2026-09-05T06:55:00Z https://yabu.me Mx. Chara Aznable of Pnictogen https://yabu.me/npub1lq2v8799xdmm7rtszk8s79p2lpx5g5u08nvlgwym2zt47twepgcqg56g4s https://cyberpunklol.files.fedi.monster/accounts/avatars/117/024/347/319/605/995/original/cc6c4d011463faf5.png https://cyberpunklol.files.fedi.monster/accounts/avatars/117/024/347/319/605/995/original/cc6c4d011463faf5.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrc0cc76rflgttv6ue4nedlrrs53ap6ljhu4g45tx254ml94sjmkszyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqftn5q9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0h4yy2enp48vyn3mw4pta36wk2m5cekxa77ck28qs03r3x3a9ywgvkhlnf'>nevent1q…hlnf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t like doing this. It ruins my day no matter how hard I throw myself into constructive activities afterwards, baking or learning how to navigate BSD or whatever. But how else can one break through the *armor*?<br/><br/>The techbros have been working on this narrative for so long, they actually believe it now. They still think of themselves as a liberatory force even as they thirst for police and military contracts and cozying up to politicians. They think that evil #Apple #1984 ad is somehow REAL and not a dystopian corruption and coöption of George Orwell for no better reason than spicing up sales for a friggin&#39; personal computer.<br/><br/>The Apple corporation is not a hero of any story but their own.<br/><br/>~Chara 2026-09-03T22:44:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0h4yy2enp48vyn3mw4pta36wk2m5cekxa77ck28qs03r3x3a9ywgzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rq9h3y8k &#34;How can Silicon Valley be fascist, they made the Mac II&#34; was a bit of #tech sector babble I wasn&#39;t expecting but welp there it is, unless the communications professor decides to delete it 2026-09-03T22:39:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxdzx54e57vxvr7wgnhvm2f47fe3a60z636xee7555ndh8vqakvvqzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqn5qert In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf5c7sh8augusc8efqtnw2afulrw8gqqu2ducze0q85gvq5hkac2svncrqm'>nevent1q…crqm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh that guy? that guy was an LLM huh? I guess I can&#39;t tell the difference these days 2026-09-01T04:20:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszhk66znzuvgg8md7nq52gsfy9xrl2dcuuq6fph89vy320a8kr0jgzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rq8vsgfd There&#39;s a very serious issue which the #technology sector and its enthusiastic fanboys (mostly it&#39;s cis guys into this shit, guys who misogynistically pretend that women are too emotional and irrational to deal with computers) have clearly yet to grasp.<br/><br/>It&#39;s a deal-breaking problem they have and yet they have persuaded themselves otherwise: no human being on Earth or anywhere else can possibly trust what a tech enthusiast says or promises.<br/><br/>They have ZERO credibility.<br/><br/>(etc.) 2026-08-30T06:12:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswu4fpvwkr2jr3uz0n4h44wdj3fs695zw39h6jmxmx556tp9l2zyszyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqtp8lef In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst5q84jvgq4w80w8eq2yng7hznptexwzq4gpzk7g04ltzl6ceq2lqtckc3v'>nevent1q…kc3v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I bet you that most of the hardcore fanbase of Yudkowsky and #LessWrong sophistry hasn&#39;t even read the fucking thing. If I may Godwin myself: that was also the case with *Mein Kampf*, which I&#39;ve read bits of. It&#39;s trash, semi-coherent ranting mixed with grandiosity about building a great empire, and William L. Shirer (who was literally *in Berlin* when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939) said that most Germans he encountered, even if they were loyal to the regime, admitted they&#39;d never read Hitler&#39;s book. It just *sucked* too bad.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-24T20:53:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst5q84jvgq4w80w8eq2yng7hznptexwzq4gpzk7g04ltzl6ceq2lqzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqsawx9h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdnp2kqqlavk8njku6h4hhwkwjep2gmcwkeg8h9w2uqkgzra0v6vc283awx'>nevent1q…3awx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hence I very much doubt that Yudkowsky&#39;s writing contains much &#34;rationality&#34;. It&#39;s really the **title** that matters, and the fact that its author is now a tech-sector cult leader in the #effectivealtruism mode (i.e. designed towards grovelling and toadying to tech executives, the only people who actually think that &#34;effective altruism&#34; is worthy of study and lavish donations of money.)