Lloyd
@lloydw.bsky.social
My son’s dad. Misanthropic humanist. Composer. Writer. Dialectical, but also not. Left≠Lib.
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Find my music on your favorite streaming service.
Co-Host of the alleged podcast: https://twobrosonebook.podbean.com
https://tinyurl.com/Lloyd-Music-SoundCloud
My psychology masters studies have really exposed me to the damage colonialism has done everywhere it has been practiced, including in the countries that practiced it. It probably set humanity back centuries.
September 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
My psychology masters studies have really exposed me to the damage colonialism has done everywhere it has been practiced, including in the countries that practiced it. It probably set humanity back centuries.
I think any preparation for what will happen next year or in 2028 has to keep in mind that a federal government unshackled from oversight will simply seek the most efficient ways to strangle any opposition. Those ways won’t necessarily be by force.
September 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I think any preparation for what will happen next year or in 2028 has to keep in mind that a federal government unshackled from oversight will simply seek the most efficient ways to strangle any opposition. Those ways won’t necessarily be by force.
But one thing about the breakdown of the rule of law is that doing things like closing polling places or roads near polling places under any guise becomes conceivable simply because the rewards for doing so outweigh the risks.
September 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
But one thing about the breakdown of the rule of law is that doing things like closing polling places or roads near polling places under any guise becomes conceivable simply because the rewards for doing so outweigh the risks.
I for one have no illusions that whatever they do will be done competently. However incompetence at large scales can still be very effective.
September 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I for one have no illusions that whatever they do will be done competently. However incompetence at large scales can still be very effective.
Tbf it’s not exactly unfathomable that they would literally enlist militias and brownshirts into federal service alongside every government employee qualified to carry a weapon in order to achieve this. They could also do what the NSDAP did, which was simply close polling places for “security.”
September 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Tbf it’s not exactly unfathomable that they would literally enlist militias and brownshirts into federal service alongside every government employee qualified to carry a weapon in order to achieve this. They could also do what the NSDAP did, which was simply close polling places for “security.”
It’s interesting to me that the surface level ideas and sometimes even the institutions of a movement can become a vehicle for something that that movement wouldn’t even recognize as belonging to it. It’s like success breeds not only imitation but cooption.
September 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
It’s interesting to me that the surface level ideas and sometimes even the institutions of a movement can become a vehicle for something that that movement wouldn’t even recognize as belonging to it. It’s like success breeds not only imitation but cooption.
Absolutely, you’re right. I appreciate the correction. I was honestly thinking more about the meta-movement as a whole rather than the individuals in that movement. You’re right to emphasize that what the TERFs are is what they say they are.
September 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Absolutely, you’re right. I appreciate the correction. I was honestly thinking more about the meta-movement as a whole rather than the individuals in that movement. You’re right to emphasize that what the TERFs are is what they say they are.
There’s something about every liberation movement that makes it so that once the basic goals of that movement are accomplished (on a surface level) some part of that movement pivots to an orthodoxy that defends that new status quo at the expense of the next liberation movement.
September 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
There’s something about every liberation movement that makes it so that once the basic goals of that movement are accomplished (on a surface level) some part of that movement pivots to an orthodoxy that defends that new status quo at the expense of the next liberation movement.
But the second it’s over, like with McCarthy, it will be as if all of this just never happened.
September 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
But the second it’s over, like with McCarthy, it will be as if all of this just never happened.
Fuck, that makes me sad. He’s not a dumb guy, even if he is a lame liberal fascist-appeaser.
September 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Fuck, that makes me sad. He’s not a dumb guy, even if he is a lame liberal fascist-appeaser.
The Angry Video Game Nerd is now older than the distance between the release of the NES and his first video.
August 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The Angry Video Game Nerd is now older than the distance between the release of the NES and his first video.
Well I’m sure nothing could possibly go wrong for him. He’s a Kennedy after all.
August 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Well I’m sure nothing could possibly go wrong for him. He’s a Kennedy after all.
Laying claim to the left while trashing the left is so cool and not at all gross or offputting.
August 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Laying claim to the left while trashing the left is so cool and not at all gross or offputting.
It seems silly to have to say it to people, but expertise is as deep a knowledge of what is false, as of what is true. It’s not a statistical average of everything you’ve been exposed to. It’s exercise over diet in that sense.
August 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It seems silly to have to say it to people, but expertise is as deep a knowledge of what is false, as of what is true. It’s not a statistical average of everything you’ve been exposed to. It’s exercise over diet in that sense.
As far as I know, and that isn’t very far tbf, an LLM cannot apply an experienced human level of discernment between information that is of low value or veracity, and information that is of high value. It can’t read critically, which is what an expert does by definition.
August 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
As far as I know, and that isn’t very far tbf, an LLM cannot apply an experienced human level of discernment between information that is of low value or veracity, and information that is of high value. It can’t read critically, which is what an expert does by definition.
If they’re whining about it, you know it matters.
August 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
If they’re whining about it, you know it matters.
Is that the same Hamilton who wanted to sh*** the vice president?
August 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Is that the same Hamilton who wanted to sh*** the vice president?