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O Thought, Thou devil Creator of gods When will thine empire fall?
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silence 1 month ago
The first jobs replaced by AI should be the politicians.
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silence 1 month ago
“The sage harmonizes with both right and wrong and rests in the equalizing light of heaven. This is called walking two roads.” ~ Chuang Tsu image
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silence 1 month ago
bUt WhO wIlL bUiLd ThE dIrEcT eNeRgY wEaPoNs
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silence 1 month ago
“If I die before I wake At least in heaven I can skate 'Cause right now on Earth, I can't do shit Without the man fucking with it”
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silence 1 month ago
“When the Tao is present in the universe,
The horses haul manure.
When the Tao is absent from the universe,
War horses are bred outside the city. There is no greater sin than desire,
No greater curse than discontent,
No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself.
Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.” ~ Lao Tsu image
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silence 1 month ago
Al Jazeera reporting the all-in cost of mining one Bitcoin in Ethiopia is $20,000
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silence 1 month ago
Utopianism Utopianism exploits a specific cognitive vulnerability: our capacity to coordinate around shared fictions. Humans are unique in that we can: 1. Imagine realities that don't exist 2. Persuade others to inhabit those imagined realities 3. Act as if they're real (which makes them functionally real in their consequences) This is actually a feature, not a bug - it's how we build institutions, currencies, laws, and cooperation at scale. But it creates an attack surface. Utopian ideologies weaponize this by: • Offering a more compelling reality than the messy, unsatisfying actual one • Reframing present suffering as necessary sacrifice for the future paradise (ends justify means) • Making dissent feel like heresy - not disagreement with a policy, but denial of reality itself • Exploiting our pattern-matching - humans crave coherence, and utopias offer perfect coherence The vulnerability isn't imagination itself - it's our inability to easily distinguish between: • A useful fiction (money, courts, promises) • A dangerous fiction (racial purity, inevitable historical forces, perfectible society) Both feel equally real when enough people believe them. This makes utopianism less a political error and more a cognitive exploit - like a virus that targets the human meaning-making system. The most effective utopian movements don't feel like they're asking you to believe something false; they feel like they're revealing the true reality that others are too blind to see.
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silence 1 month ago
What’s in your head, zombie? image
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silence 1 month ago
Are they eliminating the ones who can prove ‘Aliens’ are a hoax?
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silence 1 month ago
They are building the narrative for constant surveillance of all personal devices.
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silence 1 month ago
“Yet [Gen-X] laughs at them. For if the whole world praised him he would not be moved. If the whole world blamed him he would not be discouraged. He knows the difference between that which is within and that which is without. He is clear about honor and disgrace. But that is all. Though such a man is rare in the world, he is still imperfect.” ~ Chuang Tsu image
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silence 1 month ago
Give me everything, o’ God Thy glory And I will lead thy children to the light! Nay, Lucifer Thou falsifier They must be free to choose the right.