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🤯 Did you know kids in the EU spend an average of 16 years and 9 months in school before joining the workforce? With nearly two decades in the classroom, are they learning skills needed to thrive, or is there something more going on? 🧵 Thread 👇 #Education #FutureReady

@Devon_Eriksen_ x.com/Neofool_/statu…

Love is impossible without the ability to hate. If you love something, you must hate that which threatens to destroy it. Otherwise, you do not love it. No exceptions. If you love your pets, you hate anyone who threatens to kill them. If you love your children, you hate anyone who wants to corrupt them and ruin their lives. If you love your wife, then you hate anyone who wants to rape and murder her. If you love your community, then you hate anyone who wants to move in and convert it into a ghetto. If you love your nation, then then you hate anyone who wants to destroy everything great about it to make a quick buck. If you don't hate the second group of these things, you cannot claim to love the first. And if that makes you a racist, a bigot, or a fascist, then it is your moral obligation to be a racist, bigoted fascist. That might seem weird to you, but I am saying this because it's time. We, as a culture, have treated racism as if it were the worst of all possible evils, for about twenty years now, and look where it's gotten us. Our federal government is 99% composed of a pack of thieves and murderers who would happily set fire to the entire world if they could be king of the ashes that remained. And they have covered up and gotten away with their crimes by calling anyone who notices a "bigot" of some variety. And then suddenly the discussion isn't about massive DEI grifts, importing the third world, and the massive embezzlement of tax dollars. It's about whether or not the whistleblower is a racist. Which is exactly what they want. To change the subject. From their stealing. Every stage of the importing-the-third-world game, including defending it by calling people racist, is making money for someone. They're not trying to help the poor third world barbarians. They're not trying to be "anti-racist". They're trying to make money. And where does that money come from? You. It comes from your paycheck when they tax you. It comes from your savings when they print money. It comes from your children when they borrow. There's no long term plan. They just want to loot the treasure house before everything collapses, then escape to Switzerland or the Cayman Islands. And they'll keep calling you racist so long as it disrupts your efforts to point out what they are doing. And it will continue to disrupt those efforts so long as you continue to get distracted, arguing that you are not a racist. So the correct answer here isn't "No, I am not a racist, this is a valid concern." It's "Yeah, so what?" I, Devon Eriksen, am going to be as racist as I need to be to help save western civilization, in any small way that I can. If I have to be racist to demand that Haitians be deported, or help do it myself, then racist I will be. I don't care if it's cruel to the Haitians. Because in order to love my nation and my tribe, I must hate that which threatens to destroy it. And I don't care if the Haitians aren't actually trying to destroy America. Because cancer isn't trying to destroy my wife. It's just trying to divide, and spread, and grow. I hate it anyway, because I love my wife. If Haitians stay home, and try to do the best they can where they are, I will view them with nothing but a detached, vague compassion, which will take a distant second (or far later) place to my concern for the welfare of my nation and my tribe. If they come here, I hate them because of who they are, where they come from, and what they are doing. And I no longer care if you call me a racist or any other form of bigot, because the question is no longer if I am a bigot, or why I am a bigot. The question is why is Nate Silver a traitor? Why has chosen to virtue signal, and side with corrupt politicians, thieves, and other traitors, instead of his own people? And is there any good reason why we shouldn't deport him as well? By the quickest means possible?

@soncharm I guess it's no coincidence such a type of person ends up running the NIH 🫡

Smart Blue Technocrats have this mental blind-spot where they simply can't conceive of genuine, sincere disagreement with whatever Smart Blue Technocrats have consensus'd up amongst themselves. Why didn't the virus 'bring together' people like me around the idea of Locking Down Everyone, and Mandating mask-wearing & injections? Because I disagreed with the policies, dummy. I thought they were bad, wrong, reprehensible, evil things to do, that wouldn't even (leaving aside that they were wrong) succeed on their own terms. Ok? It's not rocket science. The idea that some common challenge would 'bring together' people around policies they sincerely despise requires a special combination of arrogance, solipsism, lack of theory-of-mind, and insularity. I'm sure that (just as no one Pauline Kael knew voted for Nixon) no one Francis Collins personally knew in his Deep Blue Smart bubble disagreed with the 'scientific' 'consensus' of Lockdownism. "Why Didn't Facing a Common Enemy Bring People I Ignore And Pay No Attention To Together Around The Dumbass Evil Idea Me & My Cloistered Social-Class Came Up With?"

Modern governments in practice 🧐

@zeta_globin Prepare in advance - deprive yourself of sleep with late-night gaming sessions and binge-watching before parenthood, and you'll be all set. 😉

honest to god the main reason I refuse to do parenthood without a couple hundred thousand saved ahead of time is every parent I meet talks about the sleep deprivation like it's worse than aushwitz and I refuse to do that

@GayBearRes Why the surprise? In the corporate world, being overlooked and unrewarded is a standard reward for hard work and loyalty.

@levelsio Good riddance - he won't be missed. Now give him some low-impact job in some useless NGO where he can get his ego massaged without doing any actual damage to society.

🇪🇺 eu/acc Today, Thierry Breton, the primary opponent of technological progress in the European Union resigned He was responsible for: - making technology companies Europe's #1 enemy, making many companies leave for the US - the EU AI Act which made it impossible to build an AI startup in Europe - the Digital Services Act which was used to stifle free speech in Europe (famously on here) From his resignation letter it looks like he was fired I think what that shows is that all the attention everyone is bringing on here on how Europe was going the wrong way is working So please keep posting on here and telling your friends about the problems of Europe and where you feel Europe should be going instead Because the EU does actually listen to us to steer its future, not immediately, but eventually

@levelsio Never was a believer. Not sure at what phase of the cycle China is, but the end result is always the same.

Arresting Jack Ma was the dumbest thing China has ever done Instantly lost their credibility to be a place for tech I was a big China believer in terms of future growth until that happened

@bryan_johnson Underestimated the importance of sleep for years and paid for it dearly. x.com/Neofool_/statu…

Sleep is the highest yield activity within reach. Nothing has a higher payoff. Our culture makes this hard to see and tells us to resist it.

@Devon_Eriksen_ One slash at a time. Hopefully more authors get inspired.

Why not Audible? I've been talking your ear off about my audiobook, and its attendant kickstarter, for almost exactly a month now. I clearly want the project to be a success. So why will it never be available on Audible? Because Audible would interfere with that success. You see, "success" doesn't just mean a large number of people listening. If that were all I needed, I could just bankroll the project with my own money, and distribute the result for free. Then say "look at those circulation numbers!", and call myself a success. Well, you wouldn't call yourself a successful doctor if you couldn't pay off your loans from med school. You wouldn't call yourself a successful lawyer if you had to live in a studio apartment in North Hollywood. You wouldn't call yourself a successful engineer if you were on food stamps. Science fiction writing is a profession. Which means I expect to get paid. Because I did some work, and people liked the work enough to buy it. Audible has a different view. Audible does not think I should get paid. Because, as far as I can tell, that would mean less money for them, and because, until someone tells them otherwise, they can get away with it. I won't go too deep into the specifics, because... I can't. I actually can't. The way Audible calculates an author's share of the proceeds is literally a secret. They won't tell me. They won't tell you. They won't tell anyone. Oh, they'll tell you get 40% if you are exclusive to Audible, and 20% if you're not... But 20% of what, exactly? Well, 20% of whatever they decide to charge, times a secret fraction which they compute in a secret way. What do they charge? Well, sometimes it's the list price, which they set, but more often it's the price of a "credit", whatever they decide that is. Which they compute secretly on a constantly changing basis. So, you, Mr. Author who wrote the book in the first place, and then paid to make it into an audiobook with your own damn money, get 0.2 * X * Y where you don't get to know what X and Y are. Which means you will have no way of knowing what you will make per sale. And no way to check their math to make sure they've paid the full amount. So, what would I make per sale? Well, I can't know for certain, but I asked around, and talked to people, and reached a conclusion. 37 cents. Per audiobook sale. How, you ask, did I arrive at 37 cents? Well, I won't tell you. It's a secret. I can say it would be 37 cents, and you can't contradict me, because I won't give you access to the data. There's no way for you to prove me wrong. You just have to take my word for it. It's 37 cents. Just trust me, bro. See how this game works? And if I don't want to play that game, then what? Well, I can't sell on Audible. And Audible has a 65% market share. And that might sound bad, but when you run the numbers... so what? Let's say I sell an audiobook on Campfire, where I can set my own prices, and I get 80%. Let's say I sell it for $20, to make the math easy. I get 16 dollars. How many audiobooks would I have to sell on Audible to make that same 16 dollars. At 37 cents per, that's 44 books. Do you doubt that 37 cent figure? Too bad, you're wrong. My math is totally valid and unassailable. I know this because you can't prove me wrong. Because my computations, and my data, are a secret. So, anyway, if I miss 43 sales for every one I make on Campfire, I still come out even. In fact, I come out ahead. Because if I sell one book on Campfire, instead of 44 books on Audible, that's 43 people who haven't bought from me yet. And someday, they might. If I sell on Audible, I'm not burning through my existing audience to make money for someone else, someone who doesn't write books, like an author, or record them, like a voice actor, or prep them, like a sound engineer. Someone who doesn't add value. Because a bigger audience isn't "value" if someone is keeping all the money that audience tries to pay me. The juice isn't worth the squeeze. Now, sure, someone will probably point out that I am, philosophically, an anarcho-capitalist, and chide me for complaining, because this is just how the free market works, right? Well, much as I love it when people who don't share my philosophy try to tell me what I believe, no. Free markets work, and are free, to the extent that market information is disseminated. If a buyer or seller doesn't know the know the market price of a good or service, they will suffer for that ignorance. Take, for example, used cars. For half a century, if you wanted to buy a secondhand car, you would go to a used car lot, where the sticker prices on the windows were the purest fiction, and the moment you wanted to buy something, they'd stick you in a room with a well-trained salesman, to negotiate in total ignorance of the actual market value of the car you were trying to buy. Lotsa luck. But the moment the internet came along, people could comparison shop for cars, and sell and buy cars directly to and from each other. And now it's dead easy to buy one without being cheated. Just look online and compare prices. Markets are free when market information flows freely. This is why monopolies need governments to prop them up. They need certain types of intellectual property laws and trade secret laws, and enforcement of NDAs and non-compete agreements, to shut down competitors and to keep market information secret. What's the real price of an audiobook? Hard to say, but in a world without Audible, I could charge you less than they do, and still make more. Win-win, for you, and for me, and for other authors, and for voice actors and sound engineers, and basically everyone but the thieves at Audible. So what I am doing right now is disseminating market information. To make the market more free. I am telling you how much of your money Audible is keeping. Almost all of it. This means less pay for everyone else, which means, according to the inexorable laws of supply and demand, less authors to write books, less talent to record them, and less audiobooks for you to listen to. Those "free" credits they give you ain't so free after all. So what has to happen? Well, I can't break the Audible monopoly all by myself. Me taking a stand against them won't mean a lot to their bottom line. But I can be a tiny part of an eventual solution. I can avoid giving them my audience's money. I can help prop up competitors who take a fair rate for providing a sales platform. And I can spread the word. And most of all, I can keep my self-respect. Because I didn't kneel and kiss the ring. "When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed." - Ayn Rand

Anyone else feeling like this? #iPhone

@mattturck VCs when they realize profitability of their new AI venture

VCs when they hear that someone is leaving OpenAI to start a new company

@redj_red Wish it worked in real life - I’d be a pro at sleeping. It's more like this though...

@Devon_Eriksen_ Serve (the state) & Protect (the criminals)

