G.R. Mead

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G.R. Mead

G.R. Mead

@GRMead3

Trade quod traditum est, et plus. "Hand on what was handed you, and more."

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G.R. Mead
G.R. Mead@GRMead3·
@kalezelden Pournelle's Iron Law. An institutional phase change occurs where those concerned with the how of control completely subsume those attending to the why and the what.
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Kale Zelden
Kale Zelden@kalezelden·
Why is the solution always a massive swelling of an even bigger mechanism of control? Are we really past the Local Option?
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G.R. Mead
G.R. Mead@GRMead3·
If they had any inkling 😉they would revile the horror. The least problematic version of the creation of the Orcs is that Morgoth fashioned them from the still-living bodies (hroa) of Elves after torturing them so severely that their fea (spiritual part) fled to Mandos. The process would leave a breathing shell with only base appetites to animate it and suited for for Morgoth's rational will to direct. The degree of torture necessary to overcome the endurance of the Elves is why their bodies are so twisted - and so deeply that even their progeny retain the heritable consequence of the spiritual abomination that made them. Arguably, Sauron (and possibly Saruman, after) later innovated by breeding Orcs to Men. The material part of Men was more predominating than in Elves, in which the spiritual part held most sway. Those hybrid Orcish progeny similarly lacked a spiritual part, but with admixture of Men it strengthened the animalist elements of Orcs considerably.
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Will Tanner
Will Tanner@Will_Tanner_1·
It remains endlessly entertaining that the left has decided it out sympathize with the orcs, creatures created by Tolkien to be so disgusting and devoid of redeeming features as to be utterly unsympathetic in every way, because both they and we view the invading foreign hordes as orcs It's not "these creatures aren't orcs" but rather "they are orcs--evil itself given semi-human form--and you should love them for it!"
Eru Thingol@EruThingol

Big 2026 y aun hay gente que no sabe/no acepta que hay orcos hembra y que tenian hijos.

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G.R. Mead
G.R. Mead@GRMead3·
@DougWesney 🎶" Ya load 16 gigs, whaddya get ? Another day older, and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't call me, 'cause I cain't go, I owe my soul to the datastore "🎵🎵
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G.R. Mead
G.R. Mead@GRMead3·
I once managed at an estate sale to get my hands on an entire library of Lewis Mumford. Most of them were out of print at the time. Only about half are now available on Amazon. The man was a unique polymath and a genius observer of social development, technology and the way in which modernity is merely the latest flowering of truly ancient modes of human collectivity. An innovative thinker. Out of print merely means they have little current audience. When they are needed will they be available?
Kale Zelden@kalezelden

@moveincircles And by rare it would be better to say used and out of print. Not rare in the museum sense.

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G.R. Mead
G.R. Mead@GRMead3·
Canticle for Liebowitz, here we come ! I've actually visited the template location for the story at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert. It lies 23 miles up a rutted clay road in the Rio Chama valley - that road scared my wife to death. Beautiful place. Chapel and outbuildings designed by George Nakashima. Sancti Isaac Leibowitz, ora pro nobis !!
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G.R. Mead
G.R. Mead@GRMead3·
@ingelramdecoucy Je le regarderais bien sur! Cela semble vraiment dans l'esprit des histoires originals. En fait, la Cité des Anges et la Californie tout meme auraient besoin d’un peu des descendants d’El Zorro.
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Enguerrand VII de Coucy
Enguerrand VII de Coucy@ingelramdecoucy·
A French language comedic adaptation of Zorro starring Jean Dujardin seems like an incredibly niche product, but I think I might be exist within that niche. Dujardin being in it alone is enough to pique my interest, I’ve been a fan of his for a long time
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G.R. Mead
G.R. Mead@GRMead3·
It is evidently now a legal principle of the EU that it is a criminal act to fail to mindlessly parrot official lies in any setting, and that truth is not a defense. Remind me again, why did we bother saving them from Nazis and Communists?
Dries Van Langenhove@DVanLangenhove

