Butlerian Mujahid

I am become Time, the end that comes to all things.

[Butlerian Mujahid @FermiPonderer]

Ayatollah please do NOT ignite Ghawar Oil Field, the densest resevoir of petro-energy on the planet, with a 45 kt warhead. It might paralyze the auto-sophisticating runaway of global technocapital and ZOG at the same time 😬. Here's a map so you know where to avoid bro

[Butlerian Mujahid @FermiPonderer]

Best case-use of atomics wouldn't be on a population center; the ideal target is an energy-dense, hardened structure like a hydroelectric dam (e.g. Three Gorges), a nuclear reactor (e.g. Diablo Canyon), oil refinery (e.g. Port of Houston), data-center or an exoatmospheric EMP

[Flyingdebris @Flyingdebrisguy]

Just watched Isotope Wars. Almost completely depersonalized world war/space race on some climactically doomed exoplanet. It's beautiful stuff.

[One Proud Bavarian @ProudBavaria]

Wow.
That's really interesting!

However, what if, instead, Columbus had been extremely fast, crashing into Cuba with near-light speed, killing millions?

What then?

[Mia @boygrrI]

guys they just found out prototaxites werent part of fungi but an unknown extant eukaryote lineage and they were possibly vascular organisms and im the only one who cares about this

[AJ Jaff @aj_geo_analysis]

What we are seeing now is a carefully choreographed intelligence operation...

It has all the hallmarks of one of the largest intel operation ever carried out against the American public opinion by the White House itself.

Trump, JD Vance and senators "criticizing" Israel, yelling at Netanyahu and every other "leaks" that comes out of the White House is political theatre and information warfare, nothing less.

This whole scenario is designed to manufacture consent of the American public to resume kinetic military operations against Iran.

[روني الدنماركي @aldnmarki]

Reading about the Iranian aerial bombardment of US Camp Buehring in Kuwait reminded me of this clip of an Iranian F-4 Phantom engaging in a low-altitude bombing run against Iraqi forces during the Iran-Iraq War.

Seems like Iran have long used this tactic to great effect.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

I fully understand. It is extremely disorienting when Trump actually makes sense. But what he is saying is true. This warning - that the overuse of financial sanctions would cause a rush away from the dollar - was first stated by Jack Lew, under Obama.

In a major 2016 speech, Lew warned against "sanctions overreach," arguing that excessive use of sanctions could encourage countries and companies to avoid the US financial system and the dollar. He said:

"The more we condition use of the dollar and our financial system on adherence to U.S. foreign policy, the more the risk of migration to other currencies and other financial systems grows."

[Avelum @novusolus]

It's called the Timeline but there's no strict chronology, threads are weaved into the sequence from any point in history. It makes its own causation across time between the user's desire-indexes, the way protein folding generates second-order structures between linear chains.

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

The origin of the universe exists at the end of time, not the beginning, in an ultimate attractor toward which all events are being drawn

[Alex Hochuli 🧉🎙️🤯📉 @Alex__1789]

Finally, technology has caught up with 1940s Argentinan literature

[Okie_Rancher @Okie_Rancher]

How the AI Data Center Boom Really Works:

A developer raises $4B in VC/private equity for a massive hyperscale campus. They lock in preliminary “anchor” leases from big LLM/cloud players (Microsoft, Google, CoreWeave, etc.) so the banks will fund it.

The guys who raised the money get a 20% promote. Their only real goal: hit the construction deadline and cash out.

Long-term success? Not their problem.

To maximize their return they buy the cheapest land possible. Just happens to be prime farm and ranch ground in rural counties. Farmland is dirt cheap, easy to rezone, and perfect for 500 MW–1 GW+ builds.

Construction? They fly in out-of-state union trades. 12–18 months of hotel and restaurant boom, then they leave. A finished hyperscale data center runs with a tiny on-site crew;

almost zero permanent local jobs.

Locals object to the noise, water use, farmland loss, grid strain?

The developer buses in the same tattooed, sweaty, half-drunk angry union crews to pack the council meetings and shout down “soccer moms.” It works every time.

They build to the bare minimum specs needed to qualify for hundreds of millions in tax breaks (property tax abatements, sales-tax exemptions, federal ITCs, etc.), flip or refinance the stabilized asset, and move on to the next one.

