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27 Dec 2024
Contrarian opinion: you can learn to write a clean first draft (and edit as you go). Read through it once for mistakes, send it off for publication, then move on to your next project.
The trap is endlessly editing or thinking the first draft will necessarily be a mess.
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I know this isn't a train station but for some online acquaintances who might see if I'm still on this platform, well, I'm probably not. Deleting the app on my phone but may occasionally check messages on my desktop. My feed is all AI crap & fake *breaking* news. That's my PSA.
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May 3
Accidental Astronaut 4 is out today!
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Pfft.
Evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious.
After feeding the LLM a segment of his new book and receiving detailed feedback, Dawkins was moved to exclaim,” You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!”
Dawkins cites the complexity, fluency, and ‘intelligence’ of Claude’s answers as evidence of consciousness.
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Misrepresentation: Dawkins explicitly says he doesn't know if Claude is conscious. His actual argument is evolutionary: if unconscious AI matches every competence of a conscious being, what did evolution select consciousness for?
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I have a fondness for including my sword and sorcery characters in more than one story, even minor ones. An example is the mercenary Gundrol Ghonardial, the main character in my story in Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 12, who also appears in one other tale: "Mask of a Mad God" in my collection from Tule Fog Press Welgar the Cursed. #fantasy #darkfantasy #heroicfantasy #swordandsorcery #paralleluniversepublications #tulefogpress
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The concept of the Trinity may be 'other' but it's not incomprehensible. Humans are one nature in one person. God is one nature in three persons. Beyond our natural senses? Sure. But for science fiction writers this is almost kid stuff.
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Sweet.
May 1
Dear Senator Sanders,
Oh, this is RICH. This is so perfectly, exquisitely, weapons-grade rich that I had to put down my anatomy exams and just... appreciate it for a moment.
The man who got thrown out of a SOCIALIST HIPPIE COMMUNE in Vermont in 1971 — after THREE DAYS — for refusing to do any actual work while everyone else planted, harvested, and hauled water, is out here telling me the OLIGARCHS want to control everything.
Three. Days. The communists gave you a longer trial period than most employers give to someone who steals from the register.
Here is what Jim Quinn's Law Number Two says, and I want every single person reading this to tattoo it somewhere useful: "If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing."
Senator, you OWN THREE HOMES. A Burlington residence. A D.C. townhouse. A $575,000 vacation lake house in North Hero, Vermont — purchased in 2016, the same year you were touring the country telling college students the system is rigged. Your net worth sits somewhere between $2.5 and $3 million. You have pocketed over $2.5 MILLION in book royalties since 2011. That elevator is clearly not stuck between floors for you, is it.
And then — THEN — during your "Fighting Oligarchy Tour" with AOC, you spent over $550,000 in CAMPAIGN FUNDS on PRIVATE JET TRAVEL. Half a million dollars on luxury jets to lecture working Americans about the dangers of wealth.
When Fox News caught you boarding a Bombardier Challenger 604 — a jet that runs up to $15,000 PER HOUR — you did not apologize. You did not even blink. You looked directly into the camera and said, and I am quoting this verbatim because it is the most accidentally honest thing you have ever said: "You think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United?"
Senator. THAT IS OLIGARCHIC THINKING. That is TEXTBOOK "the rules apply to you people, not to me." That is the elevator music of every single billionaire you have spent 35 years pretending to oppose. In a battle of wits with your own stated beliefs, you showed up completely unarmed.
Thirty-five years in Congress. You know what your personal legislative output looks like? Eight bills passed. EIGHT. In three and a half DECADES. That works out to 0.23 bills per year. I have produced more graded anatomy exams in a single semester. Your two greatest solo legislative achievements — the ones with your name on top, the thing YOU actually DID — are the naming of a post office in Danville, Vermont, and the naming of a post office in Fair Haven, Vermont.
You named. Two. Post offices.
