singletrack
@singletrack.bsky.social
Their heads were buried in the sand.
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Their heads were buried in the sand.
Ruin a science fiction story by replacing a character:
Foundation, but instead of Hari Seldon it’s Nicholas Nassim Taleb.
Foundation, but instead of Hari Seldon it’s Nicholas Nassim Taleb.
maybe I’ve been watching too much Foundation, but….
Way too many people seem convinced that the day Trump dies all this somehow goes away.
People will snap out of it. No one will be able to harness his base.
I think this is simply wrong. But I also think Trump will still be “speaking” to MAGA after he’s gone.
People will snap out of it. No one will be able to harness his base.
I think this is simply wrong. But I also think Trump will still be “speaking” to MAGA after he’s gone.
October 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Ruin a science fiction story by replacing a character:
Foundation, but instead of Hari Seldon it’s Nicholas Nassim Taleb.
Foundation, but instead of Hari Seldon it’s Nicholas Nassim Taleb.
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i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems
criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:
criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:
October 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems
criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:
criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:
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If you’re going to say that, the least you can do is be logically consistent and oppose nominating him on the grounds that you might accidentally make Kavanaugh’s evil doppelgänger a Supreme Court justice.
October 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
If you’re going to say that, the least you can do is be logically consistent and oppose nominating him on the grounds that you might accidentally make Kavanaugh’s evil doppelgänger a Supreme Court justice.
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Imma be real with you guys the "TESCREAL" stuff is basically the libleft version of rightist paranoia over "Cultural Marxism", where you just smash together a half-dozen things that annoy you and go "these things are all connected and being pushed by a nefarious secret cabal of my political enemies"
September 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Imma be real with you guys the "TESCREAL" stuff is basically the libleft version of rightist paranoia over "Cultural Marxism", where you just smash together a half-dozen things that annoy you and go "these things are all connected and being pushed by a nefarious secret cabal of my political enemies"
Happy Gathering All The Generals And Admirals In A Single Location Day to all those who celebrate!
September 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Happy Gathering All The Generals And Admirals In A Single Location Day to all those who celebrate!
(someone who has heard today that today is the start of the apocalypse, didn’t pay attention to the details, and is frantically trying to check whether it’s started yet):
“Status”
“Skills”
“Stats”
“Inventory”
“System information”
“Log out”
“Status”
“Skills”
“Stats”
“Inventory”
“System information”
“Log out”
September 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM
(someone who has heard today that today is the start of the apocalypse, didn’t pay attention to the details, and is frantically trying to check whether it’s started yet):
“Status”
“Skills”
“Stats”
“Inventory”
“System information”
“Log out”
“Status”
“Skills”
“Stats”
“Inventory”
“System information”
“Log out”
“Curtis Yarvin and I discuss how creating hereditary duchies in California, New York, and Vermont will secure our nation’s ideological diversity.”
September 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“Curtis Yarvin and I discuss how creating hereditary duchies in California, New York, and Vermont will secure our nation’s ideological diversity.”
Who decided to call it the Moreau envelope instead of The Envelope of Dr. Moreau?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreau_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreau_...
Moreau envelope - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Who decided to call it the Moreau envelope instead of The Envelope of Dr. Moreau?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreau_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreau_...
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I think often of Tether. It is my claim to fame.
You haven’t heard?
Sit down, dear friend, and let me tell you about a money printing machine the likes of which the world has never seen before.
You haven’t heard?
Sit down, dear friend, and let me tell you about a money printing machine the likes of which the world has never seen before.
September 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I think often of Tether. It is my claim to fame.
You haven’t heard?
Sit down, dear friend, and let me tell you about a money printing machine the likes of which the world has never seen before.
You haven’t heard?
Sit down, dear friend, and let me tell you about a money printing machine the likes of which the world has never seen before.
Department of War, but the wars are:
War on Drugs
War on Terror
War on Woke
War on Drugs
War on Terror
War on Woke
Just incredible to write the words 'calling it the war department will curtail mission creep' as the guys renaming it send troops to occupy American cities, put down protests, march in pointless parades, sink random speed boats and spread fucking mulch.
September 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Department of War, but the wars are:
War on Drugs
War on Terror
War on Woke
War on Drugs
War on Terror
War on Woke
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It's fitting that "kitchen table issues" is a reference to sitting down at your kitchen table to pay your snail-mail bills and balance your checkbook on physical paper, something which has been obsolete for decades.
we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.
