I was gonna say, it was a neat concept, but he didn’t really spend the time to make it convincing or explain the mechanism for how life would evolve to be like that. It’s like he just had this idea that life could be more modular, but didn’t bother fleshing it out past that. I actually enjoyed Shroud a lot more, I feel like he put more work into making it plausible. Can recommend if you missed it.

For non fiction I’m reading The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle, and can highly recommend. Short, thought provocative, and engaging. For fiction, Children of Strife is great, latest instalment in Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series which I really enjoyed overall.

Given the history of what the US military personnel has done in places like Iraq, a chance to shoot women and children is literally why they sign up. What they’re really worried about is that somebody might actually fight back like they do in Iran.

Get ready for 10 bucks a gallon, also this will mean that costs of all the goods will go up because delivery costs and energy bills will be higher, which companies will pass on to the consumer.

It can be since it’s more socially acceptable, and then people start engaging with new ideas which can lead them towards more rigorous analysis.

Actually, I grew up in USSR and frankly, I was shocked when I saw at how much worse the propaganda in the west. Most people in USSR understood there was domestic propaganda and were able to think critically about it. Meanwhile, Westerners gobble their propaganda up completely uncritically, and many don’t even realize they have domestic propaganda.

that’s basically how we got modern day America after USSR dissolved

clearly not when the purpose is to merely indoctrinate people as opposed to actually teach them to think

That’s basically why anarchism only really exists within the imperial core as an ideology. It’s really just liberals being edgy and pretending to be on the left without actually wanting to make any systemic change. That said, I do think a lot of ideas from syndicalism are genuinely good and should be applied within a socialist society. However, building such a society in the first place requires Marxism.

https://dashthered.medium.com/where-do-tanks-come-from-8723ff77d83b

Timing attacks are tricky because a lot of the time people don’t even think of them as a vector.

oh not directly, but the code on the page can do a timing attack to see how long it takes to read and write a large file which can be used to fingerprint your ssd

38 now 🤣

Nah, authoritarian is basically a term for any system of governance that’s different from western liberal capitalism originating in Europe. Russia has never been seen as truly European in the west, this is basically what the whole untermensch narrative nazis embraced is based on. In the Nazi racial hierarchy, being “white” or “Aryan” was not a given for all Europeans. Instead, an internal hierarchy existed where Nordic peoples were at the top, and Slavs were placed at the bottom, akin to non-European races. And these are the values Europeans very much embrace to this day.

the whole orc narrative and Russian hordes narrative has very much been embraced by western media over the past four years https://web.archive.org/web/20260414080035/https://spectator.com/article/why-are-ukrainians-calling-russian-invaders-orcs/?edition=us

yeah but Russians are considered Asiatic mongrels by the Europeans, they’re the orcs and aren’t really white you see

I’m optimistic about seeing the fall of the dread empire in my lifetime.

^ when you’re a victim of western ‘education’ system

At the rate things are going, Europe just might.

Chimps will gang up and murder tyrannical leaders, we could learn so much from them. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2119677-chimps-beat-up-murder-and-then-cannibalise-their-former-tyrant/