in 1989 francis fukuyama invented the clickbait title and has been punished for his sins ever since
Low information boater
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Where are the customers' yachts? chrismalmo.com
trying to work on a UK train reveals 1) how heavy the modern web has become 2) how abysmal the mobile internet signal is in the country
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i remember a few years ago when people first proposed the habsburg AI theories, someone said that pre-AI texts would be like low-background steel. It's crazy that they're already going this deep for unpoisoned text.
chiller@chiller.eurosky.social · last mo.This is ... horrific
This shit will never work, just like every cult town never works. They should keep trying though! Maybe they can make it stick in [spins wheel...] the Faroe Islands!
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · last mo.Network State Cult Crushed in Malaysia! Balaji Srinivasan’s bizarre “Network School” sought to create a tech “micro-nation” on Malaysian soil. “No investor, company, or organisation can be placed above the sovereignty of the country’s law,” say local officials. www.msn.com/en-my/news/o...
It strikes me that the popular revolt vs data centres can't be argued away with "ackshually they don't use much water!" The deeper issue is people see these as money printing premises for the .1%. There aren't really many jobs after they're built. Then their 🔌bills go up! Where is the benefit?
In May we said Nigel Farage probably didn't owe tax on his £5m gift. The Guardian now reports the gift followed talks where Farage said he'd need £5m to return to frontline politics. *If* that's right, we think there's a high risk of a £3m tax bill - payable by Reform.
The BBC landing Andre Agassi for Wimbledon commentary, what an amazing get.
so the id software people made a widely acclaimed fun DOOM video game that was very performant on every machine, and their reward is for 2/3 to be taken to the woodshed?
I wonder if the Tether guys were ideologically motivated to support all these populist right-wing movements in the west, or if they just took a look and thought, "these are also con artists, good enough, we can work together." It worked pretty well! They got a treasury secretary, for one.
The kids are alright!
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2mo agoSoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
This confirms something a lot of people in Westminster noticed: while Farage was happy to bluster through the Schoolboy Nazi stuff, he has gone to ground over the £5million "gift". The story has Reform worried.
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew post out: "How to beat Reform" Using exclusive polling I look at what attack lines work best on Reform, which of their voters are most likely to defect, and the potential for tactical voting. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/h...
The defining principle of our society is that people who were lucky during the dot com boom or Web 2.0 should have vast and ever-growing individual power over the entire world. The only acceptable check on their power is their squabbles with each other.
In a way it was always destiny but really the wider crypto project is now so septically associated with (and funding) far-right politics globally that it's probably the most politically powerful MLM in history. Read @molly.wiki 's excellent ongoing coverage: www.citationneeded.news/issue-104/
Issue 104 – World Tyranny Financial
As the Trump family’s crypto dealings raise more alarms, crypto enforcement is falling to new lows
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The index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...
It's the Prices, Stupid
Consumer sentiment is at an all-time low because prices are at an all-time high. Consumer sentiment isn't broken, popular government data is just incomplete
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No more games - Open the STRAIT NOW! The crisis is really starting to bite in the UK Story credit @londoncentric.media
the most credible person to have taken up this challenge. Big if true!
John Carreyrou@johncarreyrou.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, has remained unsolved for 17 years. Read my 18-month investigation to find out who Satoshi really is. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...
I will NOT wear the approach shoes. I will not live in the pod and eat the bugs
dear @zuck i will work for the reasonable sum of 200k to just be in the room for naming decisions and mock them until your company doesn't make products that rhyme with 'anus'
Double pledging assets not get caught Double pledging assets reddit Double pledging on loans how to
From Patrick McKenzie, a shoutout to @dsquareddigest.bsky.social . This passage made me think about Michael Saylor's SEC settlement for fraud in 2000. www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/frau...
A modest proposal: moral and spiritual crusade against the substack push to get you to download the app
As ICE terrorizes communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom have gone conspicuously silent. But behind the scenes, they’ve contributed at least $315 million — more than double their record 2024 spending — to elect more lawmakers to enable this administration.
Issue 100 – Freedom of all kinds is worth fighting for
As masked agents execute people and terrorize communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom fall conspicuously silent — except when writing checks for the politicians enabling i...
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Midterms plan: 1. Stimmies, Fed rate cuts, and neo-Maoist dirigisme 2. Declare Georgia for Trump after FBI finds untied shoelace on official in 2020 recount 3. ICE+CBP to polls, FBI after any close result that goes blue 4. Step 3 not required in ~half the country anyway 5. CBS: 'landslide win'
@sjwrenlewis.bsky.social puts high likelihood on US constitutional breach in 2028/9 (if not 2026, for me). Normalcy bias means US elites still fail to prepare/respond to authoritarian takeover. Anyone saying he won't try is absurd. He already has! mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/01/how-...
How Liberal Democratic Countries will cooperate without the US
I sometimes get things right and sometimes wrong, but I cannot remember one of my posts being proved right within two days of publication....
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Terms have no expiry for Donald as chairman. Why would it at the very least not pass to next US pres? He's going to try to steal or do a putin-style VP move in 2028. Blair, whatever your intentions the stink probably won't come off from this. Hope you can achieve something good in exchange.
Abe Newman@abenewman.bsky.social · 7mo ago1/Board of Peace is not about peace through cooperation but peace through dominance and extraction. Clear effort to replace rules-based international order with a structure that bolsters Trump and his effort to create a neo-royalist system. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...