kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
…admittedly…more…funny-peculiar than funny-ha-ha…but then they are pretty peculiar…given that if you go back to *its* roots…that would be “belonging exclusively to one person“…sort of the way they think everything should so long as that person is their sort of person…not some “other” person…I’d start calling the orange dipshit “old peculiar”…but…people probably wouldn’t get it
Yeah no shit, and the next time a border reporter with experience in counterdisinfo emerges from the borderlands to offer dire warnings of a power grab, you listen to her and spare us all this fucking misery.
As ICE and Border Patrol grow more integrated, aggressive practices shaped by decades of border enforcement are showing up in US cities.
…sure…to various extents…or…in places overseas…if you accept that it is straightforwardly the sort of suppression through occupation & violent assault that you get to call “peacekeeping” if you do it far enough away…except…not really…because even most of those actually wanted not to provoke violence…& this is pretty clearly designed to excuse violent escalation…but…escalation comes in many guises
Bad Bunny isn’t an immigrant.
This shit is cooked through. 150 years of being a newspaper and now you’re a 4chan comment thread.
The Super Bowl halftime show, with Bad Bunny showcasing Latin music before a global television audience expected to top 100 million, will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star delivers an explicit political message.
If Bezos truly fired him for this, then I really don’t understand what his plan is for the paper. I couldn’t imagine him caring what Lewis did one way or another, especially if there’s some overarching goal to be accomplished here.
…I dunno y’all…sometimes…it’s like the point of the next guy up…is to make it look like you don’t want to get rid of the guy that means that isn’t the guy…look at JD…or
…if I had so much money that I though maybe I’d take up spaceflight as a fun hobby…& I wanted people to think that when I bought a newspaper it had something to do with understanding the value of my asset…probably I would…hire accordingly…which…I think jeff did…so…I kinda have to assume that all this is genuinely reflective of what he considers to be the value…to him…of his asset…as he maximises that…so…the part where that bears no resemblance to the value of a pillar of the fourth estate to the people who call that a free press in the land of the free…is…exactly no different to what they did to…I dunno…newsweek, was it?
…enough people will accord your brand the prestige it had when it earned that & mistake what you now produce for being the same product even when you’ve overhauled the business to be in an altogether different line of an altogether different product…hmm…I don’t think I mean newsweek…although…haven’t used fact-checkers since ’96 isn’t great…their post-WaPo existence took them in & out of being joined at the hip to the daily beast in a few of its iterations & just because the last corporate restructuring only shape-shifted out of the part where one part of its leadership was looking to be going down on significant fraud maybe should just make IBT media look clever for making it make them money again…maybe I was thinking of politico & axel springer…maybe I was thinking of…ah…what’s the point…right…because…oh, what’s the point…is the point…isn’t it…sort of?
I’m washed I actually don’t know what most of this meansand you know what, I’m okay with that
…I regret to inform you…it might be a bit like the bit about the post, though…just out of the frame that only has names & gibberish that are broadly as meaningless to you as they’re meant to be…are names attached to punchable faces you know better than you’d like…like nick fuentes
if this post made you yearn for the sweet release of death, i have a podcast for you youtu.be/E0juSVoIVuE?…
…there are…in earnest…people busting their asses to prove cryptographic principles that require mathematics so advanced they make the stuff you need to do rocket science look like instructions for lego…in order to retain the sorts of “secure” that also mean “can check for & eliminate errors or corruption to ensure fidelity of signal”…that underpin the overwhelming majority of modern digital telecommunications…in senses that stretch wider & deeper than we generally think of that stuff…but also…probably somewhere close to all the stuff you can do on a phone that you couldn’t do with that on airplane mode from inside a big ol’ faraday cage…maybe…depending who you ask…all the things you can do then or otherwise that require it to switch on & boot up…by making the maths show that having a quantum processor instead of a GPU won’t be enough to haul your NP-complete back into a tractable fraction of polynomial time…&…for the factors & such & stuff like RSA to various senses & extents probably you can just use longer hashes & push that back out into the impractically long-term enough to say it keeps working…but…cost effective quantum processing packaged into hardware with enough qbits to be dangerous…probably does change everything in the sort of pervasive step-change transformative ways that the stuff they needed to misname AI to pull off the numbers game they’ve been playing with something that isn’t that…gets to by claiming to be its placeholder…we haven’t developed more than a few algorithms for that approach…shor’s & grover’s have been talked about a lot because those are relevant to the RSA hash thing & it’s useful to be able to say stuff like “shor’s represents an exponential boost where grover’s is merely of the quadratic variety” & sound impressive to people to whom that says more than “the thing it would take impossibly long to do would only really take less-impossibly long with one approach but might be possibly-long with the other so who knows if maybe you couldn’t use both & be down to just the sort of “long” that regular compute makes into “well…not long…just not instant”…but…the whole point of all of that is the need to have a “verify” that can provide a foundation where trust can exist…even if it’s just between a server & a sequence of routers & a browser session on a phone at the other end…&…the number of things taking things on trust required to make the person on the phone trust that the page they pulled up is the one they asked for that looks like that whoever pulls it up…give or take some CSS stuff…is…truly…dizzying to contemplate
"Pax Silica builds on a hierarchical model where Washington defines the rules…Some actors are brought in as ‘capability nodes’, while others – notably the EU and Taiwan – are treated more as markets rather than full strategic co-architects." www.iiss.org/online-analy…
…so…when you think about how uncomplicated it is to get the sort of fuckwit who thinks it’d be neat to be internet famous as “clavicular” if it means getting to hang out with big, impressive serially-fucking-awful-tiny-minded-hard-of-thinking simps like fuentes…to be the sort of…people make the wrong assumptions if you say asset for this part…but…tool…tool works…also in the way that the ass part does the other way…because these people are very much those sorts of tools…& generally pretty blunt instruments at that…though the people who pride themselves on the C&C routines they can puppet them with think their work is surgical…according to their view of all of that…still…compared to how complicated it is to contemplate how you might be able to build a comms network you could keep the bullshit out of while scaling it up to fulfill the brief of being a backbone element of civic infrastructure…the way you develop civil engineering scale plumbing or you don’t get cities without plagues
A brief, recent history of the Washington Post:1- Trump wins in 2024.2- Bezos and minions make series of Trump-friendly changes to paper.3-Readership tanks.4- Bezos and minions fire tons of employees while telling them the audience just doesn't like what they're doing.
