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Put in that framing, it makes sense to push for a government that tries to act as extrajudicially as possible, seeing people at the border not just as business, but as a business opportunity. For them. To traffick for cash.

Scary as hell, I know. But it also means they need to operate outside of the context of the law for this all to work. Expose these fuckwits to sunlight and they scatter, claiming no sovereign or authority.

We're seeing this with "DOGE", too.

What we're seeing is a full court press of fascism here in the US, but understanding it through that lens is still missing what's happening. This isn't an organized fascist putsch, it's one haphazardly falling together from parties trading favors with each other and stumbling over each other in the process.

It's a smoke-filled room full of evil people, trading their worst ideas, with the terrible impunity only wealth and sovereignty buys you. In other words: Epstein Island.

Some posts on Bsky starting to call the US government what it is at the moment: a trafficking ring pretending to be a government: https://bsky.app/profile/nycsouthpaw.bsky.social/post/3lko3ogcims2e

This framing is powerful for understanding what's happening, what's coming, and how to stop it. Because their theory of power being "Epstein Island, except the federal government" is simultaneously scary as hell and paper-thin brittle.

I wonder what the bofh (for those that don't know, that's the "bastard operator from hell", a fictional snarky IT and devops guy best described as chaotic neutral) would do with this knowledge.

Ngl, that so many businesspeople consider overconfident wild-ass word salad to be expert advice says more about their lived experiences than whether an LLM can do any of that.

I wonder if anyone has tried A-B testing this with real vs LLM input in their workplace in, say, standup or status emails. To see just how much of a typical job has literally no critical thought or feedback behind it.

If that's where most of the value is: plausibly automating busywork, then, well.

Tried and been really liking Pokémon TCGP since the holidays. The faster format and presentation are much more accessible than the mainline Pokémon card apps, being in line with the quality and polish of Magic Duels (at similar expense of a narrower roster of cards and archetypes to work with).

The only reason I don't recommend it is it also has the same aggressive gacha logic that attempts to coerce bad purchasing decisions. But if you already play, I'm 6976-2009-0143-4733 over there!

(For those that know them, this is PhotographOtter and Hiyu. Not sure if they intersect with circles here, but they're both wonderful folks.)