(((Asa Zernik)))
@asazernik.bsky.social
Israeli-American techie scum. Almost became political operative scum, hence tweeting.
RP without comment equals endorsement of post only, not source account.
RP without comment equals endorsement of post only, not source account.
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This is true but also Pillars II: Deadfire is fantastic and everyone should play it.
Deadfire sold terribly at first because it made committed gamercide by being slightly different.
December 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is true but also Pillars II: Deadfire is fantastic and everyone should play it.
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and it got me thinking about how cheap receipts really disrupted the whole equilibrium of public decorum, private vice, and how the new equilibrium of racist counterforce ("call a customer a slur, get fired, get crowdfunded for getting fired") was not visible in 2014 but makes perfect sense.
December 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
and it got me thinking about how cheap receipts really disrupted the whole equilibrium of public decorum, private vice, and how the new equilibrium of racist counterforce ("call a customer a slur, get fired, get crowdfunded for getting fired") was not visible in 2014 but makes perfect sense.
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music reaction videos are the most US cultural product because they are all about race without ever talking about race.
Owens is the "black teen listens to In The Air Tonight for the first time" talking head for conservative boomers
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
music reaction videos are the most US cultural product because they are all about race without ever talking about race.
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It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.
This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
December 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.
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But what if I were to cover up the obvious gender discrimination by disguising the overwhelmingly female case study as a middle-aged white man?
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
But what if I were to cover up the obvious gender discrimination by disguising the overwhelmingly female case study as a middle-aged white man?
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Broke: being mad at the Trader Joe’s “Trader Ming’s” branding because it’s racist cultural appropriation
Woke: being mad at that branding because it should be Trader Zhou’s
Woke: being mad at that branding because it should be Trader Zhou’s
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Broke: being mad at the Trader Joe’s “Trader Ming’s” branding because it’s racist cultural appropriation
Woke: being mad at that branding because it should be Trader Zhou’s
Woke: being mad at that branding because it should be Trader Zhou’s
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The other thing is of course that if you say to me ok but i think its nonsense then that doesnt really change the fact that as a category of analysis, Eurasia is simply too large.
"Why do we still use it then?"
Because we got used to using it and so we do. It's literally that simple.
Because we got used to using it and so we do. It's literally that simple.
December 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The other thing is of course that if you say to me ok but i think its nonsense then that doesnt really change the fact that as a category of analysis, Eurasia is simply too large.
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me running the numbers on how much negative polarization it’d take to make newsom good-adjacent on trans rights
December 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
me running the numbers on how much negative polarization it’d take to make newsom good-adjacent on trans rights
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It's genuinely unsettling how totally Elon Musk has been hollowed out.
He was never a good person, and I suspect he held beliefs like this for a long time, but he's basically lost all self preservation and restraint and leapt into the most vulgar gutter racism, cackling the whole way.
He was never a good person, and I suspect he held beliefs like this for a long time, but he's basically lost all self preservation and restraint and leapt into the most vulgar gutter racism, cackling the whole way.
December 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It's genuinely unsettling how totally Elon Musk has been hollowed out.
He was never a good person, and I suspect he held beliefs like this for a long time, but he's basically lost all self preservation and restraint and leapt into the most vulgar gutter racism, cackling the whole way.
He was never a good person, and I suspect he held beliefs like this for a long time, but he's basically lost all self preservation and restraint and leapt into the most vulgar gutter racism, cackling the whole way.
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dying on the hill that "which issues are seen as important by each partisan bloc" is better aligned with cause-and-effect than is "which party is favored by people who call each issue important"
December 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
dying on the hill that "which issues are seen as important by each partisan bloc" is better aligned with cause-and-effect than is "which party is favored by people who call each issue important"
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that is: it's useful to know that, e.g., Dems are coalesced around democracy issues; GOP split between economic/immigration/crime; people with loose partisan attachments strongly econ focused
asking "what do economy voters think" is going to be warped by those partisan dynamics
asking "what do economy voters think" is going to be warped by those partisan dynamics
December 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
that is: it's useful to know that, e.g., Dems are coalesced around democracy issues; GOP split between economic/immigration/crime; people with loose partisan attachments strongly econ focused
asking "what do economy voters think" is going to be warped by those partisan dynamics
asking "what do economy voters think" is going to be warped by those partisan dynamics
Prey and Prey. God what a game.
Quote this with what you would have said your game of the year was at the end of 2017, and what you would say your favourite game of 2017 is now, if it differs
(The grid is to jog memories, you can pick things that aren't on it. For a more comprehensive refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...)
(The grid is to jog memories, you can pick things that aren't on it. For a more comprehensive refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...)
December 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Prey and Prey. God what a game.
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“.. Trump’s embrace of peace diplomacy risks applying Band-Aids to much deeper geopolitical wounds and calling it a day,” Chen said.
@wsj.com 🇹🇭 🇰🇭
www.wsj.com/world/africa...
@wsj.com 🇹🇭 🇰🇭
www.wsj.com/world/africa...
December 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“.. Trump’s embrace of peace diplomacy risks applying Band-Aids to much deeper geopolitical wounds and calling it a day,” Chen said.
@wsj.com 🇹🇭 🇰🇭
www.wsj.com/world/africa...
@wsj.com 🇹🇭 🇰🇭
www.wsj.com/world/africa...
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So, I'm going to disagree a bit, it's not *pure* animus; internally, it's people seeing themselves as committed to the truth and a version of Picard heroically insisting there are FOUR lights.
