a position i have refused to stop defending is that part of the problem in HS education right now is that the kids see the scamworld we built. they are gambling on sports and crypto during classtime. why learn jack shit if its all up to the gods of chance anyway?
The 2008 Great Financial Crisis revealed that Western capital had built a scam economy skimming off the top of the greatest economic engine in human history, the difference now is just that everyone gets to get in on it. www.jezebel.com/gambling-is-...
Gambling Is Ubiquitous Because People Know America Is a Scam
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December 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
a position i have refused to stop defending is that part of the problem in HS education right now is that the kids see the scamworld we built. they are gambling on sports and crypto during classtime. why learn jack shit if its all up to the gods of chance anyway?
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It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.
This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
December 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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You can already see the knowledge retention is dropping - some students plan to just look shit up the rest of their lives.
December 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
You can already see the knowledge retention is dropping - some students plan to just look shit up the rest of their lives.
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Even the mob used to be more subtle with their protection rackets.
December 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Even the mob used to be more subtle with their protection rackets.
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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MR. MELVILLE PLEASE. SOME DECORUM.
December 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
MR. MELVILLE PLEASE. SOME DECORUM.
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
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The richest 10% control 94% of total capital-ownership assets in the United States. They determine how to use our labour and resources, what we produce, and how our surplus is deployed. They determine the direction of our civilization. It is the antithesis of democracy.
December 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The richest 10% control 94% of total capital-ownership assets in the United States. They determine how to use our labour and resources, what we produce, and how our surplus is deployed. They determine the direction of our civilization. It is the antithesis of democracy.
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I hate republicans but I hate democrats more because they are supposed to be on my side. They are fragging me in the foxhole while I am shooting at fascists. To me that is direct betrayal versus fascists doing what they said they would do.
December 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I hate republicans but I hate democrats more because they are supposed to be on my side. They are fragging me in the foxhole while I am shooting at fascists. To me that is direct betrayal versus fascists doing what they said they would do.
all else aside, this is how things are already. am i ok with my insurance calling while my doc has a scalpel in their hand to say no, cutting this melanoma out isn't pre-approved, send him home? NO!! im not ok with how things are
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
all else aside, this is how things are already. am i ok with my insurance calling while my doc has a scalpel in their hand to say no, cutting this melanoma out isn't pre-approved, send him home? NO!! im not ok with how things are
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Yeah that's kind of why you can't let woo go in your personal circles. It's really insidious because people react like you're discriminating against their religious beliefs when you don't think they should start selling a MLM product full time after reading the secret.
This is strictly a personal observation from living in LA, but RFK scares me so much because otherwise orthodox liberals with a woo food and chemicals streak are being converted into lunatic conservatives.
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
December 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Yeah that's kind of why you can't let woo go in your personal circles. It's really insidious because people react like you're discriminating against their religious beliefs when you don't think they should start selling a MLM product full time after reading the secret.
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It's very clear that unlimited wealth causes brain damage. That's not an exaggeration.
It's similar to other unnatural human conditions like solitary confinement (which is widely understood to cause mental deterioration) and other types of sensory deprivation.
It's similar to other unnatural human conditions like solitary confinement (which is widely understood to cause mental deterioration) and other types of sensory deprivation.
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It
He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.
futurism.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It's very clear that unlimited wealth causes brain damage. That's not an exaggeration.
It's similar to other unnatural human conditions like solitary confinement (which is widely understood to cause mental deterioration) and other types of sensory deprivation.
It's similar to other unnatural human conditions like solitary confinement (which is widely understood to cause mental deterioration) and other types of sensory deprivation.
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Most past societies, in fact, had some kind of social and cultural sanctions against the endless accumulation of wealth: Maybe some Dominican friars would stand outside your trading firm's office and tell you you were all going to hell, or your peers would make fun of you.
December 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Most past societies, in fact, had some kind of social and cultural sanctions against the endless accumulation of wealth: Maybe some Dominican friars would stand outside your trading firm's office and tell you you were all going to hell, or your peers would make fun of you.
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If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
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I read a book on making money in ancient Athens recently (by Michael Leese, it's great), and the Greeks absolutely believed that the endless pursuit of wealth was a serious moral defect and personality issue no different than being a drunk or sexual deviant.
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I read a book on making money in ancient Athens recently (by Michael Leese, it's great), and the Greeks absolutely believed that the endless pursuit of wealth was a serious moral defect and personality issue no different than being a drunk or sexual deviant.
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we're ruled by libidinous creeps who can only get hard for power and there's no greater power than death so there is nothing more affirming of their little boy masculinity, nothing hotter, nothing more Presidential, than killing. but of course this was decades ago, that's probably fixed now
June 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
we're ruled by libidinous creeps who can only get hard for power and there's no greater power than death so there is nothing more affirming of their little boy masculinity, nothing hotter, nothing more Presidential, than killing. but of course this was decades ago, that's probably fixed now
This presumes that the barrier to solving our problems is technological. It is not. We have had the tech for decades. Our barrier is distributional.
Being optimistic means implementing existing solutions rather than endless can kicking in hope of finding magic solutions.
Being optimistic means implementing existing solutions rather than endless can kicking in hope of finding magic solutions.
Really refuse to let the worst people have ownership of techno-optimism
December 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This presumes that the barrier to solving our problems is technological. It is not. We have had the tech for decades. Our barrier is distributional.
Being optimistic means implementing existing solutions rather than endless can kicking in hope of finding magic solutions.
Being optimistic means implementing existing solutions rather than endless can kicking in hope of finding magic solutions.
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Can't wait till they bring back corn flakes to ward off the horny
December 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Can't wait till they bring back corn flakes to ward off the horny
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Text from (almost certainly) Steve Bannon to Jeffrey Epstein on 8/30/2018
December 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Text from (almost certainly) Steve Bannon to Jeffrey Epstein on 8/30/2018
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They're framing this entire thing as if it's a way to increase trust and confidence, despite also creating a profit motive for mass fabrication of news content. This is so fundamentally bonkers, I cannot believe it.
Truly: we need to kill this entire industry with fire ASAP.
Truly: we need to kill this entire industry with fire ASAP.
December 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
They're framing this entire thing as if it's a way to increase trust and confidence, despite also creating a profit motive for mass fabrication of news content. This is so fundamentally bonkers, I cannot believe it.
Truly: we need to kill this entire industry with fire ASAP.
Truly: we need to kill this entire industry with fire ASAP.
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You may be tempted to think of prompt injection attacks against language models as "social engineering." Resist this temptation.
Prompt injection is a mathematical attack against a non-deterministic system. Language may be the substrate, but the substance is numerical vectors.
Prompt injection is a mathematical attack against a non-deterministic system. Language may be the substrate, but the substance is numerical vectors.
December 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
You may be tempted to think of prompt injection attacks against language models as "social engineering." Resist this temptation.
Prompt injection is a mathematical attack against a non-deterministic system. Language may be the substrate, but the substance is numerical vectors.
Prompt injection is a mathematical attack against a non-deterministic system. Language may be the substrate, but the substance is numerical vectors.