I see that the anti-Zionist squirrel is once again having a normal one.

The police don’t intervene because politicians are terrified that if they do one of the youths will end up dead, which they fear would make things worse, so the government is giving instructions to the police to let them run wild, identify the leaders of the violence and arrest them later at home where the risk of police brutality leading to death is minimal. The calculus is that, once they have taken out the equation enough of the most violent protesters and the rest of them get bored, the protests will die down and the government won’t face scrutiny for killing some of them. It will absolutely work by the way, but it will come at a cost, since it also means there will be more destruction. You may criticize that strategy, I for one certainly find it shameful, but realistically that’s just politicians responding to incentives. The government will take shit for this, but from their point of view, it beats having to deal much worse race riots because a cop killed a kid and the suburbs erupt in an orgy of violence as a result. This is what "multiculturalism" looks like in Europe right now and if you don’t like it you’ré a fascist 🤷‍♂️

Imagine if I had told you 20 years ago that the first openly gay US president would also be the left's bête noire.

I have criticized Kurzweil recently, but one thing I think he was definitely right about is that, while the issue of whether machines are conscious will remain contentious for a very long time, once they reach a certain degree of sophistication, most people will just accept their claims that they are conscious, have feelings, etc. no matter what arguments to the contrary philosophers make.

Indonesia is a country of almost 300 million and its real GDP has been growing at ~5% for the past 30 years. A lot of people in the West still live in the 1950s mentally.

Donaldo Trumpo, amigo del pueblo.

Women used to have proper jobs.

lmao

Enfin du journalisme d'investigation de droite.

Steve Eisman says Michael Burry’s AI depreciation thesis “too academic” and says an OpenAI failure is the much larger risk “I think, with all due respect to Michael, I think his argument is too academic." "Put it this way: if AI succeeds because Anthropic and OpenAI grow like crazy and the hyperscalers do well, et cetera, et cetera, it’s not going to matter if the depreciation schedule changed from three to four years to five to six years." "At the same time, if OpenAI fails and the whole chain goes in reverse, we’ll have a massive correction which has nothing to do with the depreciation schedule." "I mean, I think what he’s deep down trying to point out is maybe there’s something wrong here, but I don’t think the thing that he’s pointing to as being wrong is important enough.”

Seoul sees this as Ukraine's attempt to humiliate North Korea and goad Pyongyang into sparking the Second Korean War, which would force Russia to fight in the eastern front. This is why South Korea has been apoplectic. Surprising how many people are missing this basic point.

Est-ce que les gens qui croient que les gosses qui foutent le feu à leur lycée parce qu'ils sont radicalisés par le non-remplacement des profs ont déjà parlé à un lycéen ? Je ne sais pas comment on peut être à ce point déconnecté de la réalité.

On pourrait appeler ça de l'adultomorphisme. Faut un sacré niveau de déconnexion et surtout d'amnésie pour penser que c'est la politique qui motive des lycéens à foutre le bordel et rater des cours.

Gregory Clark's new book (as a pdf) "To Have and Have Not: The Determinants of Social Status in England, 1600-2026" Plus several comments and a reply.