James Gish

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James Gish

James Gish

@jamesgish_

Author. My debut novel, "Apotheosis: Red" - a vampire slash fiction novel - is available now as an eBook on Amazon Kindle.

Brisbane, Australia Katılım Nisan 2023
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James Gish
James Gish@jamesgish_·
Next time you make an omelette, spend five more minutes to make it much better: separate the egg whites from the yolks, mix the yolks thoroughly with milk, beat the whites until they're creamy but not stiff, and then carefully fold together and pour into the frying pan. Trust me.
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Andrew Côté
Andrew Côté@Andercot·
If I was a benevolent Kardashev Type III civilization I would do some spacetime metric engineering to drive an accelerated expansion of the universe, red-shifting most galaxies beyond each others Hubble volume, preventing any winner-take all conquest dynamics for the light cone
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James Gish@jamesgish_·
@RokoMijic @tenobrus Only if those who died were those most likely to be sociopaths, psychopaths, narcissists, and other antisocial types. But the argument is that these would all be red-pressers; the most pro-social types are likely to be blue-pressers given the original framing.
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Roko 🐉
Roko 🐉@RokoMijic·
@tenobrus It might be better than okay - it would probably significantly improve the world
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Tenobrus@tenobrus·
@RokoMijic the transfer is in the risk taken on by blue voters in an attempt to save other blue voters. each red voter avoids the risk by incrementally increasing the risk to others, and again red voters in *reality* will only "win/be happy" if blue wins
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James Gish
James Gish@jamesgish_·
For anyone interested, it turns out the "journalist" was @LiamRBartlett whose "journalism" was later the centrepiece of Channel 7 Spotlight's error-riddled piece on cobalt+nickel use in battery systems. @ABCmediawatch had a field day. Liam is a disgrace.
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James Gish
James Gish@jamesgish_·
You can hold the government to account without being rude, unprofessional, lying, or engaging solely in outrage-farming nonsense. Is this what Australian journalists have become? The whole industry ought to be ashamed. Goodness gracious.
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James Gish@jamesgish_·
I just watched a press conference by Minister Chris Bowen, and some of the journos were horribly rude and selfish, and/or spitting ridiculous gotcha questions or outright falsehoods. If media companies support this behaviour, they ought to be ashamed.
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James Gish@jamesgish_·
Well put.
Mehdi (e/λ)@BetterCallMedhi

