Devon Eriksen
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Author, Engineer, Sharpshooter, part-time Daemon Prince of Tzeentch. Not a cat. If you see hell everywhere you look, then perhaps hell is inside your eyes.
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If you like scifi…
If you are sick of stories of dystopian whining and post-apocalyptic despair…
If you're wondering what the hell happened to the industry that gave us Neuromancer and The Mote in God's Eye and Dune…
Then I made you something nice
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The Japanese love to pretend that they were just sitting around on the beach braiding flowers into each other's hair when the evil round-eyed devils suddenly targeted them for a weapons test.
Let's see what the Japanese did:
1. Literally allied themselves with the literal
Oppenheimer has been released in Japan, eight months after its global release.
We spoke to historian Naoko Wake to learn why the U.S. refuses to take accountability for the war crimes it committed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and why all of this is relevant to us today.
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What you are seeing here is female intrasexual competition in its most raw and naked form.
"Do not mate with a pretty American country girl who can help you build a home to live in... she is unfeminine."
"Instead, mate with a pretty Lebanese woman who is more interested in
This accent needs to be illegal and women should be banned from doing manual labour like this.
There is NOTHING feminine about American women.
American women are literally men.
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It's astonishing how few people understood Dune.
It's as if they cannot reconcile the concepts of a good man and a bad outcome existing together.
This is the whole point of Dune. It is a cautionary tale about the merging of church and state, about the dangers of cults of
For anyone that still thinks Paul’s rise to power in DUNE is up for interpretation… here’s Denis setting the record straight.
He rewrote Chani to basically spoon feed the audience that “Paul is bad” - but it’s quite clear a lot of DUNE fans think he’s still like Luke
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That's because this dude doesn't know what education is.
He speaks of growing wheat, herding sheep, riding a horse, and so on, but in the era of these skills, this was the kind of education given to slaves.
Only a slave, a person who was owned as property, and used as a
Yuval Noah Harari: we have no idea what to teach young people that will still be relevant in 20 years
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It's been kind of amusing, from a distance, to watch
@jk_rowling
melt down over men in dresses invading women's private spaces.
She still doesn't get it.
She doesn't understand that first they came for the men. Only then, much later, did they come for the women.
She doesn't
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What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Are you actually sitting there telling me that, in 2024, a significant open source project is using fucking Autotools instead of something like Cmake?
See, this is why I retired early from software engineering.
Because for every new job I took, the
An observation I left out of my earlier thread on the xz back door:
Autotools. Must. Die.
The complexity and obscurity of autotools build recipes was essential to the way the malicious code was concealed and inserted in the release tarball.
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@ToedragReleas3
Good point.
The United States should have taken the potential energy-spitting lizard effects more seriously. Mistakes were made.
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How is this man being selected as the CEO of OpenAI, however briefly, when he is still groping in the dark, struggling to understand even the most basic of concepts behind his own civilization?
Has it never occurred to him to wonder why hunter-gatherer societies don't have a
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Emmett, Emmett, Emmett.
I'm not "accusing you of socialism".
I'm pointing out that you just articulated the single most Bolshevik idea ever suggested since an unemployed German intellectual, living off das kapital gains, wrote a book demanding that all investors should be
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This is a fair question, so I'm not going to give you the Emmett treatment, but the answer is "no".
See, most people think that the problem with communism is that people aren't perfectly altruistic, or central planners aren't smart enough, but neither of these is the real
@Devon_Eriksen_
Really communism is very easy to dunk on.
A more interesting question is: Is there a level of processing capability or AI capability whereby central planning becomes more efficient than capitalism.
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Are you a Silicon Valley super-magnate with a billion-dollar fortune, or appreciable fraction thereof?
Were you born into the investor class, with red-carpet access to Ivy League universities, and plenty of family and social circle seed money to build your business once you
Emmett, Emmett, Emmett.
I'm not "accusing you of socialism".
I'm pointing out that you just articulated the single most Bolshevik idea ever suggested since an unemployed German intellectual, living off das kapital gains, wrote a book demanding that all investors should be
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Smart people disagree ON societal design. Wise people disagree WITH societal design.
Below, Crow defends Shear's idea by saying that he is a "smart, thoughtful dude".
If you defend an idea by saying its author is smart and thoughtful, you reveal your underlying assumption of
@Devon_Eriksen_
smart people can disagree on societal design - it's a high dimensional problem with many optima. I also despise communism. that said, I know
@eshear
and he's an incredibly smart, thoughtful dude - if you're dismissing any of his ideas completely you may be missing something.
