Ryan Lackey
@octal
Cypherpunk and entrepreneur CSO, Evertas Insurance (https://evertas.com @evertas) Crypto + AI c/acc (cat accelerationist) http://octal.substack.com rdl.eth
The US Army "swiftly contained" the assault of a female soldier But wait. All the opinions you thought people were going to have about it are about to be the opposite opinions x.com/eigenrobot/sta…
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@levelsio I just noticed that Home Depot's market cap is greater than that of than any EU company. So you could say that a vendor of air conditioners is worth more than any company in Europe... 🙈
So spoiled by Apple headphones correctly moving between phone + laptop, vs. every other kind of headphone which can't. A 2-channel mix (maybe two separate bt radios needed) so you could in-headphone mix the audio from each would be ideal, but failing that, how Apple does it.
It was said that Kruschev invited his mother to his dacha. His mother, seeing its lavish appointment, told her son, horrified: “But Niki, what if the Bolsheviks find out?”
Inside Zohran Mamdani’s posh multi-day Uganda wedding bash with phone jamming system, armed guards trib.al/1pOR4v2
A quarter of a million people have now opposed this overreach by the government, who have already used it to suppress political speech. They will likely double down. Elites don’t ever consider that they might be wrong. But this is one of the few avenues of complaint available.
A Japanese man in an izakaya wearing a Freon-insulated AC jacket. This is what it’s all about.
"Can you come with us please" "We have evidence you posted 'f*ck Keir Starmer' and 'stop the boats' on social media". Britain 2025.
Mark Cuban is promoting a policy that would almost certainly make the best AI inaccessible for low income Americans and lead to greater wealth inequality over time
999 of 1000 Americans associate Jonestown more with powdered drinks than communism. It wasn’t Kool-Aid. It was Flavor-Aid. Also they’re “progressives” now, it’s different
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Maybe we should undo that thing that happened in 1971 that caused every single socioeconomic indicator to plummet
Wake up, kid, that was happening even before the Internet. US birth rate has been below replacement since ~1971, except for a split second echo of the baby boom. AI will increase birth rates in order to maximize the future light cone of neurotransmitter tonnage.
Men will sign up for an absolute chain of command and the worship of lethality above all else instead of going to therapy.
“Hegseth’s actions could shape the military’s top ranks for years. His insistence on absolute loyalty, backed with repeated threats of polygraphs, creates uncertainty and mistrust that threaten to undermine the readiness and effectiveness of the force” nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/…