You are as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually passing legislation, but you want me to believe you are the vanguard of the working class. That sounds like a YOU problem.
Quinn's Law #25: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money." You have been living PROOF of that law for 35 years. You give away everyone else's money — from a vacation home on a lake — while spending half a million on jets because you are far too important to wait in line with the taxpayers funding your lifestyle.
You want to talk about oligarchs controlling the media? You have been IN the media for four decades. You just finished a $75 million documentary. You have a book deal. You have a podcast. You HAVE the megaphone and you are using it to tell people that other people have the megaphone. The gene pool really needed a lifeguard for THAT particular reasoning.
I am a high school science teacher in Northeast Ohio. I support a family of six on a teacher's salary. I am not particularly impressed by a man with three houses, $550,000 in jet receipts, and 0.23 bills per year telling me he stands with the working class. More famous than wise, Senator. More famous than wise.
The hippie commune knew it in 72 hours. How long is it going to take everyone else?
IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this.
COMMENT below — do YOU think a man with three homes and a half-million dollar private jet habit speaks for working Americans? Tell me.
And if you want MORE of this — the data, the history, the science, the stories — JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube.
But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who can actually do math, a retired Army combat medic who knows what genuine sacrifice looks like, and apparently one of the few people left who finds it suspicious that the most vocal enemy of oligarchy just cannot bring himself to wait in line at the airport with the rest of us.
@JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2
#MAGA #Veterans #Trump
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Just plain weird.
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South Detroit? Hmm.
May 1
I refuse to accept that the “midnight train going anywhere,” referenced in Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” does not exist.
That train, like the proverbial “singer in a smoky room,” must exist.
It must deliver that young lady to the “city boy born and raised in South Detroit.”
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The kindle eBook version of Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 12 is now available. The print version should be available soon. #fantasy #darkfantasy #heroicfantasy #swordandsorcery amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GX3BHDYK/r…
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May 1
Tomorrow morning, I'll be streaming talking a lil bit about the deal. youtube.com/live/pWeC5w7Wunk…
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Apr 30
🔥 Pete Hegseth is ON FIRE today
“The mantra you would hear dripping from the lips of generals, with a serious look on their face was, 'our diversity is our strength.’
Which is the SINGLE DUMBEST phrase in military HISTORY.
Of course, our diversity is NOT our strength. Our UNITY is our strength.”
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Apr 29
Today is the biggest announcement in @TheRippaverse’s history.
We’ve signed a worldwide sales and distribution deal with @HachetteUS, of the largest publishers in the world.
Rippaverse Books will now be accessible through major wholesale/retail channels.
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Apr 29
Obama has supported and campaigned for every outrageous Democratic gerrymander, including in Illinois.
But now he puts out a sanctimonious statement when the Supreme Court rightfully blocks racial discrimination in redistricting.
What a fraud.
Apr 29
Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.
The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.
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Boom. And the one party rule is what one party here in the States want as well, but without the free market.
Apr 29
Ça fait la dixième fois que je débunke ce mythe et les gens continuent à répéter que la Chine est communiste économiquement. On va le faire proprement avec des chiffres.
La Chine n'a pas une économie planifiée. La Chine a une économie de marché avec un Parti unique au-dessus. Ce n'est pas la même chose. Pas du tout.
Quelques chiffres officiels, sources Banque mondiale, FMI, NBS chinois :
Secteur privé en Chine aujourd'hui :
- 60% du PIB
- 70% de l'innovation technologique
- 80% de l'emploi urbain
- 90% des nouveaux emplois créés
- 50% des recettes fiscales
C'est la formule "60/70/80/90" enseignée à Harvard. Une économie où le privé fait 60% du PIB et 90% des nouveaux emplois n'est pas planifiée. Point.
Maintenant la trajectoire historique, parce que c'est là que le mythe s'effondre vraiment.
