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>be rock dove, 5000 BC
>perch on a sheltered cliff near early human settlements
>humans approach with grain
>no way out, heart racing
>they don't hunt you
>they offer food and shelter
>be domesticated pigeon, 3000 BC
>bred by man for meat, eggs, and sometimes beauty
>you live in lofts beside humans
>many civilisations discover this
>be messenger pigeon, 1350 BC
>your homing instinct carries news across deserts and seas
>Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans all depend on your wings
>news of war, notable events, and even Olympic results travel faster than any horse or runner
>be carrier pigeon, Middle Ages to 1800s
>you connect monasteries, armies, merchants, stock exchanges, and kings
>you are the fastest communication on Earth
>you cover 200 miles a day
>there was even a London to Paris pigeon post route
>be war pigeon, 1914-1945
>you fly through bullets, shrapnel and poison gas
>Cher Ami takes a bullet, loses a leg and an eye, but still delivers the message that saves 194 men
>dozens of your kind are awarded medals for heroism
>be common pigeon, 1950s
>radio and telephone finally make you obsolete
>your human keepers release you or let you escape
>but you were bred to stay near people
>be racing pigeon, 1970s-1980s
>peak of pigeon fancying
>working-class men in industrial towns and council estates keep lofts on rooftops
>every weekend thousands race you across the country
>even the Queen has her own loft with around 200 pigeons, she is a keen pigeon fancier
>you are a beloved hobby, a passion handed down through generations since the 1800s
>be pigeon, 2026
>you do exactly what humans bred you for ten thousand years to do: live among us in their cities
>you flock to squares and rooftops
>they call you “rats with wings” and “vermin”
>spikes on ledges, nets, poison, birth control in the feed
>after millennia of loyal service, we despise you for existing
J.T. Alexander@JTAlexander_
>be horse, 10,000 BC >thunder across the Eurasian steppes in massive herds >humans approach with spears >heart pounding >be cornered >they don't eat you >they offer grain and salt >be domesticated horse, 4000 BC >humans tie a cart to you and your friend >pull the cart around >every human that witnesses your work is amazed >your kind spreads across the world side by side with man >be warhorse, 2000 BC >you pull the chariots that decide empires >without your speed and power, no conquest, no trade routes >the Hittites, the Egyptians, the Mycenaeans >their glory rides on your legs >civilization is literally pulled forward under your power >be warhorse, 300BC >bigger and stronger than ever before >humans now ride on your back >be called Bucephalus >carry your master across the world >kingdoms fall under your hooves and your master's sword >hailed as the greatest of your kind to ever live >sire a legendary lineage that becomes the envy of the kingdoms of men >be warhorse, 44BC >so widespread and diverse that armies are made up of men and horses from thousands of miles apart >turn the tide of world-changing battles and maneuvers >roads your trod down will be used for millennia >history is carried forward on your back >be warhorse, 900 AD >armored head to hoof >steel in the field, genteel in the pasture >just like the master >you carry the men that bring news, help, honor, and leadership >you are the symbol and source of their status >civilization depends on you >be warhorse, 1683 AD >Islam lays siege to Vienna with all of Europe prostrate beyond >the city is desperate for relief >supplies are short and the underminers threaten the walls >3,000 men in winged armor ride on your back to the salvation of Christendom >Europe is literally saved by your turn of the tide >be standard horse, 1778 AD >15 years old >pretty unremarkable but notice loud noises don't bother you >be given away as a gift >owner already has another horse, but alright >he ends up liking you more because you don't care about noise >he starts riding you through a bunch of crowds making a ton of noise >become a famous symbol of the era and watch the British Empire surrender to your boss >America is literally born on your back >be workhorse, 1915 AD >drafted along with your master to fight for the king >pull ammunition carts from rail depots to guns >the machine-horses on tracks make your job easier because you don't have carry as much as far >eight million of your kind are killed to fight the war to end all wars >the war doesn't end war >the war ends your relationship with mankind >be horse, 1955 AD >nobody has use for you anymore >they've made smaller machine horses >they're cheaper to feed >they're easier to learn >they carry more weight >they take all of your jobs >be horse, 2026 AD >nobody cares about you anymore >you survive as a pet to young rich girls >sometimes she shows you off to an audience but you feel something is missing >your cousin runs races for gambling addicts >your brother sometimes pulls tourists around in New York >you heard of some horses that carry cops around but it sounds like folklore >there are more toys of your kind than actual horses
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how to get the 48-year-old operator to perform for <5% upside:
you probably cannot. and framing it as <5% upside is exactly why