<br/><br/>(etc.) 2026-08-24T20:49:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdnp2kqqlavk8njku6h4hhwkwjep2gmcwkeg8h9w2uqkgzra0v6vczyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rq889are In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszspwlcern2pggpp9mm4ad437waafh4uwuckz839l6y5cu7epzcxgfmr8jf'>nevent1q…r8jf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I can&#39;t overstress the degree to which the habitual discourse of the &#34;intellectuals&#34; favored by #tech sector geeklords, in spite of all the &#34;rationalism&#34; or because of it, is strictly a matter of strong emotions.<br/><br/>They don&#39;t write out logical syllogisms. They write soppy eulogies about how logic and Science™ are amazing and the answer to all life&#39;s problems, seasoned with various festering hatreds.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-24T20:43:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszspwlcern2pggpp9mm4ad437waafh4uwuckz839l6y5cu7epzcxgzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rq42ywu0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvujhwptud9mdsrvhmwp6mrl05cq6h89lj7kc90wtznzp3nccnr9c7mhfs2'>nevent1q…hfs2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m sure that if I looked up *Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality* on #YouTube I&#39;d find dozens, hundreds, maybe **THOUSANDS** of well-argued refutations of Yudkowsky&#39;s ideology as explicated in his #HarryPotter fanfic. But there&#39;d be ever so much more sycophantic praise and lengthy orations about Yudkowsky&#39;s genius, because sentimental hogwash is the element in which &#34;conservatives&#34; swim.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-24T20:38:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvujhwptud9mdsrvhmwp6mrl05cq6h89lj7kc90wtznzp3nccnr9czyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rq75crzq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsytnf86g55tzde0j7gfnrrgx369ywh45utj6c42wtkz29gsz5dydcepn4hs'>nevent1q…n4hs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There&#39;s scarcely any genuine **debate** among these right-wing nerds because they&#39;ve a priori ruled out most of accepted and collectively decided human knowledge as &#34;woke&#34; and corrupted by Marxism and so forth. Their fanatical anticommunism has eaten away at their intellects to the point that they&#39;re now coming up with half-assed reinventions of existing fields and concepts, because they *refuse* to engage with the larger intellectual community.<br/><br/>(more) 2026-08-24T20:36:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsytnf86g55tzde0j7gfnrrgx369ywh45utj6c42wtkz29gsz5dydczyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqguzcv7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf96vdumyk86a4g7wdsajc7c0cntn9558jtkcn2h757xuaktneswg8w8fn9'>nevent1q…8fn9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The #tech sector and the elite #programming and #computing culture are boiling over with nerdbros who babble about &#34;debate&#34; and &#34;logic&#34; and &#34;rationality&#34; while--exactly like E. Z. Yudkowsky--preferring the monologue as their method of discourse. They&#39;re isolated, insular, frankly very *lonely* people who out of psychological necessity have convinced themselves that they ought to be able to reason out the nature of reality without leaving their computer desk.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-24T20:34:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf96vdumyk86a4g7wdsajc7c0cntn9558jtkcn2h757xuaktneswgzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqlphx92 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdrggnar0ze8s7jqm3xg5ktfrv2gp3dm6jx526h24ntp9avfx6yeg8x95c8'>nevent1q…95c8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hence the fundamental premise of *Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality* is, I suggest, in bad faith: Yudkowsky wants to present the *appearance* of logical disputation and dialectical materialism (by writing fiction about it) without any actual willingness to risk his ideas in debate. <br/><br/>#Debate therefore has become a doublethinkful, deceitful word in contemporary parlance.