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Patrick Berzai

@patrickberzai

Stories, Stats & Systems | Marketing, GTM & Ad Slinger | 📖 “Creditworthy: A Ledger Theory of History” due out later this year

New York, NY Katılım Kasım 2025
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Patrick Berzai
Patrick Berzai@patrickberzai·
I started a @Substack today in the lead-up to ‘Creditworthy: A Ledger Theory of History.’ You can use it to see how the framework shows up in the everyday. The goal is to make the underlying patterns visible. Once you see them, you can't unsee them. open.substack.com/pub/creditwort…
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Patrick Berzai@patrickberzai·
@Lovecrafti42129 @nxt888 @420GHz It’s AI written. The Fronde wasn’t about colonization so you didn’t read what I wrote. Fanon had a finely sharpened, mid-witted grievance. The end.
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Lovecraftian Terror
Lovecraftian Terror@Lovecrafti42129·
@patrickberzai @nxt888 @420GHz You obviously haven't been following Sonny if you think this is Ai written. That being said, you didn't read his response. Or I should say, you did not comprehend it. Colonialism rots both the colonized and the colonizers. That is what Fonde wrote. It is about class.
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Sony Thăng
Sony Thăng@nxt888·
There is a specific class that empire produces in every country it touches. They were educated at Western universities or Western-modeled universities. They read Western newspapers. They attend the conferences where Western think tanks set the terms of "respectable debate." They have absorbed, so deeply they cannot locate it as an assumption, the belief that "modernity" has a single address and that address is approximately in the North Atlantic. This class does not think of itself as colonized. It thinks of itself as "educated." It serves as the transmission belt. Between the imperial center and the domestic population. Translating imperial priorities into local language. Making the acceptable range of political debate the same in Jakarta as in Washington. Frantz Fanon described this class in The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, specifically in the chapter "The Pitfalls of National Consciousness," and called them the national bourgeoisie. He predicted, before most of these countries had fully demonstrated it, that this class would inherit the flag of independence and the function of the colonizer simultaneously. They are still here. They run newspapers. They staff central banks. They advise governments. The empire does not need to be present. It left its people behind when it educated them.
Uppili@usriniva

@nxt888 Brilliant. Resonates with Noam Chomsky! The "home" that is the target of the propaganda is wider than the US or the West. It shapes the attitudes and opinions among all western influenced and western aspirant countries - India, Japan, S. Korea etc.

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Patrick Berzai@patrickberzai·
@CityBureaucrat Indulgences were the first futures market and Luther just called their margin. It was well received by city states that no longer wanted to pay the church.
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Second City Bureaucrat
Second City Bureaucrat@CityBureaucrat·
There's a type of Germanic who always needs to speak directly to the god, because he trusts his own senses and intuitions. Look at the sagas. This type should be encouraged over the type that needs weekly software patches from a guru/priest/rabbi to assuage the anxiety that attends consciousness of the irreconcilable contradictions inherent to formalized belief and rule systems.
Clint Warren-Davey@Clint_Davey1

I will say it again. The Reformation was simply German autism versus Italian corruption.

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Patrick Berzai@patrickberzai·
Tocqueville’s Paradox is the idea that in America we will become more unsatisfied with our lives, the easier they get. In our technocratic need to create efficiency and remove friction and hierarchies flatten, humans will invent new frictions. open.substack.com/pub/creditwort…
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Wesley Yang
Wesley Yang@wesyang·
You have to lobotomize yourself to believe this. Unfortunately, the governing and chattering classes of the Western world all obediently lobotomized themselves. It was a test of the moral and epistemic integrity of that class -- a test that those who administered the test knew the takers would fail. Can we make you contort yourself to believe self-evident nonsense and join in treating those who don't also lobotomize themselves as hated pariahs? Yes, yes we can.
Defiant L’s@DefiantLs

McBride: “Threats toward trans people are threats toward all women.”

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emily may@emilykmay·
if men stopped doing all the heavy duty, necessary, dirty jobs that make the world run...women would do them. we already know this, it happened in WWII. if women stopped doing the thankless, routine care work that makes the world go round, vulnerable people would be neglected.
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Patrick Berzai@patrickberzai·
Feminism! DEI! Nation of immigrants! All feel good stories in our lifetime that mask true ledger-based reasons for these movements— wage suppression. Competency has given way to creditor signals & compliance. It hasn’t made any products any better. open.substack.com/pub/creditwort…
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Senator Jim Banks@SenatorBanks

The next generation deserves more than broken promises and outsourced dreams. They deserve a fair shot to work, build, and thrive in the nation they call home. I'm leading S. 2821 – the "American Tech Workforce Act" to end the H-1B scam and put hardworking Americans first.

