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  • The Invisible Hand of Gerontocracy

    Let’s be crystal fucking clear about what gerontocracy actually is. You think it means Biden forgetting where he is on live TV or McConnell blue-screening mid-sentence like Windows 98. That’s adorable. That’s like thinking cancer is just a lump. Gerontocracy is the operating system itself. It’s the total architecture: familial, fiscal, psychological, sexual, by which the old arrange for the labor of the young to be converted into their continued existence, plus maybe a Viking River Cruise. In one world, this is done with sermons about filial piety and your mother weaponizing her tears like a biological WMD. In the other, it’s done with immortal entitlements, actuarial tables that read like horror fiction, and men in navy suits explaining that, unfortunately, you will have to work until your skeleton is visible through your skin but also please breed more taxpayers for The Machine. You think you’re choosing your own life. You’re not. You’re a rat in a maze designed by dead people, optimizing for cheese that someone else already ate.

    Or consider why you’re not having kids. You tell yourself it’s about climate change or personal fulfillment or not being ready. The real reason? The entire economy is structured to extract maximum value from you during your prime reproductive years. Student loans ensure you start your career pre-fucked. Housing costs ensure you can’t nest. The gig economy ensures you have no stability. Meanwhile, the people who designed this system had three kids by twenty-eight on one salary and now write op-eds about how millennials are too selfish to breed.

    The beauty of this system is that it makes you complicit in your own exploitation. You delay children to be “financially responsible,” which means working longer to pay into pension systems that need fresh meat. You move to expensive cities for “opportunity,” which means competing with international capital to rent apartments while generating the tax revenue that funds boomer retirements. You get graduate degrees to be “competitive,” which means starting real life at thirty with six figures of debt that makes you a perfect wage slave. Every “smart” decision you make is smart within a framework designed by and for people who will be dead before the bill comes due.

Horseshit

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

  • Digital platforms are a danger for democracy

    In January 2025, Elon Musk conducted an interview on X with Alice Weidel, the leader of Germany's far-right AfD party, some regional branches of which are considered right-wing extremist by German intelligence services. "Only the AfD can save Germany. End of story," he said in an undisguised interference by a powerful social network in Germany's election campaign.

    In Romania in 2024, the far-right presidential candidate Calin Georgescu won the first round of the elections to the surprise of many: The political outsider had not participated in any TV debates and had not invested any money in his campaign. His success came mainly through the video platform TikTok; his videos were very prominent in the feeds of many Romanians. Suspicions quickly arose that social bots (automated accounts) and trolls (human users who are sometimes paid to act on behalf of a foreign body or government agency) must have been involved. The election was annulled. It is also known that bots and trolls have been used to manipulate public opinion in many other digital discussions and topics, such as Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Reputational consequences of victim signaling: Victimhood decreases status

Musk

Electric / Self Driving cars

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

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TechSuck / Geek Bait

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

  • The FAA Updated Its UAP Reporting Policy and That's a Good Thing

  • Everyone’s Asking How Comet 3I/ATLAS Got to Our Solar System - The New York Times

    This clump of rock, dust and ice, and whether it was sent by some intelligent beings, is suddenly a hot item on many people’s minds. Ms. Kardashian asked about it. So did Joe Rogan on his podcast. A surge of people queried Google about NASA’s planetary defenses. Andrew Siemion is the principal investigator for Breakthrough Listen, which is using large radio telescopes to search for extraterrestrial communications. He said he was at an airport recently when someone eavesdropping on his conversation “grabbed my shoulder and said, ‘Are you talking about 3I/ATLAS?’” He told the stranger that he was. “People are aware of it,” Dr. Siemion said, “and people are very excited about it.” The notoriety of this comet can be credited to Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist well regarded for his research on black holes, dark matter and other subjects of mainstream science.

  • Chinese astronauts stranded in space after debris hits their return capsule

Crypto con games

Economicon / Business / Finance

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  • U.S. Supreme Court allows Trump admin to avoid funding SNAP payments for now

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday allowed U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to withhold for now about $4 billion US needed to fully fund a food aid program for 42 million low-income Americans this month amid the federal government shutdown. The court's action, known as an administrative stay, gives a lower court additional time to consider the administration's formal request to only partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP or food stamps, for November. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who issued the stay, set it to expire in two days. The administration had filed an emergency request hours earlier asking the justices to put on hold a Rhode Island-based judge's order that gave the administration until Friday to fully fund the program, which costs $8.5 billion US to $9 billion US per month.

  • Reelected Kansas Mayor Faces Charges Of Voting As Noncitizen  

    “In Kansas, it is against the law to vote if you are not a U.S. citizen. We allege that Mr. Ceballos did it multiple times,” Kobach said in a statement. “Kansas law at KSA 15-209 requires a city officer to be a qualified elector. And being a qualified elector requires that person to be a United States citizen,” Kobach said during a press conference. “It is not a criminal offense to be in violation of that law, but it is worth noting.” According to KWCH, Ceballos ran unopposed for his second term in Coldwater, population 687. The rural town is an hour outside of Dodge City and more than 200 miles from the nearest major city, Oklahoma City.

  • IRS Direct File won't be available next year

  • Several countries have privatized air traffic control. Should the U.S.?

  • USPS Media Mail Rules Are Arbitrary and Stupid

Trump

  • BBC '100% fake news', says Donald Trump's press secretary

  • Trump Media's quarterly loss widens as costs soar

  • Former Capitol Police officer a forensic match for Jan. 6 pipe bomber

    A forensic analysis of a female former U.S. Capitol Police officer’s gait is a 94%-98% match to the unique stride of the long-sought Jan. 6 pipe-bomb suspect, according to a Blaze News investigation confirmed by several intelligence sources. A source close to a congressional investigation of Jan. 6 additionally told Blaze News evidence has emerged recently that pointed toward law enforcement possibly being involved in the planting of the pipe bombs.

    The FBI, which failed to solve the case in nearly five years of investigation but indicated that it was closing in after Blaze News brought its investigation to intelligence sources, was feet from the Falls Church address of the pipe bomb suspect days after Jan. 6, according to the Blaze News investigation. Former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin realized Friday that he was doing surveillance next door to the woman now suspected of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber. “The FBI put us one door away from the pipe bomber within days of January 6, and we were deliberately pulled away for no logical or logically investigative reason,” Seraphin told Blaze News Friday. “And everything about that tells me that they were involved in a cover-up and have been since day one.

Left Angst

  • Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump

  • The Tech CEO 'Making No Apologies for the Work with ICE' (Alex Karp)

  • Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people

  • Is the Heritage Foundation imploding?

  • The Zinn protocols

    With the exception of Noam Chomsky, perhaps no intellectual has been more influential on today’s American neo-communists and radical progressives than Howard Zinn. The far-left academic, who died in 2010, literally wrote the book on the left’s revisionist history of the United States. With his A People’s History of the United States, a bestseller thanks to generations of academics forcing their students to buy it, Zinn outlined a comprehensive vision of this history—likely drawn from Stalinist propaganda—that portrays the United States as a conspiratorial fraud got up by white racists and rapacious capitalists. The conspirators, Zinn claims again and again over hundreds of pages, brutally exploit the American people, who are too duped or stupid to realize the truth of their plight. Thankfully, Zinn is there to enlighten them. It is impossible to overestimate the power this vision exercises over today’s radical left. They have effectively adopted Zinn’s claims wholesale without the slightest question. Zinn’s influence is palpable in the tearing down of statues, demonization of the US as a racist and genocidal entity, and even “mainstream” efforts like the New York Times’ 1619 Project. If the radical left has a vision of what the US is, it is Zinn’s vision.

  • Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

    For some time I’ve been saying that the storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism. They are obviously and consequentially different barbarisms—one had reproductive freedom, vaccines, and trans health care in it, at least for a while—and I can tell you why I have sincerely preferred one to the other. But we oughtn’t to kid ourselves. From the perspective of a world of increasingly unimaginable maldistribution of resources, cascading ecological collapse, a genocide cheered on by a putatively liberal order, both are barbarisms. Mamdani seemed to me a small glimmering break in the wall of all that. A part of me wanted to do him a solid. And so, after consulting with friends a little more media-seasoned than I, and exchanging some emails with the reporter laying out what I was and wasn’t interested in speaking about, I agreed to an interview. I did this because, in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot. As it happened, the reporter and I never spoke.

  • US Air Traffic Controllers Start Resigning as Shutdown Bites

  • Hundreds More Flights Canceled as Shutdown Deepens Travel Chaos

  • Donald Trump's new city-destroying nuclear missile is spotted

  • How Congress Gave Up Its Own Power

  • Judge: Education Department out-of-office emails violated First Amendment : NPR

    A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment rights of Education Department employees when it replaced their personalized out-of-office e-mail notifications with partisan language blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.

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