Metisocracy - Recovering Practical Knowledge. Metis over Metrics. Anglofuturist
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🇫🇷 FLASH - LFI a dévoilé le programme de Jean-Luc Mélenchon pour la présidentielle de 2027. Parmi les propositions :
- Autoriser jusqu’à 3 jours d’arrêt maladie autodéclaré, sans consulter de médecin.
- Accorder 7 jours de congé après le décès d’un ami.
- Porter le SMIC à 1.700€ net par mois, soit une hausse de 220€.
- Ramener l’âge de départ à la retraite de 64 à 60 ans, avec une retraite à taux plein après 40 années de cotisation.
- Réduire progressivement la durée du travail à 32 heures par semaine.
- Instaurer un service écologique obligatoire de 9 mois pour les moins de 25 ans, rémunéré au SMIC.
- Faire rembourser les soins à 100% par la Sécurité sociale.
- Prendre en charge les séances de psychothérapie des moins de 26 ans.
- Fixer un plafond de 12 millions d’euros pour les héritages.
- Augmenter les APL de 10% pour aider à payer les loyers.
- Bloquer les prix de certains produits essentiels afin de limiter les hausses excessives.
- Revaloriser les salaires des fonctionnaires.
- Garantir un revenu minimum aux jeunes grâce à une allocation.
- Proposer aux étudiants des repas à 1€.
- Limiter à 1 pour 20 l’écart entre les rémunérations au sein d’une même entreprise.
- Soumettre les aides publiques aux entreprises à des engagements sociaux et écologiques.
- Rétablir l’ISF afin d’accroître l’imposition des grandes fortunes.
- Mettre en place la taxe Zucman pour taxer davantage les milliardaires.
- Répartir l’impôt sur le revenu en 14 tranches pour augmenter la contribution des plus riches.
- Engager une sortie progressive du nucléaire.
- Atteindre une production d’électricité issue à 100% des énergies renouvelables d’ici 2060.
- Interdire les vols entre 23h et 6h.
- Suspendre les zones à faibles émissions (ZFE), qui restreignent la circulation des véhicules les plus polluants dans certaines villes.
- Passer de la Ve à la VIe République en donnant davantage de pouvoir aux citoyens.
- Supprimer le 49.3, qui permet au gouvernement de faire adopter un texte sans vote.
- Intensifier la lutte contre les discriminations, notamment au sein de la police.
- Reconnaître comme crime d’État le massacre des Algériens du 17 octobre 1961.
- Renégocier les traités européens et refuser l’application de certaines règles européennes jugées incompatibles avec le programme.
- Quitter progressivement le commandement militaire intégré de l’OTAN.
- Soutenir la création d’un État palestinien aux côtés d’Israël.
stumpyuk retweeted
🚨 La Suède vient de réaliser son objectif : revenir à 35% de dette publique sur PIB.
Quel exploit.
En 1995, la dette 🇸🇪 était à 85%. 💀
2 ans plus tôt, le pays avait perdu son AAA.
11,2% de déficit au creux de la crise.
Une des raisons (au-delà des dépenses sociales) : l'État avait FORCÉ les banques à accorder des prêts pour que "les personnes défavorisées puissent devenir propriétaire".
Résultat, le secteur bancaire s'était effondré.
😅
Ce que la Suède a fait pour s'en sortir :
→ Laisser le secteur privé tranquille
→ Couper dans ses dépenses
→ Réformer
→ Offrir plus de liberté aux entreprises
→ Supprimer les impôts démagogiques qui appauvrissaient le pays en faisant fuir la richesse (taxe sur les transactions financières, la taxe héritage à 90%...)
La Suède nous a montré le chemin.
Arrêtons d'écouter ceux qui veulent TOUJOURS relancer l'économie par l'augmentation de la dépense publique (ou la taxation des riches/whatever) alors que notre dette est à 119%.
stumpyuk retweeted
Medicine is where that question gets concrete. Each year a good drug arrives late is a year some patients go without it. AI that helps design molecules, read the literature and plan trials shortens that wait, and slowing it down has a cost that rarely shows up in the debate.
