the schizoposter is not simply another conspiracy theorist. He's something uniquely adapted to the internet — a memetic hybrid. Part philosopher, part detective, part digital mystic, part court jester, and occasionally a complete fucking lunatic.
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To understand the modern schizoposter, we have to return to the primordial soup of the internet — the anonymous image boards, the obscure message forums, the digital underworld where conspiracy theories, occult philosophy, absurdist humor, and weaponized autism began colliding with one another.
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A maior dificuldade do espírito de rebanho é com os espíritos livres. O espírito de rebanho é o do conformismo. Busca uniformidade e tem origem no ressentimento. Prega obediência, culpa, submissão. Deixa de ser autor de seus próprios julgamentos e mede seu valor e dos outros pelo que é útil à conservação do grupo. O militante que cerca o artista exigindo declaração de voto no “candidato correto” encarna perfeitamente essa figura. O que procura é a confirmação pública do rebanho. O silêncio lhe parece insuportável porque denuncia exatamente a existência de um lugar fora do curral. Aí o ressentimento. A cobrança dos devotos chega com tons moralizantes do sacerdote. Calar-se, ou se posicionar de maneira independente, é virar automaticamente cúmplice do mal. O argumento sacado contra quem se recusa a declarar o destino de seu voto é o de que o silêncio repete a postura dos alemães que fecharam os olhos ao nazismo. A comparação tem efeito retórico, mas inverte a história. O nazismo, ele mesmo, foi o triunfo do rebanho sobre o indivíduo e um dos primeiros gestos ao chegar ao poder foi a Gleichschaltung — “sincronização” de toda a vida pública aos ideais nazifascistas —, que obrigava associações, universidades e artistas a manifestar adesão ao regime. Desde 1933, quem quisesse praticar sua arte precisava se inscrever na Câmara de Cultura do Reich, e a lealdade deveria ser exibida em público, fosse no braço erguido, na bandeira na janela ou no discurso de ocasião. O regime não se contentava com o silêncio, exigindo dos artistas profissão de fé pública. Pagou caro quem não assinou manifestos ou não deixou claro sua posição a favor dos valores do regime. Essa cobrança despudorada de gesto de adesão em praça pública, no caso, as redes sociais, desse modo, está mais próximo da lógica que diz combater do que imagina. É o velho instinto de obediência travestido de virtude.
Rodrigo Coppe:
Immer mehr Männer in Deutschland sind kinderlos.
Immer mehr Männer in Deutschland sind kinderlos. Laut einer Auswertung des GESIS-Leibniz-Instituts für Sozialwissenschaften sind inzwischen 40 Prozent der Männer ohne eigene Kinder. Bei den 35- bis 39-Jährigen sind es 54 Prozent, bei den 30- bis 34-Jährigen sogar 69 Prozent.
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While he was praying in private  and his disciples were with him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am? ” They answered, “John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, that one of the ancient prophets has come back.”  , “But you,” he asked them, “who do you say that I am? ” Peter answered, “God’s Messiah.”  But he strictly warned and instructed them to tell this to no one,  saying,  “It is necessary that the Son of Man   suffer many things   and be rejected   by the elders, chief priests, and scribes,   be killed, and be raised the third day.”  ” Luke 9:18-22 CSB
Why did #Jesus strictly warn and instruct His disciples not to tell anyone He was the Messiah at this point when later He would send them out to tell the whole world? #asknostr
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If we are to preserve any useful meaning to the word, consciousness has to be experiential. It can only come from within a finite system that is experiencing an infinite reality.
I would like humanity to adopt a foolproof and grounded definition of consciousness immediately before AI, institutionalized religions, and schools can take us any deeper into the fallacy of abstract consciousness. I propose this definition of consciousness: the capacity of any finite system to perceive the infinite reality that it sits within. In this way consciousness cannot be defined as a perspective, a state, or an awareness. It has to be the result of continuous sensory processing across the edges that demarcate the finite system from the infinite reality that it resides within. There can be no self-proclaimed states of awareness or “wokeness,” and no prescribed consciousness for AI or anything else. Consciousness is not something we witness from or in something else or someone else. If we are to preserve any useful meaning to the word, consciousness has to be experiential. It can only come from within a finite system that is experiencing an infinite reality. When someone says “there is a conscious company, or a conscious community, or a conscious AI.” We should not stay quiet. We must protest. Does that company have more edges than others? Does that company sense more reality than other companies? Why does the conscious community fold back in on itself at the edges so as not to touch the greater community of humanity around it? We have mistaken the sense of safety and smoothness that comes from reducing our edges and tuning out alternative signals as enlightenment. As a group it creates a cult. As an individual a demigod. Consciousness is something that can only be experienced. It is not a thing that exists in a description or a behavior.
