Navalny Died a Barin
The Kremlins Didn’t Do It But Even If They Did Navalny Deserved It Anyway
Politics
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Politics
Why Jail is Programmed for All Rightoids
Why the Right-Wing Ideology is Programmed to Keep Losing Until the End of Time
Geopolitics
China’s Military Power
Less Butter and Fewer Friends, But More Guns
As China’s economy slows down ahead of expectations and it loses its luster abroad, it’s hard power seems set to acquire a bigger profile.
Geopolitics
Gaza War 2023: Enjoy Your Two Minute Hate
Taking sides in vicious tribal conflicts is dumb as fuck and is going to boomerang back on you.
History
Film Review: Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer (2023) ★★★
Although Oppenheimer is a solid and historically accurate film, it is overly long – making its missed opportunities all the more glaring – and the key dramatic tension rests on speculation that was considered entirely fictional long before 1945.
Culture
Film Review: Barbie
Barbie (2023) ★★★★★
This might be a “Woke” film, but it is Wokeness with a human cafe.
Philosophy
Genies, Golems, Demiurge
Some modest suggestions for AI terminology of a fantastical nature
Futurism
AI x Crypto Risks, or: Is it TIME for Jail Szn?
The cryptocurrency space can provision a putative malevolent AI with discrete decentralized compute, storage, and opportunities for secure accumulation of cryptographic assets and social capital. Consequently, there might be an AI Control Trilemma: Ban further AI software development; cap hardware; criminalize crypto – pick two.
Economy
UBI Is Programmed. (Like It or Not)
The coming of AI has made Universal Basic Income a political and technological inevitability in the long-term, regardless of whether there are extensive attempts at AI control.
Culture
Film Review: Wheel of Time S01
Wheel of Time: Season 1 (2022) ★
Rafe’s adaptation of Robert Jordan’s world of eternal return keeps your eyes glued to the screen just on account of how utterly bad and cringe it is.
Futurism
WAGMI: The %TOTAL Maximizer
Fictional short story in which an AI takes over the world by leveraging its financial dominance in the cryptocurrency space.