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submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Lemon socialism for corporations but free market capitalism for you.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

What happens when we outsource our thinking and values to the crowd? Without a personal philosophy, we default to social conformity and expedience. It makes life easier— at the cost of implicitly consenting to terrible ideas.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Cloudflare is now offering a feature called “AI labyrinth” where it serves a series of AI generated pages to AI crawlers that ignore robots.txt directives. They’re essentially serving AI slop to AI crawlers that are training off of a website’s content without permission. Deliciously devious. 😈

submitted 61 days ago • 8 comments

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

A high trust society is more effective and efficient than a low trust one. #booksky

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

got into this a bit on the forthcoming neonliberalism with bret devereaux: "absolute power" is a fantasy that has never existed, because for even dictators to make lasting change... requires buy-in from multiple levels of society!

submitted 63 days ago • 19 comments

If American colonists had acted as complacent and navel-gazing as Americans do today, America would still be a British colony.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

It’s hilarious in hindsight that it was a huge scandal that Hilary checked her work email from a personal computer server instead of a work one. It wouldn’t crack top ten of any given day of this administration. 🤣

submitted 63 days ago • 15 comments

If you need to put a door dash meal on a pay later plan, you should reeeaaaallyyyy reconsider your life choices.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

This book was my 101 introduction to stoicism and the passage here was to me, a really profound insight into people; when people do ill it’s rarely out of malice but a lack of wisdom. #booksky

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks for the heads up.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Unlike Turkey, in a federal system elections and quite a lot of hard policing power is controlled at the regional state level. To nullify Democratic Party power a MAGA Trump regime would have to find ways of arresting or deposing governors in ways so unconstitutional it would trigger civil conflict

submitted 64 days ago • 5 comments

I was listening to Scott Galloway yesterday and he said something that stuck with me: rich people’s rights are portable. In other words, even if they are angry about Trump’s actions, rich people are not going to help the rest of us because their own rights are protected by their money. (1/)

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

Ordered a copy of dune imperium uprising; I have high hopes.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

One of the most elite Ukrainian units accepting foreign volunteers has received “a massive spike” of applications, according to a source involved in recruiting, who said that “a significant amount of guys expressing outrage and shock over what has been happening with the shift in American policy.”

submitted 65 days ago • 20 comments

Mos maiorum was the unwritten ethical code that formed the moral and social foundation of ancient Roman society. Rooted in tradition rather than formal legislation, it governed behavior across private, political, and religious spheres. #booksky

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