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Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 1h

What? Oh, this is just my "I would never kill my wife" shirt. What's the problem?

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 23h

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 23h

“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.

Curtis Yarvin & David Starkey - The End of the End of History
By Oakeshott (formerly Scruton)
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The second Oakeshott Lecture of 2025 - with perennially viral tech philosopher Curtis Yarvin and eminent historian David Starkey

In the second Oakeshott (formerly Scruton) Lecture, Curtis Yarvin will address the End of the End of History in the Post-Cold War Era.

A former software developer, Curtis Yarvin came to international prominence under the pen-name Mencius Moldbug as a critic of contemporary democracy. An avid promoter of technocracy and critic of ‘the Cathedral’, Yarvin has become an influential figure on the American right - a reliably controversial voice and a confidante of JD Vance and Peter Thiel.

Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.

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Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 2h

With MS kind of wanting out I suppose we should be thankful their gaming division hasn't been told to the Saudis yet.

Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 2h

They approached this from the wrong direction maybe.

I think it would be easier to convert a plane into a car as the flying part is the hard part.

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Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 2h

It's actually a bit strange as there are actually a few female characters in his work who are treated like full protagonists which is rare for old sci-fi. But I suppose just liking women and respecting boundaries are two different things.

Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 16h

Not going to lie, you were tempting fate.

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Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 19h

Don't become part of the surveillance state.

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 20h

Ring’s cooperation with law enforcement has resurfaced privacy concerns that have followed the devices for years.

Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement

Amazon’s Ring partners with company whose tech has reportedly been used by ICE.

arstechnica.com

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Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 20h

At least some people still have the will to fight for liberty. UK definitely needs a free speech act after this government is in the ground.

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Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 22h

Kind of nostalgic as I used to go to the local cinema basically every weekend as a teenager and then we'd all stuff our faces at the Pizza Hut lunch buffet. Good times.

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Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 23h

Breaking into the Louvre in a movie: you're wearing a black turtle neck and domino mask, you're scaling the building with a grappling hook and descending through a skylight. You're avoiding lasers while your hacker friend guides you.

Breaking into the Louvre in real life: ladder.

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Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 1d

Same with the requirement to pass A-level standard English. Half the people I know who were born here couldn't pass A-level English to save their lives.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him:
...l ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew
-- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house."

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Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, I'm guessing Starmer must be appalled that the Israeli police are so antisemitic.

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Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 1d

You can't make decent money off streaming unless you are really successful anyway.

I know a guy from an indie band and they only make money through gigs and part-time work. He showed me their Spotify stats and I was impressed right up until he showed me the pittance they make from them.

Layer8 @layer8problem.bsky.social · 1d

What is the market for AI porn other than illegal kinds and non-consent deepfakes?

It's not like there is a shortage of porn of just about every legal variety you could imagine online.

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Natalie P (is not a vampire) 🦇 @sashette.bsky.social · 2d

It's like the nursery rhyme says:

Oh, the former Duke of York,
He had 12 million quid,
He gave it to victims he "never met,"
For things he "never did."

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

The idea that our friends, relatives, neighbours and colleagues should be summarily flung out of the country by some future Tory government because they don't fit some right wing extremist's definition of "cultural coherence" should set alarm bells ringing everywhere.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam

She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"

(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)