Soyweiser

Going on the Grok output, I saw: Conservapedia with more uses of the word fuck (it can now use the word fuck), extremely verbose mid insults and weird flirting.

Or add a rocket booster.

the site didn’t have an ssl cert, since that was a way “modern browsers control you”.

I feel attacked. Not in the 'I agree with this person' way, but in a way that this feels like nerd sniping people like me. So stupid you have to react.

Java 8

See! That is what I mean!

But as somebody who values old cultures, I will not throw stones. ;)

Also the guy is an eugenicist wannabe cult leader.

'some of the most bigoted things'

You mean stuff like 'no this is stupid, wtf is wrong with you' or 'lol, look they really think LLMs are alive' stuff like that? The worst I saw (granted I didn't look very hard) was 'ok boomer'.

Of course actual meanings of words mean nothing to AI fans.

(Also, thing which is a personal gripe, the skeet before the 'bigotry neuron' has 2 images in it, without alt text. If you are going to pretend to value progressive values, at least put in some effort).

And to think all this could have been solved by bsky simply hiring some communication specialists and treating the current events like a crisis, and acting like their users are the police.

When I was young the whole part where they misrecall history just felt like a 1984 bit to me. And I reread it after Helldivers 2 came out, and I noticed a lot of odd things, like how their ideology doesn't make sense, how for some reason all the smart people seem to die (by being put in dangerous spots), people who disagree with them being setup as strawmen (old ladies, and crazy people basically), and how odd it is that Rico while not being smart (he only qualifies for the infantry after all) is judged as perfect officer material. Which felt to me like they were selecting for stupid people. (the guy not being able to do math properly while their ideology is based on some unspoken math science thing is also funny).

And then there is the whole uplifted scout dogs thing. Who all commit suicide the first time they encounter a bug (which means nobody ever tested that, and they still deployed their whole scout dog force on the planet). And due to some psychic link this also makes their handler useless.

It is just a weird book tbh. The military scenes make little sense (just randomly blow things up) and are just warcrimes. The ideology is dumb and is based on a handwave, and if you read between the lines (which was not intended obv) and make Rico into an unreliable narrator because he isn't that smart (see also how he never doubts that people who get executed are guilty, the law system fucking up isn't a thing he thinks about, but he knows the system isn't fallible, as they complain about how big of a mess the war logistics are) and misses things, there seems to be a whole different thing going on.

Also democracy fell because kids were not spanked enough.

Hope this made it a bit clear why I think you can also read it as a dystopian unreliable narrator being manipulated novel even if it wasn't intended.

But yeah the space suits are cool.

Funny to type all that up and also go 'Le Guin Disagrees'

(not that having a different read than the author intended is strange, I mean I have a dystopian reading of Starship troopers which I think makes much more sense than what was intended).

Lol at that soj site just being the same anti vax misinformation pushed by one account every 3 minutes.

Screenshot in spoiler

(Description of the screenshot: looks like mastodon instance, 3 similar looking posts by the same user pushing some bitchute video about a link between cancer and mRNA vaccines to any community they can find).

Indeed, and I think defense spending is not stopped when the gov shuts down right?

And all this because she simply could not shut up. Which seems to be one of the oldest, modding a large community rules.

the defense contractor Anduril

Interesting to note that apparently Anduril is very bad at their job. Their shit doesn't even work properly. Source: https://bsky.app/profile/hypervisible.blacksky.app/post/3m2bzp4r4es2n

Brave

You are downplaying the shittyness of that one here as well. (Not blaming you or anything, I get the need for not dumping everything in one post. Just adding to the pile). And source, www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_brave_browser_controversies/ esp note the wikipedia clone, it was the one by Vox Day

It wouldn't be so bad if they just didn't care and stopped maintaining, but their site is one of the first ones you get. Which is a regular problem with these things.