Observer of Things

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Observer of Things

Observer of Things

@spinturf

Disappointed in all of you. Likes serve as occasional likes, mostly as markers for future reference. Retweets are generally things of interest.

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Observer of Things
Observer of Things@spinturf·
#Philosophy Note 1: The best philosophy is rooted in #annoyance. A desire to root out the source of the annoyance combined with the willingness to #annoy as this is accomplished must both be present. Progress is made when both are adequately provisioned.
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Aleph
Aleph@woke8yearold·
As an aside I like to head canon that this is what Star Trek is like only the number of people working is lower. All the people in Starfleet are considered total freaks because they left a post scarcity utopia to do that shit
Paul Novosad@paulnovosad

I'm trying to imagine a stable political equilibrium where 20% of people work hard to provide amazing prosperity to 80% of people who are just chilling. The 20% will build a wall and stop paying the 80%. So how do we make it work?

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Blake Byers
Blake Byers@byersblake·
How the 5% California wealth tax is a 67% wealth tax for Sergey Brin: >Owns 3% of GOOG. >Holds 25.3% of voting rights >Wealth tax is assessed as the greater of his ownership or voting rights. So his tax is 5% * his 25.3% voting ownership = 1.27% of the value of GOOG. >1.27% taxes / 3% ownership looks like a 42.2% wealth tax, but that's not quite right. >He has to pay the wealth tax with after-tax cash proceeds. So he needs to sell enough stock to cover 37.1% in taxes first (23.8% federal and 13.3% state). >His gross stock sale has to be 2.01% of GOOG to cover the wealth tax + federal and state taxes. >His wealth tax bill is thus 67% of his net worth (2.01%/3%) >This for 2026. There are proposals being drafted for a 2028 wealth tax. (I understand that some people see this as a feature)
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Danny Tommo
Danny Tommo@RealDannyTommo·
Belgium Police basically surround me while I’m live streaming… and then this happened, I was in Belgium filming the migrant situation when multiple Belgian police vans and officers suddenly approached me on the street. They admitted they had been watching my livestream the entire time. They took me back to my hotel, checked my ID, and searched the place. My trip to Belgium came to a very abrupt end. Migrant trafficking gangs are now openly threatening to shoot me in the head. On top of that, the French authorities have already banned me and now it looks like the Belgian police are monitoring me too. This is a lot bigger than any of us realise. They really don’t want the truth coming out about what’s happening on the ground. #Belgium #MigrantCrisis #PoliceSurveillance #ExposeTheTruth #OperationOverlord
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Wendy Patterson
Wendy Patterson@wendyp4545·
You do realize what Congress did when they voted to allow SNAP to pay for chips and pop right? They're using our tax dollars to subsidize the billion dollar junk food industry. Everyone get's a fucking subsidy except the American taxpayer.
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Cambridge H. Lutèce
Cambridge H. Lutèce@cam_lutece·
Frank Lloyd Wright once designed a second San Francisco Bay Bridge... the result was beautiful. Six lanes, walkways, and rapid transit would have been swept over the Bay on angelic arches. At the center? A "hanging garden," with sweeping vistas of Oakland and SF.
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Jim Sharp
Jim Sharp@prowrstlngstrng·
@spinturf LLMs are still systems that need to be maintained
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Jim Sharp@prowrstlngstrng·
For those worried about a mass surveillance state in your future A country where about 25% of the population is literate will not be able to keep the lights on let alone support a mass police state You need to be preparing for a soviet collapse. Not a Palantier tech future
Athenaeum Book Club@athenaeumbc

Fewer than half of US adults read a book last year. Even fewer read an actual novel, and the trend is looking worse still for teenagers. Why is nobody talking about this??

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Observer of Things
Observer of Things@spinturf·
@Kristoph_Vals @physicsgeek once lived in a district which was essentially inner-city connected to some distant smaller towns & cities, the residents of which might as well not have voted. things need fixing.
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Kristoph_Vals@Kristoph_Vals·
@physicsgeek Compact regions is the only way to do it. Anything else breaks of communities and makes the whole idea of representation a joke.
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Physics Geek
Physics Geek@physicsgeek·
All the leftists chortling about Virginia's redistricting plan are now melting down about Florida and possibly other states and It. Is. Glorious. You can be for it or against it but the heads I win tails you lose game is not going to work anymore. Want to redistrict nationwide using compact geographical regions and let the chips fall where they may? I'm game but I am in the minority
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Drew Savicki
Drew Savicki@DrewSav·
Is packing the Supreme Court ideal? No but the conservative majority has refused all offers to rule in a nonpartisan manner. If they're gonna keep making partisan decisions then there need to be consequences. Their job is not to advance Republican policy from the bench.
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Marcelo Samsoniuk
Marcelo Samsoniuk@samsoniuk·
Rust is pure planned obsolescence! 🔥
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The Lunduke Journal@LundukeJournal

Up until a few years ago, we were able to browse the modern web, on a PowerPC “Classic” MacOS (MacOS 8/9) system, using a port of Firefox. This is no longer possible. Not because a G3, G4, or G5 systems running MacOS 9 are not beefy enough to handle the task (far from it)… but because of forced (deliberate) obsolescence by software developers. In this case, Mozilla injected a new (*still* unfinished) programming language (Rust) into Firefox. And Rust doesn’t support PowerPC Macs. Thus making a port of any version *after* the inclusion of Rust increasingly (and pointlessly) difficult. Add on top of that the ever changing standards around HTTPS, which render browsers only a few years old… effectively unable to use the modern web. Anyone who has tried to use Netscape recently knows what I mean. Again. Those changes are not because of CPU, RAM, or Operating System limitations. Purely artificial, forced constraints. This isn’t a problem unique to PPC Macs. Similar problems exist with recent UNIX workstations, Windows 2000, and even Linux from only a FEW years back. In some cases these forced constraints and limitations are simply a failure of developers. In other cases it is a deliberate choice… forced obsolescence. Either way… it makes me grumpy.

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Plastic Chair Disrespecter
Plastic Chair Disrespecter@PlasticChairDis·
@Babygravy9 >Breast milk contains stem cells and neurotropic factors Damn it. We're gonna see bodybuilders shooting it up their nose for gainz one day, aren't we? 😂
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RAW EGG NATIONALIST
RAW EGG NATIONALIST@Babygravy9·
This is really cool. Babies with brain damage due to oxygen deprivation during delivery are being treated with breastmilk squirted up their noses. Breast milk contains stem cells and neurotropic factors that can help the brain heal, and delivering it intranasally allows them to reach the brain and nervous system more directly, aiding healing. It's now reckoned the treatment could be used at home, over the long term, to help infants recover from such brain damage. I predict it won't be long before biohackers and esoteric health posters are also squirting breastmilk up their noses...
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Politics UK@PolitlcsUK·
🚨 NEW: Met Police commissioner Mark Rowley has called for a special police force to protect Jews
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ᾶσχτ (âsht)@utilitaryan·
Met somebody who told me their mortgage kept getting refused despite having a perfect credit score, a decent wage, & 30K upfront. Banks wouldn’t say why. Got told to pay a broker, an Indian guy. He had a family member working as an underwriter at one of the banks, accepted within days.
ᾶσχτ (âsht)@utilitaryan

This entire country seems to have evolved into making the lives of ordinary, functioning members of society as miserable and dysfunctional as possible. Everything has to go wrong several times before it even considers that it could function. Kakistocracy par excellence.

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Observer of Things
Observer of Things@spinturf·
@LaocoonofTroy unable to deliver building materials on time, the USSR turned to its greatest natural resource, its people. thousands died in the gulags perfecting these stunts; officials determined their sacrifices made up for their crimes, & their families received a extra day's ration.
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Laocoon of Troy@LaocoonofTroy·
A human tower during the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony.
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Matthew Dominguez
Matthew Dominguez@Matt_Dominguez·
Breaking: The Farm Bill has passed the House with “Save Our Bacon” language that harms family farmers and strips states of their right to pass food safety and animal welfare laws. The fight for family farmers, states’ rights, and animal welfare is not over. This is yet another reminder that @NPPC is more interested in keeping mother pigs locked in crates than listening to consumers who want the pork industry to move away from cruel confinement. Now it moves to the Senate — and senators need to hear from you. Call the Senate switchboard now and ask to be connected to your two U.S. senators. Tell them to oppose any Farm Bill that includes “Save Our Bacon” language. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121 We’ll keep fighting — and we’ll win in the Senate. Then send a follow-up email: ciwf.com/farmbill
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Pedro Domingos
Pedro Domingos@pmddomingos·
I remember when Wired was a magazine about technology.
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Meriwether Farms
Meriwether Farms@MeriwetherFarms·
BREAKING: The PRIME Act PASSED in the House Farm Bill This is HUGE news for independent producers who want to bypass the foreign meatpacking stranglehold on our meat supply and sell direct to their neighbors and communities This also shows with courage and leadership from elected officials combined with pressure from the American people can make GOOD THINGS CAN HAPPEN THANK YOU @RepThomasMassie ! NEXT STOP MCOOL 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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