Ben Dalton

@ohlennart I'm curious what country you grew up in. What planet. What universe.

it's funny that we might be closer than ever to all the left's marxist dreams: post-scarcity, end of wage labor, etc. but many of them still won't take AGI seriously. the thing that could actually deliver it. instead it's denial and cope.

New @OxusSociety viz tracks Central Asian exports around the world. I certainly did not know that Italy is the second largest importer of Kazakhstan oil after China. oxussociety.org/viz/resource-t…

Announcing the Central Asia Resource Tracker, which maps the existing reserves, production, processing, and export of natural resources, including over 100 different minerals, hydrocarbons, chemicals, industrial materials, and agricultural products. oxussociety.org/viz/resource-t…

@_carlbeijer 1. There would probably be another 50 million or so Russians today if not for WW2. 2. A loss of half a million prime age men in an already shrinking population is not comparable to one with a 2x replacement rate.

"Realistically, Russia will never recover from this."

Check out the latest report, based on research for the recent book Backlash.

“I don’t owe anybody anything!” Actually we are perhaps nothing but dizzyingly intricate webs of obligations to other beings and ourselves. The sheer weight of our obligations is all that keeps us from floating away into space. We can never do enough but we must try.

@doeralius @mmjukic No, we are Russia

@mmjukic America has been Ukrainianized. We are winning the Media War, while losing the real one.

In the span of about 24 hours, the Iranians have blown up multiple oil tankers, shot down a big U.S. aircraft, in fact have laid mines in the Strait of Hormuz, and apparently attacked a U.S. aircraft carrier. And the drone and missile attacks all over the region have not slowed.

@redactedrain The Imaginary Democrat is like the Imaginary West in the Soviet 1980s.

When the libs get power back they’re gonna fucking kill us dude

@SolLunix The movie was pretty clear that he was a substanceless coward. Complete failure of parenting.

Work hard so that your son can say this in future

@MarekFacek @naiivememe Grow up

@naiivememe You should go to store yourself. Your husband doesn't send you to repair the car because he knows you can't do it. You should act the same when it comes to shopping. Men don't like it and aren't that good at it.

@LegendaryEnergy Excellent political instincts madam

Hillary praises Trump & says he’s much better in his second term: “I think all of that is a very good signal that there is beginning to be a better understanding both by the President & the people around him… that there can be common ground amongst us”

@apralky It is specifically because of the qualities that you dismiss here that they find your assumptions about the AI singularity laughable, and they are right, because they are more sophisticated.

It is kind of interesting: the East Coast magazine types are seemingly intelligent people, seemingly selected through very tight funnels -- great universities, great SAT scores, they can often think critically, follow long and established traditions of thought, etc. but here we are moving at breakneck pace through this unprecedented technological revolution which by any reasonable consensus has decent odds of literally ending biological life as we know it in all sorts of horrible ways, and all they can think about is that... prose is getting kinda worse on the way? That some writing sounds a little sloppier now? That they are not fans of the style? This is somehow their elephant in the room? What? Is this just what happens when you compound bad epistemic habits for decades? Functional paralysis in otherwise sane minds?

@looty_haga @lydiakauppi Do you not know what work is

@lydiakauppi "modern language association, american council of learned societies" here's a screenshot of "employees" of this organization spending your tax dollars wisely

The DOGE goons are getting deposed for a lawsuit on behalf of the American History Association and others and holy shit this hurts to watch

@AricToler He regularly tunes into Gianmarco clips too, part of his media diet

Wait did Trump watch the TAFS interview

@scrowder I'm glad to see real 19th century conservatism making a comeback. This is not a compliment.

This is how to fix voting in a constitutional republic: 1. Only those in mandatory selective service get to vote 2. Pass the SAVE Act and ensure only legal citizens are voting 3. Have at least three years of gainful employment and are currently paying taxes 4. One vote per household, the standard throughout most of human history Those who only stand to gain will always vote for more gain.

@chrisjudetaylor Wish that he still wrote like this

Every time some "read about it on Wikipedia" guy trots out the tired bit I want them to just read the essay and understand that it offers a quite rich phenomenology—mystified as it must be—of the ennui of liberal-capitalist life. You could do a lot worse than its last paragraph.

@YoniMichanie What story? Who care?

Shame on every journalist choosing to move on from the Mamdani story. We see what you are chasing, and it ain't the truth.

@MamdaniWatch LLM slop

@dwaldenwrites Everything evil about the Times is somehow distilled to this image.

If that sentence of McCarthy reads "clunky" to you then I am sorry, nobody except Jesus can save you.