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@anecdoted

~todset-partug / Inter-universal Geometer / Salvage Consultant

Katılım Mart 2011
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Sam Frank
Sam Frank@anecdoted·
@QuasLacrimas That’s approximately the time the old guilds in publishing and the art world were falling apart. Rapid decay of institutional knowledge, hothouse pressure, and functional hierarchy. Curious when TV writers’ rooms changed, but I assume similar timing. MeToo piggybacked on this.
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tantum@QuasLacrimas·
I don't claim to understand the exact industry trends, but it seemed that scripted television got way harder to produce after 2008 (or maybe there was just more experimentation with other media). After a decade-long upswing in reality TV, competitions, cooking shows, etc., it seems there's been a recovery in the number of formally scripted shows, but in a new serialization format where each season is treated more like a long film or a mini-series, with unpredictable hiatus.
Jon Del Arroz | Pop Culture & Gaming 🎮@jondelarroz

Why can't streaming shows come out annually when they're only 8-10 episodes when they used to produce 24 episodes a season every year on TV?

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Sam Frank@anecdoted·
@L0m3z You were on your knees in the Port Authority? 🤔
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Lomez@L0m3z·
Many years ago, after dropping out of college, I stumbled on a dusty copy of Epoch Review from 1992 featuring Denis Johnson’s story Out on Bail, which I read on a bus ride to New York City. The kind of peak literary experience that brings a sensitive young man to his knees.
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Andra@BioavailableNd·
@wavehead_ High pork consumption. Add crushed garlic and you get allithiamine.
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doomer@uncledoomer·
how the timeline feels right now with all the japanese-american cultural exchange going on
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Sam Frank
Sam Frank@anecdoted·
@ThomBrady5 Slezkine’s Jewish Century is helpful here, especially on Jewish overenthusiasm for whatever national tradition they’ve found themselves in, and how this creeps out the natives.
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Fugitive Caesar@ThomBrady5·
I am catching a ton of shit on this from longtime friends but I still think it's an open question whether Jewish subversion is a lack of assimilation, or the opposite: intense enthusiastic assimilation to suicidal colorblind egalitarianism.
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Fugitive Caesar@ThomBrady5

One of the mistakes the Right is making is designating Jews as permanent racial enemies. Leftists did same thing to young white men and created ferocious permanent enemies like me. This is complicated by the historical role of Jews as political commissars of the American empire.

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Sam Frank
Sam Frank@anecdoted·
@relic_radiation Isn’t that sort of in the name “Craniosacral”? Network Spinal has a lot to say about the spinal wave.
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Elena Lake 🌿@relic_radiation·
OMG I have a hypothesis for why bodyworkers say “the hips & jaw are connected” it’s more wave-dynamic than purely mechanical: they’re the two ends of the spine, so you would expect symmetrical standing wave patterns to show up at either end. distort one &: the other reflects it
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~disden-talhes@GlueWear·
In NY, this place is a real dump.
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Will Manidis@WillManidis·
spiritually, it feels inevitable that AGI is born in California as a uneconomic carnival gizmo, and then dragged to New York, caged and put to work by men in grey tall towers that poke and prod it until it spills trillions out filtering through PDFs
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Just Another Pod Guy
Just Another Pod Guy@TMTLongShort·
Wish I knew about this much earlier. Really is miraculous stuff. The flow state aspect by far the most compelling part since starting it ten days ago.
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It is 100% true that great men and women of the past were not sitting around moaning about their feelings. I regret nothing.
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Seasonal Clickfarm Worker@ClickingSeason·
Another contender for most bizarre modern article of faith is this assertion that we live in a “messed up society” — brother, at no point in history has it been easier for you to meet your needs
Man In Water@water5797

@ClickingSeason It doesn't matter if you're a good parent or a bad parent, the kids will end up messed up because we all have to live in this messed up society. But of course, it's better to have better parents.

