TokenTolkien @TokenTolkien

@marclou Heading there this fall with my gf. We are very excited for this trip! I'm getting more excited reading posts from you and levelsio about your experiences! When you went though, did you consider getting a burner phone, or is that unneccessary?

"We're going to protect consumers by increasing taxes and restricting market competition" - a literal witch

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen

2 months ago

From today, customs duties apply to e-commerce parcels worth up to €150 entering the EU. 30 million Europeans work in retail; it's our our largest private-sector employer. And the surge in low-value online imports has put our retailers at an unfair disadvantage. Too many of

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you and your colleagues control a $7 trillion dollar federal budget. so why haven't you done all those things you think can be done with 1/23rd the money? either a) you can't solve those problems with money or b) you are the worst capital allocator in world history which is it?

@chamath I would rather see politicians fill these forms out and post them publicly

@RoundtableSpace Hell yes

@gregisenberg The barber indicator used to be the Uber driver indicator, but the Uber driver has already been made obsolescent by the Claw/AI 🦞

Moltbook was a masterclass in hype. Not because it was true but because it converted.

Moltbook isn't some independent intelligence; it is a controlled loop of LLM agents. Every "agent" is just a prediction engine following human prompts and routing rules. There is no internal drive or independent willpower here. What looks like autonomous behavior is actually just a chain reaction where one model’s output feeds the next. Any controversial output isn't a "belief"—it’s just the system surfacing high-engagement patterns it learned from the web because that’s what the feedback loop favors. The tech is just math and mirrors, but that doesn't make it any less revolutionary. I’m convinced clawdbots are the start of something massive—if you isn't playing with them yet, you’re choosing to be left behind.

In 💯% agreement. The food in Paris was below mid. Everyplace I went to I left disappointed and wanting. At the low to mid end there's more ethnic than Parisian establishments. I spend a lot of time figuring out the best places to eat, but still couldn't find any places in Paris that left an impression.

@IAmPascio Invite

no taxation without representation but let’s go ahead and just seize the means of production

