Charles
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Charles
@JiffjoffI
Research Scientist - FAANG; Film / culture / history / baseball / tech;
Katılım Temmuz 2020
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According to Lawrence Buell, the Great American Novel:
1. Stands the test of time.
2. Imagines “national rifts” in the “form of a family history or love affair.” (Race often plays a role).
3. Encapsulates the American Dream: “the protagonist rises from obscurity to notoriety.”
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@CityBureaucrat @0x49fa98 Where do I signup to become an agent of lomez?
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@0x49fa98 Yeah he blocked me for being "a member of the Claremont Institute" and an agent of Lomez.
The right is an effete literary movement focused on policing membership in a political decision-making apparatus that doesn't exist.
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This guy was always laid back and level-headed until quite recently.
One day, he appeared to go nuts, blocked a bunch of his long-time mutuals, including me, and started writing the most inane, brown-brained conspiracy nonsense about us that would have always been beneath him.
I was puzzled by the above, but today I learned he had a severe ischemic stroke and a some aftershocks.
He also believes the stroke did not impair his judgement. I think this is very sad, but also quite revealing.
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@gran1te_mtn “I don’t have a wife that used to be promiscuous, but I do know a woman who’d be mad if she heard me say that”
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“My wife used to be promiscuous… she still is, but she used to be, too.”
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Agree with @bronzeagemantis 's proposal - one thing we might disagree on is that p0rn needs to be banned - not because of 'degeneracy', but because it drains the economic engine which could otherwise drive glamorization and aesthetic inspiration for sex - eg can films like Wild Things get made and achieve glamor status with porn wildly available? Can sex itself retain its glamor, mystery and sacral status?
Conservatives overrate the effect of pr0n but it's an open questions IMO how its wide availability degrades the aesthetics and glamor of sex and define its tastemakers.. (or maybe this is moot b/c whichever ritual has the younger, better looking participants will achieve higher status and supplant the other in people's minds)
This could easily become a billionaire project - much more useful than giving to NGOs - just fund babies between the absolute best looking (tall + athletic + high IQ) couples that apply, and pay them ~400k per kid. This would achieve more good in the world than aid to third world countries, fake email jobs etc. Would immediately become mysterious, have articles written about it, and become high status eugenic class - instead of Thiel fellowship.... Thiel baby...
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@dave_tremaine @uubzu Congratulations, step forward my child, and cast your vote
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“While you are recovering you think that the drug is working”
Placebo effects are even worse than this framing - people seek out treatment when they reach the points of maximal pain/discomfort/sickness, such that they receive treatment just prior to entering the recovery phase
TBPN@tbpn
Superpower co-founder @maxmarchione says his company is in the early stages of conducting a BPC-157 clinical trial. He believes there's more to support the argument that BPC-157's benefits are not placebo effects than the argument that it doesn't work:
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@Howlingmutant0 Not only that he’s not even close to beating him - Messenbrink is the best wrestler in ncaa and hardly had a challenging match all year
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Now this is some stone cold hater shit
Cyclone Gavin@cyclone_gav
what a sad university and fanbase
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@Ted__ted_ @Maarblek Tucker, Kent, Martyrmade, Sneako, Ian Caroll, people like that “get it.” They understand the moment.
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Charles retweetledi
"He ended Critical Race Theory is what he did. He was a brave Italian explorer. And in this house, Christopher Rufo is a hero. End of story."
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
@jeremykauffman Not sure you could find another writer who's had more real-world impact on the bullet points you've listed above, which is why I have extremely strong standing to make the argument that Oppression Olympics and ubermensch LARPing are not productive or realit-based at all
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the reason people are so triggered by WMAF couples is that white men and Asian women have mutual face blindness
a mid Asian woman looks like a supermodel to a white guy
a mid white guy looks like a supermodel to an Asian woman
so it results in weird combinations
Brian Atlas@BrianAtlas
GENUINE question: do you think this is a looks-match? And what do you rate them? He's at least 2-3 points above her IMO. He is 7.5-8. She is a 5.
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Charles retweetledi
NIXON: Well, Alamariu has, Alamariu has studied the American- he has done a remarkable amount of reading on the American… on American mythology, on the, on what he calls the deep, ah, the deep symbolic-
KISSINGER: Mr. President.
NIXON: Yes.
KISSINGER: What did Alamariu recommend?
[EIGHTEEN SECONDS OF SILENCE]
NIXON: A Cult of the Phallus.
[TWELVE SECONDS OF SILENCE]
HALDEMAN: Right.
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@mattyglesias Arrested development was canceled for dipping below 5m at times - it averaged around 6m iirc, but it was the 115th ranked tv show in viewership
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I was boring younger colleagues with stories about how widely watched obscure 1990s sitcoms were.
Substantially more people watched any given episode of "The Single Guy" than have seen the Oscars in recent years, and it got cancelled for low ratings!
slowboring.com/p/in-defense-o…
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project hail mary was unfortunately a middling adaptation of a good book. the script has the unfortunate affect of “language model populism” - where every single line has to be some sort of punched up comedic zinger yet still unremarkable.
visuals were uninspired and trite and more or less identical to other space movies. everything good about the film comes from the wonderful world scaffolding of the book and the hard science fiction of it all that lets you suspend disbelief on the alien rocky
the movie doesn’t really try to get into the xenolinguistic stuff even at the depth the book tries (someone called it “arrival for idiots” which unfortunately hit )
the thing that elevated the book is the commitment to a hard science fiction engineeringporn fiction at a level nobody else is able to write. the direction of the movie doesn’t really convey the same feeling successfully, and you’re left with flat characters, an alien that is more human than several humans i know, and a marvel populism
gosling and the german woman are great as actors, but this movie will not be remembered in a year. it is disappointing to see people do so little with a quarter billion, insane acting talent, and incredible source IP
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@PoppyPancho @tszzl Was ruined by the corny i fucking love science reddit tone and humor
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@tszzl Matt damon eating potatoes for 2 hours carried that movie harder than any of the actual science did
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@BarneysRubble0 @AmericanGwyn @JoyceCarolOates Come on man can’t talk about mccarthy behind a paywall like that
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Did you know Cormac McCarthy stopped reading new novels after Infinite Jest and referred to @JoyceCarolOates as "the goggle lady?"
My definitive takedown of Jest, MFAs, and the coinage of a new term "publishing-inudstrial complex" to explain it all :)
unherd.com/2026/03/why-co…
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@arcticinstincts I’m guessing this will be more controversial than arcticism
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India will happen after I publish my Tropicism theory paper
Curtis Yarvin@curtis_yarvin
Stop trying to make India happen. India’s not going to happen
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“Jack and Jill.. ran up the hill. To do what? To fetch a pail of water. Why? Is there none at the bottom of the hill? Why not? Because Benjamin Netanyahu -“Bibi”- AhAuHaU - took it. So now they have to go up the hill. And no one, up until just now, has been willing to say it. Well we are.”
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