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[neels @neels]

@realKIRAC @_esk_kse_ @Brantpeije I will resume work on the https://t.co/Ij5iCdHmDH archive this weekend. I will look at adding crypto payments, either directly or through a payment processor, as well as other high-risk payment providers.

[Tatum Turn Up @tatumturnup]

This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen. No notes. The lifeless clanker carcass just laying there. No crowd reaction, anything. Just Billie Jean. Until its lifeless shell is shamefully dragged off. Purely amazing.

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels. This is fully autonomous running Helix-02 https://t.co/IdZR0T1F5I

[Carlos E. Perez @IntuitMachine]

Meet Human Operator from MIT Media Lab: a wearable that lets AI temporarily take control of your hand using electrical muscle stimulation.

Watch it crush piano, draw perfectly, and mix cocktails like a pro — all from a simple voice command.

“I gave an AI a body.”

This isn’t sci-fi. This is tomorrow.

#HumanOperator #MITMediaLab

[neels @neels]

@realKIRAC Bami burgers vanavond

[vi @oyevivekk]

New uniform of the Bangladesh Forest Department 👌🤣

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The von der Leyen quote is one of the most revealing things a European leader has said in the last decade and almost nobody is going to process it correctly.

“The cheapest energy is the one you don’t use.”

That is a sentence spoken by a person presiding over civilizational decline who has decided to reframe the decline as virtue. It’s not a policy statement. It’s a theological position. The energy crisis isn’t a problem to be solved by producing more energy. It’s an opportunity for Europeans to need less. To want less. To consume less. To live smaller lives in smaller apartments heated to lower temperatures with less travel and less activity and less economic output. The scarcity isn’t a failure. It’s the goal.

This is the thing Americans and everyone outside of Europe cannot fully grasp about where European elite thinking has landed. They genuinely believe that reducing European energy consumption is morally good regardless of the economic consequences, because European consumption is tied to European environmental guilt which is tied to European colonial guilt which is tied to a broader belief that European civilization has been net negative for the world and should shrink. The energy crisis gives them political cover to implement policies that would otherwise be unpopular. Now they can say circumstances force the reduction when the reduction was always the plan.

Von der Leyen is not an aberration. She represents the consensus view among the European political class. Macron believes this. Scholz believes this. The entire EU Commission believes this. They don’t say it this directly usually because it polls badly, but every major policy they implement is consistent with this worldview. Degrowth is not a fringe academic position in European politics. It’s the operating framework at the top.

The American version of this framing would be “the cheapest energy is the one we produce ourselves at scale.” That’s what actually reduces cost and increases resilience. Building more nuclear, extracting more gas, expanding the grid, investing in new production. The European version is the opposite. Don’t build anything. Don’t extract anything. Don’t produce anything. Just use less. And when citizens can’t heat their homes or fly for work, frame it as virtue.

This is why Europe can’t recover from the current trajectory. The recovery would require a complete reversal of the ideological framework that produced the decline, and that framework is held most strongly by exactly the people who have the power to change it.

They’re not going to reverse it because they don’t see the trajectory as a problem.

They see it as necessary and good.

[johntheman_heiscome_heisme_PREACHTRUTHILLUMINATIPl @heiscomeheisme]

THE NEXT MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN MILITARY TECHNOLOGY WILL BE TO GIVE EACH PROJECTILE A MIND AND SOUL, AS THE ERRATIC MOVEMENTS CAUSED BY THEIR INNATE SELF PRESERVATION INSTINCTS WILL MAKE THEM HARD TO INTERCEPT

[Sterling Crispin 🕊️ @sterlingcrispin]

Introducing: Nothing Ever Happens

A @Polymarket bot that automatically buys "No" for every non-sports market and holds to resolution.

Why predict the future when 73.4% of all Polymarkets resolve as No? Stop over thinking it. Nothing Ever Happens.

https://t.co/wLUfZkRbif

[KIRAC @realKIRAC]

My conversation with Cody Wilson, guided by a higher force. “One day, humanity will play with the law just as children play with disused objects.” Link in 🧵

[Brant @Brantpeije]

Check out the first of my weekly music blog posts. This one is about why good Dub music is music for sociopaths. It is also about the first depiction of a butterfly in ancient Egypt, the excitement of a young nazi rocket engineer and other things! First song is free the rest is paywalled.

[cornbread Bitch @wobblymami]

This one video in my bookmarks says otherwise

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

This is Pakistan. Every single person here is male. Due to the strict segregation of women, transgenders perform for older men under the belief that sexual contact with them is more moral.

Even though homosexuality is criminalized on paper, transgenders are accepted.

[neels @neels]

@realKIRAC Now I'm wondering if he ever thought about how my asshole looks but was to afraid to ask.

[neels @neels]

@realKIRAC Step one seems to be get a basic fit backpack

[calle @callebtc]

this is who you're arguing against online

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

This is a real video published by the real secretary of hhs on the real official account

when I say “the European mind cannot comprehend” I mean like literally there isn’t even a category for this

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

Think different