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-24T20:32:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdrggnar0ze8s7jqm3xg5ktfrv2gp3dm6jx526h24ntp9avfx6yegzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqckx6hf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfs2f2u4zdav4mmyz5s2v88ga0jtqm6lrr0mdqcq9y45gluqy279cqmt9sv'>nevent1q…t9sv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hence Yudkowsky&#39;s *Harry Potter* fanfic isn&#39;t necessarily a bad idea but I know from attempting to interact with Yudkowsky on Twitter and with the #LessWrong people on their insular forum that Eliezer Yudkowsky is a person with very few ideas and very little inclination to defend them through logical disputation. <br/><br/>To quote *Videodrome*, the monologue is Yudkowsky&#39;s preferred mode of discourse.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-24T20:28:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfs2f2u4zdav4mmyz5s2v88ga0jtqm6lrr0mdqcq9y45gluqy279czyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqvg9fta In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg0yzhhur3hrt83t6x4mhgrfvnr43vp3wp222rdvcn23u30zyaaxsmcl9sm'>nevent1q…l9sm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That way Nietzsche could feasibly claim that he himself wasn&#39;t saying &#34;God is Dead!&#34; even though, of course, that&#39;s how every carping #Christian fanatic interpreted Nietzsche&#39;s fable. They do that with everything: Christian fanatics of that sort have erased all subtle distinctions among different sorts of writing from their understanding. All texts are &#34;literal&#34; to them (i.e. they&#39;re physical objects that can be used to hurt people with.)<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-24T20:25:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg0yzhhur3hrt83t6x4mhgrfvnr43vp3wp222rdvcn23u30zyaaxszyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqgqnpwm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvtfpralxwlkeavufedg4fg604xat766a7gp8mkj0pczc6fyg24usyvegzf'>nevent1q…egzf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>When Nietzsche wanted to pass along the news that maybe God was dead, he wrote a fable about a madman with a lantern, going around looking for evidence of God, peering into everyone&#39;s faces because surely if God were to be found somewhere it&#39;d be in *human belief*. Did anyone around Nietzsche still believe in God? His fable, a very small part of *The Gay Science*, suggests that all such belief had died out of the world, at least the European world.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-24T20:23:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvtfpralxwlkeavufedg4fg604xat766a7gp8mkj0pczc6fyg24uszyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqcexsa3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxzymnth3l09j3hsnnc54adxhf3qp0paax6czkkrclh2f5wcdyz0ck90a75'>nevent1q…0a75</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hence I am only *slightly* surprised that E. Z. Yudkowsky felt that *Harry Potter* was an ideal vessel into which he could pour his own ideas. There&#39;s a lengthy tradition of philosophical writers employing fictive frameworks in which they can present (for example) dialogues between characters intended to elaborate philosophical ideas in a speculative manner.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-24T20:21:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxzymnth3l09j3hsnnc54adxhf3qp0paax6czkkrclh2f5wcdyz0czyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rquluknx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy983fkgzfpeum9hmvw69mwu4nws2jf3fwcpe9p4mavdsxymfs22sc7xkqd'>nevent1q…xkqd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The *Harry Potter* books, however, are very dilute and copious while telling an extremely slight story about characters who get very little genuine development or depth of backstory.<br/><br/>Fanfic writers salivate over such fiction because there&#39;s *so much room* to add more. It&#39;s almost like the very characters themselves are crying out to anyone with better #writing ability than Jo Rowling: &#34;Please, *please* give me something more to do!&#34;<br/><br/>(still more) 2026-08-24T20:19:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy983fkgzfpeum9hmvw69mwu4nws2jf3fwcpe9p4mavdsxymfs22szyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rquuh9en In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8qz7sdn7t48054hue5e50le4jvz4cas3jwxq73wlg0857l7e3l4g9uwvsc'>nevent1q…wvsc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You&#39;d practically have to rewrite all of #MadokaMagica from the ground up in order to make your new material feel as though it *belonged* there in Mitakihara City with Madoka and her friends. There are, I am sure, #fanfic writers equal to that task, but they&#39;re likely to have better creative priorities than expostulating upon the &#34;methods of rationality&#34;.