Ram Lama
@ramlama.bsky.social
I round up to he/him socially, but am more accurately they/them.
Raised by a wild pack of lesbian separatists and Dianic Wiccans.
I'm usually the most vanilla person at the community dungeon.
Raised by a wild pack of lesbian separatists and Dianic Wiccans.
I'm usually the most vanilla person at the community dungeon.
Eight years ago, Mike Pence’s positions represented a step in the wrong direction. Now, Mike Pence’s positions represent a step in the right direction.
Mike Pence has not actually improved; this just shows how much the situation has deteriorated.
Mike Pence has not actually improved; this just shows how much the situation has deteriorated.
February 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Eight years ago, Mike Pence’s positions represented a step in the wrong direction. Now, Mike Pence’s positions represent a step in the right direction.
Mike Pence has not actually improved; this just shows how much the situation has deteriorated.
Mike Pence has not actually improved; this just shows how much the situation has deteriorated.
In the spirit of DOGE, I have done an audit of household expenses. I’ve found that if my roomies agree that I’m the only one who gets to eat, we can cut 2/3 of our collective grocery costs 🤔
February 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
In the spirit of DOGE, I have done an audit of household expenses. I’ve found that if my roomies agree that I’m the only one who gets to eat, we can cut 2/3 of our collective grocery costs 🤔
What folks missed about Roko's Basilisk is that, whether intentional or not, it was always just a pretentiously scifi way of asking "There will be a dictatorship in the future. It will punish you if you don't help it come to be. Do you ally with it preemptively in the hopes of not being hurt by it?"
February 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
What folks missed about Roko's Basilisk is that, whether intentional or not, it was always just a pretentiously scifi way of asking "There will be a dictatorship in the future. It will punish you if you don't help it come to be. Do you ally with it preemptively in the hopes of not being hurt by it?"
Musk: unchecked, unbalanced.
February 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Musk: unchecked, unbalanced.
Want to hear something that people in the deep right talk about, but I haven’t heard from people on the left?
DOGE isn’t primarily a cryptocurrency pun. Doge is an Italian position with the same etymological roots, and similar authorities, as Duke.
DOGE isn’t primarily a cryptocurrency pun. Doge is an Italian position with the same etymological roots, and similar authorities, as Duke.
February 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Want to hear something that people in the deep right talk about, but I haven’t heard from people on the left?
DOGE isn’t primarily a cryptocurrency pun. Doge is an Italian position with the same etymological roots, and similar authorities, as Duke.
DOGE isn’t primarily a cryptocurrency pun. Doge is an Italian position with the same etymological roots, and similar authorities, as Duke.
FD Signifier’s video today offers a spin on the grey rock approach to dealing with toxicity in the MAGA movement.
Starve the trolls.
Just try to avoid falling into apathy or doomerism while doing it.
youtu.be/IoaebrLEIr4?...
Starve the trolls.
Just try to avoid falling into apathy or doomerism while doing it.
youtu.be/IoaebrLEIr4?...
Why I don't think we should waste our time making anti Trump content...
YouTube video by Signified B Sides
youtu.be
January 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
FD Signifier’s video today offers a spin on the grey rock approach to dealing with toxicity in the MAGA movement.
Starve the trolls.
Just try to avoid falling into apathy or doomerism while doing it.
youtu.be/IoaebrLEIr4?...
Starve the trolls.
Just try to avoid falling into apathy or doomerism while doing it.
youtu.be/IoaebrLEIr4?...
People who think that government should be run like a tech startup need to pay a hell of a lot more attention to the failure rate of tech startups.
January 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
People who think that government should be run like a tech startup need to pay a hell of a lot more attention to the failure rate of tech startups.
Finishing up my dive into Yarvin with the Behind the Bastards episodes on him.
Somehow the Trump administration, and the interwoven webs of Vance and Musk, became scarier. I didn’t think that was possible.
Somehow the Trump administration, and the interwoven webs of Vance and Musk, became scarier. I didn’t think that was possible.
January 31, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Finishing up my dive into Yarvin with the Behind the Bastards episodes on him.
Somehow the Trump administration, and the interwoven webs of Vance and Musk, became scarier. I didn’t think that was possible.
Somehow the Trump administration, and the interwoven webs of Vance and Musk, became scarier. I didn’t think that was possible.
Only about an hour or so into more laidback Yarvin interviews, but there hasn’t been anything even worth responding to.
I was ready to be surprised and have this be a “I don’t agree with his solutions, but his critiques are largely solid” kinda thing… but this ain’t that.
