South Australian Premier challenges social media companies to oppose his Under 16 social media ban noting that he appointed the former Chief Justice of the High Court to write the legislation. “Good luck” he says. Told you the State was going to win the war. View quoted note →

Peak irony is this #Bitcoin Core Dev who has been defending v30 now saying “wow, would you look at what happened” after he was told this is exactly what would fucking happen.. Core is full to the brim of retards. They might be good at writing code, but they are ALL fucking retarded.

Every institution has drastically evolved in the past 200 years. All of them, except one. Government. We still elect representatives to go to some far flung city to do whatever the fuck they want for 3 or 4 years with zero accountability or recourse. We could actually have social contracts, we have the technology. But instead we’re gaslit to believe you agreed to give the Gov half your money in perpetuity, and follow whatever insane laws they make, simply for being born on their turf. I feel the injustice of this in my bones.

This piece on Nvidia and the AI bubble is rather long, but it’s worth the time. If you’re not familiar with Enron and the Dotcom bubble, and don’t know whats happening with US stocks and big tech nowadays - the important points are covered in here. The only outstanding questions for me at this point are “when?” will this fall apart, and how big will the bailout be?

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“The True Believer” by Eric Hoffer is a very short, but very good book up for my next #bookstr review. It’s a discussion of the commonalities in personalities drawn to extremist and fanatical ideologies. Much of it is obvious if you’ve read lots of history, but you could cut through tons of learning by reading this book early on. His categorisations and the overlaps he notes are particularly good, bypassing l arbitrary lines to show how both a Stalin and a Hitler can be so effective and the types they will resonate with as mass movements share commonalities regardless of the espoused ideology. For me, this was a far superior book than Desmet’s “The Psychology of Totalitarianism” which I rated my worst read earlier this year. Given it’s condensed into 2.5 hours of reading and far better explains Desmet’s title, skip his book and go with Hoffer if this topic interests you. View quoted note →