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I've said this before...
Fascism is sensitivity to disgust that is so extreme that it resorts to authoritarianism to purge the object of that disgust, then continues projecting disgust onto things that aren't disgusting, and purges them, too.
And communism is sensitivity to
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The key to understanding the left is that it is fundamentally motivated by envy.
Everything else is fake. The environment? The poor? It's all fake. It's just envy all the way down.
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How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, young man?
Look at this picture, Will. Look at it.
Do you understand what it means?
If you smear everyone talking about heritability of IQ as racist, only those comfortable being called racists will talk about the
Singal well-actuallying this is so irritating. Everyone knows what that sentence meant. Everyone understands what "the heritability of IQ" means. No pundit talking about "the heritability of IQ" is talking about anything but race.
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Simple. When the left decided to abandon the working class for thirty pieces of silver, they needed an excuse, something they could pivot to in lieu of unions, economic growth, and the dignity of labor.
So they reimagined the trades, no longer seeing them as noble professions
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An inheritance tax is a special kind of evil.
You're not just robbing the dead.
You're robbing children.
Worse yet, you are robbing those who are about to die of the entire sense of their life's purpose.
It is the most basic of human instincts, to want to pass on what we
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@Sargon_of_Akkad
The fashion industry is run by gay men who have absolutely no idea what does or does not make for an attractive woman.
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The problem isn't Emmett in particular. It's the entire culture he comes from.
Autism adjacent techie nerds who managed to make millions or billions off a website without ever seeing Middle America or what's happening there are confused.
They start to move in elite circles,
lmao, wondering if estate taxes are bad bc they make successful people (esp those w kids) rabidly opposed to taxes/gubmint in all cases.
(more importantly, devon is a great writer, you should read his novel, & emmett is cool whether or not you agree w him)
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No aspect of women's behavior on social media is going to make sense to you until you realize two things:
1. For women, the appearance of vulnerability is status-enhancing.
2. For women, the appearance of compassion is status-enhancing.
Thus, women who play status games
"Women live every day in fear of being raped"
"What if we mass incarcerate criminals"
"Defund the police"
"What if we limit mass migration"
"Refugees welcome"
"What if men can't claim to be women and enter their spaces"
"Trans rights"
"Whats your solution?"
"Solution?"
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There are people who are wrong once in a while.
There are people who are wrong as often as they are right.
And then there is a small minority of nitwits so clueless that they would drink bleach if enough of the pet journalists of the political class told them it would avert
The most insidious form of climate denial is no longer, "It's not happening," but the belief that incremental or tech solutions will solve this crisis.
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Classical liberal societies are hackable because they tend to set higher and higher values on human life and safety over time.
Eventually, society reaches a state where the worst non-violent thing is held to be less bad than the mildest sort of violence necessary to stop that
Emergency service workers need to be familiar with techniques being used by protesters. This women used quick set concrete to attach her hand to the road. 👨🚒
This poses the question, Should front line emergency workers deal with this? & what should the punishments be? 🤔
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Jesus fucking Christ.
Now that you've gotten that PhD in developmental psychology, how about you try undergoing some psychological development?
Like, actually entering Piaget's formal operational stage?
Here's your first lesson:
The universe was not designed as an
A PhD should guarantee a stable job after graduation.
A decade of post-secondary education should teach you fundamental job search skills.
A degree conferred to < 2% of the world's population should lead to a six-figure salary.
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Nah, bro, that is exactly what being a good writer is.
Empathy.
I don't mean "compasion", or being nice. I mean the actual meaning of the word empathy:
The intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person.
This is the most important skill
I see this argument all the time against DEI and consultancy, and it just highlights the total misunderstanding of what being a good writer is. You don’t somehow max out your stats and learn how to write every conceivable character, plot, or prose style.
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Have you heard the story of the Golem of Prague?
The Jews of Prague went to their rabbi, Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the wise, and they said "The Christians are stronger and more numerous than us, and surely if they become wrathful, they shall destroy us! What can we do?"
"Do not
I hope every woman in Scotland who wishes to speak up for the reality and importance of biological sex will be reassured by this announcement, and I trust that all women - irrespective of profile or financial means - will be treated equally under the law.
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@AnEriksenWife
This is one of my wives. She follows me around and posts links to my book on every single one of my articles.