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Ragnar@pikeypilled·
PSA TO WALKERS! If you walk with correct gait this will never ever happen to you Glutes, hamstrings, calves should be the primary drivers of locomotion with quadriceps least engaged
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ris ꩜@sealmath

PSA TO WALKERS! my dad used to walk like 15-20k everyday and his outer thigh muscles are much stronger than his inner thigh muscles which puts a lot of strain on his knees. his doctor told him to not walk as much/climb stairs and his knees hurt 24/7. do inner thigh workouts guys

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maro@ProofofMaro·
I swear it used to be called the Mandela Affect
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~poldec-tonteg@poldectonteg·
How do I profit off of hubris.
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Bronze Age Pervert
Bronze Age Pervert@bronzeagemantis·
Homeopathic I thought was fake shyte ? This dilution of wolfsbane ….ooooooh Mang …like having 5 coffees clean…wakes you up from cold/flu. Can it be placebo …or is wolfsbane poison …frend?
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Gabriel
Gabriel@gbrl_dick·
one thing about michael pollan is that he's always crashing out about something and then writing a 500 page book about it
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Oedipa Maas@bridgietherease·
investigating Daryl Hannah for potential elder abuse 🕵️‍♀️
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Just Another Pod Guy
Just Another Pod Guy@TMTLongShort·
Resharing what I think the game plan is going into the Trump-Xi meeting from almost a year ago. I don’t know what the timeline is and if midterms are an obstacle…. But what I do know is you can’t trust china to hold to any deal once trump is gone and the admin knows that. View everything through the lense of hegemony and what is needed to salvage it. What you saw recently in Iran is a demonstration of overwhelming military power and what it provides those who have it in the form of other countries falling in-line both politically and economically. Now remember that china is quietly ramping its military at the fastest rate in history and already is a step ahead when it comes to drone volumes. Yes their radars suck… but as investors you are taught to focus on rate of change and predict forward. You can be sure Washington has done the same. And remember who is funding this military build up by the CCP…. American consumers and European “allies”. That can’t stand. It won’t stand. Washington values hegemony more than your access to cheap goods or the price-level of the SPX. Doesn’t mean they won’t take steps to mitigate the fall-out of decoupling. But we will decouple. 🫡
Just Another Pod Guy@TMTLongShort

It’s been three weeks since I first published Economic Blitzkrieg so I figured it’s worth doing a quick overview of where we are and where I think we are headed: First to summarize: The thesis was Trump didn’t really care that much about tariffs. He cares about fortifying US hegemony by cutting out China. But to be more precise I’m going to fully outline what he cares about and then what he’s trying to do about each. Top of the list are his primary issues that needed to be addressed quickly & forcefully: A) Chinas growing industrial, technological and militaristic strength relative to the US B) A dependence on China at the base layer of U.S. industrial and military supply chains C) An unsustainable fiscal debt load and budget deficit that couldn’t be easily addressed without either irreparably impacting reserve status or forcing significant voter pain via austerity Less pressing but still relevant downstream issues that were also considered, in no particular order: D) Fentanyl crisis E) A free riding Europe that benefited from the U.S. security umbrella without commensurate compensation F) Growing economic entanglement between China and supposed military allies to the U.S. G) Growing unwillingness by voters around the world to take economic pain as the price of being a “good ally” as demonstrated by continued flow of Russian gas into Germany H) A concerted and accelerated shift of the Chinese economic model up the value-add ladder following the bust of their real estate bubble into areas that have traditionally been staples of higher-income economies including autos, semis and robotics I) Increased concern around the value of IP and the US’s assumed ability to control access to AI following Deepseek and the subsequent torrent of similar models out of China despite two years of GPU import restrictions J) A near term fiscal setup that seemed incredibly bleak given Yellen’s decision to short-date the govts debt in the form of $10T of maturities in 2025 while at the same time juiced fiscal spending to a degree that practically gaurentee economic malaise of the deficit were to be closed cold-turkey. So my thesis is that Trump turned to a number of high-IQ and mid-IQ advisors and asked for a plan. People such as Miran, Thiel, Pottinger, Colby, maybe Bessent… and yes maybe even obsessive single-issue types like Kyle Bass and Navarro. Who came up with the plan only mildly matters at this point… And these individuals constructed the following sweeping plan that attempts to solve everything all at once within the constraints he has. Constraints that include: midterm elections, the existing rule of law in the U.S. (loosely), high debt loads throughout the developed world and general unwillingness to “rock the boat”, an adversary who can exert far more economic pain on most countries vs the US. And most importantly, and adversary who has a defacto emperor for life while Trump has to wake up every morning and check the polls. Said another way, an adversary with a much higher pain tolerance vs either US politicians or voters. So what was the plan: Isolate China. Force countries to choose between two spheres of trade. Two spheres of military security. Two spheres of financial rails. But because of the aforementioned constraints you couldn’t just go to countries and ask them nicely to walk into an economic woodchipper… and while they were at it please run don’t walk since you have midterms coming up. So the strategy had to introduce game theory. It had to magnify the economic leverage. It had to introduce time constraints. It had to be binary. In or out. No room for ambiguity that can be undone by a subsequent government administration. 1/n continued below…

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