T. Dylan Daniel

That’s why it’s a trap, even if everyone is always telling you how smart you are, to believe them. Much less to build a social edifice on it into the heart of your empire. Doesn’t take a genius to figure that out. Real thinkers communicate honestly and clearly.

The refrain went: “Feeling brilliant is akin to feeling insane/ because it invariably involves the realization/that no matter what you’ve got to say/nobody can understand what you’re saying”

Elon and the Genius Trap Radio Atlantic · Episode

I wrote a little song about this, maybe 20 years ago. It was a silly song and I was the only one who liked it.

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* THIS * IS * FASCISM *

They are threatening to replace our democratically elected leaders that WE ELECTED. And when Sen. Padilla tried to ask a question at the end of this vid, he was forcibly removed agressively by security.

"They didn't realize they were tackling a Senator for asking questions, they thought they were tackling a journalist for asking questions"

oh, ok then

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The White House Just Casually Floated a Move That Would Be Traitorous to the Very Idea of America — Esquire Despite what Trump advisor Stephen Miller may believe, habeas corpus is a core legal right—not a revocable privilege.

The White House Just Casually Floated a Move That Would Be Traitorous to the Very Idea of America - Esquire

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Crypto's Crossroads for Democrats The Breakdown · Episode

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Progressives should care that the global population is set to fall — Vox At the dawn of the Covid pandemic, I wrote a newsletter about the approaching virus that highlighted what I saw as the biggest risk: that the question of whether to take Covid seriously would become a...

Pronatalism is inconsistent with government corruption and wealth concentration in the hands of the 1% tho

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Hey, kids, it’s not enough that you’ve contracted a terrible illness that can’t be cured - you have to meet the worst person alive, too.

This tbh. I promise I will eventually write up a blog about how I do what I do, too

A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.

We’re cooked

Caught this gem earlier, meet my adopted doggo, Picasso! He is a Catahoula.

Do not obey in advance to a wildly unpopular one term president who is currently fighting wars on multiple fronts for seemingly no reason

Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes — WIRED Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.

Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes - WIRED

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I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened — Tom's Guide By combining the Khadas Mind mini PC, the Xreal One AR glasses and a massive power bank I can now work from anywhere privately with ease.

I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened - Tom's Guide

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Opinion | Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature — Guardian US Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Opinion | Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature - The Guardian

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Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

"How do you feel as we fall behind in global scientific progress? As economic uncertainty grows? As the health of your families and communities is put at risk? As patients are cut off from clinical trials? I know I feel outrage..."

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The Trump regime is working to deter dissent.

Anyone who goes against Trump could end up on a target list.

This is having a chilling effect on five major pillars of society — universities, science, the media, the law, and the arts.

It's straight out of the fascist playbook.

Researchers concerned to find AI models misrepresenting their “reasoning” processes New Anthropic research shows AI models often fail to disclose reasoning shortcuts.

Misleading anthropomorphic and alarmist framing.

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Great read

Former Substack creators say they’re earning more on new platforms that offer larger shares of subscription revenue Former Substack writers who exited the platform in early 2024 are making more money on Beehiiv and Ghost thanks to their fixed pricing models.

Yep. I saved hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month just from switching from Substack to self-hosted Ghost.

I pay a roughly flat $85/month now (~$75 for mailsending, $10 for hosting), vs. 10% of all my subscription income.

It’s chaos for everyone outside the little corruption bubble.

Why? I would rather not.

There Is Only One Way to Make Sense of the Tariffs — The Atlantic The policy is absurd. It’s also an extension of Trump’s chaotic personality.

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Huge crowd at Santa Fe capitol building

Yeah EoE is a life-changing read. It elevates our perspective to think about family at such scale