Every once in a while one of these assholes says the quiet part out loud. This is why the statists can always trot out someone who "served in the military", and "carried one of these weapons of war" who thinks they "have no place on our streets". Nevermind that the guy is usually an officer whose actual weapon was Microsoft Powerpoint, nevermind that he touched an M4 exactly one or twice a year to requalify, nevermind that being a soldier of any description doesn't make anyone necessarily a firearms expert, much less a policy, law, history, or human rights expert. These guys, and their cloud of family members, are being weaponized to shut up people who didn't "serve" (the regime). Cops, too. What's in it for them is they get to feel special. They are not ordinary icky commoner peasants, like you. They are elite agents of the state, the special people, and what makes them feel special is having special privileges that you don't get. If they were capable of objective reasoning for thirty seconds, they'd know it doesn't make a damn bit of difference if you have an AR15, a M4, an M243, or a damn FGM-148 for that matter. Because you are a white middle class professional with a strong moral compass, and the only thing you would ever shoot is fake targets, until and unless the situation became so dire that violence really was absolutely necessary. But, of course, they don't want to think of you that way. They want to think of you as untrustworthy, incompetent chucklefucks. Why? Because their self-image demands that you be inadequate. If you want an example of how this works, look at how venomously the left hates Kyle Rittenhouse. Why? He's anathema to them on every level. He's nothing special, really. Not exceptionally tough, not exceptionally smart, not some sort of SOG SEAL Delta MARSOC oper8or ninja. Just an ordinary, chubby, baby-faced teenager. And yet, with a cheap Palmetto State Armory AR, he went 3-0 on one of their weaponized mobs of commie thugs, all the while acting with complete restraint according to the letter of the law. Flawless victory. This why they make up shit about him being a murderer. This is why they mock his appearance. This is why they mock him for crying on the stand, a perfectly reasonable reaction to the memory of having to take a human life, which actually speaks well of his moral character and capacity for empathy. The weaponized commie thug underclass hates him because he revealed how vulnerable they are. That they are not an invincible tide of power that we fear. And that the only reason we haven't buried what's left of them in a lunch box is that we are decent people who hope to stop their insane communism without having to resort to stuff like that. But the statists, the middle-class quislings who whine about how "no one needs weapons of war", hate him for a different reason. Not only because he revealed that any free person does, in fact, need weapons of fucking war, at least if he wishes to remain free. But also because he revealed one simple, basic fact that they desperately don't want you to know. You don't need the state to defend you. They call you sheep, want you to be sheep, so they can call themselves sheepdogs and fancy themselves to be necessary for your survival. But the purpose of a modern-day American soldier is to fight overseas in an elaborate piece of puppet theater designed to provide a smokescreen for embezzlement of taxpayer's money. And the purpose of the police is not to suppress crime. An armed population is perfectly capable of hanging thieves and robbers from the nearest tree. Ten thousand Appalachian rednecks with AR-15s could solve Chicago's gang problem in a week by rounding up anyone who looked like a gangster, shooting them if they resisted, and burning down every crack house. But they can't do it humanely. They can't do it without false positives and collateral damage. Lynchings aren't justice, but that doesn't mean they don't suppress crime. They do. Police don't exist to prevent crime, they exist to provide an alternative to lynchings. They exist to serve a justice system whose function is to do what an armed citizenry cannot... to perform deep dives into who is really guilty and innocent. To try to prevent collateral damage. Police are not there to protect you. They are there to protect criminals from you. They are professional criminal wranglers whose job is to manage criminals with tamer methods so that you don't keep order with lynchings or just gunning down thugs in the street. People whose ego is built around having special status as an agent of the state don't want you to realize this. People who wield personal power through the state don't want you to realize this. They want you begging them to do their jobs, instead of threatening to do their jobs for them. And that means they want you disarmed. Not so you can't shoot each other. Because you won't. Not so you can't shoot them. Because unless they get really jackbooty, you won't. They want you disarmed so you can't shoot criminals.

@ChrisJBakke x.com/Neofool_/statu…

lol

@wholemars @MKBHD @elonmusk x.com/Neofool_/statu…

Congratulations to @MKBHD — more influential than @elonmusk in AI!

@IterIntellectus x.com/Neofool_/statu…

is this satire? lmao, helen toner and scarlett johannson but not sam and elon?

@josephsbool x.com/Neofool_/statu…

when you see shit like this it makes you wonder: are they this retarded about every topic? Have I been lied to for all my life? Is this a recent drop in journalism quality?

@riderjharris x.com/Neofool_/statu…

@niccruzpatane @elonmusk @TIME @Tesla @wholemars @tesla_na x.com/Neofool_/statu…

This is the craziest thing ever. @elonmusk has been left out in @TIME magazine’s Top 100 most influential people in AI 😂 What a jooooooke.

@greg16676935420 x.com/Neofool_/statu…

I’m honored to be featured on the cover of Time magazine this month