Posts by davetroy@toad.social
(DIR) Post #AbzarVJImhQcwYfWl6 by davetroy@toad.social
2023-11-20T08:05:49Z
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It’s a pattern, one I’m sure he will repeat. All comparisons to Jobs, or to anybody else who actually made anything, are stillborn and miscast, in my estimation. The dude is a fake.
(DIR) Post #AbzarWgjf3ldDWdkvI by davetroy@toad.social
2023-11-20T08:10:10Z
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The Information has the scoop. For now.
(DIR) Post #AbzarY5wQpWXZzROqm by davetroy@toad.social
2023-11-20T08:37:34Z
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And Altman and Brockman will join Microsoft, leading an advanced AI research division. I expect that arrangement will last a few months, or less, until Altman leaves to leverage his social capital to exploit the work of others again.
(DIR) Post #Anhe6YkFH9pse8rwcC by davetroy@toad.social
2024-07-31T17:43:40Z
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📄 NEW: “Peter Thiel and the American Apocalypse” The election is top of mind, but the debt ceiling remains an existential threat to the global economy — and Thiel’s network is signaling US debt default in Q1 2025. The dollar and your savings are at risk.https://washingtonspectator.org/peter-thiel-and-the-american-apocalypse/
(DIR) Post #Ao6eOE7TwYhzEf63pw by davetroy@toad.social
2024-11-16T16:15:32Z
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Another very practical consequence of the X -> BS migration is that it makes each population more homogenous and reactive, and thus subject to behavior control — a step for realizing a fully programmable society in 2025-2035. More info here.https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo163195227.html
(DIR) Post #Ao77hXFlvUfGkaX9Bw by davetroy@toad.social
2024-11-16T15:58:04Z
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1/There is nothing more embarrassing than watching hordes of liberals willingly herd themselves into a pen funded by Russian capital. Blue sky’s principal funder Blockchain Capital LLC is run in part by Kirill Dorofeev, who also works for VK, Russia’s state social network.
(DIR) Post #Ao77hZ6z18p4VuR9lo by davetroy@toad.social
2024-11-16T15:58:05Z
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2/Be aware you are effectively operating behind enemy lines. It may be tactically useful to do so, but don’t pretend there is anything “good” happening here. For all the talk about critical thinking, folks could try using some for once. 🤦https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joecardillo_bluesky-bigtech-socialmedia-activity-7263206291139932161-BTim
(DIR) Post #AoVA7k6Qx9dBdgaEzY by davetroy@toad.social
2024-11-28T12:10:20Z
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Anyone still not seeing that Musk is carrying out a Project Russia / Duginist agenda to accelerate American collapse is either dim, on a delusional dose of hopium.
(DIR) Post #AoVA7liOxTb0djM4oK by davetroy@toad.social
2024-11-28T12:17:05Z
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Read up.https://web.archive.org/web/20190428031337id_/https://muse.jhu.edu/article/690692/pdf
(DIR) Post #ApsHXhFyPpzevbjWwi by davetroy@toad.social
2025-01-08T09:58:31Z
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For the record, any assertions that current concerns are just for the “next four years” are fully misguided. We are on a path to permanently breaking existing systems; any fixes will come in building new ones. Prepare for that work, which will take the rest of your life.
(DIR) Post #AqHcq7iBGdT0xyNcHY by davetroy@toad.social
2025-01-20T12:29:21Z
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A good practice right now, and I will have trouble doing it but am sure going to try, is to withhold reactions to provocations as long as possible. Allow time for the frontal cortex to engage rather than just letting the amygdala react without reflection.
(DIR) Post #AqcLYPbGOxkeKgGu6C by davetroy@toad.social
2025-01-30T19:32:04Z
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📻 NEW EPISODES: "The Ideas Behind Putin's War on the West" Building on Project Russia, BBC journalist Lucy Ash shares her new book on the Russian Orthodox church, plus Dina Khapaeva on "Third Empire," a novel by Mikhail Yuriev. Must listen!https://america2.news/podcast-episodes-the-ideas-behind-putins-war-on-the-west/
(DIR) Post #ArxKjyJA8zynDHT3PU by davetroy@toad.social
2025-03-11T18:14:43Z
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The White House is lying, saying this is a "transition period," requiring short term pain. This is a controlled demolition of entire economies. There is no truth to anything they are saying, and no path to prosperity on this route. It's raw, unbridled terrorism.
(DIR) Post #Arz9kheCrYnAeRNPuK by davetroy@toad.social
2025-03-12T03:26:41Z
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I’m interested in talking to anyone who may have been at Elon Musk’s birthday party in June 2017. Hit me up on Signal at davetroy.69. Thanks.
(DIR) Post #Au3tUlcvm3kCsc2rVQ by davetroy@toad.social
2025-05-13T16:18:47Z
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Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. States are the only ones who can even try to regulate AI in the US, since Congress has been captured by Big Tech.
(DIR) Post #Au4Ay3JimQ3HMbbtGS by davetroy@toad.social
2025-05-11T17:42:00Z
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📄 NEW: In the absence of effective political leadership, Pope Leo may provide an important cultural counterbalance to emergent global fascism — and the beginnings of a pathway out.https://america2.news/the-papacy-and-the-pathway-out/
(DIR) Post #Au4B4NfE2mAmCogbCq by davetroy@toad.social
2025-04-29T15:49:22Z
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China can remain totalitarian longer than we can remain solvent. Never screw with people who have total control over their domestic information environment.
(DIR) Post #Au4BILfWG6yC4VU3tY by davetroy@toad.social
2025-04-22T20:34:35Z
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Folks are rightly concerned that the HHS effort to track people with autism will lead to exterminations and eugenics. That’s a valid concern; but if history is any guide, there will also be a parallel effort to weaponize some of them in service of information warfare.
(DIR) Post #Au4BIRdG5Qj6ZETLCi by davetroy@toad.social
2025-04-22T20:38:00Z
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For example, at Palantir, they refer to this as “spiky” — they explicitly seek people who are brilliant at certain tasks and lacking in what many call “soft skills.”
(DIR) Post #AvEwIgz9gixPxtouOG by davetroy@toad.social
2025-06-17T20:35:48Z
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Democrats need to get up to speed on crypto and understand it as nothing less than a threat to the rule of law, and nation states themselves. There is no 'political compromise' to be had here.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/opinion/genius-act-stablecoin-crypto.html