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I’d like to solve the puzzle:
December 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I’d like to solve the puzzle:
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They’ve siloed themselves off from vast fields of inquiry and knowledge, which means that they’re not just deeply incurious and uninteresting but also deeply unaware of how incurious and how uninteresting they actually are.
It's kind of mind-blowing how these tech dorks think they're so smart and have the utmost confidence in their genius, while actual smart people are constantly doubting themselves and critiquing their own arguments.
December 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
They’ve siloed themselves off from vast fields of inquiry and knowledge, which means that they’re not just deeply incurious and uninteresting but also deeply unaware of how incurious and how uninteresting they actually are.
<Elon, in a K-hole, tweaking Elohim's sacred system prompt at 2:45am>
The rapid decline of organized religion continues to have all kinds of strange impacts on society
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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So two people exposed as working for their interests, neither with expertise in the region, are gonna do this.
Steve Witkoff, a special envoy for President Trump, and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, are expected to meet with President Vladimir Putin of Russia in Moscow on Tuesday, as the White House pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine. Follow live.
Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. Envoy to Meet With Putin in Moscow
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December 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
So two people exposed as working for their interests, neither with expertise in the region, are gonna do this.
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🤣🤣🤣
Accenture said in September that it has been "exiting" staff it cannot reskill for an AI-driven corporate future.
Accenture and OpenAI are teaming up as AI upends the consulting industry
Accenture said in September that it has been "exiting" staff it cannot reskill for an AI-driven corporate future.
www.businessinsider.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🤣🤣🤣
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think about this tweet a lot
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From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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White House aide Stephen Miller is yelling at the WSJ editorial page because, like the Geneva conventions, they condemn the collective punishment of an ethnic group
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
White House aide Stephen Miller is yelling at the WSJ editorial page because, like the Geneva conventions, they condemn the collective punishment of an ethnic group
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This is why you can’t have just a little bit of secret police on the side, as a treat. Abolish DHS or abolish democracy
I understand the incredulity. The problem is that you have to go through TSA on all domestic flights and TSA is DHS and when they scan your ID they see all the DHS records.
A domestic flight
A DOMESTIC FLIGHT
A DOMESTIC FLIGHT
November 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is why you can’t have just a little bit of secret police on the side, as a treat. Abolish DHS or abolish democracy
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I've been reading Greg Grandin's America, América and it's got some interesting discussion about this, and Anglo-America vs Latin-America in general. I highly recommend it!
This passage is from the introduction, addressing the demonym "American" specifically.
This passage is from the introduction, addressing the demonym "American" specifically.
![Washington Irving agreed. Irving wanted “an appellation” of his own to ensure that he wasn’t confused with a Mexican who by rights could also call himself an American. He wanted a name that would identify him as “of the Anglo-Saxon race which founded this Anglo-Saxon empire in the wilderness.” He suggested Appalachian or Alleghanian. The New England social activist Orestes Brownson thought such ideas rubbish. The “name of the country is America,” he wrote in 1865, “that of the people is Americans. Speak of Americans simply and nobody understands you to mean the people of Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, but everybody understands you to mean the people of the United States.”[11]
Brownson was right at least about royal Canadians, who tended not to call themselves Americans to distinguish themselves from their English-speaking republican neighbors. But Mexicans, Brazilians, Peruvians, Chileans, and Paraguayans all thought themselves Americans, as did the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda. Nosotros los Americanos—We, the Americans—was how early Mexican nationalists called themselves. Somos da América e queremos ser americanos, said Brazil’s republican leaders, who wanted to overthrow their monarch: We are from America and want to be Americans.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xs6m4zsrcmn5fyjanq6t4sg2/bafkreib3ednqqoersidxjxpbznc6jhabgu54xi6x4uqbm52gyelh3rtnem@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I've been reading Greg Grandin's America, América and it's got some interesting discussion about this, and Anglo-America vs Latin-America in general. I highly recommend it!
This passage is from the introduction, addressing the demonym "American" specifically.
This passage is from the introduction, addressing the demonym "American" specifically.
Hey man! The 90s are back!
people on this website! sometimes “USians”
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hey man! The 90s are back!
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Speaking as a journalist, it has long been clear — and more so all the time — that something is *rotting* in the world of New York and Washington political reporting. Actively, visibly suppurating. Oozing with maggots. Even as many of the people in that world have denied it.
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Speaking as a journalist, it has long been clear — and more so all the time — that something is *rotting* in the world of New York and Washington political reporting. Actively, visibly suppurating. Oozing with maggots. Even as many of the people in that world have denied it.
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I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
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CNN: Trump granted the DC shooter asylum in April.
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
CNN: Trump granted the DC shooter asylum in April.
Aristophanes has entered the chat.
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Aristophanes has entered the chat.
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Every time someone sees consciousness in an LLM, I hear Jeff Winger’s speech from the Community pilot: “I can pick up this pencil, tell you its name is Steve and go like this —” [snaps pencil] “—and part of you dies just a little bit on the inside. Because people can connect with anything.”
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Every time someone sees consciousness in an LLM, I hear Jeff Winger’s speech from the Community pilot: “I can pick up this pencil, tell you its name is Steve and go like this —” [snaps pencil] “—and part of you dies just a little bit on the inside. Because people can connect with anything.”
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You may say: Holbo, they are just grifters, don't overthink it. But no one is just a grifter. You gotta tell yourself a story.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
You may say: Holbo, they are just grifters, don't overthink it. But no one is just a grifter. You gotta tell yourself a story.
William T Vollman in the Vatican City newspaper on Pope Leo's 'Dilexi Te' is something I didn't know I needed today...
www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/2025...
www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/2025...
Among the discarded of the world - L'Osservatore Romano
William T. Vollmann is the author of monumental novels and first-hand reportage. Born in Los Angeles in 1959, Vollmann is known for his immersive ...
www.osservatoreromano.va
November 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
William T Vollman in the Vatican City newspaper on Pope Leo's 'Dilexi Te' is something I didn't know I needed today...
www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/2025...
www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/2025...
“Will no one perform the emotional labor to fix me?”
Just a PSA to the men out there who are mad about not getting what they want in this world: Being a man is like playing life on easy or at most normal difficulty, you need to get your shit together, the world is not against you because you're a man
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“Will no one perform the emotional labor to fix me?”
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Had a liberal or leftist attempted anything 1% as headlong heedless of consequences as DOGE, it would have provided fodder for pious, ‘Chesterton’s Fence’ sermons about unintended consequences until the year 2400. It would have been the biggest argument for Burke since the Jacobins declared Year 1.
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Had a liberal or leftist attempted anything 1% as headlong heedless of consequences as DOGE, it would have provided fodder for pious, ‘Chesterton’s Fence’ sermons about unintended consequences until the year 2400. It would have been the biggest argument for Burke since the Jacobins declared Year 1.
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This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.
There must be consequences.
There must be consequences.
Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.
There must be consequences.
There must be consequences.
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The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless