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Like a shepherd, who sets a wolf among the sheep

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How it started. How it’s going.
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This piece is for men. Every time I write about how men systemically abuse women, my DMs explode with “Not All Men” complaints. But a new study goes one step further, and demonstrates that empirically, statistically, and factually, it literally is all men. And the data is horrifying. qasimrashid.com/p/russell-br…
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“Sir, we’re entering an age of medical miracles.” “An age of medical miracles! Wow, that sounds great! But tell me it’s not just high-tech eug—” “It’s high-tech eugenics.”
Nota bene: Central to Amodei's vision for how AI will "cure" mental illness is genetic screening, meaning he expects human reproduction via sex to be largely replaced by mass embryo production and mass screening in labs on this same timeline:
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I asked Fable 5.2 to "go wild" making a game, and all I got was this Pong clone. And then I played it ... 👇
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Decided to finally see what this AI thing is all about
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The boat strikes aren't even war crimes they're just straight-up crimes because there's no authorization for the use of force - no war - in the Caribbean.
Hegseth on his own Impeachment: If they want to come for the warriors, they're going to have to come through me
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1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers. This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.
Ross Douthat asks the President how his net worth rose by nearly $3 billion, according to a Forbes estimate, since he returned to office. Watch the interview Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT on 60 Minutes.
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I don't think the public is ready to hear the types of ponderings that go on behind closed doors in AI labs. Many in AI labs probably think that even if catastrophic AI incidents occur and many people die, the 'strongest, smartest, and least vulnerable' layer of the world's population would survive and would help create a 'future of abundance' with AI, so the effort is worth it. Remember when Anthropic proposed in its AI safety bill that catastrophic AI risk = more than 50 deaths or serious injuries? In Anthropic's math, successive AI incidents leading to 49 deaths each should still be seen as a net positive in the name of "a future of abundance." Sooner or later, however, it will be clear how some of the AI executives think and what is really driving the 'race to superintelligence.' I'll keep you posted.
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The excerpt is from Dario Amodei's 2010 GiveWell guest post as a Princeton physics grad student; he donated the $10k to VillageReach (child vaccines) and described the critical analysis as emotionally taxing. blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/my-… nytimes.com/2026/11/05/tec…
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“I’ve never heard of Donald Trump.” - Donald Trump
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its no surprise the chuds are going mad for anakin, he's the quintessential school shooter after all
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This cartoon is from 1930s. The West was quietly watching as russia was killing Ukrainian people. Back then, they argued: "The Soviet Union is not the Russian Empire!" "Tales of millions starving aren't real!" "We shouldn't anger the bear!" "It's the leadership! The people are not to blame!" Now they argue similar nonsense: "Russia is not the Soviet Union!" "All that footage of murder and genocide isn't real!" "We shouldn't anger the nuclear country!" "It's just Putin's war! The people are not to blame!" A hundred years has passed and nothing has changed. History will judge us for making the same mistake again.
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What’s a polite way to tell someone, “I’m not discussing this with you because your entire understanding of the subject is built on so many interconnected misconceptions that correcting them would require uninstalling your current worldview and starting the tutorial from birth”?
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As I reported hours ago, Flávio Bolsonaro has arrived safely in United States. The mastermind behind this operation is U.S. Secretary of State @SecRubio . From the United States, free and safe, Flávio will lead the opposition against Lula.
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🎯 Staying in power is the only thing a dictator who wants to stay in power can afford to think about. Every day.
Forget about NATO expansion, Russian imperialism and all that nonsense. Putin started the war for one reason: To stay in power. He will likely need another war in 2-3 years.
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Technically, everything is scratch and sniff.
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Replying to @iamrahstradamus
Invisible battles that the masses can’t hear or see….yet many crawl to these apps X IG FB Tik YT like they pass out free cheese from the 70s lol … this app game is a field where they destroy independents
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Malcolm Gladwell is a fucking fraud and has made a career and millions just spewing bullshit that falls apart if you have a working brain or decide to lightly fact-check him. A phenomenally stupid man and grifter.
I have just published a piece that is very important to me. It's about why so many "progressives" and people on "the left" are lying to us right now about crime, safety, and repression, and what we should be doing instead. equalityalec.substack.com/p/…
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I’ll take a shot at answering one of these good questions. These poor young people are not dying for "no reason". They’re dying because Vladimir Putin's Russia invaded Ukraine and Ukrainians don’t want to be murdered. I hope this helps.
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Jared Kushner hired a hitman to kill Jamal Khashoggi who was actively investigating his ties to MBS at the time of his murder
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It’s an indication he doesn’t know the difference between “discrete” and “discreet” and that’s a bad look for a CIA provocateur.
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