…on the other hand…you can find the odd physicist…who might not even be the odd ones out…who…don’t think you can go there…kind of not unlike how I don’t think LLMs can go there if there is intelligence
The Washpost's editor said today that, amid the layoffs, one of the Post's top priorities will be "national security, in DC and abroad."And at the same time, the Post is laying off every journalist in the Middle East. And Ukraine.
…not that you flat couldn’t in a can’t be done no way no how way…just in an if you get there you won’t be on your ship of theseus no more…you can play the swap out as you go game all you like but if you start with a fucking trireme & the craft that does the thing you always said your boat did is a nuclear fucking submarine…theseus didn’t have shit to do with it…&…this all probably seems like a stupendously pointless digression
…fun fact, though…apparently when it comes to the sort of thing that technically repeats but seems like a random-ad-infinitum string because running through the sequence to find the point where the repeat happens won’t happen this side of the heat death of the universe so even entropy is late to that party…but…if you’re the sort to fuck with fourier transforms for fun & you can get you some qbits in your mix…there’s ways to peg that without needing to run it out that way…&…who knows…maybe someone makes that happen before I cease to be a going concern…maybe not…but…if they do…maybe we’ll be able to take that in stride by the time it happens…more likely…you’d need a bunch of different terms to talk about it usefully though because the market forces will have done a full AI routine on the whole concept at a point when it looks most plausible to those who least understand it & allows for new things to do things we’ve said in all the old ways you shouldn’t so you can’t without consequences we haven’t got around to attaching to this new thing because nobody that does that part understands its parts…so it need only innovate slightly faster than they can legislate to be effectively un-regulated
What did people think was going to happen? I draw your attention again to this excellent reporting by @drewharwell.com in which I was interviewed on the change in ownership of TikTok as a power grab bsky.app/profile/wash…
…it’s no fun being right about shit you wanted to be as wrong about as the people who told you were turned out to be
i started researching Russian disinfo networks in 2014 and writing about them in 2015 and the sheer amount of smug online assholes who dismissed every piece of reporting as CIA propaganda or whatever will never not piss me off
…but…like…how do we all move somewhere these dipshits can’t go in the physical realm the way we already live in an intellectual & moral reality they can’t perceive?
Cool that people are covering this again. Would be cooler if they’d bothered to read any of the existing work on it (i.e., you know, mine) before getting basic stuff wrong.
…I once heard a story…that I even believed to be true…about a guy who was put in prison for a long time…much of it in solitary…who was such a chess fiend that what he did was while away his time playing himself in his head…& I used to think about what that meant when I wanted to remember how very far from that smart I was
Fondly remembering the months of weirdness/unhinged comments we got from Pritzker fiends on this app and others for simply (and accurately!) covering state police attacks on protesters outside Broadview. Godspeed to everyone in Minnesota facing the same from the Walz fan club
…because…even if I were hypothetically so smart I could hold in my head a game-state for a chess board & track the moves over time in a sequence…at best I could run through some patterns you’d find laid out in books about famous strategies or landmark matches…& at some level I wouldn’t be able to not see one player as me & the other as my opponent & want me to win…so probably I would…because I’d be both…but that isn’t what he was doing…he was…to whatever extent it is a thing a person can or could do…which was enough for it to subjectively seem like what he was doing…to him…& the whole thing only took place in his head…so…that’s pretty much a working definition for it working the way it worked for him…was taking each game-state like a fresh problem the way you…do…used to…whichever…get them printed in papers as a puzzle…& then considering it…& choosing a move…& then repeating that…so that he actually was playing both sides in a way that was meaningful enough to be cognitively fulfilling…the way someone else might…write a book…or poetry…or…if that someone was tolkein…invent a whole-ass language you have to write books about just to contextualize the complexities of the exercise…some people are just…built different
Dort is arguing with a priest over the symbology of the Olympic Games’ opening ceremony. Can’t makes this shit up
…see…if you’ll pardon the pun & the dad joke level reference…whatever your quantum of solace…in the end…most matters that matter are a matter of trust
I think about this a lot. How does the military come back from this kind of norm erosion? Increasingly you see officers empowered to shout partisan screeds from the heart of the digital town square. Tomorrow always comes, but how do we repair the professional norm and win back trust?
…but some goals & enterprises rely on the ability to falsify or manipulate signifiers of trust in order to masquerade as trustworthy for the purpose of gaining an advantage over a thing that is by not being one of those but getting to be treated like one…again…the number of different things you can map that onto is the sort of infinite scroll of a list that forms the sort of rabbit hole we signpost “that way madness lies”
Nuke them from orbit. Liberal officers don’t do this, it’s a one sided problem.
You can be quietly political outside of uniform. If you choose to be overtly and repeatedly political in uniform we can introduce you to the DD214.
Like we discharge people for failing to meet PT scores….
And sure, PT tests are more black and white.
But we can say it’s command discretion on sending someone for a JAG review on if what they did was overly political.
3 strikes you’re out or something.
Then, inevitably, when some good people get discharged because “supporting the Constitution” is apparently political, maybe Congress will do its job lol
A key dilemma with the most vocal instance of this phenomenon is that he is working directly for political appointees such that it appears that uniformed GO's are incapable of wielding the UCMJ to these ends.If that protection disappears, I imagine it will be a weapons free environment. But-
In the meantime, we still have the institutional damage from the fact that no senior officer is holding a subordinate officer accountable. This manifests from partisan political protection, but remains revealing of the willingness of GOs to risk their own prospects to hold a FGO accountable.
This tension is not novel – we've seen it before. As one example, significant ethical battles were fought in the 'unification debates' following WW2. The Truman Admin was very adamant in its views and aimed to stifle dissenting opinions from its military officers on the matter.
Some held their tongues, others did not. Some FOGOs spoke out survived with the vocal support of Congress, others were relieved for cause despite the support of Congress.But this showed a willingness to engage with ethical and career risk to protect the institution and what it did for the nation.
this isn't a novel point, but when he fired CQ for his skin color/Francetti for having a vagina and not a single GOFO said anything/quit, that die was cast
And so the rest of the force will live with that experience, and its culture will likely be adversely impacted as a result – when the ethical fire was hot, no one dared approach it.
