MrAlanCooper
@mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Back in the day I built a lot of software, then I designed a lot of software, then I designed a lot of software design tools. Now I'm retired on a ranch in […]
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hachyderm.io
I find myself squirming with discomfort every time I hear someone mention the "tech" world. It seems to me that what used to be the "tech" world is now just a tiny tech pimple on the giant elephant's ass of the financial/capital world. Sure there's tech in that stuff, but there's also […]
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e-mail from The Women's March:
"Ghislaine Maxwell was Epstein's fixer.
That's exactly what Bondi is doing right now.
Massive redactions. Victims' exposed while powerful men stay hidden. 3 million pages still withheld. And when Ted Lieu confronted her with evidence from the files, she screamed […]
"Ghislaine Maxwell was Epstein's fixer.
That's exactly what Bondi is doing right now.
Massive redactions. Victims' exposed while powerful men stay hidden. 3 million pages still withheld. And when Ted Lieu confronted her with evidence from the files, she screamed […]
Original post on newsie.social
newsie.social
February 15, 2026 at 9:38 PM
e-mail from The Women's March:
"Ghislaine Maxwell was Epstein's fixer.
That's exactly what Bondi is doing right now.
Massive redactions. Victims' exposed while powerful men stay hidden. 3 million pages still withheld. And when Ted Lieu confronted her with evidence from the files, she screamed […]
"Ghislaine Maxwell was Epstein's fixer.
That's exactly what Bondi is doing right now.
Massive redactions. Victims' exposed while powerful men stay hidden. 3 million pages still withheld. And when Ted Lieu confronted her with evidence from the files, she screamed […]
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Risk of death from pregnancy in the US is 44 times higher than that from abortion, new analysis reveals
https://www.livescience.com/health/fertility-pregnancy-birth/risk-of-death-from-pregnancy-in-the-us-is-44-times-higher-than-that-from-abortion-new-analysis-reveals
https://www.livescience.com/health/fertility-pregnancy-birth/risk-of-death-from-pregnancy-in-the-us-is-44-times-higher-than-that-from-abortion-new-analysis-reveals
Risk of death from pregnancy in the US is 44 times higher than that from abortion, new analysis reveals
A figure commonly used to compare the risk of death from pregnancy compared with the risk of death from abortion might be based on outdated data, a new study suggests.
www.livescience.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Risk of death from pregnancy in the US is 44 times higher than that from abortion, new analysis reveals
https://www.livescience.com/health/fertility-pregnancy-birth/risk-of-death-from-pregnancy-in-the-us-is-44-times-higher-than-that-from-abortion-new-analysis-reveals
https://www.livescience.com/health/fertility-pregnancy-birth/risk-of-death-from-pregnancy-in-the-us-is-44-times-higher-than-that-from-abortion-new-analysis-reveals
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Southern "honor culture" has always been a morally degenerate pile of shit. The greatest mistake this country ever made was not following up the Civil War by imprisoning the South's leaders, confiscating & distributing their property, & building something decent in their place.
"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement
February 15, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Southern "honor culture" has always been a morally degenerate pile of shit. The greatest mistake this country ever made was not following up the Civil War by imprisoning the South's leaders, confiscating & distributing their property, & building something decent in their place.
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He keeps announcing all these world-changing breakthroughs that will be here juuuust far enough in the future as to not be here quite yet, but juuuust close enough that people stop working on actual solutions to those problems, and nobody ever calls him on the fact that he is very obviously lying.
February 14, 2026 at 2:59 PM
He keeps announcing all these world-changing breakthroughs that will be here juuuust far enough in the future as to not be here quite yet, but juuuust close enough that people stop working on actual solutions to those problems, and nobody ever calls him on the fact that he is very obviously lying.
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Our legacy media endlessly perpetuates the assumption, for which there is no evidence, that Elon Musk is a comic book super genius inventor. So they never shift to the assumption, for which evidence abounds, that he's just a cheap charlatan sabotaging human progress for his own benefit.
February 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Our legacy media endlessly perpetuates the assumption, for which there is no evidence, that Elon Musk is a comic book super genius inventor. So they never shift to the assumption, for which evidence abounds, that he's just a cheap charlatan sabotaging human progress for his own benefit.
