Man shoots up Bondi beach. #AUStriches mainstream media - let’s check out how much his home is worth and do an article about that. The obsession with hoom prices is pathological. View quoted note →

Rabbi Eli Schlanger was one of the victims of the Bondi shooting. Whilst Australian nationalists focus on the Muslim perpetrators who should never have been allowed in the country (with which I agree). They and everyone else ignore these Zionist Jews who see their Central Bank Charter State as their true home, whilst they parasite on Western societies as they destroy them from within. None of them should be in our countries. Not the jihadi Muslims, nor these Zionist shitcunts - get rid of ALL of them.

Putin makes an appeal to Westerners. That he can do this via the internet, and get traction because Western Governments have been so full of shit for so long, is an indictment on Western culture - specifically the Boomers to whom the entire narrative is shaped. The West needs to send Boomers back to the mines to pay off the debts they racked up. They need to be disenfranchised and defunded entirely or nothing will change. We have to eat the pain.

South Australian Premier challenges social media companies to oppose his Under 16 social media ban noting that he appointed the former Chief Justice of the High Court to write the legislation. “Good luck” he says. Told you the State was going to win the war. View quoted note →

Peak irony is this #Bitcoin Core Dev who has been defending v30 now saying “wow, would you look at what happened” after he was told this is exactly what would fucking happen.. Core is full to the brim of retards. They might be good at writing code, but they are ALL fucking retarded.

Every institution has drastically evolved in the past 200 years. All of them, except one. Government. We still elect representatives to go to some far flung city to do whatever the fuck they want for 3 or 4 years with zero accountability or recourse. We could actually have social contracts, we have the technology. But instead we’re gaslit to believe you agreed to give the Gov half your money in perpetuity, and follow whatever insane laws they make, simply for being born on their turf. I feel the injustice of this in my bones.

This piece on Nvidia and the AI bubble is rather long, but it’s worth the time. If you’re not familiar with Enron and the Dotcom bubble, and don’t know whats happening with US stocks and big tech nowadays - the important points are covered in here. The only outstanding questions for me at this point are “when?” will this fall apart, and how big will the bailout be?

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“The True Believer” by Eric Hoffer is a very short, but very good book up for my next #bookstr review. It’s a discussion of the commonalities in personalities drawn to extremist and fanatical ideologies. Much of it is obvious if you’ve read lots of history, but you could cut through tons of learning by reading this book early on. His categorisations and the overlaps he notes are particularly good, bypassing l arbitrary lines to show how both a Stalin and a Hitler can be so effective and the types they will resonate with as mass movements share commonalities regardless of the espoused ideology. For me, this was a far superior book than Desmet’s “The Psychology of Totalitarianism” which I rated my worst read earlier this year. Given it’s condensed into 2.5 hours of reading and far better explains Desmet’s title, skip his book and go with Hoffer if this topic interests you. View quoted note →

Queen Eurohag announces they’re opening up the EU to Indians to fill skills gaps.

Road sign in #Vietnam says: “Road Section - Accidents Happen” Zoom in, then see picture 2. This is a quiet backstreet a block from the main beach road to Hoi An where it’s mostly empty lots and it’s *still* a hotspot lol View quoted note →

Theft, stealing, seizure, confiscation - these all require someone taking control of another’s property. The Cat excises UTXOs from consensus; no one takes possession, no transfer occurs. Voiding UTXOs is not a crime.

Fully stand by this - AGI isnt happening. A single anecdote reinforced it for me: I’ve been using Claude a lot, it’s useful to bulk search things or find stuff in #Vietnam that I would struggle with. Translation is a real usecase. Recently I wanted to buy a digital picture frame which could be hacked to serve images off a home NAS. Worked out I needed something pre Android 11 - 11+ has an issue with data partitions. Claude found me suitable products but none of them listed the Android version of the frame, but they all listed the CPU though. Claude basically gave up trying to work out which frame would work because it doesn’t know “HOW” to think. I prompted it to search the CPUs listed and their Android compatibility and voila, I got my shortlist. Pattern matching is useful, but it’s not intelligence, nor is it a path to intelligence. Without knowing HOW to think, these things are only going to replace the lowest levels of work - it will be hugely disruptive no doubt, but we’re not going to see Digital Intelligence any time soon. View quoted note →

Eurohags have no clue what time it is, sitting atop a tinderbox womansplaining to the masses. A GFC type event in the coming years won’t result in an Occupy Wall Street type protest in NYC, it’s going to be lynchings in Brussels, Paris and London. View quoted note →

Life before scissors were invented must have really sucked.

One of my better #memes, worth resharing with Franklin View quoted note →