I do wonder to what extent the Chiefs in particular were already viewed by most as de facto political appointees. Like, whether or not you think Biden picked those two specifically because of their demographics, "the President is entitled to the advisors of his choice" and all that
The ultimate checks against military malfeasance are Congress and the American electorate. Otherwise you fall into a sort of Deep State situation like Turkey, Egypt or Pakistan. Not a desirable alternative. Germany might be the only other viable model
I think part of the corrosion is that we have a unique situation where malfeasance in the executive or senior chain of command is not meaningfully counterbalanced by Congress. The majority party in Congress has consciously made itself subservient and acquiescent to the executive so grossly that
There is truly no top cover for those in uniform who would push back against some of this. This doesn’t excuse failures to rein in unethical behavior but it makes it much harder knowing the ‘normal’ legislative counterweight has become a voluntary eunuch, and that leaves you utterly alone.
I'm not surprised at this evolution in failure of accountability. Acts of contempt and violations of good order & discipline are not just norm violating, they violate the UCMJ. That being said, we've seen for years that accountability for things like this are often only applied to junior most<
>subordinates whereas many leaders actually couldn't summon the ability to frankly end careers of senior NCOs and officers. Rather, they just had soft fitness reports and where allowed to linger. Drilling the very junior with discipline is just unquestioned but summoning the resolve & meticulous<
>record keeping details to end the livelihood of a more senior person and send them looking for employment elsewhere is demured more often than we care to admit. This inconsistency in saying one thing about holding people to account, going Terry Toughtalk about moral courage, and then bowing out>
<on the hard task of telling someone they aren't fit for a career in uniform is something I saw more than I cared to. It gave the mediocre and the partisan a greater courage to keep in uniform and the more feckless of both the courage to exercise the breeches of the UCMJ we see now but try to<
>pervert it into an issue around norms, patriotism, "warrior ethos", lethality and all that bollocks because all their careers they found the crack to exploit in a leader: someone who wouldn't hold them to account because they lacked courage to do right too.
…but…when he was should-be-asleep-o’clock scrolling rather than sleeping in a meeting an actual president would have needed to be awake in &/or wouldn’t have been having because the people there to waste time blowing smoke up his ass & flattering him into the belief that when he says & does this stuff he isn’t everything he manifestly is…as the case may be…would have had real jobs to be doing instead of convenient job descriptions that afford them vital cover & protection without which none of this works & the ones who it would have seen in jail would still be there along with the ones that got them out so they could get them back into the rooms (&/or chats) where that happens…& he found…or was served up by someone or some thing…the super-racist slop…& put his seal of approval to it & flung it forth like the shitpost it was…& then they blamed a mystery un-produceable intern with the immaculate quantum state of being able to put a thing in the world as though it came from the sitting president of a nuclear power…while also being so unthinkably junior in status that any act of theirs ought to be overlooked as completely as their co-workers overlook them…which…given they don’t appear to have ever existed…is presumably pretty thoroughly…until after getting that line laid out in enough places to start to braid it into something that could resemble old rope…he goes & says on camera he did it & it wasn’t a mistake…&…if what you’re doing actually does make that not a mistake…the way not selling any or all of the parts of the post the guy who could double its budget & probably pad his net worth in the process…could have…or just could have got paid to let other people do…if he had the inclination…because he had the offers…from people who had the means…to instead transcode the meaning of the washington post in the way he just has…isn’t a mistake to the jeff that isn’t dead yet…& shuttering USAID isn’t a mistake…it’s the best idea since brexit, in fact…& RFK jr is the perfect guy for the job that like loads of these jobs isn’t tethered in the traditional sense to the job description that goes with the title that they don’t want to change because the job title comes with the functionality they need for the job they are actually in the business of…which is trying to get enough not-the-right-sort-of-people to die as soon & as preventably as possible for the inexorable diminishment of the-right-sort-of-people as a demographic share of the US population to flip & revert to a scenario in which it might actually prove to be a problem if you’ve enshrined the sort of minority rule the original design was explicitly designed to render impossible to implement…so somewhere there’s a timeline that is eventually a sort of historically funny that would seem fast-paced to a glacier, I guess…but…in this one…we can’t exactly expect people whose careers are about playing for position to not play their positions…so…I dunno…maybe…it might not be a wasted exercise to extrapolate from their plays what they perceive those positions to be
Fondly remembering the months of weirdness/unhinged comments we got from Pritzker fiends on this app and others for simply (and accurately!) covering state police attacks on protesters outside Broadview. Godspeed to everyone in Minnesota facing the same from the Walz fan club
…should there be police acting on behalf of a state that’s a sub-state of a federal state that is waging a war of occupation that contravenes its own constitution so egregiously as to make it laughable to refer to it as a duly constituted authority of any sort & not an illegal paramilitary force that has bolted on impersonation-of-federal-authorities to its charge-sheet on the understanding that the people squatting where those ought to be will ensure that the rules are enforced in a sufficiently partisan fashion as to sufficiently invert them to the point of killing &/or kidnapping & incarcerating for profit innocent citizens of good standing getting you rewarded rather than punished because you can say you are the people who the punishment doling out would need to be for that to happen…probably…ideally that wouldn’t be a thing that could turn into anything that appeared to be doing the work of the wrong set of people on the ground…but…for practical purposes…the way this all really works says that “ideally wouldn’t” is more like an “inevitably will”…so…if you can turn on a dime & get from that happening to saying “I’d never vote for pritzker”…or walz…assuming you had another opportunity…the way people keep trying to make clear they feel about gavin lest anyone really think that’s the ’28 way in the truth & the light…it’s pretty clear there’s more going on in…anything & everything…than you’re capable of perceiving & it would be most helpful to everything & everyone & maybe yourself most of all if you shut the fuck up & duct-taped over the switch so you stay on receive until otherwise notified?
Tulsi “knows” it. She just may lack records “proving” it. – Roger Stone 🙄 (Quite the back pedal.) PS. We have long known that voting machines “can” be manipulated. It’s why Ds tried to pass the SAFE Act election security bill before the 2020 election. The only question is why Rs blocked it. 1/
…if one “little lady” from the bucks county beacon can compile so many receipts her name reads like a byword more than a byline?