I was ready to be surprised and have this be a “I don’t agree with his solutions, but his critiques are largely solid” kinda thing… but this ain’t that.
January 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Only about an hour or so into more laidback Yarvin interviews, but there hasn’t been anything even worth responding to.
I was ready to be surprised and have this be a “I don’t agree with his solutions, but his critiques are largely solid” kinda thing… but this ain’t that.
I was ready to be surprised and have this be a “I don’t agree with his solutions, but his critiques are largely solid” kinda thing… but this ain’t that.
Okay... enough of listening to interviews with Yarvin where he's being on his best behavior. Time to look into interviews with folks who agree with him enough that the mask can slip a bit.
January 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Okay... enough of listening to interviews with Yarvin where he's being on his best behavior. Time to look into interviews with folks who agree with him enough that the mask can slip a bit.
Something that's hard to take seriously about this interview with Yarvin: when he whines about having to wear a mask on a plane in the same breath where he advocates that countries should have had extreme Covid lockdowns.
The stance isn't inherently hypocritical, but does require mental gymnastics.
The stance isn't inherently hypocritical, but does require mental gymnastics.
January 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Something that's hard to take seriously about this interview with Yarvin: when he whines about having to wear a mask on a plane in the same breath where he advocates that countries should have had extreme Covid lockdowns.
The stance isn't inherently hypocritical, but does require mental gymnastics.
The stance isn't inherently hypocritical, but does require mental gymnastics.
Now Yarvin is talking about how modern fascist regimes fail in part due to their intelligentsia leaving, and conjecturing that if the respective 'courts' of these modern monarchies were the home of intellectuals then the problems that the fascist regimes fell prey to would be avoided.
January 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Now Yarvin is talking about how modern fascist regimes fail in part due to their intelligentsia leaving, and conjecturing that if the respective 'courts' of these modern monarchies were the home of intellectuals then the problems that the fascist regimes fell prey to would be avoided.
The more centralized executive authority is, the less beholden it is to outside forces and the less it has to hedge its bets; the more it can recklessly pursue agendas that are blatantly destructive to groups it has authority over.
January 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The more centralized executive authority is, the less beholden it is to outside forces and the less it has to hedge its bets; the more it can recklessly pursue agendas that are blatantly destructive to groups it has authority over.
One of my favorite 'solutions' to the super AI problem is that in order to avoid the super AI from pursuing a singular goal with catastrophic efficiency, you tell the AI that it will be judged by a set of criteria that it doesn't have access to.
The theory is that this makes it hedge its bets.
The theory is that this makes it hedge its bets.
January 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
One of my favorite 'solutions' to the super AI problem is that in order to avoid the super AI from pursuing a singular goal with catastrophic efficiency, you tell the AI that it will be judged by a set of criteria that it doesn't have access to.
The theory is that this makes it hedge its bets.
The theory is that this makes it hedge its bets.
I've also yet to hear Yarvin touch on the human equivalent of AI's paperclip problem.
Can a centralized executive authority theoretically accomplish their goals more efficiently? Arguably yes. But absolute devotion to accomplishing a goal can be catastrophic.
Can a centralized executive authority theoretically accomplish their goals more efficiently? Arguably yes. But absolute devotion to accomplishing a goal can be catastrophic.
January 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I've also yet to hear Yarvin touch on the human equivalent of AI's paperclip problem.
Can a centralized executive authority theoretically accomplish their goals more efficiently? Arguably yes. But absolute devotion to accomplishing a goal can be catastrophic.
Can a centralized executive authority theoretically accomplish their goals more efficiently? Arguably yes. But absolute devotion to accomplishing a goal can be catastrophic.
Doing a dive into Curtis Yarvin today- one of the more influential minds behind the philosophical underpinnings of the current 'conservative' movement in the US.
First impression is that he's the tech bro's equivalent to Russia's Aleksandr Dugin.
First impression is that he's the tech bro's equivalent to Russia's Aleksandr Dugin.
January 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Doing a dive into Curtis Yarvin today- one of the more influential minds behind the philosophical underpinnings of the current 'conservative' movement in the US.
First impression is that he's the tech bro's equivalent to Russia's Aleksandr Dugin.
First impression is that he's the tech bro's equivalent to Russia's Aleksandr Dugin.
A fairy tale for the modern age 🤔
January 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A fairy tale for the modern age 🤔
It sounds like the administration has clarified that SNAP, WIC, and Pell grants are excluded from the funding freeze.
That downgrades the memo from reading like the masturbatory fanfic of a nihilist who just read Ayn Rand for the first time to standard authoritarian bullshit.