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Musk's main achievements: taking credit for inventing car tech that is now being surpassed; adding annoying design elements and juvenile easter eggs to said cars; gaming the stock market with lies and nonsense; filling Earth's orbit with an impenetrable field of debris that may end space exploration
February 14, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Musk's main achievements: taking credit for inventing car tech that is now being surpassed; adding annoying design elements and juvenile easter eggs to said cars; gaming the stock market with lies and nonsense; filling Earth's orbit with an impenetrable field of debris that may end space exploration
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Look, ‘AI is gonna kill us all’ has nothing to do with AGI, or any of that shit. It’s gonna kill us all because the humans that are making it are aligned with chasing incomprehensibly large amounts of money and therefore forcing its use through government and private influence into places it […]
Original post on mastodon.online
mastodon.online
February 13, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Look, ‘AI is gonna kill us all’ has nothing to do with AGI, or any of that shit. It’s gonna kill us all because the humans that are making it are aligned with chasing incomprehensibly large amounts of money and therefore forcing its use through government and private influence into places it […]
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Don't anthropomorphize LLMs, language is important. Say "the bot generated some text" not "the AI replied". Use "this document contains machine-generated text" not "this work is AI-assisted". See how people squirm when you call their slop out this way.
February 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Don't anthropomorphize LLMs, language is important. Say "the bot generated some text" not "the AI replied". Use "this document contains machine-generated text" not "this work is AI-assisted". See how people squirm when you call their slop out this way.
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February 12, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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"If remembering the fallen is a violation of the rules, then silence about their killers is complicity."
Ukrainian footballers at the Russian‑destroyed Lokomotyv stadium in Kyiv showed their support for Vladyslav Heraskevych, who was disqualified before the […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
Ukrainian footballers at the Russian‑destroyed Lokomotyv stadium in Kyiv showed their support for Vladyslav Heraskevych, who was disqualified before the […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
February 12, 2026 at 1:07 PM
"If remembering the fallen is a violation of the rules, then silence about their killers is complicity."
Ukrainian footballers at the Russian‑destroyed Lokomotyv stadium in Kyiv showed their support for Vladyslav Heraskevych, who was disqualified before the […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
Ukrainian footballers at the Russian‑destroyed Lokomotyv stadium in Kyiv showed their support for Vladyslav Heraskevych, who was disqualified before the […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
So, basically, Citizens United legalized corruption. Allowing stock buybacks legalized corruption. Telling the IRS to only prosecute cases they can win legalizes corruption. Giving cops Qualified Immunity legalizes corruption. Ending antitrust efforts legalizes corruption. Making white collar […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
February 12, 2026 at 5:58 PM
So, basically, Citizens United legalized corruption. Allowing stock buybacks legalized corruption. Telling the IRS to only prosecute cases they can win legalizes corruption. Giving cops Qualified Immunity legalizes corruption. Ending antitrust efforts legalizes corruption. Making white collar […]
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Social media protip: if you see a post that seems to lack context, check to see if it’s part of a thread before you complain about the lack of context.
This shouldn’t be on the user, but many platforms, including this one, make it less obvious than it should be.
This shouldn’t be on the user, but many platforms, including this one, make it less obvious than it should be.
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Social media protip: if you see a post that seems to lack context, check to see if it’s part of a thread before you complain about the lack of context.
This shouldn’t be on the user, but many platforms, including this one, make it less obvious than it should be.
This shouldn’t be on the user, but many platforms, including this one, make it less obvious than it should be.
Evidently the FAA just cancelled this NOTAM after three hours. The whole thing is batty, but, evidently it's getting better not worse.
original post:
What's going on in El Paso? Did we just invade Mexico? The FAA has blocked ALL flights for 10 days over the city. Never anything like it before.
original post:
What's going on in El Paso? Did we just invade Mexico? The FAA has blocked ALL flights for 10 days over the city. Never anything like it before.
February 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Evidently the FAA just cancelled this NOTAM after three hours. The whole thing is batty, but, evidently it's getting better not worse.
original post:
What's going on in El Paso? Did we just invade Mexico? The FAA has blocked ALL flights for 10 days over the city. Never anything like it before.
original post:
What's going on in El Paso? Did we just invade Mexico? The FAA has blocked ALL flights for 10 days over the city. Never anything like it before.
