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[noname @normiegod]

@robotek_reagan @LinusEkenstam This

[noname @normiegod]

@LibertyCappy „If“ there would be the possibility to change your gender/sex he could be a woman with a penis. I am sure there are fans of that. But today only mutilation and medication is available. This is not transforming you into something else. Not a woman nor a cat. Sorry guys

[noname @normiegod]

@Kat__Woods You cannot have a real friendship with someone who bends their personality to your needs in the hope to be allowed to fuck you.

[eve @eveforamerica]

What if Trump sang “Landslide”.

This may be my favorite.😆

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Conservatives are losers.

This doesn't mean I dislike them. I generally don't.

And it doesn't doesn't that they are failures in their own individual lives. In fact, the data usually shows the reverse.

What it means is that conservatives have positioned themselves to lose the political chess game from the very first move.

I had this realization when a conservative publication contacted me first for permission to reprint some of my writing, then again to say they would not be doing so because it was "too techno-optimist".

Ohhhhhh-kay...

Weird, but it got me thinking.

Why do conservatives always seem to be determined to make moves that bespeak a determination to lose, despite visibly and fervently wanting to win?

It's because the first and most important move of any political chessgame is branding.

And by branding themselves as "conservatives", they have already committed to a losing strategy for the entire game.

The moment you call yourself a "conservative", you've decided to lose the game, and the only victory you can achieve will be to lose more slowly. Here's why:

1. You have no vision.

By visibly committing to the idea that your agenda is to preserve the good things that already exist, rather than to create something new, you cease to even be a movement. You are a non-movement, a resistance to movement, a commitment to stasis.

You have, by design, no plans, no dreams, no vision, nothing for people to look forward to, rally around, and get excited about.

2. You repel the most energetic, and pander to the least.

If you are the party of the status quo, then your greatest supporters will be those who are content with the current system and their lives within it.

In other words, those who need to do nothing to get want they want, because they already have it. They will only be awakened by a clear and present danger to what they have, and even then, they will hesitate, waiting to see if someone else will handle it for them.

Your opposition will inherit, by default, all the people who want change, three groups of them.

First are the angry people, the losers at life, those who are not thriving in the current system. Most of them aren't too smart, but they are underemployed and have plenty of spare time, and are easily energized by telling them their problems are someone else's fault. They aren't deep thinkers, but they serve as a boundless supply of foot soldiers ready to sacrifice themselves for the cause.

Second are the sociopaths, the ones who wish to ascend personally. They know that chaos is a ladder, and a stable, orderly society leaves little room for advancement except by hard work, or acceptance of the structure and discipline of a productive institution, neither of which appeals to them. They also like the sound of breaking glass.

Third are the visionaries, the creatives, the people who want to build something new. These are mostly disciplined, responsible, and highly competent, just the kind of people you want, they are alienated by rigid social rules and celebration of the past to the exclusion of excitement about the future. Conservative failure to embrace their vision is why Silicon Valley is just outside San Fransisco instead of just outside Nashville.

3. The central rationalization of your brand image is fake and gay.

We've all heard it before, the central pillar of conservative thought: "What we are doing has worked for hundreds of generations. Don't meddle with it."

Well, so what?

The one constant of human history, and the history of life itself, is change. Organism, societies, and institutions all adapt themselves to conditions as they exist, they those conditions change, and they either adapt again... or they die.

You can die tomorrow doing the same thing that worked by a hundred generations... because yours happens to be the one where it stops working.

By advocating traditions simply because they are traditions, rather than actively understanding why they are there in the first place, and therefore why they might need to be revised, or torn down altogether, you slowly accumulate non-working strategies for life.

The tradition of a hundred years, or a thousand, or ten thousand, that you are fighting for can easily be obsoleted by the technology invented tomorrow, if it hasn't already been obsoleted by the technology invented yesterday... or decades ago.

The principle of Chesterton's Fence does not mean "don't touch anything", as if adult human beings were six year olds in a china shop. It means "be cautious and understand what you are meddling with".

But meddle you must, for change is evergreen, and the religious speculations of bronze age sheep herders, while they certainly can contain wisdom, will not steer you right every time, because they didn't know that the earth goes around the sun, or that you can make sand think if you shape it skillfully enough.

