Alex Jones

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened

That's the best part. They understand emojis too so some model security can be one-shot by emoji strings.

The fun part about AI security is that it can be broken with emojis.

How Small Businesses Are Using AI In 2025 Many small businesses use AI, but mostly as part of existing software or as a glorified search engine rather than as a game-changing new system.

The good: I think I "get" AI now and was interviewed by Forbes in a wide ranging 20 minute about small business and AI.

The bad: I could have said it in a Tweet.

www.forbes.com/sites/brando...

Happy new tool day to all who celebrate.

In the mid-90s I was a script kiddie who took over Undernet IRC channels during netsplits with my friends. It was "fun" but stupid.

Today those same script kiddies can run completely unrestricted LLMs on their school laptops.

Big yikes.

He's remarkable for being consistently publicly wrong at every turn for over 20 years.

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
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Humanity as a whole should have a 100% inheritance tax over say $20 million.

It's the most disappointing thing about the Twitter era - finding out that people who were venerated are actually just as stupid as the rest of us. Like, I know I'm an idiot but I didn't realise all these other guys were too.

It's important to learn about consequences. For example, my wife's 42 year old husband recently played "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys and now his 3 and 5 year old daughters are running around mimicking the opening vocal and screaming "Yahhhh"

I wish people would stop describing things that are indisputably provable as a matter of fact as "controversial." People not liking a fact doesn't mean the fact is controversial. Reality is not malleable around our beliefs and it shouldn't be. We need to stop acting like it is.

That graph is wrong. 2009 for example, is a Republican budget.

As someone from Bermuda, we don't want him.

If you want to know how tariffs are going - today I priced some items that are more expensive in their US first cost than they used to be landed in Bermuda (26.25% tariff+shipping).

Bermuda is heading to a very real housing crisis where we'll have people with good jobs literally homeless because there is nowhere available at any price.

This is 100% a product of current government policy.

Bermuda is unbeatable.

My low-key AI hot take: Learning how to prompt LLMs will make people better communicators with other humans and staff members.

So true.

It's all so... tiresome. On every actual individual position consistently poll to the left of their actual voting intention and perceived political alignment.

There is no magical centre for the Third Way because the moderate right is the Democratic mainstream.

Why should I change? He's the one that sucks.

The City of Hamilton here in Bermuda should be FULL of these.

Successfully using AI to pull info to spreadsheets to make them useful.

It's like using the smartest, best informed new grad in the universe but they're also completely clueless and need hand-holding and you have to have to double and triple check every answer.

She was right once (Kinda). I've been aware of Hasset for ~25 years and he has been consistently wrong at every major turning point in that time.

Narratives are strong.

Even in my day I had to explain to British/Swiss investment managers that Republicans were objectively worse for stocks/the US economy and show them the data.

The people most excited about crypto were people who don't understand banking and finance.

The people most excited about AI are people who understand computing and business.

I don't quite "get" AI yet.

A lot of things in life make more sense when you see "retired" pro Ironman triathletes athletes cranking out 25 hour training weeks for fun.

If I ever write a book I'm doing the editing on a PowerBook 1400c to avoid distractions.

Doing the Lord's work.

The Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 is absolutely fantastic. Really the best laptop I've ever used.