A very sad announcement. I have just been convicted a second time for 'hate speech' and it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge's frustration. In an ironic turn of events it's actually thanks to my previous prison sentence (for memes in a private group chat) that I am now still free —in a physical sense, at least. Call me naive but I didn't think they would take it this far, given that this precedent criminalises many of the arguments used by even the most moderate politicians critical of mass migration. In February 2024 I gave a lecture at Catholic University Leuven wherein I linked mass migration to crime and a deterioration of our quality of life. Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence. Cynically, even the judge that convicted me admits as much by writing in his verdict: “Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.” That's a lot of words just to say he wants to send me to prison for speaking the truth. Even the regime media write: "It did not matter to the court that Van Langenhove was quoting scientific sources. The judge argued that Van Langenhove's main message was that a big part of the societal problems like insecurity, housing shortages and lowering educational standards are due to mass migration." You may think the regime media are being sympathetic to me in the first sentence, but in reality they are warning people: even if you speak the truth, if you go against our narrative, we will crush you in every way possible. Both the public prosecutor and the judge did not present a single real argument as to how or against whom I would have incited hatred. So even if I would accept their crazy, dystopic law, I still did not break it. The only argument they present is that I created a "hostile atmosphere of us versus them” in regards to migrants. But even this silly argument (which is not even a punishable offence) is not true. To me, the deadly disease is self-hatred and one of its worst symptoms is replacement migration. My enemy is thus NOT the migrants themselves but those orchestrating the mass migration. Sadly, in Belgium, evidence is not needed and ‘vibes’ are enough to put someone in jail. Given the fact that I have another court case coming up in September and that I have a dozen active criminal investigations for hate speech, time is running out for me. I have already paid more than €420,000 in legal fees and there is no ending in sight. I have been in an intense battle of attrition for eight years and must now regroup to make sure I can still win. If you want to help me, you can do so via the links below. If you can help in other ways, please contact me via DM. If you live in a country that still has free speech, never let them touch it, however noble they make the motives sound, because this is where it leads to.

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Supersonic Redhead🛫
Supersonic Redhead🛫@Supersonic_Red·
Dear younger generations, You have to understand that late Generation Jones and early Gen X were basically raised in the great transitional period between “traditional America” and the modern hyperconnected world. Our parents often both worked. Many of us were latchkey kids before that even had a name. We came home to empty houses, made our own snacks, rode our bikes until the streetlights came on, and learned independence very early because there often wasn’t another option. And honestly? We loved a lot of it. We learned risk assessment by doing stupid things and surviving them. We learned conflict resolution without an HR department. We learned mechanical skills because things actually broke and had to be fixed. We learned how to navigate the world without GPS, how to socialize without screens, and how to entertain ourselves without algorithms feeding us dopamine every 14 seconds. Were there downsides? Absolutely. Some kids were neglected. Some carried trauma quietly. Some had far too much responsibility far too young. But there is also a reason many of us became fiercely independent, adaptable adults who can function under pressure without melting down because nobody was hovering over us every second of the day. And yes, the movies exaggerated it for entertainment. We were not all out fighting ghosts and hacking NORAD from our bedrooms. Most of us were just trying not to get caught jumping ramps on BMX bikes while somebody’s mom yelled from a porch three streets away. It was chaos. But it was our chaos. Life was better before helicopter moms and cell phones. Trust me.
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Crazy Vibes@CrazyVibes_1

Dear Gen X, I’ve been watching 80s movies and I just need to know…WHERE WERE YOUR PARENTS?? Every child was just wandering the earth unsupervised like a raccoon with house keys. Riding bikes across town at midnight, fighting ghosts, investigating murders, befriending cryptids, hacking government computers for funsies… And the parents were ALWAYS “out of town” or “working late” while the only adult-adjacent supervision was some random 16-year-old who got dragged into the chaos. No cell phones. No helmets. No adult supervision. Just vibes, life lessons, and several near-death experiences. You all weren’t “raised.” You were lightly monitored feral creatures with a bike and unresolved trauma. I’m genuinely shocked there are enough of you left to populate an entire generation.

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G.R. Mead
G.R. Mead@GRMead3·
True. And yet, SpaceX's successful continuing integration also demonstrates Coase's point that spot pricing all inputs also has a transaction cost to be optimized under all the other conditions to be optimized. Firms exist for this reason. The Managerial/HR accumulations have, over time, shown that these efficiencies of centralized firm functions can be more than offset by unproductive stabilization developments. Pournelle's Iron Law operates quietly but ruthlessly. Optimality is ALWAYS a dynamic problem and never finds a settled stability if it is to find optimality - and if it does, then the parasitic elements will try to fix it in place to make it easier to steal its efficiencies for themselves.
Elon Musk@elonmusk

Prices are critical information without an economy cannot function

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G.R. Mead
G.R. Mead@GRMead3·
Sadly, this is spot on. Thomas Kuhn's dual track on which scientific revolutions proceed applies to fundamental innovation in any field of applied knowledge. The forces of "normal" politics will go down hard, and to paraphrase Max Planck's related point, real political change advances only one electoral funeral at time.
Shakes, A Large And Aesthetic Man@TheFatAmerican

