Master T. No 🇵🇸, No 🇮🇱, YOUR COUNTRY here

I am the master of Jammin'!

[Master T. No 🇵🇸, No 🇮🇱, YOUR COUNTRY here @MastaBlasterJ4M]

I've got to pin this if I don't forget to

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Elon Musk was asked: “What’s one invention that’s made us worse, not better?”

His answer: short-form video.

He called it straight-up “brain rot.”

And he’s not wrong. A local news report highlighted how kids are getting flooded with dopamine hits every 15–30 seconds from YouTube Shorts and TikTok-style content. Brain scans show overactivation in the reward centers, which over time trains the brain to crave instant gratification, shortens attention spans, and contributes to attention problems, behavioral issues, and even emotional dysregulation.

Doctors are now seeing cases where it’s hard to tell the difference between true ADHD and what they’re calling “environmental ADHD” caused by excessive screen use.

78–84% of kids aged 2–12 are on YouTube, often for 2+ hours a day.

This one feels especially urgent for parents.

How much short-form video are your kids (or you) consuming daily — and have you noticed any real impact on attention span or mood?

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

@CurtisHouck

[Master T. No 🇵🇸, No 🇮🇱, YOUR COUNTRY here @MastaBlasterJ4M]

@TheDonFoley390 @KristenMeghan @CurtisHouck You can't quite win with these fallacies around, indeed. They permit you to justify just about anything, if you look at it from the right angle

[Master T. No 🇵🇸, No 🇮🇱, YOUR COUNTRY here @MastaBlasterJ4M]

@itsme_why @GrumpyPantsVet @CurtisHouck Now this I know to be a true quote. But I am still not sure about whether back in the 1960's the term "white liberal" would have even been in use.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment – the real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire

The French Enlightenment and the Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment happened simultaneously, in the same century, reading the same books, arguing about the same questions. They reached completely opposite conclusions. One produced the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. The other produced the guillotine. This is the most important civilizational fork in modern history.

1. The French Enlightenment begins with the assumption that human beings can be improved by reason – that if you strip away the corrupting institutions of Church, tradition, and inherited authority, the natural goodness underneath will organize itself into a just society. This sounds like progress. It is a fantasy with a body count. Every attempt to implement it has required, at some point, a Committee of Public Safety to handle the people who turned out not to be naturally good enough.

2. The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment begins with the opposite assumption: human beings are what they are, not what they could be if properly enlightened. Hume grounds morality in human nature as it actually operates – sympathy, habit, sentiment, the slow accumulation of social trust. Smith shows that self-interest, properly channeled, produces collective benefit without a planner. Neither man is building a utopia. Both are building with the actual material available.

3. Burke is the direct refutation, written in real time. He published Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790 – before the Terror, predicting it precisely – because he understood that institutions are not obstacles to human flourishing, they are its precondition. They contain accumulated wisdom — the knowledge of the dead — that cannot be recovered once destroyed. Pull society apart to improve it and you don’t get the General Will. You get Robespierre.

4. The American founders read Burke, Hume, Smith, and Montesquieu – the Frenchman who looked at England and understood what France was missing. They built a system that takes human nature as given — self-interested, power-hungry, tribal — and constructs institutions to contain those tendencies rather than assume they disappear once the right people are in charge. Checks and balances are not a design flaw. They are what you build when you don’t believe in philosopher-kings.

5. 1776 versus 1789. Same Enlightenment, same century, same vocabulary of liberty and reason. One produces a constitutional republic that has survived two and a half centuries of stress, civil war, and upheaval. The other produces, in sequence: the Terror, Napoleon, 1848, the Commune, and eventually — via Marx, who was a Frenchman in spirit if not in birth — the entire catastrophe of the twentieth century. The difference was not intelligence or intention. It was the starting assumption about human nature. Get that wrong and everything that follows is wrong with it.

6. The guillotine is not the Revolution’s failure. It is its logical conclusion. If man is naturally good and the system is corrupt, then whoever seizes the system in the name of natural goodness is licensed to do anything. The General Will cannot be wrong. Those who resist it are not opponents – they are enemies of nature itself.

7. The real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire was never a better French philosopher. It was a different civilizational tradition – one that builds with human beings as they are; that treats inherited institutions as repositories of wisdom rather than obstacles to progress; that distributes power rather than concentrating it in whoever currently claims to know the General Will. That tradition was built in Edinburgh, London, and Philadelphia. It is currently under sustained assault — from exactly the same ideas, in exactly the same form, with exactly the same confidence — that Burke watched demolish France in 1789. He was right then. He is right now.

[Mieke Lieke @miekelieke]

Ik ben niet rechtser geworden.

Ik sta precies waar fatsoenlijk Nederland altijd stond: dat je van je land mag houden. Dat grenzen normaal zijn. Dat nationale trots geen misdaad is. Dat er twee geslachten zijn. Dat wie hier woont, onze wetten en vrijheden respecteert.