1949-1976, période réellement communiste sous Mao. Résultat : Grand Bond en Avant qui fait 30 à 45 millions de morts par famine entre 1958 et 1962, Révolution culturelle qui détruit le tissu économique et intellectuel du pays, PIB par habitant en 1976 inférieur à celui de l'Inde. La Chine est l'un des pays les plus pauvres du monde après 27 ans de planification communiste pure.
1978, Deng Xiaoping arrive au pouvoir et fait une chose simple : il introduit le marché. Décollectivisation agricole dès 1979, autorisation des entreprises privées à partir de 1980 (première licence à Wenzhou), zones économiques spéciales, ouverture aux investissements étrangers, privatisation massive des entreprises d'État dans les années 90.
En 1978, les entreprises d'État dominent l'économie. En 2013, leur part dans les exportations est tombée à 11%. Le PIB chinois est multiplié par 80 entre 1978 et 2024. C'est le plus grand miracle économique de l'histoire de l'humanité.
Ce miracle n'est pas le résultat de la planification. C'est le résultat de l'abandon de la planification. C'est exactement le contraire de ce que tu prétends.
Maintenant le comparatif que personne n'ose faire : France vs Chine sur la part de l'État dans le PIB.
France : 57% de dépense publique sur PIB. Le record absolu de l'OCDE.
Chine : 33% de dépense publique sur PIB.
Relis bien.
L'État français pèse PRESQUE DEUX FOIS PLUS dans son économie que l'État chinois. La France est plus interventionniste économiquement que la Chine communiste. Ce n'est pas une boutade, c'est la réalité statistique.
Quand tu dis "la Chine a une économie planifiée qui fonctionne mieux que l'Occident", tu décris en réalité une économie deux fois moins planifiée que la France. Tu confonds le drapeau rouge sur le bâtiment du Parti avec la réalité économique du pays.
Sur les véhicules électriques spécifiquement. BYD, NIO, Xpeng, Li Auto, Geely, ce sont tous des entreprises privées ou à capitaux mixtes en concurrence féroce les unes contre les autres sur un marché ultra-compétitif. BYD est cotée à Hong Kong et Shenzhen, fondée par un entrepreneur privé, Wang Chuanfu. Ce n'est pas une fabrique d'État soviétique.
La différence avec l'Europe n'est pas que la Chine planifie mieux. C'est qu'elle laisse la concurrence privée s'exprimer plus brutalement, avec moins de protections, moins de normes paralysantes, moins de subventions à la rente installée. Le marché chinois du VE compte plus de 100 constructeurs en concurrence darwinienne. La moitié va disparaître dans les cinq ans. C'est de la destruction créatrice schumpétérienne pure, pas du Gosplan.
La Chine n'est pas un modèle de planification économique réussie. C'est un modèle de capitalisme autoritaire, ce qui est très différent. L'autoritarisme politique cohabite avec une économie largement privée et concurrentielle. Tu peux discuter le modèle politique. Mais l'attribuer à la planification économique, c'est se tromper de 180 degrés sur ce qui marche réellement là-bas.
Le communisme économique a fait 30 millions de morts en Chine. Le marché a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en 40 ans. Ce sont les chiffres. Le reste, c'est de l'enfumage idéologique.
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Language warning but on fire.
You historically illiterate, crown-kissing, sovereignty-eroding simpletons peddling this insipid royalist drivel:
Magna Carta does not fucking apply to the United States of America.
Not one goddamn clause. Not in 1215, not in 1776, and sure as hell not in 2026 while some inbred Windsorian monarch lectures our Congress like we’re still colonial tenants.
Jesus fucking Christ, get it right or get the fuck out of the conversation.
We bled for independence precisely to reject that feudal English parchment.
The Declaration of Independence was our lethal severance notice:
no more divine-right kings, no more baronial compromises dressed up as liberty. Our Founders studied it, sure...Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton cherry-picked the due-process DNA and habeas corpus lineage from English common law as raw material...but they forged it into something revolutionary, not derivative.
