Kyle
@kylerudy.com
Joyless scold, withering before your eyes.
Another mediocre cis-dude, he/him. 41 years old.
Another mediocre cis-dude, he/him. 41 years old.
Lots of passionate, intelligent people work as hard as they can for the causes they love! And they get one, maybe two generations between disasters before entrenched wealth squeezes the life out of them.
Norman Borlaug! Shuji Nakamura! Katalin Kariko! And millions more, every scientist and artist!
Norman Borlaug! Shuji Nakamura! Katalin Kariko! And millions more, every scientist and artist!
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Lots of passionate, intelligent people work as hard as they can for the causes they love! And they get one, maybe two generations between disasters before entrenched wealth squeezes the life out of them.
Norman Borlaug! Shuji Nakamura! Katalin Kariko! And millions more, every scientist and artist!
Norman Borlaug! Shuji Nakamura! Katalin Kariko! And millions more, every scientist and artist!
They actively destroy good faith cooperative efforts to ascertain truth by introducing a profit motive for disinformation.
Either everything is a prediction market, in which case trust itself is a matter of arbitrage, or nothing is.
Either everything is a prediction market, in which case trust itself is a matter of arbitrage, or nothing is.
'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting
It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.
www.404media.co
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
They actively destroy good faith cooperative efforts to ascertain truth by introducing a profit motive for disinformation.
Either everything is a prediction market, in which case trust itself is a matter of arbitrage, or nothing is.
Either everything is a prediction market, in which case trust itself is a matter of arbitrage, or nothing is.
"Put your money where your mouth is," is a powerful filter for receiving advice, and it might work if it didn't actively incentivize disinformation.
Either everything is a prediction market, and trust itself is a matter of arbitrage, or nothing is, and we rely on good faith cooperation.
Either everything is a prediction market, and trust itself is a matter of arbitrage, or nothing is, and we rely on good faith cooperation.
'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting
It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"Put your money where your mouth is," is a powerful filter for receiving advice, and it might work if it didn't actively incentivize disinformation.
Either everything is a prediction market, and trust itself is a matter of arbitrage, or nothing is, and we rely on good faith cooperation.
Either everything is a prediction market, and trust itself is a matter of arbitrage, or nothing is, and we rely on good faith cooperation.
You and me both, brother. Thanks for all your help.
December 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
You and me both, brother. Thanks for all your help.
Died with Chuck Feeney. Charity is too easy and placating venture capitalists requires too much viciousness. Nobody makes it to billionaire status on accident, it's an informed choice against a tide of opportunity costs.
Now nobody is impressed by eccentric expenditures, only Even Larger Net Worth.
Now nobody is impressed by eccentric expenditures, only Even Larger Net Worth.
December 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Died with Chuck Feeney. Charity is too easy and placating venture capitalists requires too much viciousness. Nobody makes it to billionaire status on accident, it's an informed choice against a tide of opportunity costs.
Now nobody is impressed by eccentric expenditures, only Even Larger Net Worth.
Now nobody is impressed by eccentric expenditures, only Even Larger Net Worth.
Their target audience does! We're all subject to the pleas that resonate with those who respond with payment. The Torment Nexus is just a blindly broadcasted search for old people suffering cognitive deficits.
December 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Their target audience does! We're all subject to the pleas that resonate with those who respond with payment. The Torment Nexus is just a blindly broadcasted search for old people suffering cognitive deficits.
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a lot of people's intuition is that intellectual errors lead to moral errors, and I think it is much more common that it is the other way around.
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
a lot of people's intuition is that intellectual errors lead to moral errors, and I think it is much more common that it is the other way around.
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Elevator pitch: watching a citizenship ceremony and passing a citizenship test should be a mandatory middle school field trip
December 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Elevator pitch: watching a citizenship ceremony and passing a citizenship test should be a mandatory middle school field trip
The boy fully intends to die in office, because there's no way he plans to live in a world where someone can invalidate his own pardons.
December 3, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The boy fully intends to die in office, because there's no way he plans to live in a world where someone can invalidate his own pardons.
And you imagine that someone intending to do violent harm is going to submit themselves to that scrutiny? That they can't enter illegally?
Absolutely buffoonish.
The only role that legal vetting process plays is slowing down legal immigration and naturalization, as a favor to H-2A contractors.
Absolutely buffoonish.
The only role that legal vetting process plays is slowing down legal immigration and naturalization, as a favor to H-2A contractors.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
And you imagine that someone intending to do violent harm is going to submit themselves to that scrutiny? That they can't enter illegally?
Absolutely buffoonish.
The only role that legal vetting process plays is slowing down legal immigration and naturalization, as a favor to H-2A contractors.
Absolutely buffoonish.
The only role that legal vetting process plays is slowing down legal immigration and naturalization, as a favor to H-2A contractors.
