While you & I may find shoehorning LLMs into every nook & cranny distasteful, I worry Marl may think differently

https://open.substack.com/pub/nothinghuman/p/the-tyranny-of-...

Recent history of Apple vs. sovereign states is a real time vindication of Polanyi. Capital is always subordinate to the state (even if it proclaims to be the opposite).

> Capital is always subordinate to the state

the international monetary fund has every state in debt. some third-world countries become subordinate to it, when they're not able to pay the interest payments.

The IMF is a UN agency controlled by member governments. It's subordinate to 190 governments.

I will second the recommendation to start with vanilla emacs. That isn't to disparage releases like spacemacs & doom. I simply found those to be more useful once I fully understood the power that comes with a fully reprogrammable editor. There is a learning curve and there is also a mental model to adopt, and I think that adopting the mental model is easier when starting raw and building up from scratch. Once you feel comfortable maybe try spacemacs or doom to see if they offer advantages for your workflow.

I also highly recommend the resources at https://www.masteringemacs.org

This person is missing that modern global society is rigidly organized around principles of competition. It's not the case that people don't care -- instead we are systemically pressured into putting all of our care into getting one over everyone else and taking care of our own. A society organized around different principles would give us the space to care about our collective wellbeing. Hopefully one day we'll get there.

This demo is impressive although my initial reaction is a sort of grief that I wasn't born in the timeline where Alan Kay's vision of object-oriented computing was fully realized -- then we wouldn't have to manually reconcile wildly heterogeneous data formats and interfaces in the first place!

Vision of a “universal communicator” rather than OO?

This is likely the case in a lot of places. We're still in the midst of ransomware groups targeting hospitals.

has anyone done an analysis on how much big tech revenue comes from the DoD, particularly as its changed over time?

even the most secure outbound protection would likely whitelist the CrowdStrike update servers because they'd be considered part of the infrastructure

When I saw 'Global IT Outage' trending I assumed it was another major cloud service failure. Obviously this has far wider impact because of the need for intervention on individual endpoints.

The irony is dawning on me that for much of the recent computing era we've developed defenses against massive endpoint outages (worms, etc.) and one of them is now inadvertently reproducing the exact problem we had mostly eradicated.

This had my attention at first but I’m not sure it led me anywhere. For discussion of the fundamental contradictions with the current structure of the Internet (that lead to the problems described herein & more), I highly recommend The People’s Platform by Astra Taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People's_Platform

It’s a decade old at this point & yet continues to be startlingly relevant.