That's a fair analysis, but I'd argue that you are being too charitable to the US government. I think they simultaneously have legitimate security concerns, but also wish to regain control over some of their narratives w/ respect to foreign policy. But really that's just a matter of opinion.
Maybe all of the people downvoting could try and make a coherent argument against this post instead. Although it's pretty hard to argue against objective facts.
The US can ban TikTok all they want, but the worms aren't going back into the can.
> Anecdote of shitty AI company raising a fuckton of money
> Mention of GDP with no other metrics
> No mention of inflation
> No mention of QE
> No mention of interest rates
This is propaganda. When your central banks control the world's reserve currency it's pretty easy to make sure that the line goes up every year. The British Empire didn't have their wealth because of their superior system, they got it from imperialism.
Before you downvote please just reflect on what I'm saying a little bit. Do the changes you see on the ground reflect this narrative of economic growth? I see a little bit locally, mostly from the CHIPS act and infrastructure acts, but it doesn't correlate with an improvement in QOL and certainly infrastructure projects are not unique to American capitalism.
> 1. One of the IT guys – in his early 20s — showed up in a brand new 350Z (stickers on). This was his "severance" pay. I'm pretty sure one of the upper-mgmt had bought it for themselves, but it was "about the right amount".
Facebook has usurped the legacy media that they mention in the Red Book. But their relationship to capital and government is the exact same as the legacy media they replaced, so instead of being disruptive they fill the same role --except this time with even more ruthless efficiency and profitability.
"When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor."
Yes I have seen that one! It's on my list of resources. There's also this, which I have been studying the code of as I follow along with Crafting Interpreters, to try and incrementally understand the codebase:
That malleable systems manifesto really resonated with me. I actually did a project recently where I tried to adhere to that sort of ethos:
https://pickles976.github.io/Hari-Recipes/
I got about halfway through it during a slow work week. It was a throwback to my hardware classes from college. It got me thinking differently about computing.
I am young and stupid, but from a rear-view perspective it looks like maybe certain abstractions were chosen in the old days when there were hardware limitations, and that our current "evolutionary branch" of programming languages has a lot of abstractions that have not aged well, leading to a lot of layers of load-bearing cruft --much like any engineering project.
Collapse OS might not be practical today, but it has a "liberating" appeal. Freeing yourself from all these layers of abstraction sounds really enticing. A way to enjoy computing as it existed in the 1960s, but without the terrible developer experience. (or so I imagine)
Currently my pie-in-the-sky project would be to work through these projects, get Dusk OS building on a virtual machine, then physical machine, then write a Scheme interpreter for Dusk OS in C --and go hog-wild from there.
I have a couple of rivers to cross before I get there. I implemented a Scheme interpreter in Python in a couple of hours, then improved the scanner/Tokenizer in a couple more hours. Now I'm reading through crafting interpreters to see how I would go about implementing a Scheme interpreter in C. After that's done and I implement an interpreter in C, I'll revisit this guide and try to jump headfirst into DuskOS.
https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/05/06/senato...