Eric S. Raymond
@esrtweet
Yes, I *am* that ESR. Well, it's the question people usually ask. Programmer, wandering philosopher, accidental anthropologist, troublemaker for liberty.
The shift of American Jews towards conservatism is going to gut the Left, which has historically relied on secularized Jews to supply a much larger share of its leadership and backing donations than their single-digit-percentage representation in the general population would…
When I wrote "Twilight of the Liberal Jew" in 2023, I suggested that the most politically influential American Jews under the age of 40 were @benshapiro, @libsoftiktok, @StephenM, @ezraklein, and @finkd. Updating the list now (for <42 years old) I'd add @sama and @bariweiss.…
You left out "An overdeveloped belief in your own virtue."
“I’m an empath, I FEEL other peoples’ emotions!” Yes, we all have mirroring neurons. You just have an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex with weak emotional regulation, oxytocin starvation, and anxious attachment which makes you crave codependent connection with unstable people.
Everyone knows of Hercules and Achilles, but that Greek hero with a talent for always being right, Technicles, never gets his due.
Uh. Supposed this happened How would we...tell?
of course i hope this works well and charitably but the funniest outcome would be blue city mayors fighting to the death to keep homeless drugged and on the street, building movements around it, marching with insane people screaming at everyone, erc
I hear a rumor that Cambodia and Thailand are fighting a war over a disputed Buddhist temple in a border region. Fighting. Over. A. Buddhist. Temple. I can't be the only person in whom this induces a vast desire to take both countries by the shirt collars, knock their heads…
Hillary Clinton probably would not have thought of me as a deplorable. But I endorse this message nevertheless.
It’s never not going to be funny that the Harpy that called us a “basket of deplorables” had to be continually shot full of bull tranquilizers to control her psychotic emotional state
MODERN WORLD LIFE HACK: People will often harm you and then accuse you of being evil for not liking it. They'll call you "racist" or X-phobic," which are fake words with no meanings beyond "you have to let me hurt you or else I get to hurt you." I'm trying as hard as I can to…
As we all absorb the daily drops of incriminating Russiagate information by DNI Gabbard, here is something everyone needs to understand: THEY HONESTLY DON'T THINK THEY DID ANYTHING WRONG. What we normals see as crimes, the self-appointed "elites" see as mere politics.…
The distinction some make between "private property" and "personal property" is not about clarifying ownership, it is about destroying it. It turns property into a permission slip, granted or revoked by collective whim. If you cannot own what you produce, what you trade for, or…
Oh, boy. Would that mean I could shoot gun-control advocates? Be careful what you wish for, chica. You might get it.
I think it’s time we normalize fighting fascists in public
Power is civilization. Everything a civilization does, from heating homes to cooking food to smelting steel, requires energy. That's because what civilization does, its essential function, is to take things from nature, which are mostly useless in their naturally occurring…
American realising their first electric bill in uk is double their rent because they wanted to be comfy in summer
Leftist philosophy always results in mass murder and starvation because it is based on forcing people to want things. People do not want what you want them to want. "But if we could make everyone want-" BUT THEY DON'T. "But if we could educate every-" Then they would be better…
Something that a lot of people don't realize is that dead ends have value. It is only when you start building that you know how workable something is, how efficient. In order to build only the best possible thing, we would need precognitive abilities that violate casual…
The dragon is dead. breakingdefense.com/2025/06/darpas… The DRACO nuclear thermal rocket program has been terminated by DARPA. Reasons cited: -SpaceX Starship will deliver so much propellant to LEO that fuel efficiency won't matter -Future nuclear-electric propulsion could be more promising
"There Is No Antimemetics Division" was quite the hot topic of discussion and approval among my peers about a year ago. I didn't like it at all. My problem with it was that the author's writing style made promises that the book not only didn't keep, but that he had no interest…
“Communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties. They competed for the support of the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic.” — Friedrich Hayek
Ah, yes, the curation problem. To understand it, we have to have a long talk about Amazon. Amazon isn't killing the book industry. That oft-repeated allegation is completely and totally false. But it IS failing to save it. The practice at Amazon-the-large-conglomerate is…
This is something I agree with. Self-publishing is the future. The problem is how to separate the wheat from the chaft? The one "function " trad pub offered self-publishing does not have an answer for is as a quality controller to consumers. As a self-published author, I can…
Good afternoon; you are in a war being waged against you using your own beliefs and feelings as weapons. You watch a video. You get a feeling. You express a belief. You didn't know the video was made by someone trying to kill you. You didn't know the belief was engineered to…
Dear weak, evil, leftfilth parasites who truly deserve the worst, I really do understand that you think you're the good guys. I remember falling for the brainwashing when I was an innocent child, too. Most of it, anyway. It's just that the most evil people in the world are…