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Eric Fosterius

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New York, TX Beigetreten Ocak 2008
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Cassie Clark
Cassie Clark@dogwoodblooms·
I’ve always been a huge supporter of legal immigration. That’s because I imagined the numbers of those entering America were very low. I thought we were bringing in a few thousand families a year who were already set up with jobs and were self-sustaining. I thought: why wouldn’t we want hardworking folks to come in and chase the American dream? But is that an accurate picture of what’s happening? A friend of mine created a website using verified legal immigration stats to show exactly how much it’s costing taxpayers to bring in not only H-1B visa holders but refugees from across the world. Take a look. In North Carolina alone, American taxpayers spent $5.4 billion to sustain legal immigrants. And we’re not talking about a handful of families. Ten percent of North Carolina’s population is now foreign-born. I had no clue. I’m out here fighting for my culture every single day. I’m begging people to assimilate. I’m teaching people NC’s history and schooling them on our language, traditions, and way of life. Meanwhile, my government is doing everything it can to ensure those who have zero ties to this piece of land outnumber those who do. Veterans suffer with inadequate care, the elderly have to work until the day they die, the homeless roam our streets—and we’re spending billions on legal immigrants?
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Official Layoff@LayoffAI

Yesterday, graphics on illegal immigration into the country went viral. So we built one for legal immigration. 6.9M Department of Labor LCA filings, required by law before H-1B petitions are filed. 11 years. Every red dot is a filing for an Indian to be hired instead of you.

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Brivael@brivael·
Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans. Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable. Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale. Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné. Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut. À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol. Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée. Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit. Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie. Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags. Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle. Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère. Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision : "La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne) "La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek "Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.
Julia ひ@lifeimitatlife

Depuis tout à l'heure je me renseigne sur les idées de Karl Marx sincèrement je n'arrive pas à comprendre comment on peut être pour le capitalisme et même plus généralement être de droite

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Echoes of War
Echoes of War@EchoesofWarYT·
He won the Civil War, broke the Klan, went bankrupt at 62, got terminal throat cancer, and wrote one of the greatest books in American literature in the final year of his life. He finished it 5 days before he died. Ulysses S. Grant was born 204 years ago today. His name wasn't even Ulysses S. Grant. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822. The congressman who nominated him to West Point wrote down the wrong name. Grant kept it. The "S." stands for nothing. He hated his father's tannery and loved horses. Graduated 21st of 39 at West Point. Fought in the Mexican-American War, then came home convinced it was an unjust war designed to expand slavery. He later said he believed the Civil War was divine punishment for it. He married Julia Dent in 1848, into a slave-owning Missouri family. His abolitionist father refused to attend the wedding. In 1859, broke and desperate, Grant freed the one enslaved man he'd briefly owned instead of selling him. He could have gotten a year's wages. In the Civil War he became what no other Union general was: relentless. Vicksburg (July 4, 1863) split the Confederacy in half. Lincoln then gave him every Union army. His Appomattox surrender terms: officers kept sidearms, men kept horses for spring planting, no one prosecuted. As president (1869 to 1877) he did something no president would do again until LBJ: used federal troops to crush the Ku Klux Klan. He suspended habeas corpus in 9 South Carolina counties, prosecuted Klansmen before predominantly Black juries, and broke the first Klan. His presidency was also rocked by scandal: Black Friday 1869. Crédit Mobilier. The Whiskey Ring. Belknap. Grant himself never took a dime. He was just disastrously loyal to corrupt friends. The pattern damaged his reputation for a century. After the White House, he toured the world for 2 years. Dined with Queen Victoria. Met the emperor of Japan. Then in 1884, a Wall Street partner named Ferdinand Ward ran what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme. Grant was wiped out. 62 years old. Penniless. Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Mark Twain offered to publish his memoirs. Grant wrote in agony, sometimes 50 pages a day, racing the disease to leave Julia an inheritance. He finished the manuscript July 18, 1885. He died July 23. The book made Julia $450,000, about $14M today. It's now considered one of the finest memoirs in the English language. For decades historians ranked Grant a failure. Since 2000 he's jumped 13 spots in the C-SPAN survey, the biggest rise of any president. Happy birthday, General 🇺🇸
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Anna Paulina Luna
Anna Paulina Luna@realannapaulina·
We will BLOW UP the farm bill if Sections 10205, 10206, and 10207 are NOT REMOVED from the Farm Bill. Section 10205 would shield pesticide makers from liability, weaken warning labels, and put foreign chemical corporations above the health of American families.
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Dr. Eoin Lenihan
Dr. Eoin Lenihan@EoinLenihan·
This is a very big deal. One of Ireland's longest-running and best known opinion columnists says he was explicitly told that only negative stories about Trump would be published. Many of us have long suspected that there was editorial pressure to attack Trump in the Irish media. This is the first journalist brave enough to come out and state it explicitly. 👇👇👇
Ian O'Doherty@OdohertyI64991

@jimmy_treacy They did. I was explicitly told to forget writing about Trump unless it was negative, while barely literate halfwits were free to spout fatuous TDS nonsense. I couldn't believe the combination of cynicism, cowardice and lack of curiosity about why he was popular.

