I can't properly describe to anyone under the age of 30 just how cool the Internet was before Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple turned it all into a walled garden of garbage and commerce.
However dumb you think the process for destroying USAID was, it was dumber.
This is from Nicholas Enrich's new book Into the Wood Chipper, describing a meeting with Trump-appointed USAID leadership *after* they had largely gutted the agency
All that digital ink spilled between 2016-2024 about a national conservatism bringing about pro family pro working class welfare under the warm embrace of the MAGA movement. Here’s the big payoff.
the roko's basilisk guys are so funny bc they correctly intuit that our lives will be controlled by a psychotic, amoral algorithm that hates humanity but they think some nerd in SF is going to build it on his macbook. it was already built, in 1602, by the Dutch
This month in 1974, Donald Barr (Bill Barr's father), former U.S. intelligence officer and author of a book about intergalactic child sex slaves, announced his retirement as headmaster at Dalton. Before leaving, he hired Jeffrey Epstein.
https://t.co/uTp7O5Qf1v
The human being has been internally demolished. Can you see the fragments walking in the alleys and streets? Can you hear the crying babies beyond the fabric of tents? They were born to breathe defeat, to taste it in their mothers' dried chests, and to be upbrought as fragments.
SCOOP: Days before the inauguration, the Trump family secretly signed away 49% of World Liberty Financial, their crypto company, in a deal with a U.A.E. royal, acc. to documents and people familiar.
The $500M investment came months before the U.A.E. won access to U.S. AI chips🧵