2/ “Trump And The GOP Blocked Election Security Bills, But ‘Stop The Steal’ Made Everyone Forget” – by Jennifer Cohn, 10/6/23 for @buckscountybeacon.com
5/ Here is part 1 of my seven-part Roger Stone series for @buckscountybeacon.com. Part 7 is linked in post 4, above. buckscountybeacon.com/2023/01/roge…
…look…when I say it’s worse than it looks…what I mean is I looked…&…it’s the sort of bad where all your reference points are ones you only get to feel good about when couched in explicitly fictional contexts…so…frankly…I actively want to be wrong in ways I can not adequately demonstrate to myself I am about significant elements & aspects of any reality that fits the known outline of the unknown elements of this it has apparently proven so vital to keep that way while literally back on the roger stone bullshit bandwagon…& that is late-stage le carré kinds of off the charts inconceivably bad…only…worse…because dearly departed john didn’t stretch his horrors across the visible parts of the social fabric…his was a nobler time…when there were still jedis, I suppose you might say
The Trump administration keeps threatening to sic ICE on the Super Bowl. Local officials say it could throw a wrench in months of security planning.
Bezos has rejected multiple offers to buy the paper, and his CEO ignored an offer to spin off the sports and local news sections.The Epstein files provided more support for something we’ve known for quite a while:Rightwing billionaires understand that control of media outlets gives them power.
“Within two hours of subscribing to NatSocToday for the purposes of this investigation, the Substack algorithm directed the Guardian’s account to 21 other profiles featuring similar content.”substack continues to be a cesspool that should be abandoned just like x
Hilarious that this seems to be the only punishment from this tranche of Epstein files so far. Peter Attia is still employed by Bari Weiss at CBS News as far as I can tell. Pathetic.
[imagine there’s an embed here with a custom pick up driving down a street with no snow on it with a palm tree in the background & a mexican flag flying from the rear of the cab most of the length of the bed – with a caption about people doing it in minneapolis & dubbing it “ICE fishing”]
…if you clicked through that would be the deleted thing…only…deleting seems to be rare with this guy
It gets worse. It actually is Scott Horton.
Update: I contacted the email address for Robert Scott Horton listed on New York’s Attorney Online Services, and he confirmed that he runs this account. So it’s not impersonation, just misinformation and AI slop.
…now…people could be using a similar routine to try to get ICE to spin its literal wheels going after them so it can’t get traction with the mileage it’s trying to make…but…this…would incidentally be that…in the context of all the other stuff it’s composed of & in context of?
Is anyone keeping track of how many times Scott Horton posts things that are complete bullshit, and then keeps them up after they get denounced because they're doing the numbers?This is the 3rd time I've seen it in the last ~month, and I've only seen Horton reposted at most twice that many times.
Here’s an email I got from Scott Horton when I contacted him last month to confirm that he runs this account. There’s something very wrong with this guy, and yet I see him posting misinformation and ripping off actual journalists in my feed every day, because Bluesky runs on this shit.
…don’t fuck with my man the foxtrot guy…seriously…I don’t want to lay down my life in the sense that I “have a life” to go all inigo montoya about shit…& I am too old to be taking up playing with swords…probably…unless maybe @luigi-vuoto has a hook up for hook-sword class for the nearer-retirement than recess crowd…or I figure out the wire-work to go bullet timing about the place jumping off the sword in my hand or the clouds the way mere mortals treat branches & boulders…&…probably then I’d be having so much fun I’d forget I had to come back & kick scott’s ass…but…like…how about let’s all of us not have to find out?
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i did catch over the weekend that the pentagon will no longer be taking officers from harvard….im sure by design to create a more loyal officer corps..but uhh…arent harvard and yale responsible for a good chunk of the higher echelons of said officer corps?
you know…the kind of positions where highly educated might be more useful than loyalty?
seems like the kind of thing what will bite you in the ass when push comes shove is all im saying…
…they already went for the libraries at the military colleges…to make sure those only have stuff whiskey-dick pete wouldn’t call down the willie-pete on to fahrenheit 451 the shit out of on account of what it says about people like him not being fit for enlistment much less command
…they…think making the CIA World Factbook *go away* is a fucking power move, FF-actual-S
…at no point does it seem like you’ve reached a real understanding of the depths of stupidity wedded to inhuman levels of cognitively dissonant tests of the wilful component of the requisite pervasion of the perversions of ignorance into what you purport to profess to be reality…even if you think that was a thing they did the same way they stripped walls of plaques commemorating historical achievements in civil rights or sins like slavery because they think if they take the words away pretty soon they can tell that their way & brand it the only history that isn’t faked up to make them look like the bad guys
…they’re…both counting on there being enough people that dumb…or enough people who’ll credit the balance of probabilities supporting that there probably are a workable number of people that dumb…&…near as anyone seems to be able to demonstrate even if they won’t say it…they are at least that dumb themselves…for the revisionist history thing to fly long enough for their crash & burn swan dive routine to go the distance
…but…shit…you wanna do that…& your bet is to nudge people to ask grok enough for your version to disseminate…&…you could have incrementally poisoned the well at the level of the World Factbook…almost the full six-clicks of separation you need to have vanishingly few people follow all the way to the source from whichever surface they vectored themselves into on the internet
…makes me think about another guy who thought being in the business of being paid to provide the pretext for a war fought under false auspices was a fine & lucrative line of work
…it’s dangerous to get high enough on your own supply to think you only spend time in rooms where you’re the smartest one in them…but…the hubris of still thinking that way when you sometimes go…out of doors…is…I mean…oof
…so…yeah…no factbook now…on account of they’re too smart to have that still be a thing…because facts are their enemy…&…they’re real warfighters…who are better at the hybrid warfare & all that than…uhhh…the popular memes suggest?
Mostly the post graduate degrees on irrelevant shit like “management systems” or “Masturds of Bidniz Administration.” The more relevant degrees would be in history or technical ones. BTW Kegsbreath is a Yale and Hahvahd DUI/RW DEI grad.
Not many Ivy League undergrads end up in the military if ever.
Oh!!! I can translate that gen alpha letter vomit.
It’s incel whining.
spiked his cortisol – stressed him out
foid – incel shorthand for their prior insult to women, femoid
moid – insult for a man for not being the right kind of incel man and being interested in women actually
munting – their stupid word for doing things to look better than other people
mogging – looking hotter than other people, can also mean like to one-up someone (like you show up and are way better looking then them and stole all the attention from them)
SMV – sexual market value
chadfishing – stupid incel men making fake dating site profiles with attractive man pictures to trick women, like catfishing but somehow gendered (which is odd to me since I always thought catfishing could be men or women going after either gender??)
