gerikson

As I'm sure you'll be informed by David, a lot of "tech" press pieces are thinly rewritten PR puff pieces.

Well put. Another example I like to play in my head (never debated a goldbug for real in my life, not starting now) is that if the gold standard is so great, how come a small-ish country like Switzerland or Singapore hasn't started using it and outcompeting everyone?

There's only 2 answers to that:

1. the gold standard doesn't work in the modern economy, the one that has lifted millions out of poverty and created untold wealth (to great environmental damage, sure)
2. the gold standard is being kept from them by (((they)))

Answer 2 is obvious if you're a fascist.

It's the same symptoms among the pundits that convinced them that Ron DeSantis had a chance against Trump.

Yeah, having the source to a site (even if it includes stuff like day to day ops, backups etc) isn't worth much if you don't have a community. It's a bit like "open source" LLMs, sure you can run a mudball of python on your computer but the real worth is in ingesting and classifying.

Turns out purging your ranks of wokes and furries is more fun than, you know, actually developing a working Linux distro: Nix 2.24+ is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation.

(linking to the lobste.rs discussion because I feel it does a decent job curating related links around disclosure timelines etc.)

The links between hard money/goldbugs and (US) hard right goes back a long way, at least to the 30s I believe.

Interestingly, an almost pathological fear of inflation is also part of the foundational myth of the BRD, but if you look at the actual history, Weimar-era hyperinflation wasn't really the root cause of Nazism, the Depression arguably was a bigger contributing factor.

You have to let it predict things that will happen before 2019, duh.

OK Venturebeat have hastily beaten a venture-retreat and are decrying fraud complete with an AI generated header image that really screams "promptfondler caught red-handed fondling".

Contains such choice quotes are “fraud in the AI research community”, which are very reminiscent of Capt. Renault's reaction in the casino in Casablanca.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-open-source-ai-leader-reflection-70bs-performance-questioned-accused-of-fraud/

Point taken. I still think the Luna series is great!

I'd say it's essential Heinlein. Whether you believe Heinlein is essential is another matter :D

I read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and the conceit of Earth sending convicts and political prisoners to the Moon to grow wheat underground never made much sense to me. I believe Charles Stross got into a good-natured slapfight with Ian McDonald over the latter’s use of helium mining in the Luna series but that sounds more likely to me than fucking wheat.

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/Twice-on-a-Harsh-Moon.html