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danmcd

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Dad&Husband, BEAGLE-DAD, #illumos :illumos: core team, 2nd-wave Internet settler, early IPsec & IPv6 builder, and now at MNX working on #SmartOS ( @smartosorg ) & #Triton ( @triton_dc ).

Michigan ( #goblue ) and Arizona alum. Ex-{NRL,Sun,Nexenta,OmniTI,Joyent}.

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tzimmer_history , to random
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Sunday Reading: The Right’s Politics of Revenge

The responses to the Trump verdict offer an instructive - and alarming - reminder of what defines the American Right today: They are out for bloody retaliation, all dressed up as patriotism.

Thoughts from my new piece:

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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-rights-politics-of-revenge

danmcd ,
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@tzimmer_history

The literal language of the domestic abuser...

randahl , (edited ) to random
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You too can buy a Tesla, and support the main share holder Elon Musk, who abuses his social media platform to convince his 185 million followers, that the US justice system is corrupt, because his favorite criminal is brought to justice.

Or you could buy from a different car brand.

danmcd ,
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@randahl
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I believe people are already doing Just That (TM). Here's an evidentiary picture:

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Not enough people realize that the "Turing Test" as originally presented was "can a gay English man in 1945 tell the difference between a chatbot and a femme-coded woman" over a teletype connection.

(Turing was very gay and had a sex-segregated education and then work life: he basically didn't know women and his alienation is palpable. But today's techbros don't have any such excuse, and the emphasis on femme-coded AI is ... telling.)
https://mastodon.xyz/@pmorinerie/112506480363973206

danmcd ,
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@Npars01 @cstross

I think of GLaDOS from the Portal games, her awful backstory, and skeptical about the motivations behind writing her that way.

Here's one cogent analysis (stumbled across a quick search, but this one covers other points I've seen earlier):

https://www.incidentalmythology.com/blog/glados-an-analysis

futurebird , to random
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I just re-read Neuromancer for some reason and... I still don't really get it.

Though I'm not certain it's making any particular statement. The hero mall-ninja. The wasp nest of big money. It's like a bunch of dream images each with their own resonance rattling around in what would be unfair to call 90s pastiche... because to be fair to Mr. Gibson, he invented what was later imitated.

But, yeah. I still don't really get it.

danmcd ,
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@futurebird

It came out in 1984, and given the permeating worry about WW3 ending the world, any future was better than no future.

Also, it didn't (and for me it was a first) dwell on the ooohs and ahhhs of an advanced future, said advanced future was just the damned setting for a heist story.

It also introduced then-teenage white boys like me to Marcus Garvey.

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As someone who writes a lot of fiction about corporate crime, I naturally end up spending a lot of time being angry about corporate crime. It's pretty goddamned enraging. But the fiction writer in me is especially upset at how cartoonishly evil the perps are - routinely doing things that I couldn't ever get away with putting in a novel.

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danmcd ,
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@pluralistic He might be on one of the other Twitter diaspora destinations, but Leverage creator John Rogers mentioned on pre-Nazi Twitter that he had this same problem for episodes of that show.

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