Essentially if you make a Voltron of all "data base centrist wonks" and "sensible Democrats" what you end up with directionally is "say anything, do anything, make deals with the Devil himself it you have to, but avoid FDR happening ever again".

Nature is healing

New theory: this is the actual crisis in masculinity.

This deserves a little riff. 90pct of Silicon Valley elite degeneration is down to this "took stats 101 but not stats 201" worldview where they baked all kinds of bullshit biases in their algos, looked at the results and decided that 90pct of humanity is subhuman.

#SomeGoodNews A former Dyson engineer is rolling out a revolution for household chores in deprived communities after inventing an off-grid, flat-packable washing machine. The Divya washing machine operates a 30-min wash cycle where it completes a 5kg load needing only a few minutes of manual turning

Tired: Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind Wired: Thou shalt not make a machine to predict the human mind Inspired: In the limit these two are one and the same

Wake up honey new socialist judeo christian synthesis just dropped

The viruses and bacteria will not do the education. I don't think people realize that the US is one of the only nations on earth to go through the Covid-19 pandemic and then respond by... making masks illegal in some places, and reducing vaccine accessibility.🤡 That's the opposite of education.

Stephen Miller is literally what happens to a motherfucker that can't get laid to save his sweet life and eventually ends up entering the Trump Matchmaking System. There's a whole system dedicated to elevating these literal genetic failures to something just because they're the Sons of White Men.

Fantastic trolling by Gavin Newsom based on Twitter’s new account location feature.

Well, that's your name, isn't it? Charlie Brown? It's written all over your underwear.

One of my current conspiracy theories is that the Tech Billionaries (TM) are more or less trying to set up Trump as a Girardian scapegoat. This is both because they're crazy and also because Biden had started not-so-gently telling them to sit the fuck down.

american oligarchs uniformly abandoned a lifetime of democratic support because it was easier for them to believe that “based meme” accounts run by czechoslovakian teens were proof of a mass populist movement in service to elon musk than face the hard truth that most people hate their fucking guts

I have swallowed The harvest That flowed like A river And which You were probably Saving For felching Forgive me It tasted of Bear carcass (yum!) And fluoride (?????)

I think a good angle to see the anti-tool thing is also that chat AIs present as *subjects* not *objects*. Funnily, the initial iteration ("base models") were pure autocomplete/tool-like and flopped. But I reckon brain does not even activate tool use regions with chat LLMs. Would make nice study

Epstein Files release very soon ? + NVDA earnings today, dunno why but the atmosphere feels like this to me

I will not eat Huel I will not live in the Metaverse I will not ask ChatGPT I will not enjoy AI "art"

Gun to the head if I had to say why Trump is so fixated on the Epstein files shit is not because of some terrible deed above and beyond what is already implied, but because there's a nude somewhere in there where he's shown to have a small dick or some similar physical feature he's obsessed with.

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

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70.5% OF NEW TARIFFS WERE PASSED ONTO CONSUMERS — PER LENDINGTREE LENDINGTREE DATA SHOW THAT OVER TWO-THIRDS OF NEW TARIFF COSTS WERE DIRECTLY BORNE BY CONSUMERS, HIGHLIGHTING HOW TRADE BARRIERS ARE DRIVING UP RETAIL PRICES AND ADDING TO INFLATIONARY PRESSURES.

Billionaire discourse in the US has gotten so stupid. "Elon is richest guy to even walk the Earth." Elon owns assets producing ~1.2B/year after corp tax (TSLA net profits X Elon's share) Let's try Warren Buffet. Warren Buffet owns assets producing ... checks notes ... ~13.5B/year after corp tax.

Can we all just now admit that over 20 years on from the September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers, Osama bin Laden definitively won the the ‘war on terror’. The US is now demonstrably weaker, more divided, animated by more strident extremism, and governed by their own version of the Taliban.

Got caught into it as "nerds and adjacent nerds discuss getting laid on the Internet in a nerdy way" and felt very hurt finding out that it's just a giant psyops/moneymaking scheme.

easy peasy advice for getting laid, you have 2 robust options: 1: be incredibly beautiful and charismatic 2: cater to sexual obsessions common to other lunatics. cling to each other in shared mania, in darkness.

