Now I will say that these epstein emails have been a timely reminder that the wealthy and powerful are not required to form coherent ideas, and are used to unseen underlings transforming their shapeless impulses into real things for which they can take credit

Like Beethoven invented *new kinds of musical notation* bc he wanted to be very fucking clear about how it was meant to be played

And we already have syntax for describing very precisely what we want computers to do, called "code"

All of this natural language everything is a kind of attack on formal systems as tools of expertise

it bakes in a layer of imprecision that makes it harder to express things that capital does not want expressed, and harder to notice the ways it constrains and shapes expression

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before you’re permitted to gamble, you should be forced to consider yourself as an old person spending your fading years blank-faced and shoveling your dwindling savings into a slot machine that’s decorated with sexy Looney Tunes characters.

this is an essential service real-life casinos provide

Trump is the nadir of our kakistocracy but it's truly been rule-by-mediocrity all the way down for years.

There's something bleakly comforting about that, that these people aren't better than me, that me and my community truly, objectively deserve more than them.

I have so many talented, brilliant, hardworking friends who are out of work or precarious or underpaid.

And all of these people who emailed Epstein are people who have the jobs/money/status my friends and loved ones should have.

It makes a mockery of those of us who were taught that hard work is what yields the greatest rewards, whose parents sacrificed everything so we could go to school... to be told to look up to people like *this.*

it's easy to kind of invert the logic, and think they still worked hard at something to get their money, except it was wage theft instead of innovating or whatever.

harder to accept that money acts like mass: the largest amount has the strongest pull

There's pretty strong rumors that google made their search engine crappy for financial reasons:

pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/n...

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