Iulus Mayfair
@numerius.bsky.social
Product Manager - He/Him - Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.
Wait, this person is both involved in “American dynamism” at a16z and The Free Press? Is this some kind of very on the nose performance art?
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Wait, this person is both involved in “American dynamism” at a16z and The Free Press? Is this some kind of very on the nose performance art?
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
‘What’s the point of standards?’, Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss' first weeks at CBS News marked by all-out warfare against professional ethics standards in the newsroom, part of an effort to convert it from journalism into rank political propaganda.
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
‘What’s the point of standards?’, Bari Weiss
Im Interesse von Volk und Vaterland und in der Erwartung einer gesetzmäßigen Entwicklung werden wir unsere ernsten Bedenken zurückstellen und dem Ermächtigungsgesetz zustimmen.
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Im Interesse von Volk und Vaterland und in der Erwartung einer gesetzmäßigen Entwicklung werden wir unsere ernsten Bedenken zurückstellen und dem Ermächtigungsgesetz zustimmen.
Fascism. Critics say it might feel exclusionary? WaPo is on the case!
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Fascism. Critics say it might feel exclusionary? WaPo is on the case!
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3 years ago Elon enabled the funniest day in Twitter history.
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
3 years ago Elon enabled the funniest day in Twitter history.
Considering the GOP went all in on eugenics, they might understand and just wish for ill people to die…
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Considering the GOP went all in on eugenics, they might understand and just wish for ill people to die…
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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Einfach komplette Verweigerung, auch nur die Möglichkeit diskutieren zu können, das es tatsächlich Apartheid, Siedlerkolonialismus, Genozid sein könnten
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Einfach komplette Verweigerung, auch nur die Möglichkeit diskutieren zu können, das es tatsächlich Apartheid, Siedlerkolonialismus, Genozid sein könnten
„Die Ausländerbehörde habe strikt »die Vorgaben des BAMF umgesetzt«, sagt die Landkreis-Sprecherin“
In einem zukünftigen Faschismus würden deutsche Beamte einfach wieder genau das gleiche wie beim ersten Mal machen. Gehorchen ohne Mitleid.
www.spiegel.de/ausland/absc...
In einem zukünftigen Faschismus würden deutsche Beamte einfach wieder genau das gleiche wie beim ersten Mal machen. Gehorchen ohne Mitleid.
www.spiegel.de/ausland/absc...
(S+) Abschiebung nach China statt in die Türkei: "Ich dachte, das war’s"
Sie sollte in die Türkei, doch die niedersächsischen Behörden haben eine Uigurin in ein Flugzeug nach China gesteckt. Ihre Tochter wendet sich verzweifelt an die Öffentlichkeit, die zuständige Ministe...
www.spiegel.de
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
„Die Ausländerbehörde habe strikt »die Vorgaben des BAMF umgesetzt«, sagt die Landkreis-Sprecherin“
In einem zukünftigen Faschismus würden deutsche Beamte einfach wieder genau das gleiche wie beim ersten Mal machen. Gehorchen ohne Mitleid.
www.spiegel.de/ausland/absc...
In einem zukünftigen Faschismus würden deutsche Beamte einfach wieder genau das gleiche wie beim ersten Mal machen. Gehorchen ohne Mitleid.
www.spiegel.de/ausland/absc...
Ah yes. Rage-bait the article. Blockati-block-block.
Can we as a society also please move beyond relishing the idea of a trillionaire? And even more so this (potential) one?
Can we as a society also please move beyond relishing the idea of a trillionaire? And even more so this (potential) one?
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Ah yes. Rage-bait the article. Blockati-block-block.
Can we as a society also please move beyond relishing the idea of a trillionaire? And even more so this (potential) one?
Can we as a society also please move beyond relishing the idea of a trillionaire? And even more so this (potential) one?
You can project any kind of stuff into this, but the truth is probably that O‘Leary would have the same problems with any kind of candidate, because he’s fairly unimportant in real life. Especially in a city like NYC, where supposedly 123 billionaires live.
Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
You can project any kind of stuff into this, but the truth is probably that O‘Leary would have the same problems with any kind of candidate, because he’s fairly unimportant in real life. Especially in a city like NYC, where supposedly 123 billionaires live.
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Liebe @taz.de, ich würde diesen verschwörungstheoretischen, tw rassistischen und VÖLLIG VERHUNZT GESCHRIEBENEN artikel löschen. Das ist blogger c-ware, kein Journalismus
Ein rhetorisches Narkotikum, eine Bitte um Welpenschutz oder schlicht Ausdruck des Feeldgood-Vibes? Was hinter Zohran Mamdanis Grinsen steckt.
