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A good rule: the exact opposite. Student movements almost universally support the worst shit ever
A good rule of history: if you find yourself opposing a student movement while siding with the ruling class, you're wrong. Every time, in every era, whatever the issue.
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Student movements have not always been on the right side of history. Mao's student Red Guards persecuted hundreds of thousands. Students helped Castro and Khomeini rise to power, and Nazi student groups opposed the Weimar Republic.
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When the grocery total isn’t looking too bad and you realize they haven’t yet scanned The Item
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jerry is dating a girl who is essentially perfect but he’s bothered by a gap in her teeth.
george quit his job in a rage but is trying to sneak back in to use the remainder of his free canteen vouchers.
kramer subplot:
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the "Ideas guy" always think their ideas is the value. But in art and theoretical physics you learn from day 1 that ideas are cheap - if you thought of it, someone probably already thought of it first. The main thing is the execution and how the work evolves during execution
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one of the best running bits of the last 30 or so years is that ben affleck is actually really smart
Ben Affleck (Hollywood star & Artists Equity CEO) talks about how he fine-tunes open video models by unfreezing weights and trained only the last cinematic layer so a film crew can hit real production standards.
for context, Ben Affleck founded InterPositive in 2022, a 16-person AI shop for film post and Netflix bought it in March 2026 for $587 mn in cash.
He needed that model because public video models were trained on his peers' films, and he did not think that was a real business. So InterPositive raised money, shot its own dataset for 8 months on a controlled stage, and used it only as late-stage training.
Each new film then trains a private model on its own dailies, so the production keeps the footage and the learning. That is the product Netflix paid $587 million for.
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From "Bloomberg Live" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
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ASML: "We are not selling anything in Europe at all. That is because Europe is not investing, and no chip factories are being built here". nltimes.nl/2026/09/22/asml-c…
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Casi nadie vive de tradear como te lo vende Ariel Sbdar o todos los Chantas del Merval como esa Rena Perbarini o algo asi... y los demas chantas como Gladiador Merval, Mono Lorian, etc. Todos Estafadores que quieren sacarte la guita.
Los que viven de verdad o son instituciones con ventajas estructurales, o viven de venderte a vos la idea de que vos también podés.
El day trading retail como estilo de vida es, para la enorme mayoría, una máquina de transferir plata a brokers, market makers y el vendedor del curso.
El modelo “sentarse 8 horas, elegir un activo, leer velas, y vivir de eso todas las semanas” está destrozado por datos, no por opiniones.En Brasil, Chague, De-Losso y Giovannetti siguieron a todos los que empezaron day trade en futuros del índice.
En Brasil, Chague, De-Losso y Giovannetti siguieron a todos los que empezaron day trade en futuros del índice. De los que persistieron más de 300 sesiones, el 97% perdió plata. Solo el 1,1% ganó más que el salario mínimo. El mejor del sample hacía unos USD 310 por día… con una volatilidad tan violenta que los autores se preguntan si valía la pena. El paper se llama, sin ironía, Day Trading for a Living?
En Taiwán, Barber, Lee, Liu y Odean miraron todas las operaciones de la bolsa durante 15 años. Menos del 1% de los day traders era consistentemente rentable. El resto, en agregado, transfería riqueza a institucionales.
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An enormous amount of anti-AI sentiment from people who could benefit from it is because they identify too much with their job.
“Draftsman” is no longer a job. Literal white-collar status can only be maintained by staying ahead of the ever-accelerating tech curve.
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Flrencia Salvarezza: "Durante los primeros 20 años del siglo, Argentina subió el presupuesto en educación y cayó en resultados. Antes de la pandemia, Argentina estaba cuarto en inversión educativa en la región y anteúltimo en educación".
"Se puso de moda esta idea, que viene de la psicología de Piaget, que es que el conocimiento que uno realmente incorpora es el que se construye, no el que viene de afuera hacia adentro. Esto predominó en todo el sistema educativo durante 40 años y los resultados no fueron buenos. La teoría de Piaget, en psicología, ya fue descartada. Y la idea de que el conocimiento se construye llevó a esto de que el docente es un mediador y las aulas son espacios de conocimiento. Y lo que sabemos, tanto por los estudios neurocientíficos como por estudios comparativos, es que sos métodos no funcionaron".
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BREAKING: For the first time since the Iran war began, JPMorgan says it no longer has a baseline view on oil, writing "we simply don't know how to model the endgame," and that the assumption that the Middle East disruptions are temporary is "becoming increasingly difficult to sustain," per JPMorgan Global Research.
The bank says it had assumed there were economic red lines the Trump administration would be unwilling to cross, and that six months later "many of those lines have been crossed, yet the exit strategy is less clear, not more."
Chevron's CEO said this week the Great fuel crisis has officially arrived, as Trump officials continue to claim the disruption temporary.
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🚨 New paper! arxiv.org/abs/2609.11948
In 2021, a group of climate scientists realised that different attribution methods in climate modelling gave the same answer, and conjectured that this holds in general. It turns you can prove this with Game Theory! 🧵
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Hard to elucidate the difference between first and third world upper middle to upper class values/sensibilities better than with this post.
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La extrema derecha está arrasando en Europa porque todavía no habéis entendido de qué va la cosa
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The tone of this exchange is so revealing. I truly think an old guard of traditionally educated feds are the only reason this place hasn’t collapsed into turbo chud hell. Imagine what it would look like if these people weren’t lying to Trump’s team to keep them from breaking shit
‼️ BREAKING: Kash Patel wanted FBI staff to run an influence campaign on X by replying to Epstein tweets with bureau stats.
He then asked his spokesman to reply to IfindRetards' post, saying it had gotten 277k responses.
His spokesman corrected him: it had 277k views and just 400 replies. He also warned that engaging "would look bad on you."
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Grothendieck graced mathematics with the idyllic landscape of "sheaves," "stacks," "germs," "étale," "motives," and "topoi."
Tao introduced "digestion", processing a heap of degenerate fluff and slop into something firm and tangible; evocative of the industrial American diet.
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As Von Neumann said about Oppenheimer’s performative angst over the atomic bomb:
“Some people profess guilt to claim credit for the sin.”
