Jesse Bales

Your friendly neighborhood armchair-polymath here for politics, philosophy, science, gaming, and memes. (atman/anatman)

[AI Slop @AIslop_]

leg day

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

https://t.co/N2AwpI9f8m

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

From my appearance on 60 Minutes:

Me:
Research works. If you want to freeze society where it is, then cripple the research enterprise.

Bill Whitaker of 60 Minutes:
Is that whole idea being lost in the harsh rhetoric by the administration?

Me:
The attack on universities is a tragic blunder. For all the foibles of universities, and there are many, and I pointed them out, universities' research makes life better, massively so. Why would you want to cripple it? It's something that the United States does really, really well.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Fighter pilot who served in WWII finds his fallen wingman’s grave after nearly 80 years

[Jesse Bales @bales_jesse]

@rustyrockets @grok Can you summarize this post and give context? How convincing is this response logically?

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

"Consilience" is the idea that all knowledge should eventually interlock, producing a unified understanding of reality. Below is a network showing this unity, as measured by co-citations.

It appears the humanities never received this memo, and have now reached escape velocity!

[Jesse Bales @bales_jesse]

@libsoftiktok @elonmusk Pork pressure.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The FSU is supporting Connie Shaw, a Leeds University student suspended from hosting a radio show for expressing gender-critical views. This amounts to discrimination under the Equality Act, and we've warned the institution of potential legal action.

https://t.co/eoqNMAkgkn

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

[Jesse Bales @bales_jesse]

@Aella_Girl I think that folks who have wisdom practice skillful means. Mostly restrained verbalizing of ideas that they don’t think will be useful. So it appears stunted or overly simplistic, but really they just avoid wasting energy or burning the opportunity for future understanding.

[Jesse Bales @bales_jesse]

@blizaine Love that this is a loop.

[board.meme @boardotmeme]

Our intern got carried away with AI and put some big names on a skateboard. We’re all about skateboarding and memes.

Inspired by @thedorbrothers

Song: Mobb Deep - Shook Ones, Pt. II

@BarackObama @realDonaldTrump @JoeBiden @POTUS @Pontifex @McDonalds

#klingai #GROK #runway #RunwayGen3 #aivideo

[The Money Cruncher, CPA @money_cruncher]

I reviewed Donald Trump’s tax returns from 2015 to 2020.

2,744 pages.

Here’s all you need to know:

[Jesse Bales @bales_jesse]

@GigaBasedDad Pascal’s Wager knocked down by the late great Hitch:

https://t.co/WGZneVzfv8

[David Simon @AoDespair]

Which is it? Do you want to occupy the public space to express your dissent and invoke your absolute right to speak? Or do you want to beat on anyone who then exists in that same space and invokes their absolute right to document it?

[The Free Press @TheFP]

“Thank you, everyone, for your support. I know for a fact that when they isolate and imprison me, another will take my place. Nothing I did was unique or special. Anyone can do what I did. Live not by lies.”

Read Navalny's haunting message in full here: https://t.co/7bzLKpIA3S

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

I don’t say it often, but everyone should watch this video in its entirety.

The use of 'brave' as an adjective has become almost disposable these days, overused to the point of meaninglessness.

However, this video—filmed within 48 hours of learning that one of her greatest nightmares had become a reality—demonstrates remarkable bravery by Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Alexei Navalny.

The power and clarity of her message and the decision to put herself directly in the crosshairs of Vladimir Putin and his security services is an example of extraordinary sacrifice.

Россия будет свободной!