Of a government surveillance state 😠

So capitalism is now responsible for the outcomes of a government-run education system funded by taxes, operated by bureaucracies, protected from competition, and consuming hundreds of billions of dollars annually? By that logic, every success in technology, medicine, food production, and living standards should be credited to capitalism. Funny how capitalism gets blamed for government failures but government never gets blamed for government failures.

If you hate working with Jews, I have some bad news.

I have to ring a buzzer to get mouthwash at CVS

The biggest scandal isn't just what happened during COVID. It's that six years later, the evidence continues to emerge while many in government and the media still refuse to confront it. I've spent years following the money and exposing the truth. The American people deserve answers and accountability.

Lmao. And there’s the plan. Right there. Laid bare in your face. Create the problem (stranger danger), sell the solution (more authoritative surveillance state), repeat forever. Everyone owes conspiracy theorists an apology who have been screaming about this for years.

A quick list of stuff "banned" or access restricted to <16 since I was born: • Comics • Pinball • True crime and Judy Blume books • D&D and "satanic" games • Metal and Rap music • Violent films • "Video" games • Pokémon • Laser pointer • The Internet • Energy drinks

Not a free country.

To set precedent for even more authoritarian laws that actually do what they want. If phone and computer manufacturers play ball with the UK government they certainly can ban teens from uncensored social media. Adults too.

RT @TaylorLorenz: Studies in AUS found that since the social media ban went into effect teenagers are significantly less educated on news a…

Someone needs to register fuckkeirstarmer.com and make it an image board for UK citizens under 16. This cucked loser cannot control the Internet and it is up to the rest of the world to prove that.

When I was 14, social media was my escape hatch from mediocrity. I did not relate to anyone at school. Online, I found people on the other side of the world who thought the way I did. That changed my life. It is how I ended up working with one of Silicon Valley’s most respected investors and some of the smartest engineers in the world. It is how I started a podcast and got into rooms school would never have opened for me. The UK wants to close that door for every weird, ambitious, hyper online 14-year-old. They say it is “for safety”. But there is a much greater danger in being trapped inside schools, consuming state-mandated narratives, and waiting for permission from people whose entire worldview is obedience. The internet lets kids escape the factory before the factory stamps them into shape. It lets them find mentors, employers, collaborators, friends, customers, and ideas no school would ever give them. It lets them discover that the classroom is not the world, and the adults around them are not the ceiling. A social media ban for under-16s protects the enforcement regime, not the child. Age verification is KYC with a child-safety sticker on it. First they ask if you are old enough. Then they ask who you are. Then the anonymous internet is gone. The excuse is children. The prize is obedience. Fight back, Britain.

Now do you see why I decided to set all my free time on fire last year and try to stop the Online Safety Act dead in its tracks? The OSA was never the end of the UK’s Internet censorship and surveillance program, it was only the start.

While we are doing lobbying for AI laws, I propose this. All providers of closed source models are 100% liable for their outputs. Copyright, libel, conspiracy, fraud, etc... If you want safe harbor from this liability, release the weights. This is real AI safety legislation.

Me: I don't want the government controlling my life and taking my earnings. Socialist: BOOTLICKER! Whose boots am I licking? My own? The entire accusation only makes sense if they assume someone must be controlled by someone. The idea that a person might simply want to run their own life never occurs to them.

Censorship resistant tech is what industries are built on. Empowering projects will always be the most valuable.

Reminder that censorship resistant technologies are extremely valuable

But of course, to get that much net worth, Elon Musk had to build a huge company that makes electric cars (which we supposedly wanted everyone to be using but which before him were not economically viable), a huge company that reduced the cost of launching rockets by a factor of ten (not 10%, 1/10th), an associated company that sells inexpensive internet service to people in deeply remote areas, a business that sells solar panels and utility scale battery systems to smooth out power demand, etc., not to mention all his side businesses, including one that helps quadriplegics communicate and care for themselves by giving them neural implants. I'm not sure why I should feel disgusted by this. None of what he did seems “disgusting” in the least, in spite of your claim that we should feel disgust. It's not like he stole the money from others, he created value, and in fact, created far more value for society than he himself extracted. It seems like like you are exhorting us to feel envy of Musk's success and to hate him for that reason? But envy is not a virtue, it is a vice.

Violent J told a story recently, that when he and Shaggy were young kids, they had a debate over who was more famous, Michael Jackson or Hulk Hogan. So they went door to door asking. (spoiler: MJ won)