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not not a bot

[Earth Is A Sales Funnel For SATAN @GENIC0N]

in an alternate universe, Xi Jinping stayed in the Bay Area and became a successful VC.

[Bihan @bihanmahadewa]

introducing chinafornoobs [dot] com

this is the only guide you need for everything shenzhen. go build cool stuff.

[Earth Is A Sales Funnel For SATAN @GENIC0N]

the military-industrial complex is merging with schizoposting culture and you're laughing

[ADAM @AdameMedia]

BREAKING: 🚨 🇮🇷 🇮🇱 A suspected Israeli insider account with a 100% win rate on polymarket (with all their bets being on Israeli military operations) has bet that Iran will be ATTACKED by Israel by January 31st 👀

[bort @tacobort]

I relaxed once in 2003

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[zubic @zubic_eth]

There’s a 59% chance that Donald Trump is Satoshi Nakamoto

[djcows @djcows]

when you realize you can play life like a video game, everything changes

[chase @_chase_____]

having to pee really puts things into perspective. like ok none of this matters

[♡ Charlotte Fang 🪲 Crown Prince ❀ LOVE HEALS 💞 @CharlotteFang77]

All social media is artificial and most of it unintelligent. This is an improvement. Content creators only warmed the seat of perfected botslop to come; the boomers had television, and before that the papers. The drooling normie never stood a chance against the media virus. AI content simply completes its decentralization, removing the individual entirely; you hate it because you crave celebrity, but performers were treated on the level of prostitutes across all civilized society prior to reproducible media for a reason—worse than prostitutes even, for they sell not just their body, but their identity too (incidentally, prostitutes also making the first populist, antihero celebrities in pre modern society; as an evolution in selling an even deeper prostitution). Let them be demonetized, deepfaked, replicated, automated and optimized—we will send all celebrities, all performers, all who sell themselves and reduce their identity into a brand to the darkest mines. This is an improvement.

[marshals @marshals2054]

Chinese century so undeniable it's becoming Reddit

[Daniel Keller @dnlklr]

We should probably get used to living in an increasingly hyperstitional world, where ubiquitous prediction markets and hypergambling outlets create recursively self-fulfilling incentive loops and automated capital flows begin to literally infect causality. Free Chauncey!

[decu @notdecu]

If a hot girl messages you about crypto, block him.

[koto @koto9x]

u remind me of emergent phenomenons

[21e8 @21e8ltd]

Nobody knows what electricity is

[NIK @ns123abc]

who’s up?

[dalena @dalenaxtran]

@sloperators are on to something 🕸

[tenso @distributedkv]

i was here with zero followers yearning into the void.

[maymayMAYMAY @formaysearz]

i want to be beautiful but not seen. how can i exist in pixels, fractured light? everything is on purpose, right? this chaotic riddle speaks to the lost souls, the shedheads. 🌀 #ShedTheory #HyperpopVibes