spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 8hListen, it's not your fault if you're ugly. I should know, I'm a fucking morlock. But if you're ugly and weird about women, I'm going to assume the two are related. 010
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialspherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 8hI keep telling people TekWar is a work of profound pathos. Nobody believes me. 021
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 8hI keep telling people TekWar is a work of profound pathos. Nobody believes me. 021
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 12hHis staff actually convinced him that the agreement he signed means we get to annex Greenland, didn't they? 010
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 13hOnly three races are ontologically real: Croats, Serbs and Albanians. At 400 followers I will reveal which nations belong to which races. @lastpositivist.bsky.social 3281
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 14hIn fairness, the people collectively responsible for managing European affairs in the 1930s had a lot to be ashamed of too. 110
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 14hOn one level, African leaders should probably be embarrassed that this is the sate of a continent of one and a half billion people after a few decades of independence, on the other, come the fuck on guys. 110
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 14hThe way to think about this is that in 2026, Africa has a heavy industrial base that's roughly the size of 1930s Germany, vastly more oil and petrochemical production, the better part of three times the population of all of Europe, and huge stockpiles of, admittedly irreplaceable, wunderwaffen. 110
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 14hThe funny thing about is the overlap between guys who think Africa has no chance and guys who think that few bad calls from Hitler were all that kept Germany from winning WWII. 121
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 15hThis is needless to say not the view that prevails on Twitter, for reasons that should be obvious. 010
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 15hThe correct view of modern Africa is that its the equivalent of a supersized late 18th or early 19th century Europe that can trade with the whole of the 21st century world and thus has islands highly advanced industrial technology 110
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Con...en.wikipedia.orgThe Confession (1970 film) - Wikipedia 000
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Did Ben Shapiro just file the serial numbers off of a Costa-Gavras move from the 70s and try and sell it back to us with James Franco? 100
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026On the one hand, this wouldn't be happening if she were still with Don Jr. On the other, the fact that there's any level of corruption that could force a resignation is a sign that deterrence is slowly being restored. 020
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Somehow, we didn't just get fewer otherwise normal people who had certain opinions about this or that ethnic group. They disappeared and were replaced by a subculture of demented freaks who are into some really specific genres of porn. 000
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Having come from a long line of such people, I miss old timey racists. 100
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I'm pretty confident that a former green hat person I know and his old Alpha team could have made him emperor if they had someone who could speak Latin. It would obviously require some astute politicking though. 010
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026But it would also leave Affrica with something like 40% of the World's population and a huge technological edge. 140
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026And, true, that would probably result in a famine roughly more intense the Great Leap Forward on a continent wide scale, as Africa had to pivot to producing the 20-30% of it's calories that come from imports. 120
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026*I think* their scenario is that modern Africa is teleported to take the place of it's 1939 counterpart, thus cutting it off from its supply chains. 120
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'm fighting a losing battle against the urge to try and make hitlergrapist1488 understand that a battle between the modern Egyptian army and any force that existed in 1939 would resemble The War of the World's more than the Battle of the Buldge. 11022
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I regret to inform everyone that the chuds on the other site are engaged in an argument about whether modern Africa could defeat Europe of 1939 in a military confrontation, and the discourse is taking the predictable direction. @cthomasjamh.bsky.social 111757
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.sociallastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Has anyone at least considered the possibility that if the state I vicariously identify with unleashes sufficient brutality on hated outgroups then I'll feel less lonely and afraid? 1029034
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026In his defense, its not like Yuds is not also doing that. 020
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They've been chewing on cheek bones for a while now. 030
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026For some reason, the dominant surviving strain of white supremacy is NEET identity politics, and it's making everything really, really weird. 000
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Sucking a dick would be less gay than whatever this is. 010
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We all laughing at this, but the man already suffers the daily indignities that come naturally from being Michael Tracey's father. On top of that, this seems kind of cruel. 040
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They do it with lots of referendums, which doesn't solve the rational ignorance problem, but Switzerland is basically actually existing technocratic direct democracy. 071
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Sortition, especially in a bicameral combination with an elected chamber, is one of few ideas that is both populist and sound on technocratic grounds. The problem with democracy is more rational ignorance than the average voter just being an idiot. 1191
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026He's no doubt kept it up, but just as a statistical fact about how tokens are distributed in the training data, its very hard to get an LLM to spout certain kinda of bullshit without making it useless for factual queries or prone to doing stuff like calling itself mecha hitler. 0100
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026this is more important than niche internet arguments make it seem: if LLMs don't work, who cares that Palantir is rolling it out for surveillance? Hell, maybe it's even good, if the state's machines start hallucinating the addresses of random Trump supporters when dispatching ICE. But they do work. 2127746
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026As flattering as it is to believe, American liberals are not the last flickering light holding back the shadow of fascism, the implosion of our republic is so, so much dumber than that. 010
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's always funny to read these Bluesky takes where the administration is ruthlessly building a totalitarian state and then remember that Hegseth called every general officer together so he and Trump could yell at them about how they're too fat and their boats are ugly. 110
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal. 211494230
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The most useful model of the rats isn't that they're racist, it's that they're the biggest dorks imaginable and ~60% of their cultural diet is Robert Heinlein novels. 010
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I actually don't think eugenics is central to rationalism. It's massively overrepresented there compared to the general population, but so is every galaxy brained sci-fi idea. 100
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You’re right to push back. That was a set of red balloons, not a Soviet first strike. Should I order some ambulances? 735254
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026rotating the extreme shitshow of Jim Jones going on Chapo to discuss the People's Temple and then the statements released two years later 51257
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Replacing the Republician staffer class with guys who think sportsball is racket ((they)) use to keep goys in line has it's downsides. 000
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In her defense, when people are forming weird apocalypse cults around fan fiction for your silly wizard books, it's probably hard to not let that get to your head. 011
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Epstien was perversely attractive because on some level most people think it would be cool to be powerful, rich and above the law even if they'd use that power to do other things. The guys Hanson was going after were almost by definition gross losers. 000
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026OTD in 1939 USSR & its Nazi German allies signed "German-Soviet Boundary & Friendship Treaty" in Moscow just few days after our joint Victory Parade. Both nazis and USSR accused France and GB of trying to "prolong the war". 533094
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Tito's actual ideology was Lassallism-Lennism. I will not elaborate further. 000
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialRoberto Rojas @robertorojas97.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Brazilian Portuguese commentary on that Tyler Loop field goal for the Ravens is exactly what everyone needs to hear right now 19930260
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Like it's obviously, at best, questionable, to have directly interacted with him in any way, but what if you knew a guy who knew a guy? I don't know about yall, but I'd be pretty impressed by someone who knew Woody Allen, Noam Chomsky and Bill Clinton. 000
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026At what degree of separation does a connection to Jeffery Epstien go from sus to impressive? Asking for friend, because there's got to be a crossover point. 100
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The interesting thing is that the alt-timeline version of Fuentes where he's doing meth and making bitchy comments in the back of some club in Miami is just a different kind of racist. 010
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The fact that Fuentes is obviously queerer than a three dollar bill is a factor here. If he hadn't hit on the fascism bit, he'd be Perez Hilton. 020
