Dean Baker I know many an idiot with a PhD, and have found much wisdom on the factory floor. I have served as the conduit of that wisdom to the 'elite' more than once. I invariably have to cite the source of said wisdom to a disbelieving boss or client.

THIS is an example of high human intelligence and the scale of intelligence we must have in anything we call AGI. If it looks emotional, that is because IT IS. And if you do the decades of research I have you will know this is the first principle of high intelligence. Feel it?

I study meme propagation on X. Think: 2016 Trans 2017 Hot Air 2019 BLM 2020 Germs 2022 Ukraine 2022 Russia 2023 Jew 2024 Tough guys 2025 AI Not interests like BTC, or homesteading, or healthy eating, or alternative education techniques. No, it's propagation. For a long

It was busy on Glastonbury Tor this evening at sunset. It was so lovely to see the town so busy today with people enjoying the sunshine. Spring has definitely arrived.

Michelangelo in 1511 hid the anatomy of the human brain, which was illegal to have knowledge of in the artwork of the Sistine chapel. It was classic hermetic encoding.

I’ve been wanting to write this for a while because, more often than not, I find myself doomscrolling, screaming “NOT ALL WOMEN!” It seems like most of the women represented in media are, for lack of a better word, insane. So this is for you—the woman reading this who has been

Last fall, as my 86-year-old father-in-law lay dying of cancer at his home in Lakeland, Florida, the pool guy told my wife—who was tending to her dad—that he was owed $2,000 for past services. He claimed that he’d left my father-in-law’s check “out in the rain” and it had been

TSA is largely funded by a tax on every ticket. It adds $5.60 to every one-way ticket & $11.20 to roundtrips. Everyone in line right now is already paying the TSA fee, even for free reward travel. The government has previously diverted that money to the Treasury. Pay the agents.

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Wow A high school student just built a water filter that removes 96% of microplastics, without expensive equipment She developed a low-cost prototype using ferrofluid (a magnetic liquid) to remove microplastics from water. Instead of traditional filters, it binds plastic

An ounce of prevention...

#MAHA Nutrition Test 1. Which egg is from grain & supplement-fed confined, incubator-born chickens, which one from pasture-raised happy chickens naturally born? 2. Which has a lot more Beta Carotene (Vitamin A precursor) & micronutrients? Find out more: simplescience.substack.com/p/an-eye-openi…

Why can’t I “hire my own algorithm”? Why I am dependent on X to choose for me in order to access the social graph network?

Most political debate is meaningless. Not because people disagree — but because they’re arguing inside systems that can’t stabilise in the first place. A political impossibility theorem: newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/a-political-…

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Insane truth.

Inconvenient truth.

Insane truth.