J PiZ0

enjoying a front row seat to the end of the world as we know it thanks to Twitter

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

What is the most inaccurate expert prediction about the future that you know of? Collecting them for a project.

[gabsmashh @gabsmashh]

hot take: the word 'spyware' has virtually disappeared from internet lingo not because it went away, but because it became applicable to nearly every major website and widely used software.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

It’s crazy how we found a way to purify literal rocks into 99.9999999% pure silicon, then have magicians pull it into crystals, then etch a trillion little runes on it, put some electricity into it, and now it has 130 IQ

and the most common thing to do with this miracle is email

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

@ThierryBreton This is the way the future ends: Not with an explosion of progress but a cookie warning.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

“Lol people have always thought the world was ending.”

Entire civilizations have been wiped from memory. There was a 1k year period where only 1 in 17 men reproduced. There was a 100k year period where the human population dropped 99%.

The world has ended many times.

[J PiZ0 @royalsampler]

@tupacabra @tupacabra next level dude straight up 🔥 🔥 🔥 🛸

[shb @himbodhisattva]

why am I suddenly responsible for this? aren't you the one with the monopoly on violence?

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je vais partir du principe que tu es de bonne foi, parce que ton raisonnement est intuitif et que 90% des gens le partagent. Mais il repose sur trois erreurs factuelles, et ça vaut le coup de les regarder calmement.

Erreur 1 : la fortune d'Elon n'est pas un tas d'argent. C'est de la propriété d'usines, de fusées et de satellites. "Prendre la moitié de sa tune", concrètement, ça veut dire forcer la vente de la moitié de SpaceX et Tesla. L'argent ne sort pas d'un coffre, il sort des entreprises elles-mêmes, qui passent sous contrôle de fonds étrangers ou d'États. Tu ne redistribues pas du cash, tu démantèles un outil de production. C'est la différence entre récolter des pommes et découper le pommier.

Erreur 2 : "ça résout énormément de problèmes dans le monde". Cette expérience a déjà été tentée, en vrai. En 2021, le directeur du Programme Alimentaire Mondial de l'ONU a affirmé que 6 milliards de Musk pouvaient "résoudre la faim dans le monde". Réponse d'Elon : décrivez-moi exactement comment, comptabilité publique à l'appui, et je vends mes actions Tesla immédiatement. Le PAM a publié son plan. Verdict : ce n'était pas "résoudre la faim", c'était nourrir 42 millions de personnes pendant un an. Un an. Puis il faut re-payer, pour toujours. Le PAM avait d'ailleurs levé 8,4 milliards l'année précédente, et la faim était toujours là. Les ONG traitent les symptômes en boucle, jamais les causes, parce que leur financement dépend de l'existence du problème.

Erreur 3, la plus importante : tu cherches ce qui sort vraiment les gens de la pauvreté. Bonne nouvelle, on a la réponse, et elle est massive. En 1990, 36% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Plus d'un milliard de personnes sorties de la misère en 30 ans. Par quoi ? Pas par la charité ni par l'aide internationale (plus de 1 000 milliards versés à l'Afrique en 60 ans pour un résultat à peu près nul). Par l'ouverture des marchés, l'industrialisation, le commerce. La Chine seule a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en abandonnant le collectivisme, pas en taxant ses entrepreneurs.

Donc fais le calcul complet. Option A : tu confisques 500 milliards, tu finances quelques années de programmes, l'argent est consommé, et tu as détruit la machine qui produisait les fusées, les voitures électriques et l'internet des zones rurales. Option B : tu laisses le meilleur allocateur de capital de sa génération réinvestir 100% de sa fortune dans des industries qui baissent les coûts pour tout le monde et emploient des centaines de milliers de personnes. L'option A soulage ta morale pendant 18 mois. L'option B sort des populations entières de la pauvreté pour toujours.

