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John Willmoth

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Founder @poplarventures, supporter of entrepreneurs, fan of @ukathletics, feeling blessed by family and friends

Louisville Katılım Mart 2010
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John Willmoth
John Willmoth@johnwillmoth·
@DeAngelisCorey Anyone else think it’s ironic (and a problem) that there is no diversity of thought in education related entities?
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Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist
Campaign contributions from the American Federation of Teachers to Democrats: 1996: 99.1% 1998: 98.9% 2000: 99.2% 2002: 99.3% 2004: 98.0% 2006: 99.1% 2008: 99.1% 2010: 99.4% 2012: 99.4% 2014: 99.0% 2016: 99.7% 2018: 99.8% 2020: 99.6% 2022: 99.97% 2024: 99.89% Money laundering.
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John Willmoth
John Willmoth@johnwillmoth·
AI may be uncomfortable at times because it has the capacity to challenge some long held beliefs. But it will help all of us get to truth much much faster and deconstruct the fake arguments often used to push specific agendas and brainwash people. Bullish for humanity.
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael

Juan, range ta guillotine version Wish et retourne bosser tes cours d'économie que tu as manifestement séchés à l'ENS. Parce que le monde dans lequel ta posture marchait vient de mourir hier. Laisse-moi t'expliquer pourquoi. La loi de Brandolini est morte. Elle ne le sait pas encore. Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas : la loi de Brandolini, formulée en 2013, énonçait que "la quantité d'énergie nécessaire pour réfuter une connerie est d'un ordre de grandeur supérieure à celle nécessaire pour la produire". Pendant 40 ans, c'est cette asymétrie qui a permis aux théories fausses, idéologiques, séduisantes, de dominer le débat public. Marx, Bourdieu, Piketty, Foucault, toute l'école de Francfort. Produire une thèse fausse mais bien tournée prend trois pages. La démonter sérieusement en prend trois cents. Donc personne ne le faisait, et la fausseté gagnait par épuisement de l'adversaire. Les libéraux ont perdu la bataille culturelle pendant 50 ans à cause de cette asymétrie. Pas parce qu'ils avaient tort. Parce qu'ils n'avaient pas le temps. Pendant qu'un Bourdieu écrivait La Distinction, il aurait fallu cinq économistes et dix mille heures pour répondre point par point. Aucun ne l'a fait. Pendant qu'un Piketty publiait Le Capital au XXIe siècle, il aurait fallu un livre entier rien que pour démonter ses biais méthodologiques. Quelques universitaires l'ont tenté, personne ne les a lus. L'IA vient de tuer cette asymétrie. Pour de bon. Aujourd'hui, n'importe quel individu, équipé d'un modèle de langage moderne, peut en quinze minutes produire une réfutation point par point d'une théorie qui aurait pris six mois à un universitaire isolé. La loi de Brandolini n'est pas seulement neutralisée. Elle est inversée. La connerie devient la chose la plus coûteuse à produire, parce qu'elle se fait démonter en temps réel devant un million de spectateurs. C'est en train de se passer sous nos yeux et la plupart des gens ne l'ont pas encore compris. Le théoricien qui pose une thèse non connectée au réel se faisait, hier, applaudir poliment dans une salle de Sciences Po. Aujourd'hui, sa thèse atterrit sur X, croise dix réfutations factuelles, sourcées, claires, écrites en quelques heures par des gens qui n'ont pas son titre mais qui ont la donnée et la rigueur. Et le verdict tombe en 24 heures devant 500 000 personnes. Le diplôme ne protège plus. Le titre ne protège plus. La rhétorique ne protège plus. Seule la connexion au réel protège. Ça change tout. Les conséquences sont immenses et elles arrivent vite. Le théoricien hors-sol, espèce dominante du débat public français pendant un demi-siècle, est en voie d'extinction. Pas parce qu'on l'a interdit. Parce qu'il n'a plus de monopole sur la production de discours autorisé. N'importe qui, équipé d'un LLM et d'une volonté de chercher, peut le contredire avec autant de force argumentative que lui, plus la donnée empirique en bonus. Le virtue signaling meurt aussi. Pendant 20 ans, signaler ses bonnes intentions était une stratégie sociale gagnante : dire les bonnes choses, citer les bons auteurs, afficher les bons drapeaux. Personne n'avait l'énergie de vérifier la cohérence entre les positions affichées et leurs conséquences réelles. Maintenant, l'IA peut produire en cinq minutes une analyse exhaustive des contradictions internes d'un discours, des conséquences empiriques de ses recommandations dans les pays qui les ont appliquées, des intérêts personnels de celui qui les porte. Le signaling devient transparent. L'hypocrisie meurt. Tous ceux qui prêchent une morale dans laquelle ils ne vivent pas vont être démasqués. Le marxiste qui possède trois appartements à Paris. L'écologiste qui prend l'avion 40 fois par an. Le pourfendeur des inégalités qui a ses enfants dans le privé. Tout cela était caché derrière l'asymétrie de Brandolini. Personne n'avait le temps d'enquêter sur chaque cas. L'IA enquête en temps réel. La lâcheté intellectuelle meurt. Pendant des décennies, les universitaires qui voyaient les failles d'un raisonnement dominant restaient silencieux par calcul de carrière. Réfuter Bourdieu en France, c'était se condamner à rester maître de conférences à perpétuité. Aujourd'hui, n'importe qui peut publier la réfutation, et si elle est solide, elle se diffuse. La lâcheté n'est plus protégée par le coût de l'audace. Les victimes collatérales seront nombreuses. Beaucoup de gens qui ont construit leur identité, leur carrière, leur statut social sur des théories séduisantes mais fausses vont voir leur capital symbolique s'effondrer en quelques années. C'est brutal. Mais c'est juste, parce que ce capital symbolique a été accumulé en exploitant l'asymétrie de Brandolini, c'est-à-dire au détriment de la vérité. Je n'ai jamais été aussi bullish sur le monde qui arrive. Pour la première fois depuis Gutenberg, on a un saut de qualité dans la capacité humaine à séparer le vrai du faux dans le débat public. Pas parce que l'IA dit toujours la vérité (elle se trompe encore parfois), mais parce qu'elle réduit à zéro le coût marginal de la réfutation. Et dans un débat public où réfuter ne coûte plus rien, ce sont les théories vraies qui gagnent. Toujours. Mécaniquement. Donc Juan, et tous ceux qui partagent ton logiciel : la posture du sage qui méprise sans répondre ne marche plus. Le "lisez" condescendant ne marche plus. Le "tu n'es qu'un perroquet d'IA" ne marche plus. Tout ça, c'étaient des stratégies d'évitement qui ne tenaient que parce que personne n'avait l'énergie de te coincer. Maintenant tout le monde a cette énergie, à coût zéro, en parallèle, en permanence. Bienvenue dans le monde où la rigueur intellectuelle redevient le seul actif qui compte. Le monde est brillant. Il est en train de devenir radicalement plus juste. Et ceux qui s'accrochent aux anciennes asymétries vont se faire balayer. Je l'attendais depuis 15 ans. Il est là.