rien ne ressemble plus violemment au choc de revenir en Chine et de réaliser à quel point l'occident est devenu une civilisation qui demande la permission avant de construire à Shenzhen un gamin de 20 ans qui a une idée à 8h du matin a un prototype fonctionnel à 18h le même jour, dans le même temps un diplômé français achète une formation à 1500 euros pour apprendre à valider son idée avec un canvas notion qu'il ne montrera à personne, attend l'avis de 4 mentors linkedIn qu'il n'a jamais rencontrés, lit 12 livres sur le lean startup pour bien comprendre la méthodologie & 6 mois + tard le hamin chinois a vendu sa boite à Tencent pendant que le français en est encore à choisir le nom de son LLC sur shine je pense que le vrai problème CULTUREL c'est qu'on a appris aux jeunes occidentaux et notamment aux européens que l'entrepreneuriat était une recette de cuisine, ouvrez le bon livre m, suivez les bonnes étapes obtenez le bon résultat alors que que personne ne sait rien, personne n'a jamais rien su et tous les empires industriels de l'histoire ont émergé d'une combinaison de hasard de séréndipité et d'une seule personne qui a juste commencé sans avoir compris d'avance pour rappel Brian chesky (Airbnb) a loué son matelas gonflable parce qu'il ne pouvait pas payer son loyer, Zeng Yuqun de CATL a démonté des batteries dans un garage de Shenzhen sans savoir où ça allait le mener et la vérité c'est que l'illusion du plan parfait est le mécanisme de protection psychologique préféré de ceux qui ont peur de commencer le meilleur conseil que j’ai à vous donner ici c’est juste de commencer, ouvrez votre laptop ce soir et codez la version moche de votre idée, soudez vos premiers prototypes même mal foutus dans votre garage, lancez votre premier produit avec un site web hideux, vendez votre premier service à un client trouvé sur un groupe Telegram… vous comprendrez en 3 jours d’action concrète ce que vous n’auriez jamais compris en 3 ans de réflexion abstraite, le seul algorithme qui a jamais fonctionné dans toute l’histoire de la création humaine c’est commencer mal mais itérer rapidement, échouer publiquement, apprendre violemment & recommencer en mieux foncez comme des bourrins sans vous poser 36000 questions parce que les questions trouvent leurs réponses dans le faire jamais dans le penser et soyons honnêtes sur le vrai blocage, ce qui paralyse 90% des aspirants bâtisseurs c'est le regard des autres beaucoup plus que le manque de compétences, la peur de paraître stupide aux yeux de la famille des collègue ou des amis on préfère ne rien tenter et garder la dignité sociale plutôt que d'essayer et de risquer le ridicule public, c'est exactement le mécanisme qui a tué l'industrie française depuis 30 ans et qui continue de tuer chaque trimestre des centaines d'idées brillantes dans les têtes de gens qui n'oseront jamais les sortir si vous êtes dans un environnement social qui rit des gens qui essaient je ne peux que vous conseiller de juste changer d'environnement, déménagez dans le bon endroit mais sortez de l'écosystème qui vous tire vers le bas je suis persuadé que la seule chose qui sépare aujourd'hui un bâtisseur d'un commentateur c'est le courage de paraître stupide pendant 18 mois en échange d'avoir construit quelque chose qui compte pendant les 30 années suivantes bref je pense que j’ai UNE NOUVELLE FOIS été trop long mais vraiment entourez vous avant tout de weirdos qui construisent, qui échouent, qui recommencent, qui passent leur temps à itérer & surtout qui ne demandent pas la permission et qui se foutent de ce que pense autrui dites vous que dans 10 ans vous serez la moyenne pondérée des 5 personnes avec qui vous passez le plus de temps, choisissez les donc comme vous choisiriez les fondations d'une maison qui doit résister à toutes les tempêtes de votre vie

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James Gish@jamesgish_·
@auntiesam_2 @waitbutwhy Car accident? Friend, unless you mean in a "Mad Max-style raid collision" sense, this seems unlikely. Probably 40% of people just died. There will be no fuel production or delivery. The global supply chain will vanish overnight. Your red neighbours are now hunting you for food.
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Auntie Sam ✝️🇺🇸🇮🇱
@waitbutwhy I'm a "red because I have people to take care of" person and that's pretty much it. Red guarantees I live. Granted, in a real scenario, many red people will die the next day in a car accident, accidental drowning, heart attack, etc. No one is guaranteed tomorrow.
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James Gish@jamesgish_·
@gothburz Indeed, who possibly could lend their attention to so crass a topic as money, when the vital issue of effervescence is at hand? The committee have proven their worth, as people of true integrity and discernment. You did well to highlight their important contribution to society.
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Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz·
@jamesgish_ The sparkling water is the only detail in this report that has never been questioned by the committee. It is also the only detail the committee has ever acted on. The managing director's email about it was longer than my surveillance report on the $430 million.
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Peter Girnus 🦅
Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz·
I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue. On April 21st, the left screen moved first. I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug. At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy. On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me. At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire. Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83. I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags. My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports. The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026: Reviewed. That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. Let me show you my flags. March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it. March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it. April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it. April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it. April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it. That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one. The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March. Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012. Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence. Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets. The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade. I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email. The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action. One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared. One account is a coincidence. But there were six. Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000. My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger. March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes. The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event. The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting." Then the White House sent the email again. I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread. I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated. But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed. Zero prosecutions. As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations. The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still. In my field, we call this price discovery.
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James Gish@jamesgish_·
Regarding the hairdryer oracle attack: a friend just imparted to me this wisdom: "intervention in polymarket outcomes should be expected; you're actually betting on the likelihood of success of attempts at intervention". Everything makes more sense now.
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James Gish@jamesgish_·
@wil_da_beast630 Everyone who has read Gulag Archipelago / Alive / any of the reports from the siege of Leningrad and who has considered for a moment what true hunger actually means, KNOWS that since they're not special they too would cannibalise. But some lie & say "not I" for clout on twitter.
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Wilfred Reilly
Wilfred Reilly@wil_da_beast630·
First, cannibalism is not unthinkable. There are 10+ situations - war, apocalypse - where I would eat at least an opposing fighting man without even thinking about it...and certainly give my hungry kids some pork stew. Second, actual rape already is at this "not unless she tried to kill me, and then I'd fear the Morrigan" level for literally about 94-96% of men. RAPISTS ignore these fears and taboos because they are bad people we should gas. So, I mean, there's^ that.
zellie@zellieimani

