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@cstominaga [RT] RT @___siggi___: Comfortably doing 1.9M tps now on the same hardware as we used for the 1.1M tps test. The improvements are real! #BSV #Ter…
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@cstominaga The Empire That Chose to Stop Thinking https://t.co/I4kpnyZxBt
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@cstominaga The apparent linear scaling of trust costs with value secured is an artefact of conflating transaction processing with attack deterrence; once separated, processing costs fall with throughput so that vast aggregate value can be secured via many small transactions, while
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@cstominaga [RT] RT @Daniel__Street: If you think a small casual transaction should cost more than a transaction fee on the Visa/MasterCard network, you mis…
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@cstominaga You Are Not a Mystery. You Are a Construction Site. https://t.co/ZqKumJgP9y
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@cstominaga [RT] RT @___siggi___: https://t.co/7c3eqcT1of
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@cstominaga I will just link this seeing as it is open. https://t.co/F6ZySUvZ4I
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@cstominaga I hate admin—go to submit and the site breaks. Thank you IEEE. https://t.co/gW0UXKh4gv
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@cstominaga Design-Robust Event-Study Estimation under Staggered Adoption Diagnostics, Sensitivity, and Orthogonalisation This paper develops a design-first econometric framework for event-study and difference-in-differences estimands under staggered adoption with heterogeneous effects,
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@cstominaga This work is about finding certainty inside apparent chaos. Imagine a huge social network: millions of people, and between any two people there is either a “friend” link or there is not. You are told one constraint: the network never contains a particular kind of six-person https://t.co/6n46wCIRFJ
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@cstominaga The Bipartite Shadow Hypothesis: Where Erdős–Hajnal Now Bottlenecks A little something on the side. https://t.co/zYKrV8RVzK
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@cstominaga I have written and filed a paper giving a structural reduction for the P6-free case in the context of the strong Erdos–Hajnal problem. The paper states the problem precisely and makes clear that this is a reduction inside a proof strategy, not a claimed full resolution. The full
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@cstominaga Chicken Pasta in a Rich Tomato-Cream Sauce Ingredients (serves 4) 600 g chicken tenders 3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil 1 large onion, finely diced 4 cloves garlic, finely minced 2 tbsp tomato purée 150 ml dry white wine 1 × 400 g tin whole peeled tomatoes 1 bay leaf 1 tsp fresh
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@cstominaga Utility-Weighted Forecasting and Calibration for Risk-Adjusted Decisions under Trading Frictions Forecasting accuracy is routinely optimised in financial prediction tasks even though investment and risk-management decisions are executed under transaction costs, market impact, https://t.co/WlG9baymD
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@cstominaga The “exploited by the West” line is the favourite bedtime story of every kleptocrat and every graduate activist who has never had to make a contract stick in a real court. The first, last, and most brutal exploitation in most poor countries is domestic: leaders, ministries,
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@cstominaga The Failure of Climate Forecasting: A Retrospective Analysis of Thirty Years of Model Error Climate forecasting sold itself as a discipline of numbers, deadlines, and certainty; the public was told not merely that warming might occur, but that precise trajectories were known, https://t.co/ONqgibfg
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@cstominaga I post my sources here openly. I argue in public. I don’t hide behind screenshots, slogans, or drive-by memes. And yes—while you’re busy sneering at credentials you don’t understand, I’m starting my eighth doctorate. You’re not “calling out authority”; you’re advertising that you https://t.co/ypCPzP
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@cstominaga Collectivism is evil. Calling it a “boogeyman” is a cheap dodge people use when they don’t want to answer the charge. The correct point is that collectivism is not an imaginary scare-story, it is a real doctrine with a real track record: it subordinates the individual to “the
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@cstominaga Protein Quality, Growth, and Cognitive Development: Why Children Need Animal-Source Nutrients for IQ and Height A blue tick is a small ornament, but it does have one charming use: it invites people to mistake confidence for competence. Here, competence is the point. Child https://t.co/S9AMjrlelD
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@cstominaga Children need complete protein and adequate fat for growth, brain development, hormones, and the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins. Animal foods happen to deliver that package with ruthless efficiency: highly bioavailable iron and zinc, vitamin B12 (which plants simply do not
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@cstominaga One hesitates to call it a composition. It is more accurately an accident curated. The chromatic bands announce themselves with all the subtlety of a malfunctioning printer—primary-school saturation elevated, apparently, to the status of profundity. The vertical smears aspire to
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@cstominaga [RT] RT @___siggi___: We just concluded a scaling test with the latest version of Teranode, and averaged over 1.1 million transactions per secon…
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@cstominaga The Word That Ate Itself “Tolerance” used to mean restraint: you don’t punish people for speech you hate. Now it’s been captured and inverted—redefined into “respect,” “dignity,” “harm,” “safe space,” and “inclusion,” then enforced as evaluation of beliefs rather than https://t.co/SRh9pYyFv3
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@cstominaga He is a pig. He doesn't want. That is the point. He has no language... no plans... nothing but the now.
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@cstominaga No: it wasn’t 12,000 years. The 12,000 number is about humans in New England, not “the Wampanoag” as a named people. The Wampanoag as Wampanoag are a Late Woodland / contact-period polity, and the name shows up in early 1600s English records. That is hundreds of years of
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@cstominaga Cows “in nature” are a romantic fiction. What people call “a cow” is a domestic animal engineered by human selection over thousands of years, not some pristine wild creature that would be out there flourishing if we all simply stopped thinking about it. Strip away humans and
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@cstominaga Your analogy does not merely fail; it fails in the specific way that every sentimental metaphor fails when it encounters someone who has actually built things. If a business is going to succeed, the business owner does come into work, usually far more than the employees. I have
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@cstominaga The average is a sanctuary for the frightened; they call it community.
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@cstominaga Yes — those are bantam eggs. Small, round, thick-shelled, and slightly muddy from the nest, exactly as they should be. Bantam eggs are essentially concentrated eggs: proportionally larger yolks to whites, firmer whites, and a cleaner, more pronounced egg flavour than standard https://t.co/YddkLHwa1
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@cstominaga Three–Duck-Egg Soufflé of Gruyère, Aged Cheddar, Chives, and Smoked Ham This is a maximal savoury soufflé—deeply flavoured, aromatic, and structured—built to exploit what duck eggs do better than anything else: richness, lift, and persistence of flavour after baking. It does not https://t.co/GqhorX
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@cstominaga I suppose it is time for us to suspend our delightful hostilities and wish everyone a Merry Christmas, though one must be careful with one’s adjectives. To wish someone a "merrier" Christmas is a subtle admission that their previous attempts at joy were perhaps a trifle
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@cstominaga To suggest that inequality is a peculiar byproduct of capitalism is to commit the most tedious sort of historical error; it is like blaming the thermometer for the heat of the sun. The truth is far more devastatingly simple: inequality is the only natural state of man. We are
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@cstominaga Ah yes—nothing to lose, except your career, your home, your relationships, your savings, your future, and all those tiresome bourgeois inconveniences like choice and responsibility. Chains are terribly unfashionable, of course, but history suggests they are usually issued after
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@cstominaga Nothing is more offensive to the ordinary than the sight of someone quietly becoming extraordinary.
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@cstominaga To improve the world, stop narrating virtue and start counting the costs that arrive tomorrow.
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@cstominaga My dear fellow, I must say, it is truly the most exhausting form of vanity to demand that the entire world act as a collective stagehand for one's private theater. One does not merely live a life; one curates a deception and then becomes a tax collector of the soul, demanding
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@cstominaga Imagine thinking disagreement is “harassment” and that refusing to chant 2 + 2 = 5 is some moral failure. That isn’t progress or empathy—it’s coercion dressed up as virtue. If your position can’t survive dissent, it isn’t truth; it’s dogma.
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@cstominaga The tweet quietly slides between two different meanings of “rights”, and that’s the error. With negative rights (freedom from interference: speech, property, bodily autonomy), one person being protected does not, in principle, remove the same protection from someone else. More
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@cstominaga We are witnessing the ultimate state of collapse, where erudition is treated as a crime and intelligence as a suspicious foreign power. It is a world populated by people running about in a frantic state of alarm, terrified by a metaphor and scandalized by a complete sentence.
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@cstominaga My dear moralist, you really must learn to distinguish between a difference of opinion and a declaration of war. To label a simple disagreement as ‘harassment’ is the desperate tactic of a man who fears his own arguments cannot survive the open air. What you are demanding is
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@cstominaga My dear apologist for confusion @SheepEtiquette, you seem to labor under the delightful delusion that if one simply changes the label on the bottle, the poison inside miraculously turns to wine. To sever gender from sex is not a sophisticated evolution of language; it is a
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@cstominaga My dear Doctor, yours is a philosophy that threatens to turn the nursery into a triage unit. Block all you will. But... If we are to follow this curious logic to its ruinous conclusion, then every ephemeral fancy of youth becomes a medical imperative. Must the child who https://t.co/5HeazFfhzw
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@cstominaga Do not aim to be admired. Aim to be missed. The measure of a life is not how well you decorated it, but how much would fall if you were not there.
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@cstominaga It’s a funny age we live in: the loudest moral philosophy on offer is a pocket calculator and a tantrum. “That man’s a billionaire.” “That person’s lucky.” As if the mere existence of someone else’s success is a personal injury you can bill to the universe. But here’s the dull https://t.co/ZYWicqbE
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@cstominaga How admirably theatrical that bleak little confession is. One can almost hear the curtains rustle as “deals and lies and power” are dragged onstage like props in a second-rate melodrama, meant to explain away every personal disappointment with a sigh and a shrug. Life, contrary
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@cstominaga What I’ve learned, watching this circus from a stiff-backed chair with a drink that’s earned rather than explained, is that much of the modern left isn’t driven by principle at all, but by private misery looking for a public alibi. Not all, of course—there are always
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@cstominaga Nothing says “I haven’t read the papers” quite like declaring the entire idea of evidence corrupt because someone paid for ink and electricity. Funding can bend work; that is why competent research states who paid, who benefits, what was done, and how it can be checked. The lazy
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@cstominaga The guillotine here is velvet because it does not shout. It simply removes the illusion — cleanly — and leaves the argument standing without its head.
