Aladdin Tingling Diakun (FSA | SCR | JD) 🇨🇦🇯🇲🇺🇦

Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

Campaign 2 is a great place to start

There is an entire professional class whose cognitive biases & incentives seem to prevent them from doing very basic risk analysis.

Not great in an age of polycrisis.

But a key thing about the polycrisis is it is inherently a crisis of professional expertise & institutional leadership as well.

Leeroy Jenkins ass foreign policy

It helps if you start from the perspective that actually saying 'due to this war, things will get worse' is more helpful than making unduly optimistic claims.

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

We can only hope, that was peak

I mean it’s one strait, Michael, what could it cost, 10 dollars?

Indeed

This is a bs “apology” from Fox. They claim it was “inadvertent” - a lie. They aired old footage because they didn’t want to show Trump wearing his campaign hat during the ceremony. Then in this statement they STILL don’t show the correct footage of Trump. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

There’s a forthcoming analogy w geoengineering tech here too.

As climate & overall polycrisis chaos accelerates, along w the corresponding mass psychological pressures unleashed, the mere (perceived) possibility that a given climate event might have been influenced by SRM will invite suspicion

Arguably the most corrosively antidemocratic thing about AI.

Obliterates and fragments our sense of how we purport to know what we know (epistemology), and even what we believe to be knowable at all.

This effect will also cast backwards and corrode shared understanding of pre-AI events & artifacts

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

“Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it. That’s what it is to be a slave. “

Some of us never forgot and we are tired. Very, very tired.

He just earned a lifetime of “日本語上手”s 🤣

On February 22, 2026, Naval Ravikant tweeted: "If you're unwilling to defend your country in time of war, then you're a tourist, not a citizen." As of March 3, 2026, the tweet has been deleted.

deleted his tweet as soon as an actual war popped off

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Son Emerges as Leading Choice to Be His Successor

It appears we may have replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei

Explaining what’s happening in the US to European colleagues invariably involves explaining the rapture and the tech rapture and then having them look at me like I’m a crazy man.

Fox News host throws ax, hits drummer YouTube video by CNN

youtu.be/pMrVdFnjEjs?...

Dopamine is a helluva drug

Panama must still be on the list

See also climate

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

Why on earth would you do that?

Do I understand correctly that after shooting down three of our own planes and murdering 50 schoolgirls, our Secretary of De- excuse me, War, bragged about there being no rules of engagement?

Canada needs second strike capability but with “sorry!” written on all delivery systems

As long as we don’t develop our secret nukes in Alberta I’m good with it

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