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-24T20:16:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8qz7sdn7t48054hue5e50le4jvz4cas3jwxq73wlg0857l7e3l4gzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqqra2hd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsggw4305y74qwd2x2c5vwhg3hpus7nnpxukmulwzkjjg5y9pfc5sqp3ufxs'>nevent1q…ufxs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Consider the opposite extreme: could one write something like *Kaname Madoka and the Methods of Rationality?*<br/><br/>Anyone can write anything, hypothetically, but #MadokaMagica is such a dense work, supported by a tremendous amount of skillful world-building by its principal author Urobuchi Gen and his collaborators, that one would have work hard to cram &#34;methods of rationality&#34; in there among the mahou shōjo.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-24T20:14:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsggw4305y74qwd2x2c5vwhg3hpus7nnpxukmulwzkjjg5y9pfc5sqzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rq5ghx0s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspksysgjtavx42pv2dzcjtg7pmydvwyuutrar0de08lca683qaalc06c2cu'>nevent1q…c2cu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>First I&#39;d like to remark that #HarryPotter seems bizarrely *apt* to this kind of nonsense precisely because there&#39;s so little substance to the writing. &#34;Harry Potter&#34; is a stock character practically, shepherded from book to book through that lowest form of #magic that can be found in fiction: **plot magic**, i.e. arbitrary happenings where it&#39;s clear the author wants a pre-decided outcome more than they want to figure out how to make that outcome plausible.<br/><br/>(more) 2026-08-24T20:10:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspksysgjtavx42pv2dzcjtg7pmydvwyuutrar0de08lca683qaalczyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqpx5h5q There&#39;s been a fair amount of chatter lately on a weirdly specific phenomenon pertaining to the #HarryPotter fandom, which is the strange part played by a certain &#34;Harry Potter&#34; fanfic well known to those engaged with combating the pernicious influence of #effectivealtruism and other &#34;dark intellectual&#34; cult idols which have fed into the fascısm of the #technology sector.<br/><br/>(more) 2026-08-24T20:07:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxh50szgwv3z97mv8jqzsd6kr9dmu7us99lz48qxpe6ylemnkfcpszyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqqktfzx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr4jq73eqannlfuslqx4qjektgzvqrpxdxpzxre5gl3r03wlvlplsm7h34d'>nevent1q…h34d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Mister Mxyzptlk might like to have a word with you! =D 2026-08-17T17:32:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszc8za8m5t3zk9cpajgkky4dupmgj405tkpdvtznlv6g5k5p6knrqzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rq8a97f3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfck6vddxmv50r8me8kjm6gxy5q9fmycz8a5l7dgu89ta66gh66yckut4jq'>nevent1q…t4jq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>But names *do* mean something and they cling hard to that principle, but only in a nightmarish #marketing way. They talk about &#34;nominative determinism&#34;, i.e. they notice that certain names seem to flourish and do well while other names don&#39;t.<br/><br/>They see the power of names but they don&#39;t understand it.<br/><br/>(etc.) 2026-08-17T12:23:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfck6vddxmv50r8me8kjm6gxy5q9fmycz8a5l7dgu89ta66gh66yczyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rq46gfzn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswumk70l5mh69wk0pwvxf5nrza48tjzq234nehv7w2uvm5q792jxq6y04xp'>nevent1q…04xp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In contrast to all this elaboration and soul-searching and all the deep thoughts that invariably come up when the concept of **#name** and naming is up for discussion, #tech enthusiasts tend to have a doublethinkful attachment to names. Their #programming habits tell them names don&#39;t matter. Pfft you can name a variable anything! Foo, bar, fubar, etc.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-17T12:19:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswumk70l5mh69wk0pwvxf5nrza48tjzq234nehv7w2uvm5q792jxqzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqec85hk She liked it because it reminded her of a true hero, someone who (like Jeanne d&#39;Arc, tragically) found that he was good at war and soldiering and struggled to find a sense of purpose *without* these things.