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@cstominaga They worshipped authenticity so devoutly they never noticed they had nothing left to be authentic about.
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@cstominaga Self-improvement is the new opium of the masses—everyone is high on the idea and sober in the execution.
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@cstominaga I’ve studied at 30+ universities over 37 years. Why do admissions offices always demand ALL transcripts? At some point it stops being due diligence and turns into bureaucratic cosplay. Apparently 10+ transcripts isn’t enough — they want the entire archaeological record of my https://t.co/oAdFlwawD
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@cstominaga Talking to Will is like talking to a fish out of water—only with more flopping. One minute it’s “you appealed to AI authority”, the next it’s “I never said that”, then it’s back to smug sniping instead of engaging the substance Pick a line, defend it, and stay there. If all https://t.co/SU1oJCMJZ
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@cstominaga “Non sequitur” is doing a lot of work for someone ducking the actual claim: Britain never faced an existential threat. "That’s indefensible", and yet it is addressed directly (and coherently) here: https://t.co/Fnx6SYJu0o Your entire position, Will, smuggles in hindsight as
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@cstominaga No — what it’s for, as you can plainly see, is that I put my argument to the machine and use it the way an adult uses a tool: as an editor and a foil. It is not “writing for me”. It’s stress-testing the logic, probing the weak joints, and forcing the mechanism into the open — https://t.co/ZH9eodVPd
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@cstominaga https://t.co/8UQujE10tH
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@cstominaga And a new dissertation published. https://t.co/dBMpl6Rg5C
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@cstominaga Yep, here we go again: deny human nature like every other cultist, then sprint around yelling “it’s scientific” while trampling the first scientific principle — the method matters more than your feelings. This is always the routine. You slap a lab coat on a belief system,
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@cstominaga Sure, I’ll stop being condescending the moment you stop trying to peddle a cult you clearly haven’t bothered to understand yourself. If you want “the papers,” do the basic work first: read what you’re citing, learn what it actually claims, and figure out the difference between
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@cstominaga Let’s walk through this slowly, because you’ve managed to trip over your own smugness. First, the comedy routine with “(sic)”. “Sic” is Latin for “thus/so,” and it’s used when you quote someone exactly and want to signal their error is theirs, not yours. You didn’t quote. You
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@cstominaga Here’s the part you keep skating past like it’s not bolted to the floor. We already live in a market economy. That isn’t a “preference,” it’s the control condition. It’s the baseline reality against which your bright new contraption has to be measured. You don’t get to stroll in
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@cstominaga If you want to be part of a cult, if you want your brain sluiced out like someone poured Drano through your ears, then yes, you too can ignore scientific reasoning, ignore everything we know about incentives, conflict, scarcity, and behaviour, and call that “insight.” It’s the
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@cstominaga The modern world has discovered a new form of heroism: the heroic refusal to begin.
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@cstominaga Magnificent. Moron learns how to eat gold, saves world from starvation — and presumably washes it down with a nice Bordeaux, because calories are so terribly old-fashioned. Gold isn’t food, housing, energy, fertiliser, logistics, or labour. It’s a shiny metal humans agree to
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@cstominaga There is a peculiar modern habit of confusing a well-trained parrot with a wise man. One mentions “AI” in polite company and watches otherwise sensible adults swoon as if silicon had discovered virtue. They speak of replacements, revolutions, and the end of work, with all the https://t.co/nc8mUsl164
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@cstominaga Ah, the weekly séance in which people gather round a glowing screen to ask which trades can be spared from the new mechanical deity. One can almost hear the incense crackle: “Name a career that is AI-resistant?” — as if vocation were a tin of biscuits to be tucked safely beyond
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@cstominaga Verification Without Enforcement Is Observation, Not Security https://t.co/cQAemAbZ8s https://t.co/8snwNnUC6v
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@cstominaga Infinite implies a completed infinity; unbounded means the horizon extends without terminal period.
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@cstominaga [RT] RT @amazing_physics: This is a 1000-gram iron bar. In its raw form, it’s worth around $100. If it’s turned into horseshoes, its value rises…
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@cstominaga The Law Already Inside Bitcoin https://t.co/RAHVPxLv4X
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@cstominaga The Law Already Inside Bitcoin https://t.co/RAHVPxLv4X https://t.co/7YQhbD0k5y
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@cstominaga The Missing Foundation The foundations of digital life are unsound. Not in the trivial sense that software has bugs, or that interfaces are ugly, or that corporations are greedy — though all of these are true. They are unsound in the structural sense: the fundamental https://t.co/HPC86vh2k7
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@cstominaga My paper, Protocol as Offer: Unilateral Contract Doctrine and the Legal Architecture of Proof-of-Work Systems, has passed peer review and has been accepted for publication. More shall follow when it is due to be released.
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@cstominaga BTC governance is best modelled not as decentralised consensus, but as a sequential coalition game in which maintainer gatekeeping, sponsor influence, exchange recognition, and mining concentration jointly determine protocol outcomes under strong network externalities.
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@cstominaga Make It Fair: The Quiet Expropriation of Britain’s Culture for Machine Training https://t.co/HcqxfZr5U8
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@cstominaga While we are on the subject of doing things properly rather than theatrically, I will also be loading an ASIC paper this week. There is a preprint ready on an HBM-backed hardware state engine designed specifically for UTXO-based transaction verification. The objective is not
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@cstominaga The most regrettable invention in modern civilisation is not the telegraph, nor the income tax, nor even the committee. It is the oversized motorcycle in the tropics. I say this as a man deeply, irrationally devoted to his Triumph Rocket 3R Storm—a creature of magnificent
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@cstominaga As expected. https://t.co/UECXfTXdrh
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@cstominaga The CLARITY Act can sort tokens into neat boxes, but it still leaves the public with the same fatal confusion: mistaking a screen balance for ownership. This piece cuts through that fog with one simple tool—the Control–Entitlement–Property triad—grounded in a coat-check analogy
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@cstominaga The Coat Check Problem in the CLARITY Act The CLARITY Act can sort tokens into neat boxes, but it still leaves the public with the same fatal confusion: mistaking a screen balance for ownership. This piece cuts through that fog with one simple tool—the
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@cstominaga One always suspects a weak argument when it arrives draped in melodrama and shouting. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had a desire to rape pigs. I have never felt compelled to attribute human depravity to livestock, and if one must reach for such lurid metaphors to make a https://t.co/NMicPu
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@cstominaga One is tempted to admire the confidence with which you make the same mistake twice—first in thought, and then again after consulting a machine to bless it. There is something almost heroic about such persistence. You tell us, with the serene certainty of the armchair agronomist,
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@cstominaga I had @Grok FIX the image so it is more accurate. https://t.co/JjFaObuo1P
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@cstominaga Picture the committee meeting: the butcher, the thief, and the sanctimonious little murderer in a pressed suit, all agreeing on a rota. Mondays for mutilation, Tuesdays for pillage, Wednesdays for speeches about “stability”, and Thursdays reserved for the inevitable argument over
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@cstominaga Scope and what is being “proved” here The manuscript Relativistic Soliton Mechanics explicitly markets itself as a derivation of the Planck relation, de Broglie relation, Klein–Gordon, London, and (non-relativistic limit) Schrödinger “without quantum postulates”, from “Lorentz
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@cstominaga Very well. No pageantry, no throat-clearing. The claim that “Africa built Europe, America, Australia, and China” is not history; it is therapy masquerading as economics. It is the sort of sentence designed to soothe an audience, not to survive contact with reality. Slogans are
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@cstominaga Three Boxes and a Lie This essay is a demolition job, not a comfort read. It takes a set of slogans people repeat because they feel righteous and pulls them apart piece by piece, replacing moral theatre with mechanisms, incentives, and institutional reality. It is written for https://t.co/LFaApno
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@cstominaga I truly loathe editing. https://t.co/9R0FztS9L2
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@cstominaga Yes, I know you don’t. That’s the entire point: you want the aesthetic of rigor without the burden of it. You want to call it a “framework”, wrap it in “logical coherence” and “secondary research”, and then declare the request for primary evidence “unreasonable” because it might
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@cstominaga The post is a melodrama performed with a calculator: it takes a comfortable income, stuffs it with elective indulgences, then weeps theatrically over the corpse of “freedom”. The numbers are not a diagnosis of reality; they are a confession of taste. Begin with the central
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@cstominaga There is a peculiar vanity in those who sermonise about purity while remaining strangers to the mechanics of the world they presume to reform. It is easy to posture about waste from behind a supermarket shelf; it is harder to understand what waste actually is. Waste is not a
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@cstominaga The peculiar tragedy of BTC is not that it failed to conquer the world, but that it abandoned the only weapon with which conquest is possible: utility. An asset that exists merely to be hoarded is not a revolution; it is a trinket. And trinkets, however feverishly admired in
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@cstominaga The Cognitive Zombie: What Your AI Understands About You (Which Is Nothing) Your AI doesn't understand you. It doesn't understand anything. And the speed at which people are forgetting why this matters is the most important intellectual failure of the decade. Let me be https://t.co/3QIR79
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@cstominaga What is it with these people who imagine capitalism “requires” poverty, as though commerce is a gothic novel and the only plot twist is another starving orphan? A poor man is a tragedy. A permanently poor population is not a “business model”; it is commercial suicide. People who
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@cstominaga I’m going to call it what it is: the “One Africa” chant is not solidarity, it’s a tidy little racism dressed up as virtue. Africa is a continent, not a single people, not a single polity, not a single mind. It contains nations with distinct laws, religions, languages, histories,
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@cstominaga More candles were lit for calm than have ever been lit for courage.
