Well, That Was Spooky
@thediscoveryofzero.com
BCBA, M.Ed., Solo Musician, he/him, Coachella Valley https://elirector.bandcamp.com/music
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International Sirens, by Eli Rector
38 track album
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Welcome new followers.
Apologies for dead horses you’ll find me beating:
1. Trad cultural hierarchies & epistemic authority on the RW
2. Global wealth caps
3. Radical Behaviorism and libertarian free market agency
4. Chronic pain
5. Weird shit
6. My latest album: tinyurl.com/yc397vv8
Apologies for dead horses you’ll find me beating:
1. Trad cultural hierarchies & epistemic authority on the RW
2. Global wealth caps
3. Radical Behaviorism and libertarian free market agency
4. Chronic pain
5. Weird shit
6. My latest album: tinyurl.com/yc397vv8
The problem is there weren't enough Antonio Gramsci's in an Ezra Pound.
December 30, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The problem is there weren't enough Antonio Gramsci's in an Ezra Pound.
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Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
How I'm walking out of 2025
December 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
How I'm walking out of 2025
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Also this gem:
More and more I think this is the actual difference between the moderate and the far right. The latter isn't afraid to admit how they truly feel.
More and more I think this is the actual difference between the moderate and the far right. The latter isn't afraid to admit how they truly feel.
December 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Also this gem:
More and more I think this is the actual difference between the moderate and the far right. The latter isn't afraid to admit how they truly feel.
More and more I think this is the actual difference between the moderate and the far right. The latter isn't afraid to admit how they truly feel.
Just want to remind people that there was a lot of pushback on the idea that we were dealing with fascism.
This is important because the argument required nuanced and often intuitive analysis.
There is often a refuge in the safety of quantization and overdeterminism.
This is important because the argument required nuanced and often intuitive analysis.
There is often a refuge in the safety of quantization and overdeterminism.
December 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Just want to remind people that there was a lot of pushback on the idea that we were dealing with fascism.
This is important because the argument required nuanced and often intuitive analysis.
There is often a refuge in the safety of quantization and overdeterminism.
This is important because the argument required nuanced and often intuitive analysis.
There is often a refuge in the safety of quantization and overdeterminism.
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Hüsker Dürutti Column
??? is this something
I drank too much at dinner heh
??? is this something
I drank too much at dinner heh
Gang of Four Tops
December 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Hüsker Dürutti Column
??? is this something
I drank too much at dinner heh
??? is this something
I drank too much at dinner heh
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One of the context collapses that happens in politics talk online is that you get discourse on a Problem and then you get not just prescriptivists and descriptivists talking past each other but even groups of prescriptivists doing so: policy design v lawyering v organizing v fandoms v electioneering
December 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
One of the context collapses that happens in politics talk online is that you get discourse on a Problem and then you get not just prescriptivists and descriptivists talking past each other but even groups of prescriptivists doing so: policy design v lawyering v organizing v fandoms v electioneering
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The biggest input for politics for almost everyone now is their media diet, and you can tell when someone's media diet sucks pretty quickly
i still don't know where conservative zoomers get this from (from the Manhattan Institute voter panel of zoomer voters)
December 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The biggest input for politics for almost everyone now is their media diet, and you can tell when someone's media diet sucks pretty quickly
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wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French
December 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French
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ruin two bands by combining them:
Fugazi Osbourne
Fugazi Osbourne
ruin two bands by combining them:
kornplay
kornplay
December 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
ruin two bands by combining them:
Fugazi Osbourne
Fugazi Osbourne
ruin two bands by combining them:
The Pixie Styx
The Pixie Styx
ruin two bands by combining them:
the aerosmiths
the aerosmiths
ruin two bands by combining them:
Fugazi Osbourne
Fugazi Osbourne
December 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
ruin two bands by combining them:
The Pixie Styx
The Pixie Styx
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ruin two bands by combining them:
the aerosmiths
the aerosmiths
ruin two bands by combining them:
Fugazi Osbourne
Fugazi Osbourne
ruin two bands by combining them:
kornplay
kornplay
December 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
ruin two bands by combining them:
the aerosmiths
the aerosmiths
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An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
December 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
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*someone taps their fingertips against their thumbs*
Christopher Caldwell:
Christopher Caldwell:
December 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
*someone taps their fingertips against their thumbs*
Christopher Caldwell:
Christopher Caldwell:
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Read about the new scholarship on Spain, then contemplate the fact that Franco was venerated in the National Review from the start, and you hav a skeleton key, opening up the fact that "modern American conservatism" never maintained a meaningful distance from fascism. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan Kaufman
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
www.nybooks.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Read about the new scholarship on Spain, then contemplate the fact that Franco was venerated in the National Review from the start, and you hav a skeleton key, opening up the fact that "modern American conservatism" never maintained a meaningful distance from fascism. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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@gilduran.com
I knew about his strong ties with the Getty family, but he apparently serves several San Francisco billionaires.
