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Canadian hockey twitter ran into the behemoth that is college football twitter and it’s been exactly the massacre you would expect.
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If you instinctively rush to the defense of your government when someone criticizes it, you're probably not the type of person you think you are.
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The richest, whitest, most sheltered girl you know from wealthiest suburb in the country is posting a picture of Zohran Mamdani on her story right now captioned “power to the people!!!” from her Soho apartment that’s paid for by her wealthy conservative father
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For those who follow me for AI, I will be back to that soon. But the past week shook me deeply.
In San Francisco, 5 men threatened me, explicitly mentioning my race, and grabbed my hat. My Japanese wife was terrified. She could not believe Americans just tolerate that.
Then came the brutal murder of Iryna Zarutska, with people watching her die as if her life meant nothing.
On the flight back to Japan I was stressed and exhausted. Turbulence hit, and for the first time in years I prayed. I asked for the flight to be safe and promised I would do more good in the world.
When I landed in Tokyo, I saw the news of Kirk’s assassination. What shocked me most was not only the killing. It was how many people celebrated it instead of condemning it. And also the silence from so many.
I was not a fan of Charlie Kirk. I didn’t have strong feelings for him or against him.
But no matter what someone says, they don’t deserve to be killed for words. After his death, I watched many of his videos and realized I agreed with much of what he said..
Would these people also cheerfully kill me, and laugh at my family, and suggest they be next?
That is not the America I recognize. It sounds like another country with completely different values.
For 2 years I have said America must beat China in AI or freedom will vanish. All the arguments about civil rights will not matter.
But now I see that even if we win, if our values are inverted by those with no love for America, we will just export the opposite of freedom.
Most people have forgotten what made America, America. Our values were shaped by Europe’s Enlightenment, where freedom of speech was central.
In most of the world, speaking your mind is illegal. Especially in China. That is what has made America special: a place where people of every background could thrive together and openly discuss and debate different ideas.
Many of my friends, and even my wife, hold different political beliefs. That should not be strange.
But those who condone political violence should have no place in civil society.
We can’t be intimidated by terrorists that would kill us for thought crimes.
We must have the courage to speak truth. Loudly. Openly. Without fear.
If we do, America will remain great. And it will remain the hope of the world. And inspire other people to demand freedom in their countries too.
If we fail, we will live in a 1984-style world of mass control by AI, driven by those who wish to control thought.
The stakes have never been higher. America’s soul and the fate of human freedom are at stake. I know how big that sounds, but I believe it to be true.
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Here’s a hard truth about modern society.
We don’t practice Capitalism anymore.
Rather, for the last 40 years we’ve been conducting a horrific experiment called “neoliberalism”. And we’re near the terminal point in that experiment, a stage I’ve been calling metastatic market fundamentalism.
Capitalism is agents organizing to seek profit by serving the needs and wants of customers. Metastatic market fundamentalism treats citizens as feedstock for corporate profits.
Social media is a canonical example. It’s established fact that Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram etc. algorithms, which are tuned to maximize advertising revenues via limbic activation, and produce political division and derangement, depression, and a host of other problems. But regulating against these algorithms might impair corporate profits, so America doesn’t regulate them. Because the system isn’t designed to protect the rights of Americans to not be exploited by corporations for profit. The system is to designed to protect corporations’ rights to extract maximum profit from citizens.
This is pathological sociopathy at societal scale.
I adore Capitalism. It’s a truly miraculous tool, but shouldn't be used to solve all problems.
Take science: it is unequivocally the optimal way to seek empirical truth and model reality. But science can't address which questions are worth asking, or what priorities are most important to citizens under resource constraints.
Similarly with Capitalism. It is an unparalleled engine for allocating resources and commercializing innovation, but it is a terrible arbiter of human values. When we ask the market to decide what constitutes a good life or a just society, it defaults to the only answer it knows: whatever is most profitable. That is the metastatic cancer.
A functional society knows when to invoke science, or capitalism, or democracy, or the judicial process, or the deliberative bodies that define its public good. The central challenge of governance is to protect the sovereignty of each institutional sphere, ensuring that the logic of the marketplace does not set the curriculum for our schools, write the laws for our courts, or determine the mission of our hospitals.
So here’s where we are: We built the most powerful resource allocation machine in history, then let it allocate us. We became the resource. The product. The feedstock. If you think I’m being dramatic, ask yourself - when did we last make a major policy decision that hurt corporate profits but helped actual humans? That silence you hear? That’s the cancer winning.
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Celebrating a man’s death because you didn’t like his views is some real mentally insane shit
If you’re condoning this type of thing on either side, you’re a piece of shit
In the last few years we've seen:
- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk
Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.
The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.
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Was there ever a time when people clamoring to suppress speech and ban books were the good guys?
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crazy how little scrutiny the KC org gets despite being the worst behaved org in sports for basically a decade
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"In a game of inches, Brady is several hundred yards from number two... It's not just that he lost. It's for the second time in a Super Bowl, he was awful."
— @ColinCowherd on Patrick Mahomes