I cannot stop her without resorting to physical force.
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Overpopulation is not a global problem and the Malthusians are fractally wrong.
This is because they don't actually understand humanity's basic paradigm for survival and prosperity.
They think of humanity as bacteria in a petrie dish. If the bacteria divide every second, and
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Sometimes I wonder if venture capitalism is just as autism adjacent as software engineering. This guy is clearly better with computers than he is with people.
@zebulgar
, let me break it down for you, dude.
Floridians. Don't. Trust. You.
They are moving to block you,
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Feminism is not so much an ideology as is a strategy for constructing narratives in order to seek power.
Men and women both use language to seek power, but they have different ideas of what power is.
To a man, power is direct power: the ability to act and effect change in the
@Devon_Eriksen_
I'm curious what your thoughts on it would be.
She basically states that 1) it's unrealistic to think a women could prepare for all potential situations. 2) often having the weapon having a weapon leads to worse outcomes as it's used against them. 3) teach men not to do it
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Musk, here, thinks that the far left believe weakness makes righteousness. But that's not quite true.
The truth is that Marxists consist, by definition, of the weak and envious, and of those who wish to weaponize that envy.
There is no coherent ideology, no consistent set of
@growing_daniel
The fundamental axiomatic flaw of the woke mind virus is that the weaker party is always right (even if they want you to die).
For most of history, the operating principle was that might makes right.
As we became more civilized, we started to consider right in the absolute.
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No, you wouldn't, Will. You would screech and sputter, wishing you were a man enough to throw a punch, instead of a simper in a button-down shirt.
You've been bound and determined to be the main character on twitter for some time now, and to that end you've been huffing about
“Some cultures are just garbage” - you are talking about my neighbors you slime. It is insane we have normalized this. It is disgusting and offensive. If you said this to my face I would spit in yours
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No, Gene.
It's all fun and games until someone on twitter sends you a photograph of your front door.
You have no idea what civil conflict is like. That is why you are indulging in this fantasy of the United States military machine obediently and efficiently murdering the evil
It's all fun and games... until someone eats a drone fired Hellfire missile.
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Fascists and communists think solidarity is more important than truth.
That's why they will never, can never, win. No matter many societies they take over, those societies will always be out-competed by free minds and free markets, by people who don't all march in the same
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This, gentlemen, is Will Stancil.
Will Stancil doesn't look at things and ask "where did this come from?"
Will Stancil looks at things and asks "Is this good or bad?"
Thus, Will Stancil lives his life in a perpetual state of confused outrage. Bad things happen and he doesn't
okay, but seriously:
the giant, tall trucks and SUVs, with horrific sightlines and boxy fronts, are basically custom designed to squish pedestrians and children.
they are UNSAFE and if the NHTSA will not regulate them, states should step in. let's start in Minnesota
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Let us suppose, for a moment, that you are an oligarch, or a member of the political class.
You're on top of the heap, and things are pretty good for you. You're wealthy, powerful, and immune to the consequences of your own failures.
What is the greatest threat to you, and to
Matthew Parris says the quiet part out loud about euthanasia: “we simply cannot afford extreme senescence or desperate infirmity for as many such individuals as our society is producing.”
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The discourse around paras in fantasy stories has a lot of people screaming at each other, but, as usual, the discussion radiates more heat than light.
This comes down to a clash in values between normal people and communists.
To normal people, art, like everything else, is
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This is correct and incorrect.
Female superheroes are indeed failing because they have no character arc, but they have no character arc because of PC culture.
Why?
Well, a character arc is some way in which a character grows or changes throughout the story. And, since
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Dear 15,000 new people who followed me yesterday and today.
Thank you, welcome aboard, and I shall strive to continue to entertain... but right now I wanted to just take a moment to thank you for this picture. That's the top rankings in Hard SF on Amazon. Martha Wells, Andy
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Why exactly is Dune so hard for people to understand?
Is it something they miss about the way stories basically work?
The people who read Dune and see Paul as the protagonist do not "want to follow the fictional space king". They are not saying "Holy war, fuck yeah".
Here's
I only read Dune when the movie got announced, but the edition I read had a big foreword from Herbert saying "yo this book is about how the concept of heroism is dangerous."
I thought it was strange to see an author preface a book with how you're meant to read it. I see why now.
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Dear John,
I understand your personal reluctance to take a visible interest in politics, both of the office, and of the national, variety.
