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Well sure. But as I have had two children who have played "Olympic sports" D3, so no NIL money coming in...

"Olympic sports" are their own degree of fucked up, as many world class athletes are either forced out of or just don't go into NCAA athletics because of the fucked up policies on money. There's yet another lawsuit against the NCAA by an NC tennis player pointing out that the NCAA prohibiting her from winning prizes outside… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 12:21 PM on May 24, 2024

No, my point was quite bluntly that the death of amateurism is something to be celebrated, not mourned, because amateurism is and has always been class warfare, and is what has enabled the universities stealing the labor of those athletes. Your argument is inherently in contradiction with itself, arguing that the death of amateurism (which is what is enabling these athletes to assert themselves as laborers) and these athletes having their labor stolen because of the class warfare at the heart of… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 5:15 PM on May 24, 2024

In further NCAA antitrust news, the association has settled with the states and the DOJ over the transfer portal, agreeing to permanently rescind their rule forcing players to sit out a season after multiple transfers.

This is good - the rule was always a massive antitrust violation, and it likely became clear that there was no way forward for the NCAA here.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 9:13 PM on May 30, 2024

For example can the 1996 National Champions sue for back payment?

Well, we may just find out as ten members of the 1983 NC State team are suing over NIL rights.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 3:43 PM on June 10, 2024

Welp, looks like Bozeman housing prices aren't getting any better anytime soon.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 12:42 PM on June 10, 2024

Just as well, I suppose, the rental car was not covered for lava damage.

It seems that road closures due to lava are a problem there.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 6:25 PM on June 9, 2024

App development is something both huge companies and individuals do? In a sense, every mandatory step to do something will favor corporations that have endless resources to throw at requirements, over individuals. It's like handling DMCA requests. For a Youtube, they can field a whole department to do it. For Kyle Drake, creator of Neocities, as reported in an episode of the podcast Software Sessions, it can be onerous and possibly an existential threat to the project.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 10:15 AM on June 9, 2024

jwz is not arguing against having a privacy policy.

Yes, they are. Because - especially in 2024 - being incredulous about the idea that any piece of software being offered to the public should have a privacy policy regardless of its functionality is fundamentally arguing against the concept of privacy policies. And the reality is that Alphabet is right to have a policy saying that software on the Google Play Store is required to… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 11:40 AM on June 9, 2024

Police departments switching to EVs seems like it would be a good thing.

Yes, but police departments switching to a vehicle that is designed to maim people (there was the Cybertruck that sent its owner to the ER before he got to drive it, for example) seems like a bad thing. Not to mention that what is attracting cops isn't that it's electric, but that it's designed to be aggressive and intimidating.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 12:23 PM on June 6, 2024

I will admit that a Cybertruck owner finding out that Ford isn't just a truck brand the hard way is entertaining.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 12:25 PM on June 6, 2024

And we have Tesla's board chair continue to demonstrate why the judge ruled they weren't independent with a fact free assertion that not voting for Elon's payday would cost Tesla money. The argument that he would sue the company is especially rankling given that an actual independent board would be looking to sue him after he diverted Tesla AI chip shipments to xAI (no matter what your thought on AI is, that's a blatant breach of fiduciary duty.)
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 2:51 PM on June 6, 2024

But the point is that there are other EVs that are a) cheaper, b) more capable, and c) less harmful than the Incel Camino. Cops are interested in the WankerTanker not because of TCO, but because it looks like something a dystopian government would be using in a SyFy Original Movie.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 4:01 PM on June 6, 2024

It is surprising that it isn't a larger story in the news, given the set of problems Tesla is facing at the moment.

Given that Tesla's "Technoking" has been accused in engaging in insider trading netting him $3B in profit and diverted Tesla resources to his private holdings all in the runup to the vote in literally a week to give him $55B in Tesla stock, the continued failure of Tesla engineering pales in comparison.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 8:25 PM on June 6, 2024

It should be them slamming their dick in a Cybertruck frunk, Glegrinof.

And if you want to see how fucked the upcoming vote is, this is a good overview. Short version - no matter how the vote goes, the short-term product of Tesla will be legal billable hours.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 10:50 AM on June 7, 2024

Also, it turns out that the "EV sales slump" is in actuality primarily a Tesla sales slump (with a little VW mixed in.) Which just adds to the upcoming drama on Thursday.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 12:40 PM on June 7, 2024

The backlog of unsold Teslas is now visible from space.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 8:37 AM on June 8, 2024

This is the lesson from Amazon's ML resume screen fiasco - training on biased data sets (and everything we humans produce is filled with bias) will cause those biases to be pulled forward, because it turns out that ML is really good at sussing that sort of shit out.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 8:34 AM on June 8, 2024

But many progressives do in fact believe that men should not burden women with their feelings regardless of the context or content due to the power and privilege they hold.

