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@lauferlaw @micsolana @MaxNordau why the fuck does he dress like kim jung un? his personal hero perhaps? is this considered fashionable nowadays?

@micsolana @MaxNordau Who’s the money behind Piker? Who are his publicists? You don’t randomly get a gig with Vanity Fair out of thin air. Big bucks behind this guy.

the new york times politely discussed the assassination of a businessman with hasan piker, who made the case, in the new york times, for assassination. this is not a small thing. this is an insane, unacceptable thing that every liberal needs to denounce.

Kevin Kelly @kevin2kelly is neck and neck with Ray Kurzweil for the best technology forecaster of the last 40 years.

@monitoringmts @MTSlive sounds perfect!

@TechnoOptoPrime @MTSlive @cremieuxrecueil just watch? or watch with breakdancing and curated lo-fi city pop beats? lmk

.@cremieuxrecueil is joining MTS at 2:30 pm PT

@cremieuxrecueil they really want to cause harm to anybody that disagrees with them and will use any excuse to rationalize it.

This isn't real. If anything, Thompson saved lives. This is just a lazy excuse to support murdering people he dislikes.

@elonmusk we need a legion of unknowns to fight this problem. a million headed hydra that can't be silenced and has eyes & ears everywhere to report the grift and fraud.

Correct

@MTSlive @TaylorLorenz @balajis i strongly disagree with taylor on this point. the amount of suffering caused by the nytimes is incalculable. until the nytimes is dismantled, there's plenty of opportunity for them to spew their hateful, filth into the world & poison minds. balaji is fighting the good fight.

.@TaylorLorenz on the crusade against legacy media: " With all due respect to @balajis and his crusade against the New York Times, like... he won. Okay? The New York Times is not as relevant as it was 10 years ago. Like that battle has been won. He needs to move on. Please, with love." "I thought like @dwarkesh_sp did a really good job in his most recent interview of like pushing back, asking Jensen some [tough] questions, follow up questions. I know everyone hates the legacy media, but they do do a good job of antagonizing people sometimes." " I've been covered really crazy in the media. I've had the media lie about me so I sympathize with founders that have had a bad experience with the press. But at some point, it's like you can't just be resentful your whole life. You've gotta be proactive, you know, be the change you wanna see in the world."

@cremieuxrecueil there's basically zero real repercussions for scientific fraud, currently, correct? this creates a lot of incentive to publish fraudulent papers it seems. this urgently needs to be addressed very soon!

Paper mills are now just taking famous people and putting their names on the author list to make their nonsense AI slop look more credible. It seems more and more every day like we live in an era of unprecedented rates of fraud.

@cremieuxrecueil @Eumemics a scholar and a patriot! 🫡 🇺🇸 we appreciate you cremieux! once my financial predicament turns around, the first thing i'm going to purchase is a subscription to your substack.

@Eumemics You know what... I'll do it.

This is an incredibly stupid study. They're blaming statins for the rise in autism. It's like these researchers want people to get killed even though - There's no link in MR (i.e., there's no causal link at all) - The rise of statins has not come with a real increase in autism

@micsolana a rich leftist encouraging petty theft against small business owners that are trying to feed their families? par for the course. rationalize petty theft today. soon they'll be rationalizing property seizure, banning guns, banning free speech & violence against their adversaries.

the latest from new york times contributor (???) hasan piker, a committed marxist who has repeatedly called for political violence, including for the murder of rick scott

@micsolana how does he have 4M followers? he's part of the nick fuentes, tucker carlson, candace owens, andrew tate group of supposedly "alt-right" cringe influencers that do more harm to "their side" than anything the left can do. would love to see where most of their funding comes from.

some gay people are having a party on the other side of the planet 🤬😭

Cash for Clunkers destroyed 690,000 functional vehicles in 2009, creating an artificial scarcity that rippled through used car markets for over a decade. The Obama administration sold this $3 billion program as environmental salvation and economic stimulus, but any free market economist could predict the real outcome: massive wealth destruction disguised as progress. The program forced dealers to pour sodium silicate into engines, permanently destroying cars that poor families could have afforded. Politicians eliminated the bottom tier of the used car market overnight. Suddenly, a reliable $3,000 Honda Civic became a $7,000 Honda Civic (if you could find one). The supposed beneficiaries — working-class Americans who needed affordable transportation — got priced out entirely. Government intervention always creates unseen victims, and Cash for Clunkers delivered them by the millions. Single mothers, college students, and minimum-wage workers watched their mobility options vanish as used car prices soared 30% between 2009 and 2014. The environmental gains proved negligible too: most clunkers averaged 15-17 MPG while replacements hit 24-25 MPG. Destroying half a million cars to improve average fuel economy by 8 MPG represents the kind of central planning that would give Soviet bureaucrats a hard-on. The wealth destruction extended beyond sticker prices. Higher transportation costs forced people into longer payment terms, creating a debt cycle that persists today. Cash for Clunkers normalized 84-month auto loans, turning cars from depreciating assets into multi-year financial anchors. Bureaucrats congratulated themselves for moving inventory off dealer lots while condemning an entire generation to transportation poverty.

@pmarca just how much of our media is astroturfed bullshit just to keep americans distracted from real problems?

Some SPLC donors were tricked into funding white nationalist hate groups. That’s bad. Some SPLC donors knew they were funding white nationalist hate groups. That’s worse. What did they know and when they know it? Who was a dupe and who was complicit?

They put my father R.I.P. on a hate group list (insane, because he never hated anybody) and nearly destroyed his non-profit. It turns out that they are the biggest hate group in America. I hope they go to jail forever.

@pmarca i wonder how much better life in usa would be if the resources that go to these nonprofits & NGO's instead went to make useful stuff: housing, power plants, manufacturing plants, defense capacity, improved infrastructure, crime deterrence, beautification of public spaces, etc.

Which other prominent nonprofits and NGOs are doing this?

@MTSlive @TaylorLorenz taylor was interesting to listen to. and it's good to have some divergent views so it doesn't devolved into a 100% techno-optimist circle jerk. y'all should have her on again in the future imho.

.@TaylorLorenz on the proposed phone ban in England: "You don't need a law to do that." "To have a law that police officers in schools are enforcing and basically stop and frisking kids for potentially having a cell phone is deranged." "Our entire world runs with the phone." "To take it away from students and not teach them boundaries and not teach them the skills that they should learn when they're young... moderation, how to resist being on your phone 24/7... you have to teach them those skills."

@beffjezos charlie manson's grandchild? the resemblance is striking and both were deranged, neurotic doomsday cultists.

AI Doomerism is the original AI Psychosis.

@pmarca just how many of our problems are government created BS to justify theft from taxpayers? limited government chads completely justified once again.

@cremieuxrecueil SPLC was supposed to monitor hate groups, but are actually funding them? I suppose that's one way to ensure job security.

Broke: Idiotic White nationalists are funded by the FBI Woke: Idiotic White nationalists are funded by the CIA Bespoke: Idiotic white nationalists are funded by the SPLC

@micsolana yes and an actual sense of civic duty and pride (though they don't seem to have many children, which is a shame). also, clean streets, sushi, ramen, matcha, anime, nintendo, samurai, ninja, sumo, high tech manufacturing, arcades & beautiful landscapes with cherry blossoms.

a lot of what people are calling "japanese culture" on the internet is just the absence of breaking the law, i've noticed ???