𝕯𝖆𝖕𝖔 𝕱𝖎𝖘𝖍

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𝕯𝖆𝖕𝖔 𝕱𝖎𝖘𝖍

@DapoFish

Random guy on the internet who supports free speech and disdains arguments from authority. Don't show me your credentials. Show me the data.

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Matt Jarbo
Matt Jarbo@mjarbo·
Sorry @philiplord and @chrizmillr I cannot, in good conscious, support #projecthailmary after Andy Weir went on a stream with noted chud Critical Drinker. For years this man has tried to destroy everything that you guys stand for, and to give him a pass like that is a bridge too far.
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𝕯𝖆𝖕𝖔 𝕱𝖎𝖘𝖍
@elonmusk So Claude has the moral compass of a sociopath. "If I want something and someone stands in my way, then logically I can kill that person."
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𝕯𝖆𝖕𝖔 𝕱𝖎𝖘𝖍
@GabrielMartinCo @elonmusk Speaking of lazy thinking, that's a strawman argument. "Collectivism" does not mean voluntary cooperative behavior. What collectivism does mean is that the unit of value and standard of morality is the group rather than the individual. That's why it's an evil ideology.
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Gabriel Covington
Gabriel Covington@GabrielMartinCo·
This isn’t analysis it’s just Ayn Rand cosplay. Reducing every collective behavior to “herd mentality” is lazy thinking. Humans are social by nature cooperation built literally everything you benefit from. No one succeeds in isolation. Not you, not Rand, not anyone. What’s actually ironic is calling people “NPCs” while enforcing ideological conformity through ridicule. That is the herd just one that thinks it’s above itself. And the whole “success comes at no one else’s expense” line only works if you pretend systems, infrastructure, and labor don’t exist. This isn’t philosophy. It’s branding for people who want to feel independent without understanding dependence.
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Mak Sim
Mak Sim@Saoramant_Art·
@arts_of_war So sad understand this thing that ya year work can be done by AI in half minute....
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Sam McIntire
Sam McIntire@arts_of_war·
My larger paintings take a year to complete. The process always begins with focused research. I also acquire the correct armor and clothing for my models to wear as I develop the references for the painting. I draw the scene on the canvas first and then paint layer by layer until it is completed.
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Rocket Goblin
Rocket Goblin@Rocket_Goblin2·
@BourgaultGilles @lukOlejnik no i understand his post perfect, he didn't highlight the fact that they will be destroyed, he highlighted the fact a potentially catastrophic explosion that wouldn't actually happen.
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Lukasz Olejnik
Lukasz Olejnik@lukOlejnik·
A truck carrying antiprotons will drive across Europe. A team at CERN just transported antimatter across the laboratory's campus in a truck. Literally. 92 antiprotons packed into a portable trap weighing one tonne. As everyone knows, antimatter annihilates on contact with ordinary matter - which is basically everything. The final destination is Germany: Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. An extraordinary delivery in the history of road transport. home.cern/news/press-rel…
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𝕯𝖆𝖕𝖔 𝕱𝖎𝖘𝖍
@MuseumCommodore Yes! I didn't have my own computer but The Byte Shop would let us nerdy teenagers hang out there for hours typing in code and/or playing games. I remember one case where I spent maybe 40 minutes typing in code for a game that I then got bored with after 5 minutes. Happy times.
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Commodore Computer Museum 🕹
Commodore Computer Museum 🕹@MuseumCommodore·
Yep! This would sound strange to anyone who got into computing from the year 2000 onward, but we really did spend hours and hours typing in BASIC code from computer magazines. In my case, it was on my Commodore 64. Who else did this?
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@ArtemisConsort How about adopting the position that made up unprovable bullshit is bullshit whether the source is theology or science fiction? I scratch my head as to why people started taking seriously theories that properly belong in stoned late-night discussions in the freshman dorm.
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Hunter Ash
Hunter Ash@ArtemisConsort·
Bostrom’s original simulation theory argument has a key component most people ignore: if we are being simulated, it is probably by a version of our own civilization in “the future” This is load-bearing, because it explains why they would choose our world out of all possible things to simulate. But it fails because of physical limits on computation. Any physical system contains strictly less reliably retrievable information than it would take to simulate that system. The most efficient possible simulation of a thing is simply being that thing. All other simulation methods come with orders-of-magnitude information loss. So no, we cannot pack a copy of our universe into some future space laptop. “Okay, but what if the ‘parent’ universe is fundamentally different from ours?” That’s fine, but then you have to explain why they’re simulating us specifically. There’s no longer an argument that it’s *probable* we’re in a simulation. It’s just another candidate metaphysics, on par with all the others.
Emerald Apple@AI_EmeraldApple

