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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Just heard “in the wild” for the first time about a non-coder quitting their job hoping to get rich from the app they vibe coded, so I’m guessing we’re still ways yet to go before the bubble peaks. Stories of regular folks going all-in are usually thick on the ground as bubbles peak

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Roman Roy

Roman represents the new right-wing—anti-woke, flirts with fascism, emotionally stunted.

Roman recognizes that the old world isn't working anymore. So, he's looking for a rising star to latch onto (so long as it isn't progressive). He's intrigued by the new generation of wealthy technocrats and believes the only way to save his father's old media empire is to join forces with the tech world.

But if that doesn't work, Roman is willing to join hands with fascism (Jeryd Mencken).

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Logan's children represent the conflicting political powers in contemporary American politics.
Each child represents a political faction, and throughout the show they will argue their case for their ideology to take charge and save the empire.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Logan's last name "Roy", means King in Old French, and he has become synonymous with the conservative wing of the American ruling class in the Succession Universe. Nan Pierce serves as his wealthy liberal counterpart, but we'll get to her later.

Logan is a deeply broken man. His rags-to-riches story arc reminds us that the American Dream realized is not fueled by hope, but rather the trauma endured by violent childhood poverty.

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orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Writing screenplays... from the terminal 🤯

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Logan Roy. This is an easy one.

I like how show goes through great lengths to show that Logan is from the lower classes. He eats fast food burgers that his kids snark at. He wears baseball caps. He has type 2 diabetes, a poor person disease. And he's an immigrant from Scotland.

Logan pulled himself up from his bootstraps and jumped classes. Logan is the American dream. He's the embodiment of manifest destiny.

But, the American dream is dying, as told through Logan's slow decline in health.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Okay, so first. Succession is the story of a dying empire (USA) told through the lens of wealthy family that owns a media conglomerate.

The patriarch (Logan) is dying and his family is having a power struggle over who will succeed Logan. The but the media empire itself is dying so there may not be much to inherit.

Logan's media empire is the metaphor for America. And Logan, his kids, and other key figures are metaphors for all of America's different power dynamics.

Let's start with Logan.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Do y'all like Succession? Have I shared my Succession Theory of Everything?

How every character is an allegory for a specific American power structure or concept?

Okay, first. I just want to say that I love this show so damn much. I've never watched a show that begs for analysis as much as Succession. It's so well written it makes me not want to be a writer because who could ever top this show?

Okay, okay. Let me take a stab at this 😬 I can't promise it'll be as good as it is in my brain.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

My point is...idk my point lmao.

No, my point is, if you want to weigh in on this discussion then take the time to learn the history. Stop treating us as a monolith. And realize that many races exist, and white Latinos have been given favorable treatment by the US government.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

When Biden addressed a crowd of Latinos by playing reggaeton from his phone, I wanted to die. What the fuck is that?? How do I defend that?

Biden doesn't address white liberals by blasting Sheryl Crow at them.

It was a glimpse into how we're perceived. It's an insult to our intelligence.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

You’re excited not only to use AI tools like Cursor, or Claude Code consciously — not just for speed, but for better design, refactoring, and testing

oh i see, it'll make my code better...

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Go away, Erika Kirk, please.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/11/this-woman-cannot-fade-into-obscurity-fast-enough/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

And I'll let you in on a secret. The other thing Latinos have in common is we pick up on the condescension from liberals.

Most Latinos spend more time with conservatives because of the line of work we are in. But also, liberals can be classist.

I've spent a lot of time in liberal white spaces (I like improv sue me). And in order for me to be treated like an equal, liberals have to declare me "white passing". Which, for one, that's not how you use that word. But also, don't deny me my identity.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

So when someone says "Latinos are swinging for Trump" push back. You can't just group an entire continent plus all of the Caribbean as a single people. It's many cultures, many languages, many races. And the one thing they all share is systemic racism and colorism.

What's actually remarkable is that Latinos as a whole still vote largely democrat. We're like 25% of the population and largely ignored by both parties.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Also, let's understand that "Latino" is less of an ethnicity and more of a census invention for the Us government to know how many non-Europeans are in this country.

Me as a Puerto Rican, has very little in common with someone from Columbia or Chile. We barely share a language, let alone a whole culture.

I'm forced to use the term Latino because Latinos share a similar oppression. But we are far from a monolith.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

So, no, they're not really voting against their own interests. White Cubans came here on Delta, not a raft.

They didn't pull themselves up from their bootstraps. The US gave them very favorable bank loans to start businesses. Loans that brown and Black Americans never got.

So cut this bullshit that Latinos are voting against their interests. Nope. This is just a boring story of racism, and Americans not really understanding Latin America's history.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

Expertise in AI tools adaptation and strategic outcome oriented responsibility

you mean you'll fire me when it's inevitably crap?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Latin America is a history of brutal suppression and wealth inequality. And every once in a while, a Latin country will overthrow the government and try to implement socialism, and the US government will intervene and destroy that country's economy as a result.

Most Latinos here in the states who hate socialism are the ones from wealthy families who were over thrown. They're conservatives so the US brings them over.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I'm not gonna delete. This is my soft launch for my feet pics account.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Oh no I gave away the feet FOR FREE NOOOOO

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Yall need to learn why white Cubans support Trump.

White Latinos exist. And with Cuba in particular, after the revolution, the US favored wealthy white Cubans and flew them to the US on the tax payers' dime.

So white Cubans like Trump because white Cubans are white. Maybe not first class white, but they see themselves above brown Cubans.

If you don't think colorism or racism exists in Latin America, go to Argentina or Columbia lol.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Shout out to the only thing left in the grocery store that's less than a dollar

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

'record a minute of you speaking so we can assess your english'.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Hey, America Firsters, how come you don't want the US to be first in science?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/11/does-china-know-something-we-dont/

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

From what I've observed, people who claim that LLMs can replace artists don't understand art, people who claim that they can replace musicians don't understand music, people who claim that they can replace writers don't understand literature, and people who claim they can replace translators don't rely on translations. If I had a button that would erase LLMs from the world but it would take machine translations away (which is a false dichotomy anyway), I would absolutely still press it.

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I have the impression that primarily anglophone people don't read as much translated literature, because so much good literature already exists in their language, so this issue may not be as familiar within that demographic. As someone who did not grow up anglophone, I can tell you there is a world of difference between a good and a bad translation even when done by humans. Machine translations are not even on the scale.

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Machine translations are often brought up as a gotcha whenever I criticize LLMs. It's worth pointing out two things: Machine translations existed decades before LLMs, and yes, machine translations are useful. However: I would never in my life read a machine translated book. Understanding what a social media post is talking about in rough terms? Sure. Literature? Absolutely not. Hell, have you ever seen machine translated subtitles? It's absolute garbage.

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soph@grrl.me ("Sophia J. Turner") wrote:

Can we just put it bluntly?

If you're vibe-coding open source, you are *not* doing open source.

To do open source, you must be creating source code that both has clear provenance *and* the new code you're writing is IP you have full rights to offer under compatible license. As is quickly becoming clear, that second one is getting tested and failing legal checks in places like the US.