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I think we've crossed an important threshold
ARTEX, Cairn and similar frameworks can now automate substantial parts of real intrusions. And as models become cheaper and more capable, the number of attacks is no longer constrained in the same way by human skills, time and attention
I wrote about what changed, why this is different from traditional automation, and what I expect to happen next
medium.com/@cyb3rops/the-tip…
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While much of Europe drowns in debt, Switzerland offers a radical alternative: spend within your means, keep taxes low and let markets work.
In the 2026 Heritage Index of Economic Freedom, Switzerland ranks second in the world. Property rights are strongly protected, regulation is light by European standards, and fiscal health remains sound. Public debt sits well below the levels common among its neighbours while the tax-to-GDP ratio is 27 per cent, closer to the United States than to France or Germany. A constitutional debt brake, approved by voters in 2001, requires the federal budget to balance over the cycle and has constrained the growth of spending even through crises.
Openness has reinforced the discipline. Switzerland maintains high levels of trade relative to the size of its economy and has long treated foreign investment and competition as normal rather than as threats. Neutrality has kept it outside the military and fiscal commitments that have expanded state budgets elsewhere. The combination has produced a high-income economy whose government does not need to borrow continuously to fund its operations.
The contrast is stark. Countries that raised taxes, expanded entitlements, and treated debt as a routine tool of policy now face the arithmetic those choices created. Switzerland’s approach has been less dramatic and less frequently celebrated but has proven much more durable.
Low taxes and open markets just works.
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The Potting-Shed Leviathan: How Progressive Liberalism Broke the World to Save It metisocracy.substack.com/p/t…
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JUST IN: French blood bank hit by cyber attack with blood samples being heated to 110 degrees Celsius from their maintained -30, per Le Canard Enchaîné.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The 110 °C figure was the value hacked equipment was reprogrammed to reach, which does not mean the cold rooms or plasma bags actually reached 110 °C. France's health ministry said the anomalies were spotted in time, with no operational consequences. cyberattaque.org/cyberattaque-c…
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When young people cannot afford a home, start a family, or see a path to a better life, revolution becomes a more attractive alternative.
Between 1970 and 1999, 80% of conflicts occurred in countries where more than 60% of the population was under 30.
This is what we need to help prevent with the upcoming technological shift.
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's decision to abolish the country's citizenship income welfare scheme and introduce stricter benefits has coincided with unemployment falling to its lowest levels in two decades, including in southern Italy.
Italy reached a record 24.36 million employed people in the second quarter of 2026, an increase of 246,000 from the previous year. Unemployment fell to 6.3%, while the employment rate reached a historic high of 63.4%.
In southern Italy, approximately 500,000 jobs were created between 2021 and 2024, with regional GDP growing 8.5%, compared with 5.8% in central and northern Italy. Sicily's employment rate rose from 44.4% in 2020 to 51.4% in 2026.
Meloni's reforms, introduced in 2023 and fully implemented in January 2024, replaced the previous welfare system with targeted assistance for vulnerable households and employment or training requirements for other eligible adults.
stumpyuk retweeted
Is 'National Conservatism' a containment ideology?
substack.com/@alasdairjmarsh…
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The hyper-internationalisation of our institutions is a catastrophe:
substack.com/@alasdairjmarsh…
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I've joined Voting Right. It tells you which right-of-centre candidate to back where you live, so the vote isn't split. If fewer than 1 in 4 of us did it, the right would win a majority. Sign up, then send it to four friends: unitetherightuk.com
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WTF. Cybersecurity firm Sophos says its incident-response team handled SEVEN major incidents in SEVEN days, a workload that normally takes THREE MONTHS.
The WSJ reports security firms are overwhelmed by what insiders call 'Black October.' MoxFive says newly breached companies may have to wait up to FIVE DAYS for help.
Security executives say AI is helping attackers exploit vulnerabilities faster than defenders can respond.
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To every American about to vote in the midterms, and to every Western nation: this is a very important message. It explains why there is chaos everywhere.
The West never understood communism. And that is exactly why it's sick with it.