Yes, men should not burden women with their feelings. This should not be controversial! But here's the thing - "talking about" != "burdening". There are ways to talk about - hell, to even center - men's feelings and emotions without placing the burden of those emotions and feelings on women.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 8:47 AM on June 5, 2024

other times it’s claiming that because men have so much power and privilege in society, they should not expect women to do anything to help them which includes in individual interpersonal interactions.

Well yes, because they shouldn't expect the labor of others (unless that person is obliged by their position to provide aid.) And this principle goes across the board for everyone, and it doesn't mean "don't ask", but… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 9:43 AM on June 5, 2024

We may see problems with that script, but do you see how it’s a step by step approach, that gives all the tools to get from the interest in the woman to the end of the date?

And what happens when things go off script? Because the reality of scripts is that they don't give you all the tools - which is why scripts are bad, and instead you should just treat women as people and recognize that they can say no...… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 10:34 AM on June 5, 2024

I mean, I’ve had a whole group of highly progressive women I respect talk about how it’s okay to go through their partner’s phone because of how common cheating is among men so it’s justified and understandable.

They're wrong, they're using their ideology to "justify" their frankly abusive behavior, and they need to be called out on it. (And frankly, that's the sort of thing that should make you lose all respect for those individuals.)… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 10:53 AM on June 5, 2024

I'm saying that it's a message that I have internalized by being active in progressive politics my entire life (and more fundamentally just trying not to be a jerk). There's an internal voice saying "no one cares that your job is stressful when many people don't even have a job and you should just consider yourself lucky to have one at all." So I don't say anything.

And people are pointing out that this is a horrible, harmful… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 1:16 PM on June 5, 2024

Being angry, expressing anger, is seen to be dangerous and something only harmful people do. You're supposed to deal with anger in private and not impose on anyone else, or that seems to be the belief.

This is because our society vilifies anger - and it does that because it fears rightful, righteous anger. And this is horrible, because a) there are horrible, monstrous things in this world that should make you… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 1:20 PM on June 7, 2024

I'm a straight male, and I routinely get pedicures for fucking foot health.

(eyetwitch)
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 4:56 PM on June 7, 2024

From my understanding, the families have forensic accountants who are hard at work giving Jones a financial colonoscopy.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 8:22 AM on June 7, 2024

Anyway, this is kind of like saying you gotta hand it to Isis, but yes, you gotta hand it to Alex Jones for being good at hosting a radio show.

And as dril famously noted, no, you don't.

You don't have to give credit to someone putting their talent to use to foment hate, abuse, and harm. In fact, you shouldn't.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 11:16 AM on June 7, 2024

Did Taco Bell win them too?

Those were the Franchise Wars, and Pizza Hut won them in some countries.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 11:44 AM on June 7, 2024

and a booster that still isn't running without losing at least an engine.

Turns out that firing your chief engine designer for pointing out the stupidity of building unneeded engines has...foreseeable consequences.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 6:15 AM on June 7, 2024

wait, what, what are the details here? i feel like i should know the details here but i don't know the details here and i want to know the details here.

So, remember a few years back when Musk was apoplectic about how SpaceX's production of Raptor engines had "fallen behind" and that he forced workers to work long hours to build new engines? It turns out that was even stupider than you thought!… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 6:46 AM on June 7, 2024

The answer to the question is simple - nobody would believe the women. I also think Krakauer's point is excellent - sexual assault is the only crime where we as a general rule assume that the victim is lying - something that needs to end. It's also revolting that Barrett's lawyers are going with the "not guilty on account of the victim being a lying slut" defense, and the fact that such a defense is not held unethical is a large part of why the legal profession is… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 1:50 PM on June 6, 2024

And it turns out that the founder of Nostr (which Dorsey talked up and donated to) is a follower of a Brazilian fascist.

It's almost like fucking clockwork.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 11:30 AM on June 6, 2024

Mike Solana, the interviewer and founder of the site, also appears to have bylines in both Quillette and Reason. Maybe not every article from every website needs to be posted?

More to the point, we already had a thread on this interview and Dorsey's attack on the things that make online social spaces work.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 5:30 AM on June 4, 2024

How do tools like this jerk end up billionaires? I truly do not understand.

They get lucky and manage to exploit a niche that nobody thought of. I don't think it's coincidence that a lot of these assholes - Dorsey, Musk, Thiel, etc - made their money in the digital financial services sector.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 5:52 AM on June 4, 2024

On the other, so many of us tried to warn that this was a highly predictable outcome and sakes alive, people did not want to hear that.