Mandatory

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James Gish@jamesgish_·
@TeamYouTube @skdh I can see your eyes glowing red. Evil prevails when good men and women do nothing to stop it, but in this case you seem to be actively tilting the scales in favour of copyright strike abusers rather than original creators. It's a curious stance for a platform like YouTube...
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TeamYouTube@TeamYouTube·
Aside from submitting a counter-notification, you can also wait 90 days and complete Copyright School goo.gle/48cRSFm or get a retraction directly from the claimant goo.gle/4e0C0tf to resolve the copyright strike on your channel. Totally understand your frustration with this
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Sabine Hossenfelder@skdh·
I received a false copyright claim on one of my videos and YouTube removed the video because of this. It's a video about the Riemann Hypothesis. The claim comes from some person who submits a link to their paper about "The Continuity Engine: A Formally Verified Framework Prime Resonance Unification with Medical, Physical, Mathematical Evidence" with links to two unpublished papers that are completely unrelated to my video content. It's obviously some crackpot work, I receive dozens of those a day. YouTube took the video down based on this false claim. The only way they allow me to react to this requires me to submit my personal contact information to some random crank on the internet. Alternatively, I am supposed to hire a lawyer (!!) on my own costs, to track down some random guy from whom I then have to extract my up-front expenses. I have complained to YouTube support about this multiple times. No success, the video is still down. This procedure is completely unacceptable. It allows random people to try and blackmail me into responding to them. I have no time for this bullshit and no patience either. Frankly the only sensible course of action forward that I see is to sue YouTube for facilitating fraudulent DCMA claims. @YouTubeCreators @YouTube
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James Gish@jamesgish_·
@Patrick06090676 @gfodor Well, the argument is that these meat sacks are not conscious. Another hypothetical: would it be ethical to create a breed of cow that enjoys being slaughtered and eaten by humans? Is it ethical NOT TO do so, if it's possible but we continue to farm normal cows for consumption?
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Patrick@Patrick06090676·
@gfodor The real Turing test is whether or not you are repulsed by the idea of playing God to grow conscious meat sacs having no mouth with which to scream.
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gfodor.id@gfodor·
Another example of something that I find indisputably good and worth persuing aggressively that other people find absolutely horrific, immoral, wrong, and other things. I wonder if we'll ever find a way to bridge this gap, because it's really confusing.
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@gfodor People don't think deeply about things unless they have to. They don't really find it immoral - they find it disgusting, and mistake that emotion for considered moral judgement. IMO if they _needed_ a liver transplant, they'd analyse their position and reach a diff conclusion.
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James Gish@jamesgish_·
@geofflangdale @sarmag77 Yeah. You can't create an org which directly rewards engineers who avert crises at the last minute, or you suddenly find a while bunch of crises occurring at last minute. People follow incentives, unfortunately, instead of living a life of integrity.
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Geoff Langdale@geofflangdale·
@sarmag77 Not that I've got sour grapes or anything but I've seen teams get major achievement awards for scrambling to avert a catastrophe that their own carelessness created.
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Gaurav@sarmag77·
Someone in an adjacent team once told me that because leadership doesn't acknowledge pre-incident bugs that were fixed, some people resorted to storing these kind of information with them till the incident happened. Once the incident happened, they would jump in, solve the incident in record time, and then get credited with solving a S1/S2 incident. Next review cycle, they would either get promoted or get good ratings. Not saying this is ethical or good for the team/company, but the entire perf review process needs to change if companies don't want these kinds of things to happen.
Harnoor Singh@iHarnoorSingh