Clavicular is a proper noun here, probably referencing that dude.
So, using these textual analysis skills I learned in college and grad school.
Dude was fooling around having fun at the club when some women showed up and made him panic.
Is it better to preen and impress the other men at the club while ignoring women or to try to trick women online?
Anyways, the simple fact that the basic answer of “literally do anything to talk to women and not be a dick” would help incels be happier but they’d rather be angry, lonely douchebags tells us everything we need to know about the incels.
Correlated fact: In addition to never being wrong, they’re utterly convinced that they are supremely desirable to the opposite sex, and any evidence to the contrary is blamed on the aforementioned opposite sex, not them. “Mommy says any girl would be lucky to have me.”
…I am genuinely impressed in approximately similar degrees to appalled…I’d give you a round of applause, even…but…have you ever heard the one about the reward for a job well done being a tougher job?
Clocking into the Discourse Factory, sighing resignedly when I read my card and see that today I must politely discuss the nigger biomass problem with user DeltaForce1488. Another day as a neoliberal on X, the everything app.
…turns out you might be working on the frontlines & they just forgot to make the adjustments on your paycheck or job spec
…I can’t see that coming as news to you…but…here’s to all the people wearing all the un-seen hats they take off to one another while the ones who think the MAGA hats are braggable assets to an ass set to brag on something?
Yeah I followed that conversation too.
Leftist annoyed at a group of liberals missing the point on the problem of capitalism and fighting amongst themselves instead of working on the bigger picture – class consciousness and fucking over billionaires.
When I read the original, I just thought “that’s stupid” and moved on. Reading your translation now just makes me sad.
I hate to think about what dismal precincts you’ve had to surveil to learn those things.
s it better to preen and impress the other men at the club
Uh, I would think Nick Fuentes is at the wrong kind of club and I’m pretty sure the gay men would be rejecting them unless they’re at another kind of club. A self loathing one… like CPAC or TPUSA.
So what exactly would ICE be doing at the Superbowl?
Lowest ticket prices start at around $3500, undocumented/unauthorized immigrants aren’t going to the game.
Working at the stadium? Oh sure, like the event organizers aren’t checking staffing eligibility etc etc?
The one thing that ICE could theoretically be doing here is assisting with stopping sex trafficking since that always spikes around major sporting events. Except these assholes are more likely to be doing the sex trafficking than investigating it.
The same thing they’re “doing” at the Winter Olympics: Watching the event(s). I’m sure somebody used this as a shakedown to get the Super Bowl committee to provide X number of tickets for “ICE agents,” all of whom will be upper management like ICE Barbie who will sit in the stands and enjoy the free perks of being “on duty” at the Super Bowl.
I forgot to disclose that I actually did marketing for whatever Super Bowl was in Atlanta years ago. People go after any vendor even tangentially associated with the game trying to get free tickets. It’s like chum in a shark tank. The Super Bowl people are well aware of this, and there are zillions of restrictions on free seats and God help you if you get one and try to scalp it. That’s how I know it’s a typical Trump administration shakedown. “Nice event you’ve got here — I think we’re going to flood it with 10,000 ICE agents unless I get hosted in a private box.”
MAGA doesn’t really grasp how songs work. They’ll fixate on a chorus and never bother to try to figure out from all the lyrics if the song is actually about what they assume it’s about (See “Born in the USA” by Bruce Springsteen).
Also irony and sarcasm are concepts that their dim brains only vaguely comprehend. That makes parsing meaning from lyrics a painful exercise, so they simply don’t do it. LA LA LA LA BORN IN THE USA LA LA LA LA BORN IN THE USA
Also, not for nothing, but Bruce’s singing is completely unintelligible, especially in that song. He makes “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” sound crystal clear.
…much as I agree with all that…I suppose I have always rather supposed that in the case of bruce’s born in the USA the “I was…” in the line they imprint on is loadbearing?
…like…lola…she was a showgirl…but…*I* was born-in-the-USA in the sense that maybe they imagine you could tattoo like a kite mark…the imprinting mechanism can’t handle anything in the 2nd or 3rd person because empathy fucks with the dominant solipsism required for the song to mean what you want it to but it can’t if you listen to it…in a self-selecting sort of a way…that I genuinely believe wouldn’t work for those people that way nearly so well if that line was “we were…” or “if you’re…” or…in what might be their leading candidate for a worst case scenario “if they were…”…although…that would need someone like eminem to contort the line-reading or it’s not scanning in the spot traditionally provided
…just…not claiming that’s stuff operating in anything but a tiny handful of cases at any sort of conscious level…but…when they fire it up for another play through…even if the only line they belt out is “born in the USA” the “I was…” is registering as the cue to go again so you’re in time with the chorus & letting them feel like that’s them saying that the way they think has to be the way the song means it because otherwise the I isn’t them…the way it explicitly isn’t if you did ever listen to the words even once…even part of the way through even just one of the verses…but extra if you listened to all of all of them?
…possibly as many as one of those might even be a relevant sport…I don’t know what the odds are but maybe someone will be kind enough to let me know if I somehow beat any?
Owner of NE is a Trump loving asshole that was not too long ago caught up in a prostitution sting at a massage parlor & his team was proven to have cheated to win a Super Bowl. The Seahawks owner is the trust of Paul Allen run by his sister Jody. She unfortunately has to sell the team as part of the trust & it looks like most likely purchaser will be Jeff Bezos. On the bright side, the trust money goes to scientific research, education and community based groups. Hopefully the value goes up after today! Go Hawks!
I’ve been convinced for a while that Epstein was murdered, so I find it utterly unsurprising. I think most people feel the same way I do (feel free to dispute that point), and as more of the files get released it becomes more clear how many people … I mean scumbags … had a lot to lose if he was around and talking. So I think it simply adds more corroboration to the probability he was murdered and people will just nod and say, yeah, I knew it.
