PUMO
@emojipan.bsky.social
"Light can [...] be able to "work the system""
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I dunno, it depends. I think there *can* be an appreciable quantity of sales lost, even if just 2% or whatever. Nothing like what these losers claim, but I think we should be clear that rejecting intellectual property is a moral obligation REGARDLESS of impact upon an author's bottom line.
The point of "people who pirate books/movies can't afford to buy them" isn't poormouthing, it's that people who pirate literally WOULD NOT have bought, so the content industry propagandists' "Lost Sale Doctrine" is horseshit. If anything, downloads are free advertising that increases sales.
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I dunno, it depends. I think there *can* be an appreciable quantity of sales lost, even if just 2% or whatever. Nothing like what these losers claim, but I think we should be clear that rejecting intellectual property is a moral obligation REGARDLESS of impact upon an author's bottom line.
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If you have a photographic memory and walk out of a movie theatre without a minor lobotomy forced on you, are you engaged in "intellectual property" piracy? Are you also violating people's "right to privacy" when you walk down a city street?
They're gonna say yes.
They're gonna say yes.
December 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
If you have a photographic memory and walk out of a movie theatre without a minor lobotomy forced on you, are you engaged in "intellectual property" piracy? Are you also violating people's "right to privacy" when you walk down a city street?
They're gonna say yes.
They're gonna say yes.
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It's fine to push back against google-glasses or whatevs, but the day is going to come where we can easily record and share our memories, and a lot of anti-surveillance populism rn is laced with batshit anti-transhumanism that will outright try to *mandate* cognitive limitations in the next century.
December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It's fine to push back against google-glasses or whatevs, but the day is going to come where we can easily record and share our memories, and a lot of anti-surveillance populism rn is laced with batshit anti-transhumanism that will outright try to *mandate* cognitive limitations in the next century.
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The majority of human discourse seems to break down into “it would be bad if this were true so it’s not true” or “it would be good if this were true so it’s true” with a side of “you caused this bad thing to happen by telling me about it”.
October 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The majority of human discourse seems to break down into “it would be bad if this were true so it’s not true” or “it would be good if this were true so it’s true” with a side of “you caused this bad thing to happen by telling me about it”.
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the only actually existing forms of transhumanism are subsets of transsexuality and the hyperborean dream enjoyers are not happy with reality so they will rather kill everyone than let a girl have four arms and a pancreas that works
When the burgeoning neoreactionary movement was kicked off Less Wrong the vast majority of them very rapidly turned against transhumanism ("better to destroy all technology than let queers and brown folks use it") and started openly fetishizing becoming warlords in the smoking remains of civ.
Quite the message from the guy running our government
February 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
the only actually existing forms of transhumanism are subsets of transsexuality and the hyperborean dream enjoyers are not happy with reality so they will rather kill everyone than let a girl have four arms and a pancreas that works
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Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.
We need to talk more about how it feels to be a woman amidst this sudden onslaught of “reclaiming masculinity,” celebrating male aggression and violence, and vanishing smart experienced women from positions of power.
February 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.
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I have come to accept a simpler and more general argument against billionaires: by their very nature they impose centralized planning over economy they infest, becoming de-facto communist planners, and thus impose upon their habitat all the pathologies that rise from impossibility of planned econ
It may be finally sinking in that a world of radical wealth inequality is unstable, actually.
There should be reward for good work, yes. There should not be outsize reward for being born rich.
There should be reward for good work, yes. There should not be outsize reward for being born rich.
February 26, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I have come to accept a simpler and more general argument against billionaires: by their very nature they impose centralized planning over economy they infest, becoming de-facto communist planners, and thus impose upon their habitat all the pathologies that rise from impossibility of planned econ
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> publicly traded companies are part of the cathedral
honestly gaining considerable appreciation for faceless shareholder capitalism over Big Personality capitalism (like the Zuck)
💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
February 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
> publicly traded companies are part of the cathedral
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Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence.
That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received.
The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.
That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received.
The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.
Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
February 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence.
That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received.
The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.
That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received.
The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.
