Patrick H Wiilems had an interesting video essay recently about the death of music videos, since there was a major pipeline from being a music video director to being a movie director.

This may be the first year where Hollywood starts treating YouTube video makers as a substitute pipeline for finding new talent.

A lot of conspiracy discussion websites were manipulated in a way to get Donald Trump elected president.

Generally in this order:

Where am I sleeping? Where am I shitting? Where am I showering? Where can I get food? What are fun things to see in the area?

Reading the article, it appears that Zuckerberg is trying to get his staff back operating like they are a startup with events like a hackathon. That his staff are no longer participating is indicating that they aren’t treating Meta like a startup any more.

It isn’t that Zuckerberg wants his staff to act like they are having fun, but to get back into a startup mentality where they will hopefully over perform and are instead treating it as a job where there isn’t an incentive to work harder.

That’s a good one.

Just in general, I get the feeling that she’s not all there. You can probably sell her on anything.

Except that the crazy religious nutjobs mainly created their own state churches in the North. The real reason is that the USA was the first time in a long while where there wasn’t a state presence trying to control religion for various reasons. You’d get random preachers going around the newly settled parts trying to sell people on their form of Jesus and being able to change their Jesus to fit local tastes.

It turns out that making going to church entertaining and preaching that everyone in the room were good people helped get converts

Most major streamers tried to follow the Netflix model where they had enough for everyone in order to justify its subscription. It may be better if the major companies broke up their subscriptions so people can subscribe to far less content.

Yeah. I feel that a lot of later 20th and early 21st century work has shifted from deconstructionism to some form of constructionism, attempting to build from culture rather than demolish it to its core items. I just don’t know what that will look like.

For physical labor no one wants to do, you can finesse your response to be less “not my job” and more “I have other tasks I need to do now as part of my job”. It may sound similar, but one is making it so that you are determining what is and isn’t your responsibility and the other is pushing that decision on someone else.

Someone else hired you to push people around. You can’t override your boss, so you need to focus on the work they give you and take the breaks you can on their time table. A nurse may have deserved status, but unless the chain of command runs through them, you got to follow the chain.

Still applies more to Trump than Biden or Harris, given Trump’s open corruption feeding into crony capitalism.

Like I’ve said before, it feels like the term is being changed because the argument behind how I’m using it is hard to refuse, so the choice is to try to redefine the word rather than discuss the argument.

No. It means picking the person who will accelerate into whatever calamity which will cause a collapse.

I feel like there is a lot of revisionism of the definition because the definition is inconvenient to the opposing argument.

An accelerationist is picking someone who will collapse the empire due to incompetence and destroying American institutions. Between Trump and Harris, I don’t see Harris causing a collapse of American institutions like Trump.

Also, in regards to Iran, Trump has been far more antagonistic than Biden and Democrats in general were. The Biden administration at least needed a false flag attack to support Israel and a lot of the opposition came from Democrats. Trump got rid of Obama’s multilateral nuclear treaty and has participated in Israeli attacks where Israel was the aggressor.

Not that surprising. Becoming a doctor in the USA is part hazing ritual. Cuba developed a program that showed you can train doctors at a far lower cost.

Next time you want to say “that’s not my job”, change what you’re saying to “I don’t have the authority to do what you’re asking and you have more authority in asking the admins to do it than I do”.

That way, you’re not communicating that you won’t help, but that you can’t help. It also comes off that you’re trying to help with the situation rather that being a road block.

Eh, I feel like Zombies had a big run at one point.

Teams isn’t made for the users.

Maybe not the worst but something else: the need to be in control and the inability to make decisions.

So you get people who want to be in charge but can’t actually do anything when they are in charge.

No. Wanting Trump to win is accelerationist because he’s going to cause the empire to fall faster due to incompetence.

You aren’t angry at Democrats for war crimes, you’re angry at them because they are better at governing.

They aren’t going to make the movie they should.

Ahh, so you’re an accelerationist.