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Other eras got This Guy as Aristotle or Sir Thomas Hobbes. The Nazis had Carl Schmitt, already an enormous downgrade from the first two. And I suppose, as punishment for our hubris, we get Curtis Yarvin, the dumbest philosopher-of-power-worship that I am aware of.

It seems like in each age we are doomed to have a Guy who rises to 'intellectual' prominence simply on the thesis that "the people with wealth and power are actually better and deserve wealth and power" and yet Curtis Yarvin is somehow the dumbest of these guys yet to have arrived.

Another end to harvest season, and I have to say goodbye to pumpkins. One last image to put Autumn to bed...

Mais je vais MOURIR c’est quoi ça ???

the Michelin man is kinda like a Greek god in the sense that he presides over tires and which restaurants are good

And the golden oldie

“I was just following otters.”

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

gorgeous to do this interview with @comradecupcake.bsky.social www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/

En Espagne, on appelle obligatoirement les arbitres de foot par leur nom ET leur prénom. Ça vient qu'il y avait arbitre au début des années 70 qui s'appelait Franco Martínez ce qui permettait de dire "quel merde ce Franco", "Franco, une cata pour l'Espagne". Ça avait fâché le vieux facho 🧵1/2

Cette réunion aurait pu être une bagarre

Nothing says bleeding edge AGI more than a 8bit early 80’s BASIC reference

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

Me: I wish all these tech bro types would stop misunderstanding sci-fi and fantasy classics Monkey's Paw: Bro.

La gauche de la répression policière, de l’état d’urgence et de l’islamophobie. La gauche qui a incubé Macron. La gauche de droite.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Ne pas oublier Michèle Audin (1954-2025) Michèle Audin, mathématicienne, historienne, autrice, membre de l'Oulipo, spécialiste de la Commune, femme engagée et passionnée, fille de Maurice Audin, nous a quittés ce matin. En hommage, Diacritik republie un article sur son superbe Oublier Clémence,…

Anyway, though all this seems bad for Trump, I think we have to consider the gains he will make in the modern Libertarian Party

Jordan Petercon, sans la voix de Kermit

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Le titre a une vibe Seth Gueko pamphletaire au XVIIIe siècle

Ce matin, je vous parle d'IA générative et des personnes étrangères 2 prémisses 1. L'IA générative a un énorme avantage : elle comprend toutes les langues, répond ds ttes les langues et passe d'une langue à une autre en 1 seconde 2. Toutes les associations de France voient leur budget s'effondrer

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

Hot take: it won't do any of these things

Looks like the Birchers weren’t entirely wrong about domino theory

Just some of the most incredible sentences coming out of this trial.

Know your subgenres, Cracking open a cold one with the fellas: buddy comedy Cracking open fellas with the Cold One: dark fantasy Cracking open one fella with a cold: medical drama A cold open with one cracking fella: sitcom One cold fella with the open crack: public solo porn in winter

TIL people still non-ironically use "it's been an incredible journey" in a corporate farewell email

Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):

I saw The Blair Witch Project way too young and it made me afraid of projects

lmao god i love linkedin

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

J'ai lu "Michel Fourniret"

La TL du compte d'info du gouvernement qui dit tout

La flamme du soldat Lecornu

8 janvier 2063, le gouvernement Lecornu 127 est nommé. La feuille de route est simple : faire rentrer Valls au Panthéon et peut-être faire voter un budget le siècle prochain

D'ici la prochaine fois non plus, il faut déjà qu'on guérisse de notre fou rire nerveux

"j'avais nommé un premier ministre mais mon chien l'a mangé"

Nice try, “Paul A. Thompson”

On a même pas eu le temps de bien detester Lecornu