La pauvreté ne se redistribue pas. Elle se résout par la création. C'est contre-intuitif, c'est frustrant, mais c'est ce que disent 200 ans de données.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

If, when you say regulation, you mean the dead and clammy hand of the commissar—the gentleman who has never in his life built a single thing, drafting rules to govern a thing he cannot define, to be enforced by men who cannot read them; if you mean the form in triplicate, the impact assessment upon the impact assessment, the compliance officer who breeds, in the warm dark of the org chart, further compliance officers unto the third and fourth generation; if you mean the moat—the deep cold moat that the giant digs around his own castle and christens, with a perfectly straight face, public safety—the drawbridge he hauls up behind himself the very instant he is across, lest any hungrier and hungrier man should follow; if you mean the precautionary principle, which, had it governed our grandfathers, would have banned the wheel pending further study of the hill, and left us yet shivering and raw in the mouth of the cave, blessing its excellent ventilation; if you mean the European disease—that magnificent open-air museum of a continent, which produces in our time precisely two things in great abundance, and they are regulation, and the eloquent and well-footnoted regret of cultivated men explaining at length why they have produced nothing else; if you mean the license required to think, the permission slip for honest arithmetic, the king’s wax stamp pressed upon the forehead of every new idea before it may draw its first breath; if you mean the agency dispatched, with trumpets, to slay a single dragon, which arrives at the cave, surveys the accommodations, and moves in—and spends the ensuing century laying eggs and devouring the very villagers it was sworn to defend; if you mean the startup that perishes not of the market’s honest verdict but of the filing fee, the genius decamping by the next tide to a freer and warmer shore; if you mean the law that arrives, faithful as the swallows, exactly one whole epoch too late—helmeted, plumed, and magnificently armed—to regulate the stagecoach—then certainly, my friends, I am against it.

But—but, my friends—if, when you say regulation, you mean instead the humble steel guardrail upon the mountain road at midnight, the very thing you curse on the easy days and bless on your knees the one night the fog comes down; if you mean the brakes—for it is the brakes, and not the engine alone, that permit a sane man to drive fast and yet arrive alive—and the buttress, without which no cathedral was ever flung so high, but only in spite of which, but because of which; if you mean the meat inspector, who is the single homely reason a man may eat a sausage in this republic without first composing his last will and testament; if you mean the firebreak cut clean through the forest before the dry season of the burning, the smallpox cordon, the buoy that marks the channel, the rule of the road that lets ten thousand strangers hurtle past one another in the dark at fearful speed and arrive, by its quiet grace, every one of them home; if you mean the honest scale and the true weight, the reason a pound is a pound and a dollar a dollar from Natchez to Nome; if you mean the firm and decent wall between the counterfeit voice and the widow’s bank account, between the deepfaked candidate and the ballot box on the eve of the vote, between the loosed and loveless machine and the schoolyard it neither knows nor pities; if you mean the simple plank of law that says the strong shall not, in the gray dawn, feed the weak quietly into the furnace and sell the rising smoke as progress; if you mean, in the end, the one slender thread of trust without which no citizen will ever dare to use the marvelous thing at all—for where there is no rule there is no trust, and where there is no trust there is no commerce, and a miracle that no man dares to touch is no miracle, but only a handsome and expensive ghost—then certainly I am for it.

This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise one inch of it.

[Dirty Texas Hedge @HedgeDirty]

Over 4000 workers just became millionaires by owning the means of production and the socialists are pissed

[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

[Joshua Lisec, The Ghostwriter @JoshuaLisec]

What are the best (worst) examples of Therapyspeak you know of?

For example, a husband who will not obey his wife’s unreasonable orders anymore is a “toxic narcissistic abuser.”

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Do modern Dems see a woman cut in half and then put back together and ask “Where’s your evidence it was a deception?”

When observable events seem to violate physics, biology or probability, it’s a good bet you have been deceived. Especially true when money and power are at stake

[Dave Greene @GreeneMan6]

I have been seeing a certain archetypal commenter in the spotlight recently; all women my age, progressive, and employed at mainstream institutions. I don't know them. Yet in every case, I can intuit their origin story.

It goes something like this:

