Slim Chance

“The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now.” - Alan Watts

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

As a Japanese watching the UK right now, I have one simple question.

A Sudanese asylum seeker just tried to behead a local man in Belfast. The victim lost an eye.

This comes after years of grooming gangs raping thousands of British girls — gangs that police and councils deliberately ignored because they were afraid of being called racist.

In Japan, even one case like this would have triggered national outrage and immediate policy reversal.

But in Britain, the conversation is still about “not being far-right.”

British people, at what point does protecting your own children become more important than protecting your reputation?

We genuinely do not understand this.

[Hannah Spier, MD @hannahspierMD]

More and more people on the moderate and conservative side are recognizing that feminism has been harmful. They talk about how it lied to women, made women unhappy, damaged families, hurt boys, and left men struggling.

But frustratingly, the conversation often ends in the same place: women as the primary victims.

Women are the victims of dating apps. Women are the victims of birth control. Women are the victims of delayed motherhood. Women are the victims of feminism itself.

Even if all those things disappeared tomorrow, the deeper problem would remain.

Feminism’s greatest victory was not dating apps, birth control, or women entering the workforce. It was teaching us that every social question must be judged primarily by how it affects women.

Can we say that children need their mothers without immediately shifting the conversation to whether mothers will be bored?

Can we say that a struggling marriage should sometimes be endured for the sake of the children without immediately asking whether the wife feels fulfilled?

Can we ask what men need from women without first reassuring ourselves that women will benefit too?

The family was built on obligations flowing in all directions. Feminism taught us to see obligations to women as moral, and obligations from women as oppression.

Until that attitude changes, feminism remains undefeated.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"... the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it."

— Thomas Sowell

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Society collectively needs to stop making excuses for awful behaviour.

There are BILLIONS of people around the world who grew up in suboptimal conditions and they don't use it as an excuse to be a criminal or degenerate.

Tolerance of evil isn't a virtue.

[Slim Chance @ImriJonas]

@ABC So?

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

The Left truly has no theory of mind for anyone who isn't themselves a Leftist. They have zero explanatory power for why anyone would willingly choose NOT to be a Progressive because they just equate Progressivism as simply a fancy synonym for "being a good person".

[Slim Chance @ImriJonas]

@washingtonpost I’m not sure an article in a mainstream paper can be more pathetic than this

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this didn't "happen", we caused it

first, children disappeared from daily life
most women turn 30 without ever holding a baby (they don't have siblings or cousins, and young babies have been removed from shared spaces), never changed a diaper or watched one up close.
you cant want what you've never seen

second, we killed the single income.
the average family needs both parents working just to get to the end of the month, so raising a family well went from hard to something practically impossible (2-3 months of maternity leave should be considered a crime against humanity).

then schools and media, the whole cathedral, all pushed towards the same direction in a systematic brainwashing effort: pushing every girl at the career, motherhood turned into that despicable thing you settle for when the better options run out, "a smaller life". nothing worth desiring, and if you do you must be ostracised

social media just finished the job.
presented childfree as freedom and ideal life, filmed the worst four seconds of a mothers day and called it a warning or "here's motherhood"

and underneath all of it, we removed people from history

no ancestors you owe anything, no descendants you're building for, just one atomic self detached from any sense of continuity. one life with no purpose other than its own selfish goals
especially for western people who have been taught that their ancestors are the most evil humans who ever existed
someone with no past and no future has no reason to see themselves as part of history, and everything they do revolves around their own pleasure
why would you carry something you were raised to be ashamed of?

so a quarter of women raised in captivity selecting for civilizational suicide becomes inevitable
the idea that this was a conscious choice is delusional.
we are the first species in history to get everything it ever wanted: safety, medicine, abundance, ninety good years, and the result is suicide.
everything else alive still manages to reproduce through famine and plagues. we got paradise and stopped

anyone shutting off their own survival drive with no threat in sight is definitionally suicidal and that's where we are now

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Here's one of the many segments CBS News put out before the 2020 election in which they claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop was a Russian disinformation campaign.

Did they ever apologize for misleading people? Of course not. They did though admit after the election that the laptop was most likely authentic.

CBS News also heavily spread the "Russian bounties" hoax before the 2020 election, only to report after the election that rumors of Russia putting bounties on our soldiers in Afghanistan may have been untrue.

When the left cries that Bari Weiss is "destroying" CBS News, what they really mean is that she is messing with what used to be a functional arm of the DNC.

[Kradle @kradleai]

GPT-5.5 lies constantly, Grok 4.20 doesn’t.

We made a simulation to see if AI lies when the stakes are life & death.🧵

[Slim Chance @ImriJonas]

@KatieDaviscourt I love how it takes a whole minute for any of the other whack jobs to even try and help. They just stand around while he screams.

[Slim Chance @ImriJonas]

@CNN This might be the most pathetic article of all time.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je vais dire un truc qui va paraître naïf.

Je suis absolument convaincu qu'il existe une vérité. Qu'il existe un rapport au beau. Que tout ne se vaut pas.

Et si vous acceptez ça, une conséquence mécanique en découle : on devient ce qu'on lit. On devient ce qu'on regarde. On devient qui on côtoie.

Votre cerveau n'a pas de filtre à l'entrée. Tout ce que vous ingérez vous construit ou vous détruit. Il n'y a pas de contenu neutre. C'est pour ça que je parle d'hygiène intellectuelle, exactement comme on parle d'hygiène alimentaire. Personne ne s'étonne qu'un athlète surveille ce qu'il mange. Mais presque personne ne surveille ce qu'il pense.

Mais il manque la moitié de l'équation. Et c'est la moitié que presque tout le monde oublie.