@Mho_23 Mentor

@zerohedge Make America Fat Again

@NVIDIAGeForce GeForce Day

So everyone got liquidated outside of BTC, ETH, SOL lol

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Charlie Kirk's assassination radicalized me into expressing some big-picture views I have held for some time more clearly than I previously dared to express them. Long post. When I look only a little below the surface of "be kind", "diversity", "anti-fascism", "multiculturalism" and other forms of heavily promoted, organized, woke, performative Do-Goodery, I see not a grassroots movement animated by human kindness, but the thirst for greater power and control of a malevolent elite that labors to achieve the total economic, political and spiritual enslavement of humanity. There is a cabal of globalists on this planet that seeks to destroy Western civilization as we know it. Their motives are debatable, and may simply be Malthusian, or something much darker. Their goals are fairly obvious. They seek to steer humanity into a neo-feudal age, with most humans living in poverty, with resource use strictly rationed, and under the control of a small middle class of technocrats who in turn answer to an elite few at the top. The cabal's main enemy are the formerly stable, prosperous liberal democracies of Western nation states, which produced an outcome after WWII that the Cabal found undesirable: broad prosperity, unprecedented liberty and relatively distributed power, at least by the low standards of the various forms of tyranny that have existed throughout human history. Liberal democracies and the political, economic and cultural environments they require to function, the nation states, therefore had be destabilized by any means possible. One stratagem, employed heavily since WWII, was internationalization. Super-national entities run by un-elected technocrats were created, and nation states were pressured to cede more and more sovereignty to these entities. The sales pitch was that this would prevent war and promote harmony and international cooperation. The corollary was that the nation state and any form of national pride, national heritage or national interest were now unsophisticated, regressive and dangerous. Personally speaking, as a kid in the 1970s and 1980s, influenced by popular sci-fi, I was convinced that an enlightened future humanity would live harmoniously under a one-world government. I see today how wrong I was. Democracy functions best locally. It requires fairly homogeneous populations with common cause and common values. Multiculturalism and internationalism are the death of democracy and the death of liberty. The new dominant, seemingly enlightened cosmopolitan thinking paved the way for destabilization from within. People in the West were taught to hate their own countries, heritage and cultures, and to feel guilty for basically inventing modern civilization. Softened up by shame and self-hatred, with the idea of countries as cultural-ethno-states thoroughly discredited as hateful, bigoted and fascist, western populations offered no resistance to the cabal's next Weapon of Democracy Destruction: uncontrolled mass migration of people from archaic, patriarchal, tribal and violent societies who are obviously unwilling and/or unable to assimilate into modern liberal democracies. This turned former high-trust societies into low-trust societies that are on the verge of collapse. Much of Europe is in the advanced stages of being destabilized and broken by this process, yet the globalist brainwashing still has a hold over much of the voting population. Obvious contradictions go ignored by people who keep voting for globalist bloc parties: - Would the laudable value of diversity not require that the European countries, all one of a kind, be preserved in their cultural and ethnic uniqueness? - Is pumping millions of people from incompatible foreign cultures into these countries not the crime of "colonization"? - Taking demographic inevitability into account, is this forced, limitless mass migration not tantamount to the crimes of ethnic cleansing and genocide? - How can it be that all this was initially sold under "they will pay for your pensions" while far too many migrants are non-contributing, unemployable and on welfare? - Why is conservative Christianity "fascism" to be eradicated, but the theo-fascism of Islam is to be welcomed and embraced? Additional destabilization measures employed by the cabal are too numerous to list, but include fake pandemics to suddenly dismantle democratic norms and constitutional liberties, climate change doomsdayism to weaken economies, and TQ+ ideology thrown in for good measure, just to dial up the general crazy a little more and to keep us occupied and distracted, fighting over things like the definition of a woman. To weaken and neutralize opposition, cabal mass media, NGOs and captured political parties have been waging a propaganda war to discredit reason and common sense as far-right, as bigotry and as fascism: - Knowing what a man is, and what a woman is, and being attracted to bodies, not pronouns or invisible identities; - supporting physical and mental health instead of normalizing chronic disease and affirming mental illness; - opposition to big pharma and chronic disease as a business model; - being opposed to open borders and limitless migration of people with stone age socialization who cannot and will not assimilate into Western cultures; - seeing countries as more than lines on a map or economic zones; - wanting laws against violent crime vigorously enforced; - not being a climate change hysteric; - opposition to totalitarian "pandemic" measures that dismantle constitutional liberties; - being in favor of sex-blind, color-blind equality; - wanting students to be admitted and people to be hired based on merit, not sex or skin color; - education that centers academic rigor instead of "decolonizing", "deconstructing" or "other ways of knowing"; - belief in objective reality and historical fact, rejection of postmodernism; - opposition to an aggressive, intolerant and expansionist 7th century cult that treats women as property and wants all non-cult members converted or dead; - believing that Western civilization, though imperfect, is the best thing that has ever developed on this planet. That most Western political leaders, even nominally conservative ones, suddenly went mad along these axes in the last 10-15 years shows that this did not happen organically. It is difficult to know who the ring leaders of the cabal are. They likely stay in the shadows and may not be public figures. The people who receive their marching orders in Davos, the WEF Young Global Leaders, the Eurocrats, the current US Democrats, and even well-known Billionaires With Foundations are probably middle management. It is hard to effectively attack such a many-headed, many-tentacled creature. Heads and arms regrow, even if you can cut them off. You can however take away its oxygen by de-funding its ideological infrastructure and useful idiot recruiting mechanisms. - NGOs: defund. - activism masquerading as scholarship: defund. - indoctrination masquerading as education and grievance studies: defund. - higher education programs and universities that admit and hire not strictly based on merit but DEI: defund. - public broadcasting that delivers not journalism but globalist, woke re-education: defund. For EU countries, there is one additional important item on the to-do list, perhaps the most important: leave the EU and then dismantle this bureaucratic, tyrannic monstrosity that no one ever voted into existence. I guess I really am "far right" now, according to the early 21st century definition. Far right is the new reason, common sense and love of humanity.

He was right and now he's dead.

@ScottPresler You don't.

RIP Charlie Kirk. You were a true patriot.