I want to comment on John Cornyn losing his primary because I go to DC parties where I meet establishment guys and I know how they think. Senate Republicans think they are the reason Republicans won in 2024. They think they’re the GOP’s secret sauce. You think the GOP rode Trump’s coattails. They think Trump road their coattails. In this world, Republicans won because Democrats went too far. Woke was too crazy. Republicans were moderate and sensible. Now, they have to keep the party that way or Republicans will make the same mistake the Democrats made. They think in very outdated terms. Republicans will lose in 2026 because the incumbent party always loses. This is a political “rule”. They are 100% certain Republicans will lose. Therefore, anything Trump does to try to win the midterms is actually cope. You’re talking crazy. Crazy is bad. SAVE? Deportations? That’s crazy. Crazy is bad. “But if you redistrict and pass voter ID Republicans will win!” Senate Republicans are not thinking like that. They’re thinking you’re nuts. Passing bills, making law? They think that whatever mandate they had was squandered by Trump over controversies like Minneapolis and posting too many memes on Twitter. The GOP looks too crazy now. Well try again next time. They’re actually doing us a favor. By doing nothing they’re protecting us from our own excesses. They’re helping us not look crazy. We had better thank them. When you think of MAGA, you think of Donald Trump and reindustrialization and deporting illegal immigrants. When they think of MAGA, they think of Marjorie Taylor Greene. They think of Roy Moore losing Alabama in 2018. They think of “grab them by the pussy”. They think of “they’re eating the dogs”. They think of Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz and Alex Jones. They think of crazy people doing stupid things. So, in every election since 2016, and maybe even before that, it’s Establishment Republicans who have saved the ticket from the worst excesses of Donald Trump and the Republican base. That is what Senate Republicans mean when they say they want to “govern”. They want to pass budgets and workshop foreign policy. That is why they still won’t implement Trump’s agenda. They think it is deeply unpopular, or will become unpopular even if it temporarily polls well. They think Trump only won because they saved his bacon. So, John Cornyn. John Cornyn lost because the base is deeply unhappy with Senate Republican leadership. Republican voters would probably replace a majority of Senate Republicans if you simply took a straw poll. Senate Republicans know this, but think that Republicans voters almost always “come to their senses” because we all know Republicans can’t afford to be crazy. Democrats lose when they’re crazy. Republicans will lose the same way. Sometimes the base has to be coerced or told what to do. That’s why they have to spend $100M propping up Cornyn. Cornyn’s loss is shocking to them because it doesn’t make sense: * Trump has “no reason” for endorsing Paxton over Cornyn. It’s crazy for Trump to do this. Senate Republicans save Trump again and again and this is how he repays them. * The voters are out of control. The base is “supposed to” vote for Republicans anyways, so they should know we have to support moderates who can win. The fact that the voters don’t know this is more proof that Senate Republicans are the smartest people in the room.

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G.R. Mead
G.R. Mead@GRMead3·
Being of Old Florida, when I have played it was done in my great-grandfather's frugal Presbyterian spirit - with a mismatched set of clubs variously salvaged from my grandfather, a brace of cousins and an uncle in-law. I play only in good Teva sandals to assure that I can play through the water traps and gator hazards, with one well-bent club close to hand, lovingly named Snakesbane.
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Kale Zelden
Kale Zelden@kalezelden·
There have been three times I have stopped playing golf for an extended time. Every time I pick it up again, I become obsessed. I’ve never been any good (lowest round of 83) but there’s something truly magnetic about this game.
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G.R. Mead@GRMead3·
Sir! I will not stand for this disrespect of the good Empress of Blandings! May her oinks never cease. Certainly, I cannot stand for it in these loafers with a glass of what was formerly a very happy whisky bathed in a loving soda bath, now drier than sands of Libya, like my tongue.
Doug Wesney@DougWesney

@DurhamWASP Jeeves series is gold…

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Josh Hochschild
Josh Hochschild@JoshHochschild·
Some of the worst, laziest, least hermeneutically sophisticated comments I’ve heard about the new encyclical: It centers man, not God It doesn’t discuss sin and grace It isn’t Thomistic enough It avoids marriage and sexual ethics It focuses on progressive “social justice” issues The first two chapters are unnecessary It doesn’t defend its claim that LLMs don’t think & feel False or irrelevant all. The document must be read and digested in its entirety, not selectively mined for one’s own particular preoccupations.
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G.R. Mead@GRMead3·
Men named their swords, even in Christian Europe. There's a little theological room for ascribing some personification of tools that derive their innate character from rational beings that make and care for them - though never as equal in their nature. As men derive their shot at divinization from the grace of their Divine Maker, we imbue the things we love and use with some of our own spirit. Don't have to be a weeb to appreciate the Japanese idea of tsukumogami, ancient things that after long human association acquire a minor spiritual nature. Mustn't let it go to our heads, though ... Tolkien's view of Morgoth's subcreatures was the dark side of this principle, as Galadriel's spirit enlivening Lothlorien is of the light.
✝️un.@RussellBal

@GRMead3 no this is still man's fall. I use the term automated intelligence because i don't personify my tooling.

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