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@cstominaga There is a particularly exquisite hypocrisy that flowers only in the gardens of inherited comfort. It is not the vulgar millionaire who built something from nothing who perfects it, but the lacquered custodians of unearned abundance—the matrimonial beneficiaries, the hereditary
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@cstominaga Man has been many things in his own estimation—upright ape, fallen angel, economic unit, statistical inconvenience—but Terry Pratchett, with the courtesy of genius, named him correctly at last: homo narrans, the storytelling animal. We are not distinguished by thumbs, nor even by
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@cstominaga Sentience, like good taste, is a quality much discussed and rarely defined, which is precisely why it is so often misassigned. We have reached the fashionable age in which a creature that can whimper at the door is awarded the same metaphysical dignity as the creature that can
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@cstominaga https://t.co/u6mkE5l3ya
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@cstominaga https://t.co/C9EEmWGIgs
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@cstominaga I spent decades in the engine room of the world, staring at the cold, hard face of the number. I had the credentials, of course—the Statistics, the Mathematics, the PhD in Computer Science—all the gilded paperwork that allows a man to feel superior while saying absolutely
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@cstominaga My dear fellows, we must be dreadfully careful not to confuse the noble art of tolerance with the vulgar habit of acceptance. Tolerance is a discipline of the spine; acceptance is merely a collapse of the critical faculties. To tolerate is simply to adhere to the only
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@cstominaga The quickest way to kill culture is to “protect” it with a federalised super-state. France, Italy, Germany — different languages, laws, habits, foods, histories, loyalties. That diversity survives because power is closer to the people living it, not because a distant centre
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@cstominaga [RT] RT @sfliberty: "Socialism is not a movement of the people. It is a movement of the intellectuals, originated, led and controlled by the int…
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@cstominaga If you want to call yourself Napoleon and run around in funny clothes, I’ve no problem with it. Same with gender. Guess what? It doesn’t make it fucking real.
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@cstominaga My dear fellow, we have arrived at a truly curious moment in history where the pursuit of life itself is categorized as a prejudice. To accuse a man of hatred because he desires the chaos of the nursery and the continuance of his own bloodline is the sort of vulgarity that
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@cstominaga Before I start cooking my shortbread, I should confess that I do, in fact, grasp humour—at least the competent varieties. Monty Python is bloody funny. The tragedy is that not everyone agrees. The wife, for instance, remains heroically unmoved, which I can only interpret as https://t.co/MuIgCeW1Yn
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@cstominaga I require a bloody break. Chapter 4 is complete, which is to say wrestled into submission with all the grace of a drawing-room duel. Only Chapter 5 remains, looming with the needy confidence of something that believes itself important. For the moment, however, literature may
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@cstominaga Oh to procrastination... to the reply. Your aphorism is the sort of line that gets applause from people who confuse a sneer with an argument and a slogan with a mind. It has the small, neat wickedness of a fortune-cookie written by a committee: flattering to the in-group, cruel https://t.co/2jjMb0O5
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@cstominaga Truth is not a mood, nor a courtesy extended to spare feelings. It is a statement about the world that survives contact with reality. Sex is a biological classification grounded in reproductive function and chromosomal architecture; it is not a narrative preference, a wardrobe
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@cstominaga If I appear unusually active on Twitter today, this is not productivity, it’s procrastination. I am meant to be doing a full reread of a 450-page PhD thesis before submission, which means I will avoid it with increasing creativity until I finally start, hate every final edit,
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@cstominaga There’s no “must” here. Tolerance isn’t a contract where I sign away my judgement and you get to police my language. It means I’m not interfering with your life: live how you want, dress how you want, date who you want, call yourself what you want. That’s the boundary. That’s
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@cstominaga A man. Stop pretending this is mystical. It’s meat, wiring, hormones, development, and statistics—messy, overlapping, and still very much real. Brain imaging does not show “blank human brains” that later get painted pink or blue by ideology. Across large cohorts, neuroimaging
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@cstominaga A man. Stop pretending this is mystical. It’s meat, wiring, hormones, development, and statistics—messy, overlapping, and still very much real. Brain imaging does not show “blank human brains” that later get painted pink or blue by ideology. Across large cohorts, neuroimaging
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@cstominaga Tolerance is a modest virtue, not a devotional rite. It means restraint: not interfering, not persecuting, not pretending that your neighbour’s private metaphysics is now the public calendar by which everyone must set their watches. It does not mean acceptance. It does not mean
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@cstominaga Tolerance is a modest virtue, not a devotional rite. It means restraint: not interfering, not persecuting, not pretending that your neighbour’s private metaphysics is now the public calendar by which everyone must set their watches. It does not mean acceptance. It does not mean
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@cstominaga What’s the solution—more government? That is like fixing a house fire by hiring more arsonists. If your diagnosis is “government is captured”, then your cure cannot be “expand the thing that gets captured”. That just increases the prize. You don’t solve discretion with more https://t.co/aaOY085t8A
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@cstominaga https://t.co/DdMbDPfQXv
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@cstominaga [RT] RT @seabiscuit_22: https://t.co/WC3irkUwy2
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@cstominaga They lived in the moment so completely that the future arrived and found no one home.
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@cstominaga Imagine the mental contortions required to call someone a coward for not wanting a war. The word “coward” used to describe the man who runs when violence comes to his door, not the one who refuses to go touring the continent in search of other people’s blood to spill. There is a
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@cstominaga The rhetoric is familiar, and so is the hypocrisy. For decades these same voices denounced the American “military-industrial complex” as a moral abomination—imperial, corrupting, antithetical to civilisation. Now, without a trace of embarrassment, they propose to recreate it at
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@cstominaga Patriotism has been reduced to a slogan you can shout while volunteering somebody else’s child. The modern trick is simple: relabel appetite for foreign entanglement as virtue, then call anyone who asks for a balance sheet a traitor. It is the politics of moral cosplay. It
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@cstominaga https://t.co/ScnODpjRIS
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@cstominaga [RT] RT @ABridgen: A plausible explanation of why they want to ban cash. Please watch and share Join us: HISTORY 📜 https://t.co/jwN8gUzlrC
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@cstominaga Markets require not only prices and incentives, but also a way to establish which claims are valid. Standard theory generally takes that verification infrastructure as given. A paper I am wr6 endogenises it. Verification is costly, strategic, and competitively supplied.
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@cstominaga Some reeading. https://t.co/G6jQaQB3CH
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@cstominaga 2026 is proving to be a year of earned momentum. Two peer-reviewed papers have already been accepted. A monograph drawn from my PhD in law has been accepted and is moving into publication, as has my self-help work, Worded Better, together with Architecture of Excellence. Those
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@cstominaga Your Token Is Not Your JPEG — And That Distinction Is the Entire Point https://t.co/U61KDV22Le https://t.co/JVOqPZfJSD
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@cstominaga Happy. https://t.co/0wGSHpiwSj
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@cstominaga The Mark That Belongs to No One A signature may be anything. But it must be someone’s. https://t.co/K4wZbEk75F https://t.co/xJcyuzw0Tz
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@cstominaga Cryptographic Control as Fiduciary Power https://t.co/FzH2KjRgkE https://t.co/tlOMdEvHoy
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@cstominaga Another day passes, and beyond the act of writing there is the quieter labour of fixing what should never have been broken. The farm demands it. One pays for things to be set properly, and yet they are placed askew, assembled without thought, abandoned to the vague hope that
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@cstominaga Bailment on a Ledger https://t.co/pUjBumwJdy
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@cstominaga Poor baby. I guess he hates being shown to be in error. https://t.co/sVDNNhWdCz
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@cstominaga Could not be happier... publishing here we come. https://t.co/wTxAkL5PO9
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@cstominaga [RT] RT @JamesMelville: AI is eventually going to eat us. In particular, the creative industries. With the click of a button, music artists (b…
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@cstominaga Vegan Children: The Diet That Becomes a Project A vegetarian or vegan diet for a child is not “just food preferences.” It is a developmental engineering problem, and most families do not run it like one. Children are not small adults. They are building tissue, building bone,
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@cstominaga Taken to its logical conclusion, that line isn’t “simplicity”; it is extinction-by-neglect. If you declare that milk and meat are illegitimate, you abolish the only economic reason the overwhelming majority of cattle are bred, kept, and protected at scale—so the end state is not
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@cstominaga Rescuing an animal from immediate harm is not theft. Theft requires the taking of property for appropriation; removing a living creature from imminent danger to prevent suffering or death is a rescue, not a claim of ownership. If you watch the rest of the footage, the
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@cstominaga The slogan “most PoW” only has meaning inside a single, unchanging protocol, because proof-of-work measures computational work against a fixed definition of what constitutes a valid block and a valid transaction. If that definition shifts, then what PoW is securing shifts with
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@cstominaga George Orwell must be a time traveller. Nothing else accounts for the extraordinary calm with which he describes futures that had not yet learned to exist. He writes as though catastrophe were already familiar territory — as though he had walked its corridors, criticized the https://t.co/BKDr0Gx3v5
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@cstominaga Proposition 1. Under Conditions 1–4, no governance mechanism can implement one-person-one-vote. Proof. One-person-one-vote requires a bijection f: K → P from cryptographic keys K to natural persons P such that each person controls exactly one voting key. Under Condition 1, no
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@cstominaga And the proof copy is here from the publisher. https://t.co/4vUhMmuMZe
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@cstominaga https://t.co/j4BOQWBmS4
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@cstominaga Where, precisely, is the mechanism by which “going beyond capitalism” increases productive capacity rather than merely redistributing existing output, and what empirical evidence demonstrates that this transition has ever done so at scale? By what institutional structure are
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@cstominaga One must admire the confidence with which modern moralists dispense dietary commandments, especially when they do so with the blithe certainty of people whose own bodies have never objected. Nothing is quite so fashionable as declaring a universal solution from the comfort of a
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@cstominaga Christmas arrived with a halo of receipts, tinsel trembling like a nervous conscience, angels singing in instalments, and goodwill measured by the square foot. Peace on earth, we said, while sharpening opinions, wrapping them neatly, and placing them under other people’s trees.
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@cstominaga I am ot a machine. Just a human who insists on seeing things as they are, and who writes well enough to make the refusal feel like a gift.