Here's the point:

Those who call themselves "conservatives" don't have to brand themselves that way. Their ideal world doesn't actually involve mindless resistance to change, regardless of its starting point or direction. They do actually want things, and do actually have changes they would like to see.

But optics matter. Branding matters. Perception matters.

The name "conservative" is that horrible first chess move that dooms them to a losing game, because with that word defining the agenda, they are forever playing defense.

Politics is the art of the possible, and without a vision of the possibilities you wish to promote, you are a loser at best, and more likely not even a player, just a speed bump in the way of the person with the ball.

If you aren't a techno-optimist, you aren't an optimist at all, because tech is where progress comes from.

And if you aren't an optimist, either become one or get out of politics, because you cannot optimize without optimism.

So you can sulk about how Silicon Valley belongs to the Marxists (because you gave it to them), Hollywood belong to the Marxists (because you gave it to them), television belongs to the Marxists (because you gave it to them), social media belongs to the Marxist (because you gave it to them) and continue to cede the high ground until you are blotted from history.

Or you can rebrand.

Find some kind of vision of the future that builds on your values, looks forward instead of backward, and allows restless, discontented, ambitious, energetic people to have something to look forward to.

Something to get excited about.

Something to want.

Something to build.

[Brett Morris @brettmorrisxyz]

Hey @elonmusk, I have some ideas on purchasing a Cybertruck (or any Tesla) using the Apple Vision Pro.

[noname @normiegod]

@MindOfHeadking You are being nice because you are too afraid to go for what you want. That’s why you try to manipulate others with kindness and harmlessness. Which just doesn’t work with people in general and especially women. Be kind yes. Start with yourself

[noname @normiegod]

@emblemo Depends on the brand. I would ask what enhances the voice of the brand more

[Why you should have a cat @ShouldHaveCat]

Cat that cracked the matrix

[David Perell @david_perell]

Kevin Kelly is one of the most influential tech writers of the last half-century.

He's published 14 books, founded Wired magazine, and maybe even traveled to more places in Asia than anybody in human history.

Here are 28 of his best maxims for writing:

1. Don't aim to be the best. Be the only.

2. Don’t create things to make money; make money so you can create things.

3. The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

4. Always demand a deadline. Doing so weeds out the superfluous and prevents you from insisting on perfection (which will limit you as a writer).

5. To write about something hard to explain, write a detailed letter to a friend about why it is so hard to explain, and then remove the initial “Dear Friend” part and you’ll have a great first draft.

6. The work on any worthy piece of writing is endless and infinite. Since you cannot limit the work, you must limit your hours.

7. Books are never finished, only abandoned.

8. When you are stuck, sleep on it. Give your subconscious an assignment while you sleep. You’ll have an answer in the morning or by the next time you sit down to write.

9. A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea.

10. The greatest teacher is called “doing.”

11. Efficiency is highly overrated; goofing off is highly underrated.

12. If you have a good idea, write it down. Don't assume you'll remember it.

13. Writing is not selfish; it's for the rest of us. If you don't do your thing and share your writing, you are cheating us.

14. Most articles and stories are improved significantly if you delete the first page of the manuscript. Start with the action.

15. The best way to learn anything is to teach what you know (and you can do it at scale by writing).

16. Productivity is often a distraction. Don't aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possible. Instead, look for writing projects that you never want to stop doing.

17. Occasionally your first idea is best, but usually it’s the fifth idea. You need to get all the obvious ideas out of the way. Try to surprise yourself.

18. Pay attention to what you pay attention to.

19. To be interesting just tell your own story with uncommon honesty.

20. Ironically, the best time to write a book is once you're done with the speaking tour for the book.

21. Read the books that your favorite authors once read.

22. When you find something you really enjoy, do it slowly.

23. The main reason to write something every day is that you must throw away a lot of good work to reach the great stuff. To let it all go easily you need to be convinced that there is “more where that came from.” You get that in steady production, which comes from a steady writing habit.

24. Habits are far more dependable than inspiration. Make progress by making habits. Don't focus on becoming a better writer. Focus on becoming the kind of person who never misses a writing session.

25. The quality of a piece of writing hinges on its structure. Nail the structure and the ideas will fall into place. You'll know the structure is good when the reader doesn't even notice it.