the 48-year-old operator who is good enough to actually run the business is good enough to know what he is worth. he has been in the industry for 20+ years. he has relationships you need. he knows which employees are about to quit before they do. giving him 3% equity in a holdco he does not understand while a 32-year-old who has never managed a crew tells him about KPIs is not a compensation package. it is an insult wrapped in a term sheet
what works instead: stop thinking about it as equity percentage and start thinking about what the operator actually values. some of these guys do not want equity at all. they want a base that is 20-30% above what they made as an owner (remember most small biz owners underpay themselves), a simple cash bonus tied to EBITDA targets they believe are achievable, and genuine operational autonomy. they want to run the business without a kid asking them to fill out a dashboard every Monday
if you do want alignment through equity, the unit economics need to make sense to him in dollar terms not percentage terms. "3% of the holdco" means nothing. "your stake is worth $400K at our base case exit in 5 years and $800K if we hit plan" means something. show him the dollar amount not the cap table
the real answer though: the best search fund roll-ups solve this by making the operator the seller who stays. you buy his $2M EBITDA business, he rolls 20-30% of his proceeds into the holdco, and he keeps running it. now he is not working for a 32-year-old. he is a partner who took chips off the table and has meaningful skin in the combined outcome. his 20-30% rollover at the platform level is worth more than 3% of a holdco he did not build. and psychologically he is not an employee. he is a co-owner who chose to stay
that is the structure that actually works. not hiring an operator to work under you. buying a business and keeping the operator aligned through rollover equity and earnout that respects what he built
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Honestly, I have lowkey given up on finding a wife at 26
I won’t ever wife up a non virgin, its a humiliation ritual to marry someone who has been banged by others for free
And I seem to find no such girl anymore
There’s a glimmer of hope in my eyes, but mostly I’ll Tatemaxx
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Oil, Gold, and Silver in 1979 during the second oil crisis (that coincided with the Iranian Revolution) - NOBODY is prepared for this, even if the current market is perfectly set up for this to happen
JustDario 🏊♂️@DarioCpx
Stage 1: Iran exhausts air defences with cheap drones attacks [2-3 days] Stage 2: Iran ramps up the attacks with advanced rockets [3-10 days] Stage 3: Iran is back at the negotiating table as soon as oil trades above 100$ within 2 weeks Feel free to bookmark
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Great Q. The modern western left's relationship to cybernetics fits three buckets:
1. "what's that? robot arms?" -- by far the most common. I thought this too. Most people have simply never encountered the word outside of sci-fi.
2. "behaviourist 💥 [vine boom], technocratic 💥, positivist 💥, unmarked universalism 💥, reductionist, 💥, totalizing 💥 , scientistic, 💥, mechanistic, 💥, Cartesian, 💥 panoptical 💥, managerialist, 💥, neoliberal. 💥💥💥" — Mx. Actual Critical Theory Degree.
- Honestly, this ain't wrong. The cybernetic concepts that dispersed and thrived in the US are the managerial/engineering cybernetics. Cybernetic concepts fed directly into scientific management, operations research, and the kind of systems optimization language that corporations love.
3. "this is the knowledge we need to manifest [insert preferred governance structure] or harness and steer existing structures". xenofeminists, cryptanarchists, soviet revivalists, Beer-heads, Bookchin-pilled municipalists, and so on. IMO, cybernetics naturally attracts anyone involved in serious attempts at new forms of coordination.
Cybernetics is largely forgotten by everyone, not just the left - yet it was arguably the hottest trans-disciplinary scientific movement of the mid-20th century. The Macy Conferences (1945-55) brought together people from neuroscience, anthropology, mathematics, psychology, and engineering to ask foundational questions about information, feedback, and communication. It had ENORMOUS buzz for decades, and its fingers are in every little pie.
Unfortunately, the field fractured. Cybernetics is more of a meta-framework like "the theory of evolution", not a domain-specific discipline like geology. The parts that were easiest to operationalize split off and became their own disciplines, like: AI, computer science, control theory, cognitive science, systems engineering. The harder philosophical questions ("what does it mean for an observer to be part of the system they're studying?") led to second-order cybernetics, which was intellectually rich but institutionally homeless. The Biological Computer Lab, the leading cybernetics research center in the US, got defunded in 1969 when the Mansfeld Amendment cut military support for research without direct weapons applications, and Heinz von Foerster refused to reframe his work to fit. No undergrad programs were ever established, and the movement lost its center.
