Timothy Rollings

[Timothy Rollings @TimothyRollings]

The more the modern world falls apart, the more I understand why the Phoenicians did better after the Bronze Age collapse than the Egyptians. They didn't cling to things "too big to fail," nor did they give up on imagining alternative options.

[Jayant Golchhā « 高智仁 » @golchha_J]

@TimothyRollings As you’ve said, above all, it’s about attitude. To most, this will appear “sub-optimal” in “good” times. Can’t help but think of the Phoenicians.

[Timothy Rollings @TimothyRollings]

@deorks27 Actually references many works even far older.

[Timothy Rollings @TimothyRollings]

People need to learn how to survive without knowing what the future holds.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Wake up.
Every profession deemed white-collar, the middle class dream, is about to be decimated by AI, at a much faster pace than anticipated, with monstrous social consequences.

[Timothy Rollings @TimothyRollings]

@GoujianofYue And maybe this true for a lot longer than many are comfortable admitting.

Agree about control. Aside what can struggle for from within (dignity, integrity, etc.), need to make peace with what's external to that.

Not making peace with it can even risks losing dignity, honor, etc

[Timothy Rollings @TimothyRollings]

@GoujianofYue Remember seeing the EngineAI T800 a bit ago when the CEO sparred with it. Impressive developments.

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

Hart, I was a Zionist for nearly all my life. I actually went to live in Israel and was there for some years. So, you don't need to instruct me about that.
Seeing the reality that, in order to exist, Israel requires the oppression, dispossession and expulsion of Palestinians took me decades. Now that I see it, I can't unsee it.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

More horrifying scenes insufficiently buried by propaganda.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Ruba Ghazal, a Canadian politician of Palestinian origin and spokesperson for Québec Solidaire, was sworn in as a member of Quebec’s National Assembly in Quebec City.

In an emotional moment, Ghazal embraced former MNA Manon Massé before removing her Keffiyeh and waving it in the air as colleagues applauded.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

A reminder

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Two days ago, the Israeli army blew up the family home of journalist Radwan Mortada in Bint Jbeil

The terrorist demolition of Radwan's home comes as his film exposing the players behind Israel's pager attack becomes the most viewed documentary in recent history at Al Jazeera

[Zeinobia 🎙️📷📓🍉 @Zeinobia]

Saladin made the Jews return to Jerusalem after they were killed and kicked out of the city for 100 years by the Crusaders ...... I am so so so tired of this historical fabrication...

[Timothy Rollings @TimothyRollings]

There's still some hope for positive-sum at the local level. Behold, Finney County.

https://t.co/ZVMi9oGQAY

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Another way the current administration is trapped in the ZERO-SUM FALLACY: The H-1B visa situation.
+ You are NOT taking a job from a citizen, rather creating jobs by increasing overal economic output. Plus these people (even vegetarians) SPEND locally.
+ The US has long been benefiting from other countries' brain drain; without it its edge wd collapse. Tesla, Von Braun, von Neumann, Fermi & Einstein did NOT each take the job of a citizen.
+ It the problem is anti-Indian racism, say it, don't play games.

[Timothy Rollings @TimothyRollings]

@JordanHedberg I recall this zero-sum mentality also among some close to large manufacturing in the heartland and the rust belts, namely after it left.

But there's some hope, look at the majority-minority community in Finney County: https://t.co/ZVMi9oGiLq

[Timothy Rollings @TimothyRollings]

@GoujianofYue Yup, and islamophobia been getting worse for awhile.

https://t.co/INc8nKoWa0

[Timothy Rollings @TimothyRollings]

@nntaleb Sorry for your loss, Nassim. 30 years, must have been a great guy.

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

This is Maryam after surviving Israeli drone bombing that burned her mother, Reem, alive in front of her on October 14, 2026, during the American “ceasefire.”

[Satyaki Roy @Satyaki_R]

Real Intelligence

The fighter pilot, engineer, strategist John Boyd got an IQ of 90. Instead of re-test he used it for tactical advantage.

(Btw ppl into ooda-shmooda miss much bigger - Boyd had inviolable integrity & untrammeled aggression)

[Timothy Rollings @TimothyRollings]

https://t.co/B1OSK1MrwU

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

This was already expressed by Seneca who said that if you are trying to distinguish yourself with your strength, an ox will always be stronger than you. So work on being maximally human.

[Timothy Rollings @TimothyRollings]

What distinguishes people is their real-world conduct, judgment, relationships, and consequences.

The easier it is to produce excellent representations without real-world competence, the less those representations distinguish people who actually possess it.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

A reminder that no MSM journalist or thinktank artist understands the Houthis.