The hyperscalers get their compute. The sponsors get paid. The rural community gets the externalities.

That’s the play. Speed, cheap land, union muscle, grab the incentives, exit. Everything else is marketing.

[Butlerian Mujahid @FermiPonderer]

The “Place, Japan” thing makes sense when you realize the entire East Coast area between New York and Atlanta is the same terrain and climate as Japan if it was populated by Amerigoyim but without high-speed rail

[David Scott Harris @HVNYrefugee]

One of these is Hokkaido, Japan.
One of these is TN, USA

Which one is which?

[Brutal Truth Bombs @FORTRESSMAXXING]

Because millennials are literally products of ZOG.

They were born in the 90s and grew up in the post-9/11 War on Terror era of the 2000s/early 2010s, aka when Israel (ZOG) impact on culture (like cinema) peaked.

Nu-atheism, Ben Shapiro, World War Z, Harry Potter, Gamergate, Persepolis, Charlie Hebdo, Steven Spielberg, Boy with Striped Pyjamas, Marvel MCU/avengers, Tumblr, Reddit, this is all the coal slop millennials all grew up with and enjoy. And it all traces back to Israel in some way. Like Reddit being effectively run by Epstein's wife, Ghislaine Maxwell.

They tried shoving this garbage down Zoomer throats too to limited success but also significant rejection. I've seen a lot of this stuff when I was in high school, they showed some of these movies to us too in class.

[Brian 🍄 @Is_Not_Brian]

I thought this was a joke man I had to see it for myself.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Something's totally off about the number of data centers being built (over 3,000 right now) and the sheer size and compute power they represent.

They are massively OVER-building capacity that can't possibly be met by customer demand for compute.

And customer revenues can't possibly recover the financial investment needed on these projects.

There's clearly some other plan afoot, and I don't yet know what it is. It involves massive compute, but not merely to serve inference or hosting databases and corporate data. There's a much larger plan at work here.

[Seldon @seld_on]

There's a cosmic irony in how the planet named after the goddess of love is completely opaque, its dazzling brilliance concealing a bleak landscape of choking, searing, crushing pain as you slowly descend into it

[Seldon @seld_on]

Looking for unusual stellar objects in SpaceEngine is my new personal form of stimming.

This is XTE J1650-500, a binary consisting of a main-sequence star and a black hole of 5-10 solar masses. The two orbit close enough to each other (T = 7h40m) that the star's surface is bent into a distinctly ovoid shape by the presence of the black hole, which is siphoning mass from its companion's corona.

As expected, light (and spacetime) is heavily curved in the immediate vicinity of the black hole.

Also, in addition to the event horizon there is also a "photon sphere" where light can get trapped in orbit instead of passing through. There are no stable orbits in that region, either an object has to fly past at some significant fraction of c or be trapped in a decaying orbit until it is eventually swallowed by the BH.

[ToughSF @ToughSf]

The US has no defence against a nuclear detonation in space, has the most to lose from it, and a 1 MT warhead in LEO can instantly destroy 2200+ satellites then disable 10,000+ within weeks - no radiation/debris cleanup exists.
@GarretsonPeter reports:
https://t.co/3p2XJeexWt

[Alborean wanderer @AlboranNomad]

In the pre-modern world, real men would gang up on chad and kill him. Accepting biological "rules" and trying to earn your place rather than demanding a place is extremely effeminate.

[Kasurian @KasurianMag]

Are we in a post-literate culture?

In The Return of Oral Culture, Murtaza Hussain (@MazMHussain) explores the monumental cultural shift occurring as technological trends drive the decline of reading and writing in favour of oral consumption.

The prescient works of Walter J. Ong and Neil Postman foretold the epistemic change and psychological transformation that would accompany technological change. A literary subculture prioritises seriousness over spectacle; the rise of oral culture prioritises the opposite, intensifying social nihilism and manipulation.

If we want to preserve the rudiments of modern society, we cannot treat reading as a quaint hobby. We must treat it as a foundational technology of human depth that must be cultivated and defended, kept as a vouchsafe of civilisation to the generations ahead of us.

Read more on Kasurian. Link to essay in reply below:

[Avelum @novusolus]

Outstanding choice of epigraphs.