Si M. Piketty avait raison, la pauvreté aurait dû croître significativement. Or, d’après la Banque mondiale, environ 2,3 milliards de personnes vivaient dans l’extrême pauvreté en 1990, plus de 40 % de l’humanité ; ils sont 831 millions en 2025, soit une personne sur dix. Un milliard et demi en sont sortis et le PIB/hab dans le monde a été multiplié par trois.
Le monde enfin.. Le classement Forbes 2026 recense 3 428 milliardaires, contre 140 sur la première liste de 1987 : vingt-quatre fois plus en trente-neuf ans. Si M. Piketty avait raison, la pauvreté aurait dû croître significativement. Or, d’après la Banque mondiale, environ 2,3 milliards de personnes vivaient dans l’extrême pauvreté en 1990, plus de 40 % de l’humanité ; ils sont 831 millions en 2025, soit une personne sur dix. Un milliard et demi en sont sortis et le PIB/hab dans le monde a été multiplié par trois.
Piketty sur BFMTV-RMC : « quand il y avait moins de milliardaires, on avait plus de prospérité ». Nicolas Lecaussin confronte la formule aux chiffres de la Banque mondiale : 24 fois plus de milliardaires depuis 1987, et l'extrême pauvreté divisée par près de trois. Extrait de son article dans Contrepoints, qui prend aussi les exemples de la France et de la Suède : https://contrepoints.org/piketty-se-trompe-quand-il-y-avait-moins-de-milliardaires-il-y-avait-surtout-plus-de-pauvres/
A weak, leaked password opened an authorized route into a sensitive register. That access allowed millions of searches, and the activity was discovered only after an unusually large bill drew attention to it.
A weak, leaked password opened an authorized route into a sensitive register. That access allowed millions of searches, and the activity was discovered only after an unusually large bill drew attention to it.
The first known description of pinhole photography is found in the 1856 book The Stereoscope by Scottish inventor David Brewster, including the description of the idea as "a camera without lenses, and with only a pin-hole".
Early pinhole photography The first known description of pinhole photography is found in the 1856 book The Stereoscope by Scottish inventor David Brewster, including the description of the idea as "a camera without lenses, and with only a pin-hole".
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The Snowden revelations motivate a reassessment of the political and moral positioning of cryptography.
This makes cryptography an inherently \textit{political} tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically \textit{moral} dimension. The Snowden revelations motivate a reassessment of the political and moral positioning of cryptography. They lead one to ask if our inability to effectively address mass surveillance constitutes a failure of our field.
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Cryptography rearranges power
Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what. This makes cryptography an inherently \textit{political} tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically \textit{moral} dimension.
3 days ago
‘I use AI to do the things that I’m bad at’: Linus Torvalds on why it works for him
‘I use AI to do the things that I’m bad at’: Linus Torvalds on why it works for him - ZDNET
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Connor remembers asking his friend Noah, another Alabama farmer following the same regenerative farming methods, why it is so important to do so much of the work by hand. "That's how you keep yourself from farming more than you can handle," Noah replied. Working at a human pace puts a cap on how much land a person is able to farm.
Same thing applies to code. Vibe coding creates huge systems you're responsible for. Doing things by hand keeps scale comprehensible and manageable.
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AI is replacing broadly available software with private software. Domain experts are building their own tools; executives are making their own dashboards; companies have bespoke internal projects. So the software is out there, just not visible to the rest of us, and especially not visible to skeptics.
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This is why Kant’s philosophy of reason culminates in the equal human dignity of all persons.
