Evolution of evolvability is a thing, apparently.
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Race to the bottom
Overheard on some social media platform: "Do you all remember, before the internet, that people thought the cause of stupidity was the lack of access to information? Yeah. It wasn´t that."
Manipulating Trump
Libertarian gadfly/influencer Richard Hanania on the bizarre Zelensky-Trump/Vance situation. This is of course just an opinion among many, although their might be *something* to it. The short form is that Trump has an ego as big as Olympus Mons, and that Zelensky was too stupid to manipulate him. Lindsey Graham and other main-line Republicans had a plan to "turn" Trump pro-Ukrainian through the mineral deal (this idea is also popular among anti-Ukrainian influencers and anons). For unclear reasons, Zelensky screwed up. Hanania believes that the Ukrainian president must step aside in favor of a more savvy operator...
Personally, I suspect that Zelensky was told by somebody to screw up the press conference, but that´s just another guess. It can´t have been Macron or Starmer, who both want a deal with Trump. Could it be some faction of the Democratic Party? I wouldn´t be surprised if Zelensky will be forced to resign and replaced by, say, Poroshenko. But we´ll see. I mean, we always do in the end, don´t we?
Zelensky has behaved honorably. He should now resign.
Why Zelensky should step aside/ Why you can´t defend Zelensky
Realsocialism möter senkapitalism
Ger en helt ny innebörd åt Margaret Thatchers uttalande "the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people´s money". Ja, det verkar som att järnladyn hade fel!
Vi skulle även kunna säga att realsocialismen möter senkapitalismen...
Nordkorea slog till på två minuter: Världshistoriens största kryptostöld
The clock is ticking
I´m going to link to this "for the record" and then brag about my predictive abilities if Zelensky is replaced by Petro Poroshenko before the springtide is over...
"Absolute idiocy": Zelensky blasted by Ukrainian lawmaker
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Our Musk predicament
Atheist activista Richard Carrier isn´t terribly impressed by Elon Musk. I also link to a critical Substack essay by Sam Harris (yes, *that* Sam Harris), who was apparently a friend of Musk´s until the COVID pandemic. Finally, Musk´s biographer Seth Abramson claims that the man´s IQ is in the 100 - 110 range (i.e. average Normie).
This may or may not be relevant somehow, but personally I´m more interested in whether or not Tesla and SpaceX make "legit" products, Musk´s connections to several US administrations, and the real purpose of DOGE.
Make of this material what ye wish.
The lost mythology
So I just watched "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". The plot of the film is (of course) based on the Ancient Aliens mythos c/o Erich von Däniken and such. I can understand the powerful pull of this mythology, especially on people who simply can´t or won´t believe in Christianity (the dominant mythology of the Western world until recently).
Unfortunately, I can´t believe it...nor any other myths, for that matter. And yet, it seems humans can´t live without a mythology, anymore than we can live without a culture. Indeed, that was why the Ancient Aliens were invented in the first place - as a myth cycle for the Space Age.
I feel alone and adrift...
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