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"it was a calculated withdrawal, from the life of the Republic, from its machinery. Since they could not have withdrawn into a vacuum (could they?), there had to exist the separate, silent, unsuspected world."
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how to be expert at Monster Hunter...

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how to write a book review that says absolutely NOTHING

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What lies have you fabricated this week?

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Must read. Basically says the pandemic was as terrible as the 'alarmists' predicted but "our memories are so warped by denial, suppression and sublimation that Covid revisionism no longer even qualifies as news." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/o...

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some dedication to the hobby...

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this reads like parody, but it's a serious mental health problem that we all are going to pay for

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Until it hits your face. Then you wake up.

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"one of the mimetic strengths of Eschaton is that it's like the real world where strategies remain pure about as long as Canadian schoolgirls do."

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Would be actually interesting making a large-scale metroidvania... but it's Arkanoid. Like a giant mega-dungeon with rooms, all connected in one game, where you progressively unlock rooms and sections, pinball-like, and guide the ball through it all, progressively.

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what does it even mean?

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I wonder why "the right side of history" keeps looping back into fascism. Maybe staying on the wrong side was a better choice.

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The literal eye of Mordor and evil incarnate. Palantir is worse than Elon Musk. That they work closely together is not a surprise.

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Doom with a new coat of paint

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Musk's idea of "first principle reasoning" is cute and nice in theory, but in practice it's a way to develop a nasty case of structural (and contextual) blindness. First principles are an anthropocentric conceit, the world doesn't care about your priorities. See emergence at a very basic level.

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We wrote about how Musk is using X as a propaganda tool to demonize each of the agencies and programs that DOGE targets for cuts, providing air cover for his engineers' incursions — with the truth as collateral damage. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... w/ @drewharwell.com

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The shock waves from the Trump administration's assault on the world of science will reverberate for years go come. Progress is being thwarted. Cures are further out of reach. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

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I guess you can see how these statements are reversible and mirror each other. On this field, only strength (not truth) matters since they lack any external regulatory mechanism. I don't need to point on who's the stronger on this field.

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You CAN fight with words, but then statement need to be immune from reversibility. Unless you're only participating to this circus and enjoying the show for what it is. In that case, go on.

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All current fights against Elon Musk and Republicans are largely made of reversible statements. Where the content of what is being said is entirely pointless, since it is reversible. Only strength matters on that field, and it doesn't look much strength is being shown. Only talk.

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People don't understand the problem of reversible statements. If you make a reversible statement, the other party will reverse it. If then there is no external principle, the stronger wins. Not truth, but strength.

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"Musk steals a billion dollars from low-income Americans and sends it to Intuit" pluralistic.net/2025/02/11/d...

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Nope. We know what will happen. We'll all get used to it, and life goes on. Until it doesn't.

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"the critical point can be reached not just through the terror of police intimidation, but by denying and distorting information, by undermining systems of justice, by paralyzing the education system, and by spreading in a myriad subtle ways nostalgia for a world where order reigned.”

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“I will tell you what has carried me to the position I have reached. Our political problems appeared complicated. The German people could make nothing of them. . . . I, on the other hand, . . . reduced them to the simplest terms. The masses realized this and followed me.” -Hitler (1936)

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I remember this book series mentioned in a old blog post: thewertzone.blogspot.com/2009/12/davi... Unfinished in the 90s as 8 books, it was then being re-released and partially rewritten, expanded to 20 volumes, only to be suspended with 8th in 2014. Re-released for the THIRD time in 2017...

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On satire cesspit.net/drupal/node/...

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...here I learn there's a fantasy series on moles that is quite famous and over 1 million 500k words and a really good map

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„Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis, as I did for my book Serving the Reich, cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders“ 🧪

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"DOGE managers are hired for their capacity for cruelty" doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

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Empire of Silence, Christopher Ruocchio a "review" loopingworld.com/2025/02/09/e...

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Wrote some 1200 words for a review of Ruocchio first book, but they ended up just being a premise to the review itself. And now I'm too tired to write the rest...

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a chaotic system isn't defined by the impossibility of predicting its evolution, but by the impossibility of compressing it www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GfI...

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It's telling that a lot of policies around Discord groups are about "do not talk about politics." As a culture we've learned to avoid conflict. So, how do you expect to solve problems? That's why fascism will always win. Its only core is identity, there is zero internal discussion.

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