Ian Torus @itorus33

Ayn Rand on bureaucracy and business

Individualism is the only moral and practical way forward.

Tal Tsfany @taltsfany

2 months ago

“Collectivism is not the ‘New Order of Tomorrow.’ It is the order of a very dark yesterday. But there is a New Order of Tomorrow. It belongs to Individual Man. The only creator of any tomorrows humanity has ever been granted.” - Ayn Rand

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Poland refused to accept Muslim migrants and refugees. Poland was called “Islamophobic.” Today, Poland is the safest country in Europe. Poland has no rape gangs or a single case of Islamic terrorism. Poland was right. 🇵🇱

Ethics shape civilisation. They're worth discussing thoughtfully.

Precisely articulated

Tal Tsfany @taltsfany

2 months ago

“Collectivism is not the ‘New Order of Tomorrow.’ It is the order of a very dark yesterday. But there is a New Order of Tomorrow. It belongs to Individual Man. The only creator of any tomorrows humanity has ever been granted.” - Ayn Rand

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Freedom of association means nothing without the freedom of exclusion. If you cannot define the rules of your own private property, you don't truly own it. A high-trust civilization is built on voluntary covenants, private law, and strict property boundaries. 🏰

"Civilizational Suicide": China's Humanoids Sprint Ahead As Americans Fight Over Data Center And Socialism zerohedge.com/technology/civ…

Le Pen Poised To Win French Elections? New Poll Shows Commanding First-Round Lead zerohedge.com/political/seed…

Did you guys read Ender's Game? Because this is right out of Ender’s Game, except the kids in Battle School are Chinese state researchers, the “simulations” are real influence ops, and the Formics (aliens) are.... us. In Orson Scott Card’s novel, Ender Wiggin spends years inside elaborate digital simulated arenas, commanding fleets, testing strategies, iterating tactics against an enemy he never truly meets - essentially playing video games and being tested against other players. Every variable is controlled, every response measured, every weakness probed until victory is inevitable. There's a twist at the end which I won't ruin for those who haven't read it. This is what the Chinese are doing now to the West. They scraped 171 million open X posts, inferred age, race, ideology, party, gender resentment, election skepticism - modeling the whole American psyche essentially - and spun up a million-agent digital twin of the US electorate. They can dial up synthetic Pennsylvania voters, feed them a tax-and-redistribution message, watch the reaction in multi-round conversations, refine it, and measure swing-state impact with claimed 47-of-51 accuracy. They model Trump’s “dependable right-wing base.” They map MAGA content and influencer networks. Their own documents call it “cognitive-domain confrontation and guidance.” Parts of the system are already being used by the PLA and intelligence units. Guys, are you paying attention yet? They are playing Sims with the American population!!! LOL WE are the NPCs. This is completely an asymmetrical war as we have no reciprocal capability whatsoever. China is a black box thanks to The Great Firewall and total data sovereignty. We cannot access a corpus of ordinary Chinese citizens for any American lab to scrape. We cannot build a million-agent model of the Chinese public. We cannot test messages on synthetic Shanghainese factory workers or Chengdu nationalists. We cannot A/B test narratives about Taiwan, the economy, or Party legitimacy and watch the simulated reaction in real time. We do not even know what the average Chinese person thinks because they've been cut off from our information platforms. We live in a glass house while they live in a fortress. Every American rant, every demographic signal, every cultural fracture is harvested, modeled, and weaponized. Meanwhile, their population remains opaque, unmodeled, and unreachable. Beijing now possesses a live, continuously updated war-game of the American mind. We possess nothing comparable about theirs. A whole new level of Unrestricted Warfare has been unlocked. We are really not ready for this

Natalie Winters @nataliegwinters

2 months ago

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Institutions Are Building AI Models Of American Voters—And Testing Political Messages On Them. Fudan used 171 MILLION X posts to create a million-account “voter pool.” A government-linked team tested a campaign message on synthetic Pennsylvania voters. 🧵

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America is incredibly far behind in robotics This is existential

Bloomberg @business

2 months ago

The 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games have begun. 666 teams from around the world are competing with more than 2,000 humanoid robots bloom.bg/4c6KRYG bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…

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People laughing at the Chinese robots crashing after the 100m race or asking what's the point of developing humanoid robots even are missing the bigger picture. Remember when JFK said: "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." <> Human locomotion, let alone a full blown sprint, is mechanically very hard. A two legged robot that has to balance on one foot repeatedly, predict where its center of mass is moving, absorb impact, coordinate many joints and correct errors within milliseconds, is solving problems at the absolute edge of physics, control theory, and real-time intelligence. When you iterate and solve these problems, regardless of how impractical it seems, you go a long way to advancing a frontier of what machines can be in the physical world, of knowledge than can open up far more applications you don't even know exist yet. That's what the goal of putting a man on the moon did for NASA and the USA. This is a Sputnik moment and we are still laughing and dunking on crashing robots and canceling data centers over climate concerns, the very infrastructure required to train the models and run the simulations that would close the gap. Shaun called the gap existential because it is. Nations that treat hard problems as serious problems shape the future. Nations that stand by and watch do not. We used to know this.

Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire

2 months ago

America is incredibly far behind in robotics This is existential

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Fourth Turning Global War theburningplatform.com/2026/07/22/fou…