Please review the last 100 years of technological development and educate us all on when, exactly, improvements in productivity have resulted in a reduction of the working hours required for subsistence. Extra credit for when it also did not involve threats of bodily or existential harm to the ruling class.

Perhaps, just maybe, people are less concerned with perpetuating the wheels of the machine “at all costs” and more concerned with what happens between now and then. With who will get crushed before they’re stopped, if they ever do, long after our own lifetimes end.

Perhaps it is not the entire world who is stupid while you’re one of a select few intelligent enough to really know what’s going on.

I’m fully in support of the idea of UBI by the way, I just don’t see the hypothetical distant possibility as a reason to discount issues actively occurring in the existent present. Similar arguments are used to defend the acceleration of pollution in pursuit of an AI super intelligence that will supposedly “fix” all the issues we make during the pursuit of it. It’s foolhardy, dangerous, and reckless to leave the problems being built today to be solved by a purely hypothetical future.

Who the hell watched Psycho-Pass and thought it was a good idea?

Does the blue haired one just… not have a name?

A big part of the game is slowly figuring out what combination of weapon and boons suit you best, and what combos you can struggle through but don’t really prefer. Then you start making the best of what you get.

I definitely wasn’t winning runs in a week. You’re trying to escape the afterlife, it’s going to be hard and grueling. I have over 100 runs and the last “zone” with the Satyrs still does me in more than I’d like. Of course, I also almost always take the risks for more rewards. The trick is that I still have fun each run regardless.

At some point I did some runs focused on specific types of meta currency to grind out certain tavern upgrades, or to push through specific character’s storylines by gifting them nectar. Don’t sleep on the meta-progression and all the “side stories”. It helps break up the repetition.

As you die, and die, and die some more you’ll build your own skills, unlock some more tools through meta-progression mechanics, and unlock more of the story (and stories) almost every run whether you win or lose.

As you gift characters nectar it can effect dialog in other places and even unlock some entirely new mechnics and options during your runs.

It might not be the game for you, but it’s also not made to be blazed through and then put down. Take your time with it. Go for the challenges rather than trying to just get to the end, because the real ending is a lot farther away than you realize. You do a run or two, unlock some new story. Unlock more story a few times and you unlock a new mechanic or a hint towards a bigger thing.

So take your time. Enjoy the journey. It’s more rewarding if you take the time to engage with things on your way, even if this whole escape thing might be temporary until you get out. You’re dying enough anyway, may as well make some friends. Chat up Sisyphus, and don’t forget Bouldy either. He’s a good listener. Take on Chaos’s challenges. Did you know she’s Nyx’s mom? Why don’t they talk about each other and why have you never seen Chaos come to visit? Try to mend the bad blood between Orpheus and Eurydice. Do you want a canon bi polycule? You can do that. Want to try and teach the nearly non-verbal fury your name? You can do that too. Best to make the best of this trying to escape and ending up back at the start thing.

So you beat Hades. Now what? He’ll be back before long, just like you are when you die. What do you think he’s going to do then? Just let you go because you killed him? You didn’t let your death stop you, why would he for his?

Beating the final boss multiple times is needed to get the ending, but it’s just another step in the path. It takes multiple wins and doing side stuff (that you’re hopefully getting through naturally just as you play) to get to “the epilogue”, and you unlock one new god for and entire new “tree” of boons after your first win.

And when it gets too annoying throwing yourself at it another time, take a break and come back to it later.

Speaking of hacks, there are ones to turn off the limited ammo mechanic of the light and dark guns. A lot of people seem to think that improves 2 a lot.

Edit: And using primehack to play it with mouse and keyboard would definitely go a long way towards making it feel more generic by giving it a more generic control scheme.

Part of the issue, admittedly, is that there’s a bunch. Many have outdated info as well.

NAACP guide seems written for a more peaceful era, but is a good place to start.

Rescue our Democracy similarly has some oversights when it comes to tech safety, but at least mentions wearing a mask.

I’m not finding the better guides right now.

The big things as far as reducing identification that I’m not seeing is that beyond face coverings and the like to prevent facial recognition, don’t bring your real phone and if you do keep it powered off in a faraday bag.

Phones are still traceable when in airplane mode, and while powered off, through bluetooth low power mode. This is what many countries used for covid exposure tracking. The only defense agaist this tracking is having your phone in a faraday bag that it doesn’t leave until you are out of the protest area, or simply not bringing it.

There are a few ways to get burner phones not tied to your identity. If you wanted to go that route, you’d want to do the opposite. Keep the burner in the faraday bag at home and only use it out at protest locations, alongside the advice from those two guides as far as disabling biometrics, etc.