This is why Kant’s philosophy of reason culminates in the equal human dignity of all persons. For Kant, human beings, as rational, self-determining agents, have an absolute worth that cannot be priced, a dignity that does not depend on any other value.
4 days ago
Wer die 5.000 Dollar gedanklich schon ausgegeben hat, empfindet eine Niederlage der Republikaner nicht mehr nur als politischen Wechsel, sondern als persönlichen finanziellen Verlust von 5.000 Dollar.
Wer die 5.000 Dollar gedanklich schon ausgegeben hat, empfindet eine Niederlage der Republikaner nicht mehr nur als politischen Wechsel, sondern als persönlichen finanziellen Verlust von 5.000 Dollar.
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Dürrenmatt hat gezeigt: Moral ist eine Frage der wirtschaftlichen Umstände, und Versuchung funktioniert am besten über das Portemonnaie. Trump hat dieses literarische Gesetz zwar vermutlich nicht im Deutschunterricht gelernt, aber er wendet die Dürrenmatt’sche Logik im Wahlkampf meisterhaft an.
Dürrenmatt hat gezeigt: Moral ist eine Frage der wirtschaftlichen Umstände, und Versuchung funktioniert am besten über das Portemonnaie. Trump hat dieses literarische Gesetz zwar vermutlich nicht im Deutschunterricht gelernt, aber er wendet die Dürrenmatt’sche Logik im Wahlkampf meisterhaft an.
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Desenvolvedores brasileiros estudam a ideia de criar uma rede social totalmente brasileira, após redes sociais estadunidenses interferirem nas eleições de 2026. A ideia principal é deixar de lado as big techs e manter um debate democrático para os brasileiros sem quaisquer interferências do X e da Meta.
Muitas pessoas tem a mesma insatisfação mas não entendem que a luta contra big techs não passa por algo nacional e sim por algo neutro e descentralizado. Além disso, mesmo sendo algo descentralizado, tem muita gente que ao saber que algo foi criado por alguém com visão política distinta deles, acha que essa pessoa teria alguma influência no projeto capaz de sabotar o grupo político deles.
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The men who predicted this What Alexis de Tocqueville foresaw was not this precise arrangement but its logic. Writing of democracy’s future, he imagined a despotism unlike the tyrannies of old, one that would not break the will but bend it, that would establish a network of small complicated rules reducing citizens to a flock of timid and industrious animals with government as shepherd. But the more unsettling insight belongs to Aldous Huxley, who understood that the perfection of control would come not through force but through the elimination of the desire to be free. His dystopia was one of engineered contentment, a civilisation in which people were conditioned to love their servitude, to adore the technologies that undid their capacity for independent thought. We are conditioned now, though the mechanism is subtler than he imagined. We are conditioned by dependency. The convenience of the smartphone, the necessity of digital banking, the expectation of constant connectivity, all have become so thoroughly woven into existence that their removal feels unthinkable. When governments expand surveillance, when they pressure platforms to censor or monitor, when they construct legal regimes that compel transparency, the response is not rebellion but rationalisation. We tell ourselves the intrusion is necessary, that privacy is an outdated concept, that only those with something to hide should object. Huxley’s vision was of a population that could not imagine wanting freedom. We have not quite arrived there, but we have arrived somewhere close: a population that can imagine wanting freedom but cannot imagine how to live without the systems that eliminate it. The cage is not locked. We simply cannot conceive of leaving it.
Most people already favour convenience over freedom ...
Aristotle said, ‘The only way to avoid criticism is to do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
Okay, but wouldn't somebody criticize you for that, too?
Ajay Gohil was brought up as a #Hindu and worked for the family business in a newsagent in North London. At the age of twenty-one he contracted erythrodermic psoriasis, a chronic skin disease. His weight dropped from 11.5 stone (73kg) to 7.5 stone (47.6kg). The disease was all over his body from head to toe. He lost all his friends. His wife and son left him. He wanted to die. As Ajay lay dying in hospital he cried out to God. He looked in his locker and found a #Bible there. He opened it at Psalm 38 – the psalm for today. Each and every verse seemed relevant to him. He prayed for God to heal him. He fell into a deep sleep. By the next morning he was totally healed. His skin was new like a baby’s and his life was turned around. He was reunited with his son. I interviewed him in one of the services at HTB. He said, ‘Every day I live for #Jesus.
there has been a substantial increase in the number of solopreneurs earning over $100,000 in our index, but an even larger increase in the number earning at higher income thresholds, with a clear acceleration since 2023. More than twice as many solopreneurs earned over $1 million in 2025 than in 2023, and close to three times as many crossed $5 million and $10 million.
