Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 02/07/2026It was the Tibetan swastika, not the Nazi swastika! youtu.be/ccXU7s694kg?...youtu.beMy dinner with Andre - FULL MOVIEYouTube video by The Best so Far 010
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 29/06/2026That is very much downstream from the universities' decision to become political actors. 000
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Conversely, I think that the felt experience of "My sense of absolute conviction is not a reflection of fundamental reality but just another neural output that can be chemically altered" is one of the most illuminating insights one can get from psychedelics - and practically no other source. 000
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Or because they value being Ideologically Pure Activists over doing Actual Politics. 040
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 27/06/2026🤔 Not sure if existentially funny or existentially depressing that Americans are both Obscenely Rich and Totally Economically Miserable at the same time. 000
Reposted by DivnoláskaCobalt Enjoyer @hammerth-1701.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Desertec is very dead due to geopolitical risks. It's just a Russian natural gas pipeline by different means. The revolutionary thing about renewable energy for national governments is that it can be generated entirely within their borders without getting exceptionally lucky with geography. 161
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 26/06/2026"Where are your sociopaths congregating?" runs along a basic Prisons-Parliament axis; But the specific points of concentration along the way - Boardrooms, newspapers, HOAs, local sports league, dingy bars, homeless encampments? Who's got the most? - both filter and shape societies in subtle ways. 020
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Used to be that if you were about compassion and sharing, you became a Democrat, and if you were into competition and hierarchy, you became a Republican. Today, your party is assigned to you by your social circle. So both tribes have to contend with invasive personality types. 000
Reposted by DivnoláskaEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The capability overhang from the models we have today (and that are coming soon) are large enough that large-scale change to work and society over the next 5+ years is now inevitable even if AI development stops. We should spend more time thinking about mitigating the bad & encouraging the good. 412822
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 25/06/2026"It's unfair that women are alive and suffering while men are avoiding their fair share by being dead" 🤔 000
Reposted by DivnoláskaFRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. -- Lao-Tzu 042
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Hey, maybe he was specializing in card tricks and levitation 🤷 000
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Supposedly, there is an Australian tribe which doesn't have a language for relative direction (the tree is left of the house) and does everything cardinally instead (the tree is north of the house, the bread is east of the bowl), which forces them all to become preternatural navigators. 010
Reposted by DivnoláskaThat Cenobite That Looks Like Skunk Baxter @fresnofred.bsky.social · 23/06/2026"The Sovereign enabled blasphemous rites in the holy places of the capital, causing defeat in the war with Persia and the sacred pool to become polluted." 010721
Reposted by DivnoláskaSTEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Crazily enough the Marine Corps has the best solution to this I've seen yet. Reviewing officers have an average score, based on their individual reviews, and your "rating" is how your individual score fares as a statistical deviation from the reviewing officers average score, Not a score itself. 51159
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 22/06/2026The whole thing *had to be* an influence/honeypot op, right? Or it at least inevitably turned into one, once the organizer realized how much dirt they are holding. 000
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 21/06/2026"Stay alert, stay focused and choose the right underwear" is the warrior's path. 020
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 21/06/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms2k...youtube.comStory from North AmericaYouTube video by kirstenlepore 010
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 21/06/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_...en.wikipedia.orgStalin Monument (Prague) - Wikipedia 000
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 21/06/2026So, the Babiš government is trying to run the Orbán playbook of media control, just as the model is getting decisively rejected. This tendency of the Czech establishment to jump on an already derailed train reminds me of the massive Stalin monument, unveiled a year before Khrushchev's denouncement. 100
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 21/06/2026There are so many valid reasons to criticize Tucker Carlson, but "ancient historical claims and grievances still matter" is definitely the case with Israel. 000
Reposted by DivnoláskaWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 20/06/2026the influence of academics/NGO types drawn to radicalism for its own sake has been harmful here imo. The people impacted by bad policing don’t want to radically reimagine the entirety what crime is, they want their sheriff’s dept to be professionals who aren’t in literal gangs (real thing in LA) 15807114
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Technically correct; "Dobrý den, prchám z amerického století ponížení. Točí se tu někde IPA?" would be a little more snappy/idiomatic. (We just say "eeh-pah", the way a Czech would phonetically pronounce "ipa" as a contextless word.) 120
