@lizthegrey.com51 minutes ago
try adding in the extra dimension of being racialised too
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@lizthegrey.com105 minutes ago
that, or they cause a diplomatic incident by getting a consular official's family, Chicago has plenty of consulate-generals
@lizthegrey.com112 minutes ago
yeah I'm pretty sure it's satire about how everything devolves back into carceral systems
@lizthegrey.com2 hours ago
yes, but in that case, why... put people through mock executions?
@lizthegrey.com4 hours ago
Hegseth doesn't wash his hands.
@lizthegrey.com4 hours ago
Because this feels like a possible outcome right? 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge - Wikipedia share.google/XNt0bg8QdAnV...
@lizthegrey.com4 hours ago
Let us hope that they are merely stupid, rather than this being an attempt to consolidate power and demand the military swear personal allegiance to Trump rather than to the US and its constitution.
@lizthegrey.com4 hours ago
And I'm not just talking hostile action, one person in that room has COVID and now the entire US chain of command is sick for a week minimum. Maybe much longer.
@lizthegrey.com4 hours ago
Apparently Trump is scheduled to address the commanders too? This feels like a classic blunder of "you do not put 100% of the chain of command in one room" and yet
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
@lizthegrey.com4 hours ago
Yeah but only for inference, not for training.
@lizthegrey.com4 hours ago
The thing about AI training workloads is that they are completely indifferent to where they run. Inference is latency sensitive, training is not! This should be a slam dunk for the Icelandic data centre industry.
@lizthegrey.com6 hours ago
Exactly! You have to coerce them to participate otherwise they'll just run off, and that way lies prisons
@lizthegrey.com6 hours ago
I get blocking people who are screaming at you, so this is unusual
@lizthegrey.com6 hours ago
This does not track with my experience of speaking to bsky team members about moderation, where the understanding was that the conversation was off the record.
I am surprised to see NS discussing publicly a conversation with bsky T&S.
@lizthegrey.com19 hours ago
I had to reverse image search it, it's the Star Trek TNG episode "Justice"
@lizthegrey.com19 hours ago
and that's why the context from Winston that this person is smart and in my social networks was key, because then it helped me understand the disconnect.
and also why she'd start blocking, because if I were Margaret Atwood and people screamed at me for writing Handmaid's Tale...
@lizthegrey.com19 hours ago
tl;dr a prominent anti-carceral figure wrote a piece that, generously speaking, could be about why any system that attempts to get rid of punishments re-creates carceral dynamics, even if you sprinkle social justice language on it.
bsky is split on whether they are earnest and stupid, or satirical.
@lizthegrey.com19 hours ago
yep. otherwise you have messy problems like "maintaining prisons", "guarding prisons", "compelling labour" and "catching runaways".
@lizthegrey.com19 hours ago
this does raise some concerns about sustainability and where the outside money comes in, similar to how half of YC companies are building solutions for their fellow YC companies and for YC investors.
@lizthegrey.com19 hours ago
(tbqh this why I'm positive it's satire, because what Black person would earnestly advocate for slavery and slave-catchers, even if the slaves were convicted murderers?)
@lizthegrey.com19 hours ago
it's the stupidest argument I've seen on this site in months
@lizthegrey.com19 hours ago
or selling any kind of shovels, yes.
@lizthegrey.com20 hours ago
and/or mock execution followed by servitude. no remarks made on how to enforce servitude without all of the apparatus of carceral punishments. bsky.app/profile/lizt...
@lizthegrey.com20 hours ago
only until released, not for life, no?
@lizthegrey.com20 hours ago
I was going to say, how do you compel someone's attendance at the meetings without coercion, at which point, you've just re-invented a carceral system
@lizthegrey.com20 hours ago
Please tell me you're not going to wear it as a shell, because that way lies (kimmy)
@lizthegrey.com20 hours ago
fascinatingly enough, my entire non-US portfolio seems to be up 2.5% per month for the past couple of months in a row
@lizthegrey.com20 hours ago
the parallels between it and the Handmaiden's Tale are... something.
@lizthegrey.com20 hours ago
yeah I'm choosing to be charitable and interpreting it as 100% satire.
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