Also going to be a test - as easy a test as can be, because it's not just free, but saves money at the expense of a minor inconvenience - of how serious the "Resistance" actually is at its putative mission.
#StarveNetflix
Resisting MAGA fascism with all the legal avenues at our disposal is a moral imperative.
Most corporations have no inherent ideology. They will go wherever the winds blow by default, be it performative Woke in the 2010s, or submitting to MAGA Gleichschaltung today.
You can punish Netflix for endorsing MAGA Indophobia - and save money in the process!
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Download qBittorrent (Win) / Transmission (Mac) and get your films and TV serials for free instead of subsidizing rentiers.
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"Antifa" is to Trump's America as "International Satanism" or the "LGBT movement" is to Putin's Russia. Neither actually exist as legal or unitary entities, so can be used to criminalize anyone or anything at all.
Which is the point.
MAGA total fascism needs to be confronted!
Not to blow my own horn too much, but my article on the logic of Trumpism has aged like a fine wine.
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Some of you may be surprised why things ended up the way they did between Trump and Musk.
The reality is they could have hardly ended any other way and I said as much even before Trump got elected.
Sad that this happens. Incentivizes flogging dead horses.
Important longread about Anthropic Shadow.
If AGI is dangerous x timelines are short x "strong self-sampling assumption" wrt observer-moments is valid…
… Then we might expect geopolitical shocks and very improbable events as the Singularity approaches.
karlin.blog/p/anthropic-...
Checking in on Bluesky.
You have Trump dismantling the world economy and daring the courts to do anything about extraordinary renditions of Latinos to Bukele's horror prison, and mentally ill schizos are choosing to blow a gasket over Yglesias lowkey signaling his crypto-HBDism.
Looks like systematic defamation and banning victims on false charges of sockpuppetry whenever they try to appeal via RationalWiki's procedures might finally have consequences. FAFO! 😘
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@roko.bsky.social makes a powerful (in all respects) case for icesteading in the latest episode on my podcast.
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Taking Trump's powerful proposals seriously:
🇩🇰 Bribing Greenlanders
🇵🇦 Seizing the Panama Canal
🇨🇦 Operation Rake: Last Days of Canada
🇲🇽 Mexican Conquest
Would these be profitable and beneficial ventures?
No less importantly, will be they be BASED?
karlin.blog/p/the-new-co...
I want to accelerate human intelligence not just for its own sake, but to ensure we're smart enough to solve aging.
🧠⏩ iq/acc 🔜 💛⏩ immortality. Full interview 👇
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I visited Heidelberg in 2003.
If accurate, sounds like the plan is a rollback to 2010s era Putinism: Authoritarian social conservatism coupled with renewed suppression of Russian nationalists (having "utilized" them in the war).
www.kommersant.ru/doc/7344159
Russia's Presidential Administration allegedly prepping governors on how to portray the SMO as a victory to the vatnik majority, and giving them targets for the 2026 Duma elections (55% for United Russia on 55% turnout).
Sorry to see Joe Biden privilege his son over the welfare of Our Democracy.
Very unprestigious and unhandshakeworthy action!
Latakia and Tartus should declare independence from the failed Syria project and reconstitute the Alawite State.
Aim for cosy $10k GDPpc tourism hotspot with 2M people.
Getting subjugated by Islamists cynically cosplaying libs for the moment isn't going to be an improvement from Assad for them.
Terminally dysfunctional state that was bailed out by Iranian militias, Hezbollah, and Russian air power eight years ago. Now Hezbollah was wrecked by Israel, and Russia has all its attention occupied by Ukraine.
The HTS success is surprising, but not that surprising in context.
Why was the HTS surprise assault on a city of 2 million people - that's well more than 10% of Syria's population - not noticed?
Well, it seems it kind of was. Perhaps two months ago. Relaying it up the "power vertical" that's unaccountable and doesn't care is another matter.
In contrast, it was 19% in MENA as a whole (obviously a pretty corrupt region).
And it seems to have become worse after the civil war began (2018 report).
And obviously neither Russia nor Iran probably had a salubrious influence...
Important thing about the Assad regime is that it presides over a very, very corrupt state.
In the first (and only) World Bank Enterprise Survey in 2009, 84% of Syrian firms reported needing to pay bribes to "get things done" with public officials.
Prestigious!
You'd think so!
How do we get more billionaires to fund research into radical life extension?
There's a bad selection effect here: Billionaires don't get to be that way by giving away money to random people and projects. OTOH, their money has no value where they're eventually going by default.
Follow my serious longform content at EHC Zone. ehc.zone
I will be posting here occasionally and on X. But I think the microblogging fad has peaked.
I am one of the wokest, queerest things on this app.
Elite human capital will NOT be contained. 💯