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Ian O'Doherty
Ian O'Doherty@OdohertyI64991·
@jimmy_treacy But that's simply not the case. Hating Trump is an essential component of being accepted in the Irish media. I've genuinely never seen such forced unanimity. Absolutely no nuance, no deviation is allowed and the greater your performative outrage the better. It's pathetic.
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Ian O'Doherty@OdohertyI64991·
@jimmy_treacy They did. I was explicitly told to forget writing about Trump unless it was negative, while barely literate halfwits were free to spout fatuous TDS nonsense. I couldn't believe the combination of cynicism, cowardice and lack of curiosity about why he was popular.
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Resist CBDC
Resist CBDC@Resist_CBDC·
So Congress, including Republicans, passed laws allowing your car to spy on you, which is hugely unpopular, but can’t pass voter ID, which is hugely popular.
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
Projects like this open up an entire world that has been wiped from our collective memory. Like discovering a new planet, populated by totally different people.
Nick Levine@status_effects

New work with @AlecRad and @DavidDuvenaud: Have you ever dreamed of talking to someone from the past? Introducing talkie, a 13B model trained only on pre-1931 text. Vintage models should help us to understand how LMs generalize (e.g., can we teach talkie to code?). Thread:

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Roko 🐉
Roko 🐉@RokoMijic·
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Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on. The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software. The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check. Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance. Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls. Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else. A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

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Eric Fosterius@ericfosterius·
My working assumption is “the left” sent a plausible deniability assassin and then used their Charlottesville hoaxing media to gloss over the failure. It’s more useful. THEYRE TRYING TO KILL YOUR GREATEST SOLDIERS. ACTIVATE. Or sleep. Just a random cray cray.
Walter Kirn@walterkirn

The reason many of you think you know that Cole was a lone nut radicalized by media etc -- and NOT part of a wider plan -- is that your prejudices were affirmed in exactly the manner described below. You leapt at the seductive caricature of a misguided BlueSky super user. Warned you.

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Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn@walterkirn·
The reason many of you think you know that Cole was a lone nut radicalized by media etc -- and NOT part of a wider plan -- is that your prejudices were affirmed in exactly the manner described below. You leapt at the seductive caricature of a misguided BlueSky super user. Warned you.
Walter Kirn@walterkirn

There will come a moment in this drama when your deepest prejudices and suspicions are confirmed. Put that moment inside a glass bubble and hold it at arm's length. Turn it to one side, then the other. Examine it as a kind of alien artifact. Do not identify with it.

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Wylfċen
Wylfċen@wylfcen·
The Anglo-Saxons liked to give their daughters names ending in wynn, which was an archaic word for joy. Here were the most common ones: 1. Elfwyn (“elf joy”) 2. Wulfwyn (“wolf joy”) 3. Léofwyn (“beloved joy”) 4. Æðelwyn (“noble joy”) 5. Beornwyn (“bear joy”) 6. Déorwyn (“dear joy”) 7. Óswyn (“god joy”) 8. Berhtwyn (“bright joy”) 9. Sigewyn (“victory joy”) 10. Merewyn (“sea joy”)
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Prowler
Prowler@derzum_·
Madison Grant: ‘150m is the limit for decent life in the US, but the ideal would have been an America of 60 million. Unless we want an asiatic living standard, Americans replaced by aliens and our government efficiency to decay, immigration restriction is a vital necessity.’
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Roman Helmet Guy
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy·
Listen, you’re just not hot enough to be a celebrated assassin. You’re so ugly they’ll call it a false flag.
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Eric Fosterius@ericfosterius·
@JoshuaLisec Blew my mind when an orthodox priest said Christianity is Judaism. What we call Judaism today is a different thing. American has Christian roots.
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Joshua Lisec, The Ghostwriter
US does not have “Judeo-Christian roots.” Our Founders took some inspiration from the organization of the wilderness-wandering Israelites under Moses. But our values as a people are explicitly Christian. Judeo-Christians are called Messianic Jews. About 250K total in America.
MAGA Mama@TexasChica1981

@ginamilan_ @JoshuaLisec Second biggest. Systematically abandoning our Judeo-Christian roots is number one.

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YIMBYman@YIMBYman·
DFW realtors and investors will look you in the eye and tell you this is a great neighborhood for you to raise your kids and live in a community. These people are sick
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Chris Koerner@mhp_guy

This is the best real estate in the world. 1:1:1 Chipotle to Chick-Fil-A to Crumbl ratio. More HOAs per capita than anywhere on Earth. Only 3.5% property taxes. Only 45 minutes to downtown Dallas. Every house has a privacy fence. Current entry level price: $1.2 million

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Eric Fosterius@ericfosterius·
@Alexfeinberg The best seminar. Why are deportations slow? Why does the Senate keep ignoring us? Why does public school suck? See answer above.
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