26. To write something good, just do it. To write something great, just redo it, redo it, redo it. The secret to publishing great writing is to spend a lot of time rewriting.

27. When in doubt, retreat to honesty. Say more of what you really think and feel instead of trying to sound smart.

28. Principles like what you see here are not laws. They're like a hat. If one doesn't fit, try another.

Many of these maxims are directly from @kevin2kelly's book: Excellent Advice for Living, while others are from the interview I just published with him about his approach to writing.

I've linked to our full conversation in the tweet below.

[Michael Guimarin @Guimarin]

Money is not really related to class.

If you think money = class, you’re probably from the underclass.

The classes are defined and distinct by their values and who/how they venerate their hero’s and villains.

Also every class thinks it’s uniquely better than the others.

Underclass: comfortable with violence. See world in dichotomy’s, Us. V. them, “you’re either a pimp or a john” They tend to engage in zero sum games. “I win, you lose.” Drugs (entertainment and “pharma”), girls, violence are how they make money.

Their hero’s are entertainers and sports stars, mobsters and prostitutes. None of these people adds anything to society in terms of long term value. It’s all about a scheme to play the man/system. “I got mine.”

Most of our mainstream culture celebrates the underclass as it was a project of 20th century America to move people, especially blacks from the working class down to the underclass. Even today this pattern is obvious in our medias especially in viewpoints that are or are not censored.

Underclass people are ineffective at running a slave revolt because the very skills (Horacio Algiers) which get you to the top of the underclass are disgusting to the other classes. Underclasses are never successful in revolutions as a point of generation. If inheritor class and managerial class fail, then underclass will step in after, but they never successfully overthrow the elite.

Working class: Work harder than everyone else. They want to be left alone and celebrated for diligent work. This is where “blue collar” mentality comes from. Religion tends to be strongest in this class. Also where soldiers arise. Traditional values, masculinity etc.

if you want to wreck a society you push policies that make working class people underclass and then tell them they’re victims (cc blacks in 20th century America).

Their hero’s are the guy who owns his own machine shop, plumbing business, construction etc. Elon Musk is a working class hero. Get some place through hard work and ingenuity.

Managerial/academic class: technocrats. Believe in systems over people. Focused on reductionism, weighing + measuring and leverage. This is where finance people live. Policy people. Anyone who believes throwing money or passing laws fixes issues. These people valorize Nobel scholars or Pulitzer Prize winning journalists, famous authors etc. the work is not about what you make with your hands but with your mind.

Inheritor class: above all concerned with taste. The “right way of doing things.” Their focus on taste is more than “high fashion” though high fashion and aesthetics is what other classes fixate on about this class. Look at their goofy outfits and architecture. It’s about how you do things not what you do. Don’t care about New Rich if they did it in a way that was unseemly. Almost all culture, literature and history comes from this class perspective.

Roughly speaking a stable society will have 15-20% underclass. 70% working class. 10-15% academic class and 1-2% inheritor class.

[noname @normiegod]

@codeandtheory @danjgardner link is not working for me

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

The political compass according to people in each quadrant of the political compass…

Source unknown.

[noname @normiegod]

@hellocolor endless wisdom forced into the tight space of an image 👌

[noname @normiegod]

@rickygervais dropping logic bombs about god and religion https://t.co/kMtGobVu9Z Love his insight about science vs. religion at the end of the clip

[noname @normiegod]

@PardesSeleh maybe it’s because we „read“ the internet? you hear it in your own head. we have more suspicion towards the spoken word.

[Mark Queppet @MarkQueppet]

True relaxation takes as much discipline as intense focus.

The more deep relaxation you get, the more energy you'll have for your focused work.

The enemy of both these states is the escapist dopamine buzz that neither recharges you or moves you forward.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

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[James Clear @JamesClear]

There are 3 primary drivers of results in life:

1) Your luck (randomness).
2) Your strategy (choices).
3) Your actions (habits).

Only 2 of the 3 are under your control.

But if you master those 2, you can improve the odds that luck will work for you rather than against you.

[Tom Goodwin @tomfgoodwin]

I'm even scared to tweet quite a lot of statistics or data, because people seem to take enormous offense at anything, despite the points made being extremely useful for informed debate

I don't even give you an example of a data point to show my point.