…the detail I was unprepared to run into let alone run down a way to verify had it that…whatever killed him…the cause of death was strangulation/asphyxiation in the manner that would be hanging if it were a suicide…& maybe lynching if it wasn’t…which…if anyone deserved a lynching…but…that the “ligature” found with the dead body…looked to the person that matches those pairs on a professional basis…to not be a match
…now…in a book or a movie or other work of overt fiction…I’d know what that means…but…assuming it could be shown to be true in this real-world scenario…some part of that would similarly need to find itself under the heading of an overt work of fiction
…or it could just be someone getting the wrong end of the stick about part of something that might be important that wouldn’t importantly make much difference to anything other than make you doubt your sanity…which seems to be a thing they actively like to bake into their shit
…either way…it’s not exactly a stretch to say that there were ways he was less of a liability dead than alive to some people who very much wouldn’t be bothered about “going there”…so…it’s never going to be implausible that he got dead with help he might not have been asking for to do that?
…just to be sure folks know I didn’t just invent all that nonsense but instead it seems to be what some stuff says that was in all the stuff you probably don’t want to look at because you know some of it you don’t want to see
Have to admit that it's kind of a weird mistake to get the date wrong on the announcement of the death of a guy who supposedly killed himself with a different ligature than was found at the scene
…also…I don’t think this goes for anyone here…but…like…I might know more than one person this just made me think I might need to have a word with sooner than later?
according to a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram they have started to see children coming in sick because their parents are asking ChatGPT what the correct dosage is on over the counter medication instead of just looking at the instructions on the bottle
…man…if you grew up in the land of three pin mains with manual switches at the socket & replaceable fuses in the plug…just travelling made you convinced the rest of the world ought to have burned down long ago…so…like…parents would tell children stories about daisy-chained christmas lights the way they would little red riding hood or whatever they thought not being caught by might inspire a reluctant child to eat their vegetables or whatever
…until pretty recently I’d never been as freaked out as I was by the idea there are people who think it’s sometimes handy to have a male-to-male power lead to pug one socket into another…like…I can even…if I try real hard & I imagine fully separated circuits with only one being attached to the board where the power comes in…even if I can’t really imagine a sane reason to want to…I suppose you could in theory feed the secondary circuit like all that wiring took the place of an extension lead by doing something of the sort…but the sheer number of ways for that to go badly have surely to outweigh any possible advantage to not just having a sane electrician wire it up in a normal way
…but now…after those…what is it the kids say…new nightmare: unlocked
…there are way too many really fucking good reasons to not think of LLMs as search engines…but…at this point I think they ought to be basically illegal to use for anything that could or should have been a search
…they can’t even reliably tell you whether or not an actual search result is accurate or obviously bullshit…getting them to do the search & tell you the results is worse than not bothering to read past the summary at the top of the search…people think they’re in star trek & they’re saying “Computer – do the thing” & they could literally hurt themselves & others because it isn’t being made clear to them what parts of that *are* *not* *happening*…however much the parts that are happening might make them somehow incapable of perceiving the difference
…if the prompt had read “show me how to wire up a single plug such that I could plausibly burn down anything from a whole house to an entire block”…like a contemporary remix of some page from the anarchists’ cookbook about how to rewire a telephone junction box to make a particular person’s landline live enough to kill them when they reached for the ringing handset…which may or may not be a real entry in whatever was the “real” one of those…I can’t actually remember where I came across someone claiming that sort of thing was in there along with the entirely more plausible (on account of being a real thing people actually did) stuff about how to jiggle the switch that hangs up the call to send the right signals to the exchange to make your long-distance calls…or costly dial-up modem connection…free-as-in-beer…if you knew someone who could get their phreak on…so…the mathematics of registers & exchanges is another brand of alchemy & the apocryphal cookbook of anarchists…unless it was a whole other thing than anything I ever saw anything claiming to be so much as a part of…would appear to need a different word than anarchist…but…I keep saying not enough people read the man who was thursday…so I’m still stuck sounding like I’m being unreasonable harping on about that…at this rate I’ll wind up sounding like if I say for the love of anything you deem holy do not ever in your life allow anyone in your vicinity or even in your knowledge to wire up a plug like one of those images was your guide…that would be a good reason to trust the LLM over the raving oddball random from the internet…but…I really am sitting here wondering how more people aren’t dead already because they think they have a thing they can ask questions that gives them answers about things that you can be lethally wrong about?
…so…look…the telegraph…think of that like maybe the last generation of a fine old aristocratic family that’s on their uppers but trying to play off the threadbare bits as genteel
if you see someone posting "I CANT BELIEVE IT, HOLY SHIT" or "THIS IS UN-FUCKING REAL" later this afternoon know with confidence it's either someone watching "the big game" or more evidence of elite wrongdoing uncovered in the unending global pedophile trafficking scandal
i did catch over the weekend that the pentagon will no longer be taking officers from harvard….im sure by design to create a more loyal officer corps..but uhh…arent harvard and yale responsible for a good chunk of the higher echelons of said officer corps?
you know…the kind of positions where highly educated might be more useful than loyalty?
seems like the kind of thing what will bite you in the ass when push comes shove is all im saying…
…they already went for the libraries at the military colleges…to make sure those only have stuff whiskey-dick pete wouldn’t call down the willie-pete on to fahrenheit 451 the shit out of on account of what it says about people like him not being fit for enlistment much less command
…they…think making the CIA World Factbook *go away* is a fucking power move, FF-actual-S
…at no point does it seem like you’ve reached a real understanding of the depths of stupidity wedded to inhuman levels of cognitively dissonant tests of the wilful component of the requisite pervasion of the perversions of ignorance into what you purport to profess to be reality…even if you think that was a thing they did the same way they stripped walls of plaques commemorating historical achievements in civil rights or sins like slavery because they think if they take the words away pretty soon they can tell that their way & brand it the only history that isn’t faked up to make them look like the bad guys
…they’re…both counting on there being enough people that dumb…or enough people who’ll credit the balance of probabilities supporting that there probably are a workable number of people that dumb…&…near as anyone seems to be able to demonstrate even if they won’t say it…they are at least that dumb themselves…for the revisionist history thing to fly long enough for their crash & burn swan dive routine to go the distance
…but…shit…you wanna do that…& your bet is to nudge people to ask grok enough for your version to disseminate…&…you could have incrementally poisoned the well at the level of the World Factbook…almost the full six-clicks of separation you need to have vanishingly few people follow all the way to the source from whichever surface they vectored themselves into on the internet
…makes me think about another guy who thought being in the business of being paid to provide the pretext for a war fought under false auspices was a fine & lucrative line of work
…it’s dangerous to get high enough on your own supply to think you only spend time in rooms where you’re the smartest one in them…but…the hubris of still thinking that way when you sometimes go…out of doors…is…I mean…oof
…so…yeah…no factbook now…on account of they’re too smart to have that still be a thing…because facts are their enemy…&…they’re real warfighters…who are better at the hybrid warfare & all that than…uhhh…the popular memes suggest?
