2026: Sony erases digital content from libraries; we’re reminded we don’t own what we buy

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I mean, take your pick. This is a place where a lot of us…

• are leftists who disagree with extractive, anti-human economic systems
• left Reddit because they insisted on controlling how people could connect to each others ideas
• like the open collaboration of open source, which is getting wrecked by AI
• like open access communities like wikipedia, which are also getting undermined by AI
• dislike copyright law, which is being selectively ignored here because the people violating it are rich (on paper)
• are marginalized people, who tend to be disproportionately effected by AI decision-making

That’s a carefully crafted illusion. And if you’re a power user, it won’t last long.

How so? I’m probably as power user as it gets (been using Macs since around ‘95, been splitting roughly 50/50 between Mac and Linux since around ‘06, and I love weird esoteric coding tools, so I’ll try to run some truly cursed setups) and I can’t imagine what you’re alluding to.

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Maybe you only know about the ones who got caught?

You would need a way to walk through a good chunk of realistic gameplay without user input. Good luck with that.

The closest thing to this right now is the performance monitoring that Valve does for Steam Deck compatibility — which isn’t headless, it’s just crowdsourced.

We might want two separate terms: one for the personal ways that AI slop infects and manipulates your mind, and another for the way it makes the wider cultural landscape difficult to navigate by adding noise and intercepting your attempts to find the original sources of concepts or artifacts which might bring you into a community (and the fact that these communities are now all playing defense because of the everlasting scraping DDoS).

I’m concerned about the former because I think it might make doing anything at all much more difficult.

But I’m concerned about the latter because we… don’t really know how much pollution culture can withstand before collapsing. We may already be in the early stages of something like Kessler Syndrome but for communications.

Anyone know the status of Chimera Linux wrt age verification?

VSCode/Codium with vim mode. Regular vim if I’m stuck in text land.

I haven’t tried neovim. Supposedly that could handle everything I need out of vscode, but it’s easier to not be an odd one out at work.

Cursed knowledge.

https://fortune.com/2026/03/09/ai-opinion-poll-democrats-iran-war-president-donald-trump/

Well, for one thing, among the general public, AI is less popular than ICE.

And the economics of AI don’t add up, so it can’t last forever. And everything that can’t last forever eventually stops.

I’m not gonna pretend everything is guaranteed to be fine, but I feel like we genuinely have a lot on our side.

From my perspective, it is the materialists who are navel-gazing.

Emerson Green convinced me that p-zombies are plausible. So there’s no way to know if a teleporter would end your consciousness.

That efficiency is an absolute good.

“Where” is a question that applies to the physical world. The dream people are constituted of something more fundamental than matter.

When yall gonna arrest Sam Altman?

How many vulnerabilities would’ve been found if we had spent several million dollars on human security researchers though?

Culture is our most important invention as a species. So important, in fact, that we’ve evolved to make it essential to our individual health and collective capacity to function. To deny someone access to interact with culture on the basis of their lack of wealth is cruel and anti-human.

Likewise, developing something like an LLM, which spews thoughtless pollution into the only shared infosphere we have, and displaces individuals’ ability to connect to each other to develop culture… that is an existential threat to the human race and should be opposed vehemently.

Culture is our most important invention as a species. So important, in fact, that we’ve evolved to make it essential to our individual health and collective capacity to function. To deny someone access to interact with culture on the basis of their lack of wealth is cruel and anti-human.

Likewise, developing something like an LLM, which spews thoughtless pollution into the only shared infosphere we have, and displaces individuals’ ability to connect to each other to develop culture… that is an existential threat to the human race and should be opposed vehemently.