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  • JD Vance’s Politics Are INCREDIBLY Weird. Here’s Why.

    This is a great intro into why these dudes (always dudes) think the way they do. In a New Zealand context, David Seymour shows many of the same characteristics.

  • Yesterday was a good day: US billionaire Peter Thiel ‘abandons’ Lake Wānaka lodge build

    The reviled NZ citizen, Peter Thiel, has a bit of a set back… but I’m taking the wins where I can. US tech billionaire Peter Thiel appears to have abandoned his plans to build a 330m-long luxury lodge overlooking Lake Wānaka. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523397/us-billionaire-peter-thiel-abandons-lake-wanaka-lodge-build Now our utterly tone deaf PM will berate NZ for being so backward…

  • Peter Thiel sucks at politics

    Watching JD Vance unravel has given me lots to think about. Reflecting on the weird men that Thiel seems to boost, I’ve come to a conclusion on why he’s so bad at politics. Money and Misanthropy Based on image by Androidmarsexpress – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93026655 Thiel uses money has a cudgel. He…

  • Edge Lord Musk Enters “Find Out” Phase

    Tesla posted its second-quarter earnings Thursday evening, revealing that its net income fell an astonishing 45 percent compared to a year ago, the second consecutive quarterly decline. That massive pay bump… sure looks liek a good investment. https://futurism.com/tesla-sales-tank-elon-musk-endorses-far-right

  • Here’s the thing I don’t get about Thiel…

    I’m on record as a critic of Thiel. The way the NZ govt and rich “technologists” brainlessly gifted him citizenship makes me want to vomit. Having said that, there is no denying his capabilities… … and yet, here’s the question: What has he surrounded himself with weird dipshits? It’s a weird blind spot. Does he…

  • Ya can kinda see why CNC is the kink of choice for the AI crowd

    Culture is set at the top… The situation is extraordinary because asking for consent, getting a firm “no,” and then going ahead and doing the thing anyway is an almost too-on-the-nose encapsulation of the hubris and contempt permeating the AI industry. https://futurism.com/sam-altman-openai-scarlett-johansson CNC: Consensual Non-consent

  • Why Technocratic Elites Aren’t Trusted (Sam Altman Edition)

    None of this is to say that technology hasn’t had vast benefits, but we’re using it also to reduce our option space: to damage the carrying capacity of the Earth in ways which will take tens of thousand of years to recover from, as a best case estimate (millions for some of the issues.) The…

  • Ayn Rand was the mirror universe Ursula Le Guin

  • An Oil Price-Fixing Conspiracy Caused 27% of All Inflation Increases in 2021

    New “idiot test”… if you still cling to the idea that govt spend drives inflation in Western economies you’re either an ideologue with an agenda or you’re ignorant… either way you’re an idiot in this context. The FTC just found evidence that American oil companies colluded with the Saudi government to hike gas prices, costing…

  • ‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute

    Good. Fucking. Riddance. Founded in 2005 and lauded by Silicon Valley, the Nick Bostrom’s centre for studying existential risk warned about AI but also gave rise to cultish ideas such as effective altruism Two weeks ago it was quietly announced that the Future of Humanity Institute, the renowned multidisciplinary research centre in Oxford, no longer…