Robert Wallace

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

Narrator: *clears throat*

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We were taught to pray for the coming of the kingdom first before we were to taught to ask for our forgiveness. The order matters, because the kingdom will bring weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

Wisdom from @adapalmer.bsky.social : “Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities…. We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured.”

Our baby has been alive for two deadly, illegal campaigns by the U.S. to remove a foreign leader. She’s 7 weeks old.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

the cathedral isn't real, hope this helps, Ross

“War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading. The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined.” - Pope Leo

Ross Douthat Tweets: Lesser of two evils, art of the possible, blah blah blah, but all of the factions that have strong agency in our society right now seem profoundly dangerous. I don't know which one is the most dangerous but none of them should be trusted with power. Fundamental factional energy -- Silicon Valley: Faust bargaining with the devil RW populism: mob boss in a tinfoil hat The Cathedral: Voluntary human extinction

You'd think the NYT could hire a less worthless 'house conservative' than Douthat, doing this weaksauce anti-anti Curtis Yarvin schtick. You could tell him his salary doesn't depend on being SO fake as that.

Saving the people of Iran from being massacred by their government in the streets by massacring elementary schoolgirls from the air.

Sama just posted that OpenAI got the contract:

Dean Ball wrote Trump's AI plan. 👀

You know the one all the AI bros were so excited about and for which they thought it was so important to back Trump to get.

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch

What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth."

"To Dismantle The Principle Of Birthright Citizenship Would Undermine Both The Legal And Moral Foundations of American Society" — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network), in this brief

Columbia President with NEW details:

5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant.

They said they were police looking for a missing kid.
Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid."

A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss.

They ignored him & took the student.

The Guardian has identified the Columbia student abducted by DHS as Ellie Aghayeva. She posted the IG story below:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

Jokes aside, I do think AI is making apparent what we knew all along. Many if not most college students do not want an education. They want a degree.

We can argue over how we got here. Higher ed institutions played their role but it doesn’t fall only on them. Business decided long ago that a…

I'm really, really hoping that Anthropic's conflict with MAGA improves the discourse around AI as ppl realize that plenty of techies are on our side.

I think that if Anthropic holds the course they will get a lot of profit out of having been told publicly “help us militarize the torment nexus or we will destroy you” and having gone “nope”

This is what’s gonna keep me up tonight

Oh shiiiiiit. And: true.

BREAKING: In a defiant moment, Senator Mark Kelly just made clear that he will attend tonight's State of the Union just to spite Trump for trying to have him indicted. This is amazing.

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.