s 3.3 million estimated deaths caused by DOGE illegally shutting down a congressionally established and funded agency of the US government:

- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS

- 500,000 from lack of vaccines

- 550,000 from lack of food aid

- 290,000 from malaria

- 310,000 from TB

“are the effective altruism guys mad about this or are they still trying to figure out how buying a castle will prevent AGI robot attacks in the year 300” [email protected]

Yes they are. Because Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and half the people in this community have been working for a decade to make that happen. Now joined by Marc Andreesen and a bunch of people who’ve gotten rich off the back of the exact kind of research they’re now decimating for their extremist insane ideological agenda

And when people post about it, they just lie: “no it’s not happening”

Has anyone tried it for handwriting?

So far Gemini is the only model I can get decent output from for a particular hard handwriting task

Effective US policy is that people must serve whatever corporation wants their labor or else they will be left to die without healthcare, shelter or food

Other countries do not have this policy

Exactly. He has a dishonest and predictable schtick. We need skeptics for any industry, but he is just grifting in an ecological niche as a knee-jerk reactionary. There is near-zero value to anything he writes or says in that role

You are saying words. They make little sense however. The total cost of running these institutions can be broken down however you want. If the total doesn’t add up to the necessary amount they can’t operate

Dude this IS the grant funding they’re slashing. The NIH (and other grantmakers) make research grants and the overhead fee from that goes to the university. This is precisely what they’ve cut

Private industry does not run campuses full of graduate courses and basic research that America’s technological prosperity depends on

Those overhead fees go to fund that, so universities don’t have to be even mere full of nepo baby donor legacy admissions than they already are

Amid uncertainty about frozen research aid from the National Institutes of Health, the University of Pittsburgh has put its Ph.D. admissions on ice. The school confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

The move comes as research universities across the country battle against the National Institutes of Health over a policy to reduce the funding cap for ancillary research expenses like building construction and maintenance as well as support staff.

The policy would reduce the cap for those indirect research costs to 15%. Pitt’s current rate is 59%. A federal judge extended a temporary pause on implementation of that policy Friday. But Pitt’s decision to halt admissions was made earlier in the week.

"After the announcement that NIH indirect costs would be capped at 15%, the University’s Office of the Provost temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission until the impacts of that cap were better understood,” a Pitt spokesperson said in a statement to WESA.

MAGA dudes would like America to be “Great Again” but would like you not to Google what the top marginal tax rate was in the pre-civil rights era they are taking us back to (hint: it was 90%)

The important thing is that Marc Andreessen still gets 2% of all funds under management regardless of what happens, and his accumulation of material wealth is our priority

Your job as a technologist is to try to get into his good graces

What would you need to be paid to accept a 3 percent risk in Russian Roulette?

This has been obvious since day 0, for the same reason that doing elaborate industry-funded R&D to develop piss-extraction technology to filter and sequester piss from your swimming pool will never be more efficient than simply not pissing in your pool

We need teams of people working on decentralizing any important information sources like this, with mirrors and open protocols that don’t have single points of failure

“Print what we tell you or you’re banned”

Emancipation was politics too bro

Their next move - and the Rubicon none of us can uncross - will be defying the court orders that are inevitably issued to stop the flagrant criminality

Once they defy those, it’s done.

The enforcement of federal laws including court orders requires the Trump justice department to act. And his first moves (naturally) were to fire all oversight people, install extremist hardcore loyalists at the top, and fire anyone underneath who was not equally loyal. Anybody who thinks any other administration has done anything remotely comparable in the modern era is just uninformed

All of us should take a moment to acknowledge all the Peter Thiel-adjacent folks in this community who drove us directly to this moment