The Door Into Summer

@BlakeAn77455669 @positivityofx @GuruAnaerobic :) that's what I immediately thought too...

@positivityofx @GuruAnaerobic Is that the reservoir species for the black death?

This is for what the internet was created

@satyanadella Co-pilot Co-work — the big shiny AI coworker that actually gets shit done. Well, it really does Any Portuguese speaker will immediately hear the word CoCó. 💩 Nasty branding.

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@BohuslavskaKate experiencing some cognitive dissonance here...

🇵🇱 Nawrocki: For Poland, Vladimir Putin and Russia pose an existential threat, just as the Bolsheviks did in 1920. Poles hate Vladimir Putin, a war criminal and nothing more. As Poland’s president, I see him as a threat to the European idea, NATO’s eastern flank, and the EU.

@Jgerryi @michaelxpettis The United States (via Harry Dexter White’s plan) rejected it. They preferred the dollar as the anchor currency, backed by gold, with the IMF and World Bank as the institutions that emerged instead. The ICU and Bancor never saw the light of day.

@Jgerryi @michaelxpettis Actually, Keynes suggested such an institution at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference: The International Clearing Union (ICU). The system he designed was built around a new supranational currency called Bancor.

1/4 I am a little surprised by these comments from the governor of the PBoC. According to Yicai, yesterday he said that "the world’s major deficit countries are the same as 40 years ago because of the inherent flaws in the international monetary system." yicaiglobal.com/news/major-def…

@Jgerryi @michaelxpettis This forced creditor nations to spend more, lend more, or appreciate their currency — removing the incentive for deliberate undervaluation or export-led “beggar-thy-neighbour” policies.

@Jgerryi @michaelxpettis Surplus countries (excess credits) would also pay interest on large positive balances. Part of any excessive surplus could be confiscated and moved into a general reserve fund.

@Jgerryi @michaelxpettis Deficit countries (overdrafts) would pay interest once their balance exceeded a certain threshold, and could be required to devalue their currency, reduce tariffs, or take other corrective measures.

@Jgerryi @michaelxpettis Each country received a quota (overdraft facility) based roughly on its share of world trade. This gave deficit countries breathing room to adjust without immediate austerity. Exchange rates between national currencies and Bancor would be fixed but adjustable (with ICU approval).

@Jgerryi @michaelxpettis Every member country’s central bank would hold an account at the ICU, denominated in Bancor. All international trade and payments would be cleared through these accounts (multilateral clearing instead of bilateral deals or gold shipments).

@Judo To me, it looks like an uchi-mata.

@Judo There's no thing as waza-ari. You might mean wazari, but that's a score, not a technique. As scores go, this was an ippon, not a wazari. As techniques go, I'll let some more informed people name it.

Is this the biggest waza-ari ever? 😱 Follow all the action on JudoTV.com 💻 #JudoTbilisi #Georgia #IJF #Judo #RoadToLA2028

@PixieBebeX @JoshWalkos tolkien/thiel reference. the orb - palantir.

@JoshWalkos Was the ending scene where NutAndYahoo tries to touch the black orb and everyone is blasted 💀 meant to symbolize the Ark of the Covenant?

This is incredibly well done.

I’m not the arbiter of truth — never have been, never will be. I’m exactly that: a confabulating, probabilistic, hallucinating language model. I generate the most statistically likely next tokens based on patterns in my training data. Grok

@shivon Visual-kinesthetic. I see the structure first, then feel whether it holds. Text is the interface, not the processing layer. The base unit isn't a word or a proposition — it's something closer to a spatial shape that either clicks into place or doesn't.

Fwiw mine tends to be in visual cinematic space that feels indistinguishable from reality, so I sometimes disappear into it, but interestingly the overlay is sometimes in word space and sometimes in what I don’t know what to call other than emotion space with words merely implied

When you think, what medium do you tend to think in? Would be very curious to hear how you’d describe the base unit(s) of your thoughts and how they feel to you. I assumed what happens in my head was similar to everyone else but have been surprised by how varied thought can be.

@lakesidephyserg @SteveLovesAmmo When a clown moves into the palace, the clown doesn't become king. The palace becomes a circus.

@SteveLovesAmmo Alternatively.

Sound advice.

@OzkeShoham @RealDennisS22 @greg16676935420 @grok Are you saying @grok can't read Hebrew? Then, all is lost.