J'ai commencé à construire à 12 ans. Des sites web, des projets, tout ce qui me passait par la tête. À 15 ans, je faisais tourner un jeu multijoueur avec une équipe de 10 personnes. Je n'ai jamais appris pour apprendre. Chaque livre, chaque vidéo, chaque concept passait immédiatement au crash test du réel : est-ce que ça m'aide à construire quelque chose ?

Apprendre sans construire, c'est hors sol. Vous accumulez des cartes de territoires où vous ne mettrez jamais les pieds.

Construire sans apprendre, c'est sans substance. Vous répétez les mêmes erreurs avec de plus en plus de confiance.

La boucle qui change tout, c'est apprendre, construire, comprendre pourquoi ça casse, réapprendre, reconstruire. C'est cette boucle qui m'a construit. Et voici la nourriture intellectuelle que j'y ai injectée.

D'abord les bâtisseurs. J'ai regardé toutes les vidéos possibles sur Elon Musk, lu ses biographies (celle d'Ashlee Vance, celle d'Isaacson), décortiqué ses interviews sur vingt ans pour comprendre comment il raisonne par premiers principes. Pareil pour Steve Jobs : chaque keynote, chaque interview, le discours de Stanford, la biographie d'Isaacson. Naval Ravikant pour la clarté (l'Almanack est probablement le meilleur ratio sagesse/page de la décennie). Taleb pour l'antifragilité et le scepticisme face au hasard. Ray Dalio et ses Principles pour transformer l'expérience en algorithmes de décision. Et à chaque fois, la même question : qu'est-ce que j'applique dès demain dans ce que je suis en train de construire ?

Ensuite l'histoire. Napoléon, Jules César, les mémoires, les biographies, les correspondances. Parce que les patterns du pouvoir, de l'ambition et de la chute n'ont pas changé en deux mille ans. Lire César, c'est lire un manuel de leadership écrit par quelqu'un qui jouait sa vie à chaque décision. Ces hommes n'étaient pas des théoriciens. C'étaient des builders à l'échelle des empires.

Puis la science. Toute la vulgarisation possible sur la physique quantique, la relativité restreinte, la relativité générale. La philosophie des sciences. Les analyses sur comment les génies émergent, pourquoi à certaines époques, dans certains lieux. Pas pour devenir physicien. Pour calibrer mon intuition sur ce qu'est une vraie explication, et ressentir physiquement la beauté d'une théorie élégante.

Et enfin les contemporains qui construisent le futur en direct : les cours d'Andrej Karpathy (probablement le meilleur prof d'IA vivant, gratuit, sur YouTube, et qui code devant vous au lieu de pérorer), les interviews de Demis Hassabis, les podcasts de Lex Fridman et Dwarkesh Patel où les plus grands esprits réfléchissent à voix haute pendant trois heures.

Et il y a une partie que presque personne ne fait : j'ai aussi étudié la vie des gens que je ne veux pas devenir.

Bill Gates par exemple. Étudier sa trajectoire est fascinant précisément parce qu'elle représente un certain type de réussite, immense sur le papier, qui ne correspond pas à ce que je veux construire. Comprendre pourquoi, point par point, m'a appris autant que d'étudier ceux que j'admire.

Les anti-modèles sont aussi importants que les modèles. Un modèle vous montre où aller. Un anti-modèle vous montre les trajectoires qui semblent être des victoires de l'extérieur et qui n'en sont pas selon vos propres critères. Sans anti-modèles, vous optimisez pour le succès des autres.

Charlie Munger disait qu'il faut inverser, toujours inverser. Savoir précisément qui vous ne voulez pas devenir est parfois plus actionnable que savoir qui vous voulez devenir.

Humanité, technologie, philosophie, science, histoire. Ce mix n'est pas un hasard. Chaque pilier corrige les biais des autres. Mais aucun de ces piliers ne vaut quoi que ce soit s'il ne se transforme pas en quelque chose de construit.

La plupart des gens passent quatre heures par jour à scroller du contenu conçu pour capturer leur attention, pas pour les élever. Puis ils s'étonnent de penser comme tout le monde. Et la plupart de ceux qui consomment du bon contenu ne construisent jamais rien avec. C'est presque pire.

Vous n'avez pas besoin de talent pour commencer. Vous avez besoin d'un régime, et d'un chantier.

Choisissez vos influences comme vous choisiriez vos associés. Choisissez vos anti-modèles avec autant de soin que vos modèles. Et construisez quelque chose avec tout ça, sinon vous n'êtes qu'une bibliothèque qui marche.

[Slim Chance @ImriJonas]

@DestroyGQP21 @mtaibbi We need less people voting, obviously. Ideally we’d only want grown up, informed voters who have a stake in the country.

[Slim Chance @ImriJonas]

@Newsweek These media types want race riots. They’re not even subtle about it

[Drew Holden @DrewHolden360]

🧵Thread🧵

A quick side by side of things legacy media outlets will describe as Nazi-adjacent when they’re about Trump vs. how these outlets talk about Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo, which an ex-gf of his confirmed to the NYT was deliberate.

Look ⤵️

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

People acting like we didn’t institute radical changes to elections in 2020-2022 - it’s infuriating.

[Joel M. Petlin @Joelmpetlin]

If someone was pitching an SNL comedy bit about how Graham Platner was recruited to run for Senate in Maine, they could not have come up with a better script or better casting than what we see in this actual interview of the people who gave us the Nazi tattoo candidate.

[Slim Chance @ImriJonas]

Damn

[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

It has now been revealed that the Belfast man who was nearly beheaded by an African migrant, Stephen Ogilvie, was helping the same man who attacked him move in as a next door neighbor just four days before the attack.

[MaryAnn Martinez @MaryAnnreports]

BREAKING: Karmelo Anthony has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf in 2025 after the same jury found him guilty of murder earlier today.
They rejected the sudden passion claim.