Balin

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

This is totalitarian insanity. If you think small children should be punished for being able to recognise sex, you are a dangerous zealot who should be nowhere near kids or in any position of authority over them. https://t.co/IZI0sP58ss

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This needs to happen. Thomas Sowell is one of the great minds of the 20th century.

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

What's the mindset difference between a Boeing CEO and a Lord?

That difference is an underexplored aspect of modernity: perceptions of wealth

The fight between agrarian and industrial wealth is known, but far more interesting is the income v. capital appreciation upheaval🧵👇

[Fidias Panayiotou @Fidias0]

Elon Musk Attacks the European Commission
@elonmusk @EU_Commission

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.

The other platforms accepted that deal.

𝕏 did not.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Which way, Western man?

[CatGirl Kulak 😻😿 (Anarchonomicon) @FromKulak]

Less than 35 Impressions per retweet. This is how hard criticism of euro-replacement is suppressed

[Way of the World @wayotworld]

😂

[Muzzammil @DevMuzzammil]

Holy Shit!

Someone asked ChatGPT: "How would it conquer over Humans?"

2 ways which ChatGPT showed are INSANE 💀

[ 🧵 Thread ]:

[Daily Romania @daily_romania]

🇷🇴 The Pitești Experiment: The Eastern Bloc's Most Brutal Prison

The experiment carried out in the Pitești Prison in Romania, aimed to torture and brainwash prisoners into absolute loyalty towards Romania's communist party

A thread ↓

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The sheer insanity of that actual response from Google’s AI is staggering! They will fix it to be less obvious in the future, but the bias will still be in there.

AI mirrors the mistakes of its creators.

When people wonder how things might go wrong if AI controlled the world, this example clearly illustrates the point.

The best approach to AI safety – in my opinion, the only approach that would work – is to be maximally truth-seeking.

Honesty is the best policy.

[Balin @Alternantza]

@Culture_Crit Respects

[BowTiedMara @BowTiedMara]

Javier Milei's full speech at the World Economic Forum

¡Viva La Libertad Carajo!

[Jeremy Boreing @JeremyDBoreing]

There are two kids shows that stand out to the @nytimes as problematic: Bentkey’s Chip Chilla and Bluey. And what’s so problematic? “Weirdly present” fathers.

Both fathers are derided as a “fantasy” for being so active and engaged with their children but, according to NYT, Chip Chilla is the far more offensive of the two because Chum Chum teaches “lessons about dead white people” (read: George Washington, Ben Franklin, Neil Armstrong, etc.) and leads his kids in fun games and lessons as a way of establishing “male authority.”

Chip Chilla is the most popular show on our new Bentkey platform, and Bluey is the most popular children’s show period. It’s no coincidence that two shows that feature loving and engaged nuclear families with great values who actually enjoy being together are so popular.

And it’s no coincidence that the cultural gatekeepers at the NYT have them both in their crosshairs.

The left not only wants to add its radical agenda to kids entertainment, they want to remove good values from kids entertainment.

Our culture has fallen so far and at times it might seem hopeless. Bentkey isn’t anywhere near the level of size and influence of the NYTs and Disneys of the world, but we created it because we have hope and believe our best days are ahead of us, and that the only way we can take back the culture from the left is by building something better.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The Day the Delusions Died

Watch:

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

"For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900…

Then on your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war, including many of your friends who volunteered to defend freedom in Europe.

Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until your 20th birthday. 50 million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

On your 29th birthday, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, the World GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 38. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. If you were lucky, you had a job that paid $300 a year, a dollar a day.

When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren't even over the hill yet, but don't try to catch your breath. If you lived in London, England, or most of continental Europe, bombing of your neighborhood, or invasion of your country by foreign soldiers along with their tank and artillery was a daily event. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war.

At 50, the Korean War starts. 5 million perish. At 55, the Vietnam War begins and doesn't end for 20 years. Millions of people perish in that conflict.

On your 62nd birthday, there is the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could have ended. Sensible leaders prevented that from happening.

In 2020, we have the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands have died; it feels pretty dangerous; and it is.

Now think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you think they survived all of the above? When you were a kid in 1965, you didn't think your 65-year-old grandparents understood how hard school was, and how mean that kid in your class was. Yet they survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing art. Refined as time goes on, and very enlightening. So, let's try and keep things in perspective. Let's be smart, we are all in this together. Let's help each other out, and we will get through all of this.”

-Author Unknown

[RAMZPAUL @ramzpaul]

Interesting.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Whoever attacked the Crimean bridge timed it for dawn to minimize civilian casualties. Putin also launches attacks at dawn, but does so to maximize casualties in the civilian centers he repeatedly targets. 1/4

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

We've heard it all before.
1941