Seeing a lot of "anti anarchism from the left" ("one does not simply churn butter" etc) and the defeatism is kinda lulzy, especially coming from USians. Not just people did this in living memory but modern science and tech can make these lifestyles *very* easy to sustain.

A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????

At least 50 pct of the current shitshow comes down in a straight line from Apple's shit tier aesthetic going mainstream, but yall ain't ready for that conversation. The secretive cult like shit, the messianic leader, the walled gardens, the "it's simple if you do as we say", it's all in there.

I've got a joke about Achilles, this one will never get old.

What "Abundance liberals" think "Abundance mindset" means: hey let's build 800 monorails and go to Mars because we can What "Abundance mindset" would actually look like, if it wasn't a made up dog whistle: OMG look at these supermarket shelves, we have so much of all we need, let's end poverty NOW

Paul Krugman, 1998: at the end of the day, the impact of the Internet on the economy will be no greater than the fax machine's. Monkey paw: *curls*

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

In case somebody missed, today EU's "regime change engine" was full steam ahead. Long Term Treasuries have been decimated for the entirety of the Euro session and started recovering around the Euro close. They're trying to give Trump the Berlusconi cure. Scary and interesting.

It'd the 90s all over again @pkrugman.bsky.social en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_vi...

What happened yesterday is important. Trump said "fuck you" to the whole blue world and the whole blue world said "lol, lmao" and trashed him, the dollar, the treasuries and oil until he went hiding under a rock. This effectively means your orange menace is contained.

A good possibility to be, is that somebody whispered in the ear of trump or one of his advisors the "dollar milkshake" theory very popular on twitter, which argues that global turbulence always strengthens the dollar. The only (minor) problem with the theory is that it's evidence-free rubbish.

It's just a stochastic parrot, I scream, as I get turned into a paperc... *touches earpiece* ... as my savings evaporate and my country gets turned into a global pariah.

We're about to witness Ackman absolutely lose his shit live on national and international media. What are your best recipes for popcorn? Share them here!

You do not, under any circumstance, have to hand it to bible thumpers, but all those "porn brain is not a thing" studies surely are aging like milk now that a cadre of dudes who clearly got their minds thoroughly broken by Brazzers is running the country and half of the media.

The "nothing ever happens" culture permeating at all levels owns a big chunk of the current fiasco. Centrists clearly believe politics is football for all intents and purposes. Conservatives are positively sure nothing will happen *to them* after this shitshow. The list could go on.

I hate the "our corporate overlords" thing but in Europe we had a long list of annoying kings who got their asses thoroughly handed to them by the Rotschild. Jamie Dimon just has to get on a 4 people zoom call and pull all credit lines from these clowns and it will be over in a day.

This is gonna get me labeled a tankie but until the Clinton-Blair Democrats and their diverse progeny reckon with their legacy there's no moving forward. It's the economy stupid. No it's not. You fucking dumbo. You absolute dimwit.

Looking at the Canadian Mini-Trump Gang descending into more and more openly fascist tones as the polls keep putting nails in their coffin, one can't help but think that maybe their game plan is just to declare themselves winners and request support from their friend on the other side of the border.

The funny thing is that even if Trump's policies made sense (they don't), his stupid way of handling it will scuttle them. Virtually all high added value exports from the US like cars/weapons/aircraft/software/finservices are based on brand security and lock-in.

As the "tariff policy written by ChatGPT" story becomes more likely, let's everybody ask @sama to assess the impact on GDP of his cursed stupid toy after the US economy ends up in tatters. The literal nightmare failure scenario of AI (idiots with power asking AI to think for them) is ALREADY HERE.

Shower thought: Robert Downey Jr in Iron-Man set off so much shit with enormous consequences today. Aside from resurrecting the dying MCU franchise that ended up enshittifying all Hollywood, he kinda memed Musk into existence.

Heard Cory Booker is about to enter his second phase. Watch out for the whirlwind attack its a one shot.

Thinking about "the power of the algorithm" and the general vibe of the era shifting to "algos found out what people really want, and it's shit (eg Mr Beast). May I put forward a simpler idea: people are the same they were past 10000y, pretty good. And it's just youtube's code that is shit.