When I say “antisocial” I don’t mean “awkward and have a hard time with people especially in groups” I mean “antisocial” in the sense that you fundamentally disagree with a sense of any social contract or feeling of responsibility to care for others.

Just because you are an awkward recluse doesn’t mean you are antisocial it means you are an introvert.

The ability to remotely build fortifications is far more strategic than it seems especially if the lives of the soldiers are valued. A common misconception is that fortifications have become obsolete in modern warfare to a large degree, in reality what has happened is that military theory has come to understand the most important thing about a piece of fortification is that it is exactly where it is needed, which means that 99% of the time the best foritification is a bit of terrain in an advantageous position that Infantry exploits for cover. Perhaps what the word “infantry” best represents in terms of power is the human capacity to entrench into any context and build a disguised defense from whatever is lying about.

This is what made castles obsolete, it wasn’t really cannons, it was a realization that a forested ridge entrenched with infantry in a way that is hard to decipher from far away is far more useful than a laboriously constructed castle wall.

What UGVs dedicated to combat engineering/building foritifications do is vastly increase the number of confluences of opportunity, time and windows of safety to construct fortifications exactly where they are needed when they are needed. They also allow fortification missions with a moderately low likelihood of failure, but highly impacful consequences if they do to be undertaken with the knowledge that worst comes to worst only robots are lost.

In general the pace and spatial distribution of decent quality entrenchment will vastly increase with UGVs.

Note that the Ukraine War and subsequent indirectly related Iran War will be collectively referred to as The Last Oil War by historians. Trump attacking Venezuela and threatening Canada (Tar Sands) and Greenland are part of this same dynamic.

We truly are at that moment, which DOESN’T mean ICE cars are going away tomorrow along with all fossil fuel use, but the momentum is now undeniable by even the most powerful world powers beyond a certain point and in many ways these wars and acts of political chaos are desperate final attempts to stall the coming end of the Oil Age at a root level.

Most of our leaders chose war over embracing the Solar & EV era, thank goodness their choices were futile against the rising tide.

The russian operator looking at the drone camera feed of this advanced multipurpose armed-to-the-teeth Ukrainian USV cruising along had to have been thinking “we are SO fucked”.

This is undoubtedly categorizable as a terrorist attack, plainly and clearly.

They won’t and MAGA will be act mystified and hurt about it like the pathetic antisocial losers they are.

Sometimes Daddy learns a lesson from his little boy.

Fucking disgusting this makes me want to throw up

Truly vertigo inducing to behold.

If at first you can’t succeed cheat!

I am not a professional programmer but it seems to me that the idea that AI is needed to increase the firehose of code being written to “improve” programming and how well computers work is as absurd as the idea that the point of a university degree in a language is to increase the raw amount of words being written in that language.

The point is to convey ideas with language not produce more language, same thing with code, the point is to solve problems not produce ever larger and larger amounts of code with automation.

Something I know without a doubt is that for many people who love language, they desire a great deal less of the fake, hurtful, useless words that drown out the good ones. People who love words and work in crafting and shaping them tend to think it is inherently good to shape useful words not just mindlessly produce combinations of words in as great a volume possible.

To put it in a more abstracted fashion, relying on AI to produce more and more code faster and faster feels like a Jazz musician saying they rely on AI to fill in all the empty spaces they leave between notes with complementary embelleshing notes. The point of a jazz musician is clearly not to produce the most notes possible, it is to convey meaning with notes.

To bring it back to a concrete example, how many times has Google built a new chat program/app from scratch and then abandoned it? Sure there is lots of code there of very high quality, an intimidating amount to be sure, but isn’t the primary job of the programmer here to say “hey, why don’t we stop writing new code from the ground up for every chat app a different part of the company wants and standardize it to a much smaller codebase with a set of customizations different parts of the company can apply to the same core chat program”?

It seems to me a good programmer would be good at framing problems from a perspective that requires as simple implementation in code as possible within reason, not be best at producing the program with the most lines of code fastest that still solves the problem.

Better yet, why don’t we assist Mexico in invading Texas and finally give Texas the kind of “Us Vs. EVERYONE ELSE” fantasy it is so sexually attracted to.