Because he is performing American Cosplay. It's another international troll.
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Because he is performing American Cosplay. It's another international troll.
Don't put words in my mouth. I asked if you wanted to harvest your own artichokes because I'm fucking grateful. Can you not get that through your head, that some people are deeply appreciative of skilled labor?
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Don't put words in my mouth. I asked if you wanted to harvest your own artichokes because I'm fucking grateful. Can you not get that through your head, that some people are deeply appreciative of skilled labor?
A lovely dream, but I don't imagine that special election turnout is going to match general midterm turnout, especially since the billionaire misinformation machine will pull out all the stops.
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
A lovely dream, but I don't imagine that special election turnout is going to match general midterm turnout, especially since the billionaire misinformation machine will pull out all the stops.
What hypothetical runs through your head when you type nonsense like this? How do you expect border patrol to somehow stop "murderers," on sight? They know 'em when they see 'em?
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
What hypothetical runs through your head when you type nonsense like this? How do you expect border patrol to somehow stop "murderers," on sight? They know 'em when they see 'em?
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
Are you implying that it's somehow demeaning to work on a farm? I'm from Oklahoma, asshole, ag is my ancestry. And we know that American citizens won't work the fields in appreciable numbers because California ran a program for a decade to give ag jobs to any citizen who wanted one. No one applied.
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Are you implying that it's somehow demeaning to work on a farm? I'm from Oklahoma, asshole, ag is my ancestry. And we know that American citizens won't work the fields in appreciable numbers because California ran a program for a decade to give ag jobs to any citizen who wanted one. No one applied.
The thought that any amount of violence at the border can somehow prevent violence within is white supremacist delusion. If you ain't from Russia, you're doing a damn good impression.
December 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The thought that any amount of violence at the border can somehow prevent violence within is white supremacist delusion. If you ain't from Russia, you're doing a damn good impression.
The most salient threat to my health and prosperity is my health insurance company, followed swiftly by the federal government. It's the hard work of immigrants that makes any measure of peace, prosperity, and happiness possible.
Or maybe you'd like to harvest your own artichokes? You're a clown.
Or maybe you'd like to harvest your own artichokes? You're a clown.
December 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The most salient threat to my health and prosperity is my health insurance company, followed swiftly by the federal government. It's the hard work of immigrants that makes any measure of peace, prosperity, and happiness possible.
Or maybe you'd like to harvest your own artichokes? You're a clown.
Or maybe you'd like to harvest your own artichokes? You're a clown.
Spurious, scare-mongering, fascist bullshit. Border patrol does not prevent crime. Prosperity prevents crime. You're a jackass arguing in bad faith, but on the off chance you actually believe this, go read Bryan Caplan, he puts the simple principles behind open border policy into small words.
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Spurious, scare-mongering, fascist bullshit. Border patrol does not prevent crime. Prosperity prevents crime. You're a jackass arguing in bad faith, but on the off chance you actually believe this, go read Bryan Caplan, he puts the simple principles behind open border policy into small words.
Who is "our"? This is all in violation of my principles, which demand that we amend or replace the Constitution as soon as possible.
You want to inflict your opinions upon others on threat of violence--incarcerating or expelling innocent people who disagree with you.
Fully open borders, now.
You want to inflict your opinions upon others on threat of violence--incarcerating or expelling innocent people who disagree with you.
Fully open borders, now.
December 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Who is "our"? This is all in violation of my principles, which demand that we amend or replace the Constitution as soon as possible.
You want to inflict your opinions upon others on threat of violence--incarcerating or expelling innocent people who disagree with you.
Fully open borders, now.
You want to inflict your opinions upon others on threat of violence--incarcerating or expelling innocent people who disagree with you.
Fully open borders, now.
Dude's just pointing out the contradiction in your position. You cannot demand universal adoption of principle while allowing for the citizenship of people who were born here, who do not agree with your principles.
I was born in Oklahoma City and I find your principles repugnant.
I was born in Oklahoma City and I find your principles repugnant.
December 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Dude's just pointing out the contradiction in your position. You cannot demand universal adoption of principle while allowing for the citizenship of people who were born here, who do not agree with your principles.
I was born in Oklahoma City and I find your principles repugnant.
I was born in Oklahoma City and I find your principles repugnant.
I'm making you do it, as punishment for somehow wishing a hypothetical into dread reality. You will be a king without taxes or levies, your books will suffer, your children will never know peace, and the worst people in the world will flood the comments in pursuit of royal favor.
Now make me a Duke
Now make me a Duke
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I'm making you do it, as punishment for somehow wishing a hypothetical into dread reality. You will be a king without taxes or levies, your books will suffer, your children will never know peace, and the worst people in the world will flood the comments in pursuit of royal favor.
Now make me a Duke
Now make me a Duke