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Bahar Akhavan
Bahar Akhavan@AkhavanBahar·
This week was tough. I had dinner with my intelligent friends from European countries, people who have spent half their lives working within the United Nations. We were having a good time until the conversation turned to Donald Trump and Iran. Everyone, without exception, spoke badly of Trump: that he causes problems for everyone, that war is terrible, that it is illegal, and so on. I stayed silent. When everyone finally became quiet, I asked only one question: who is actually going to collect and remove those more than 400 kilograms of uranium? My French friend said: Trump is no better than the regime. On top of that, he has started an illegal war, and many countries have nuclear power plants why shouldn’t Iran have them too? I exploded inside, but I remained silent at first. When I finally broke my silence, I said: was it illegal when the United States helped the French during the Second World War? Was it unnecessary? Then silence returned. I kept thinking about how to express everything happening inside me; how to explain the regime to a European-someone surrounded by left-wing ideology, enclosed within indirect forms of censorship, and always ready to say that war is terrible, yet surprised when I say many Iranians wanted it. How do you explain to people who live in safety that some nations sometimes see outside pressure as the only remaining path when every internal path has been closed? How do you explain that they do not even speak in geopolitical terms, but judge only from a position of moral comfort, while others are speaking about survival? Europeans who, despite democracy and free internet, still do not know what happened in Iran on January 8–9. Europeans who believe every conflict can be understood through the same moral template. Europeans who condemn all violence in theory, but have never had to live under a Islamic system where violence is part of everyday life. And I sat there with the feeling that the distance between our realities was greater than the table around which we were sitting…
Reza Pahlavi@PahlaviReza

Whether or not Europe stands with us, whether or not your journalists do their jobs, whether or not your politicians demonstrate the courage to act, I will fight for my people and my country.

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Geiger Capital
Geiger Capital@Geiger_Capital·
This is insane… The Virginia redistricting amendment on the ballot today is framed as a vote to "restore fairness in the upcoming elections." In reality, it turns a state that Kamala barely won by 5 pts from 6D-5R to 10D-1R.
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John Willmoth
John Willmoth@johnwillmoth·
@Pontifex Agree. But what do I do when someone doesn’t accept me? Or wants to kill me?
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Pope Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex·
#Peace is not something we must invent: it is something we must embrace by accepting our neighbor as a brother or sister. We do not choose our brothers and sisters: we must simply accept one another! We are one family, inhabiting the same home: this wonderful planet that ancient cultures have cared for over millennia. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon
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Jack Posobiec
Jack Posobiec@JackPosobiec·
Pope Leo: “In Europe, fears are present but often generated by people who are against immigration and trying to keep out people who may be from another country, another religion, another race. I would say that we all need to work together."
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Cynical Publius
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
The thing nobody is talking about is that we finally have positive confirmation from the mullahs themselves that they intend to acquire nuclear weapons. The USA can never allow a group of 8th Century savages who want nukes so they can precipitate Armageddon, thereby causing the Twelfth Imam to arise from a well in Qom, to EVER obtain those nukes. If the Democrats and European "elites" were not so blinded by hatred for Trump they would understand that this is a humanity-saving mission.
The White House@WhiteHouse

Vice President JD Vance gives an update in Pakistan: "The simple fact is that we need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon, and they will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon."