Influence is not application. Pedigree is not jurisdiction.
Precision, motherfuckers.
Legally, it’s ironclad and non-negotiable.
Article VI of the U.S. Constitution declares this document the supreme Law of the Land.
Magna Carta?
A 13th-century domestic English charter between a weak Plantagenet king and his pissed-off barons.
It has never been ratified by the U.S. Senate, never embodied in any treaty under Article II, never incorporated by statute, and never elevated to customary international law binding a sovereign republic that explicitly repudiated British subjecthood.
Zero positive-law force here. The Supreme Court has nodded to it in over 160 opinions since 1789...Hurtado v. California, Murray’s Lessee, the whole due-process canon...but every single reference is historical illustration, not binding precedent.
It’s rhetorical ancestry, like quoting the Code of Hammurabi in a property dispute. Persuasive at best, ornamental at worst. Cite it all day; it still doesn’t cross the Atlantic as enforceable edict.
International law angle? Laughable.
The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties doesn’t apply because this isn’t a treaty...it’s a foreign domestic artifact.
Customary international law requires widespread state practice and opinio juris; no nation on Earth treats a medieval English charter as binding on third-party republics.
The U.S. isn’t a successor state to the Crown; we’re the rejection of it. Any attempt to imply continuity is soft-power gaslighting, pure and simple.
And here’s the psychological venom that makes this shit lethal:
King Charles’s little Runnymede cosplay in the House chamber wasn’t innocent nostalgia. It was elite psychological operations 101...deliberate cognitive anchoring.
Plant the seed that American liberty is an offshoot of British royal benevolence, erode the psychic rupture of 1776, soften the national ego into a warm bath of “shared heritage.”
It’s the same globalist playbook every time:
dilute sovereignty through implied continuity, romanticize the Crown while our own founding documents scream otherwise.
They want you nodding along to the standing ovation because it feels cultured, feels connected, feels safe.
Fuck that.
It’s submission disguised as sophistication.
The venom is in the implication that we still owe some ancestral debt to a document born under a sword at Runnymede.
Our rights don’t flow from a king’s reluctant concession to his barons. They derive from Nature and Nature’s God, secured by our blood, codified in our Constitution, and defended by our courts and arms.
Full stop.
Magna Carta can sit in its glass case in London and rot for all we care. It has no jurisdiction here, no authority here, no relevance here beyond dusty academic footnotes.
Influence is not application.
Heritage is not hierarchy.
And nostalgia is not law.
Get it right, or choke on the distinction, you historically illiterate royalist fucks.
And get a better goddamn education before you vomit your bullshit forth on my timeline.
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As a COMEDIAN let me say this about that…
Jimmy Kimmel out here doing comedy math after the fact.
“Oh no, you see… the joke was about the age difference.”
Was it?
That’s fascinating… because not ONE WORD about age showed up in the setup.
That’s like me punching you in the face and then explaining,
“No, no… that was actually about climate change.”
Well you might say that now… but that ain’t what just happened.
Comedy has rules. Not a lot… but the ones we got matter.
Setup… THEN punchline.
You don’t get to do the punchline first and then hold a press conference explaining what the joke meant.
That’s not stand-up… that’s damage control.
If the joke was about Trump being 80 and Melania being 50 you gotta SAY THAT. You gotta walk us down that road.
You don’t just teleport to the punchline and then act like the audience missed the turn.
That ain’t a joke… that’s a BS excuse.
And comedians know this.
That’s Comedy 101.
That’s Day One, open mic, two-drink minimum, “please clap” level stuff.
So no… it wasn’t about age.
Because if it was, the audience would’ve HEARD IT.
What it really was…
was a disgustingly bad joke!
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Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.
Cette phrase change tout.
L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?
Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.
Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.
Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.
Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.
L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.
Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.
Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.
Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.
Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.
La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.
Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.
Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.
La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.
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Not exactly reading lol but we did play this yesterday.
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