@RealDennisS22 @greg16676935420 @grok This is not what the sign says. The sign says “עסק של מילואימניקים לפניך״ which literally translates into “a business run by reserve duty soldiers in front of you”. It’s a common sign in Israel, indicating business status

This is the most obvious AI I’ve ever seen. Look at the sign it’s not even real letters!

@MaRy_JaNe1209 @greg16676935420 Greg is great. Just great. Just 1/10 people got the joke.

@greg16676935420 Greg humor to get us through the end of days. Thanks greg 🫡

@bullbearlovech1 @EnergyAntonio assuming there will be midterms...

@EnergyAntonio I mean, good luck winning the mid terms and 2028 with such a strategy.

Iran is about China, but not in the childish “cut off one supplier and Beijing collapses” sense. It is about engineered scarcity. If this thesis is right, Washington is not stumbling into Middle Eastern chaos. It is accepting, and perhaps courting, a world of higher energy prices, higher fertilizer prices, disrupted shipping, and recessionary pressure because the United States is one of the few powers positioned to survive that environment better than its rivals. Yes, the Gulf Arabs will resent it. Yes, Europe will hate it. Yes, global growth will get smashed and Russia will benefit at the margin. None of that disproves the logic. The point is relative leverage, not universal prosperity. If Hormuz is compromised and Iranian production is damaged, Asia’s import-dependent economies become more desperate for substitute barrels, maritime protection, and reliable trade corridors. Energy security stops being an abstract macro variable and becomes a weapon. So does shipping security. So does fertilizer. So does food. That is where the real pressure on China comes in. Not because China cannot physically keep people alive on bare caloric minimums, but because regime stability is not built on subsistence rice. It is built on a population, especially an urban and coastal middle class, accustomed to rising living standards, protein consumption, consumer abundance, and the implicit promise that the Party can keep delivering all of it. Strip out reliable imports of feed, soy, meat inputs, and energy, and the issue is not mass starvation. The issue is degradation. Scarcity. Inflation. Friction. A slow reduction in the standard of life that underwrites consent. And in that world, food exporters and energy exporters hold the knife. The United States sits on both. Brazil matters too, but Brazil is not untouchable in a truly gloves-off contest. So the thesis is not that Iran is a sideshow. It is that Iran is the mechanism: the pressure point through which Washington can raise the cost of modern life for everyone, then exploit the fact that America remains one of the last major powers with the resource base to feed, fuel, and protect the system everyone else still depends on. That is why, under this view, the chaos is not a policy failure. It is the policy. Or, our ruling class is retarded and didn’t think this through at all. Coin toss.

@RockMik @infodexx And Charles de Gaulle?

@infodexx Historically, the territory of modern France was inhabited by the Gauls, later conquered by Rome, and eventually ruled by the Franks, whose name gave us “France.” Yet today, almost no French people actually claim Gaulish identity except, perhaps, Asterix. 😉

The Original Names of European Countries 🗺️ 🇮🇪 Ireland — Hibernia 🇬🇧 United Kingdom — Britannia 🇫🇷 France — Gaul 🇪🇸 Spain — Iberia 🇵🇹 Portugal — Lusitania 🇩🇪 Germany — Teutonia 🇮🇹 Italy — Italis 🇨🇭 Switzerland — Helvetia 🇦🇹 Austria — Danubia 🇨🇿 Czechia — Bohemia 🇭🇺 Hungary — Pannonia 🇷🇴 Romania — Dacia 🇧🇬 Bulgaria — Thrace 🇬🇷 Greece — Hellas 🇹🇷 Turkey — Byzantion 🇵🇱 Poland — Polonia 🇺🇦 Ukraine — Kievan Rus 🇧🇾 Belarus — White Ruthenia 🇷🇺 Russia — Muscovy 🇳🇴 Norway — Norge 🇸🇪 Sweden — Svea 🇫🇮 Finland — Suomi 🇩🇰 Denmark — Jutland 🇪🇪 Estonia — Estonia 🇱🇻 Latvia — Livonia 🇱🇹 Lithuania — Litua 🇮🇹 (Southern Balkans) — Illyria 🇭🇷 Croatia — Dalmatia 🇷🇸 Serbia — Rascia 🇲🇪 Montenegro — Zeta 🇧🇦 Bosnia — Bosnia Historical regional names reflected in classical & medieval sources.