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[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

Another angle to this is that dogs effectively stumbled onto what is for them the equivalent of artificial superintelligence 20,000 years ago. The Singularity already happened for dogs. They live in a world they cannot understand, surrounded by miraculous wonders they take entirely for granted, their every need seen to by entities whose thoughts they cannot begin to fathom.

The result is that there are about a billion dogs on the planet now. Most of them are pretty happy. Almost none of them need to work. It worked out pretty well for them.

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

@jk_rowling make her canon

[Yesh Ginsburg @yesh222]

This might be the best political ad I've seen. Certainly this cycle, probably in decades.

These guys are abject morons if they're not running this every day until election day.

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

When someone calls themselves "neurodivergent" that means the conversation is going to be about topics they are interested in.

[tasman @lildorothy_]

first dates are tricky i never know if i'm talking about 9/11 enough

[Adam @adamthealright]

I love SSRis. oh you’re depressed? Maybe this drug that makes you fat and retarded and unable cum will help

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Just spectacular incompetence from Talarico's advisors. Let's just say he has the 2 week flu that nobody on earth has ever had. After the acute phase, day 3 or so, you have him phone in an interview, even if his voice is hoarse and you say “guys, I’m sorry, this thing knocked me on my ass…forgive my voice. But nothing’s gonna stop me from fighting for you guys. I just wanna make sure I don’t get anyone sick, so I gotta bunker down for the week and put a pause on all the public stuff”.

Makes you look human and resilient, even if vulnerable. But radio silence for nearly 2 weeks? Just craaaaaazy stupid. Nature abhors a vacuum. Then expecting everyone to believe that it's "just the flu"? Couldn't pick up a cell phone or a zoom call? This is like the junior varsity of comms teams, at best.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.

If this is true, this is actually a time to pray for Talarico. We should, of course, savagely mock his smug, awful campaign advisors, by all means...and while yes, of course, this would be disqualifying for Talarico's aspirations to be a Texas Senator, we must hold empathy for anyone undergoing crisis. Campaigns are brutal, and not everybody is cut out for it. You need very thick skin. As much as I don't want Talarico anywhere near government, I also don't want wish him harm, and no political office is worth having a breakdown. His awful advisors are at fault for this. They pushed him to be something he isn't, and it didn't work.

I'm praying that this isn't true, and he's OK. You want to win these fights on the battlefield of ideas, not the minefield of poor health.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

T-Mobile spent five years trying to get rid of the exact spectrum Elon just called "the last critical piece" of complete phone coverage in America.

This 800 MHz block is Sprint's old Nextel spectrum, the stuff that powered push-to-talk walkie-talkie phones in 2004. The DOJ forced T-Mobile to divest it as a condition of the $26 billion Sprint merger. Dish had first rights at $3.59 billion and walked away because it couldn't raise the money. T-Mobile finally offloaded it to an investment firm called Grain Management last year for $2.9 billion plus a spectrum swap.

Grain's original plan was selling it to utilities for private networks.

Fourteen months later, SpaceX buys the whole portfolio, and shares of the carriers who passed on it fall as much as 8% in a single afternoon.

Here's why it matters so much. Starlink's satellite signal at 2 GHz can reach your phone outdoors, but it dies at the first wall. 800 MHz penetrates buildings. Most phones already have the band built in. So satellites handle the open sky, this low-band layer handles indoors, and suddenly Starlink Mobile covers everywhere a normal carrier does without the tower network.

Stack the moves. $17 billion for EchoStar's 50 MHz of 2 GHz spectrum. FCC approval for 15,000 Gen2 satellites this week. Now the low-band coverage layer.

Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile paid $81 billion in a single auction for C-band spectrum in 2021, then spent years and tens of billions more deploying it on towers. SpaceX assembled a nationwide carrier out of a distressed-asset sale, a forced divestiture castoff, and rockets it already owns.

The walkie-talkie spectrum from 2004 ended up being the piece that lets satellites replace cell towers. Nobody who touched it for twenty years saw that coming.

[𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 @ElliotMalin]

Because she wasn’t an active participant in the IDF when she was murdered. She was a civilian at a music festival.

You think this is a gotcha. It’s not.

It makes you look like a piece of shit.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@Sonderling47: "I am hereby suspending from the Permanent Labor Certification Program some of the largest IT outsourcing firms in the world — Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini — and also, due to multiple active federal investigations, @USDOL is suspending Microsoft and Adobe from the program."

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

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[joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) @JoshuaSteinman]

This is a tactical nuclear weapon against the forces who have destroyed the ability of Americans to reasonably compete for all of the amazing middle class and upper middle class jobs in tech.

Congratulations to @JDVance @AGToddBlanche @Sonderling47 and the entire Fraud TF.

[George @thegjl]

@orrdavid The tweens and teenagers are all at home doing homework on a Wednesday afternoon

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

James Burnham – The Trotskyist Who Saw How It Would End.

He was a Trotskyist first. In the 1930s he was one of the leading Marxist intellectuals in America – building the movement, debating Trotsky himself by letter, believing in the revolution.

But he was also an American. A practical mind, trained to look at what actually happens rather than what the theory promises. So he understood what it was really about – and explained to us how it would work out.

1. In 1940 he broke with Trotsky over one question: what was the Soviet Union? Trotsky said a workers’ state, temporarily deformed. Burnham looked at it and saw something else: a new ruling class. The workers owned nothing. The capitalists were gone. Someone else was in charge – the people who ran the machine. Trotsky spent much of his last year writing against him. Burnham was right.

2. In 1941 he generalized it in The Managerial Revolution. The future would belong neither to the capitalists nor to the workers, but to the managers – the administrators, technicians and bureaucrats who control things without owning them. Capitalism would fall, he wrote – but not to the working class. To the managers. The capitalist, who risks his own fortune, would be replaced by the manager, who risks nothing, owns nothing and runs everything. That is the whole difference. The capitalist pays for his own mistakes. The manager’s mistakes are always paid by someone else – the shareholder, the taxpayer, the citizen. Burnham saw the same class rising in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany and New Deal America. Different flags, the same new masters. And he said what it meant: the end of capitalism and of freedom – even if the façade stayed standing.

3. Orwell read it, argued with it – and borrowed from it. The three superstates of 1984 come from Burnham. So does its ruling class, which owns everything collectively and nothing personally.

4. In 1943 came The Machiavellians. Burnham studied the realists – Machiavelli and his modern heirs, like Pareto – and drew the lesson idealists never want to hear: every society is run by an elite. The only question is whether there is more than one. Freedom does not come from the absence of elites. It comes from their competition – rival powers that check each other, a free press, an opposition that can actually win. A single elite with no rival is tyranny, whatever it calls itself.

5. Now look at what the long march actually produced. Not the rule of the workers. The rule of the managers – the administrators of the ministries, the regulators in Brussels, the HR departments, the editorial boards. The façade of capitalism still stands – but who actually rules? Corporate boards spending other people’s money on other people’s ideologies. Officials in Brussels. Directors of foundations and NGOs. No voter elected them. The revolution succeeded. Only the managers won it. Gramsci designed the march. Burnham told us who would be waiting at the end of it. A class that owns nothing, answers to no voter, pays for none of its mistakes, and runs almost everything.

6. In 1964 he wrote Suicide of the West. Its verdict: liberalism – the modern progressive kind, not the classical one – is "the ideology of Western suicide." It lets a civilization accept its own retreat and feel good about it. Every loss becomes a sign of progress. Sixty years later, it reads like a description of Brussels.

7. The ex-Trotskyist ended up a founding editor of National Review, and in 1983 Ronald Reagan gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. From Trotsky’s comrade to Reagan’s medal. He knew the left from the inside, and he had the American instinct to ask the only question that matters: not what the theory promises, but who ends up in charge.

In 1941 his answer was the managers. It still is – unless a rival elite rises.

For the first time in decades, one has: builders, not administrators. Burnham would have recognized the moment. Not a revolution – a rotation.