I love improv and blackbox theater, I understand this intimately. I will never argue for entirely replacing in person interaction, of course in person interaction has the highest immediate potential for saturating your senses with social information.

However you are making a basic thinking error here that environments with a higher saturation of simultaneous social signals are superiro to more focused or abstracted ones.

I have had many intimate conversations on a phone with someone that may never have quite happened the same way, or the words would not have found a way out perhaps if the conversation had happened in a different context and in person. This isn’t about being afraid to say something in person, it is rather that the medium of a phone conversation allows a unique form of intimacy that is different but not better than in person interaction. The same thing with writing a letter, or even a heartfelt text.

Don’t reduce the quality of my argument by suggesting I think social media replaces in person interaction, that is not what I am arguing in the slightest.

I also think it is extremely reductive to call digital spaces inhuman simply because humans cannot physically/literally fit inside the digital spaces. What it means to be human and have human conversations is way more nuanced and harder to pin down than just “are two human bodies making noises at one another in same room”.

One example of this nuance is that for many people the capacity to explore removed, abstracted identities online at different parts of their life was crucial to them finding themselves more wholistically. Social interaction and the fulfilment of our social nature isn’t just a raw calculation of time physically spent in the same room as other humans.

To put it succintly, you are essentially arguing color photography is inherently better than black and white photography because more information always is better and more meaningful/impactful. That is NOT how we are wired which isn’t to say that color isn’t important in our lives.

Texas is a death cult desperately trying to convince everyone it is just another shithole.

And it being concept art doesn’t really make it any better

I would argue it makes it worse since the most important part about art is the concept being pursued or expressed by the art that is brought into life by its aesthetics. I am not making a hard distinction between concept and aesthetics here, I am saying fundamentally art is about a series of aesthetics cohering into concepts. The concept does not have to be intellectual, or literal, or anything really but to say that the conceptual stage of creating a universe is somehow not the vital genesis point where the artist should not only be spending most of their time but be most motivated and impassioned by (otherwise why flesh the idea out?) is absurd.

A vision isn’t simply an aesthetic, it is a concept. Bringing reality to a vision is a conversation between an aesthetic suggesting a concept in your mind, and your mind actuating it into an aesthetic imperfectly and then further responding emotionally and intellectually to that experience. A work of art starts as concept art, then becomes aesthetics and then concept again, endlessly on like a bouncey ball down an infinite stairwell through the medium of the artist. How this all begins is of course deeply important to the life of the resulting work of art.

To put it another way, think of your favorite artist and imagine what part of their artistic process you would be most interested in peeking into to get a window into their creative mind. It would be the part where a beautiful idea starts right? The part where the fashion designer catches a whim floating by and sketches it upon a paper and there it is, a style and outfit… something more than seemed possible was pulled straight out of a single moment… THAT is the part “artists” want to replace with AI? What the fuck?

Don’t get me wrong, I am not trying to overly romanticize how beautiful works of art begin, often they begin by starting in a hamfisted, backwards way or even just a mundane way and finding their way along anyways but my point is that focusing on trying to automate the process of concept art is a sort of perverse romanticization of the artistic process. Part of the point of art to me is the “boringness” of that generative beginning where all that you can really give is your presence and ability to listen to how those initial marks you have made make you feel. There is no skipping that part for the grandiose, flashy parts of making a fantasy world, I think any good artist knows that on some level.

The settlements involve the transfer of a civilian population into occupied territory, which is a violation of the fourth Geneva convention, and the Rome statute (the founding document of the international criminal court) which deems such colonisation a war crime.

It is Genocide

Sometimes while browsing a bit more mindlessly than I intend to on the fediverse I stop mid swipe and with spontaneous elation think “I have not seen a single damn ad this entire time!”.

It will never get old for me.

How is this a bait and switch?

I asked you for proof how does that mean I am not being genuine rational or open minded?

The most pathetic thing about the Confederacy is that they never, ever had a chance.

It was a bunch of people stuck in the past trying to futilely and hopelessly deny the future, just like people who fly the confederate flag nowadays.

All those Confederate soldiers died for less than nothing, their lives were tossed away into a trashbin for a cause that could never succeed and was covered in blood from the very beginning.

It looks cool!