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Apr 13 • 35 tweets • 13 min read
iran-israel fairly likely to pop off sometime in the next, idk, 2-8 hours

fairly live updates below

things to watch are
- how scaled an Iranian attack is
- what they aim at
- whether they're capable of hitting anything
- whether israel escalates
x.com/i/lists/171104… yeah true on both points

sounds like it was decided somewhere its gonna be a strike on israel directly from iranian territory which would be unprecedented

but option exists for iran-affiliated militants to fire shit off from Lebanon etc

could be "both"
Apr 2 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
dear angery young rw radicals

its true that the fascist movements that shook europe in the interbellum period were also powered by furious youths

but those guys had just fought in trenches for four years

so youll forgive me if i take your threats of war less than seriously if only youd been poisoned by environmental lead instead of xenoestrogens your tactics would be more credible
Apr 1 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
gender is best understood as a collaborative exercise rather than a zero sum game and many men on the right are incredibly bad at this

historically one role of older men in a society was knocking boys' heads and telling them to stop scaring the hos

this is worth Conserving if you would be "conservative" please consider what a society worth living in might look like, and reflect on whether your own comportment befits such a society

and if not, grow the fuck up. and in any case stop harassing the few women who are willing to give you the time of day

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Mar 30 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Hello @HoustonChron I'm a freelance metajournalist. I have a few questions for you regarding the behavior of one of your reporters, behavior best characterized as "doxxing randos who criticize their work for your newspaper as an act of petty personal vengeance."
Image The standards and practices of @HoustonChron, as a member of the @Hearst media conglomerate, are available online here.

Perhaps the following questions are best addressed by @MelissAguilar
but I trust you will refer me to the appropriate spokesperson. So:
Mar 28 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
is this just our reality forever now

or is there a point where dems go back to sister souljahing these people, and dem aligned media suppress them as an embarrassment

because people should be embarrassed i guess it's plausible to me the dems are completely out of control of their party just like the republicans are, but it seems like more of the republicans at least have the decency to be obviously-mortified by the insane demands of their base Image
Mar 27 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
how are people intimidated by university students these are BABIES

LITERAL CHILDREN

how do people let themselves be pushed around by these neotenous dweebs instead of doubling over laughing hard to be sure

but i THINK the white youth in front is hideously embarrassed about all of this but he cant escape and so he's just trying to appear small and to avoid eye contact with the black police officer the other dude is yelling at Image
Mar 17 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
mass nuclear war would be fine. >90% of the country unaffected. america is just a really big place and even with a lot of nukes its hard to destroy much of it completely fake tbh

all that shit was modeled using 1945 japanese construction standards (ie cities are tinder boxes)

we dont build like that anymore

nuclear winter is a scam look it up
Mar 13 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
as usual, i dont believe i will be participating in the upcoming election, because i am a one issue voter, and neither candidate has so much as mentioned my political fixation

my issue, of course, is genocide naturally i am in favor
Mar 1 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
i have absolutely no ill will toward aella. i also have no interest in reading this essay. but this excerpt came across my tl and since we are making this a matter of public discussion i offer the following observations Image 1. generally speaking if your reaction to any sexual situation is strongly negative it is a good idea to remove yourself from that situation first and worry about figuring it out later
Mar 1 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
so this is very curious

quoted is a thread about what seems more or less to be a satanic blood cult called "764"

or maybe properly speaking a demonic cult if you want to use the gygaxian distinction

now, my general point of view about these things is that stories on these matters tend to be like most other stories about "conspiracies"

it's not that i find the existence of pedophiliac blood cults implausible; im just skeptical that any given one is "real"
Feb 24 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
watched some of cinderella tonight

it's striking how subdued and stately it is

at any given moment there is typically one thing going on. sometimes there are zero things going on

attention is always drawn to the most charming bits of animation the setting is established as a fantasy by the exaggeration of scale the backgrounds

the nature of a fantasy world may be determined by the things it chooses to exaggerate

here it is easy to miss the exaggeration entirely because its emotive affect is quiet elegantance


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Feb 23 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
generally i think the greatest value one can obtain from reading is not object level information but an expanded and tactile understanding of how one might think by following along in each master's mind as he works there may be danger here as well

it's possible that certain unsalutary patterns of thought are easily learned and difficult to abandon once adopted
Feb 22 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
i had not been aware of this and it is a fascinating story

tldr: the establishment of black chattel slavery in virginia was both an _evolutionary_ process and a "convolutionary" one

it especially grew out of

1. english common law
2. indentured servitude
Image the transatlantic slave trade already existed by the 1620s. however it was not officially enshrined in law in virginia until decades later

Johnson was an "Angolan," whatever that meant then, sold by Portuguese slavers to a Virginian _as an indentured servant_
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Feb 21 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
it is difficult, coming to terms with the entropy of things.

as a child you learn to love a certain world; then you blink and it's something else

you imagine that because it was another way once, it might be again. but no

reality is path dependent. history has a unit root. as @selentelechia i drove home from my grandfather's funeral last month, we reflected about the end of our own stories

i know many of you aspire to immortality but i don't share this desire because it's not--it doesn't match my yearnings
Feb 1 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
this is a more common view than one might expect and while i accept that people will hold it i dont believe they should be permitted any voice whatsoever in the common social decisions substantially affecting the rest of us my interest in the survival of my children, and of their children, someday, is substantially greater than my interest in my own survival

so, when i read things like this it reads as far more hostile in consequence than "i am indifferent to you living or dying"
Jan 25 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
today i went to mass for the first time after reading The Ancient City by fustel de coulanges

"heres what i learned ⬇️" 1. the catholic church is the true heir of the culture of the ancient world

2. it is, very specifically, heir and continuation of the ancient western religion

3. the reformation was a deliberate attempt to break from this ancient religion and the cause of much misery
Jan 20 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST UTILITARIANS new EA cause area find reason think real long and hard about the man you've decided to adopt as a moral exemplar and about what your choice says about the quality of your judgement you absolute buffoons
Jan 14 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
its interesting that his politics are frozen in amber in a form that was popular on the internet around the time he fled the country

this suggests information propagated by the internet is insufficient to convey the full experience of living in a given society over time hmmmmm true
Jan 9 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
inequality between men is a central problem in society but it is a solved problem

however, this requires _cooperation_

there are two primary modes of defecting, each of which make people worse off

i will explain a central fact of existence is that gifts are not distributed equally among us, and this violates an intuitive notion of justice

setting aside the question of whether this is "actually" unjust, the resulting resentment is socially corrosive and this must be mitigated
Dec 31, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
psa im pretty sure deodorant makes you smell worse over time

add it to the pile of things that are mostly counterproductive, like soap if you want proof of this my pregnant wife is extremely sensitive to odors and i can use her as an instrument to generate some time series data
Dec 21, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
people think sex outside of marriage was formerly prohibited for reasons of abstract "morality" and if you think thats true i have some bad news: your parents didnt really believe in santa

taking for granted the stated beliefs people present _to their children_ is an error what's actually true is that extramarital sex is intrinsically chaotic and destabilizing, and people with stable personal lives who tend to populate positions of authority don't want to deal with the shit that falls out of other people's chaos