SolidPhil
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🇺🇦 “…it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, and our aspirations. And it is with great pain and terror that one begins to realize this.” James Baldwin, 1965
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December 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Technologies generally persist until something better comes along to replace it, and unfortunately for the AI bubble and its hapless investors, AI has already been replaced with the significantly better technology of “not using AI”.
“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here
December 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Technologies generally persist until something better comes along to replace it, and unfortunately for the AI bubble and its hapless investors, AI has already been replaced with the significantly better technology of “not using AI”.
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If someone comes to your party uninvited, lets one rip in your face, then laughs "You can't undo a fart!" as a defense... that's even *more* reason to kick them out of your house.
“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
If someone comes to your party uninvited, lets one rip in your face, then laughs "You can't undo a fart!" as a defense... that's even *more* reason to kick them out of your house.
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*White* House interns.
December 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
*White* House interns.
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Marjory Taylor Greene reminds me that the correct term for the enemy of my enemy is an enema.
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Marjory Taylor Greene reminds me that the correct term for the enemy of my enemy is an enema.
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There is a Russian Imperial 'deep state' but not in the sleeper agents sense - simply the sense that, blame it on geography or culture or collective memory, Russia has a tendency towards territorial imperialism just as the US can't help but swing wildly between isolationist and crusader modes
December 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
There is a Russian Imperial 'deep state' but not in the sleeper agents sense - simply the sense that, blame it on geography or culture or collective memory, Russia has a tendency towards territorial imperialism just as the US can't help but swing wildly between isolationist and crusader modes
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Every time Owen and his ilk write something about eastern Europe and especially Russia, it's time to wheel out this oldie
December 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Every time Owen and his ilk write something about eastern Europe and especially Russia, it's time to wheel out this oldie
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I really can't afford to spend too much time on it without losing my mind, so take carefully: future historians really are gonna be in a bind to explain how the West just let Russians fuck around with them for years and avoid using the phrase "lack of cultural confidence".
December 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I really can't afford to spend too much time on it without losing my mind, so take carefully: future historians really are gonna be in a bind to explain how the West just let Russians fuck around with them for years and avoid using the phrase "lack of cultural confidence".
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CNN headline today: "Analysis: Trump undercuts the GOP’s moral high ground with ugly Rob Reiner post"
(Propaganda by false premise)
(Propaganda by false premise)
December 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
CNN headline today: "Analysis: Trump undercuts the GOP’s moral high ground with ugly Rob Reiner post"
(Propaganda by false premise)
(Propaganda by false premise)
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Well, at least the rest of the time the massive quantity of weapons in civilian hands is being used to prevent the tyrannical overreach of a domestic police state that detains and deports at will regardless of pretext or citizenship.
December 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Well, at least the rest of the time the massive quantity of weapons in civilian hands is being used to prevent the tyrannical overreach of a domestic police state that detains and deports at will regardless of pretext or citizenship.
when this finally dies i'm going cargo cult, building a little fire, praying for its magic power to return.
December 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
when this finally dies i'm going cargo cult, building a little fire, praying for its magic power to return.
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This is why I go nuts when people compare AI water use to agriculture or something. Do we need an overhaul of our systems? Sure! But humans need to eat and we don't need Garfield robbing sexy Pikachu at gunpoint. You're comparing apples to rubber chickens.
> People who don’t think twice about eating a burger or buying a new T-shirt are angry about LLMs and water because they are rejecting the entire premise that AI is worth the price of its water use.
i think this is what @anthonymoser.com commented on in another post & i agree
i think this is what @anthonymoser.com commented on in another post & i agree
December 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is why I go nuts when people compare AI water use to agriculture or something. Do we need an overhaul of our systems? Sure! But humans need to eat and we don't need Garfield robbing sexy Pikachu at gunpoint. You're comparing apples to rubber chickens.
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Fundamentally, I am yet to see any Russian dissident of stature grapple with the notion of Russia becoming a "normal" country, the notion of a country that does not have a god given right to a sphere of influence and an imperial backyard
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Fundamentally, I am yet to see any Russian dissident of stature grapple with the notion of Russia becoming a "normal" country, the notion of a country that does not have a god given right to a sphere of influence and an imperial backyard
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Be the light you want to see in the world 🔥
October 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Be the light you want to see in the world 🔥
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Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
May 27, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
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Europe is not ancient. It is seventy years old, still fragile, and has to be tended with careful, caring hands. Proponents of a racial, let alone religious fundamentalist, vision of European civilisation are an inherent enemy of that concept.
December 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Europe is not ancient. It is seventy years old, still fragile, and has to be tended with careful, caring hands. Proponents of a racial, let alone religious fundamentalist, vision of European civilisation are an inherent enemy of that concept.
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Sad songs: Everyone goes away, I want you and it hurts, people die, everything is temporary, there is no ground to stand on
Buddhists: We been saying this
Buddhists: We been saying this
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Sad songs: Everyone goes away, I want you and it hurts, people die, everything is temporary, there is no ground to stand on
Buddhists: We been saying this
Buddhists: We been saying this
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“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
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St. Susanna Parish In Dedham,
Massachusetts......👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Massachusetts......👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
December 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
St. Susanna Parish In Dedham,
Massachusetts......👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Massachusetts......👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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The constitution is going to have to be re-written after this administration and SCOTUS, isn't it.
December 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The constitution is going to have to be re-written after this administration and SCOTUS, isn't it.
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Me hearing the news about AI data centers being built
December 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Me hearing the news about AI data centers being built
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like, this is the single most antisocial administration in american history and i don't think it's even remotely close. they hate us, they hate themselves, they hate each other, they're just fucking nihilists all the way down
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM
like, this is the single most antisocial administration in american history and i don't think it's even remotely close. they hate us, they hate themselves, they hate each other, they're just fucking nihilists all the way down
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"Perhaps utterly unsurprising but one of the clear differences between activated and willing but not yet involved is having been personally asked by someone to do a concrete thing."
Anat Shenker-Osorio (@anatosaurus)
All year long we’ve been conducting research into activation. Through dozens of focus groups and surveys, we’ve looked at who is activated, activatable, opposes regime but unwilling to act. We’ve also...
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December 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"Perhaps utterly unsurprising but one of the clear differences between activated and willing but not yet involved is having been personally asked by someone to do a concrete thing."
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow