One of my fav Marx anecdotes is no matter how tough economically the family had it, they never dispensed with the maid. Tbf maid wages were prolly really low, and the maid probably made Mrs Marx' life easier, but I also don't think Marx ever thought of the maid's work as Labor.
gerikson
joined 1 year ago
I wish I knew any normal people so I could give input.
Personally my Twitter pre-Elon was pretty curated. I never really "got" a big part of it unless it spilled over in other channels (I never heard of "Black people Twitter" on Twitter, only from Buzzfeed or similar). I also disengaged from US political Twitter hard after the 2016 election. So it's possible I could still be using it and swearing over bots etc. without being overly affected, but I locked my account as an act of principle shortly after he took over.
It's pretty amazing that this so-called genius spent $44B on a company without apparently knowing anything about how the market it operates in (advertising) actually works.
Expect a GOP congressional panel assembled: "The FTC is too snide (and woke)".
Oliver Habryka, the CEO of Lightcone Infrastructure, told SFGATE that he thinks the escrow company used to buy the property “has been trying to get in contact with FTX and return the $1M funds. My guess is the funds are still with the Escrow company, but I don’t know, we never had any of it.” He also posted a screenshot of a 2022 escrow document for the property on X, which said $1 million would be returned to an FTX-linked company called North Dimension. An escrow company holds funds for the sale of a property while the sale is finalized. Escrow in California typically takes four to eight weeks. It’s not clear why the escrow company in this case might still have the funds.
I'm beginning to wonder if ole Habby didn't make a tactical mistake on insisting on this particular point with El Grauniad. OTOH dodgy RE deals are like what made SF.
The net downvotes are the rest of the community frantically whispering "FFS Roko keep our racism on the down-low!"
It’s slowly refining its approach. No-one went for the pizza glue or eating rocks, so…
Reddit still delivers sometimes.
Well, they got their wish, the Guardian piece is now updated:
This article was amended on 17 June 2024 to include a comment from Oliver Habryka about the purchase of Lighthaven that was received after publication; in responding, Habryka disclosed an escrow document for the property’s purchase showing a $1m deposit from, and refunded to, North Dimension Inc, a subsidiary of FTX’s sister company Alameda, which he said meant “the relevant funds never entered our bank account”. An earlier version mistakenly said Lightcone, rather than CFAR, was the sole member of Lightcone Rose Garden, and that Habryka was the latter’s registered agent, when another individual is listed in that role. A reference to Manifund as a “prediction market” has also been corrected.
I think the Gruaniad had a lot of fun with this. By hyperfocusing on the nitpicks, the rats gave them an open goal in correcting tiny details (who now cares whether any money from SBF actually entered the account of Lightcone?) but left the bigger details in place: namely that Lightcone is tight with racists.
Edit a few libertarians(?) in the comments are urging Habryka to sue for libel in the UK, totally fine with using the power of the state to enforce speech! He modestly declines, likely he knows it's not a slam-dunk win (especially if the newspaper actually amends the piece) and that news orgs live for being sued for defamation. It's the classic sign of a bully to sue, and it generates a ton of press.
jfk
Ultima Thule was a Swedish white nationalist band back in the day.
Googling the blog name brings up this delightful interview
https://www.jollyheretic.com/p/bad-science-vs-based-science-cremieux
Crémieux was kind enough to grant me a podcast, where we covered all manor of things Based, from the IQ of the Ashkenazis, why the Vikings were violent, the effect of selection events, and the need for anonymity in Based science.
Ah yes, anonymity, a cornerstone of the scientific method.
You have no faith in the power of AI, typical Blue attitude.
Twitter's main issue is that it's not really very big. It wasn't big even pre-Musk. If you have the choice between advertising on a really big social network (Meta (=FB, IG, Whatsapp...)) with a functioning trust & safety team and ad brokers who take you seriously and don't accuse you of being woke, and one which has way smaller reach, no T&S to speak of, and whose owner can use his outsized influence to call your CEO a pedo whenever the ketamine kicks in, the choice is clear.