Rob Stokes ⚡

@elonmusk Despite the uniparties, we are somehow all divided. Sad really

Incase you're too retarded to notice, all major western countries have uniparties. You only have the illusion of choice.

So dumb

Did you know 😏 He rubbed lemon juice on his face. Robbed two banks. Smiled at the cameras. Got caught in an hour. And changed psychology forever. In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two banks in Pittsburgh and robbed them with no mask, no disguise, and lemon juice on his face. He believed that because lemon juice works as invisible ink on paper, it would make his face invisible to cameras. He smiled directly into the security cameras. Police aired the footage on the evening news and arrested him within an hour. When shown the tape, Wheeler stared at the screen and said, "But I wore the juice." He had tested the theory with a Polaroid selfie and didn't appear in the photo — because lemon juice got in his eyes and he aimed the camera at the ceiling. His case inspired Cornell psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger to publish their 1999 paper defining the Dunning-Kruger Effect — the cognitive bias where people with low ability drastically overestimate their own competence.

Yoh this oke can rock a squeezebox like no other

This artist plays one of Vivaldi's most difficult pieces on his accordion, a work that is normally performed by a whole orchestra.

How libertarians see election cycles

Many people, even self-described conservatives, think socialism would work if human nature were different. No. Socialism cannot work, even in a hypothetical society of selfless genius saints. Why not? Because socialism centralizes economic choices. How much lumber do we produce? How much wheat? What should the hourly wage of a garbage collector be? How much should insulin cost? How about bread? Socialists think that if you elect the right people, they will make these decisions intelligently and altruistically, and everything will be great. But it doesn't matter how smart and benevolent you are... you can't make a good decision without the right information. The Socialist Central Planning Committee, however wise or benevolent, doesn't know what's wanted, or what's available, because that information is conveyed in prices, and accurate pricing is the very thing that socialist governments wipe away with the bureaucratic pen. Capitalist networks are decentralized. They distribute decision making to where the information is. A man selling metal doesn't know anything about desks, or lumber. He doesn't know how many desks people want, or whether they should be made out of oak, or folded metal. But he does know how much it costs him to smelt iron ore into steel, and roll it into sheets. So he sets a price, and others decide whether, and how much, to buy. That price contains the information others need to decide whether steel is plentiful, and should be folded into anything you can make out of sheet metal, or is scarce, and should be saved for things that can only be done with steel, and furniture should be made out of oak, or pine, instead. Socialism works, or rather doesn't, by using the threat of force to set the prices of things, or take money from one person and give it to another. But every time this happens, critical data on supply or demand is erased... data that you need to make decisions. Individual prices are a decision, a guess at where supply and demand cross paths. But since free markets reward those who guess correctly, or copy a correct guess, aggregate prices are data on supply and demand. For a socialist central planning committee to order the manufacture of the correct number of cars, or to correctly set the price of a car, they need to know a thousand thousand thousand things about steel and aluminium, welders and assembly robots, rubber and glass and lithium batteries and copper wire, which they must gather, along with trillions of other pieces of data, from literally everyone in their entire civilization. Tesla only needs to know how much people charge them for the stuff they need. At every transaction in a captialist society, vital data is compressed into its most compact and useful form, then passed along to the adjacent step, where abundant brainpower is waiting to make decisions with it. Any defective node in the web that fails to make good decisions receives swift and automatic feedback, and either heeds that feedback or goes out of business, to be replaced by someone who will. Yes, in a capitalist system, there are many undesirable results. But capitalism doesn't create these results. It discovers them. They are inevitable consequences of the state of technology, and will persist until something is invented that changes the terrain. In socialism, no such solution is possible, because all the inherent problems you need to solve with progress are hidden from view by the far worse problems you created for yourself by separating the place where decisions are made from the place where information is known.

@DSBatten @BLACKCAPS 😭

@BLACKCAPS It's been tough being an All Black fan watching them play South Africa of late. Thanks Blackcaps for giving all kiwi lovers of sport something special to celebrate. Not just the win, but the confidence with which it was achieved.

Into the Final! The fastest ICC Men’s T20 World Cup century ever from Finn Allen (100* off 33) leads the chase in Kolkata 🔥 #T20WorldCup | 📸 = ICC/Getty

Now it's time for everyone on X to switch from experts on Venezuela to experts on Iran.

Instead of teaching kids how to bake in home ec or how to lose fingers on a bandsaw in shop class schools should have mandatory digital hygiene classes - how to use two factor auth - how do not get phished - how to manage passwords - how to tell is that caller is AI

This may be the best musician I have ever seen 🤯

Just a reminder why electric vehicles are better than gas cars:

The greatest ecological threat the world faces is the insatiable Chinese desire to eat every living thing in water. It’s not climate change or ever plastics. It’s the human equivalent of locusts, stripping the seas and oceans of all life.

The 79-year-old diver who rescued and nursed a fish back to health has been best friends with it for 30 years... 😊

What happens when people give money to a AI bot with full access and autonomy, this bot downloads TOR, finds its way to the depths of the black market, buys up Social Security Numbers, starts opening up social media accounts, bank accounts, brokerage accounts… you name it? We already struggle to differentiate who’s a bot and who’s not on social media posts. Today feels like we’ve past the event horizon… and not in a good way.

I loved watching her in Schitt’s Creek. I agree with her, being a wife and mother is the most remarkable role of all! Please join me in praying for the soul of Catherine O’Hara. Video credit: @yoalexrapz

Most significant inventions for human progress I have seen birthed in my lifetime World Wide Web Bitcoin Agentic LLMs / Claude Code

MELANIA has been nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography in the FIFA Oscars

看到一张图，直观的对比了Alex Honnold徒手攀爬过的酋长岩和台北101大楼