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Body in the twin cities, mind in the 16th-early 20th century. Thomas Paine was robbed…and so were we.
Begging that government leaders (everyone, really) ask themselves Neil Postman’s questions before allowing/adopting any tech like this.
(Obvs there are more questions to
ask but this is a great start….especially considering that barely anyone is asking any questions before tech adoption!)
(Obvs there are more questions to
ask but this is a great start….especially considering that barely anyone is asking any questions before tech adoption!)
November 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Begging that government leaders (everyone, really) ask themselves Neil Postman’s questions before allowing/adopting any tech like this.
(Obvs there are more questions to
ask but this is a great start….especially considering that barely anyone is asking any questions before tech adoption!)
(Obvs there are more questions to
ask but this is a great start….especially considering that barely anyone is asking any questions before tech adoption!)
If Neil Postman was still alive, he would write “Accommodating ourselves to Death: the worldview of Ezra Klein”
November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If Neil Postman was still alive, he would write “Accommodating ourselves to Death: the worldview of Ezra Klein”
Asked and fucking answered….in 1976!!!!!
No, no, no….a thousand times no!
These people write about everything and read about nothing…..fuck’s sake!
No, no, no….a thousand times no!
These people write about everything and read about nothing…..fuck’s sake!
November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Asked and fucking answered….in 1976!!!!!
No, no, no….a thousand times no!
These people write about everything and read about nothing…..fuck’s sake!
No, no, no….a thousand times no!
These people write about everything and read about nothing…..fuck’s sake!
Not saying that personal responsibility is an illusion nor that good environments will always result in good people…only that terrible environments act as a force for all creatures to do terrible things.
To me, what connects these two images is distress.
To me, what connects these two images is distress.
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Not saying that personal responsibility is an illusion nor that good environments will always result in good people…only that terrible environments act as a force for all creatures to do terrible things.
To me, what connects these two images is distress.
To me, what connects these two images is distress.
So much amazing analysis between 1945-1970 on leads people to become like this and not only did people with money ignore it….they set up an economic system around it.
Insecurity, no agency and lack of connection makes for an easily manipulated consumer + worker.
That shit also makes nazis.
Insecurity, no agency and lack of connection makes for an easily manipulated consumer + worker.
That shit also makes nazis.
October 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
So much amazing analysis between 1945-1970 on leads people to become like this and not only did people with money ignore it….they set up an economic system around it.
Insecurity, no agency and lack of connection makes for an easily manipulated consumer + worker.
That shit also makes nazis.
Insecurity, no agency and lack of connection makes for an easily manipulated consumer + worker.
That shit also makes nazis.
-HP Lovecraft
No such mercy for us, i’m afraid.
No such mercy for us, i’m afraid.
October 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
-HP Lovecraft
No such mercy for us, i’m afraid.
No such mercy for us, i’m afraid.
That, and intel. I love this snippet about Edwin Layton…the naval intel officer who, along with his team, predicted the attack on Midway…
Basically: “WHAT DO YOU KNOW?? You’re not a WARRIOR!!”
Turns out, his “fat ass” knew a whole lot more than the “warriors” did.
Basically: “WHAT DO YOU KNOW?? You’re not a WARRIOR!!”
Turns out, his “fat ass” knew a whole lot more than the “warriors” did.
October 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
That, and intel. I love this snippet about Edwin Layton…the naval intel officer who, along with his team, predicted the attack on Midway…
Basically: “WHAT DO YOU KNOW?? You’re not a WARRIOR!!”
Turns out, his “fat ass” knew a whole lot more than the “warriors” did.
Basically: “WHAT DO YOU KNOW?? You’re not a WARRIOR!!”
Turns out, his “fat ass” knew a whole lot more than the “warriors” did.
This, but with HD shaders and anime eyes.
October 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This, but with HD shaders and anime eyes.
Can someone who still has the capacity for theory of mind please make a social media site?
Then again, perhaps theory of mind is why they don’t.
Sigh.
Then again, perhaps theory of mind is why they don’t.
Sigh.
October 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Can someone who still has the capacity for theory of mind please make a social media site?
Then again, perhaps theory of mind is why they don’t.
Sigh.
Then again, perhaps theory of mind is why they don’t.
Sigh.
I never paid much attention. But when someone reposted this, every alarm bell in my head went off.
Society has poisoned our ability to sit still and inhabit another’s mind. We cannot see using the spotlight of another. We just take what saturates our own cone until we can’t even see any detail.
Society has poisoned our ability to sit still and inhabit another’s mind. We cannot see using the spotlight of another. We just take what saturates our own cone until we can’t even see any detail.