Engineers generally don't want to be interested in politics. It gets in the way of getting stuff done, and feels like a petty pastime of
I regret not doing more to support and defend
@PalmerLuckey
at Facebook. We were in different states and divisions, and I was largely out of the political loop, but when I became aware of the situation I should have made a clear and open statement of opposition to the witch hunt.
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RIP my inbox.
Up until today, I responded to everyone saying they would buy my book with a dance gif, sometimes an AI picture of cats celebrating (It's just a joke, I am not a cat).
Today, I don't know if I can.
And then there's this. I don't know what to say about this.
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I wish to request that those following me please stop trying to summon me to yell at Mark Cuban.
Yes, I understand that he is saying frustratingly dumb things.
But I am not going to yell at him.
Yelling at Mark Cuban is not only pointless, but actually impossible, because
Let me help you out and give you my thoughts on DEI
1. Diversity
Good businesses look where others don't, to find the employees that will put your business in the best possible position to succeed.
You may not agree, but I take it as a given that there are people of various
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Okay, enough dunking on communism. Let's talk about the positive side.
If you're a Silicon Valley VC with more money than god, and you're worried about the unfairness of the world, and you want to be someone whose presence in the universe is a net positive, what do you do?
Are you a Silicon Valley super-magnate with a billion-dollar fortune, or appreciable fraction thereof?
Were you born into the investor class, with red-carpet access to Ivy League universities, and plenty of family and social circle seed money to build your business once you
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What is it with you communists?
It's like playing whack-a-mole. Every time those of who didn't use wisdom as a dump stat refute one of your retarded ideas, another one of you pops up with a fresh totalitarian scheme for ruining everything you touch.
How can you, in
Only a small number of book authors make significant money from book sales.
This seems to suggest that most books should be freely available for download.
The lost revenue for authors would be small, and the benefits to society large by comparison.
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I wish to apologize for a recent slip of the keyboard, where I accidentally typed the words "enough dunking on communism". There is, of course, no such thing as enough dunking on communism.
What I meant to say, and should have said, was "enough dunking on communism FOR NOW".
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Okay, this shit right here is why democracy doesn't work work so good.
Because this guy gets the same number of votes as people who bother to do the math.
The LEO zone is from 200km to 2000km up from the surface of the earth, which has an average radius of 6,371km.
So
Low earth orbit is totally fucked lol. We can’t have 5 competing satellite internet fleets
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You're are either spewing utter nonsense you just made up, or your brother is so naive he can taken for a ride by 14 girls who are dumb enough to accidentally get pregnant, and also you are naive enough to believe him.
Lemme spell it out for you.
Farm. People. Know. Exactly.
I must share a personal anecdote so ppl can understand lack of education in rural areas
My brother did his obstetrics rotation in rural Texas
Many of the girls he helped deliver did not know how they got pregnant. The girls, often under 14, had no understanding of sex or babies
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A glimpse into the economic world of Audible vs. authors.
Audible has no trouble with the idea of giving your book away for free, because your book doesn't cost Audible anything. All costs of production are borne by you, the author, typically 5-15K per book.
Your business
@SouthernKeeks
It’s fantastic. I much prefer the audiobooks that are read by the actual authors; and I usually wait for the promos they send me regularly with 3 free book credits. I’ve amassed 43 audiobooks so far that I haven’t had to pay for.
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Okay, this is the list of ALL science fiction on Amazon. And I'm at number 25. All this from dunking on one out-of-touch VC.
I think, maybe, just a little bit, people were kinda sick of the Emperors, and ready to hear a little kid say they are naked.
Seriously, thanks,
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There is a second reason why Malthusians are not just bad, but an existential threat to humanity.
The major weakness of the human species is infertility.
What do I mean by that?
I mean that the human reproductive cycle is extremely fragile and easy to disrupt.
In
Overpopulation is not a global problem and the Malthusians are fractally wrong.
This is because they don't actually understand humanity's basic paradigm for survival and prosperity.
They think of humanity as bacteria in a petrie dish. If the bacteria divide every second, and
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This isn't intended to a be a dunk post, because Miss Delgado does not express any ideas worth refuting.
Instead, it is an observational exercise in practical philosophy, in the hopes that people who are not Miss Delgado, and therefore are capable of learning a principle
@kalihollowayftw
Hi, Harvard real-degree here. You're spot on. The "extension school" is a source of laughter and annoyance for students and alumni. (I think Columbia has one, too -- same thing there.) It's basically an "anyone can enroll, so long as you pay", no more stringent than a community
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So the answer,
@eshear
, to the question "where do property rights come from?" is
WE. MADE. THEM. UP.
Because we needed them. And if we disassemble them again, we will have literally no civilization. No tech stack.
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@TheEcho13
Dear men in your twenties: please do not listen to relationship advice from women in their twenties. It will not end well for you.
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Apparently some people are throwing the words "war crime" around with great abandon, and are in need of a lesson in basic western ethics and law.
There are three types of violence:
1. Interdiction: violence committed to avert a threat.
2. Conquest: violence committed to get
Dear Jordan,
You are sadly mistaken.
The Japanese beheaded my uncle, John Monroe when he was 15 years old in 1942 during their occupation of the Philippines.
Yet their brutality did not “need” the US to “nuke” non military civilian targets. The fire bombing of Japanese cities was
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The problem that scientific intellectuals have when dealing with Marxist apparatchiks like Stancil is that the former are trained in modern discourse, which is an arena where ideas clash, but the speakers themselves are cooperating to select the strongest ideas from the conflict.
The best kinds of academics, as you describe here, also often lack the combat oriented personality to deal with this labeling. It is my hope that Haidt & similar public intellectuals & academics understand this & respond accordingly.
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This is why wealthy people still exist under socialism.
They are simply those who are most able to win these kinds of discussions, by being well-connected to other influential people.
Socialism does not remove systems of privilege, it amplifies them.
Socialist professor explains how to get a PS5 under socialism.
Yeah, no thanks.
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The most grave and fundamental misconception about liberty is that it is simply the absence of tyranny, and can therefore be created by physically removing tyrants.
The fact is that tyrants, and tyrannies, are a symptom of a more fundamental disease: the widespread lack of the
Better to kill or otherwise remove from society those who think themselves masters over other people.
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And here is an excellent example of what I was talking about...
Feminism wielding indirect power through the sexually submissive male. Because Matt Cesca can't find a dominatrix to spank him and call him a naughty boy, he has instead reverted to accepting "jobs" and
Feminism is not so much an ideology as is a strategy for constructing narratives in order to seek power.
Men and women both use language to seek power, but they have different ideas of what power is.
To a man, power is direct power: the ability to act and effect change in the
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"Higher" education isn't an end goal, you second hand electric rice cooker.
It's a means for achieving goals, or it used to be, until it was taken over by a plague of credentialists and parasites. It's supposed to generate useful original ideas and insights that help us build
This guy is so awful ... his sense of entitlement knows no bounds. Also the complete disregard for the well being of higher ed in this country ... just tear it down in a childish temper tantrum.
Was obvious what this guy is from the beginning.
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I watched a video of myself being interviewed, with the sound off. And I noticed that I looked different from most of the people I was used to watching in "talking head" format.
And so I went and watched them with the sound off.
And I realized that psychopaths and narcissists
@Devon_Eriksen_
When did you discover this? As an author you u must have a keen eye for character.
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Do you see it now?
Do you see the big picture?
It's not about men in dresses. It's the whole thing.
You created a golem. Not alone, but it's likely that your hands helped shape the clay. You made it fearsome, and you made it strong, and you armed it with weapons, and you
I was nice to trans people.
When transwomen complained they didn't have a space to fit in, I said, like many others who wanted to be nice "you can sit with us lesbians".
Then they wanted more.
They wanted that we see them as real women.
They wanted us to see them as sexual
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Conservatives are losers.
This doesn't mean I dislike them. I generally don't.
And it doesn't doesn't that they are failures in their own individual lives. In fact, the data usually shows the reverse.
What it means is that conservatives have positioned themselves to lose the
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There is a cycle in left wing politics, a cycle baked into the system.
It begins with the intelligentsia promoting centralized policy solutions, and ends with those intelligentsia being ousted from Party leadership by midwit thugs, then torn apart by a mob of the underclass.
I was ethnically cleansed out of San Francisco.
I got out after Democrats started posting signs saying “die techie scum” and smashing the windows of Google buses. I got out before Democrats graduated to letting Asians get randomly attacked in the streets.
I couldn't in good
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Today, a "pirate" paid me what amounted to ~$500 for my work.
This one act of generosity on the part of one patron may not change other authors' views of unauthorized filesharing ecosystems, but I will use it to make my case.
In general, I don't give a shit about filesharing
@Devon_Eriksen_
I pirated your book already and I promise to pay you 1 BCH when I finish reading
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@eshear
So make all the moral arguments you want for communism, or communism with extra steps, or whatever the hell it is you are arguing for.
The rest of us MUST reject those arguments. We have no choice, no matter how attractive you make them.
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@FreyaHolmer
In order to demonstrate something, you have to demonstrate it for real. You don't get to just rig your demo, and then logic out that it should be the same thing.
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I'm known for roasting socialists, but since Fonda Lee has already been thoroughly dunked on for whining instead of improving, I'm taking a second look at this quote for an entirely different reason.
Hidden in it is the reason why socialists are socialists. It reveals how
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Apparently I have been nominated for a Prometheus Award.
For those not familiar, this is kind of a big deal, because it's one of the few remaining science fiction awards that hasn't been ideologically captured by insane communists.
The bad news is that I'm up against Daniel
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Reposted so I have somewhere to point people for context.
The only correction I would have would be that Shear was advocating 100% at one point, then walked it back to 50%.
Trying to keep track of this amazing back and forth Twitter thread between a novelist and the guy who was temporary CEO at Open AI for a hot second.
It all started when CEO dude starts pontificating about redistribution of wealth...
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I got an interesting object lesson today on why academia has failed western civilization as a whole.
Someone, apparently someone with a small smattering of academic background, slid into my comments and accused me of "plagiarism" because I used the term "intrasexual
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I've never heard of Daniel Vassallo, but apparently he's some sort of investor/entrepreneur type who doesn't think customers are real people, and doesn't know how capitalism works.
I'll make it stupidly simple:
Customers don't want to buy bad products. Product reviewers
I find it distasteful, almost unethical, to say this when you have 18 million subscribers.
Hard to explain why, but with great reach comes great responsibility. Potentially killing someone else’s nascent project reeks of carelessness.
First, do no harm.
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The character of Rorschach is a Rorschach test.
When you look at him, whether you see a hero or a villain is a measure of what you consider heroism or villainy to be.
Rorschach is unpopular, says socially unacceptable things, and holds unorthodox beliefs. He also isn't pretty
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@pengstrom6
Brief synopsis of context. Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear went full communist and proposed a 100% inheritance tax.
Public humiliations will continue until communismposting ceases.
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@eshear
Because heeding them ends, has always ended, will always end, in disaster.
Every attempt made in history to tamper with property rights has ended in disaster.
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As I discussed here, property rights are something we made up so that people would invest effort in making things:
Now, by "we", I mean living organisms, not just human beings. If you doubt that other animals have a notion of property rights, go hit a
@norabelrose
@Devon_Eriksen_
how do you think about rights to digital property and how much the effort exerted by writers and creatives be protected by the government? Creative works released to public domain akin to expropriating land by force?
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If you think property rights don't preexist both government and the entire human species, go hit a beehive with a stick.
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It does not matter what justifications are used for property rights. We can just make them up. In fact, that's exactly what we did.
The point is that we need to.
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@Woke_Ass_Person
@jk_rowling
"I never wanted leopards to eat your face in particular, I just voted for face-eating leopards on general principles."
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Belated response because my inbox has become an ungovernable blizzard.
But
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No. Lack of design is not a design. Atheism is not a religion. Bald is not a hair color.
The idea that everything is a policy decision, including the "decision" not to have
@Devon_Eriksen_
most exhaustive rebuttal I've ever gotten; grateful & honored!! 🙏💪
1. yes intelligent people can have awful ideas
2. isn't laissez-faire capitalism also societal design?
3. most arguments have some truth.
@eshear
is smart enough there's likely some truth in his ideas
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George, you have anti-fans because you are an anti-author.
Authors write books. You wrote anti-books, because the number of books we will never see, from authors whose careers you strangled in the cradle, is greater than the number of books you wrote.
Authors expand
George R.R. Martin speaks out against "anti-fans" on social media.
“It used to be fun talking about our favorite films and having spirited debates with fans who saw things different. But somehow in this age of social media it is no longer enough to say, ‘I did not like book X or
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@joelpollak
"Remember the atrocity that was committed upon last year, which excuses the atrocity we're about to commit right now!" - Terry Pratchett
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Authors need to understand what business we are in.
We are not in the book-selling business. We are in the brand-building business.
The basic unit of an author's financial survival isn't the book sale. It's the fan.