Mostly the post graduate degrees on irrelevant shit like “management systems” or “Masturds of Bidniz Administration.” The more relevant degrees would be in history or technical ones. BTW Kegsbreath is a Yale and Hahvahd DUI/RW DEI grad.
Not many Ivy League undergrads end up in the military if ever.
Oh!!! I can translate that gen alpha letter vomit.
It’s incel whining.
spiked his cortisol – stressed him out
foid – incel shorthand for their prior insult to women, femoid
moid – insult for a man for not being the right kind of incel man and being interested in women actually
munting – their stupid word for doing things to look better than other people
mogging – looking hotter than other people, can also mean like to one-up someone (like you show up and are way better looking then them and stole all the attention from them)
SMV – sexual market value
chadfishing – stupid incel men making fake dating site profiles with attractive man pictures to trick women, like catfishing but somehow gendered (which is odd to me since I always thought catfishing could be men or women going after either gender??)
Clavicular is a proper noun here, probably referencing that dude.
So, using these textual analysis skills I learned in college and grad school.
Dude was fooling around having fun at the club when some women showed up and made him panic.
Is it better to preen and impress the other men at the club while ignoring women or to try to trick women online?
Anyways, the simple fact that the basic answer of “literally do anything to talk to women and not be a dick” would help incels be happier but they’d rather be angry, lonely douchebags tells us everything we need to know about the incels.
Then they’d have to admit they’re wrong. Incels never do because that would destroy them.
It’s amazing how things change when you’re not creepy or weird around women… as not creepy or weird as I can get.
Correlated fact: In addition to never being wrong, they’re utterly convinced that they are supremely desirable to the opposite sex, and any evidence to the contrary is blamed on the aforementioned opposite sex, not them. “Mommy says any girl would be lucky to have me.”
You know what I discovered? Moms lie… a lot.
…I am genuinely impressed in approximately similar degrees to appalled…I’d give you a round of applause, even…but…have you ever heard the one about the reward for a job well done being a tougher job?
…turns out you might be working on the frontlines & they just forgot to make the adjustments on your paycheck or job spec
…I can’t see that coming as news to you…but…here’s to all the people wearing all the un-seen hats they take off to one another while the ones who think the MAGA hats are braggable assets to an ass set to brag on something?
Yeah I followed that conversation too.
Leftist annoyed at a group of liberals missing the point on the problem of capitalism and fighting amongst themselves instead of working on the bigger picture – class consciousness and fucking over billionaires.
When I read the original, I just thought “that’s stupid” and moved on. Reading your translation now just makes me sad.
I hate to think about what dismal precincts you’ve had to surveil to learn those things.
Uh, I would think Nick Fuentes is at the wrong kind of club and I’m pretty sure the gay men would be rejecting them unless they’re at another kind of club. A self loathing one… like CPAC or TPUSA.
Yeah but incels only care about the approval of other men.
It’s totally straight though. TOTALLY.
So what exactly would ICE be doing at the Superbowl?
Lowest ticket prices start at around $3500, undocumented/unauthorized immigrants aren’t going to the game.
Working at the stadium? Oh sure, like the event organizers aren’t checking staffing eligibility etc etc?
The one thing that ICE could theoretically be doing here is assisting with stopping sex trafficking since that always spikes around major sporting events. Except these assholes are more likely to be doing the sex trafficking than investigating it.
The same thing they’re “doing” at the Winter Olympics: Watching the event(s). I’m sure somebody used this as a shakedown to get the Super Bowl committee to provide X number of tickets for “ICE agents,” all of whom will be upper management like ICE Barbie who will sit in the stands and enjoy the free perks of being “on duty” at the Super Bowl.
I forgot to disclose that I actually did marketing for whatever Super Bowl was in Atlanta years ago. People go after any vendor even tangentially associated with the game trying to get free tickets. It’s like chum in a shark tank. The Super Bowl people are well aware of this, and there are zillions of restrictions on free seats and God help you if you get one and try to scalp it. That’s how I know it’s a typical Trump administration shakedown. “Nice event you’ve got here — I think we’re going to flood it with 10,000 ICE agents unless I get hosted in a private box.”
Another problem for Kid Rock… is he loves them underaged girls at least in his songs.
I don’t know why MAGAt think he’s some kind of virtuous shithead unless he reminds them of their 2nd or 4th ex husband
MAGA doesn’t really grasp how songs work. They’ll fixate on a chorus and never bother to try to figure out from all the lyrics if the song is actually about what they assume it’s about (See “Born in the USA” by Bruce Springsteen).
Also irony and sarcasm are concepts that their dim brains only vaguely comprehend. That makes parsing meaning from lyrics a painful exercise, so they simply don’t do it. LA LA LA LA BORN IN THE USA LA LA LA LA BORN IN THE USA
Also, not for nothing, but Bruce’s singing is completely unintelligible, especially in that song. He makes “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” sound crystal clear.
It is so “wrapped up like a Douche, another runner in the night”
…much as I agree with all that…I suppose I have always rather supposed that in the case of bruce’s born in the USA the “I was…” in the line they imprint on is loadbearing?
…like…lola…she was a showgirl…but…*I* was born-in-the-USA in the sense that maybe they imagine you could tattoo like a kite mark…the imprinting mechanism can’t handle anything in the 2nd or 3rd person because empathy fucks with the dominant solipsism required for the song to mean what you want it to but it can’t if you listen to it…in a self-selecting sort of a way…that I genuinely believe wouldn’t work for those people that way nearly so well if that line was “we were…” or “if you’re…” or…in what might be their leading candidate for a worst case scenario “if they were…”…although…that would need someone like eminem to contort the line-reading or it’s not scanning in the spot traditionally provided
…just…not claiming that’s stuff operating in anything but a tiny handful of cases at any sort of conscious level…but…when they fire it up for another play through…even if the only line they belt out is “born in the USA” the “I was…” is registering as the cue to go again so you’re in time with the chorus & letting them feel like that’s them saying that the way they think has to be the way the song means it because otherwise the I isn’t them…the way it explicitly isn’t if you did ever listen to the words even once…even part of the way through even just one of the verses…but extra if you listened to all of all of them?