New Yorks neuer Bürgermeister: Dieses Lächeln
Ein rhetorisches Narkotikum, eine Bitte um Welpenschutz oder schlicht Ausdruck des Feeldgood-Vibes? Was hinter Zohran Mamdanis Grinsen steckt.
taz.de
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Liebe @taz.de, ich würde diesen verschwörungstheoretischen, tw rassistischen und VÖLLIG VERHUNZT GESCHRIEBENEN artikel löschen. Das ist blogger c-ware, kein Journalismus
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by the way, I've written a couple of things on the "western civilization is killed by suicidal empathy" line of reactionary thought. start with the Three Body Problem fans.
madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/t...
madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/t...
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
by the way, I've written a couple of things on the "western civilization is killed by suicidal empathy" line of reactionary thought. start with the Three Body Problem fans.
madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/t...
madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/t...
Why can’t billionaires keep their life crisis private anymore?
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Why can’t billionaires keep their life crisis private anymore?
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
Ethics wise, OpenAI is pure evil
Adam Raine’s family is suing OpenAI, so Altman’s lawyers responded by requesting the names and contact info of everyone that attended Adam’s funeral because they are heartless f*cks.
November 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Ethics wise, OpenAI is pure evil
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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Harvard's right-wing student magazine defends itself from charges that it invoked lines from Hitler by insisting that it did not intentionally use Nazi language, but came upon this "blood and soil" thinking organically. In other words, it's how young conservatives see things now.
Take that in.
Take that in.
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Harvard's right-wing student magazine defends itself from charges that it invoked lines from Hitler by insisting that it did not intentionally use Nazi language, but came upon this "blood and soil" thinking organically. In other words, it's how young conservatives see things now.
Take that in.
Take that in.
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10% of Meta's 2024 ad revenue came from outright frauds and scams; the platform shows consumers 15 billion ads for fraud and scams every single day. This doesn't even include agitprop and AI slop.
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
10% of Meta's 2024 ad revenue came from outright frauds and scams; the platform shows consumers 15 billion ads for fraud and scams every single day. This doesn't even include agitprop and AI slop.
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
“History Reclaimed” must be the most red flag name imaginable for an org in that space
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
“History Reclaimed” must be the most red flag name imaginable for an org in that space
I’m not sure unravelled is the correct word here. This was only ever a dream in the and-then-I-woke-up sense.
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled on.ft.com/47FBigb
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
on.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I’m not sure unravelled is the correct word here. This was only ever a dream in the and-then-I-woke-up sense.
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"Es bleibt das Geheimnis der Fluktuationsapologet_innen, warum wiss. Beschäftigte ohne Professur nach 12 J. ideenlos werden, Professor_innen aber nach d Berufung nur so sprudeln vor neuen Ideen.[...] [Das] erscheint nicht erst bei näherem Hinsehen als hanebüchener Unsinn."
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Letzte Woche haben wir 5 Jahre #95vsWissZeitVG gefeiert. Viel hat sich seit 2020 & besonders seit #IchBinHanna geändert, nur ein paar spezielle Quatsch-Argumente für Befristung kommen immer wieder. Damit wir sie nicht ständig von vorn widerlegen müssen, hab ich das heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss gemacht!
Vom Durchlauferhitzer und anderen Dauerbrennern: Fünf Jahre…
Zum 5. Geburtstag von #95vsWissZeitVG widme ich mich im Newsletter den wiederkehrenden Quatsch-Argumenten der Debatte -- und lege dar, warum sie Quatsch sind.
steady.page
November 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
"Es bleibt das Geheimnis der Fluktuationsapologet_innen, warum wiss. Beschäftigte ohne Professur nach 12 J. ideenlos werden, Professor_innen aber nach d Berufung nur so sprudeln vor neuen Ideen.[...] [Das] erscheint nicht erst bei näherem Hinsehen als hanebüchener Unsinn."
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#IchBinHanna #PDprekär
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#IchBinHanna #PDprekär
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now that's what I call a Mamdani endorsement. Don't threaten New Yorkers with a good time, Dave. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Dave Portnoy Threatens To Move Barstool Sports Out of New York City If Zohran Mamdani Becomes Mayor: ‘I Hate This Guy So Much’
Portnoy, 48, admitted that he has already asked his "finance guy" to begin looking at potential office spaces outside of the city.
www.yahoo.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
now that's what I call a Mamdani endorsement. Don't threaten New Yorkers with a good time, Dave. www.yahoo.com/news/article...