Even still, concepts born from cybernetics are everywhere: neural networks, feedback, black box, information theory, homeostasis, self-organization, even the prefix cyber- itself. Sadly, almost nobody recognizes they came from the same intellectual tradition, or WHY they emerged together.
source: Stuart Umpleby's 6-hour lecture on the fundamentals and history of cybernetics is the best single resource i know of: youtube.com/watch?v=obvzUj…. For a book, check E. W. Kuppers' A Transdisciplinary Introduction to Cybernetics (2023)
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@ForecastFire @KeyTryer > it means cybernetics has fallen entirely out of memory Can you elaborate on this statement? And what is the relation of cybernetics to the left? From what I can tell the modern left is anti-cybernetics?
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Plato has achieved immortality and has been in a spiritual seclusion ever since in a mountain in iran. I will not elaborate further
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@jaiddog33 have read this before
was this the black guy with beef against gg33? iirc he mentioned getting possessed a few times
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THE "PALACES" OR ENERGY CENTERS
From a Taoist perspective, the endocrine glands are not merely chemical regulators, but "palaces" or key energy centers where vital energy is transformed. The goal is to convert Jing (physical/hormonal essence) into Qi (vital energy) and finally
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JUST IN: 🇲🇾🇮🇷 Malaysia says its ships are passing through the Strait of Hormuz without paying any tolls to Iran.
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In the last 6 years, Ackman has a 100% hit rate calling bottom
Heed his advice, the money insiders know it’s over
Market is about to rip
Bill Ackman@BillAckman
Some of the highest quality businesses in the world are trading at extremely cheap prices. Ignore the MSM. One of the most one-sided wars in history that will end well for the U.S. and the world. And we have the potential for a large peace dividend. One of the best times in a long time to buy quality. Ignore the bears.
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Some of the highest quality businesses in the world are trading at extremely cheap prices. Ignore the MSM. One of the most one-sided wars in history that will end well for the U.S. and the world. And we have the potential for a large peace dividend.
One of the best times in a long time to buy quality.
Ignore the bears.
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The simulation of cosmology cannot escape the reality of being sexed.
In the Matrix, this is the oracle and the architect.
youtu.be/o_YZH-QFPv8?si…
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seele ²@Breengrub2
New article out on the topic of artifice, women, and creation. Link in bio.
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On the cross Jesus wasn’t wondering why God had forsaken him.
Jesus cried out in Aramaic: “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”
“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
He was not despairing.
He did not feel abandoned.
He was pointing each of us to the full picture.
In first-century Judea, the Psalms had no numbers.
No chapters. No verses.
When you wanted to reference one, you quoted the first line. (incipit system)
Jesus did this on purpose.
By shouting the very first line of Psalm 22, he was telling us “Read the rest. This is me. This is now. This does not end in defeat.”
Then the prophecy unfolded.
From suffering to victory.
From “why have you forsaken me” to “He has done this.”
The Psalm describes Good Friday 1000 years before Jesus was born and crucifixion was even invented.
Psalm 22 (KJV)
1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
why art thou so far from helping me,
and from the words of my roaring?
2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not;
and in the night season, and am not silent.
3 But thou art holy,
O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee:
they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered:
they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6 But I am a worm, and no man;
a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn:
they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him:
let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb:
thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb:
thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
11 Be not far from me;
for trouble is near;
for there is none to help.
12 Many bulls have compassed me:
strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13 They gaped upon me with their mouths,
as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint:
my heart is like wax;
it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd;
and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws;
and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16 For dogs have compassed me:
the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me:
they pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I may tell all my bones:
they look and stare upon me.
18 They part my garments among them,
and cast lots upon my vesture.
19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD:
O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword;
my darling from the power of the dog.
21 Save me from the lion’s mouth:
for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren:
in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him;
all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him;
and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred
the affliction of the afflicted;
neither hath he hid his face from him;
but when he cried unto him, he heard.
25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation:
I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied:
they shall praise the LORD that seek him:
your heart shall live for ever.
27 All the ends of the world shall remember
and turn unto the LORD:
and all the kindreds of the nations
shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom is the LORD’S:
and he is the governor among the nations.
29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship:
all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him:
and none can keep alive his own soul.
30 A seed shall serve him;
it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness
unto a people that shall be born,
that he hath done this.
Jesus wasn’t lost.
He was teaching.
Even in his final breath.
In the end we win.
Christ is King
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