October 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I never paid much attention. But when someone reposted this, every alarm bell in my head went off.
Society has poisoned our ability to sit still and inhabit another’s mind. We cannot see using the spotlight of another. We just take what saturates our own cone until we can’t even see any detail.
Society has poisoned our ability to sit still and inhabit another’s mind. We cannot see using the spotlight of another. We just take what saturates our own cone until we can’t even see any detail.
Never paid much attention to Jay, but when I saw this post, I instantly became very worried about this site.
Communication is meant to share what we think, but, most importantly HOW we think.
Understanding other minds is crucial and you cannot do that if you pop in, grab what is shiny and run out
Communication is meant to share what we think, but, most importantly HOW we think.
Understanding other minds is crucial and you cannot do that if you pop in, grab what is shiny and run out
October 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Never paid much attention to Jay, but when I saw this post, I instantly became very worried about this site.
Communication is meant to share what we think, but, most importantly HOW we think.
Understanding other minds is crucial and you cannot do that if you pop in, grab what is shiny and run out
Communication is meant to share what we think, but, most importantly HOW we think.
Understanding other minds is crucial and you cannot do that if you pop in, grab what is shiny and run out
Exactly! Hey, if this is the messaging that works, so be it…but considering a small chocolate malt, a single patty cheeseburger and a small order of onion rings cost me $22 and change at Snuffy’s today…..
These prices ain’t cheap, but it doesn’t seem like fine dining prices.
These prices ain’t cheap, but it doesn’t seem like fine dining prices.
October 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Exactly! Hey, if this is the messaging that works, so be it…but considering a small chocolate malt, a single patty cheeseburger and a small order of onion rings cost me $22 and change at Snuffy’s today…..
These prices ain’t cheap, but it doesn’t seem like fine dining prices.
These prices ain’t cheap, but it doesn’t seem like fine dining prices.
Ezra should read Common Sense. Paine clears up why people think “wrong things are right” in the first two sentences…
Paine would also tell Klein that if people disagree with you but you are in the right, the answer is “I don’t care, I’m right.”
Paine would also tell Klein that if people disagree with you but you are in the right, the answer is “I don’t care, I’m right.”
September 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Ezra should read Common Sense. Paine clears up why people think “wrong things are right” in the first two sentences…
Paine would also tell Klein that if people disagree with you but you are in the right, the answer is “I don’t care, I’m right.”
Paine would also tell Klein that if people disagree with you but you are in the right, the answer is “I don’t care, I’m right.”
We’ve all seen this letter many times, but, hey, I can’t get enough of this stuff….especially these days.
September 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
We’ve all seen this letter many times, but, hey, I can’t get enough of this stuff….especially these days.
It’s fucking exhausting. All these “luminaries” going on and on about how you have to kowtow to what is popular.
Thomas Paine’s counterpoint: “What’s right is right and fuck you if you don’t like it.”
Thomas Paine’s counterpoint: “What’s right is right and fuck you if you don’t like it.”
September 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It’s fucking exhausting. All these “luminaries” going on and on about how you have to kowtow to what is popular.
Thomas Paine’s counterpoint: “What’s right is right and fuck you if you don’t like it.”
Thomas Paine’s counterpoint: “What’s right is right and fuck you if you don’t like it.”
“The shit i’m about to say is unpopular, but I don’t give a fuck because it’s the truth….”
September 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“The shit i’m about to say is unpopular, but I don’t give a fuck because it’s the truth….”
They see them as weak and the weakest should go to the wall. Unsocialized misanthropes just like Heraclitus.
August 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
They see them as weak and the weakest should go to the wall. Unsocialized misanthropes just like Heraclitus.
Yep. All the way back to at least Heraclitus.
August 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Yep. All the way back to at least Heraclitus.
If dude can’t connect fascism to “the weakest should go the wall” and what is happening as “the strife that will cull the weak”…..his check critical thinking engine light is on….
August 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If dude can’t connect fascism to “the weakest should go the wall” and what is happening as “the strife that will cull the weak”…..his check critical thinking engine light is on….
We are in the most recent battle in the centuries long war between “the miserable” and “the cheerful”.
August 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We are in the most recent battle in the centuries long war between “the miserable” and “the cheerful”.
Hell, go all the way back and introduce him to Heraclitus.
August 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Hell, go all the way back and introduce him to Heraclitus.
You are 100% correct. “The weakest should go to the wall” idea has been around for a long long time and goes hand in hand with fascism.
August 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
You are 100% correct. “The weakest should go to the wall” idea has been around for a long long time and goes hand in hand with fascism.
This “philosophy” has been around for a long time.
August 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This “philosophy” has been around for a long time.