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Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · Nov 10

#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 (since Feb 27, 2022)

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Jeanne @buzzycrumbhunger.bsky.social · 8h

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 10h

I love this image.

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A Dandelion @onedandelion.bsky.social · 8h

10/08/25 #ICE PORTLAND swiped by DANCING WILD
#PDX #Portland 🕺🐸💃
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ICE PORTLAND swiped by DANCING WILD

YouTube video by Tony Dortie

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 8h

we distributed all food/hygiene donations, reaching more than 100 families

requests for food outpaced requests from last week

we added a physical drop-off location for supplies at schurz high school

3601 n milwaukee
door 3, main entrance
8:30am - 1pm

bit.ly/distributefoodchicago

please share!

bit.ly/distributefoodchicago
Food Drive
We are working to provide supplies so families can stay safe. We are collecting shelf stable food and hygiene items for families, elders and those imperiled by increased enforcement actions in Chicago. Once we receive supplies, we are working with our community to distribute safely.

We invite you to drop food items at Schurz High School or order from our Amazon Wishlist.

bit.ly/distributefoodchicago

Items Needed

Rice, dry cereals, crackers
Beans, dried or canned
Stored liquids like cooking oil, chicken broth
Packaged protein like canned meat, protein bars, peanut butter

Help Keep Families Safe
Drop-Off Location
Schurz High School
3601 N Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60641
Door 3, Main Entrance

Drop-Off Times
Monday-Friday
830am - 1pm

Contact
Daira Torres
773-534-3423

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Marcie Lipsitt @mlipsitt.bsky.social · 8h

I fight for this every day.

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Maureen Berzanski 🧷🇺🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🟧🌊 🐾 @moberzan.bsky.social · 8h

If I had a billion dollars I would end hunger and find homes for all the parentless children. Why can’t just one Greedy billionaire help end hunger and end homelessness (I don’t like this word)

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Jennifer Markley @antonioandfrankie.bsky.social · 9h

Send in the frogs. 🐸🐸🐸

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PackerGal Traci 💙✨️ @packergal.bsky.social · 9h

I'm not holding my breath waiting for the SC to save us.

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Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 8h

I've been running these honey traps for years now. It's kind of like a symphony.

These people are so stupid you won't believe it.

Anyway. In the end, we just play on people's strengths: Most people want to be good people. They want to be useful. It's one of 5 primary psychological drives.

#resist

Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 8h

These individuals don't notice they are being manipulated, because they are so immersed into their own delusional mental world of history and what's going on around them. For example, they don't see the difference between honey traps and targets. Using honey traps, we learn their plans.

Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 8h

That's how we run circles around the fascists intellectually, like they're bunch of sheep and we're the shepherd dogs, chasing individuals to change their path in a particular direction we want, let them go while we influence another individual, to steer the flock where we want it to be.

Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 8h

This causes the fascists to go on intellectual Ego trips, where they put more weight on feeling a personal Dark Enlightenment than actually using science to win. With other words, they enjoy the process of becoming evil too much. It's actually an addiction problem, same as with serial killers.

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Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 8h

Almost none of the scientific revolution came from the Rationalist tradition. Most of it was simply hard work done by empirical scientists, doctors and engineers. However, because the Rationalist tradition is so high on themselves, they don't understand the value of science.

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Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 8h

Fascists are typically in the Rationalist tradition, which is a wide-spread mostly fictional perspective of the history of philosophy that gives a lot of weight to particular thinkers, while overlooking the progress of science itself. Particularly, this tradition is weak on empiricism.

Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 8h

So, we know from history that The Golden Rule actually works.

The fascists try to think through their problem. This makes them weaker to bad Nash equilibrium (Actually, fascism can be thought of as more or less one giant bad Nash equilibrium). They also don't use actual scientific evidence.

Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 9h

The Golden Rule requires people to trust that if they themselves use The Golden Rule, then other people will also use The Golden Rule.

However, you don't this in advance, that's why it is so scary when you go all in on this bet. Despite that is seems so scary, historically, this is very successful.

Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 9h

It's so obvious in hindsight, like how people think how the Allies won the WWII after the war. People feel that history leads up to their own current moment through a natural trajectory. However, in the chaos of war, this seems far from obvious.

The Golden Rule requires a bit "faith", if you will.

Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 9h

Also, we know that people never learn from history.

This is usually a bad thing, but sometimes, it can be a good thing. Because we know that the fascists don't know that The Golden Rule has been a general winning strategy the past 2000+ years.

Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 9h

You don't have to over-think meta-game or Higher Order Game Theory. You just do the obvious things that people learn through their culture. It works.

We don't even sit and do the calculations by hand. We just spread the word "Here is what we will do". It's very effective,.

Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 9h

The advantage with The Golden Rule is most people know about it and intuitively understand how it works, but the rich spoiled children who become fascists despise normal people and what they believe in. So, they over-estimate their own ability to understand Game Theory.

That's how fascists lose.

Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 9h

Because The Golden Rule is popularized through culture that usually do not get studied intensively from a theoretical point of view, this knowledge isn't taught in the first classes you take on Game Theory in University. Because it was understood decades after Game Theory was established as a field.

Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 9h

The Golden Rule was discovered independently by 3 different civilizations approximately around the same time in the ancient world, popularized by Socrates/Plato/Jesus, Buddha and Confucius.

We don't know the historical origin, but all these thinkers tried to figure out how to make lasting peace.

Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 9h

Actual Game Theory is mostly meta-games and Higher Order Game Theory.

This is where you find The Golden Rule and nicknames like demons, devils and angels, that give different characteristics on repeated plays.

The Golden Rule is a winning strategy. It's very simple.

Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 9h

When you just take the first few classes on Game Theory, your impression of the field is that you know what the field is about by following the answers that the teachers gives you.

We call this First Order Game Theory.

That's their weakness, because they're so stupid and confident.

Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 9h

The fun about this strategy is that the fascists drive each other into the trap, so you only need to get the snowball rolling and they will do most of the work for you.

It's an efficient strategy because fascists are usually rich spoiled children who have taken a few classes on Game Theory.

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