<br/><br/>He liked it because it satisfied unspoken internal Tomlinson family rules. It was an acceptable &#34;white person name&#34; like Brent or Dirk.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-17T12:15:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9pn20s8muxcuym2qgtz2klqryzen02ryvcvgvanp080300rrjy4gzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqe986s3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg8q8pynmzhmm5gxtxncdyujg6mw8zs2shfgxl3hhn6jkxxk9y98sc82sau'>nevent1q…2sau</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I know that <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub16sjv99zc89jxa5t09z5trjvtujdac3zg2e3kxujxvzutdhjdd52qg8va89" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Anil Dash</span> (<span class="italic">npub16sj…va89</span>)</a></span> and <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fdrpydz4n2dpgpy5xhsa6rjg8ytggn82mt0addw6sf93272nhhnqsjlvhs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cory Doctorow</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fdr…lvhs</span>)</a></span> and other mainstream #technology commentators loathe me for saying this, but all their chatter seems totally irrelevant in the face of a tech sector that simply *does not want people to own computers*. The bosses realize they&#39;re threatened by individuals good at computers so now they want to take the gift back. The scum classes weren&#39;t ready for it, I suppose is how they see it.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-14T07:42:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg8q8pynmzhmm5gxtxncdyujg6mw8zs2shfgxl3hhn6jkxxk9y98szyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqg55fgs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx2lswd9huwhcwaud5cy5zxmmxhl6a4r3l8zulcljx5ylw5q6vdcszycs8g'>nevent1q…cs8g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>All the demands of #capitalism drive #software and the Internet and the World Wide Web towards maximal bloat, maximal unreliability, maximal chaos. <br/><br/>In this chaotic landscape #startup companies have a free playground in which to offer workarounds, &#34;solutions&#34; (ohhh so many **solutions** pouring out of #technology founders), layers of abstraction, and finally they&#39;ve abstracted away the **computer** altogether. They don&#39;t want people to own one any more.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-14T07:39:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx2lswd9huwhcwaud5cy5zxmmxhl6a4r3l8zulcljx5ylw5q6vdcszyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqv3g4tl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgk2lfskkznc2w54t4k8yl6r2nss2k4mhwhyspsh2dd6tga5kdnpsch6ggx'>nevent1q…6ggx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Put all the manifold utility of #web deployment aside for a moment. I am not saying that people shouldn&#39;t deploy applications to the web, or even that they shouldn&#39;t use #JavaScript and #NodeJS although I feel that far far too much emphasis has been given to such tools.<br/><br/>The resulting &#34;world wide web&#34; is hideously slow and janky and jam-packed with advertising and glitches and advertising disguised as glitches, and clearly this is considered to be extremely profitable.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-14T07:34:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgk2lfskkznc2w54t4k8yl6r2nss2k4mhwhyspsh2dd6tga5kdnpszyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqk4egft In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszaq7ww66234zhzf2zpc6camh489e0qwgse2ry0tua7wgtzmxc92q9rhmyz'>nevent1q…hmyz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Tim Berners-Lee and the other originators of #HTML, the backbone of what we now call the &#34;World Wide Web&#34; or sometimes simply &#34;the Internet&#34; (for so many people, web browsers are their only portal to the Internet, by design) wanted a method of displaying static structured information. Methods of dynamic HTML generation were soon introduced however, and then came the &#34;Web 2.0&#34; fascist counterrevolution. Yes I think that&#39;s a fair summary of what happened to the #WorldWideWeb with the advent of Netscape and the Andreessen era.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-14T07:31:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszaq7ww66234zhzf2zpc6camh489e0qwgse2ry0tua7wgtzmxc92qzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqjqqaft In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdnuza3w5q23vr4hmpvrtglz0mpdmjaagwnqs9kta53mtg53p20kc5d59ha'>nevent1q…59ha</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Making C and C++ and low-level #programming languages in general into an **inner mystery**, a secret and furtive thing which only a special few #tech brainiacs like John Carmack (you know how productive he is, John Carmack once of #Meta) know how to do properly, required the construction of a different sort of computer programming, far more loosey-goosey and playful and accessible to &#34;everybody&#34;.