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It would be really fucking funny though if the new edict at the Post meant that a bunch of left-libertarian sickos got in there like "Transness is the ultimate expression of personal liberty" and "Intellectual Property is an illegitimate suppressor of free markets, dismantle Amazon"
February 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It would be really fucking funny though if the new edict at the Post meant that a bunch of left-libertarian sickos got in there like "Transness is the ultimate expression of personal liberty" and "Intellectual Property is an illegitimate suppressor of free markets, dismantle Amazon"
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i mean yes it is *comical* the degree to which supposedly "materialist" marxists have largely ignored this domain of contestation (with exceptions like @mckenziewark.bsky.social) but also i think part of the problem is that tech radicals just suck at marketing
The left wing of nerddom: launch a surprisingly successful assault on an emerging form of property rights, build a counterculture and institutions around that struggle
Non nerd leftists: lol nerd shit
Non nerd leftists: lol nerd shit
February 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
i mean yes it is *comical* the degree to which supposedly "materialist" marxists have largely ignored this domain of contestation (with exceptions like @mckenziewark.bsky.social) but also i think part of the problem is that tech radicals just suck at marketing
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The left wing of nerddom: launch a surprisingly successful assault on an emerging form of property rights, build a counterculture and institutions around that struggle
Non nerd leftists: lol nerd shit
Non nerd leftists: lol nerd shit
February 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The left wing of nerddom: launch a surprisingly successful assault on an emerging form of property rights, build a counterculture and institutions around that struggle
Non nerd leftists: lol nerd shit
Non nerd leftists: lol nerd shit
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These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
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February 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
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SEEING LIKE A TECH BRO
HOW CERTAIN SCHEMES TO MAKE THE HUMAN CONDITION WORSE HAVE FAILED
HOW CERTAIN SCHEMES TO MAKE THE HUMAN CONDITION WORSE HAVE FAILED
Basic data literacy fail
Everyone should read Seeing Like a State, because, buddy, if you think that data reflects reality in anything like a straightforward way or gives you an uncomplicated tool to manipulate it, are you ever in for a rude awakening
Everyone should read Seeing Like a State, because, buddy, if you think that data reflects reality in anything like a straightforward way or gives you an uncomplicated tool to manipulate it, are you ever in for a rude awakening
Johnson: "Elon's cracked the code. He's now inside these agencies. He's created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data & as he told me in his office, data doesn't lie. We're gonna be able to get the information. We're gonna be able to transform the way federal govt works."
February 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
SEEING LIKE A TECH BRO
HOW CERTAIN SCHEMES TO MAKE THE HUMAN CONDITION WORSE HAVE FAILED
HOW CERTAIN SCHEMES TO MAKE THE HUMAN CONDITION WORSE HAVE FAILED
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a principled opposition to principles. a movement who's only virtue is lack of virtue.
it is, somehow, a movement that seems to genuinely, explicitly think of *itself* as evil
it is, somehow, a movement that seems to genuinely, explicitly think of *itself* as evil
February 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
a principled opposition to principles. a movement who's only virtue is lack of virtue.
it is, somehow, a movement that seems to genuinely, explicitly think of *itself* as evil
it is, somehow, a movement that seems to genuinely, explicitly think of *itself* as evil
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Fascists correctly recognize the intense delusions of liberals, but attempting to attack those delusions is a Chesterton's fence situation. Those delusions were in many ways secondary expressions of the underlying benefits they codified, but that fascists are too smugly ignorant to see.
February 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Fascists correctly recognize the intense delusions of liberals, but attempting to attack those delusions is a Chesterton's fence situation. Those delusions were in many ways secondary expressions of the underlying benefits they codified, but that fascists are too smugly ignorant to see.
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"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
Social media has really killed the mystique of evil, there are so many books about the psychology of Nixon or Stalin but we all know for a fact that Elon hates his father and his dick doesn’t work
February 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
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People get more consistently mad about some random person's supposedly bad messaging on social media than they ever do about rapists who drive out productive long-time activists. It's costly for decentralized movements to enforce norms so we have to prioritize mission critical ones.
February 18, 2025 at 5:37 AM
People get more consistently mad about some random person's supposedly bad messaging on social media than they ever do about rapists who drive out productive long-time activists. It's costly for decentralized movements to enforce norms so we have to prioritize mission critical ones.