Yeah, good. Don’t build roads, bridges, and trains. Let’s build jails.

/s

I think the problem they cannot solve yet is a) knowing what to do and b) knowing when it’s properly done.

The result is possibly more output per qualified human, but with your competition having the same tool, you’re just keeping pace, not advancing.

We have to either take it from them, or figure out how to get as much freedom from the rat race as possible by other means. The taking it from them part is difficult because the people with the money also have most of the guns and, by extension, laws.

“Normal” Americans can do this too if they have enough capital. The amount needed may be less than you think.

These outcomes are features of modern finance and there aren’t a lot of secrets about how it works. A lot of people could benefit by learning and using the same rules for their own benefit. These so called rich people know it because they talk about it with each other. Normies can look to forums like coastfire, expatfire, leanfire and similar for tips about how to similarly exploit the finance regulation in place today.

If you get a W2, and you spend most or all of the salary for living expenses - with no gap for significant savings, you’re trading a month of labor for a month of living expenses. It might feel ok because you sit on a leather seat or stay in the Hilton sometimes. But if there is nothing left over you’re perpetually running on fumes.

The only way out of this is by cutting expenses and creating as wide a gap as possible and pouring it into assets that grow, not shrink, in value. With the power of compounding returns nobody is more than a decade, decade and a half or so away from freedom. But yeah, you do have to live like a miser during that time.

I’m having an issue like this as well. Blocked keywords, blocked communities are showing often in my main feed suddenly

Lying to the court is at minimum perjury, no? I wonder if the culture at these Immigration offices is such that they are encouraging this behavior or if it’s looked down on?

If you’re an attorney at a prestigious law firm and you’re held in contempt or caught lying, I think this would be career limiting, potentially result in the loss of your license, and look bad on your firm.

Lawyers might have shitty clients though, and that might be the case at these DHS offices. I’m thinking about that one attorney who asked the judge to hold her in contempt. If that’s the case you’d hope the attorney won’t act until they are confident in the facts.

GitHub should have insight on new repositories and repositories that are gaining files like CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md that kind of tip off the use of AI coding.

My guess is there’s a super long tail of projects people are releasing as open source that were vibe coded to solve some simple problem. Most will likely fall into abandonment or never reach any amount of viability.

On the other hand the cost of starting a project to solve an interesting problem has never been lower. It’s never been easier to take a swing at building something cool that people might like. This should expose new opportunities that haven’t been attempted yet.

My intuition says it’s not all bad. It’s like selling hammers to people who aren’t licensed construction workers. Yeah, some stuff will get built that should not be built.

Ever since we started seeing traffic cameras showing up at intersections 15 or 20 years ago and recording license plates, I’ve had an uneasy feeling that these data pools just become a tool to move against people at any time in the future.

I’m not opposed to enforcement of rules. I want there to be rules in society and it’s important that we have resources dedicated to the enforcement of rules.

What I don’t want is a goliath unfair advantage that can be easily used to hurt people - even inadvertently - by ill-trained or malicious authorities.

The government has unlimited resources to prosecute people and destroy lives through the process. And it’s extremely expensive for people to defend themselves, even when falsely accused. The risk to everyday people, many who are following the laws, is just too high.

And if the wind blows towards fascist tendencies, that pool of data on you just became your worst nightmare.

The Fourth amendment was created in response to abuses by British authorities. At one point we wanted to protect individual privacy and property rights from government overreach.

Americans are not free if they are being detained for “probable cause” because some database + opaque lines of code said there is probable cause.

I now avoid all videos showing deaths or serious injuries (if I know that kind of content is coming).

Feels better to not have those images in my mind.

This thread is actually really depressing.

Wasn’t there an incident where Pelocy was begging for the national guard to be called in? Or maybe one of the cabinet members. And Trump kept declining.

So the only people to do the shooting were the limited number of capital police. I don’t think they’re set up for riot defense and it’s a lot to ask them to individually put their lives on the line by just shooting into the crowd.

Once they are following, I’d think you can begin to convert them to higher tiers of support through private channels?

It’s all about control of reach.

If I was an influencer and using Patreon (I’m neither), it’s a simple decision:

Total reach * conversion rate * platform commission = income

Apple’s app store has a fuckton of desirable reach - they monopolize (arguably literally) all the easy payments from iphones and kill anybody else who tries to redirect eyeballs. They are too strong. But what else are you going to do if you need Patreons or app customers, etc?

You can’t ignore the reach, and you’d have to pay or work harder to get eyeballs another way too unless you can get free publicity by being crazy or something and pull people into your own payment/ download channels.

Any boss ramming a tool down their workers throats without understanding it or validating it’s usefulness is not a particularly good boss.

If the incumbent knows the new guy will put him in jail, which is a common thing in parts of the world where power is not often transferred gracefully, he will fight to the death to hold on to power.

If the new guy lets the old guy slink away, it reduces political polarization. Who cares about the old guy at that point? Because everybody benefits from less polarization and more unity.

Side note: this being a rarity is probably a net good thing. History shows that when the old guy and the new guy fight, it doesn’t bring unity or peaceful transfers of power which are arguably more important than the bad one getting whatever they deserve.

Huly is worth checking out. We’ve been on it for about a year. They’re in super active developments so features are coming rapidly, sometimes breaking or requiring migrations.

They have both a SaaS version and self-hosted version.

Handful of Windows desktop apps that don’t work well on Wine - WeChat desktop, LINE app desktop. I do tons of copy pasting of mocked up screenshots and stuff. It just doest work as well as in windows.

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Say it ain’t so

I’d love to see all kinds of resistance to this.

If an armed militia shows up on the same street as ICE, but in greater numbers, there’s a pretty good chance these imposters leave.

I hope somebody’s working on building an app for recording everything possible and centralizing that information - license plates, photos, videos.

Perhaps homemade stingray devices that grab IMEI/IMSI numbers from agent’s phones, so that it’s easier to identify and link these agents between locations.

More people following them around to report on location and activities. Report on where they stay so that protests and obnoxious deterrence can be set up so that fewer businesses are willing to service these people.

There are so many more citizens than there are ICE agents. Doesn’t seem like it takes much to overwhelm them and push them out, so long as it’s coordinated.