James Tiberius Stone
@evolvingego.bsky.social
Not a Centrist, just a clumsy diplomat.
Bio, cultural, personal evolution, philosophy, psychology, communication, reasoning.
Bio, cultural, personal evolution, philosophy, psychology, communication, reasoning.
The moment you become a partisan is not the moment you accept one side's view of things. It's the moment you accept that side's caricature of everyone who disagrees.
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The moment you become a partisan is not the moment you accept one side's view of things. It's the moment you accept that side's caricature of everyone who disagrees.
Adoption of a new-to-you ideology is often driven by compression progress (high cognitive returns on investment). Subsequent commitment to the ideology is often a matter of sunk-cost thinking.
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Adoption of a new-to-you ideology is often driven by compression progress (high cognitive returns on investment). Subsequent commitment to the ideology is often a matter of sunk-cost thinking.
Meet the G-complex vitamins. GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon. Deficiency is known to cause excess fat accumulation in the modern environment.
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Meet the G-complex vitamins. GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon. Deficiency is known to cause excess fat accumulation in the modern environment.
In the marketplace of ideas every participant is a fiat currency issuer. If the marketplace is not disciplined by "institutions of justification" you get "hyperinflation" of the semantic currency (reasons) and most of the reasons in the marketplace become nearly worthless.
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
In the marketplace of ideas every participant is a fiat currency issuer. If the marketplace is not disciplined by "institutions of justification" you get "hyperinflation" of the semantic currency (reasons) and most of the reasons in the marketplace become nearly worthless.
Mr. Robot is a pantheon story. White Rose is Chronos. Philip Price is Kronos. Elliot is Prometheus. Angela is Cassandra. And Fernando Vera is Dionysus.
November 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Mr. Robot is a pantheon story. White Rose is Chronos. Philip Price is Kronos. Elliot is Prometheus. Angela is Cassandra. And Fernando Vera is Dionysus.
FederalDebt/HouseholdWealth
2012: about 26% ($18T/$69T)
2025: about 22% ($37T/$170T)
Our debt has shrunk as a percentage of our net worth!
Why does no one mention this?
Where's the crisis?
2012: about 26% ($18T/$69T)
2025: about 22% ($37T/$170T)
Our debt has shrunk as a percentage of our net worth!
Why does no one mention this?
Where's the crisis?
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
FederalDebt/HouseholdWealth
2012: about 26% ($18T/$69T)
2025: about 22% ($37T/$170T)
Our debt has shrunk as a percentage of our net worth!
Why does no one mention this?
Where's the crisis?
2012: about 26% ($18T/$69T)
2025: about 22% ($37T/$170T)
Our debt has shrunk as a percentage of our net worth!
Why does no one mention this?
Where's the crisis?
This site needs polls.
November 15, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This site needs polls.
"I'm not saying [H]. I'm just saying that [E] is exactly what you would expect if [H] were true."
Conspiratorial grifter speak: Inviting their audience to read P(H|E) straight from P(E|H), w/o mentioning alternatives or the prior improbability of H -- wrapped in "humility".
Conspiratorial grifter speak: Inviting their audience to read P(H|E) straight from P(E|H), w/o mentioning alternatives or the prior improbability of H -- wrapped in "humility".
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"I'm not saying [H]. I'm just saying that [E] is exactly what you would expect if [H] were true."
Conspiratorial grifter speak: Inviting their audience to read P(H|E) straight from P(E|H), w/o mentioning alternatives or the prior improbability of H -- wrapped in "humility".
Conspiratorial grifter speak: Inviting their audience to read P(H|E) straight from P(E|H), w/o mentioning alternatives or the prior improbability of H -- wrapped in "humility".
It’s important to remember how impossible that communication task was. To speak with enough confidence to drive coordinated action while maintaining transparency about uncertainty is almost a paradox.
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
It’s important to remember how impossible that communication task was. To speak with enough confidence to drive coordinated action while maintaining transparency about uncertainty is almost a paradox.
If we don't want socialism, we need to create a better form of Capitalism. Same deal now as in the 1930s.
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
If we don't want socialism, we need to create a better form of Capitalism. Same deal now as in the 1930s.
We have monuments to fallen soldiers. We should also have monuments to failed entrepreneurs.
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
We have monuments to fallen soldiers. We should also have monuments to failed entrepreneurs.
Datacenters should not use ground water. They should only use surface water. Their use is mostly pass-through, but you can't pass it back into the ground in anything like a timely manner. They're just stealing water from rural folks.
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Datacenters should not use ground water. They should only use surface water. Their use is mostly pass-through, but you can't pass it back into the ground in anything like a timely manner. They're just stealing water from rural folks.
The holy trinity of neoliberal propaganda:
1️⃣ Fiscal restraint = virtue
2️⃣ Low taxes = growth
3️⃣ Public investment = inefficiency
Three half-truths that create a partial narrative that sounds moral to workers, but serves the wealthy far better than the poor.
1️⃣ Fiscal restraint = virtue
2️⃣ Low taxes = growth
3️⃣ Public investment = inefficiency
Three half-truths that create a partial narrative that sounds moral to workers, but serves the wealthy far better than the poor.