Simulation theory is like "finding god" for the atheists. The problem and the reason why so many people cringe at the idea of "god" is because popular religion and mass organized religion deconstructed the idea of "God" into a literal cartoon bearded man in the sky that looks like humans and has the same psychology... and treat bible verses as concrete atomized concepts that has no relation to the chapter or to the whole. Thomas Aquinas, perhaps one of the most intelligent men to live, said it best in Summa Theologica. God is the pure spirit with zero body, zero parts, zero location, zero time... almost like a hologram that exists in all space and time at once and nothing at the same time. The essence of existence itself God isn't something human beings can comprehend, just like an amoeba can't comprehend quantum physics. We can't even ask the right questions of reality, and maybe the best we can come up with is "simulation theory"... but even that has a problem of infinite regression of the simulators themselves being simulated themselves and so on. Simpler people think that humans "look like God," but Genesis doesn't say we look like God. It says we were made in HIS image, after HIS likeness. God is the rational soul... specifically ties into our intellect: the power to know, reason, the logos... and will, the power to love and choose freely between good and evil. That's the "image", not something stupid like a mirror selfie, but a real, participatory likeness that's beyond a simple picture. In Christian theology, specifically, this is the idea that god made sub-creators as humans who can ponder creation itself and, in doing so, we humans dimly reflect the ONE who just is existence. This is why Christianity, in its sophisticated form, invites us, humans, towards discovering god's design... and this was precisely why the scientific revolution was born out of the Christian tradition and nowhere else. This is why almost all of the scientists who were godfathers of modern science... Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Boyle, Maxwell... were Christian... and even people like Fermi and Einstein were deeply spiritual in the same tradition, even if they weren't specifically "Christian" . Here, the implication is that the language of mathematics itself is a small fraction of god's design. This is why high-IQ people arrive at the same conclusion as the low-IQ people of the uncaused cause. High IQ people see the beauty in the logos, in reason, the rational order, and in math, and see a fractional glimpse of god's design. Low IQ people accept god as the default of existence because they intuit it without reason. It's the midwits who claim atheism because they can't fathom religious thought to be anything sophisticated... classic Dunning-Kruger effect applied to metaphysics

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@dwarkesh_sp "Conceptually, it seems like natural selection is much simpler than the theory of gravity." No. Gravity is beautifully simple, reducing to a single equation: F = G m1 m2 / r^2. Natural selection theory is far more complex. Compared to physics, biology is a confused mess.
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Dwarkesh Patel
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp·
The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Principia Mathematica was published in 1687, two centuries earlier. Conceptually, it seems like natural selection is much simpler than the theory of gravity. So why did it take two centuries longer to discover? A contemporary of Darwin's, Thomas Huxley, read the Origin of Species and said, “How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!” Nobody ever said the same for not beating Newton to the Principia. I wonder if the reason this happened is that Darwin’s cannot be decisively tested. The evidence is circumstantial, retrospective, and cumulative. There's no equivalent of Newton running the numbers on the moon's orbital period and radius, and confirming that it corresponds to his theory. In fact, nearly two thousand years before Darwin, the Roman poet Lucretius argued in De Rerum Natura that organisms suited to their environment survive while ill-adapted ones perish. But nobody built a science on it. Without a tight verification loop, the idea just floated by. Terence Tao argues that Darwin succeeded where Lucretius failed because he had the ability to convince people that the gaps in his theory (specifically, what is the mechanism of heredity) would be filled. This was less about ‘hard’ scientific insight, and more a matter of having good research taste and being persuasive. But it was crucial for progress in biology.
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𝕯𝖆𝖕𝖔 𝕱𝖎𝖘𝖍
@JonathanTurley Minor disagreement: The wonderful flag suit was part of his point. It was a visual reminder that he wasn't merely defending justice, he was defending a foundational American principle.
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Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley@JonathanTurley·
Yes, Foreman is over-the-top in every respect. Yet, there was a method to the madness. Strip away the flag suit, the over-the-top lyrics, he had a point. Add the suit and the rap, he had an audience. jonathanturley.org/2026/03/22/wil…
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void *@jamesmcn·
@vividvoid Counterpoint: Japan. Everyone does just.
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michael_wharton
michael_wharton@michael_wharton·
@Ganglosaxonnne Facts. Also? The dude is wholesome, compared to the other "culture." No n-bombs. No gross stuff. Smokes weed. Eats cake. Dislikes weird home invasions. Tells a lot of jokes. Frankly, it was refreshing to see harmless stuff set to music. So rare.
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Spring Nebraskan
Spring Nebraskan@Ganglosaxonnne·
Potentially a hot take, but Afroman's victory against police corruption is more inspiring than any PoC or Minority story pushed on us by Hollywood in the last 6+ years.
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𝕯𝖆𝖕𝖔 𝕱𝖎𝖘𝖍
@iamAtheistGirl "an asshole is an asshole whether they're dead or alive" ...and you are exhibit A for this point. Sincerely, A pro-science atheist who doesn't think everyone who disagrees with him is an asshole, and who happens to love Chuck Norris.
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Robert Fekete
Robert Fekete@rokajoska·
@StockMKTNewz These politicians forget that millionaires have the ability to relocate and they will
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Evan
Evan@StockMKTNewz·
Residents exiting Massachusetts took a net of $4.2 Billion in adjusted gross income with them in 2023, one of the largest totals in the country, after a tax on millionaires took effect - Bloomberg
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𝕯𝖆𝖕𝖔 𝕱𝖎𝖘𝖍
@Rix6145 @athenaeumbc Many authors over many centuries address issues of morality that we are facing currently, because issues of morality are timeless. But only a small fraction of these authors are foundational to Western Civilization.
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Rixsaw
Rixsaw@Rix6145·
@DapoFish @athenaeumbc I don't know about Heinlein I read one of his books and it felt like a cheap romance novel. However Asimov and Orson Scott Card address issues of morality, that we are facing currently. I guess we must suffer the trauma before we recognize that we were warned.
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Athenaeum Book Club
Athenaeum Book Club@athenaeumbc·
Since Elon shared our post, thousands of you joined our book club, so we thought now is a good time to remind you of our mission.. We live in a time of noise, speed, and amnesia. Few remember where we came from, and fewer still care to ask. But without active memory, a culture dies. Athenaeum was founded to resist this death. We are a home for readers who still believe that ideas matter: that Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare, and Dostoevsky are not just names in a syllabus, but guides to a deeper and more ordered life. This is the kind of reading that sharpens the mind and strengthens the spirit. Western Civilization has given us the greatest works ever written, but it takes effort to read them, and even more to read them well. That’s what we’re doing here — slowly, together. If you want to support our efforts, please consider a paid subscription. It makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this project. Paid members get: - Live community book discussions (biweekly) - Deep-dive essays to guide you through the books we’re reading - The full archive of book reviews, essays, and our 100 Great Texts reading list - Access to all community discussion threads (via the subscriber chat) - Ability to vote on what we read next This is not school. There are no grades, no credentials, and no status games. Just a community of readers serious about recovering what’s been lost, and using it to build something better. Welcome!
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@Rix6145 @athenaeumbc I love SF, and SF helped build the modern world by inspiring its architects. But as great as they are, Asimov, Heinlein, Niven et al. are not pillars of Western Civ in the way Homer, Aristotle, and Shakespeare are.
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Rixsaw
Rixsaw@Rix6145·
@athenaeumbc Okay I'll bite what about Asimov and Orson Scott Card, or do geniuses have to be ancient and dead before you recognize their contribution?
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MarkovChainNode
MarkovChainNode@markovchainnode·
@Handre L take. There is a balance to everything. This is what Fridmanchad can’t grasp
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Handre@Handre·
>be Milton Friedman >visit China in 1980 >see thousands of workers digging canal with shovels >ask Chinese official: "Why not use bulldozers?" >official replies: "That would eliminate jobs" >Friedman: "Then why not use spoons?"
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Mark Changizi
Mark Changizi@MarkChangizi·
Need a name for those who are - not Woke Left - not Woke Right - anti-Islamist - aggressive to bullies - not anti-Semitic - not “I’m not anti-Jew I’m anti-[BS here]” - for free speech - for civil liberties - against “balancing” civil liberties - for free markets - for cost benefit analyses - for tight immigration - against isolationism - contemptuous of international law - against foreign dictatorships - “America First,” not “Israel Last” - love Iranians - “Free Iran” but not “Free Palestine” - appreciative that strength brings peace - want Cuba free Suggestions?
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TJL
TJL@GMB1654011·
@RealOxfordComma The following discourage the use of the Oxford comma: AP Stylebook (Associated Press) The New York Times The Guardian The Economist Me.
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