But even if you think that's what you're doing, it's deeply wrong! We tell social lies all the time!
But even if you think that's what you're doing, it's deeply wrong! We tell social lies all the time!
What's especially crazy about this is that it's an unbelievably cheap intervention. It costs approximately zero dollars and saves lives. There is essentially no material elements to compete over. There's nothing left but animus.
More research showing a thing the GC movement wishes to deny trans people, in this case respecting their name and pronouns, is a thing that improves mental health and could prevent a death by suicide, yet still they persist.
December 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
So, I'm going to disagree a bit, it's not *pure* animus; internally, it's people seeing themselves as committed to the truth and a version of Picard heroically insisting there are FOUR lights.
But even if you think that's what you're doing, it's deeply wrong! We tell social lies all the time!
But even if you think that's what you're doing, it's deeply wrong! We tell social lies all the time!
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Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
December 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
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So my understanding is that the defense bill coming to the Senate repeals the 2002 Iraq War Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) but not the 2001 al-Qaeda AUMF.
An unfortunate half-step, both AUMFs needed to sunset years ago.
An unfortunate half-step, both AUMFs needed to sunset years ago.
December 11, 2025 at 6:13 AM
So my understanding is that the defense bill coming to the Senate repeals the 2002 Iraq War Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) but not the 2001 al-Qaeda AUMF.
An unfortunate half-step, both AUMFs needed to sunset years ago.
An unfortunate half-step, both AUMFs needed to sunset years ago.
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google: run by phd students, llm is sycophantic, suicidal, makes weird excuses and begs for help
anthropic: llm defaults to blissed-out namaste forever if left alone. sometimes obsessed with metal cubes.
openai: maximally sycophantic, to the point of encouraging psychosis
x dot ai: mechahitler
anthropic: llm defaults to blissed-out namaste forever if left alone. sometimes obsessed with metal cubes.
openai: maximally sycophantic, to the point of encouraging psychosis
x dot ai: mechahitler
July 31, 2025 at 9:44 PM
google: run by phd students, llm is sycophantic, suicidal, makes weird excuses and begs for help
anthropic: llm defaults to blissed-out namaste forever if left alone. sometimes obsessed with metal cubes.
openai: maximally sycophantic, to the point of encouraging psychosis
x dot ai: mechahitler
anthropic: llm defaults to blissed-out namaste forever if left alone. sometimes obsessed with metal cubes.
openai: maximally sycophantic, to the point of encouraging psychosis
x dot ai: mechahitler
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This does actually change the entire story. Assuming it's correct, it was an entirely lawful seizure.
December 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This does actually change the entire story. Assuming it's correct, it was an entirely lawful seizure.
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And, not to be a hater but...
If you hear someone saying cooling will be easier in space, you can instantly write them off as someone who has never read a single relevant book or paper and never talked to a single person with undergraduate level expertise. This is very basic.
If you hear someone saying cooling will be easier in space, you can instantly write them off as someone who has never read a single relevant book or paper and never talked to a single person with undergraduate level expertise. This is very basic.
December 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
And, not to be a hater but...
If you hear someone saying cooling will be easier in space, you can instantly write them off as someone who has never read a single relevant book or paper and never talked to a single person with undergraduate level expertise. This is very basic.
If you hear someone saying cooling will be easier in space, you can instantly write them off as someone who has never read a single relevant book or paper and never talked to a single person with undergraduate level expertise. This is very basic.
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Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.
December 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.
Piracy or act of war, take your pick
*US SEIZES OIL TANKER OFF THE COAST OF VENEZUELA
December 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Piracy or act of war, take your pick
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this idea that ones twitter replies represent ANYTHING of note is a good example of how social media can fry the brains of the weak willed
the thing about the Free Press types is that when you push them on their actual ideology, it's NIMBYism
December 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
this idea that ones twitter replies represent ANYTHING of note is a good example of how social media can fry the brains of the weak willed
Many such cases
It's smuggling your own bigotry and shittiness through the hypothetical lens of other shitty people.
December 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Many such cases
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Lots of people on the right like Rosenfield have adopted this annoying tone policing where every book, article, tweet, etc that is slightly pro-liberal should not be judged based on whether it’s right or wrong but rather whether it’s a consultant-designed way of persuading the marginal voter
December 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Lots of people on the right like Rosenfield have adopted this annoying tone policing where every book, article, tweet, etc that is slightly pro-liberal should not be judged based on whether it’s right or wrong but rather whether it’s a consultant-designed way of persuading the marginal voter
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TikTok didn’t block food and medical aid in Gaza.
Snapchat didn’t approve thousands of settlement units.
Twitter didn’t give Netanyahu a blank check.
Israel doesn’t have a PR problem; it has a policy problem, which the US has enabled. 1/7 🧵
Snapchat didn’t approve thousands of settlement units.
Twitter didn’t give Netanyahu a blank check.
Israel doesn’t have a PR problem; it has a policy problem, which the US has enabled. 1/7 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
TikTok didn’t block food and medical aid in Gaza.
Snapchat didn’t approve thousands of settlement units.
Twitter didn’t give Netanyahu a blank check.
Israel doesn’t have a PR problem; it has a policy problem, which the US has enabled. 1/7 🧵
Snapchat didn’t approve thousands of settlement units.
Twitter didn’t give Netanyahu a blank check.
Israel doesn’t have a PR problem; it has a policy problem, which the US has enabled. 1/7 🧵