Conversations about effective accelerationism

e/acc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyyWsr1NMt8

The anti-humanism of the radical environmental movement is associated with the 1960s, but it was present in intellectual currents decades earlier. This is from c. 1948:

In the first six months of Musk’s ownership, Twitter/X complied with more than 80% of government takedown requests, up from 50% prior to his takeover. 

I would prefer people that support free speech and don’t shout about it, than people who shout but do less.

in fact, i was going to share the discord, people are fed up apparently. This is the EU/Acc Discord.

https://x.com/andreasklinger/status/1789424757806436418

I am getting into the Discord to propose Confoederatio Helvetica ACC aka ch/acc—using Proton and Mullvad from Zurich at the same time has not bought me time either in ETH-pilled Zug, or Tether-pilled Lugano. I need to sweat more:

Anyone who has a terrible disease, and who understands AI, is an AI accelerationist. 

AI = hope

“One day your car may speed along an electric super-highway, its speed and steering automatically controlled by electronic devices embedded in the road”

Advertisement in the Saturday Evening Post, 1950s

$0 to $6.6B revenue in 4 years

https://spacenews.com/starlink-soars-spacexs-satellite-internet-surprises-analysts-with-6-6-billion-revenue-projection/

2050:
yeah so we have this global network connected by thousands of satellites which lets me text my buddy on Mars in half a second

insane. can't wait

This is one of the most important trends that we are seeing in the world. Cheap energy and storage are coming to the grid. This will unlock a ton of progress and hopefully flying cars or private planes to everyone! 

Don’t have the link to the article

Some StackOverflow users are getting suspended after vandalizing/deleting past posts in protest of their recent partnership with OpenAI.

What’s the takeaway here? Not your keys, not your content? Creative Commons publishing at odds with GDPR? Something more nuanced?

https://x.com/nixcraft/status/1788144263928357306

https://twitter.com/WorksInProgMag/status/1788263298892542217?t=epcQjWgNE0d-2z8AeQbQVg&s=19

if there's any ambiguity around this accelerated progress, feel free to check me on this.

https://x.com/radshaan/status/1722665737162985744?s=46

Apparently I was in an X community called "The Λ Community" that I have never tried to get in—whatever they are, and a mod just removed me. You guys are funny.

apparently this one has to do with effective accelerationism. brah, when you were chasing normie memes on 4chan, i was building CCRu.

Base Power announced their 68M funding. It is one of the most interesting startups that I've heard of. The CEO is Michael Dell's son and the CTO was lead manufacturer on Starship and head of manufacturing at Anduril

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-07/electric-bill-issues-texans-get-a-new-option