IRINA

MEc.
P.U. alumna

the emperor has no clothes

[IRINA @eirenebellatrix]

don’t bring your dogs to the clown park.

[Nerdrotic @Nerdrotics]

Behold the King

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”

― Jean-Luc Godard

[NASA @NASA]

A new milestone for humankind: The crew of Artemis II are now the farthest any human has ever travelled, reaching a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth.

This surpasses the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 by about 4,102 miles.

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

🚨 This was the Artemis II crew's view this morning from 41,756 miles (67,200 km) up

No human has seen a crescent Earth in full since 1972

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

The descent into authoritarian hell. We must never forget.

[Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost @Ne_pas_couvrir]

Rupert Lowe’s popularity surge can be explained in two words: noblesse oblige.
It is the idea that wealth, power, and high station carry an inherent moral duty to act honorably, generously, and in service to those one leads.
That idea has been lost in the West.

[Charles Curran @charliebcurran]

Being able to kidnap a head of state, and decapitate a regional military power back to back without taking a single american casualty is such a wild spectacle of power i don't think it has any other historic precedent

[IRINA @eirenebellatrix]

@PlatoonPod a disappointedly retarded take from you.

[Common Sense Extremists @crushmarxismnow]

Robert Duvall refused to work with Spielberg and DreamWorks again after Spielberg visited Fidel Castro in 2002, noting the hypocrisy of him making films like Schindlers List while visiting a dictator.
RIP.

[The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri2]

Rest in peace, sir.

[Napoleon Bonaparte Appreciator @NapoleonBonabot]

On occasion, animals remember Eden

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

I've never been impressed with "grind culture", and I was especially unimpressed with Ramaswamy's allegation that, no there is no bias, Americans are just being outcompeted because they played varsity football instead of attending cram schools.

That whole attitude, that whole way of looking at the world, is predicated on a credentialist, zero-sum idea of what education is even for.

To the third world striver, coming from a broken society, education and cram schools are for outscoring the other guy on tests so you can beat out the other guy for the high-paying job, the tenure track position.

It's not really important what that position actually is, because what you really intend to do in that position is get money and status.

That whole attitude accepts, from the very outset, that you're not going to change the world in any positive way, you're just going to tweak it a little so more of it belongs to you, and that's the limit of your ambition.

But the first world creator doesn't think like that.

He's capable of asking philosophical questions like "What are intelligence and education for, and why do we care about them?"

After all, there must be some reason why existing institutions try to test and measure people so they can give cushy jobs to those who are theoretically the best.(Or, these days, the most diverse, meaning least White.)

The reason is that we want people to invent and discover things.

And, yes, educating people, and cherry-picking the smart ones does help. But it only helps to the extent that it doesn't interfere with the other qualities required for innovation... optimism, courage, vision, persistence, creativity, flexibility, and so on.

If I were looking for a stable, unadventurous, uncontroversial figure to become the Howard. J. Moneybags Chair of Abstraction Studies at the University of Ivy Covered Walls, and polish a chair with his butt for fifty years before retiring to a life of fly fishing, then a cram school veteran with a tiger mom holding his leash sounds like just the man for the job.

But if I want to invent a heavier-than-air-flying machine, I want a couple of talented rednecks messing around with bicycle and kite parts in a shed somewhere.

Ironically, the richest man in the history of the known universe didn't go to cram school or chase the money. He tried to build what he wanted to see in the world, even when he thought he would probably fail.

So don't send your kids to cram school. They are as smart as they are, and no amount of practice trigonometry tests will ever make them any smarter.

Instead, teach them not fear failure, not to give up on themselves, and to that you will always love and believe in them no matter what.

[Sivori @sivori]

Telling the truth is deeply antisocial because at some point you will be forced to choose what matters most to you: the truth or the approval of the group.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Eastern European countries are providing stronger resistance against globalism and wokeness than Western countries.

Why?

Eastern European people have already experienced the leftist authoritarian heel under communism and are unwilling to do so again.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

The funniest President in history and it's not even close

[David Hoffman @TrustlessState]

For those who don’t see it yet:

> Elon bought the internet’s real-time hivemind, Twitter
> SpaceX will build AI datacenters in space
> Solar is ~8× more efficient in space; energy will be free and abundant
> Starlink will go direct-to-phone via global mesh

We know AI scales with energy. Power in, intelligence out

Elon will have free energy, the largest AI data centers, and connectivity to everyone’s phones

OpenAI, Anthropic, etc cannot compete with the scale of these resources

[IRINA @eirenebellatrix]

Liminality.

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

Professional organizers in the 1970s trained me as a teenager to do the stupid protest stuff like vandalism, destroying property, and creating provocations to get stomped and clubbed by National Guardsmen for the news cameras to turn people against the authorities.

We thought it was a fun adventure and enjoyed being part of an edgy "struggle" in what we had been led to believe was a righteous cause. In my case, it was anti-nuclear activism.

Those who knew what they were doing never put themselves in danger.

They trained and set up the rest of us as dupes to face the consequences. That was about 80 percent of us.

They used us to create outrage imagery, and to use our shouts and chants to intimidate political figures and the public. They used us to provoke situations that would turn the public against the police and National Guard.

We were just all-American high school kids. Harmless. Idealistic. Innocent-looking.

It was all engineered anger. PSYOP against the public and against ourselves.

When I realized that the cause wasn't about the cause, but was about a Communist revolution against our country, I broke ranks and spent the rest of my life fighting them.

I was 16 years old at the time. Luckily I hadn't gotten involved in any destruction or violence, but had learned enough to infiltrate and disrupt the movement until I was well into my twenties.

From that experience, I went on to infiltrate Communist guerrilla front groups, and Soviet international front organizations like the World Peace Council and disrupted their multimillion-dollar operations. This time, for Uncle Sam.

Used the enemy's tactics against them.

Most of the rest just chose to remain dupes. That was almost 50 years ago.

The Minneapolis insurgency is nothing new. It has been evolving for decades, refined to an art form.

What about the 20 percent who were not dupes? They knew exactly what they were doing. Back then, they had supported Fidel Castro, the Weather Underground, and our Vietcong and North Vietnam Communist enemies.

Many of them are still around. Some remain sharp and militant. Others are the geriatrics you see with their "No Kings" signs, hauling out their grandchildren - or other people's grandchildren - to train them as the fourth or fifth generation of militants. Many are still dupes.