expensive archival write-once BDs

this post from the guy who writes explainers about consumer financial structures hits different if you know he met and is exchanging tweets with noted race scientist Jordan Lasker (cremieux)

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/chicago-casino-investment-offering/

maybe it’s me but i’m hearing ultrasonic frequencies

probably nothing, right?

did the stubsack end up in all somehow

we have this year’s greatest pride anthem already and it’s only january

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SIEOYOuX4s

Rationalism is a cult, but it’s also a cult franchise that generates smaller cults. Also a lot of the people were not entirely balanced to start with and rationalism made them worse. Anyway, Ziz.

yeah bsky is where journalists post now so it’s where they scrape stories from

if you ever need to, you know you can rattle the tin. if LessWrong can get fucking $2 million …

Ulbricht also had really bad lawyers. The FBI evidence on the server in Iceland was tainted in fairly obvious ways and he coulda got much of the case thrown out, then just … didn’t? I can’t find it, but Nicholas Weaver wrote some stuff on this.

it’s better than that, he didn’t dump a penny in

the deal is:

1. they get unregulated
2. they promise to spend money they were going to anyway, they’re totally getting round to it bro

the Smasnug investigation is amazing

lol i was about to reply “welcome to awful systems here’s your accordion”

also they are rationalists and hence the most gullible mfs on any of this stuff

they can’t even sell o3 really - in o3 high mode, needed to do this level of query, it’s about $1000 per query lol

or just ask for one here

do it

that being the specific model when we started it! “web3 is going great but it’s AI”

molly approved and said it saved people nagging her to start one

Microsoft 365 Coilot

365 toilet

intel frantically taking notes

love the linkedin comments trying to insist there will be terrible consequences for this prominent law professor who must just not know his stuff or something

and bullshitting and dogwhistling and obfuscation