A fan isn't just someone who read your book. It's someone
This morning I tweeted about a book that I'd borrowed from the library.
The author responded.
He works for the NYT so this tracks with their whole vibe.
Despite enjoying it I'm not going to finish it.
Because as a writer myself, I say without hesitation libraries rule.
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Journalists.
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Okay, Reid, find yourself a nice comfortable chair and have a seat.
Are you sitting comfortably? Good.
Now take this piece of mental floss, and give yourself a vigorous cleaning between the ears, so you'll have room for a simple explanation of how human beings work.
See,
Chief AI scientist at Meta basically like: "Here, let me set fire to your home, fire fighters and the insurance company will surely help later, it's not really my problem, I just do the fire part."
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Leftists mock the idea that if you learn the proper skills and work hard you might be rich someday, but they also believe that anyone could be Mozart with enough music lessons.
When people tell you that they think there are no genetic differences between individual human beings, they’re telling you that they believe of themselves that if their upbringing had been just a little bit different, then they could have been as good at golf as Tiger Woods or as
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@NavyDigi
The problem is that, to an MBA midwit, Fred appears to super-productive and amazing, because he churns out features, and his shadow looks like a liability, because he doesn't.
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Dear Libertarian Party:
Please change your X password, and check your security measures. An insane communist has keylogged you and is posting from your account.
This communist appears to believe that ideas belong to everyone, and therefore all information should be free.
Intellectual "property" is not property and should not be treated as such.
Abolish IP laws. They do nothing but stifle innovation and create physical conflict where there was none to begin with.
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Because if Elon Musk cannot own Tesla, and Tesla cannot own land for a "gigafactory", and someone else cannot own a lithium mine, then no self-driving cars for you.
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@eshear
You can have conquests, revolutions, take the property from a whole class or race of people and kill them, and civilization will continue just fine.
But only so long as the notion of property is also respected between the conquerors.
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Yes, but the next three panels are pretty cool.
this is the sickest and most deranged shit I’ve seen.
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Government school is a midwit factory for factory midwits. I do not say this figuratively.
The modern US public education system is largely the result of late 19th and early 20th century oligarchs wanting the taxpayer to foot the bill for training factory workers.
@tracewoodgrains
@Devon_Eriksen_
This has very little to do with GPA on a single graph consisting of a small number of datapoints.
Far more likely they were just bored to death by the dogshit daycare program we call a public education system.
You’re simultaneously projecting and over-extrapolating.
Public ed
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Communism is a form of sensitivity to envy so extreme that it resorts to tyranny to attain the object of that envy.
Fascism is a form of sensitivity to disgust so extreme that it resorts to tyranny to purge the object of that disgust.
Or as someone said:
"Communism is when ugly deformed freaks make it illegal to be normal then rob and/or kill all successful people out of petty resentment and cruelty. The ideology is all just window dressing."
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@monsterhunter45
This is, frankly, ridiculous.
I once heard Steven Crowder, on his YT show, say he "doesn't like fiction", and dismiss the whole concept:
"Tell me a stoooo-ry, daddy!" he mocked, in a childish cartoon voice.
At that moment, I thought "The conservatives deserve to lose the
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When someone suffers terrible harm as a direct consequence of their twisted ideological beliefs or the policies they supported, it is not time to take the high road.
Do not be the bigger person. Do not be classy. Do not be principled. Do not have mercy on their grief.
Do not
People may accuse me of being mean for pointing out how explicitly Stewart and Jen's luxury beliefs ended up consuming their daughter. But it's important to note this. It's important for these people to be met with vicious mockery. That's the only way this shit ends.
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So, after a bit of discussion of the CAFE standards, and the chicken tax, and whatnot, we come around to the real issue...
Trying to fix problems with policy. Specifically, a lot of folks in the comments arguing about whether it's a good idea or not.
Statists, like Stancil,
This, gentlemen, is Will Stancil.
Will Stancil doesn't look at things and ask "where did this come from?"
Will Stancil looks at things and asks "Is this good or bad?"
Thus, Will Stancil lives his life in a perpetual state of confused outrage. Bad things happen and he doesn't
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Wanna learn a simple trick for spotting grifters, liars, and con men?
The passive voice.
The reversal of subject and object in a sentence.
"New York City" didn't name anything "best". Someone named New York City "best". NYC is the object of this sentence, not the subject.
For all of the talk about "Democrat-run cites," New York City was just named the best city in the entire world.
Where do your Republican-run cities rank?
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