Someone I know told me they think about this when they see the people who voted for gun bans talk now about how they need guns to defend against unlawful ICE folks
But not a single person has actually done so. Until it can be shown that armed citizens are making a genuine difference against government agents it's still just bluster.
Disagree. The most valuable feature of a fraction of people having guns is that the risk of someone having a gun discourages the most extreme harassment, even if no gun is ever fired.
You've just seen the people at the very top of the administration saying that just having a gun in any sort of proximity to federal agents = terrorist. If you show up tomorrow with a rifle on the other side of a Minnesota street from a bunch of ICE agents, do you think they're going to prioritize de-escalation and professionalism or just light you up? Serious question.
They were told: buy guns because freedom, and they repeat "we buy guns because freedom".
Then they were told: never mind freedom, lets shoot this unarmed person, and they repeat "never mind freedom, shoot the person".
"we need our guns to protect our freedom against the government" idea could have some merit, but the reason right wingers say it is different. They say it because that meme has infected them, and uses them to replicate. A meme in the original sense
> A meme is a term referring to a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another.
I run Claude in a Proxmox VM, generally the experience has been great. In my experience it also behaves better than gemini cli, that likes to create files all over the place if set loose (lesson learned to add that requirement to the relevant .md files)
Something that contains Claude even more in this respect is if you explicitly gives it a directory that you tell it is entirely under its control, and tells it to write md files and other intermediate work products there (and this seems to work better than telling it where it isn't allowed to leave things).
That sounds like a good idea. When I have a one-off need for misc files I tell it to put them in the project’s ./tmp because that’s already in my global gitignore. That generally works, but I still run into surprise files it leaves in source dirs like a puppy leaves turds on a rug. I’ll try adding that to my instructions instead of doing it one-off.
Indeed, a whole lot of criticisms against LLMs are involve in part how they increasingly act too much like humans in ways people don't like from their computers...
I too use this solution, using both Ubunutu LXCs and full-fledged VMs. Only issue I've struggled with has been losing SSH connection on the LXC, and tmux and session both seem to mess up the terminal formatting in CC.
I do agree with the security / cautionary comments and wouldn't leverage this setup outside a hacked together homelab.
This was also the direction I was initially headed, but then I realized I wanted one-VM-per-project so it can really do anything it wants on the complete VM. So the blast-from-the-past-Vagrant won because of the Vagrantfile + `vagrant up` easiness.
In installed Gemini as an extension in VS Code and it kept wanting to index all my files. Still trying to figure out what it was doing outside of the VS Code folder I had set it to work on.
Maybe this is a not-so-subtle way of telling him that he lacks the personality to ever earn one. Maybe they are hoping that if he understands that, he'll stop doing ridiculous things in the attempt. If that is their motive, they should give up because he is never going to learn.
I know, right? Look at this, what Liv Ullman said. https://deadline.com/2026/01/norwegian-star-liv-ullmann-comm... I don’t understand what Liz Ullmann means here. The Nobel people said the prize can’t be revoked, shared, or transferred so it is just the gold medal that María Corina Machado gave to Trump. It is a very nice medal to have! But it isn’t anything to get upset about if she chooses to give her medal to someone. Norway isn’t going to invade the USA to get it back.
>“I’m Norwegian, we give a Nobel Prize to somebody who deserved it and suddenly that Nobel Prize is going to somebody else. It’s so strange, so strange and that’s why I’m happy specifically now that we have laws that say that if you misuse the Nobel Prize we take it away from you. Somebody in power in the United States may be disappointed. He will lose it… I am happy.”
Well, you always hope there is some overlap between those, who need it to be said, those, that you can reach, and those, where it will make the tiniest bit of difference.
My intuition is that if we carefully reverse what we have been doing it's a lot less scary to me than rolling dice on adding something new.
the geoengineeing strategies that make sense to me are ecosystem restoration, not novel climate manipulation.
- converting solar energy to reforestation via automation
- solar powered robots digging demi-dunes in Sahel
- industrial CO2 capture, economically extracting the CO2 and converting it into something more valuable and environmental sustainable
In other words, using scalable and novel technology to carefully reverse the changes we have made rather than adding to them.
In other words, undoing the damage we have done by targeting and repairing the damage itself instead of the consequences.
Well, the problem is that what we would need to geoengineer the climate would be equivalent to a continuous, yearly sequence of large volcanic eruptions. So the analogy starts to breakdown, because the handful of examples we have of these sorts of periods with high volcanic activity were actually pretty bad for civilization at the time:
1. 530's-540's Cluster - contemporaneous historical notes over both the far East and Western civilizations clearly illustrate widespread famine due to crop failures, most likely due to the cooling that this period sustained (sometimes called the "Little Antique Ice Age"). The famous Plague of Justinian also occurred in this period, and was likely exacerbated by famine. There's also the Norse "Fimbulwinter" mythos - a period preceding Gotterdamurang - likely inspired by this period.
2. 1250's-1280's Cluster - Suspected to have triggered the "Little Ice Age", and triggered contemporaneous crop failures in both South America and Europe. 1258 is known as one of the "Years Without A Summer."
3. 1808-1815 Tambora Cluster - Culprit behind the even more well-known "Year Without a Summer" in 1816, which produced one the more recent great famines in Western Europe in Switzerland. Agriculture-induced famines led to a wave of civil unrest across Europe.
So yeah - we obviously survived these periods. But I wouldn't exactly cite them as endorsements for any sort of geoengineering activity analogous to vulcanism.
At least those show that a stratospheric injection doesn't persist for too long. 200 years of heightened volcanic activity was certainly a problem that eventually resolved itself.
The important, missing detail that breaks down this analogy is that we don't have a reference for a long period of vulcanism while anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases continue.
This is where the "termination shock" issue comes in. Given current CO2 emission rates, a 50 year geoengineering strategy would mask an additional 100-125 ppm of CO2 added to the atmosphere. If the geoengineering scheme was suddenly stopped, it's not entirely obvious what the response trajectory would be of the climate system.
Yeah, stratospheric seeding is mostly a stopgap measure that needs to be used in conjunction with other geoengineering and political projects that strive to reduce/reverse CO2 emissions.
And therein arises the "moral hazard" issue. There is a legitimate concern that geoengineering could abate some of the concern over climate change and lead to further delays to reduce GHG emissions. And this is a serious problem because while we might mask global temperature change with these Approaches, they don't help resolve issues like ocean acidification.
What's the alternative to banning bad actors? Making Linux maintainers take every spam commit 100% seriously as if it was legitimate? All that would bring about is that the second "research project" would be about spamming commits to the Linux kernel to DDOS the maintainers.