We were taught that communism was an economic mistake. Bread lines, failed five-year plans, the USSR collapsing in 1991. Case closed.
Wrong. Economics was only the surface. The core of communism is the systemic lie. Not one man's lie: the lie as social architecture. A system where truth is no longer discovered but assigned, where language no longer describes reality but covers it up.
Poles have words for this. Zakłamanie: a society so saturated with lies that truth becomes almost unreachable. Obłuda: hypocrisy performed for so long that the mask becomes the face. English has no equivalent. That's no accident. You don't have a word for a wound you never lived through. And without the word, you can't recognize the disease when it comes back in a new costume.
My thesis is simple: the West has been infected. Not by Soviet tanks, by the software. And most of our current dysfunction flows from it, first and foremost.
Look at France. Over 57% of GDP in public spending. Debt approaching 120% of GDP and still climbing. Not a single balanced budget since 1974. Fifty years. That's not a policy anymore, it's a condition. And every year, with a perfectly straight face, we're told that this time it's discipline, that the social model is saved, that everything can be funded without anyone paying.
That's zakłamanie, social-democrat edition. The founding lie is that you can redistribute wealth without caring who creates it. That the state can absorb more than half the economy and the economy will stay alive. It doesn't work. It holds as long as you can borrow, until you end up borrowing to pay the interest on what you already borrowed.
We have no gulags. But we have the structure: a state that plans, subsidizes, regulates every move, and a political class whose real job is managing the gap between what it says and what actually happens.
Macron is the perfect embodiment. His signature "en même temps" ("at the same time") is Orwell's doublethink turned into a doctrine of government: hold two contradictory propositions and demand that everyone accept both. Liberal in speech, while debt goes from roughly 100% to nearly 120% of GDP on his watch. Édouard Philippe, Gabriel Attal: same school, same grammar. Fiscal seriousness at the podium, rising debt in the books. And the worst part isn't that they're cynical. It's that after reciting the script for so long, they no longer see the gap. That's exactly what people from the East describe: at its mature stage, the lie isn't cynical anymore. It's believed.
This isn't just a French story. In the US, a growing part of the Democratic Party has adopted the same grammar: truth becomes a matter of belonging, disagreement becomes violence, language gets rewritten by moral decree. Wokeism is the same operating system with a new interface. The proletariat replaced by identity groups. The class enemy replaced by the "problematic." Public self-criticism replaced by public apologies online.
A Pole, a Czech, a Hungarian recognizes the pattern in three seconds. We see a slightly excessive but well-meaning movement.
That's where everything is decided. You can't fight a disease you can't name. The debt, the deindustrialization, the collapse of trust in institutions, the political paralysis: this isn't a series of accidents. It's what happens when a society stops paying the price of truth.
The first task is to relearn how to say what is. The rest will follow.
🤖 Made with AI
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The point of no return by Richard von Mises is worth reading:
"A state becomes almost unreformable when the majority of the population is financially or structurally dependent on the state (state employees, civil servants, recipients of subsidies, grants, or transfer payments, etc.). As soon as those who net benefit from or are supported by the state outnumber those who do not, the system blocks reforms, since the majority votes out of self-interest for the preservation or expansion of state services."
Does this sound familiar? Some European countries, France, Belgium, Finland are already way beyond that point, closely followed by Germany, Spain, Austria and Italy. It works for a while, as long as markets buy more sovereign debt at reasonable interest rates. The party ends when they stop though. For France, they stopped this month, Belgium will be next.
The longer the socialist illusion persists, the more painful the inevitable cuts and adjustments will be. It’s pure arithmetic. Good luck Europe, good luck Euro. Buckle up, it won’t be pretty.
stumpyuk retweeted
can someone explain to me why the most common retirement hobby for British boomers is *making it illegal to build anything, anywhere*
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This is AngloFuturism.
This is our answer - precisely because everything we need to do has already been done before. Lee Kuan Yew proved it by literally running our software on his swampy hardware - and far better than we have for the last 40 years. He even left Raffles up on his plinth after independence, because he knew capital allocators read continuity as a promise. Something you can trust in. Something you can invest in. And if nothing else, the British state was successful due to it being high trust; all our innovation and growth all possible because investors trusted the stewardship of Britain’s elites.