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Patrick Berzai@patrickberzai·
@vadneighhhh @ProfMSinha It’s literally in the Federalist Papers and the Constitution. You can provide any countervailing evidence. Have you heard of evidence? Do you know what it is?
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Patrick Berzai@patrickberzai·
@vadneighhhh @ProfMSinha So you called me illiterate and then asked me to read the tweet again? And you are mocking others literacy with bad punctuation and grammar? I’m not worried about what you think.
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vadneighhhh@vadneighhhh·
@patrickberzai @ProfMSinha my darling my angel, read the tweet again. see if you can grasp the meaning of the words. i believe you can do it, with significant effort!
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FischerKing
FischerKing@FischerKing64·
So basically a ‘non-profit’ is a highly profitable enterprise for the people who run them - their friends in government funnel taxpayer dollars to them, and they pretend to engage in some kind of charitable activities that don’t achieve anything.
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Alyssa Cass@ACCass·
NEW POLL: New Yorkers say the best way to address the budget deficit is to tax the wealthy, not cut city services. Voters favor a millionaire and corporate tax increase over the status quo 60% to 35%, and choose taxes over "smart savings" 51% to 42% as a deficit reduction strategy—even though nearly half say inefficiency is a big problem with city government today. mailchi.mp/a06f6a59747a/g…
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Patrick Berzai@patrickberzai·
@Martinoleary No I don’t. But you can prompt it to write like them. When I have to read some dumb manual in prompt “explain this to me like David Foster Wallace would” and it’s more entertaining.
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Martin 🏹
Martin 🏹@Martinoleary·
@patrickberzai yea some Ted talks now looking back on them are total cheez. do you think eventually ai writing might actually become on par with the best writers?
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Patrick Berzai
Patrick Berzai@patrickberzai·
The same people who dislike how LLMs write were the ones who always gushed and gabbed about the latest TED Conferences talks for years. “It’s not X, it’s Y …” and “heres the thing they won’t tell you” and all other LLM-isms were beloved when they were in every single TED talk.
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Crime In NYC
Crime In NYC@Crime_In_NYC·
Ideas for helping New York City to work its way out of a developing fiscal crisis: ● Drive out taxpayers. ● Encourage street vendors to replace store owners. ● Make it impossible for landlords to operate profitably. ● Fill hotels and shelters with illegal aliens. ● Free inmates from Rikers Island, to help local companies attract employees.
Spectrum News NY1@NY1

One idea to solve the city's budget deficit would entail pushing off or decreasing payments to pension funds for city employees, possibly to the next generation. Read more: specne.ws/XSsjED

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Patrick Berzai@patrickberzai·
@docMJP @FischerKing64 It’s a classic case of the noblesse de robe (compliance and credentialed class) bearing the noblesse d’epee (competence class) again.
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Matthew J. Peterson
Matthew J. Peterson@docMJP·
Guy bets on himself and the mission. Makes $400k off of 33k and gets in trouble. In her 37 yrs in Congress, Paul and Nancy Pelosi rack up $130M off stocks: a 16,930% return. One thing I learned early: what’s considered corruption—and what’s not—is often a matter of scale.
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg

BREAKING: The DOJ has arrested a special forces soldier who made $400,000 betting on the removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to ABC. Federal investigators say the soldier bet more than $33,000 just hours before Trump announced Maduro's capture. The special forces soldier was reportedly directly involved with the capture. "The largest position -- a $32,537 bet that Maduro would be out of office by Jan. 31 -- resulted in a 1,242% profit of $404,222," ABC News reported. "Following his successful trading relating to Maduro- and Venezuela-related contracts, [Gannon Ken] VAN DYKE allegedly sent most of his proceeds to a foreign cryptocurrency vault before depositing them into a newly created online brokerage account. The same day of the operation, VAN DYKE withdrew the majority of his allegedly unlawful proceeds from his Polymarket account..." the DOJ announced. "VAN DYKE, 38, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, is charged with three counts of violating the Commodity Exchange Act, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison; one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; and one count of an unlawful monetary transaction, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison."

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Patrick Berzai@patrickberzai·
@ArtemisConsort Well many are salaried. Many work more than 40 hrs a week (by a lot) so it might be a wash.
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Hunter Ash@ArtemisConsort·
If we could get an accurate account of how much time employees spend goofing off, I am highly confident the net amount of “wage theft” would be negative.
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Everybody is Insane
Everybody is Insane@colorblindk1d·
Other than the high speed rails, every piece of Chinese propaganda on this site are things that America has been doing for like a century. It's also funny how people think that LED light shows are like the most technologically advanced sign of progress.
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Patrick Berzai@patrickberzai·
@AdamSinger Unfortunately, the founders didn’t mean the Constitution for everyone. Only the rational people. It’s because it was an IPO, a debt prospectus meant to make the US creditworthy, masquerading as a legal system. open.substack.com/pub/creditwort…
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