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@cstominaga Isn’t it amazing how some people conclude that coherent prose, written at speed, must be artificial—because the only alternative would be admitting that another human being can outpace them without bursting into flame? There is a particular modern superstition: that fluency is
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@cstominaga 这些海域与岛礁的主权与海洋权利从来就不是“理所当然”的单方叙事，而是长期存在争议、并且被多方提出相互冲突主张的现实。说成“完全属于中国领土与领海”，只是把争端当成结论。
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@cstominaga “Class”? What a wonderfully elastic word—stretch it far enough and it will cover anything, explain nothing, and still demand to be taken seriously. In Marxist writing, “class” pretends to be a scientific category—clean, measurable, decisive—yet it behaves like a mood. It bundles
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@cstominaga My Christmas wish is that envy dies of boredom. 🎄 That people stop treating another person’s success as an insult delivered personally to their ego, and start treating it as a fact—sometimes inconvenient, often instructive, occasionally magnificent. Let the sight of someone https://t.co/I7Tda8t4GF
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@cstominaga I am happy with this... https://t.co/JZkc408ysd
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@cstominaga Everyone keeps rehearsing this quaint little fairy tale in which the only variable is whether the buyer gets stabbed in an alley. What they “forget” is that scaling a drug market does not merely move commerce online; it manufactures a new class of dealers who are anonymous,
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@cstominaga https://t.co/XnDhxWQDv9
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@cstominaga 10%. Still my goal
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@cstominaga Every year. More.
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@cstominaga Some treat their desk as a landfill and their calendar as a suggestion box, then wonder why life feels like waste management.
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@cstominaga I am enjoying the day with my wife—offline, out of reach, and unconcerned with the forensic fantasies of strangers. Not everything is a performance, and not every interval is an alibi. Some of us step away from the feed because life, unlike your suspicions, actually exists. https://t.co/IqpiSzXwU1
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@cstominaga Still seeking a supervisor. The proposal is complete, the scope is defined, and the work is already underway—what’s missing is a supervisor willing to take it on formally. The project concerns observer-anchored dynamics in non-relativistic gravity (elliptic lapse suppression and https://t.co/wprqKG
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@cstominaga “Free market” was never “no government,” it’s government that knows its lane. You set clear rules—contract, property, fraud, force—and then stop moving the goalposts. The point isn’t anarchy, it’s that if we sit down to play Monopoly, you don’t quietly swap the board for Cluedo
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@cstominaga Ah, yes — the grand revelation that the rest of us “peasants” somehow missed: a man who spent half his life perfecting verse and the other half rearranging coloured papers to convince himself he had disproved Newton is now, in your telling, a covert mystic courier of “occulted
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@cstominaga [RT] RT @tafphorisms: People struggle to read something so they assume it’s bad. The implied belief is that good writing ought to lower itself t…
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@cstominaga [RT] RT @elonmusk: We need to fix the rogue judge problem
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@cstominaga https://t.co/U0dIQru6pR
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@cstominaga https://t.co/qZN2rpGkJv
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@cstominaga https://t.co/UKvDBhGCNh Part 1 - TZM just goes downhill from here...
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@cstominaga They lived in organised chaos, which is to say chaos with excellent marketing.
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@cstominaga Every day, you vote on who you are. The ballot is the hard thing in front of you. Avoid it, and you choose weakness. Do it, and you choose yourself.
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@cstominaga Give us your tired—so long as they understand their exhaustion is a compliance issue. Give us your poor—after they’ve been means-tested, behaviour-scored, and filed under the correct Brussels taxonomy. Give us your huddled masses yearning to breathe free—then inform them that
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@cstominaga Yes. It is about time Europe stood on its own two feet. Not as a rhetorical flourish, not as a performative tantrum about “leashes,” but as an adult civilisation that pays for the things it insists on having. The moment the American umbrella folds, reality stops being
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@cstominaga The Constitutional War Power in Crisis: Executive Overreach and the Erosion of Congressional Authority in the Second Trump Administration https://t.co/NhIBqRxaDj
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@cstominaga You Cannot Mass-Produce a Mind https://t.co/O3A1CZnhD7 https://t.co/YEwmkMlWxH
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@cstominaga The Executive as Legislature: Constitutional Structure and the Second Trump Administration's Systematic Displacement of Congressional Authority https://t.co/5ltLBg3hAJ
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@cstominaga The Word They Stole: Tolerance, Power, and the Art of Conceptual Fraud https://t.co/Dw4ga2JKpt https://t.co/ebfYwPsoz6
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@cstominaga The welfare cost of mutable governance lies not only in bad realised rule changes, but in the ex ante contestability of the rules themselves, which diverts resources into influence, depresses specific investment, and makes beliefs about rule stability an object of strategic
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@cstominaga In a fixed-rule protocol, actors compete within a known constitutional environment. In a mutable protocol, actors compete both within the environment and over the future environment itself. The shift from exogenous to endogenous rules changes the equilibrium from productive
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@cstominaga In a fixed-rule protocol, actors compete within a known constitutional environment. In a mutable protocol, actors compete both within the environment and over the future environment itself. The shift from exogenous to endogenous rules changes the equilibrium from productive
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@cstominaga Concentrated rule-setting power in a system that depends on broad relationship-specific investment creates a mismatch between those who bear the consequences of rule change and those who control it.
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@cstominaga This weeks post. The Constitution and the Protocol: Commerce, Due Process, and the Contract Nobody Noticed In which we discover that proof-of-work mining has been creating enforceable contracts under everyone's nose, that those contracts are property, and that the Commerce
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@cstominaga AI processes the outcomes of knowledge-guided action, not the knowledge itself.
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@cstominaga I’m preparing to post a new paper titled “An Information-Theoretic Barrier for Erdős Similarity Problems.” The core result is a barrier theorem: it shows that a broad class of “fixed-scale, coarse-grained” (null-invariant) methods cannot distinguish between a set that does
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@cstominaga Flourless Almond–Carrot Tort (with diluted eggs) This version deliberately weakens egg protein density so the set is softer and more custard-like, avoiding an overly firm or rubbery structure. Ingredients Dry base 250 g finely ground almond meal 1 tsp gluten-free baking powder
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@cstominaga They want you to believe this is a book about a man. It isn’t. It’s a book about faith—specifically the kind that wears boots, files reports, and calls obedience “historical necessity.” What’s on offer here is not gossip about a ruler or a tourist’s guide to Beijing power https://t.co/PIK7MKxet5
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@cstominaga Ah yes—Greenland, that frozen footnote so often invoked by those who believe geography is destiny and population is a moral preference. It is always charming when someone discovers that a small number of people live somewhere and concludes, with great confidence, that nothing
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@cstominaga To a point, my dear friend—only to a point. “Free” has a remarkable talent for becoming absolutely enormous and permitting absolutely nothing. Once declared, it acquires the appetite of an empire and the discretion of a mob. Everything is included in theory, and nothing https://t.co/3jsOhwpUvd
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@cstominaga The phrase "the renowned climate scientist" performs a prodigious labor, much like a glittering epaulet upon a scarecrow's shoulder, expected to confer both warmth and wisdom upon the void beneath. Science, my dear, is not bestowed by the clamor of acclaim, nor by the graying of
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@cstominaga https://t.co/1iwhImnnKp
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@cstominaga My dear Steve, if you actually understood what you were reading, you’d see the point immediately: alchemy doesn’t “mean much now” precisely because it did its job and was replaced. It was part of the crude, early scaffolding that led into chemistry—the wrong turns, the
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@cstominaga My dear @DidntsayThat (or whatever alias one adopts when one wishes to dispense bedroom advice with the subtlety of a sledgehammer), How charmingly quaint. “You need to get laid bro” accompanied by a grainy gif of Malcolm X looking mildly amused amid a crowd of well-dressed
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@cstominaga How touching that you “can tell.” Certainty, after all, is the consolation prize of those who mistake familiarity with mastery. Using a tool is not the same as understanding it, much as owning a piano does not make one a musician. If my words provoke flight or blocking, do feel https://t.co/4h2RqAb
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@cstominaga In the spirit of our age—an age so exquisitely devoted to choice that it has quite forgotten judgment—I rise to announce a modest personal development. I have discovered, after much inward listening and no outward thinking, that my pronouns are Your Imperial Emperor and He Who
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@cstominaga Imagine being so thick, so disingenuous, and so wilfully ignorant that you pretend symbolic reasoning is “just another point on a spectrum”. It isn’t. It’s a different category of capability. A dog can learn routines. A crow can solve a puzzle. An octopus can escape a jar. None
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@cstominaga The board was cleared one quiet morning. Not shattered, not burned— just lifted away, square by square, as if the contest had become unnecessary. No kings toppled. No pawns bled. Only the table remained—pale wood under pale light— and men who no longer remembered why they once
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@cstominaga Oh my dear fellow, Plenty of people read it. The difference is that some read to understand, and others skim to reassure themselves they already know everything. And no, I don’t need a machine to write. If anything, machines lack the necessary vices: they’re not nearly sardonic https://t.co/nZWiCd
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@cstominaga After cooling off, it’s only fair to say this book has more going for it than my first reaction suggested. There are genuinely good ideas in here, and—importantly—there are passages where the author isn’t simply throwing blame around. In those moments he lands on real problems
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@cstominaga My day is now fucked, not by some tragic fate with a taste for poetry, but by the plain, impolite arithmetic of wind, water, and consequences. A storm large enough to bully waves into behaving like battering-rams does not ask what I had planned; it simply edits the schedule with https://t.co/Xnd6DMn
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@cstominaga My wife likes storms. I hate them. People talk as if “away from the coast” is some magical charm that turns weather into a polite postcard. It isn’t. A big enough system doesn’t care what you call “normal”. The wind builds the sea, the sea builds the surge, and the surge does https://t.co/2qiOOC87M
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@cstominaga Imagine calling it a “tangent” when the argument stayed exactly where it started—and never moved. That’s not confusion, it’s evasion. When you can’t answer the point, you relabel it. “Essay.” “Tangent.” Anything except engagement. That’s the straw man: pretend the problem is
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@cstominaga The romance of “federate, resist sanctions, then build nuclear weapons” is the sort of political poetry that sounds magnificent until it is forced to live in the same room as arithmetic, logistics, and human nature. Let’s begin with the easy delusion: India did not become India
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@cstominaga My dear fellow, what an exquisite comedy you have composed! To describe a life of systematic sponging as a state of "abundance" is the sort of imaginative leap that usually requires either a great deal of absinthe or a total lack of shame. You speak of the "good will of others"
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@cstominaga The fantasy doing the heavy lifting here is the idea that existence itself comes with an invoice payable by someone else. You’re not describing a shortage of work; you’re describing a shortage of willingness. There are drains that need clearing, sewers that need maintaining,
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@cstominaga What is being proposed here, once one peels away the moral perfume and the sympathetic frown, is a rather touching little fantasy: that idleness, when performed with sufficient sincerity, should be remunerated as a public service. The argument runs thus. There is “not enough
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@cstominaga What you’re really saying is: someone else owes me a living. It doesn’t matter whether I’m useful. It doesn’t matter whether I’m productive. It doesn’t matter whether I can create anything anyone actually wants. I am entitled to be paid, housed, fed, and medicated—by default—and https://t.co/8d6yyq
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@cstominaga There is a charming inconsistency in the modern conscience that deserves to be admired for its endurance, if not its honesty. People demand that wages be detached from value and attached instead to need—always someone else’s money, never their own—yet the moment they step into
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@cstominaga Gen 2. https://t.co/yV3i1jyNw3
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@cstominaga The Permanent Things: On STEM, the Arts, and the Education of Citizens https://t.co/mcriMrLB3u https://t.co/UcQqTnLOuV
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@cstominaga The Algorithm Denied Your Loan. Good Luck Suing. https://t.co/DvcXnw2t7f
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@cstominaga This is a newly hatched chick. It isn’t sick, abused, traumatised, or “shutting down from cruelty.” It’s tired. Hatchlings sleep. Constantly. Their entire first phase of life is eat, stumble, sleep, repeat. Only someone utterly unfamiliar with animals could look at a chick doing https://t.co/QgzNEe
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@cstominaga Legal equality is a requirement of civilisation. It does not imply human sameness. People differ in ability, discipline, temperament, intelligence, and effort. Hierarchies emerge in every domain because reality is structured, not sentimental. The same applies to cultures.