<br/><br/>Enter #web development! =D<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-14T07:28:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdnuza3w5q23vr4hmpvrtglz0mpdmjaagwnqs9kta53mtg53p20kczyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqmpmhlx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq5kw6vx439dxtw9k06esemptguxjd0c4j8ldv339majz2dn6zghqgeuw2w'>nevent1q…uw2w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Elon Musk and Sam Altman are still slap-fighting over the &#34;open source&#34;-ness of #OpenAI and #xAI (they still exist right? kinda?) and so forth, squabbling over possession of an empty slogan.<br/><br/>There&#39;s nothing whatsoever **open** or **free** in the material and physical reality of high-tech corporate affairs. They want everything locked down and metered, and 99% of the population condemned to use the lowest-quality products.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-14T07:18:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq5kw6vx439dxtw9k06esemptguxjd0c4j8ldv339majz2dn6zghqzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqwzfq9p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2uz5zwd4rcr6avdetmvvwh6cg03rdhfe6wljml485270lmcp8cnq9p9lhm'>nevent1q…9lhm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>C is what made the #Linux miracle possible and the #tech elite are very into that. <br/><br/>There&#39;s not space here to go into the disastrous corporate corruption underlying the Linux community and fanbase, or the way in which the words #FreeSoftware have come to mean basically nothing in a world where &#34;open source&#34; is a mere buzzword in the mouths of Sam Altman and Elon Musk. There&#39;s not a particle or glimmer of actual #freedom anywhere in this scene, all because Linux nerds have tended to like money and power. Lots of it, all the time.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-14T07:14:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2uz5zwd4rcr6avdetmvvwh6cg03rdhfe6wljml485270lmcp8cnqzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rq8wyyty In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgf0023h3zn8k7ljkkk5gaw09fqcu54ezeg4g8xe75y3fytc8tc6snl4v3e'>nevent1q…4v3e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hence Linus Torvalds repeating the oft-heard claim that &#34;Generative #AI&#34; slopbots are now excellent at coding C, even if they&#39;re maybe bad at other things, must be taken as the simple invocation of a magic talisman, a sacred mystery. C is Good™, so Good™ that its Goodness™ touches everything pertaining to C. Of *course* #Claude or #ChatGPT or whatever can speak perfect C! C&#39;s perfection graces the LLM with perfection.<br/><br/>After all there&#39;s probably at least a few percentage points of C code somewhere in the fantabulous innards of the &#34;generative AI&#34; miracle.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-14T07:08:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgf0023h3zn8k7ljkkk5gaw09fqcu54ezeg4g8xe75y3fytc8tc6szyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqkw78gg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsghzk4stg7dtpc8xhxd5t9dmwt70twa6jsrmrrcxx4fhc422sxnkc5t4ezg'>nevent1q…4ezg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Back to the superspecial status of the C #programming language and the convergence of the tech sector around #web deployment as the **only way** to do anything on a computer.C<br/><br/> is now an object of nigh-religious reverence, as I&#39;ve said. The hardcore grindset dudes who went into #computing chiefly because it was the easiest alternative to *work* they could think of—scamming money via high-tech #startup—don&#39;t know how computers work! But they do know the letter **C!**<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-14T06:54:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsghzk4stg7dtpc8xhxd5t9dmwt70twa6jsrmrrcxx4fhc422sxnkczyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rq2768tz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp7tp6qndryerk9p5glnhq3cnkwjf2kgaxkdqvtycm9tc29jd6p2s6m52ys'>nevent1q…52ys</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Anyone seeking an explanation for why Linus Torvalds and a million other awful nerdbosses like him seem perplexingly to believe that the #LLM is stupendous at writing computer code, look no further! **C** is an object of worship of a very special sort, a holy of holies in the #tech world. John Carmack, one of the emptiest human beings I&#39;ve ever encountered on Twitter, is revered as a god simply because he&#39;s supposedly a dab hand at C programming.