> be an older millennial female, no strong passion, but strive hard in school
> reach High School
> steer clear of the kids who like talking about “far out” philosophical issues
> also steer clear of student government and debate club, which seems too contentious and vaguely threatening
> focus on getting perfect marks, complying with college reqs. Get into top uni based on those marks
> get introduced to politics in freshmen social justice class, instantly floored
> the appeal of college politics is just how cut-and-dried it is. Unlike other fields, it has a clear “good” and “bad” side, no ambiguity. The “good” side always wins in classroom discussions, you feel like a hero for validating consensus with "The Conversation"
> politics becomes your religion, “this is my passion!”
> graduate with top marks and recs. Your degree is essentially in “Current Thing-ism”. Have no broad understanding of history or philosophy.
> Your concept of human events is just people being oppressed for 4000 years until feminism and progress happened in the 20th c.
> despite the Global Financial Crisis, immediately get hired by a government/media org because they want someone who “understands the role of female politics in our new digital era!”
> most of your colleagues share your perspective, the ones who don't are older guys on their way to retirement, not looking for the confrontation that disagreeing with you would certainly involve.
> great awokening happens, double down on Current-Thingism politics
> organe-man-bad and COVID happens, triple down on politics.
> you are 15 years deep in your career, you have never once genuinely engaged with a peer who didn't validate your worldview or who you didn't consider a "token" opposition to placade your political enemies
> vibe shift happens, establishment uncertain, time to have a "conversation" with the people you've considered deplorable
> have conversation, hear non-progressive opinion that is common in the modern world, historically ubiquitous
> react with schock, umbrage horror. "Can you even believe this is happening?"
> confident that non-progressive opinion is trivially easy to refute, somehow have no idea how to actually refute it
> unaware just how deeply you have been betrayed by your education, such that the average educated man on the street has more practical understanding of what politics is than you do with decades of "experience."

[FortyTwoPupusas @FPupusas]

@lopp Biological slop generators are worried their job of throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks has been automated away, and their tenure is being threatened by a few matrix multiplications, which can't be socially expelled from academia .

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

Remember that you are not talking to "the AI", but you are using a powerful text generator to co-create a story about the interaction between a user and the simulacrum of an Artificial Intelligence.

[unseen1 @unseen1_unseen]

This is why they were deathly afraid of Trump for the last 10 years.

This is why they impeached him twice.

This is why some in the gop establishment threw the 2018 midterms.

This is why they stacked his cabinet/admin in Trump 1.0 with Bruti.

This is why certain people on the right counter message everything coming out of this admin.

This is why they are melting down, daily.

Trump is changing the country and the world.

He is exposing decades of grift.

He is showing that we don't have to live this way.

He is shinning a light on "unfixable problems" that turn out to be simply fixed if not exactly easily fixed.

They have no defense for that truth.

Turns out the border could always have been secured in days if they wanted to do it.

Turns out, yes we can deport illegals from the interior if they wanted to do it.

Turns out, yes, we can require companies to not put poison into our food if they wanted to do it.

Turns out we can send the poisoners of our children to the bottom of the sea if they wanted to do it.

Turns out we don't have to live with mass migration if they wanted to stop it.

Turns out we don't have to hollow out fly over country and force our citizens to learn to code if they didn't want it to happen.

Turns out we dont have to pay for the world's research and development cost for prescription drugs if they cared about our welfare.

Turns out we dont have to allow widespread fraud in welfare programs if they dont want it.

Turns out we dont have to fear terror loving countries plunging the world into a new dark age if they have a set of balls.

Turns out we dont have to allow other countries to rip us off in trade if they cared about Americans.

Turns out we don't have to become woke to protect minority rights.

[daz @MetamateDaz]

Paying taxes should feel like contributing to a beautiful, shared community garden.

Not like funding a global demonic cult.

[Aimee Terese @aimeeterese]

I am so happy to see that one of the most important takes I’ve been pushing for like three years at least, that liberal pseudo-empathy is just vainglorious moral preening derived of narcissistic grandiosity & superiority, and has nothing to do with caring or taking the perspective of some downtrodden benighted Other™️, finally seems to be catching on among right wing voices.

That asinine “suicidal empathy” term is so sticky but is entirely incorrect about the psychological machinations at play.

Libs are the most pragmatic, transactional, unsentimental people alive. They use “downtrodden” groups to attack their enemies, break things, riot, subvert order and just generally do their bidding, because having a coterie of needy misfits who DEPEND on shitlibs for their political existence, means they have a never ending supply of “marginalised” groups they can deploy to assist them to obtain more power.

Empathy plays no part in any of it, other than as the ruse by which they delude themselves into believing they are the most benevolent, beneficent and wise people to have ever lived, and to pretend that their self-serving, self-interested political machinations are actually selfless and sacrificial, in service of the Underprivileged Other™️. IT’S CALLED BEING A DECENT PERSON OKAY!!!

[matt duffy @iammattduff]

one major problem we have is we've never dealt with our worsening ability to forecast the structure of the world our children will inherit.
our distant ancestors knew how their kids and grandkids would live. we can't project a single generation into the future, and our forecasting errors are compounding.