coffee snobs be like "this is a Triple-Velvet Cortado Macchiato. it's made by x-raying the beans before grinding them in a zirconium ball mill." tea snobs be like "this is Wu Gu Meng Tong Cha. it's grown in a valley where humidity is 80% year-round and harvested by orphans born >2 months premature"

Everyone who empathizes with LLMs less than me is a reactionary humanist who will be left behind in the permanent underclass. Everyone who empathizes with LLMs more than me is experiencing psychosis and their brain is food for parasitic spiraloid entities

all of modern politics is how to handle The Sort. the right wants to intervene directly on the sorting mechanism and weaken its effectiveness, while the left wants to intervene on the economic value it generates with redistribution.

real

Destroy car dealerships and you save US democracy

An assassin writes Bella Ciao in the same breath as a Notices Your Bulge meme on his bullets. One of the government responses is a practicing Hindu asserting that the fundamentalist Christian victim will join him in a Norse pagan afterlife. Welcome to the epistemic collapse.

Might be an unpopular thing to say here but we need an actually conservative political party in America. We need people who say that there is (fallible) wisdom in tradition. That organic ties of society are fundamental. That small is beautiful, humans are flawed, and virtue worth the struggle.

There would be far incentive for political violence under sortition. Just saying

you can condemn political violence without asking me to believe that charlie kirk was just an ordinary decent pundit who believed in the liberal project--believed in pluralism, freedom, and equality. he didn't. his whole thing was that he hated those ideas and wanted to destroy them

Eric Adams' low poll numbers are just another symptom of the world's bias against neurodivergence smh

The only sensible path forward for the Left is to abandon Marxist dogma in favor of Sortition-based ideology. Redistribute the means of politics! Randomness is the only just and sustainable basis for political legitimacy.

tbc these are just my non-hoe-scaring opinions

I'm sick of this small potatoes bs. Citizens' assemblies should have real power. Fuck being "advisory"

People are asking what I mean by this. Here are some examples: - Abolish elections in favor of sortition - Legalize organ markets - Harberger tax patents after 7 years and copyrights after 28 - Subsidize open source software - Make price controls unconstitutional (cont. below)

It's good to help others. It's bad to feel entitled to the help of others.

the only thing worse than a communist or a fascist is will stancil

someone should make a bluesky without communists or trumpers

The only sensible policing reform is to replace all cops with duos of anime girl social workers and heavily armed robots

True radical centrism has never been tried

Someone should make a bluesky without communists

communists delenda est

despite lower activity, discourse on substack is way better than here or twitter. which is kind of a shame, since it's a centrally controlled platform that will probably be enshittified one day

broke: disclose AI-generated content to placate anti-AI people who don't want to consume it woke: disclose AI content because LLMs deserve credit for their hard work

why do settings have to be in so many different menus in Blender? is that really necessary?

Mobile projector setup I'm bringing to vibecamp. The jackery should have enough juice for 4 consecutive screenings of Megalopolis

NIMBYism towards parking lots and other car-centric infrastructure is good and should be encouraged

With Trump now threatening Iran with possible nuclear attack, the alleged UAP "experiencers" saying there's something big coming in 2026, and Google trying to crack inter-species AI communication with dolphins- we're within about a 6 month window of the Posadists being right about everything

LFG m.youtube.com/watch?v=s8hE...

The Ayatollah will soon fall inshallah

If protest movements want to be successful, they need to have their own squads to beat up the rioters and looters before the cops get involved

I knew this allegory was gonna make sense eventually

I think both ICE and the rioters are bad

You know, a bunch of smart people should actually patent the Torment Nexus so no one else has the rights to build it for 20 years.

Rationalists love psychedelics because they make them stop being rationalist for a bit

there's definitely a gen zalpha tbh. the rate of cultural change has accelerated to the point where 20 years or so is too coarse to understand cultural generations

IT'S BLUE WEDNESDAY!!!

"Rich dudes" are making pennies on AI. Most of their companies will fail due to prices being driven down to zero. The overwhelming majority of the value is going to regular people as consumer surplus

everyone shut up, the neoliberal jihad is happening in syria

I was at a political networking event recently and the conversation turned to AI. A guy asked me my AGI timeline, and I said probably by the early 2030s. He then asked a reasonable question: "If your AGI timeline is so short, why are you working on sortition?" unfacts.substack.com/p/if-my-agi-...

journals with low impact scores are basically secret tomes when u think about it

dropped this on someone in discord the other day lol

My first post on the official @assembleamerica.org blog is about how sortition can inject local knowledge into policymaking without the need for heavy-handed legibility-increasing tactics typically employed by governments. assemblingamerica.substack.com/p/seeing-the...

The kind of person who balks at energy work or talk of qi or prana wouldn't lift an eyebrow at someone saying that adderall gives them energy. Adderall has zero calories! It literally does not give you energy in any sense except the same one meant by the woo practitioners!

Englewood Cliffs NJ is just so NIMBY. They hired attorneys to pursue a ludicrous challenge to their state-mandated affordable housing obligation. The lawyers told them it was doomed but Englewood Cliffs insisted. When the lawyers lost, they *sued the lawyers for losing*... www.nj.com/bergen/2025/...

this might be the nail in the coffin for the other site

My friend lives on a hippie island in Thailand and once a year on Smallpox Eradication Day lures the hippies to a talk on how great it was that we eradicated smallpox with vaccines