Sure you can now build a business alone with AI. But life sucks when you are alone. Entrepreneurs need to switch gear from making money to hire people, to making money to build community. Success is how much you get to contribute back to the community.
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If the euro is to be successful, it has to be an economic project that is consistent with, and even reinforces, other fundamental values. It has to strengthen democracy. But the euro has done the opposite. The most powerful institution in the eurozone is the European Central Bank, which was constructed to be independent-not answerable to or guided by elected leaders-another neoliberal idea that was fashionable at the time of the construction of the euro. Though it remains fashionable in some quarters, it is increasingly being ques- tioned. As we will see in chapter 6, the countries that performed best during the global financial crisis were those with mnore accountable central banks. The actions of any central bank have large political and distribu- tive consequences seen most clearly in times of crises. Central banks are good at cloaking their decisions in jargon suggesting that they are simply implementing their mandate. But there are choices in how they implement that mandate. Though they would almost surely deny it, the ECB's decision to shut off funds to the Greek banking system in the summer of 2015 was an intensely political act. COurse. The growing democratic deficit is seen most obviously in the fact that when given the opportunity, the countries of Europe have repeat- edly rejected the policies being imposed on them. In 2015, 6l percent of the electorate in Greece voted to reject the conditions imposed, and in Portugal and Spain similar proportions supported candidates opposed to austerity. But opposition is evident, too, in numerous other elections, including in Italy, where voters turned out the party supporting austerity; they elected parties calling for an alternative In spite of these elections, the policies remained effectively unchanged. In Portugal, matters were even worse: the president ini- tially refused to install the antiausterity coalition on the grounds that it contained anti-euro parties, even though, having won 62 percent of the votes, the coalition controlled the parliament. In each country, the newly elected government was told in effect
THE EURO: THE HOPE AND THE REALITY 59 If the euro is to be successful, it has to be an economic project that is consistent with, and even reinforces, other fundamental values. It has to strengthen democracy. But the euro has done the opposite. The most powerful institution in the eurozone is the European Central Bank, which was constructed to be independent-not answer- able to or guided by elected leaders-another neoliberal idea that was fashionable at the time of the construction of the euro. Though it remains fashionable in some quarters, it is increasingly being ques- tioned. As we will see in chapter 6, the countries that performed best during the global financial crisis were those with mnore accountable central banks. The actions of any central bank have large political and distribu- tive consequences seen most clearly in times of crises. Central banks are good at cloaking their decisions in jargon suggesting that they are simply implementing their mandate. But there are choices in how they implement that mandate. Though they would almost surely deny it, the ECB's decision to shut off funds to the Greek banking system in the summer of 2015 was an intensely political act. COurse. The growing democratic deficit is seen most obviously in the fact that when given the opportunity, the countries of Europe have repeat- edly rejected the policies being imposed on them. In 2015, 6l percent of the electorate in Greece voted to reject the conditions imposed, and in Portugal and Spain similar proportions supported candidates opposed to austerity. But opposition is evident, too, in numerous other elections, including in Italy, where voters turned out the party supporting austerity; they elected parties calling for an alternative In spite of these elections, the policies remained effectively unchanged. In Portugal, matters were even worse: the president ini- tially refused to install the antiausterity coalition on the grounds that it contained anti-euro parties, even though, having won 62 percent of the votes, the coalition controlled the parliament. In each country, the newly elected government was told in effect
Bezos recently revealed that he sees a not-so-distant world in which AI-driven productivity makes it easier for people to support themselves, in turn requiring fewer working hours.