Dat dit nu “rechts” heet, komt niet doordat ik ben opgeschoven. Het komt doordat links is weggelopen bij het gewone leven, en alles wat het achterliet uit gemak maar “extreem” is gaan noemen.

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[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

Some politicians in the UK think it is a good idea to introduce identity verification for using VPN services.

It could be that these politicians do not understand what they are proposing. The alternative, that they do understand, would be even worse.

Whistleblowers, activists, and journalists depend on anonymous VPN services. Requiring identity verification for VPN services would put them at risk. It would also have a chilling effect on online debate (VPNs can help people post anonymously on social media).

In authoritarian countries, VPN services are crucial forcriticizing the government. That is precisely why such governments seek to ban or restrict them. Hopefully, the UK will not join that list.

[Kreator @kreator]

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On Sale:
Bogota, Colombia: June 4th @ 11am
Santiago, Chile: June 3rd @ 12pm
Buenos Aires, Argentina: June 4th @ 1pm
São Paulo, Brazil: June 3rd @ 11am

SEE YOU THERE 🤘🏻

[Master T. No 🇵🇸, No 🇮🇱, YOUR COUNTRY here @MastaBlasterJ4M]

@UNSOFICERAEL @TheBugleDaily1 @Horrorguy123654 Changed the PFP since? ;)

[Master T. No 🇵🇸, No 🇮🇱, YOUR COUNTRY here @MastaBlasterJ4M]

@0Rebornone @DVanLangenhove If those countries react and revolt before they've been fucked-up
But it is not easy. Colored revolutions not backed by the CIA are hard. Just ask the Serbs and how they've spent their entire 2025. About 1/10th of the country involved. Still no changes via "democratic" means.

[Master T. No 🇵🇸, No 🇮🇱, YOUR COUNTRY here @MastaBlasterJ4M]

@parabellum1714 @DVanLangenhove Democracy, adopted by the West as a whole, is an instrument for humiliation of all men and women who believe in it and try to play by its rigged rules. Humiliation of all who pay taxes to the scumbags that then house migrants and enforce internet age-checks.

[Remigration Summit @RESUM26]

I know what they told you. They told me the same thing. But it doesn’t add up. It’s time for a radical change.

[Master T. No 🇵🇸, No 🇮🇱, YOUR COUNTRY here @MastaBlasterJ4M]

@TheBugleDaily1 @Horrorguy123654 Unfortunately, the current policies of the people that were supposed to save this country aren't quite what the people voted for. At least as far as wars are concerned. So, indeed, Democrats might be back sooner than expected.

[Master T. No 🇵🇸, No 🇮🇱, YOUR COUNTRY here @MastaBlasterJ4M]

@UNSOFICERAEL @TheBugleDaily1 @Horrorguy123654 Dude, you've literally got Hitler - no matter how much he's supposed to be a parody of Donald Trump - but it's LITERAL HITLER's FACE AS YOUR PFP!!!

WHAT?!

[Master T. No 🇵🇸, No 🇮🇱, YOUR COUNTRY here @MastaBlasterJ4M]

@Pariahisps @TheBugleDaily1 @Horrorguy123654 Valid gamer comment.
Don't know how deep this one is, but Dishonored - although very real - was not particularly persistent. It was rather occasional, and only featured three genuinely-close in-person interactions with Emily - stealth tutorial and her rescues(Golden Cat & end)

[Proton @ProtonPrivacy]

Age verification sounds reasonable until you realize it means every adult hands over their ID just to go online.

We wrote about why this is a terrible idea and what should happen instead.
https://t.co/vj0bjwHn1J

[Master T. No 🇵🇸, No 🇮🇱, YOUR COUNTRY here @MastaBlasterJ4M]

@timbuiltit What do you mean by "with AI"? AI assisting you in moving something? Or some functional Hetzner's AI?

[Master T. No 🇵🇸, No 🇮🇱, YOUR COUNTRY here @MastaBlasterJ4M]

@Anaya_sharma876 @therahul4402 Why not Arch(https://t.co/YzoyVPCI3j) or @ArtixLinux ?
As a former Debian/Ubuntu user - there is not too much of a learning curve. Yes, a different package manager. Yes, you'll either install manually(no installer) or use third-party installer script. But it's worth the effort

[Master T. No 🇵🇸, No 🇮🇱, YOUR COUNTRY here @MastaBlasterJ4M]

@LGd1h9 @wu_s_john @NikTek Yeah. I don't remember Japan being an authoritarian country (at least in the 21st century)

[Master T. No 🇵🇸, No 🇮🇱, YOUR COUNTRY here @MastaBlasterJ4M]

Motherfuckers are redpilling me to pro-natalism harder than ever 3x

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

i cannot believe how fucking mad people are at this tweet. yes this is what having a kid is like. its also other not so fun stuff of course and lots of responsibility, but the good parts completely outweigh the “bad” and make it all worth it. people have been so assblasted by antinatalist propaganda they lose their fucking minds at anything remotely pro-children. im glad this cute video game is inspiring people to want kids