Faisal🔻🇵🇸

desolation yes / hesitation no

[internet.lol @UHD4000k]

@Son_ImSleep

[aylin ☽ @weepingcaesar]

once you turn 20 you have to fight everyday for the rest of your life to not lose your personality & spirit...bc what once came naturally to you will be exhausted into nothing if you don't actively Try. it's terrifyingly easy to become a lethargic, soulless adult

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[玄鸟🇹🇼🤝🇨🇳 @iafxoc]

@freedomhouse

[inqilāb @tastefullysaucy]

“so they can have a chance at a better life”

[lumberjack @idmpredator]

Some one smarter than me could probably explain what it means that the infinite subspace beneath reality has transitioned over the last century from a library to an empty, decrepit, office

[kasra @kasratweets]

bringing back the best pieces of media on this

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

Jung was not playing around:

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Literally half the problems on this planet can be traced back to the UK. Including the US and Israel. It's extraordinary.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

It is crucial to understand that this is a major reason for the West’s increasing belligerence toward China over the past decade. China’s development is challenging Western monopolies. This imposes a direct squeeze on Western profits but it also undermines a core tenet of imperialism.

The West’s monopoly power allows them to impose dependency on the global South. The South is forced to export large quantities of raw materials and intermediate goods in order to pay for imports at monopoly prices.

This produces large net flows from the global South, propping up the West’s growth and profits. If the West’s monopoly power declines, this flow gets cut off. They are desperate to prevent this from happening, to the point of fantasising about going to war with China to destroy China’s industrial base.

The West’s whole model for capital accumulation depends on Southern dependency. As that arrangement becomes increasingly unstable, the Western ruling class will become increasingly violent.

[Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani]

In a footnote to Capital, Marx brought up a testimony of a French worker. In France, he assumed he could do just one specific type of job (= printing). In California, he discovered that he in fact can do anything & all the constraints he faced in Europe were purely artificial

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The world's richest centi-billionaire oligarch used his power to change the rules, so he could dump his garbage company (which is cartoonishly overvalued, unprofitable, and incinerating cash) on retail investors, using trillions of dollars in retirement funds as exit liquidity, all in order to become the first trillionaire.

This is the perfect metaphor for the US economy as a whole, which is entirely based on bubbles and scams.

[John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd]

The Google ai push is proof that billionaires truly are cartoonishly greedy, they had a beloved product that worked properly and was printing billions of dollars for them and intentionally broke it in the hopes that breaking it could make them a few extra bucks right now

[dane 🚩 @buckadeath]

Let's check in on the goyim

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Finito.
I used to hold those who support Israel in moral disgust, eliciting a deep visceral revulsion.
Today I hold ALL those not disgusted by Israel in moral disgust.
Life is too short to tolerate evil & abettors of evil.

[nugget chef @jayhaykid]

Just a wonderfully incisive piece

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

C.S. Lewis, this is what life boils down to at the end of the day

[jez (equity perps era) @izebel_eth]

i think u can use yc as filtering for whatever slop to ignore for the next few years:
-moatless-enough that 20 yr old strivers w/ no domain expertise can build
-fotm-enough that they think theyll get rich

ex: luna wrappers, claude wrappers, now shit prediction mkt "tooling"

[dane 🚩 @buckadeath]

Persian diaspora are so spiritually ugly it's unreal