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Samantha Smith
Samantha Smith@SamanthaTaghoy·
The Iranian Regime: >killed 1 million Iranians since 1979 >murders critics of the Regime >denies women basic rights >bankrolls global Islamic terrorism >allows child marriage and child rape The UN: >puts them in charge of human rights, women’s rights and anti-terrorism policy
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Gummi
Gummi@gummibear737·
Iran was trying to use the North Korean model to get a nuke: create sufficient conventional deterrence so you won’t be challenged in acquiring one (it’s called the Seoul Hostage Problem). This has been explained over and over since day one. Everyone claiming shifting goalposts or no imminent threat has been lying. The reason North Korea was allowed to get nukes is because Seoul (and its 10 million inhabitants) is within artillery and rocket range of North Korea. During the 1994 nuclear crisis, the Clinton administration seriously considered airstrikes on North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor but backed off precisely because of the artillery threat to Seoul. Iran was trying to accomplish the same by stockpiling missiles and drones which would have had the same deterrent effect. The proof is what Iran has been doing in the past month: attacking all its neighbors in order to pressure the US to stop attacking it Beyond this, they were building medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach Paris and London, meaning all of Europe could be held hostage as they built a nuclear bomb. The reason Iran has not built a nuclear weapon until now is not because it couldn’t, but because it knew it would be attacked and denied this capability. So by allowing them to continue developing this conventional deterrence, you would be allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And unlike North Korea, Iran is led by an eschatological death cult Reagan saw nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD) as both morally bankrupt (because of the innocent-body-count problem) and dangerously fragile because it assumed flawless rationality between adversaries…this means it only takes one irrational actor to destroy the world. Working backwards from the conclusion that Iran’s Islamist regime must never have a nuclear weapon, it was necessary for the US to attack Iran to deny it the conventional capacity to hold the entire eastern hemisphere hostage. Every European leader knows this and behind the scenes praises the US for this action. But they are cowards, held hostage by their own internal Muslim populations, and so adopt these ridiculous public positions. This was never about Israel. And if your argument is that Iran should be allowed to get a nuclear weapon then you are a fool and a traitor to western civilization…you’re a useful idiot
Ryan Saavedra@RyanSaavedra

Secretary of State Marco Rubio gives an excellent explanation on why the U.S. needed to strike Iran It's less than 2 minutes and is worth the watch

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Eyal Yakoby@EYakoby·
Tucker Carlson: “Sharia Law has made Islamic societies more advanced than the West.” Do I need to even add a further caption?
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John Willmoth
John Willmoth@johnwillmoth·
@KyleTuckerCBB We don’t have the horses. Every good team this year has a stud (or two or three).
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Kyle Tucker
Kyle Tucker@KyleTuckerCBB·
Curious where Kentucky fans stand after two years of Mark Pope. Sweet 16 last season, epic first-round win and second-round blowout loss this season. 1) Grade the Pope era so far. 2) What must happen next season to feel confident?
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John Willmoth
John Willmoth@johnwillmoth·
@joeroganhq Can you name a few more identity groups? I am embarrassed for people who buy into this bullshit.
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Joe Rogan Podcast News
Joe Rogan Podcast News@joeroganhq·
AOC: Republicans are "radicalizing and exploiting young boys" and pushing them towards a "masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them."
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John Willmoth
John Willmoth@johnwillmoth·
@joeroganhq Kidding right? The media is dominated by left wing automatons who can’t say a single positive thing about the current administration. How is that authoritarian?
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Joe Rogan Podcast News@joeroganhq·
Jim Acosta: "What we're witnessing right now is not America. This is very close to what is going on in Russia and Hungary and other authoritarian countries where they only show the kind of news that the government wants you to hear and see."
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Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar@amyklobuchar·
Good news: The John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award going to the people of the Twin Cities is a recognition of how our state persevered and led the way in defending freedom and democracy.
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Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_·
Edward Norton: “The anxiety of these times is particularly intense right now. We know the world is effed up in ways that are unprecedented in our lifetimes. We live in this unbelievable onslaught of information. We see genocide being livestreamed to us. We see American citizens being killed by paramilitary people in our own streets for standing in solidarity with their neighbors. We’re seeing Epstein’s abuses titrated into us on a daily basis”
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The Economist
The Economist@TheEconomist·
The reckless campaign against Iran will weaken America’s president. That will make him angry. Be warned: he makes a very bad loser econ.st/4lA7lEQ
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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders·
Jeff Bezos, worth $234 billion, plans to replace 600,000 Amazon workers with robots. Now, he wants to spend $100 billion to fully automate not just his warehouses, but factories in the U.S & other countries. Oligarchs are waging all out war against workers. FIGHT BACK.
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John Willmoth
John Willmoth@johnwillmoth·
@roddreher If the diversity of comments on this essay are any indication, the future is going to be a wild mess. 🤪
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