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@pluralistic
I got an idea. that surveillance technology they’ve been building out guess who it could be used on? Remember, pervasive surveillance puts everybody on their best behavior. :ablobgrin:
“While they're at it, the Nuremberg Caucus could publish a plan to hire thousands of IRS agents […]
I got an idea. that surveillance technology they’ve been building out guess who it could be used on? Remember, pervasive surveillance puts everybody on their best behavior. :ablobgrin:
“While they're at it, the Nuremberg Caucus could publish a plan to hire thousands of IRS agents […]
Original post on masto.ai
masto.ai
February 11, 2026 at 3:39 PM
@pluralistic
I got an idea. that surveillance technology they’ve been building out guess who it could be used on? Remember, pervasive surveillance puts everybody on their best behavior. :ablobgrin:
“While they're at it, the Nuremberg Caucus could publish a plan to hire thousands of IRS agents […]
I got an idea. that surveillance technology they’ve been building out guess who it could be used on? Remember, pervasive surveillance puts everybody on their best behavior. :ablobgrin:
“While they're at it, the Nuremberg Caucus could publish a plan to hire thousands of IRS agents […]
Reposted by MrAlanCooper
"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."
No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are included. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But […]
No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are included. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But […]
Original post on tldr.nettime.org
tldr.nettime.org
February 11, 2026 at 11:52 AM
"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."
No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are included. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But […]
No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are included. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But […]
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Reposted by MrAlanCooper
@economics_that_works
12 min
WAT MARKETS, FFS!!!
The was a reason why the Sherman act was passed. There was a reason why the Bork doctrine was created to nerf it.
The Epstein class rejects democracy and markets in other words they completely reject equality in economic and political […]
12 min
WAT MARKETS, FFS!!!
The was a reason why the Sherman act was passed. There was a reason why the Bork doctrine was created to nerf it.
The Epstein class rejects democracy and markets in other words they completely reject equality in economic and political […]
Original post on masto.ai
masto.ai
February 10, 2026 at 8:29 PM
@economics_that_works
12 min
WAT MARKETS, FFS!!!
The was a reason why the Sherman act was passed. There was a reason why the Bork doctrine was created to nerf it.
The Epstein class rejects democracy and markets in other words they completely reject equality in economic and political […]
12 min
WAT MARKETS, FFS!!!
The was a reason why the Sherman act was passed. There was a reason why the Bork doctrine was created to nerf it.
The Epstein class rejects democracy and markets in other words they completely reject equality in economic and political […]
It simply doesn’t matter how long it takes to make code that users want, nor does it matter how quickly one can produce code that users don’t want.
February 9, 2026 at 7:17 PM
It simply doesn’t matter how long it takes to make code that users want, nor does it matter how quickly one can produce code that users don’t want.
I was really struck by Bad Bunny's Superbowl halftime performance. So I wrote down my thoughts and you can find them here: https://mralancooper.medium.com/the-bad-bunny-halftime-show-deecb37b1a4f
February 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I was really struck by Bad Bunny's Superbowl halftime performance. So I wrote down my thoughts and you can find them here: https://mralancooper.medium.com/the-bad-bunny-halftime-show-deecb37b1a4f
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Reposted by MrAlanCooper
One of the many gifts we got out of the Epstein files is details of Steve Sinofsky’s exit from Microsoft in 2012. We learn that the Surface RT was selling only 10% of the low-end of their predicted sales numbers, he was being pushed out, and Epstein was coaching him on negotiating an exit […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
February 7, 2026 at 12:21 AM
One of the many gifts we got out of the Epstein files is details of Steve Sinofsky’s exit from Microsoft in 2012. We learn that the Surface RT was selling only 10% of the low-end of their predicted sales numbers, he was being pushed out, and Epstein was coaching him on negotiating an exit […]
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"biological males" is just a way to misgender people. it's bigotry, and the people who use it mostly know it's bigotry and use it for that reason.
February 6, 2026 at 5:29 PM
"biological males" is just a way to misgender people. it's bigotry, and the people who use it mostly know it's bigotry and use it for that reason.
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The really surprising thing to me about the Epstein files is that so far they haven't revealed a secret club where the ultrawealthy regularly hunt humans for sport. The whole vibe is "We're rich white men so we can do any fucking thing we want," and the ultimate examples of that are doing bad […]
Original post on c.im
c.im
February 7, 2026 at 1:23 AM
The really surprising thing to me about the Epstein files is that so far they haven't revealed a secret club where the ultrawealthy regularly hunt humans for sport. The whole vibe is "We're rich white men so we can do any fucking thing we want," and the ultimate examples of that are doing bad […]
Hey! I just published my 2025 Bibliography. I read more than 60 books last year and some of them were pretty goddam goofy. Check it out here: https://mralancooper.medium.com/all-the-books-i-read-in-2025-a2f4eb05312c
February 7, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Hey! I just published my 2025 Bibliography. I read more than 60 books last year and some of them were pretty goddam goofy. Check it out here: https://mralancooper.medium.com/all-the-books-i-read-in-2025-a2f4eb05312c