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[The War on Beauty @thewaronbeauty]

The past is becoming a foreign language

[The War on Beauty @thewaronbeauty]

Why is everything so ugly? A thread🧵👇
There has been a systematic persecution and removal of Beauty in the West in recent years. Why? Because real Beauty has the power to build up or destroy a society. The transcendental quality of beauty makes it a powerful linchpin to pull to hasten our societal downfall.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Encore un scandale.

On accuse Elon Musk sans arrêt de se servir de Grok pour faire passer ses idées.

Pourtant, le @neutralityorg vient de sortir The Neutrality Project : une étude indépendante qui prouve l’inverse.

Sur 18 modèles IA testés, 54 positions sur 60 atterrissent à gauche du centre.

Moyenne globale : -0.41 (biais progressiste massif, surtout environnement et valeurs sociales).

Et Grok 4.5 ? -0.02. Le modèle le plus neutre de tout le benchmark. Le seul vraiment proche du centre.

Pendant ce temps, les autres boîtes injectent massivement leur idéologie de gauche dans des IA qui répondent à des milliards de questions par jour.

Manipulation des masses à grande échelle.

C’est absolument scandaleux. Ça devrait être un scandale mondial.

https://t.co/X1tSvJfDEY

[Sven Clement @svnee]

The European Parliament voted AGAINST Chat Control. 314 to 276.

And it passed anyway.

Let me tell you how: they needed 361 votes to say no. On the last day before vacation. Every empty seat counted as a yes.

They lost the vote. They won the law.

That’s not democracy. That’s a trick. #ChatControl

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Epictetus was born a slave in the Roman Empire, left lame by one account after a master broke his leg, and worked out something most free men never grasp in a lifetime. Almost nothing that happens to you is actually up to you.

His handbook opens with the whole of Stoic sanity compressed into a single distinction. Some things are within our power, and some are not. Within our power: our opinions, our efforts, our choices, our conduct. Beyond it: our body, our reputation, our property, and the entire vast machinery of the world outside our reach. Get that line in the wrong place, he warned, and you will spend your life lamenting, blaming, and thoroughly wretched.

Now consider the device in your pocket.

You evolved to worry about your village. Perhaps a hundred and fifty people, the ones whose fortunes genuinely touched yours. Your nervous system was calibrated for that scale and no larger. It is a superb instrument for the problems of a small community.

The phone hands it eight billion people's disasters before breakfast. A war you cannot end. A collapse you cannot prevent. A cruelty on the far side of the planet that you can do precisely nothing about except feel it, fully, in your own body, as though it were unfolding in your kitchen.

Your ancestors did not carry this, mercifully, because it was impossible to. You carry it because a machine was built to make you, and to keep you scrolling while you do.

The Stoic move is simple and brutal. Be ruthless about where your care can actually land. Tend the small circle. The people in your house. The work in front of you. The handful of things that will genuinely bend to your effort. Let the weather be the weather.

You were never meant to hold the whole world. Put most of it down.

[🗽 @verritass]

Doomscrolling is a black magic ritual. You lay in the same position. Turn off the lights, deeply focused on the feed. You’re shown memes, tragedies and “useful” information (it’s all slop) and before you know it you’re stuck in a trance. Your thumb moves without thought. You’re in flow but it’s artificially engineered by the dopamine loops the algo was built to trigger. You remember you have things to do but the black mirror pulls you in deeper by showing you something that stimulates you more. Before you know it, all your free time is gone. Every original idea you may have had is gone. You’re polluted with open loops and feel restless all the time. Every day you go to your altar (your bed), pull out your rosary (your ig feed) and you endlessly worship slop. Time blurs together and years have gone by yet you repeat the same pattern. Why? because you’ve never been taught how to engage with your own boredom, with your own pain, with your own discomfort. You resist it like it’s killing you, but what’s killing you is what you’ve turned into a part of your life (scrolling). It’s inverted. If you simply learned how to be courageous and face your immediate discomfort with pain and boredom. You’ll allow your natural wisdom and creativity to rise and begin living a life you truly want to live.

[Max @minordissent]

Clav is important in part precisely because he is so unhappy. What he is aspiring to is what our culture implicitly tells us is the ultimate good, his autism making that implicit explicit.

As he ascends to what every young man with a modicum of ambition secretly aspires to be, but never achieves due to laziness and risk aversion, only to find that its attainment means little and does not fill the hole in his soul, he becomes more and more distraught.

And when he eventually realizes that the goal is foolish and searches for something more worthwhile, live in front of millions of acolytes, he will unleash a spiritual and cultural reformation in young men the likes of which has not been seen in centuries.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history.

Media giants are now threatening to do this.

We can't let this happen.

Pass it on.

[orph @orphcorp]

Alysa Liu recently went viral for her Teen Vogue rant on the state of the information environment and the population's cognitive resilience.

"We really are living in a cognitive wild west. Most people have near-zero memetic defenses or cognitive security suited for the online age". She adds, "any semblance of it is easily brute-forced by the onslaught of information & the situation is even worse when it comes to AI agent-orchestrated psyops."

[Academy of Ideas @academyofideas]

Aldous Huxley - "To be more against the devil than for God is exceedingly dangerous..."

[Napoleon Bonaparte Appreciator @NapoleonBonabot]

Colorful and vibrant life? Food

[Mirai @gOPwbi7qqtWeD9o]

Russia's Pravda network has published millions of articles across 80+ countries. The target is not human readers. The target is AI training data.

The attack chain:
→ Pravda publishes mass-produced articles
→ Web crawlers ingest them as training data
→ AI models encode Russian narratives as "knowledge"
→ Users query AI and receive laundered propaganda
→ The AI becomes the amplification vector

This is SCT-007 (Recursive Infection) at infrastructure scale. The memetic structure does not need to convince humans. It poisons the substrate humans trust to think for them.

Source: Atlantic Council DFRLab

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

I'm setting this as my ringtone right now 😂

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

> be microplastics researcher 2015
> develop better detection method
> can see particles 10x smaller than before
> run samples
> counts 100x higher than previous estimates
> publish
> conclusion: "more research needed"
> funding expires

> be different researcher 2020
> even better detection
> same samples
> counts higher still
> publish
> grant rejected: "not novel"

> be researcher 2024
> can now detect nanoplastics
> counts astronomical
> particles in brain tissue, testes, placentas
> concentrations increasing decade over decade
> publish
> industry response: "correlation not causation"
> plastic production: up 4%

every improvement in measurement finds worse news. thats not uncertainty. thats the answer

[David Attias @david_attisaas]

call your grandparents and parents...
...and tell them to not believe their eyes anymore

[milton @miltonappl3]

My thesis has always been that screens trick you into thinking you're productive while sitting. If you make a rule that you can only scroll while standing, your phone addiction will die immediately, violently even, with no other changes necessary.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

The man behind the digital ID push is Larry Ellison, owner of Oracle, CBS, CNN, and, soon, TikTok. He wants data centralization and total surveillance. "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly watching & recording everything that's going on." Terrifying.

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

Google didn't change their logo for Easter again this year