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-francisco-money/
I knew about his strong ties with the Getty family, but he apparently serves several San Francisco billionaires.
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-francisco-money/
How eight elite San Francisco families funded Gavin Newsom's political ascent
San Francisco's wealthiest have supported Newsom for decades, spending big on his political career since his earliest days in public office.
www.latimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:44 AM
@gilduran.com
I knew about his strong ties with the Getty family, but he apparently serves several San Francisco billionaires.
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-francisco-money/
I knew about his strong ties with the Getty family, but he apparently serves several San Francisco billionaires.
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-francisco-money/
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There’s a Silicon Valley billionaire freak out happening about a potential wealth tax ballot initiative in California.
I hope everybody understands—the only way to make billionaires pay a similar *income* tax rate as their secretaries is via taxing unrealized cap gains or wealth
I hope everybody understands—the only way to make billionaires pay a similar *income* tax rate as their secretaries is via taxing unrealized cap gains or wealth
December 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM
There’s a Silicon Valley billionaire freak out happening about a potential wealth tax ballot initiative in California.
I hope everybody understands—the only way to make billionaires pay a similar *income* tax rate as their secretaries is via taxing unrealized cap gains or wealth
I hope everybody understands—the only way to make billionaires pay a similar *income* tax rate as their secretaries is via taxing unrealized cap gains or wealth
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what else is there to say
December 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
what else is there to say
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Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
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I quit smoking by running a half marathon about a decade ago. Ignore fitness influencers — cardio is more accessible than weight lifting. It can be as easy as taking a brisk walk.
not gonna evangelize about it but tbh coming to understand the value of cardio is one of the biggest positive changes I've made of any kind to my adult life, for whatever that's worth
Fitness gurus are always knocking cardio. Well, the elliptical is super effectively for weight loss. It’s low impact so you can do it for long time periods, every day. I can burn 800-1000 calories in an hour. I can do it daily. I lost 100 lbs once doing nothing but that damned boring elliptical.
December 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I quit smoking by running a half marathon about a decade ago. Ignore fitness influencers — cardio is more accessible than weight lifting. It can be as easy as taking a brisk walk.
Lifting my skinny fists like antennas to heaven and shouting get off my lawn.
December 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Lifting my skinny fists like antennas to heaven and shouting get off my lawn.
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Formula for me to become a regular listener to a podcast:
Expert who will make me smarter (often means rounder) on the subject... goes deep for 90 minutes or more... host excells at drawing out the guest but also has a strong POV... still an audio product even if dragged on to youtube...
Yours?
Expert who will make me smarter (often means rounder) on the subject... goes deep for 90 minutes or more... host excells at drawing out the guest but also has a strong POV... still an audio product even if dragged on to youtube...
Yours?
December 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Formula for me to become a regular listener to a podcast:
Expert who will make me smarter (often means rounder) on the subject... goes deep for 90 minutes or more... host excells at drawing out the guest but also has a strong POV... still an audio product even if dragged on to youtube...
Yours?
Expert who will make me smarter (often means rounder) on the subject... goes deep for 90 minutes or more... host excells at drawing out the guest but also has a strong POV... still an audio product even if dragged on to youtube...
Yours?