[Marc J. Randazza ���🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 @marcorandazza]

September 1 is profoundly painful for so many people of Polish descent. It marks the anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland. We grieve alongside our pierogi eating friends.

But we should remember that the suffering did not begin nor end on that day. The Treaty of Versailles was a humiliation that led to economic collapse for the German people, and nearly 40,000 Germans died invading Poland, and many more after that.

THATS WHAT YOU SOUND LIKE, YOU SEASLUG RAPING FUCKFACE.

[Arynne Wexler @ArynneWexler]

Remember

Even in Nazi Germany, Germans saved Jews

Not a single Gazan saved a single hostage

[Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes]

The elites of Victorian Britain got up late, drank ceaselessly, worked short hours, partied through the night, and knew nothing about science, technology or engineering. And yet, by their own lights, they were hugely effective.

https://t.co/TvbuWtaPRJ

The Victorians are often held up as a model against the supposedly soft, feckless, humanities-educated elites of today. But I argue that the genius of their system may have been its drastic weighting towards soft skills, team-building and intra-elite networking:

- A Victorian’s gentleman’s office hours typically began about 11am and finished about 5pm, including a multi-course lunch with wine.

- Upper-class Victorians drank ceaselessly. Conduct guides recommended four or five glasses of wine at dinner *for married women*. Port was often served in pints.

- Party culture was intense and nocturnal. Balls started at about 10pm, peaked after 1am, and continued till dawn. During the social season, bankers, judges and politicians might go to several balls per week.

- Elite Victorians learnt almost no STEM at school or university. At least half of class time was given over to ancient languages, often as much as 80 percent. One leading educationalist remarked that it was not worth teaching science to gentlemen because it does not involve ‘continued reasoning’.

- Sports and character formation were valued far above transmitting facts. A top headmaster described his school’s priorities as ‘First – character, second – physique, third – intelligence, fourth – manners, fifth – information’.

This cannot have made elite Victorians more productive individually, but maybe the dense social and emotional network it created helped them to work as a sort of extended team.

Perhaps we should think again about what makes groups of people effective.

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

Harry Potter is an excellent example of the fact that technical writing ability is basically a waste of time and your ability to make airtight plots doesn't actually have much to do with how much people like your work.

Harry Potter has like a trillion plot holes in every book, the worldbuilding is pretty nonsensical, and a bunch of the systems like wizard fighting is really stupid. Yet, it's one of the biggest media franchises of all time and that's because it made people feel things that they liked. It communicated a message to their soul and resonated with them.

The wacky world and crazy plot doesn't get hyper-examined by the 3rd grader reading it, instead they are immersed in a whimsical world that feels both comfortable, adventurous, and like it's filled with a million possibilities to explore. You don't need the most technically incredible plot or prose to make a good story, you just need to communicate a feeling to the audience.

[Hoeflator/LJB | Yishun's Greatest Poet | COE/GCB @hoeflator]

And the Whites still produce music while we haven’t had one great composer in years. Funny how that works. Our race is ultimately a servant race, meant to be used as cannon fodder in imperial wars. The best of the Asian race died out a thousand years ago and we’re just the remnants of a much more superior civilisation. Japan is ultimately the best of Asia because their culture encourages deep specialisation and art is recognised as important and cultural, whereas the other nations of the continent view it as fecal matter if it does not increase one’s bank account. This is why Asian musicians cannot improvise either, because the method of practice is rote repetition with little exploration, plus they get beaten if they even try to do so.

There is no debate to the great Asian grindset. It is genetic and the strongest reason as to why White and Asian societies should not mix and should be segregated (plot twist: they naturally do). Anyone claiming these two separate races can coexist together either has a race mixing fetish or simply wants to get cucked. It’s unbelievable the amount of mental energy the internet puts into justifying their various animal desires. You do not need grindset children messing with French culture. Is it better than the North Africans trashing pianos and assaulting grandmas? Oh of course. But is it good to have such a torrid tiger mother influence around? Fuck no. There must be balance. But the French man will fall for the choid woman and from their loins another striver springs forth. Europeans are honeybees. Asians are ants. Who the fuck wants to hybridise that?