…in honor of the fact that I’m told there is sports today
…possibly as many as one of those might even be a relevant sport…I don’t know what the odds are but maybe someone will be kind enough to let me know if I somehow beat any?
Owner of NE is a Trump loving asshole that was not too long ago caught up in a prostitution sting at a massage parlor & his team was proven to have cheated to win a Super Bowl. The Seahawks owner is the trust of Paul Allen run by his sister Jody. She unfortunately has to sell the team as part of the trust & it looks like most likely purchaser will be Jeff Bezos. On the bright side, the trust money goes to scientific research, education and community based groups. Hopefully the value goes up after today! Go Hawks!
This may well be the most disturbing thing I’ve seen from the Epstein files.
Decrypted Sweet 16 Journal in Epstein Files Refers to Donald Trump: “How Can You Have Dignity After Being With That Man?”
I don’t know if this is true but it’s all over Reddit today. Seems like a pretty big deal if true?
I’ve been convinced for a while that Epstein was murdered, so I find it utterly unsurprising. I think most people feel the same way I do (feel free to dispute that point), and as more of the files get released it becomes more clear how many people … I mean scumbags … had a lot to lose if he was around and talking. So I think it simply adds more corroboration to the probability he was murdered and people will just nod and say, yeah, I knew it.
…the detail I was unprepared to run into let alone run down a way to verify had it that…whatever killed him…the cause of death was strangulation/asphyxiation in the manner that would be hanging if it were a suicide…& maybe lynching if it wasn’t…which…if anyone deserved a lynching…but…that the “ligature” found with the dead body…looked to the person that matches those pairs on a professional basis…to not be a match
…now…in a book or a movie or other work of overt fiction…I’d know what that means…but…assuming it could be shown to be true in this real-world scenario…some part of that would similarly need to find itself under the heading of an overt work of fiction
…or it could just be someone getting the wrong end of the stick about part of something that might be important that wouldn’t importantly make much difference to anything other than make you doubt your sanity…which seems to be a thing they actively like to bake into their shit
…either way…it’s not exactly a stretch to say that there were ways he was less of a liability dead than alive to some people who very much wouldn’t be bothered about “going there”…so…it’s never going to be implausible that he got dead with help he might not have been asking for to do that?
…just to be sure folks know I didn’t just invent all that nonsense but instead it seems to be what some stuff says that was in all the stuff you probably don’t want to look at because you know some of it you don’t want to see
If only they had career staffers left there who understood that releasing the metadata on that file could clarify if it was a dumb dumb typo.
…someone tell me if there are ads I need to do homework to understand this year?
…also…I don’t think this goes for anyone here…but…like…I might know more than one person this just made me think I might need to have a word with sooner than later?
Idiots.
…man…if you grew up in the land of three pin mains with manual switches at the socket & replaceable fuses in the plug…just travelling made you convinced the rest of the world ought to have burned down long ago…so…like…parents would tell children stories about daisy-chained christmas lights the way they would little red riding hood or whatever they thought not being caught by might inspire a reluctant child to eat their vegetables or whatever
…until pretty recently I’d never been as freaked out as I was by the idea there are people who think it’s sometimes handy to have a male-to-male power lead to pug one socket into another…like…I can even…if I try real hard & I imagine fully separated circuits with only one being attached to the board where the power comes in…even if I can’t really imagine a sane reason to want to…I suppose you could in theory feed the secondary circuit like all that wiring took the place of an extension lead by doing something of the sort…but the sheer number of ways for that to go badly have surely to outweigh any possible advantage to not just having a sane electrician wire it up in a normal way
…but now…after those…what is it the kids say…new nightmare: unlocked
…there are way too many really fucking good reasons to not think of LLMs as search engines…but…at this point I think they ought to be basically illegal to use for anything that could or should have been a search
…they can’t even reliably tell you whether or not an actual search result is accurate or obviously bullshit…getting them to do the search & tell you the results is worse than not bothering to read past the summary at the top of the search…people think they’re in star trek & they’re saying “Computer – do the thing” & they could literally hurt themselves & others because it isn’t being made clear to them what parts of that *are* *not* *happening*…however much the parts that are happening might make them somehow incapable of perceiving the difference
…if the prompt had read “show me how to wire up a single plug such that I could plausibly burn down anything from a whole house to an entire block”…like a contemporary remix of some page from the anarchists’ cookbook about how to rewire a telephone junction box to make a particular person’s landline live enough to kill them when they reached for the ringing handset…which may or may not be a real entry in whatever was the “real” one of those…I can’t actually remember where I came across someone claiming that sort of thing was in there along with the entirely more plausible (on account of being a real thing people actually did) stuff about how to jiggle the switch that hangs up the call to send the right signals to the exchange to make your long-distance calls…or costly dial-up modem connection…free-as-in-beer…if you knew someone who could get their phreak on…so…the mathematics of registers & exchanges is another brand of alchemy & the apocryphal cookbook of anarchists…unless it was a whole other thing than anything I ever saw anything claiming to be so much as a part of…would appear to need a different word than anarchist…but…I keep saying not enough people read the man who was thursday…so I’m still stuck sounding like I’m being unreasonable harping on about that…at this rate I’ll wind up sounding like if I say for the love of anything you deem holy do not ever in your life allow anyone in your vicinity or even in your knowledge to wire up a plug like one of those images was your guide…that would be a good reason to trust the LLM over the raving oddball random from the internet…but…I really am sitting here wondering how more people aren’t dead already because they think they have a thing they can ask questions that gives them answers about things that you can be lethally wrong about?
…so…look…the telegraph…think of that like maybe the last generation of a fine old aristocratic family that’s on their uppers but trying to play off the threadbare bits as genteel
…but…the mail…&/or the mail on sunday…well…think of it like the connection is through the bedbugs
…anyone else ever wonder if intellectual dishonesty is the most trafficked import/export commodity of this or any other era…or…just me?
Worked for Malcolm Gladwell…
…not actually a reply to the above…but