<br/><br/>Is he? What exactly does John Carmack do with his time? I think he dropped the feeble interest in #rockets.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-13T02:48:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp7tp6qndryerk9p5glnhq3cnkwjf2kgaxkdqvtycm9tc29jd6p2szyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqg0ryz0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs93gm3jsx7pt07x9vp3y50ykmzykse447tpv4vw36tkv6sj572sxck6sttw'>nevent1q…sttw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One of the weird gizmos that Andreessen and his cronies afflicted #HTML with was *JavaScript*, a programming language of sorts and a terrible one, and yet just think of how many applications (not even *Internet* applications!) are now suspended on the tatty. dirty, cobweb-festooned thread that is #NodeJS.<br/><br/>It&#39;s been the one of the strangest things to watch slowly *congeal* into place as corporate #software orthodoxy: the web browser has become a strange sort of virtual machine, a sandbox for application development so tempting that there are programmers who refuse to leave it because they see it as bringing **unity** to #programming! At last, the one true programming language has emerged, and it&#39;s JavaScript.<br/><br/>Or C. But C, you see, see what I did there, is the **inner mystery**.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-13T02:45:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs93gm3jsx7pt07x9vp3y50ykmzykse447tpv4vw36tkv6sj572sxczyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqj0plf5 &#34;Web 2.0&#34;, the curse of the modern age, or whatever age this is, can be largely credited to #Netscape and Marc Andreessen and his co-conspirators, who figured that the easy way to make yourself popular in the high-pressure and very new #Internet market of the early 1990s was to put out a web browser full of weird new gadgets and gizmos and little programmatic tricks for doing things chiefly of use to criminals. Yeah it&#39;s another #crypto sort of thing: all tech scams boil down to the same few patterns.<br/><br/>You know how much those geeklords love *patterns.* They write gaseous books about them, heaps of books.<br/><br/>(cont&#39;d) 2026-08-13T02:40:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswkxg34yfl5yv29aw0vm48nelz9ptmyn9ufkjgr9yum5dxez2t66szyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqxyg07v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd5dgjm3ft2c2lycgwpn7q3yeuyd0z4ucg2vxux88z9vvfxphq5ysyyz6wc'>nevent1q…z6wc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>as you wish! as I said, I myself wanted to hear how the world reacted to the eclipse—the rush of abnormal wind caused by unequal heating of the earth&#39;s surface along the path of totality, the sounds of animals reacting. but I was in a remote spot in Oregon away from crowds and not too near the midline of totality 2026-08-12T18:59:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswy53x9amnf4mxp7cd89x6zp5sv80gw6sfqjj2rvnz346xkhhjl5gzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqz6x5zk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvwly6drcgzsklql629ephucgp55dr3xyzwaja9s3unyf4f3gkgrs9pqm0j'>nevent1q…qm0j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think some phenomena are more fittingly received in silence, yes. 2026-08-12T18:55:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0lz06qus8hx3kcxzcql7em9djkruap3s804jwdrg5uhgvepp5j5czyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqwf9msd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvk7t7l8yakxfhftkm7dn0y97xj36qqyjauq9x6hdp5jtgwjhy4tqv9gc27'>nevent1q…gc27</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think there are *respectful* human beings, not just &#34;Western&#34; dorks trained to applaud and laugh at anything no matter how majestic 2026-08-12T18:52:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyz3jmntafwp9z0n93hr2mee0edd06fxlrp7gclpp5na8t0ndzhdqzyrupfslc55eh00cdwq2c7rc59tuy63zn3u7dnapcndgfwhedmy9rqcjskt5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy8cpw0279n68hjcr9frp6nphq6v5x25xjkxhzewtn2pk2482k3dgnm9lll'>nevent1q…9lll</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh my that&#39;s patient work with the tip of a knife I am guessing, great job 2026-08-11T03:22:52Z