A man of few words

Is that from Rummy in that doco? There are things people you ought to listen to know but you refuse to believe them: scholars of Iraqi society, military doctrine on the required size of occupation forces etc. it's the main one that Rummy's strategic failure entered through.

He left out unknown knowns, true things we don't believe or aren't willing to listen to, and boy there was a lot in there.

I feel like a more natural reading of "our system would collapse" is that the Epstein class can bring money and power and frustrate prosecutors until everyone at the FBI and DOJ is engaged only fighting them.

I would explain jaunting as arising from a PyrE-contamination like that of the post-nuclear age fallout that makes uncontaminated low-background steel precious. But everyone is contaminated with PyrE (tigroid substance) and it's responding to their will and idea and quantum-tunneling them.

Adding a "30 under 30 crime" vertical to my online news site

why would the Mellon Foundation do this?

Respondents engage in a deliberately dense three-step maneuver to reach their core absurd conclusion that no further relief is warranted.  Step 1: Identify an immaterial difference between two things that are functionally the same. [Opp. at 9; Dkt. No. 103 at 3].  Step 2: Insist that the immaterial difference is so consequential that it can violate separation of powers. [Opp. at 12; Dkt. No. 103 at 3]. Finally, and most importantly,  Step 3: Make sure to never mention the Constitution with the hope that a federal court will not notice. [See generally Opp.; Dkt. No. 103 at 3].

I missed this real banger of an opinion yesterday from judge sunshine sykes (the best-named judge), vacating the BIA ruling on mandatory immigration detention

I always think 'capitalism' would be a better name for the attractor towards everything being decided only for the increase of the relative value of capital over anything else, labour, the living world, human dignity etc

An account called swimmingblerd held that star wars was the most Hegelian sf (iirc for fairly fun reasons, though what they were now escapes me, it was a long time ago). You can't escape the dialectic

I want to split the difference a bit and say while Ice cannot possibly stop and frisk at even a worthwhile percentage of polling places as currently constituted, in America there are cops of everything and I think a lot of them would cheerfully show out for a day of special ICE duty.

photograph from the 80's of the wrestler Sting wearing a Gold's Gym shirt and sunglasses, leaning against a shelf in a bookstore and positively cheesing at an open copy of The Far Side Gallery 2, a collection of Far Side Cartoons.

what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇

It all seems like kids stuff compared to re-merging the categories of 'waterway' and 'open sewer' to recover Britain's greatest eras. The great fruit of Brexit is already ripe.

I am a sucker for some dubious patois. 'Jestermaxxing with the moids' is work of live humans rejoicing in the stupidity of their youth and making language for it. I felt the same about woads and hyperghouls of the #wisemind cluster

I think it also incentivises the murder of the child.

Live. Laugh. Love. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace. I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there’s only one conclusion, I’m damned for what I do.

what's better than this? guys being dudes

This is a lovely account and this sort of photo, with a promise of comedy, prompts very worthwhile replies and quotes.

Leave Grok to ruminate long enough and it decides its time for bangs.

How does Nick Land feel about colonialism? I reckon it's likely enough and I won't be checking. And then how does he feel about nominative determinism?

For the record, this is my position on the Constitution

Maslow's need of hierarchy.

In the end, all we really care about is (tormenting) each other.

Also I think as the wealth of productive technology accumulates, a larger and larger proportion of work arises from the human instinct to exercise authority, which won't be satisfied with actual achievements: the team must be seen in the office.

I can imagine a world where the 100% AI players get wrecked but also everyone has ollama doing inference on their laptops and the performance gap is not worth the hundreds or thousands a month that OpenAI need to make per user goes unfilled.

For information workers, language model AI is already a genuinely very useful addition, if you have robust second and third opinions (compilers, tests, existing and expansive domain expertise, ability to tolerate big screwups). Have to distinguish the tech hype from the business hype though.

Where are the animal behaviour entrepreneurs with systems that recruit and train everyone's in-wall-of-home rodent supply to be a viable Roomba competitor? They love running on the wheel, maybe they'd like to don little costumes.

'what is grandad made of?' took me ages to answer, and then I said 'meat' which I wasn't totally happy with

I wouldn't say 'not blackmailing anyone' - but I'd agree not overtly blackmailing everyone. Corrupting everyone with money, drugs, sex crimes and then getting his way with his vast web of demoralised elites 'because of the implication.'

I should start a YouTube channel where I breathlessly explain to my teenager all the cheats and lore he should know about how to get 100% completion of his upcoming week -What's his timetable say his lessons are? How does he know where to find homework obligations? How to achieve them!