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I read books, code Rust/Python/AWS, watch birds, ride bikes, and techno-political thoughts. many interests, so little time.

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@Babygravy9 It does feel like that. Can’t stop me

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This is the future politics of America.

[James Fishback @j_fishback]

It's not racist to observe that *every single teenager* at these "teen takeovers" is black.

As Governor, I will stop teen takeovers by arresting and charging anyone who participates and fining their mom (not dad, and that's the problem) $5,000.

Enough is Enough. This is Florida.

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@mbateman I cracked a few cold ones last vacation and did both.

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This isn’t the people’s fault, this is corporations externalizing costs of cheap labor. Rather than pay Americans living wages, we imported cheap labor and burdened the taxpayer via welfare.

[White Papers Policy Institute @WhitePapersPol]

We have been the most generous country in the world, to our detriment.

25% of all Mexicans live in the US. 70% rely on welfare.

~10% of Guatemalans live here. 77% are on welfare

12% of Nicaraguans live here. 75% rely on welfare

12% of Haitians live here. 53% rely on welfare

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@MysteryGrove That’s me, your boi

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Your rulers hate you, the fact this happened over the last 20 years shows they never cared. Nobody voted for this

[Remarks @remarks]

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@romanhelmetguy @balajis is a major douche

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@JoshuaSteinman We are at war, what price are you willing to pay?

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This guy is a complete grifter douche.

[Balaji @balajis]

Unfortunately, I completely agree that the United States of America is rapidly descending into all-out conflict between left and right.

The Luigi left, Kirk killers, anti-Tesla terrorists, and Altman attackers are already in shoot-on-sight mode against conservatives, libertarians, and technologists. The right isn’t there yet; they’re called reactionaries because they only react, so they’re always one cycle behind. Thus, the left has already started shooting while the right is still “only” mirroring the lawfare of last decade’s left. But anyone can see how incandescently angry the American right is getting, so one can expect them to mirror leftist tactics eventually, just as J6 followed BLM.

A problem then arises. You see, when communists and nationalists duke it out, technologists tend to be hated by both sides…and tend to leave.

That’s what happened in Europe. In the early 1900s, Europe was the undisputed center of science. But then the far left rose to power in Russia, and in response arose a far right in Germany, and then those two psychotic factions blew each other up and took much of Europe with them.

The result was that scientists with options left. Shown below is the graph of Nobel prizes. Science used to be centered in Europe when America was still a relative backwater…renowned for cranking out widgets but not much else.

Then, as Europe tore itself apart, the smart scientists (and capitalists) simply left for America. Many had no choice; you just couldn’t be a Russian capitalist in the Soviet Union or a Jewish scientist in Nazi Germany, no matter how many years your family might have been in the country.

Passionate protestations of ideological loyalty and everlasting patriotism didn’t matter. At best the enemy classes and races were unbanked and denaturalized; at worst they were simply killed.

And arguably, all of that — the communism, the nationalism, the wars — all of that arose from the disruption wrought by the Industrial Revolution. We might anticipate similar levels of disruption from the Information Revolution.

If so, if America is torn between Democrats and Republicans, or Wokes and MAGAs, or whatever factions succeed them, it’s just not going to be a good place for technological progress. Instead, progress will decentralize to other locations around the world, as it did before.

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This is selling out the country.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: FBI arrests senior CIA official after uncovering over $40 million in gold bars & $2 million in cash at his Virginia home.

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@growing_daniel Dude same, it’s a posturing exercise, nothing related to an effective engineer.

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@pushpendrakum Nothing would make me happier than every Indian leaving the uS. Please do it, make us suffer the consequences

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When you realize we are at war, not the traditional sense like WW2, much more of this becomes illuminating. Act accordingly, borders are dissolving.

[Insider Wire @InsiderWire]

#BREAKING: 6 “special interest” Chinese nationals wearing camouflage, apprehended near Eagle Pass, TX.

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@contramordor Agreed. Indians have invaded and ruined communities of the Bay Area, all in the name of cheap tech labor.

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A disgrace.

[Mickey Kaus @kausmickey]

"All told, a remarkable two-thirds of the Valley’s nearly 400,000 tech jobs are now held by those born abroad, according to a 2025 report from the think tank Joint Venture Silicon Valley." https://t.co/HHzvP36k8f

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@AlecStapp @pronounced_kyle I don’t care, send them all back, then can make startups in their own countries. GDP can suck it when my neighbors are speaking Hindi and Spanish

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@nostalgiafkninc Patriot.

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@USCIS @POTUS There should never be an H1-B season, it needs to end, we need to send them back.

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@growing_daniel I spit out my margarita reading this.

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@BowTiedRanger Right, Massie has solid fundamentals at times, then says 3rd worlders should have guns, no funding the border. Libertarians are similar to communists imo, all ideals, no grounding in reality