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 20/06/2026I mean... Bill is uncovered as an interloper precisely because, unlike everyone else, he *is* cosplaying - and came there in a taxi, in a cape he got from a rental. Those are explicit plot points. This conversation can truly serve no further purpose. 000
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 20/06/2026You are plainly incorrect. We see the palace, we see the limos, we see the servants and we know Ziegler (an invention of the film, I'm told) is considerably richer than Bill. There is nothing in the text of the film suggesting any of that is fake or cosplay. 100
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 20/06/2026I must admit the cynical exploitation of the news-worthiness asymmetry between a clear declaration ("The war is over: we have an agreement!") and the slow, uncertain realization ("Oh, no we don't...") is some truly advanced form of political cheesing. 020
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The danger is implied by the fact that the people present at the orgy were extremely rich (with private palaces, limos and servants) and powerful in their own right. To the degree this is Kubrick's alteration to the novella, it's a decision bringing it deliberately closer to the real situation. 100
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 20/06/2026But if he *did* find out about it... well then he suddenly had a great à clef opportunity. Dust off the old novella - just set it in the location and at the time the deeds are actually taking place, to hit closer to home. And call it something like "Hey, this is happening and nobody is looking!" 100
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 20/06/2026If he didn't know, then it's clearly all just happenstance. The most 'conspiracy-surrounded director' by the same principle as 'the most photographed barn in America'. 100
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 20/06/2026And now the question surprisingly becomes: Had Kubrick become aware of the parties before he decided EWS was going to be his next film? Given that Epstein was palling around with major Hollywood figures like Woody Allen, it's not implausible that word got out in those circles. 100
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 20/06/2026If Kubrick indeed obtained the film rights in the 1960s, that would have been concurrently with or shortly after Lolita - so his angle could have been further exploration of romantic and erotic extremes: Cutting edge in the 1960s. Then the idea lay on this shelf for ~30 years. 200
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 20/06/2026I agree that is a strong argument in favor of "it was all just a coincidence". And there certainly *is* a coincidence here: The element of 'secret-society orgies' from a book written in the 1920s fits the shape of the actual Epstein parties, starting probably sometime in the 1980s. 200
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Keeping your eyes wide shut is your inalienable right. 010
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Yes, in these tense times, it is indeed very optically unfortunate that Israel does exert obvious disproportionate influence over US policy in the Middle East. 010
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Israel is corrupting your eminently corruptible scumbag in chief. 020
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 19/06/2026That's not the right analogy. Better: A robber convinces you to join him in a bank robbery. You go in together, shoot some people and then get stuck behind a security door: Both guilty. 110
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Netanyahu ordered his own strikes on Iran, in coordination with the US, and is doing everything in his power to keep the conflict hot and going. This whole line of argument where Israel is completely innocent of a war they instigated because they also managed to drag the US in is ridiculous. 120
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Legally, morally and logically: No. Instigation is still instigation, even if the other party should have been a lot wiser. 100
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The one making the pitch is at least as culpable as the one accepting it. 220
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 19/06/2026It's valid because the war was launched on Israel's insistence, to achieve Israeli objectives. 110
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The choice to adapt *that book in particular* at that time was deliberate, though. Shakespeare didn't write Romeo and Juliette to be about ethnic tensions - but adapt it, beat for beat, to 50s New York and you get West Side Story. 200
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 19/06/2026"People could only ever disagree with me because they are bigots" sounds like a very comfortable way to live one's life. 000
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I wasn't there and don't particularly care what he said. But the film depicts something that looks very much like a dreamified version of the actual Epstein parties, including allusions to exploitation of minors, and was made at a time when the parties were happening. And is called Eyes Wide Shut... 200
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Wasn't me but could have just as well been me: That is not a meaningful argument. Apocalypse Now is also based on a book that was written 60 years before the Vietnam War. A film can actually carry a different meaning from its source material. 110
Divnoláska @divnolaska.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Well, what can be done when the "Blame Israel" lane is entirely valid here? The collateral is inevitable. 210