I’ll try and find some better guides later today.

The protest safety guides need to be more widespread.

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ELITE? Really, of all the things to name it?

Well I guess they know who they’re marketing to.

Everyone was too concerned the AI would do it and wasn’t looking close enough at the C-Suite Execs.

Without any info on how they compile the “Top 50 viral” list, I’m not sure how significant this really is.

Never heard of that chart before, so this feels like it was just an easy article for click farming.

Most of the people I’ve met who consider themselves “rockstars” are middling at best, and are pretty much led around by the nose by whatever latest fad they just studied/found learning material for/found sales material for.

They absolutely knew how to play office politics and games about appearances to execs (being able to spout a lot about whatever latest term is showing up in the financial magazines the execs read while not saying anything concrete helps a lot), but when push came to shove they were always trying to find ways to make their responsibilities everyone elses problem so they could play with some new toy while they left a trail of halfassed rush work and mountains of tech debt in their wake.

It’s theoretically possible to extract all the GPO effected registry keys from the ADMX files Microsoft releases, but yeah, I have serious doubts that any tool like this will be able to just detect and track every distinct setting. Let alone accurately identify what each does. I’m sure there’s at least one setting that’s been carried over from the “stuff it in an .ini in a system folder” days.

But if there is some community sourced list for settings, where they’re stored, and how they work that would be amazing!

My work indicated that they would start expecting people to make use of Copilot. There’s been small errors in every answer Copilot has given me, but it has surfaced information and been able to accurately answer a few questions that would have taken me hours with Microsoft docs to find without knowing it in advance (I always confirm the data).

I can see the value in a natural language search engine. In being able to ask questions about documentation and software/system capabilities in natural language and get natural language answers.

But it makes too many errors to be reliable because it tries to be generalist instead of organizing concepts and tokens properly for the specific domain. It costs way too damn much for the not super impressive thing it actually does, and it only does that at a barely passable level.

I hate that me needing to use it for work for the sake of appearances only serves to normalize it to me and others, while adding to the inflated count of users.

He and his family were caught doing pretty serious charity fraud, iirc, amd he kept throwing out completely absurd excuses rather than owning up to it.

Entirely wrong youtuber. Sorry.

Thiel is weird, like being willing to admit in an interview that he regularly gets blood transfusions from healthy young people in order to prolong his life back in 2016 or 17, or hesitating when on a podcast and asked if he believed in humanity surviving into the future… but he’s generally not completely fucking bonkers. He’s one of the most successful Silicon Valley investors. Remember that he basically made JD Vance, Planatir is getting deeply entrenched in multiple countries’ intelligence agencies and law enforcement groups, he has a ridiculous amount of connections to everyone involved with Project 2025, some connections to the current AI bubble, and at least some connection to getting Trump into office in the first place. He is probably the closest thing we have to a real life supervillian, as trite as saying that is.

This is an absurd statement, but he’s saying it for a reason. He’s trying to make something happen with this. He’s trying to push things in a certain direction. Don’t just laugh at the absurdity or make some cheap laugh statement about delusional Christians and turn your brain off.

I’m running into this at work lately. Suits are forcing everyone to move from one email sending service to another to save a few $, and I got stuck tracking the progress of everything that needed to be moved.

Entire departments that openly told me all they do for the company is manage software to generate reports that get sent out via email automatically. One of their guys is using python. One is using some SQL server plugin that mixes “no code” shit with straight C#. Another is using an entire suite of outdated software that has its own proprietary email generation logic, and the only part they’re using is the email generation. The fucking lead? A god damn vbscript, used to dynamically construct a string that is sent to the command prompt to be executed. That string? Launch an existing PowerShell script that sends an email. I’ve seen the whole thing, that’s all it fucking does front to back. Just fucking use PowerShell straight for the love of all that is holy instead of this awful rube goldberg mess.

In other departments, people whose entire job description is “I admin and support these three systems” being unable to do literally anything in their systems without relying on the vendor’s help desk for the software. Shit that I was able to find out in 30 seconds with a search that got me the system documentation, they open a support case and are fucking helpless.

I just want to close the door and get back to working on my stuff, so I can stop taking mental damage from exposure to all the cognitive hazard messes these other supposedly technical teams have shit into existence.

One of the fun things about modern Windows is that ~1 shit still appears every once in a rare while. Gotta love just stacking more and more shit on top of ancient systems in the name of backwards compatibility!

I already deal far too much with trying to handle dumb fucking typos in employee data, and trying to turn human names into valid email addresses.

The first time I encounter something like this there will be a body. It will not be found.

Guess what? They’re trying to find a way to ban trans folks from owning firearms.