In contrast to his tech peers like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI leader Sam Altman, who have warned about the technology’s potential risks, Bezos recently revealed that he sees a not-so-distant world in which AI-driven productivity makes it easier for people to support themselves, in turn requiring fewer working hours. “Some people will decide, ‘I can support my family working three days a week.’ That’s what productivity in the economy means,” Bezos told Fox News this week.
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The gate is a Hermes plugin. It wraps the agent’s tool execution, so every tool result (a fetched web page, an MCP response, the output of a shell command that downloads mail, a file read) passes through it before it is written into the conversation. Everything gets scanned except a short list of tools whose results can’t contain anyone else’s text, like the agent’s memory, its to-do list and file writes. Scheduled jobs get the same treatment: the output of a cron job’s data-collection script is scanned before it lands in the prompt.
Nostr can be used for social media and other applications.
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Lidé říkávali, že když se sejdou tři lidé, nejméně jeden z nich je udavač.
Obsah je důležitý, protože severokorejský režim vybudoval velmi silný systém kontroly mladých lidí a celé společnosti. Lidé říkávali, že když se sejdou tři lidé, nejméně jeden z nich je udavač. Říkalo se: „Nevěř ani vlastním zádům.“ Režim přiměl lidi, aby se navzájem sledovali.
tak to bylo i u nas
„Než tady zemřít hlady, raději zkusíme překročit zamrzlou řeku Tuman a třeba nás při tom zastřelí.“
Máma tehdy slyšela, že v Číně se člověk může dosyta najíst sladkostí. Pomyslela si: „V Číně se asi neumírá hlady.“ Vzala mě a sestru za ruce a řekla: „Než tady zemřít hlady, raději zkusíme překročit zamrzlou řeku Tuman a třeba nás při tom zastřelí.“
Tři díly Terminátora jsem kdysi viděl. Tehdy jsem se tomu smál. ­Při dnešním čtení zpráv o tom, jak se může AI vymknout kontrole, nikomu do smíchu není.
mnohem pravdepodobnejsi je scenar z Kulhankovy Cesty krve. autonomni bojove systemy, ktere resi jedinou vec, znicit vse, co potkaji. nemusi o nicem premyslet a nemusi si sebe uvedomovat. mrtve zony, slouzici bud jako naraznikove uzemi nebo mista zamorena temito stroji jako pohrobek predchozich boju. Jako "kdysi" miny.
Bizarní je, že Rusko i Ukrajina do některých svých dronů používají stejné komponenty vyrobené v Číně.
I ty s dlouhým doletem, které ničí ruskou ropnou infrastrukturu, vojenské objekty a sklady spotřebního zboží. Bizarní je, že Rusko i Ukrajina do některých svých dronů používají stejné komponenty vyrobené v Číně. K tomu další pozoruhodný příklad.
I respect Anne Carson, who was just given the NobelPrize for Literature. Her essays on Catullus and Cy Twombly were essential to me when writing about grief. But her praise of the “solitary, hermetic autodidact” and the “desert saints who sit on columns” points to the exact dead end of modern literature, awarding literature’s highest honor to a philologist. You cannot understand life from a pillar. Asceticism is an escape hatch. It is easy to preach equanimity when you live in isolation; just as a priest can lecture on marriage without ever having his face rubbed in the domesticity of two human beings sharing flaws. The giants of literature: Homer, Shakespeare, Joyce, never retreated into precious eccentricity. They stayed in the crowd, in the taverns, in the kitchens, mired in blood, filth, and daily friction. Literature doesn't need more minds wandering in solitary towers; it needs writers willing to get down into the muck of humanity, to forge brave new words. But modern literature’s fundamental error has been remaining trapped in the mind. The urgent task of writing today isn't to wander deeper into infernal (cerebral) corridors; it is to blaze new paths of writing leave the mind behind entirely, to tune into the stars and tune out the chatter of words. As Dante, who torments himself through the physical filth of the Inferno and Purgatorio, ends Paradiso where his “power failed the high fantasy,” moved by something bigger that scales the sun and stars. We need writers who can do that: show us the dirt and take us to the stars. Joyce, Woolf, Proust, Kafka, Borges, McCarthy, and Pynchon never won a Nobel. Literature has always belonged to the muck, and to us; not a committee.
Mario Sundar:
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