That downgrades the memo from reading like the masturbatory fanfic of a nihilist who just read Ayn Rand for the first time to standard authoritarian bullshit.
January 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It sounds like the administration has clarified that SNAP, WIC, and Pell grants are excluded from the funding freeze.
That downgrades the memo from reading like the masturbatory fanfic of a nihilist who just read Ayn Rand for the first time to standard authoritarian bullshit.
That downgrades the memo from reading like the masturbatory fanfic of a nihilist who just read Ayn Rand for the first time to standard authoritarian bullshit.
The federal funding memo that was released last night has, without hyperbole, potential to be the single worst governmental move I’ve ever seen.
It feels like watching a nuclear explosion in slow motion.
It feels like watching a nuclear explosion in slow motion.
January 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The federal funding memo that was released last night has, without hyperbole, potential to be the single worst governmental move I’ve ever seen.
It feels like watching a nuclear explosion in slow motion.
It feels like watching a nuclear explosion in slow motion.
A handy litmus for bipartisanship.
When someone finds out that their policy directly hurts a group of constituents, responses are often:
A. they agree it's a problem and will try to mitigate it
B. they agree it's a problem but see it as the 'cost of business'
C. they don't see it as a problem
When someone finds out that their policy directly hurts a group of constituents, responses are often:
A. they agree it's a problem and will try to mitigate it
B. they agree it's a problem but see it as the 'cost of business'
C. they don't see it as a problem
January 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
A handy litmus for bipartisanship.
When someone finds out that their policy directly hurts a group of constituents, responses are often:
A. they agree it's a problem and will try to mitigate it
B. they agree it's a problem but see it as the 'cost of business'
C. they don't see it as a problem
When someone finds out that their policy directly hurts a group of constituents, responses are often:
A. they agree it's a problem and will try to mitigate it
B. they agree it's a problem but see it as the 'cost of business'
C. they don't see it as a problem
Them: “I don’t care if they’re working jobs, have children going to school here, and are integrated positively into their communities- they’re here illegally!”
Me: “Then maybe we should change the fucking laws instead of destroying lives over a technicality we are in direct control over.”
Me: “Then maybe we should change the fucking laws instead of destroying lives over a technicality we are in direct control over.”
January 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Them: “I don’t care if they’re working jobs, have children going to school here, and are integrated positively into their communities- they’re here illegally!”
Me: “Then maybe we should change the fucking laws instead of destroying lives over a technicality we are in direct control over.”
Me: “Then maybe we should change the fucking laws instead of destroying lives over a technicality we are in direct control over.”
This is a pretty good video that’s at least partially inspired by the same phenomena I was bemoaning earlier. Highly recommended viewing:
youtu.be/xMabpBvtXr4?...
youtu.be/xMabpBvtXr4?...
The Alt-Right Playbook: The Card Says Moops
YouTube video by Innuendo Studios
youtu.be
January 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This is a pretty good video that’s at least partially inspired by the same phenomena I was bemoaning earlier. Highly recommended viewing:
youtu.be/xMabpBvtXr4?...
youtu.be/xMabpBvtXr4?...
Hot take of a former editorial cartoonist- I've grown disillusioned with satire as critique.
I'm tired of how the imagery of satire hinges on strawman arguments. I cringe at how quickly irony can become a smokescreen for the worst things, and I broadly dislike the normalization of mockery.
I'm tired of how the imagery of satire hinges on strawman arguments. I cringe at how quickly irony can become a smokescreen for the worst things, and I broadly dislike the normalization of mockery.
January 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Hot take of a former editorial cartoonist- I've grown disillusioned with satire as critique.
I'm tired of how the imagery of satire hinges on strawman arguments. I cringe at how quickly irony can become a smokescreen for the worst things, and I broadly dislike the normalization of mockery.
I'm tired of how the imagery of satire hinges on strawman arguments. I cringe at how quickly irony can become a smokescreen for the worst things, and I broadly dislike the normalization of mockery.
I'm going to be going on a bit of a spree of adding people I recognize from facebook- either folks that I know directly, or folks that I've seen in the extended network... gonna see how much of my old network I can weave together.
January 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I'm going to be going on a bit of a spree of adding people I recognize from facebook- either folks that I know directly, or folks that I've seen in the extended network... gonna see how much of my old network I can weave together.
First post here. I don't have anything particularly thoughtful to say- being present and active on social media hasn't been my strength the past year.
January 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
First post here. I don't have anything particularly thoughtful to say- being present and active on social media hasn't been my strength the past year.