the reasons he thinks programmers aren’t workers seem to be threefold (a) they earn too much, (b) they don’t sweat enough and © they align with their bosses. and – to me at least – is obvious, that he only deigns to use the word “worker” for people who do (hard enough) manual labour.

this – from a dude who has a baccalaureate in italianistics, magisterium in linguistics and studies for phd in history – is an obvious intelligentsja stereotyping. lad thinks he’s punching up, and in reality he’s punching down.

i’m not a fan of military industry, but that doesn’t make me claim the workers there are not proletariat.

fortunately the account (that i never interacted with) has my account blocked, so i couldn’t make them angry by pointing out they’re engaging in typical intelligentsia behaviour of assuming that only heavy industry workers are workers.

so potentially many times infinite number of angels (or devils)

depends on the size of the pinhead

sure: “what a wonderfully campy villain”, “poor sean bean, again” and “guillotine your local aristo”, among other things.

it’s a delightful romp.

oh the infighting!

also, used it to good effect.

thanks. telling.

they watched “jupiter ascending” and took all the wrong conclusions from the film.

don’t the pre-ipo companies do that only if extremely distressed?

i’m sorry.

yes, precisely. he’s a fucking creep.

our agents there responded to the threads already, sharing the pain of knowledge.

oh, that they’re fully aware of. (and other weird jkr-related fandoms, like “snapewives” (don’t look)).

cofnas’ suspension proceedings from U of Ghent (do read the full suspension letter here) generated a reaction from the eugenicists: an open letter; the signatories, among many other names, some even probably not white supremacists, include some of our favourites: j michael bailey, pinker, shermer and hossenfelder.

at least that. considering that as a working psychiatrist he didn’t mind posting details of private lives of his patients and write about his disdain for them,

i would be very, very happy to be fooled in this instance.

so unless it’s a very clever ploy, it seems that jms has lost the plot:

The standalone book of Harlan Ellison’s I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM is taking preorders, with writing essays by Harlan, and since MOUTH was the first AI story, for fun we fed it into an AI system and asked for its opinion. The reply is fascinating.

yeah, he got got very badly.