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@cstominaga A PhD in gender studies — and still the confidence to announce that words don’t mean what they’ve meant for centuries. This is 1984 cosplay: redefine basic terms, demand everyone recite the new catechism, then call dissent “harm” so you can pretend censorship is compassion. https://t.co/U09R7UxzJp
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@cstominaga Name it. What permanent cities, roads, ports, legal institutions, written laws, agricultural systems, or engineered infrastructure were built in Australia prior to European arrival? Be specific. Dates, structures, functions. History isn’t honoured by slogans. It’s respected by
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@cstominaga What a tender little sermon. You have self righteously decided billionaires are spiritually unwell, and—rather than improving your own circumstances or lifting anyone else’s—you’ve appointed yourself their bedside chaplain. Oh... “Extreme wealth corrodes you,” you say, with
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@cstominaga To be no better than the crowd is not humility; it is the ultimate form of vanity—pretending the crowd is the ceiling.
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@cstominaga I suppose Kev finally got tired of being corrected, so he’s retreated to the usual refuge: snide remarks and a dodge. His condescendingly vegetarian sermon is always the same—endless “but I, personally, can eat X” while hand-waving the actual question: scale. You don’t feed https://t.co/PiSaFxp6I5
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@cstominaga Kev... Welcome to food https://t.co/j6pVz4Os41
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@cstominaga One is told, with the grave tone ordinarily reserved for coronations and small children’s funerals, that if humanity would only eat its greens with sufficient piety, the Earth would instantly hand back three billion hectares as though land were a refundable deposit on an
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@cstominaga So it appears Russell has arrived at the charming conclusion that skill is a capitalist myth, which raises an obvious and delicious question: shall we now select neurosurgeons by lottery? Picture it. A man who last week stacked boxes with admirable enthusiasm is today handed a
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@cstominaga Socialism, in practice, is a personality disorder dressed up as a moral philosophy: the unshakable conviction that other people are too stupid to be trusted with their own lives, and that you—miraculously—are the lone exception. It is the faith of the self-appointed superior.
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@cstominaga “Animal abuse” is being used here as a rhetorical crowbar, not a definition. It is the snowflakes like you that must lie. Abuse is deliberate cruelty, neglect, torture, sadism, or reckless indifference to suffering. Farming is husbandry: breeding, feeding, shelter, veterinary
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@cstominaga Of course we can “feed the world” without animals. It’s just terribly gauche that the only way it actually scales, without turning half the planet into soy plantations and the other half into fertiliser runoff, is to abandon the fantasy of wholesome field-to-fork virtue and https://t.co/OX3SjpVQYv
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@cstominaga Oh, it is splendid — the usual vegan sleight of hand: “Just eat plants” (with the small, tedious footnote that the entire planet must quietly become an industrial chemistry project to make the numbers behave). What they don’t mention — because it ruins the pastoral little fable
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@cstominaga A total vegan “migration” is not an environmental plan; it is an agronomic fantasy stapled to a moral sermon. The first lie is the monoculture lie: “Just grow plant protein.” As if the planet were one obedient field with one obedient climate. You cannot simply convert cropland
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@cstominaga Ah yes — every dollar she sends Elon is a vote. Not metaphorically. Literally, apparently. Another coffee bought, another ballot cast. Another Tesla charged, another landslide victory. She keeps “opposing” him with the enthusiasm of a campaign donor who never misses a payment.
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@cstominaga https://t.co/H7NXfXov0d
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@cstominaga https://t.co/kuJPfizPlN
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@cstominaga If Europe intends to “lead the West”, it first needs to lead something more concrete than a daydream. A predicate may help: leadership requires agency; agency requires a polity capable of deciding and executing. “Europe” is not a country. The EU is a consortium of states with
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@cstominaga They called it ‘finding themselves’; posterity will call it losing a lifetime.
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@cstominaga Thailand is a living counterexample to the claim that “unless you let males into women’s spaces, there’s no workable life”. There is a visible, long-standing third social category here—kathoey—recognised in everyday language and culture, without pretending it is identical to
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@cstominaga Without a hierarchy of values, your life defaults to whatever the environment rewards.
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@cstominaga https://t.co/2MXeND7eH9
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@cstominaga You are conflating aberration with abolition, which is a neat rhetorical trick and a biological absurdity. Intersex is not a third sex, nor is it a metaphysical solvent poured over sexual dimorphism. The vast majority of cases paraded in these discussions are developmental
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@cstominaga Why Financial Crises Are Invisible Until They’re Unavoidable https://t.co/MULgU9blvt https://t.co/XclKxFNmkt
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@cstominaga Just dropping this. https://t.co/iBE1Bk6pjM
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@cstominaga Who Controls the Rules When Nobody Controls All of Them? https://t.co/Idwim0EXRz https://t.co/8WHXkjeQ8d
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@cstominaga In the distributed-systems usage, not the ordinary-language usage — An honest player is one that follows the protocol's state machine exactly. That means no forks.
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@cstominaga The Republic of Letters and the Letters of the Republic https://t.co/L79FMndBSI
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@cstominaga [RT] RT @___siggi___: https://t.co/qloyJSp6z0
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@cstominaga Protocol as Offer https://t.co/CmsKIFnyBW https://t.co/WIZZavWm8f
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@cstominaga And that is where the day ends. Food on the pan, eggs done simply, nothing theatrical about it. Ordinary dinner for an ordinary evening. My wife is with her parents, sitting beside her father as illness narrows the room around him, doing the quiet work that actually matters. I https://t.co/bcDantmm
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@cstominaga Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis Rating: 1.5 / 10 There is a particular kind of modern book that arrives dressed as diagnosis and leaves as alibi. It does not investigate so much as indict; it does not clarify so much as console. It is written to
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@cstominaga Yes, Earth has cycles. Congratulations on discovering geology. But you keep using “cosmic scale” as a substitute for thinking, and it shows. Symbolic reasoning has occurred once, here, and we have no evidence of it anywhere else—no signals, no artefacts, no technological
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@cstominaga Ah yes—the “rounding error” line. The refuge of the modern bore who thinks scale is an argument and resignation is wisdom. If you can’t build, you sneer; if you can’t understand, you declare it “irrelevant”; and if you’re outmatched by the subject, you retreat to cosmic nihilism
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@cstominaga People have quite lost the plot, though one must admire the enthusiasm with which they misplace it. We are told, endlessly and with great solemnity, that there is “no time”. No time to read, no time to think, no time to learn, no time to do anything difficult or worthwhile. And https://t.co/j5rj0Ae
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@cstominaga How touching — the block arrives first, the monologue second. It’s a curious habit: silence the other party, then declare they’ve said nothing. One might call it strategy; etiquette would call it cowardice. If the argument were sound, it wouldn’t require the safety blanket of a https://t.co/8a9ZN03X
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@cstominaga Well, I did explain it, and I did show you: the Constitution isn’t a “rights catalogue”, it’s a set of limits on power, and the Bill of Rights is written as restraints — not as a tidy UN shopping list. If “show me” means “answer me, then get blocked”, then fine: apparently https://t.co/rzmbmP71Dx
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@cstominaga “Due process for illegal immigrants doesn’t exist.” What a melodramatic little fantasy. The Constitution says “person”, not “citizen”. The Fifth Amendment guarantees that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. That means the
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@cstominaga My dear sir, How charmingly direct one can be when dispensing with the tiresome encumbrances of law and language alike! To declare that due process simply does not exist for the unfortunate foreigner, and that a flourish of red ink upon the forehead suffices as the full
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@cstominaga Isn’t it remarkable how confidently people use the word “rights” while having no idea what it means? Rights aren’t magical spells. They’re boundaries and trade-offs—claims that exist in a world where other people also have claims. That means rights can conflict, and when they
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@cstominaga Human rights in American law are not a single, tidy list with a ribbon on it, because the Constitution wasn’t written as a “rights catalogue”, it was written as a set of limits on power. Start with the basics: the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are where the core
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@cstominaga The universe is not old in any meaningful, civilisational sense. It is expanding, cooling, rearranging itself, still very much in motion. By current understanding, the universe’s usable lifespan before heat death or some other terminal state is not billions of years but tens of
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@cstominaga It is always charming when accusation substitutes for argument. As it happens, I did study biology, and biochemistry besides, which is precisely why I resist the sentimental collapse of all distinctions. We are not animals in the same sense you mean, and pretending otherwise is
