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The hardest part about being a contrarian is knowing when not to be.
The mind virus of conspiratorial thinking has been devastating. It completely paralyzes analysis and reduces everything to entertainment, fodder for clicks, traffic, and attention. It’s like a caricature of the Straussian close reading of texts: the “real” meaning is always hidden from view, and being unable to see it means you don’t have access to esoteric insights and knowledge. In reality, you’re just reading it wrong.
In the case of Russia right now, nobody really knows what’s happening. But that doesn’t matter; all you have to do is come up with the most absurd theory, and the more absurd it is, the truer it must be.
Peter Todd retweeted
Elections flipping in the dead of night or early morning hours is not “normal”.
The historical probability of a candidate losing a lead overnight is under 3%.
Across the modern era (roughly the last 50–60 years of presidential cycles, Senate races, and competitive House races), the number of cases in which a candidate held a lead at midnight and then lost is in the low single digits.
The gaslighting is over.
We see you.
If you go to bed on election night and don't know who won a midterm congressional race, that's normal. And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that's normal, too. (via @PolitiFact) to.pbs.org/4zqnWBa
Peter Todd retweeted
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Peter Todd retweeted
Guaranteed that OpenAI will lobby to make this legally enforceable
They already trained on your data; now they want to create controls so that anyone else training on your data has to follow different rules
openai.com/index/helping-web…
"Today, we’re announcing that OpenAI will honor a common signal(opens in a new window) in robots.txt, the file that lets websites express their preferences about the use of their content for foundational generative AI training. This voluntary effort makes it easier for publishers and website operators to communicate the same preference to multiple participating providers at once.
Previously, website operators would identify individual crawlers and maintain separate rules for each and every provider. Having a shared signal across multiple providers reduces that work for operators."
Peter Todd retweeted
Dude, entire nation's finish their counting by hand, all paper, in a couple hours.
You're normalizing fraud.
If you go to bed on election night and don't know who won a midterm congressional race, that's normal. And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that's normal, too. (via @PolitiFact) to.pbs.org/4zqnWBa
Peter Todd retweeted
Nice going, everyone.
Alabama passed a law, 138 votes to nothing, that makes every phone user in the state prove their age before downloading a single app.
A 45-year-old who wants a news app has to hand ID to Google first. Existing accounts get no pass either. Every one of them must be verified by October 2027.
Teenagers will need a parent’s sign-off to install Wikipedia, Duolingo or a Bible app, and kids without a parent to ask get locked out completely.
Apple, Google and Amazon’s lobby group has now sued to block it on First Amendment grounds.
reclaimthenet.org/alabama-is…
Peter Todd retweeted
Those who returned to Ukraine (17 buses) from the occupied city of Oleshky, and those who chose to go to ruSSia (4 buses)
Can you imagine what kind of so-called referendum the ruSSian Nazis held there?
Part of the stated reason for prohibiting a 14 year old from working in a kitchen is the presence of knives.
Knives!!
I was allowed to play with knives and chisels unsupervised when I was six (eg wood carving). I never hurt myself.
Ridiculous nanny state.
A Hampshire couple have been fined £600 and ordered to pay a further £6,000 in costs for allowing their 14-year-old son to work on the family's mobile food trailer.
Dexter, their son, enjoys it and has a passion for it.
That’s typical of the laws in this country. Encourage the work shy and penalise the hard working.
As if the stress on this family weren’t enough the family said they were tackling the dispute with the council while supporting eldest son Oskar, 17, while he received treatment for blood cancer.
@darrenpaffey @laboursatvir @carolinenokes
Parents fined for employing teen son in food trailer bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8vg…
Starfleet is a high trust society:
Peter Todd retweeted
In other words, the US 🇺🇸 is scamming Europe out of $2.1 billion to start sending the first Patriot missiles out of the 500 bought, after 2030
By then all major Ukrainian 🇺🇦 infrastructure will be destroyed
Europe must start producing more ballistic missile interceptors and work with Ukraine to create a better Patriot analogue
Peter Todd retweeted
In Minnesota…
Go to a liquor store with friend who will vouch that you’re 21 years old.
Go to a voting place with a friend who will vouch that you’re an American citizen.
You won’t get the alcohol but you will get to vote.
Think about how absurd that is.
A system designed for voter fraud.
Peter Todd retweeted
The White underclass is a miracle, and probably why the West has succeeded.
Thomas Frank wrote “What’s the Matter with Kansas” to explore why poor Whites don’t vote for socialist policies that would (narrowly, in the short-term) benefit them. Of course he concluded it was about racism, as he was predetermined to do by his ideology.
But I actually think he highlighted an incredibly important fact: poor White Americans, uniquely among underclasses globally, don’t vote for socialism.
The typical dynamic is rich people trying to keep what they have and poor people trying to take it. But the American lower-class White does not behave this way, because he has a deontological aversion to government interference. The collection of attitudes and beliefs described as “rugged individualism” are often assessed in terms of how they impact the individual, but I think it’s much more important to consider how they impact a nation.
(White) America has the world’s least resentful or grasping underclass. This is a treasure. They should be preserved and rewarded. Many might be net-negative fiscally in a narrow sense, but they are hugely net-positive if you consider their votes. Trump famously said “I love the poorly educated.” He was right to say this. Every nation has an elite. No other nation has such a high quality of virtuous common people.
Peter Todd retweeted
A timely reminder from our Slipstream lead maintainer: if you run lnd on Linux and the host accepts connections on open ports, shut it down until the kernel is patched or Multipath TCP is disabled.
Anthropic has reported a remote root exploit that works against unpatched systems listening with that feature.
Peter Todd retweeted
That’s honestly one of the things that makes the Left so radicalized and dangerous. They live in what is effectively a post scarcity world for the bottom portion of Maslow’s hierarchy, but they can’t reconcile it with biological programming to assume there will always be shortages.
That leads to things like them insisting that all wealth is stolen, or other equally ridiculous things. And then they try to manage the economy for a level of scarcity that doesn’t exist, but the efficiency of it, and create actual scarcity of those basic goods.
Peter Todd retweeted
Rewatching this final scene of Star Trek: The Next Generation today hurts.
The world in which this show existed feels long gone.
Every week we watched on “network TV” a strong and virtuous male leader be celebrated.
We grappled with real philosophical questions without cynicism. We laughed without being “irony poisoned.”
We celebrated men and women working together in complementary collaboration—not in zero-sum competition.
That world feels gone, but it doesn’t have to be.
Most of us still hold these values.
We can tell stories like this again.
Peter Todd retweeted
If you run lnd (or any services in Go) and accept connections from the internet, shut down your node *now* until you can patch your kernel or disable MPTCP.
Same goes for any internet-connected service but Go is one of the very few that turns on MPTCP by default.
Which is why you are... cozying up to Russia and fucking over Ukrainians, a country that a majority of Republican and Democrat voters support.
It's a fucking stupid strategy.
All you guys had to do is be sane. Instead we got two ridiculous parties.
My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will:
1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.
2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority.
3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority.
This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.
All that is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. That is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one.
Important notice for the Bitcoin community: if you are running lnd on Linux, and it has open ports, you should shut it down until you patch your Linux kernel or otherwise mitigate CVE-2026-98432.
Not lnd's fault. But there's a Linux kernel exploit with mptcp that is relevant.
Basically, if the command ss -Mlnp returns anything, you are potentially vulnerable to this exploit.
In addition to patching, this can be used to disable mptcp:
echo 'net.mptcp.enabled=0' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/99-disable-mptcp.conf && sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/99-disable-mptcp.conf && sudo ss -Mlnp