If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research
August 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It's fitting that "kitchen table issues" is a reference to sitting down at your kitchen table to pay your snail-mail bills and balance your checkbook on physical paper, something which has been obsolete for decades.
(For those keeping track at home, Mark Cuban's post below is dramatic foreshadowing for Trump arresting him on a pretext sometime within the next year.)
August 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
(For those keeping track at home, Mark Cuban's post below is dramatic foreshadowing for Trump arresting him on a pretext sometime within the next year.)
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"Join the National Guard and fight vagrants"
REPORTER: Why are troops stationed here at Union Station and at the National Mall instead of areas where crime is higher?
JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.
JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.
August 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"Join the National Guard and fight vagrants"
I want to write a time loop story with Trotsky as the protagonist, where he loops back to Lenin’s death whenever he dies.
My working title so far is “First Pick.”
My working title so far is “First Pick.”
August 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I want to write a time loop story with Trotsky as the protagonist, where he loops back to Lenin’s death whenever he dies.
My working title so far is “First Pick.”
My working title so far is “First Pick.”
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There was a request for Benny Hill
July 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
There was a request for Benny Hill
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The people who are supposedly guarding this system from misuse are in some cases “former military personnel with little coding experience who are paid barely more than minimum wage for the work.”
yikes
yikes
July 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The people who are supposedly guarding this system from misuse are in some cases “former military personnel with little coding experience who are paid barely more than minimum wage for the work.”
yikes
yikes
July 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I would heave a massive sigh of relief if I found out that Trump had been magically replaced as President by King George III. It’s not even close.
No exaggeration, this is Declaration of Independence-level tyranny. It's indistinguishable from other "injuries and usurpations" listed by Jefferson in the document. Many don't come close to this level of arrogant hostility.
CBP SECTOR CHIEF GREG BOVINO TO LA RESIDENTS: “We don’t work for Karen Bass… better get used to us now, this is going to be normal very soon.”🤔
If it quacks like Martial Law…
How long til Cali folks move to stop funding this with their tax dollars?
If it quacks like Martial Law…
How long til Cali folks move to stop funding this with their tax dollars?
July 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I would heave a massive sigh of relief if I found out that Trump had been magically replaced as President by King George III. It’s not even close.
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“The Declaration of Independence is the ringbolt to the chain of your nation's destiny…The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.”
—Frederick Douglass
—Frederick Douglass
July 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“The Declaration of Independence is the ringbolt to the chain of your nation's destiny…The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.”
—Frederick Douglass
—Frederick Douglass
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I have grown increasingly more sympathetic to Lincoln’s argument that the slave power was preparing the way for another Dred Scott decision that would prohibit states from banning slavery. When I first read it in grad school, I thought he was being paranoid. No more.
June 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I have grown increasingly more sympathetic to Lincoln’s argument that the slave power was preparing the way for another Dred Scott decision that would prohibit states from banning slavery. When I first read it in grad school, I thought he was being paranoid. No more.
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this is an elite thing, but i also just see it among my lib friends--the feeling that even knowing stuff about how modern militaries operate is a bit distasteful, impure, sus--"why are you so interested in all that military stuff? isn't that a conservative thing?"
Reality: You might not be interested in defense but defense is very interested in you
Average Dem staffer: but have you considered that I went to Yale
Average Dem staffer: but have you considered that I went to Yale
June 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
this is an elite thing, but i also just see it among my lib friends--the feeling that even knowing stuff about how modern militaries operate is a bit distasteful, impure, sus--"why are you so interested in all that military stuff? isn't that a conservative thing?"
If I was trying to join an established institution in a leadership position, I would simply do every single thing possible to show that I took it seriously and was willing to work to show that I belonged.
Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won't Have to Attend Boot Camp)
Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won't Have to Attend Boot Camp)
The tech industry is fully on board, but the rank and file won't have to do time as grunts.
gizmodo.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
If I was trying to join an established institution in a leadership position, I would simply do every single thing possible to show that I took it seriously and was willing to work to show that I belonged.
Absolutely. I’m personally incredibly grateful to the people like @wlknsn.xyz who were writing about “liberaltarianism” in the early ‘00s and helped provide me with an ideological bridge to becoming a plain old liberal.
Honestly, has any ideology so throughly discredited itself by its own standards as libertarianism? Everyone you knew in high school who supported Ron Paul is either a normie lib or Hitler.
June 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Absolutely. I’m personally incredibly grateful to the people like @wlknsn.xyz who were writing about “liberaltarianism” in the early ‘00s and helped provide me with an ideological bridge to becoming a plain old liberal.