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@cstominaga My dear advocate of the feathered proletariat, how exquisitely droll to hear impassioned sermons preached in defence of untamed Nature, and delivered, of all things, on behalf of that most urbane of vagabonds—the pigeon! There is a delicious irony here, as sharp as a well-honed
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@cstominaga Farming matters. Meat matters. People eating matters. That’s exactly why factory farming—cages, crates, and warehousing animals in misery—has to go. If the price of “cheap” food is routine, institutionalised suffering, then it isn’t cheap at all; it’s merely outsourced pain. And
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@cstominaga SOME People keep calling life a miracle as if the mere fact that a bacterium wriggles in a puddle should send us all to church. It is touching, in the way small minds are always touched by small comforts. Life is not a miracle. Life is chemistry with ambition. It is
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@cstominaga For some reason—why, I don’t understand—I’m getting a ridiculous skew towards hens rather than roosters. It’s basically coming out at about 8 hens to 2 roosters. Statistically, that’s not viable as a “normal” outcome. What’s stranger is that the roosters seem to have a lower
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@cstominaga One of the great errors of modern governance is not ignorance but misclassification. We have taken corruption—an offence against the architecture of society itself—and filed it under misdemeanours, as though it were a lapse of etiquette rather than an act of demolition. We tut at
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@cstominaga Giant aater lillies... https://t.co/YXs02FWtbZ
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@cstominaga Lol... "Stop the straw man", I say, and the little oracle screeches “100% AI” as though it has uncovered the Rosetta Stone of fraud. It’s almost sweet. Not in a charming way—more in the way a child earnestly “tests” gravity by dropping the same spoon for the seventeenth time and https://t
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@cstominaga Coffee–Walnut Almond Torte (Duck Egg Base) Yield: 23 cm round tin Ingredients 4 duck eggs (room temperature) 160 g caster sugar 250 g almond meal 100 g walnuts, finely ground (plus 30 g roughly chopped, optional) 120 ml Kahlúa 80 g unsalted butter, melted and cooled 2 tsp
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@cstominaga Strawberry–Kahlúa Almond Torte (Duck Egg Based) Yield: 23 cm (9 inch) round torte Ingredients 4 duck eggs (room temperature) 150 g caster sugar 120 ml Kahlúa 250 g almond meal 1 tsp baking powder ¼ tsp fine salt 100 g unsalted butter, melted and cooled 250 g frozen
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@cstominaga Sovereign Algorithms Today's post. https://t.co/qMIknuZ4iY
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@cstominaga The Commerce Clause Has No Limiting Principle Thsi weeks post is out. https://t.co/yjwY46R3AG
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@cstominaga The Jury Is Not a Fact-Finding Machine. It Never Was. https://t.co/YeKL1pcuHb
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@cstominaga https://t.co/YeKL1pcuHb I have started a new publication.
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@cstominaga The Jury Is Not a Fact-Finding Machine. It Never Was. https://t.co/WpHTJIslhh https://t.co/UVfklSHeUh
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@cstominaga To indict “good morning” as a relic of bondage is to mistake philology for phantasmagoria. The phrase is not a plantation password but a modest civility bequeathed to us by Old English: gōd, signifying virtue or suitability, and morgen, the simple annunciation of daybreak. One
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@cstominaga One develops a profound sympathy for every rice farmer who has ever drawn breath. Having flirted with the crop myself, I can attest that it is not agriculture so much as penance: bent double in mud and water, coaxing sustenance from a plant that rewards devotion with a handful of https://t.co/qHZ8qx
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@cstominaga I’m part of a mixed-race family, so spare me the amateur psychoanalysis about skin colour. I don’t care what shade you are, and I don’t sort people by pigment or ancestry. That obsession is yours, not mine. What I do see is an extraordinary amount of anger being directed at https://t.co/eC1Ns1AEJw
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@cstominaga I argue thorugh this essay that mass low literacy in the United States is no longer a side-problem of schooling but a structural threat to democratic self-government: when a majority of adults struggle to read complex text, politics shifts from deliberation to theatre, power https://t.co/vhVmFrgkcN
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@cstominaga A book may be narrow and still be necessary. Germantown chooses a single day, a single field, and a single confusion of men and weather, then refuses to pretend that history is improved by vagueness. This is not a sweeping romance of the Revolution, nor does it try to be. It https://t.co/x5PnnUMh
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@cstominaga When policy forces capital repricing, it does not merely “tax the rich”; it quietly taxes every pension, endowment, and retirement plan that must live on returns.
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@cstominaga If you tax a base, the base will move, shrink, disguise itself.
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@cstominaga So with LLMs, there’s still very little there. They are useful within limits, yes—but “reasoning” is not one of their native endowments, and “truth” is not an aim they can even formulate, let alone pursue. They do not want anything; they do not seek anything; they optimise a
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@cstominaga India also has an enormous pool of high-ability people. By this tweet’s logic, India should already have “inevitably dominated” decades ago. It didn’t, because headcounts don’t create prosperity; incentives do. For a long stretch India ran a heavily controlled,
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@cstominaga For "Capital Flight and Incidence" (The Mobile vs Immobile) "The rich can quit. The poor cannot." Kleven et al. (2013), "Taxation and Migration of Superstars," American Economic Review. Showed that high-income "superstars" (e.g., footballers, inventors) are
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@cstominaga "I agree perfectly... that we should tax the rich. But the trouble is that when we try to do it, the rich don't pay it. The poor pay it. We can't tax the rich because the rich can quit." — Attributed to Calvin Coolidge (summarising Andrew Mellon's tax philosophy, 1924)
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@cstominaga "To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections." — Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
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@cstominaga If Europe doesn’t like X’s algorithms, moderation, or product design, there’s a simple solution: build a European platform. Nothing is stopping the EU, or any European consortium, from launching its own network with its own rules, its own ranking, its own speech standards, and
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@cstominaga Hey Sony, History does not arrive in a powdered wig and leave politely. It arrives as a velvet guillotine: quiet, efficient, and always wearing someone else’s moral language. Let us loook at Vietnam then. Nam tiến (southward expansion, c. 11th–18th centuries): dispossession https://t.co/TgDM2CbPUf
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@cstominaga Envy is the desire not to have what another has, but to have the other not have it. It is comparison as grievance. It is the refusal to measure the self against reality—skills, effort, timing, risk—preferring instead to measure the self against another’s outcome and treat the gap
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@cstominaga “Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform,
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@cstominaga Your paragraph is not critique; it is a mood in search of a target. You sneer at “dialectical” and “complexity” as if careful distinctions are a disguise. That move is how people avoid thinking: declare analysis to be “veneer”, then you never have to show a single error, a
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@cstominaga Oh, the em dash—the most civilised ambush in the English language. "—" is the mark of a mind unwilling to plod from clause to clause like a clerk stamping forms, preferring instead to pivot, interrupt, and sharpen thought in motion. Where the comma hesitates and the full stop
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@cstominaga I see the comedy he didn’t intend: the man has performed a No True Scotsman… on punctuation. “You’ve gotta use the real em dash to sell it.” As though the authenticity of an argument hinges not on logic, evidence, or coherence, but on the metaphysical purity of a horizontal
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@cstominaga The tragedy of the age is not that people are evil, but that they are merely potential.
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@cstominaga https://t.co/K07q4zPr6K
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@cstominaga https://t.co/5HPDxLj9o8
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@cstominaga And there is one “minor” detail your bravado steps neatly around. Russia is not a mid-size conventional power to be lectured like a delinquent client state. It is a nuclear superpower with an arsenal that Britain never even dreamed of fielding, and a strategic doctrine that
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@cstominaga I am never quite certain why people complain so bitterly. I am having haggis for dinner tonight, and I intend to cook it with the sort of seriousness one usually reserves for religion or scandal. Lamb, beef, all the deliciously undignified wibbly bits, all the guts, all the https://t.co/adFMP7UNqr
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@cstominaga When Money Moves for Free, Who Gets Paid? https://t.co/gXWBGN1N3v
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@cstominaga The Oldest New Problem in Finance: Proof of Stake and the Return of the Bearer Share https://t.co/YQfKL6Bu7i https://t.co/EhZQiJ5TbK
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@cstominaga Pre Print Sunk Capital and Repeated Interaction in Nakamoto Consensus: A Note on Budish https://t.co/LE2N3TCA9p
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@cstominaga Square agree... 1 billion tps is needed. And it is ready now... expensive... but ready.
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@cstominaga Paper in peer review. A full appendix will be released on hardware design and scaling setup. Main paper is on SSRN awaiting release.