Engineer prevents $80-90M recall. credited as a "good catch" lol CFO mentions the release on the earnings call six months later. The problem isn't that companies are ungrateful. It's that there's no mechanism to reward the person at the start of the value chain. Senior engineers: how do you make invisible impact visible before review season?

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Andrew Côté@Andercot·
New synthetic aperture radar scans have revealed that the Pyramids of Giza are surrounded in an anti-entropic field produced by "Time Tombs" which have sent the pyramids into our time from the future as chess pieces in a final battle between humanity and superintelligence.
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James Gish@jamesgish_·
Tools can become crutches. Laziness can become stupidity. A local maximum can turn into prison for society. Awe and wonder and genuine curiosity is the antidote.
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James Gish@jamesgish_·
@DavidMaywald I have never watched Bluey, so I don't have any opinion about it. You single out one episode here, about the pool - is the "dad messes up, mum fixes everything" trope repeated often and one-sidedly, or is the show balanced and honest that sometimes a parent makes mistakes?
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David Maywald@DavidMaywald·
Hot take: Bluey is better than most TV series for children… but it’s still far from balanced. Yes, it's warm, funny and far ahead of shows that openly mock fathers, and denigrate males in general. Bandit (the father) is engaged, loving, and hands-on, which is a rare positive dad figure (contrast this with Daddy Pig!!). But look closer. There’s a subtle, pervasive pattern: 👉 Bandit is often the butt of jokes, pushed into humiliating roles, overruled, or expected to perform even when exhausted. Chilli (the mother), Bluey, and Bingo are very rarely the butt of the joke. 👉 His struggles are played for laughs, while Chilli’s are treated with emotional depth and respect... A deep asymmetry in empathy between the sexes. 👉 The two girls frequently boss and direct their father in play, with limited accountability. Setting up corrosive behaviours for adulthood. 👉 Fathers are portrayed as inadequate and incompetent (such as The Pool episode where Bandit takes the girls swimming but is such a klutz that he forgets the essential gear), while mothers are portrayed as competent and in-charge (in The Pool episode Chilli eventually turns up with all of the equipment). 👉 Across episodes, dads are playful and expendable; mums are wise, grounded, and morally authoritative... And look at the Heeler family: two assertive girls (often bossy, sometimes entitled), rather than a mix of boys and girls... The storyline framing is centred on females and their interests, which is the definition of gynocentrism. Some critics and parents have noted episodes where children physically overwhelm or disrespect parents in play (mostly the fathers), reinforcing these dynamics. The attached image of the Trampoline episode is an example (where the two Heeler girls bully their father into meeting their short-term emotional needs, rather than fulfilling his work duties). This isn’t overt hostility, it’s cultural coding. And kids absorb it, through watching dozens of episodes over and over. Why it matters: Children’s media shapes norms. If fathers are consistently diminished, then boys learn that they’re secondary; girls learn authority without accountability. What could improve: - Show Bandit being respected, not just loved - Give him serious emotional arcs, not just comic ones - Balance authority and accountability across both parents and children For parents: - Pause and discuss: “Was that fair to Dad?” - Model mutual respect between men and women - Reinforce that both sexes deserve empathy, dignity, and accountability Bluey is a great show in some regards. But great shows can still carry bias, and they can be even better. Thoughtful parents have already noticed the bias in Bluey, as well as how it subtly harms relationships and family interactions.
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