anon_
15hr ago
I have no idea what fantasy you have right now but tech is woke as af. I was there.
I think it's a specific kind of woke. Flattening it is a huge mistake.
Of course you can't have tech without the autistic MtFs and the ACE chicks, and so there's a very predictable LGBT contingent. And the companies are all extremely woke on BLM/DEI side and all that. But they are not "capitalism is systemic plunder of the poor" wokes or "we stand with Iran" wokes.
anon_
15hr ago
I think it's not just about being weak, but about accurately assessing your relative position.
anon_
15hr ago
Murderous hate seems like a fairly good barometer of being a threat, especially when used in comparison to a different group of people (say, WASPs) who are observed to have a lot less murderous hate.
anon_
20hr ago
Indeed, and I think you've touched upon but merits more depth: how one operationalizes compliance with contract restrictions.
Certainly I don't think the DOW can abide a contractor not just having conditions (which may or may not be objectionable depending on their substance) but on the assertion that this contractor itself gets to decide on matter and cut off support on the fly seems like a bridge too far.
Searching in vain for deescalation here, one hopes the parties could come to an understanding where the substantive restrictions are acknowledged without creating a procedural veto for the contractor.
anon_
20hr ago
It also proved that they no longer have any deterrent capabilities. The Israelis operated freely over the entire country, there is no Hezbollah or Hamas left to retaliate. Their entire ballistic missile attack on Israel killed, what, one person? Two people?
anon_
20hr ago
I'm not sure that this applies to national security critical technologies. Certainly I don't think Lockheed could demand that the DOW agree not to use the F35 to bomb on Sundays. And it gets even dicier if Lockheed gets to make decisions about whether specific actions violate the restrictions.
I agree the designation is overkill in retaliation, but there is a core DOW claim that private companies supplying critical technologies should not overstep into making specific operational decisions.
anon_
21hr ago
Realistically, I think the relationship between companies and the government changes considerably when the technology at hand represents a critical and frontier level capability. SpaceX, for example, constitutes a load bearing part of our national security.
Whether or not Anthropic's demands were modest, I think they crossed a line. And the DOW crossed an even larger one with the designation (which is a massive overescalation).
anon_
21hr ago
The idea of "all lawful purposes" is extremely suspect given what the federal government has been doing in regards to surveillance for the last few decades.
While this is true, it would also be quite unfortunate if private companies had to make binding policy judgments on government programs.
Damned either way eh.
anon_
21hr ago
I feel like one doesn't need to reach hard to think that people chanting "Death to the X" aren't a thread to X.
anon_
21hr ago
Partially because Lebanese folks, once removed from Lebanon, are truly exceptionally nice people to live and work with. Never met a single one that was an asshole.
Remarkable really how that works.
anon_
21hr ago
Given that the Ivies famously had a cap on Jewish enrollment, if anything it would be an anti-meritocratic conspiracy on the other side.
anon_
21hr ago
Of course Jews can be accused of anything. But on the one hand there is a claim that they are orchestrating an entire war and at the same time that they are short-sighted enough that they want to willingly add 300K muslims whose policy rounds to "death to the jews".
One can see the "LGBT for Palestine" organizers in a parade and think they are buffoons. But you can't also see them as sophisticated operators playing geopolitical 4D chess. Pick one or the other.
anon_
21hr ago
That wasn't my question. I asked about the specific muslim somalis that were germane to the discussion.
And to hazard my answer to the question: I think the median WASP is far less antisemitic than even the 95^th percentile most tolerant somali. It's not even close.
anon_
1d ago
Do you think the modal member of a homogenous white US society would be more or less antisemitic than the modal Somali immigrant?
anon_
2d ago
Jews want to live in a multicultural state and so they decided to import a group of (checks notes) virulent antisemites.
That’s your grand theory? Really?
anon_
2d ago
But that very same group can’t dislodge people fraudulently extracting billions of dollars and sending it to their sworn enemies?
anon_
2d ago
I don't particularly object at the macro scale, but I do think KS could have left those driver's licenses valid until they need to be renewed and fix the problem then.
It's maybe a small showing of grace, and maybe undeserved (isn't all grace?) but it strikes me as just fine.
anon_
2d ago
All of this while the United States mobilizes to fight another war for Israel... but deporting Somalis from Minnesota is just impossible we are told.
I'm not sure if the implication is that this contingent approves of Somali muslims ripping off US/MN welfare programs, a good fraction of that cash ending up being sent as remittances which end up in the hands of groups not exactly known for their love of Israel.
If this is your conspiracy, sure. But quite frankly it doesn't make a ton of sense.
In relative terms, yes.
Unless you think they weren’t sincere, but I see no reason to think that
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