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Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
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I remain skeptical that any rich people plot to control the media requires them to bother dictating day to day coverage, when class solidarity can also get it done, and with less effort
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I remain skeptical that any rich people plot to control the media requires them to bother dictating day to day coverage, when class solidarity can also get it done, and with less effort
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Questioning the judgement of the editors that approved this piece is misogyny.
November 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Questioning the judgement of the editors that approved this piece is misogyny.
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It’s pretty dark that the absolute best case scenario for a lot of these guys is just that they really liked ol Jeff Epstein as their friend
November 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It’s pretty dark that the absolute best case scenario for a lot of these guys is just that they really liked ol Jeff Epstein as their friend
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Just gonna fact check this thread: there is no evidence that Feynman was friends with child sex abusers.
Defend an unpopular friend. He did it numerous times.
November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Just gonna fact check this thread: there is no evidence that Feynman was friends with child sex abusers.
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Editors tend to be beholden to things, right?
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Editors tend to be beholden to things, right?
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"I write for the New York Times, and I can assure you that we've never buried stories on behalf of powerful people, many of those powerful people being part of NYT management. We only publish what's fit to print, like Zohran's application to Columbia that was leaked by a white nationalist"
I don't understand why people have to concoct wild conspiracy theories in order to critique the NYT. I say this as someone who writes for them: there is plenty to critique without making up wild scenarios and insisting they're true!
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"I write for the New York Times, and I can assure you that we've never buried stories on behalf of powerful people, many of those powerful people being part of NYT management. We only publish what's fit to print, like Zohran's application to Columbia that was leaked by a white nationalist"
"we're not evil we're just incompetent!"
Is it possible? Sure. But I have seen media reporters crawl over nails for that kind of scoop and the good ones wouldn't give a fuck if it was about a colleague. I think a cover up would be very difficult and is unlikely
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"we're not evil we're just incompetent!"
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Jeffrey Epstein was developing a series, moderated by @lkrauss1.bsky.social, to bring scientists and celebrities together. The first season would include an episode where "Woody Allen talks about the human condition with Linguist Noam Chomsky."
drive.google.com/file/d/14Sla...
drive.google.com/file/d/14Sla...
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023123.txt
drive.google.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Jeffrey Epstein was developing a series, moderated by @lkrauss1.bsky.social, to bring scientists and celebrities together. The first season would include an episode where "Woody Allen talks about the human condition with Linguist Noam Chomsky."
drive.google.com/file/d/14Sla...
drive.google.com/file/d/14Sla...
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on one hand, the american elite is a conspiracy of malevolent pedophiles and intelligence assets. On the other hand, they've made each other quite a bit of money — not our place to speculate about whether they're "good" or "bad."
NEW: In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary, claiming intimate knowledge of Trump’s views in an exchange with a Gates adviser.
Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Intimate Knowledge of Donald Trump’s Views in Texts With Bill Gates Adviser
In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary.
www.wired.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
on one hand, the american elite is a conspiracy of malevolent pedophiles and intelligence assets. On the other hand, they've made each other quite a bit of money — not our place to speculate about whether they're "good" or "bad."
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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We gotta do a nationwide inquest into antisocial behavior. Leaving your dog's poop on the street. Not returning shopping carts. The What's Wrong With You initiative
people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
We gotta do a nationwide inquest into antisocial behavior. Leaving your dog's poop on the street. Not returning shopping carts. The What's Wrong With You initiative
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(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school
December 26, 2024 at 8:45 PM
(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school
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Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
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The social-interpersonal ethics of American businesses is such that executives are treated like mini kings, which very much has an “elites kicked in the head by a mule”/“dictator’s dilemma” effect on their sense-making and constructed knowledge, and how people just carry out their insane decisions.
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The social-interpersonal ethics of American businesses is such that executives are treated like mini kings, which very much has an “elites kicked in the head by a mule”/“dictator’s dilemma” effect on their sense-making and constructed knowledge, and how people just carry out their insane decisions.
can you imagine typing your trip notes into an email and hitting send?
"skin as part of brain?"
This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
can you imagine typing your trip notes into an email and hitting send?
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These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
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This is such a cool thing to read after confirming we are ruled over by deranged child molesters
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is such a cool thing to read after confirming we are ruled over by deranged child molesters
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Mostly that he was dead 40 days later.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Mostly that he was dead 40 days later.
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What do we make of this email, sent from Epstein to himself a week before he was arrested with the subject line “List for Bannon Steve” with just a list of names.
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
What do we make of this email, sent from Epstein to himself a week before he was arrested with the subject line “List for Bannon Steve” with just a list of names.
We probably spent something like then times the Afghan opium market to do this. And it kind of works. Sure you have to grow more poppies but when you extract the morphine it's the same drug. And it takes forever. Raw opium stores really well. It takes multiple low yield crops to clean farmers out.
Epstein was obviously the story of the day but it’s wild that we got confirmation the CIA was engaged in biological warfare in Afghanistan for at least a decade
Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
In a decade-long operation, the CIA modified poppy seeds and dropped them by the billions from aircraft over Afghanistan in an attempt to weaken the potency of the country’s opium crop.
wapo.st
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We probably spent something like then times the Afghan opium market to do this. And it kind of works. Sure you have to grow more poppies but when you extract the morphine it's the same drug. And it takes forever. Raw opium stores really well. It takes multiple low yield crops to clean farmers out.
So dumb that it is impossible for the guy to have independently done any of the finance crimes he got rich off of, especially since he kept getting caught and let go free
There's not really a professional way for me to say this, but Epstein was clearly very dumb and it is remarkable that someone like Krauss was willing to put up with him.
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
So dumb that it is impossible for the guy to have independently done any of the finance crimes he got rich off of, especially since he kept getting caught and let go free
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Have been hearing from centrists my whole life that we cannot tax the rich, they are our most special boys & job creators
Then you read their emails & they’re no smarter than Larry from accounting - they just accidentally fell into a literal mountain of money
Wealth tax now
Then you read their emails & they’re no smarter than Larry from accounting - they just accidentally fell into a literal mountain of money
Wealth tax now
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Have been hearing from centrists my whole life that we cannot tax the rich, they are our most special boys & job creators
Then you read their emails & they’re no smarter than Larry from accounting - they just accidentally fell into a literal mountain of money
Wealth tax now
Then you read their emails & they’re no smarter than Larry from accounting - they just accidentally fell into a literal mountain of money
Wealth tax now
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Trump in the situation room
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Trump in the situation room
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CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret