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- Comment on How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multi-trillion-dollar market swings. 16 hours ago:
If you control social media, you also control who gets to see what in their feeds.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
In authoritarian societies, restricting education serves a purpose as a sort of anesthesia for the minds of the people. Solzhenitsyn, describing the few years just before the Great Terror of 1937 started in the Soviet Union, mostly from the perspective of a political prisoner (from Volume II, Chapter 4 of the “Gulag Archipelago” which can be found in its entirety on the web, in The Archive):
And the clock of history was striking. […] The Great Leader (having already in mind, no doubt, how many he would soon have to do away with) declared that the withering away of the state (which had been awaited virtually from 1920 on) would arrive via, believe it or not, the maximum intensification of state power! This was so unexpectedly brilliant that it was not given to every little mind to grasp it, but Vyshinsky, ever the loyal apprentice, immediately picked it up: “And this means the maximum strengthening of corrective-labor institutions.” […] And this was not some satirical magazine cracking a joke either, but was said by the Prosecutor General. […] All this was printed in black on white, but we still didn’t know how to read.¹ The year 1937 was publicly predicted and provided with a foundation.
And the hairy hand² tossed out all the frills and gewgaws too. Labor collectives? Prohibited! […] Professional and technical courses for prisoners? Dissolve them! […] Graphs, diagrams? Tear them off the wall and whitewash the walls.1 My take: The author and his peers most definitely knew how to read, but they could not fully comprehend what was being published because of its, at that time, unparalleled egregiousness.
2 Certainly the one of Stalin. - Comment on Stop touching your stuff! 1 month ago:
🎶 What’s love but a second hand in motion. 🎶
- Comment on Freedumb 1 month ago:
At least early Christianity is in many ways socialism. Remember the feeding of the 5000 with five loaves and two fish? The meaning is that there will be plenty if everyone shares.
- Comment on Freedumb 1 month ago:
When the true king’s murderers are allowed to roam free, a thousand magicians arise in the land.
Where are the feast we are promised?(Jim Morrison, An American Prayer)
- Comment on Sounds like a problem for them, not me. 1 month ago:
That’s the way. I have three phones, the two non-work phones are 1. for friends and family, 2. for everybody else. One of these is actually a dumb phone. Can’t stand the distractions.
- Comment on Advice on enjoying your life 1 month ago:
The Zhuangzi has a chapter called “Mastering Life.”
Then again, I’ve been reading the whole book back to front dozens of times. It completely changed me, but for it all to sink it, it took a while. - Comment on Ancestry dot com 1 month ago:
Polly wants a cracker
I think I should get off her first
I think she wants some water
To put out the blowtorch - Comment on No beans, only dogs 2 months ago:
taco, buffalo, birddog and Jesus
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 2 months ago:
- Comment on Thanks mom, I don't want any 3 months ago:
You can buy puff pastry, ready to be filled, in stores. We used to do that a lot. Just blend all scraps and spices we could find around the kitchen, put them into the pastry, shape it and bake it in the oven. Totally delicious.
- Comment on Pointless existence 3 months ago:
I read an interview once with Leonard Cohen, who, as you might remember, became a Buddhist monk. He stated that in the monastery, you’re free to do pretty much anything - in your free time. Listen to rock music, take drugs, no-one cares.
It’s just that you don’t have any free time because every day is 100% structured.