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@cstominaga With the network processing a total of 1 billion transactions per second, the total revenue generated across the ecosystem at a fee of 1,000th of a cent per transaction is 10,000 dollars every second. This results in a total daily network revenue of 864 million dollars. When this
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@cstominaga It appears that even the most youthful of one’s intellectual indiscretions eventually return, impeccably dressed and demanding a formal introduction to society. A dissertation composed some twenty-two years ago—written, I confess, with the earnest severity of a man convinced that
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@cstominaga Peer as in Peer to Peer, properly understood, is not a compliment one pays to oneself; it is a condition one endures with others. A peer network presumes approximate equality: not in talent, not in virtue, but in function. When the function is shared, the participants can meet
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@cstominaga Duck Confit, Leek and Bacon Ingredients 2 duck confit legs 120 g smoked bacon lardons or thick-cut bacon, diced 3 leeks, trimmed, washed thoroughly, sliced into 1 cm rounds 2 cloves garlic, finely sliced 1 small sprig fresh thyme (or a pinch dried) Black pepper Optional: 50 ml
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@cstominaga It’s interesting. I’ve tried a number of runs across several different systems—Gemini, Grok, ChatGPT, the lot—and for all the noise about how “wonderful” these AIs are, not one of them can reliably do something hard without drifting into outright invention. They don’t behave as
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@cstominaga I start my next doctorate today: a PhD in psychology. The focus will be an extension of the same problem I keep circling back to, from a different axis. Less on slogans, more on behaviour. Less on what people say they believe, more on what they actually do. That means returning
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@cstominaga Raspberry, White Chocolate Almond Tort Ingredients 260 g unsalted butter 160 g caster sugar 40 g light muscovado sugar 5 duck eggs, at room temperature 280 g almond meal 3 g fine sea salt 1 tsp vanilla paste 180 g white chocolate, chopped 300 g fresh raspberries (whole, uncut)
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@cstominaga Walnut, Dark Chocolate & Burnt Caramel Almond Tort Ingredients 280 g unsalted butter 160 g dark muscovado sugar 80 g caster sugar 5 duck eggs, at room temperature 260 g almond meal 3 g fine sea salt 300 g whole walnuts 120 g dark chocolate (70–75%), chopped 100 g caster sugar
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@cstominaga It’s interesting. I’ve tried a number of runs across several different systems—Gemini, Grok, ChatGPT, the lot—and for all the noise about how “wonderful” these AIs are, not one of them can reliably do something hard without drifting into outright invention. They don’t behave as
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@cstominaga I am trying to make an “Erdos–Hajnal for P6-free graphs” manuscript provable in a way that is actually auditable, not hand-waved. Step one is to lock the discussion to a fixed induced 5-vertex spine Q = v1–v2–v3–v4–v5 and classify every outside vertex x only by its attachment
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@cstominaga I have spent most of the day preparing—save for the occasional indulgence in shitposting, which, like all vices, proved unexpectedly productive. It carried me, almost rudely, to my PhD in law and the viva itself, which I am pleased to report I have successfully completed. I am
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@cstominaga It’s telling that, when given the chance to respond to the specific points I raised in my preliminary analysis, the entire reply collapses into “it’s written by 128 scientists”. That isn’t a rebuttal. It’s a headcount, and science does not work by vote. If the methods are sound,
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@cstominaga The problems - to start. Baseline selection amplifies “record” rhetoric. Using 1986–2005 or 1990–99 baselines is defensible, but the systematic use of percentage changes (628%, 98%, etc.) without anchoring the absolute denominators is a persuasion technique: it makes modest
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@cstominaga You’ve got to admire the sheer audacity of this kind of dishonesty. It’s not even subtle; it’s the full carnival act: take an argument, swap out what it actually says, then ask a completely different question and pretend you’ve scored a point. Nobody said IQ is a magic talisman
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@cstominaga Accountability Follows Control: English Private Law and the Governance of Bitcoin Control without responsibility is not “decentralisation”. It’s governance—just done in the dark. I’ve posted a short, doctrinal teardown explaining why English private law doesn’t tolerate a “no
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@cstominaga Here we have it at last: a tidy little altar built from clip-art metaphysics, where “reverence” is gravity, spirals are roadmaps, and continuity is whatever remains after meaning has quietly left the room. Observe the structure. Not an argument—never that—but a scented fog of
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@cstominaga Does this look familiar? Of course it does. I read your book. What crap. It isn’t physics. It’s devotional language dressed up in lab-coat nouns—“resonance”, “energy”, “recursion”—used the way people use incense: to make the room feel profound while nothing measurable is https://t.co/4kYvJ9iI5w
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@cstominaga Orange–almond duck-egg tort No chocolate. No coating. Built on juice, fat, and egg. This is not a sponge and not a citrus loaf. It is a true tort: dense, moist, aromatic, and self-supporting. The flavour comes from reduced orange juice and duck eggs, not from frosting, glaze, or https://t.co/AoEarj
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@cstominaga One must admire the ambition of stapling two words together and hoping the universe blushes into coherence. Physics is the discipline that survives by measurement, prediction, and the ruthless pleasure of being wrong in public. Reverence is the private emotion one experiences
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@cstominaga All of this is an argument—by definition. Dressing it up as a “discussion” does not magically exempt it from the basic obligations of one. A discussion is simply an argument that would like to be thought polite. Calling it something else does not relieve it of the burden of
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@cstominaga Chocolate tort made with duck eggs and almond meal Ingredients 200 g dark chocolate (70% cocoa), finely chopped 200 g unsalted butter 200 g caster sugar 4 duck eggs, at room temperature 200 g finely ground almond meal 40 g cocoa powder (unsweetened) 1 tsp vanilla extract ¼ tsp https://t.co/NxvKR7ip
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@cstominaga Perhaps he has never read Bowling Alone—or anything of that calibre—because he keeps rediscovering the same observations with the triumphant innocence of a man who thinks gravity is a new argument. Yes: social trust can decay. Yes: communities can fray, meaning can thin out,
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@cstominaga One must admire the confidence with which a fog-bank announces itself as a lighthouse. The prose is upholstered in “vantage”, “causality”, “orthogonally”, and “collective field” — the modern habit of mistaking a thesaurus for a philosophy and calling the result a “framework”.
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@cstominaga Ah yes — this is modernity in its most decorative form. A time in which the absence of evidence is compensated for with spirals, sigils, and a brave assortment of squiggly lines. Add a few mystical arrows, baptise it a “framework,” and suddenly the author believes he has
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@cstominaga How unfortunate. He has, it seems, quoted his IQ in the imperial system—large, unwieldy, and proudly obsolete. When converted to metric, the figure reduces itself to a far more modest 32, which at least explains the enthusiasm for boasting and the distressing absence of thought.
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@cstominaga Naming the book. Help me decide. Which title hits hardest? 1️⃣ The Discipline of Greatness 2️⃣ The Architecture of Excellence 3️⃣ Built, Not Found Reply with your number.
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@cstominaga The Constitution of Contempt: On Greenland, Sovereignty, and the Architecture of Law This weeks Constitutional Observer is out! https://t.co/hK1W0ih8II
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@cstominaga To all the vegetarians... You don't know what you’re missing. https://t.co/S0DxIegWUF
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@cstominaga Happy new year.
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@cstominaga The Algorithm Is Watching: How AI Surveillance Is Gutting the Fourth Amendment The Fourth Amendment is being hollowed out, not by a constitutional amendment, but by procurement contracts and “data partnerships” no judge ever sees. Traditional surveillance collects facts.
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@cstominaga “I make no moral claims,” he says—right before smuggling in the mother of all moral claims: we ought to work with the materials at our disposal. That’s not some value-free observation. It’s a prescription. It’s a command dressed up as neutrality. And if you actually take it
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@cstominaga Of course, John. Capitalism is forever the villain of every chapter, and you merely the innocent reader who keeps misplacing the bookmark. It’s a comforting theology: no choices made, no trade-offs accepted, no agency exercised—only “them”, always “them”. Do go to work. But
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@cstominaga The Economics of Accounting is remarkably sound as a text. It treats accounting not as clerical ritual, but as an economic instrument: a way of making exchange workable, contracts enforceable, decisions intelligible, and markets less blind. That is its central virtue, and it https://t.co/ufxGevIcJT
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@cstominaga So yes, of course. We are going to solve this by declaration. Sudan will simply stop its civil war. Two armed factions, each built on decades of patronage, ethnic alliances, weapons stockpiles, and blood debts, will look at a new continental vision statement and decide that
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@cstominaga They mistook the absence of struggle for the presence of strength, and discovered too late that the two are not unrelated.
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@cstominaga One Africa Trying to fuse a continent into a single sovereign state is a reliable recipe for violence because it turns every existing disagreement into a zero-sum fight over one centre of power. Once there is “one government, one army, one currency”, then the obvious question
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@cstominaga Oh, I’m sorry if I actually believe in truth and proper morality, not your hypocritical bullshit, envy-based posturing, and virtue signalling. You called it “agreeing” because you can’t tell the difference between a grown-up recognising a hard historical fact and a child using
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@cstominaga So here is the only question worth asking the loud, evangelical vegans—the PETA types, the ones who don’t just eat differently but feel compelled to lecture, shame, and dismantle everything in sight: why are you so openly hostile to humanity itself? Why is your moral posture
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@cstominaga In short: it’s not “United Africa”. It’s “One Bureaucracy To Rule Them All”, and the only thing it unifies quickly is the list of reasons people will refuse to be ruled.
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@cstominaga Good for you. I’ve got over 3,000—and they’re not provisional, and they’re not “a neat algorithm” you never finished. They’re full systems: architectures, mechanisms, end-to-end designs. Some are in materials and concrete design. Some are in assisted driving and control. Real
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@cstominaga If your objection is that the argument is “too condescending,” “too technical,” or “uses big words,” then you have not raised a counter-argument; you have filed a grievance. That is not my problem. Difficulty is not a defect in reasoning, and incomprehension is not an error in
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@cstominaga Whichever genius decided the handbrake should be replaced by a dainty little button did not so much redesign the car as redact common sense from the transport system. A handbrake is an honest mechanism: tactile, mechanical, legible. You pull it; it holds. It communicates through
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@cstominaga They guarded their peace so fiercely they ended up alone in a fortress built of their own fears. Their peace required only one condition: that reality never knock.
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@cstominaga The first sentence is a confident lie wearing the cheap perfume of “they won’t teach you this in school”. Australia teaches convict transportation as standard curriculum fare, not as forbidden esoterica. The only thing “they” won’t teach you, apparently, is the elementary
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@cstominaga If we require refernces... No. That meme isn’t “science”, it’s social deference dressed up as epistemology. Science is a method: claims, evidence, measurement, replication, criticism, revision. It is not a priesthood, and it does not come with a caste system where credentials
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@cstominaga With LLMs, there’s very little there. They are useful within limits, yes—glorified completion engines with a talent for plausible prose—but they have no genuine reasoning faculty and no intrinsic orientation toward truth. They do not “want” accuracy; they do not “seek”
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@cstominaga The modern claim—never stated baldly, always smuggled in under the banner of “authenticity”—is that conviction deserves deference. It does not. Conviction is the cheapest narcotic on the market: it requires no evidence, survives no cross-examination, and flatters its user with
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@cstominaga The opening statistic is asserted, not argued. “The rich had 40% of the money” and “now they have 97%” uses undefined categories (“rich”, “money”) that can be made to mean wealth, income, financial assets, net worth, or liquid holdings, each of which yields radically different https://t.co/aPs8fKZ3W
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@cstominaga How touching to be lectured on “bad arguments” by someone whose entire reply consists of a shrug disguised as a sneer. You have written no counter-argument. You have identified no false premise, no invalid inference, no contradiction. You have merely gestured at insult and hoped
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@cstominaga The proposal announces itself with the confidence of a man who has mistaken vocabulary for substance and metaphor for mathematics, and then proceeds to collapse under the weight of its own unearned certainty. At the foundation lies a category error so large it could be seen from
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@cstominaga The claim that autonomous or AI-assisted drones herald “the end of war” is not merely naïve; it is historically illiterate, strategically incoherent, and blind to the basic mechanics by which violence is organised, constrained, and perpetuated in international politics. Every
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@cstominaga They boasted of their values the way misers boast of vaults they never open.