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The holy trinity of neoliberal propaganda:
1️⃣ Fiscal restraint = virtue
2️⃣ Low taxes = growth
3️⃣ Public investment = inefficiency
Three half-truths that create a partial narrative that sounds moral to workers, but serves the wealthy far better than the poor.
1️⃣ Fiscal restraint = virtue
2️⃣ Low taxes = growth
3️⃣ Public investment = inefficiency
Three half-truths that create a partial narrative that sounds moral to workers, but serves the wealthy far better than the poor.
In the marketplace of ideas most investors prefer to buy and hold index funds. Some prefer to hold THE index fund (as defined by their most important community).
Active management of belief portfolios is far too much work.
Active management of belief portfolios is far too much work.
November 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
In the marketplace of ideas most investors prefer to buy and hold index funds. Some prefer to hold THE index fund (as defined by their most important community).
Active management of belief portfolios is far too much work.
Active management of belief portfolios is far too much work.
The mechanic thinks the academic is looking down on him for not having more book knowledge, while the academic thinks the mechanic is looking down on him for not being able to change his own wiper blades.
June 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The mechanic thinks the academic is looking down on him for not having more book knowledge, while the academic thinks the mechanic is looking down on him for not being able to change his own wiper blades.
As we worry about deficits and debt, we need to talk more about how much private wealth there is in the US -- and how much more wealth there is today than there was in 2020. The new wealth of the top 1% alone is in the neighborhood of the entire National Debt (not deficit, debt).
February 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
As we worry about deficits and debt, we need to talk more about how much private wealth there is in the US -- and how much more wealth there is today than there was in 2020. The new wealth of the top 1% alone is in the neighborhood of the entire National Debt (not deficit, debt).
This platform needs polls.
January 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This platform needs polls.
Fun fact: The main research farm for Johnny's Seeds is in Albion Maine.
January 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Fun fact: The main research farm for Johnny's Seeds is in Albion Maine.
Very strange watching an immigrant take Donald Trump's job.
December 20, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Very strange watching an immigrant take Donald Trump's job.
Dear DOGE,
Deficit spending + QE caused asset inflation. Asset inflation caused rents to go up. Poor people don't have assets, but do pay rent.
Now you want the poor to "sacrifice" to help pay the money back, while the wealthy keep the gains?
It's grotesque.
Deficit spending + QE caused asset inflation. Asset inflation caused rents to go up. Poor people don't have assets, but do pay rent.
Now you want the poor to "sacrifice" to help pay the money back, while the wealthy keep the gains?
It's grotesque.
December 11, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Dear DOGE,
Deficit spending + QE caused asset inflation. Asset inflation caused rents to go up. Poor people don't have assets, but do pay rent.
Now you want the poor to "sacrifice" to help pay the money back, while the wealthy keep the gains?
It's grotesque.
Deficit spending + QE caused asset inflation. Asset inflation caused rents to go up. Poor people don't have assets, but do pay rent.
Now you want the poor to "sacrifice" to help pay the money back, while the wealthy keep the gains?
It's grotesque.
Sometimes I think the political compass maps pretty well onto guilt and anger susceptibility, where left is more guilt-susceptible and authoritarian is more anger-susceptible.
November 22, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Sometimes I think the political compass maps pretty well onto guilt and anger susceptibility, where left is more guilt-susceptible and authoritarian is more anger-susceptible.
There are two main things "big government" can mean.
1. Big bureaucracy.
2. Big budget.
These are not the same, and it feels like Elon/Vivek are intentionally conflating the two.
Even if the bureaucracy needs some refactoring, the budget is not particularly large:
1. Big bureaucracy.
2. Big budget.
These are not the same, and it feels like Elon/Vivek are intentionally conflating the two.
Even if the bureaucracy needs some refactoring, the budget is not particularly large:
November 21, 2024 at 7:03 PM
There are two main things "big government" can mean.
1. Big bureaucracy.
2. Big budget.
These are not the same, and it feels like Elon/Vivek are intentionally conflating the two.
Even if the bureaucracy needs some refactoring, the budget is not particularly large:
1. Big bureaucracy.
2. Big budget.
These are not the same, and it feels like Elon/Vivek are intentionally conflating the two.
Even if the bureaucracy needs some refactoring, the budget is not particularly large:
I'm guessing this was generated by AI. I've circled some clues.
November 20, 2024 at 11:57 PM
I'm guessing this was generated by AI. I've circled some clues.
Over the last 47 years the wealthiest 1% in the US have transferred 36 trillion dollars from the public balance sheet to their own, & now they'd like the other 99% to start paying that money back.
This is how I currently see the debt and "calls for sacrifice". Is this wrong?
This is how I currently see the debt and "calls for sacrifice". Is this wrong?
November 18, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Over the last 47 years the wealthiest 1% in the US have transferred 36 trillion dollars from the public balance sheet to their own, & now they'd like the other 99% to start paying that money back.
This is how I currently see the debt and "calls for sacrifice". Is this wrong?
This is how I currently see the debt and "calls for sacrifice". Is this wrong?
Instead of saying you are in favor of "equality", it's better to say that you are in favor of "equality of [something more specific]". You can't be in favor of equality of everything at the same time, as making one thing equal always makes other things unequal.
November 16, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Instead of saying you are in favor of "equality", it's better to say that you are in favor of "equality of [something more specific]". You can't be in favor of equality of everything at the same time, as making one thing equal always makes other things unequal.