Then LKY took the best tool we ever built and applied it everywhere. The Land Acquisition Act of 1966 let the state buy land at existing-use value and keep the uplift, and that uplift paid for the HDB estates. We invented that. Under the New Towns Act of 1946 we built Stevenage and Harlow on farmland bought at agricultural prices. In 1961 Parliament handed hope value back to the landowners and the building stopped. Singapore kept what we threw away and became rich on it.
We're at a crucial point of no return and under the Uniparty’s watch about to make the same mistake with the automation age. The country that put Calder Hall on the national grid in 1956 now can't build Hinkley Point nor connect a data centre.
OpenAI painfully put Stargate UK on hold this year over our insane energy costs and regulatory uncertainty. Around 140 projects are queuing for 50GW of grid capacity, more than Britain's entire 45GW peak. SW1 NPC Lanyardistas unthinking answer is a £500 million Sovereign AI Unit - while SpaceX spent $12.7bn on AI in 2025. Levels to this game.
We must stop waiting for permission. No one is coming to save us. We must restore existing-use value for strategic land and let the state keep the uplift again. Consent reactors on a fixed clock and wire data centres straight into them. Cut waste by £150bn (@GreatBritishTT have explained how you can do this) and re direct that flow into building infrastructure. This will create vast amounts of jobs and tax receipts. Then having demonstrated to the bond market that the British state is now wildly competent (lean, run by experienced operators, hyper focused on a handful of policy areas) you then go borrow more. Yes. More. Debt to GDP % be damned so long as the projects you invest that borrowed money in have a solid and compounding return profile over time. The moron premium will be replaced by a progress discount - because the returns from the initial Capex spend will be massive, hugely deflationary across multiple goods and services improving. Cost of living for millions of working people, and those returns will compound over time.
Then point a larger and gradually increasing% British pension capital at British power stations and the substrate instead of at other people's index funds. A sovereign model at 60% of the frontier is cheap once the electrons exist. Without them we rent our thinking from whoever owns the power, and a nation that rents its thinking has already handed over its future, it becomes a post-national vassal. It can be switched off at a moments notice. This is to say nothing of having individual AI models totally focused on one topic. Specialists > Generalists. Think: defence, cyber security, energy. Etc.
We literally wrote the manual on how to build the most successful civilisation the world has ever known. High time we re-read that manual and apply its lessons.
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Report from Battle of Ideas Festival
Being in the Digital Right sometimes it can feel like your tweeting into the void, yes there’s thousands of view and likes but it’s all through a screen
But today o experienced something different, the power of IRL, and being with thousands of ideologically aligned but also broad in terms of thinking and ready and willing to debate, discuss and welcome free speech.
Also there is a mood growing very quietly and very politely among the middle classes (which were the core demographic here) that all is not well, and they are slightly miffed about this and won’t ignore it or be ignored any longer.
Populism is often considered low culture (mainly because of sneering hatred from ideologically opposed high culture) but today was a moment for high cultured dissent, civil servants, university professors, writers, retired army generals, lawyers, scientists, Lords and many more all wanted to discuss our future, the value of the West and why we won’t go quietly.
Now maybe this is just the Elves reflecting on the rise of the Orcs before fleeing to the Island of Eternity, but I don’t think so, it felt generational like a sense that we are all links in a chain of culture that stretches back to our ancestors to whom we owe and forward to our descendants whom are counting upon us, and that therefore we cannot and must not break.
Under the fine words, and good ideas there was a willingness to battle for the soul of the West and for that alone I’m glad I went because it made so much of what I do here posting and talking seem very real and it’s given me hope!
Thankyou @Fox_Claire and @acadofideas
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What’s happening in Paris and Milan is no surprise to anyone who has spent time around young people in Europe during the 2010s:
Virtually all of them were working on their 4th masters degree in social welfare, were unmarried, attended communist dinners every night, and regularly participated in riots.
Now the economy is suddenly transforming and they have nothing to show for it.