The thing to understand us that when Dorsey is saying BlueSky is "repeating Twitter's mistakes", what he's referring to is the fact that BlueSky implemented moderation - because it turns out that if you want to have a space that is worth a damn, you have to moderate it.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 6:19 AM on June 4, 2024

Twitter, on the other hand, is sending me ads for Epoch Times, right-wing grift organizations, and Republican congressional candidates. Every time, and it's gotten very noticeable since about the first of the year. Really? Is that all you have? Did the coffee people snub you, Elon?

Well, yes - the major advertisers have dropped Twitter because of that whole "we don't want our ads showing up next to fascist posts" thing, so at this point… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 6:51 AM on June 4, 2024

I'm suddenly lamenting the closure of the Newseum in DC, because they used to have a physical and virtual display of the front page of newspapers around the world for the day - and I wish we could get to see what that would look like tomorrow.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 8:29 PM on May 30, 2024

The piece also demonstrates how insulated from the world the ivory tower "law experts" are with their inability to understand the whole electoral fraud aspect of the case without it being explained to them like they're five - though at this point that just strikes me as being How Law Academia Works.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 9:50 AM on May 31, 2024

Do remember that Brooks is on his way out, as he lost his primary to the Trump-backed candidate.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 10:28 AM on May 31, 2024

It’s not that they can’t understand the election fraud aspects, it’s that crimes have elements that are different from “everyone knows it” that you generally have to prove for conviction.

Elements that the prosecution did, in fact focus on - for example, the whole point of the prosecutors bringing up Trump's lack of concern over Melania finding out was to establish that the intent of this conspiracy was to protect his candidacy.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 10:47 AM on May 31, 2024

Trump regularly denigrates people when they or their families came to the US via immigration, despite the history of his name reminding us that his family did the same.

Which doesn't change the fact that attacking him in this manner causes a lot of collateral damage by legitimizing attacking someone's name, or a name that they may no longer be using (which is why deadnaming came up in the first place.)
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 1:03 PM on May 31, 2024

all politicians are crooks

This is a horrible position, and in fact is part of what enabled Trump's rise in the first place, as the argument that "all politicians are crooks" allowed his outright criminality to be dismissed. It is yet again cynicism cosplaying as wisdom.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 7:17 AM on June 3, 2024

My point is that people believe "all politicians are crooks" because people like you cynically reinforce that position, and that it does real, genuine damage to our system of governance. It is not a message we should be reinforcing because of that damage it does, and arguing that we should utilize it to "push on the levers of politics" is (at least to me) taking a sledgehammer to the base of our system of governance and arguing that it's okay, because… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 8:11 AM on June 3, 2024

They are fundamentally people who are dishonest about their intentions so that they will get elected.

This isn't true, though. Political scientists have done research on this, and in general they've found that politicians do actually push the policies that they campaign on. (Whether or not that should terrify you is left as an exercise for the reader.)

Every single politician will take a billionaire’s call before… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 10:35 AM on June 3, 2024

As has happened before, none of this will make any difference to Trump supporters.

And he doesn't have enough supporters to win (case in point - there's a reason he spoke at the Libertarian Party convention, as much of a train wreck as that was.) Which means he needs the votes of aligned voters, whose support is softer - and a felony conviction is the sort of thing that will cut into that support.

Cynicism is not wisdom, no matter how much it cosplays as such.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 2:54 PM on May 30, 2024

If we haven't learned by now that the law doesn't apply to Donald Trump, we soon will, as he walks away scot free and continues on his inevitable path to become the first uncontested dictator of the United States.

So, do you have some special insight into the jury's deliberations, or are you just treating cynicism erroneously as wisdom?
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 6:56 AM on May 30, 2024

We're uncomfortably close to the "we can't convict on the crimes he actually committed, so we're going to send him up on something else" approach that corrupt cops and prosecutors use, but it seems to be justified here.

No, we really aren't. As pointed out, a large part of why that idea got promulgated is because our idiot media framed the trial as being about "hush money", and not what it actually was about - Trump trying to… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 7:56 AM on May 30, 2024

Seems like you're getting that backwards. If the defense botched things shouldn't it be a quick and easy conviction?

No. Juries do, for the most part, take their duties seriously, so I don't expect a conviction to be quick, especially given that this is a "papers case", as was said. And the main part, I think, is that the defense was so eager to paint Cohen as a lying liar who can't be trusted because he lies that they wound up stepping on… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 9:15 AM on May 30, 2024

I'd hate to saddle a charitable organization with dealing with him.

From my recollection, he's legally barred in NYS from working with them.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 2:42 PM on May 30, 2024

Intuit saw a $100 drop in their stock price this week. Also, you know that somewhere, Grover Norquist is crying over an ice cream cone.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 1:30 PM on May 30, 2024

Also, one other upside is that he's not dismembering journalists in his sub.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 11:55 AM on May 28, 2024