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Find out what fascism would look like at the individual level, and then make yourself immune to that behavior yourself, ensuring that you yourself are not fertile ground for it to grow in.

That’s the emphasis of the course Maps of Meaning. One of the stated intentions of the course is (paraphrased) “To make my students realize that they are capable of being an Auschwitz camp guard, which is not a fun thing to realize, and then to build the kind of life and character that would prevent them from taking part”.

So really, based on my own understanding of how fascism arose in Germany, the best thing is to be totally dedicated to telling the truth. Have values to go higher than your own safety and comfort, and be dedicated enough so that when the opportunity comes to stay comfortable by supporting the fascists, you have the backbone to oppose them.

I should fucking hope OpenAI isn’t profitable.

People say New Orleans flooded because there was a category 5 hurricane.

But the better way to look at it is that New Orleans flooded because the government chose not to maintain the dikes as advised by the Army Corps of Engineers.

It was also a lack of water in one of the reservoirs, a cut in the fire department budget, the fractured command structure of the local fire departments, the mayor being out of the country, failure to clear deadfall in the local forests, 100s of fire engines being down for maintenance, fire engines from other states being waylaid for emissions testing, fire equipment donated to Ukraine, a river being diverted into the ocean to save an endangered invasive fish species, and the fire department chief having a philosophy that it’s not her problem if people are stuck in a fire.

Fires get sparked all the time. That’s why we have fire departments: not to prevent fires from sparking, but to prevent them from spreading.

Quick! Think of a sport in which separating the sexes doesn’t matter!

I would have also accepted “bowling”

Meta did not end fact checking.

Meta switched to a system of community notes, which is superior at fact checking than a centralized team of fact checkers.

I’m a capitalist, and that’s not what I want.

Same thing the rest of us replaced by AI are gonna do: live on the dole or starve

So the wires did something

AI does not operate on pure chance. It’s a bad analogy.

Luigi’s contributions to Stack Overflow are the exact opposite of the mindless chant in that scene. Don’t degrade him with comparison to Bob.

Can’t have a “terrorist” demonstrating his competence and productivity after all.

The overlords know they’ve really fucked up when the competent, productive people start getting resentful and side-eyeing the system.

Pants enable clambering, which is part of running away, which is what criminals do.

huh?

Community notes are written and voted on by the community

Did you have something to say about my comment? If so, what is it?

I’m an Uber driver. I spend all day every day having interesting conversations with strangers. How does that compare to the strategies you’ve employed to “look beyond your own experiences”?

I did learn about the Native American genocide in school.

Are there schools where this isn’t taught?