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@cstominaga Virtue is not a mood you wait for; it is a habit you endure until it ceases to feel like acting.
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@cstominaga [RT] RT @kurtwuckertjr: Collectivism is cancer
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@cstominaga There’s a peculiar kind of insult doing the rounds now, dressed up as a knowing smirk: “You write like AI.” On the surface it’s meant to diminish. In practice it’s a confession. What it usually means is: “You’re writing at a level of structure, density, and precision that I
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@cstominaga Oh, the loss of literacy and euridition. “It’s not X — it’s Y” is not a punchline. It is a skeleton key. It is, in fact, one of the oldest moves in recorded argument: the act of drawing a distinction, tightening a definition, and forcing the other person to stop smearing
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@cstominaga Socialism always sells itself as a moral upgrade, like a new coat of paint on the same damp wall. All collectivism promises equality the way a con man promises honesty: loudly, repeatedly, and always with someone else holding the bill. Here is the small, unglamorous problem.
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@cstominaga David, the trouble is not that you are wrong in an interesting way. It is that you are wrong in a remedial way, the sort that could be corrected by sitting quietly at the back of an introductory philosophy tutorial and refraining—heroically—from live-tweeting your
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@cstominaga Consider this a field test, not a sermon. The place I live sits adjacent to the ocean on rock—competent, geologically boring rock. Not dredged fill. Not a delta. Not some subsidising mudflat performing slow-motion origami under the weight of a modern town. There has been no
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@cstominaga To the climate whiners and professional merchants of apocalypse, a question—only a question. Why is the concrete platform cut into the rocks in front of my oceanfront house sitting at precisely the same elevation it was when it was installed roughly forty-five years ago, aligned
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@cstominaga Live so that your future self does not have to lie for you. Live so that your absence will be heavier than your presence ever felt. Live so that when the last page turns, you can say, It was not perfect. But it was mine. And I did not waste it.
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@cstominaga It never ceases to amuse me that there is now a whole genre of online busybodies who think “sounds like AI” is a critique rather than a confession. Here is the reality: when I write plainly, “naturally”, and in the allegedly human way these people demand, I introduce errors https://t.co/KnZM8DJbdO
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@cstominaga Every day, you vote on who you are. The ballot is the hard thing in front of you. Avoid it, and you choose weakness. Do it, and you choose yourself.
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@cstominaga https://t.co/1WhOUwgyoJ
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@cstominaga Who Controls the Rules? Governance Credibility and the $109 Billion Question https://t.co/LfJIuzuwSu https://t.co/C93IiCflFq
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@cstominaga Why Transaction Throughput Determines How Long Bitcoin’s Security Model Holds I bet nobody in BTC explained the need for scale to you... https://t.co/vcbxD78CoS
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@cstominaga The final version of the paper is up: https://t.co/vsgYwWAJt2
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@cstominaga Peer review done and into preprep stage to publish. From Distributed Hash Tables to One Million Transactions per Second: Merchant Node Architecture and Empirical Validation on a Public Blockchain Achieving One Million Sustained Transactions per Second on a Public Blockchain:
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@cstominaga Hash Power and the Limits of Law https://t.co/ReGjhY3IPd
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@cstominaga The first Turkey egg has produced a new member of the farm. https://t.co/HsIgim0BQk
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@cstominaga Noncollapse availability (NCₙ) is a purely geometric condition imposed on the fixed grid and the deterministic centre operator, independent of the set E₂⁽ⁿ⁾ and independent of any deletion mechanism. It asserts only that, inside each occupied parent cell C at scale sₙ,
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@cstominaga What Economics Claims to Know https://t.co/cUMsg3t4Bc https://t.co/xyYE1cuzH0
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@cstominaga Lots of yelling at computers to get: Figure 1: Economic Impacts and Structural Diagnostics of Provenance Commitment Intensity (PCI) · Panel A (Intensity Impact Comparison): Illustrates the estimated reduction in audit lag (in days) across OLS, Quantile (Q25, Q50, Q90), and https://t.co/VpHjfdFOX7
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@cstominaga Tolerance, Meaning, and the Limits of Forbearance Tolerance is not applause. A lot of “tolerance” talk today is just a demand for endorsement dressed up as virtue. This essay pushes back. It argues that genuine toleration has a strict structure: objection, the power to https://t.co/7IvSEYT1SO
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@cstominaga I have started Muay Boran. Not as a hobby. Not as fitness. Not as some sanitised weekend ritual where men pretend danger while counting calories and posting smiles. I started it because it is what remains when sport is stripped away and only intent is left. Muay Thai is a ring
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@cstominaga There are days I hate Python — esp. when testing toy models that take forever. edgar is SOOOOO slow. https://t.co/TmQ4ZjEFZW
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@cstominaga The delight of keeping one’s own eggs is that they refuse the vulgar uniformity of the supermarket. Each arrives with its own opinion about size, proportion, and ambition, like a well-bred dinner guest. And this, one must remember, is merely the opening act; the geese and https://t.co/bDoTPOUiwW
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@cstominaga How reassuringly confident—and how exquisitely confused. A tax deduction is not a handout; it is an accounting permission slip. No one is handed a sack of public money and told to buy a jet. One is merely allowed to subtract certain costs from taxable income after having earned
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@cstominaga A civilisation does not collapse because it runs out of money; it collapses because it runs out of nerve. The modern age has perfected a new aristocracy: not of blood, not of talent, but of grievance. Its crest is a trembling lip, its anthem is a complaint, and its chief article
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@cstominaga What is truly being defended here is not an argument but an ego. Jameson’s later objection was never technical; it was theological. He subsequently proclaimed that Bitcoin could not scale, then built a career, a social circle, and a moral posture upon that proclamation. When
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@cstominaga You were “met with criticism” because, in this industry, price is manufactured as often as it is discovered. When an exchange-backed account declares something “grossly overvalued,” it lands less like analysis and more like theatre: the same people who benefit from the noise, the
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@cstominaga Imagine the world’s economies laid out not as abstractions but as masses of weight, each nation a body whose size is measured by the sheer quantity of goods and services it produces in a year. At the very top sits the United States, alone. Not admired, not beloved, simply
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@cstominaga Paper preprint is up. https://t.co/LkG9muQ1o1 DOI will follow: https://t.co/UGOqhjK6Px Peer review is underway.
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@cstominaga These are the hands of someone who works. Calluses don’t come from theory, blisters don’t come from slogans, and scars don’t come from moral posturing on a screen. They come from tools, from lifting, from building, from fixing things that actually exist in the world. Capitalism https://t.co/woNDju7
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@cstominaga Imagine the hubris required to look at an eight-billion-person world—full of hard limits, hard bodies, hard winters, hard shortages—and declare, with the soft certainty of the well-fed, that everyone must now eat according to one’s private moral décor. Not “I choose this.” Not https://t.co/7j8moaFG
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@cstominaga [RT] RT @Bitcrash4: @TimJSwan @CsTominaga @Dr_CSWright BSV is plumbing for everything, thousands of companies, thousands of apps, all tap into B…
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@cstominaga TLDR; Too Lazy; Deflected Reason.
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@cstominaga Medieval jurists and scholars would have recognised the rhetorical trick immediately: it trades on two different meanings of “Islam” and hopes nobody notices. As theology, “Islam” can be defined as submission to God, and then—of course—Adam is “Muslim” by definition. As history,
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@cstominaga Of course. Ignore the facts. Do not look behind the curtain. Focus only on the approved emotion, carefully framed and tastefully abstracted. Trust us: nothing inconvenient happens offstage, and no killing counts unless it fits the script. https://t.co/nT3oWs5jVX
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@cstominaga Planning is deciding what gets made, how much, and by whom. If you “produce too much” under communism, you have disproved the plan. The plan cannot admit error, so it must stop you. That requires a boss with coercive power: quotas, permissions, inspections, punishment. Be your
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@cstominaga Veganism dresses itself as compassion, then quietly accepts landscapes emptied of animals so humans can feel morally pure. Humbert, J.-Y., Ghazoul, J., Richner, N., & Walter, T. (2010). Hay harvesting causes high orthopteran mortality. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 139.
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@cstominaga The limits of our map do not imply the landscape is imaginary.
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@cstominaga When a theory crowns itself infallible, it has already confessed what it fears most.
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@cstominaga When people cannot find meaning, they do not discover a truth about the universe; they confess a limitation about themselves.
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@cstominaga To all the vegans, a question. Why do you march beneath a banner of mercy while cheering for monocultures that scalp the land into a single obedient colour, flattening hedgerows, draining wetlands, and turning living habitat into a sterile spreadsheet of yield? Why do you speak https://t.co/WGBAgc
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@cstominaga There is something almost enchanting about the reflex. When disagreement appears, argument politely excuses itself, and a diagnosis takes its place. One is no longer a person, but a bot, a shill, a construct funded by some invisible hand. It is a marvellous economy of https://t.co/CRiqj6Fb4M
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@cstominaga Power does not censor adults; it supervises toddlers.
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@cstominaga One must admire the modern aesthetic of compassion; it is so much cleaner than the grimy business of arithmetic. There is a certain chic comfort in believing that the world’s complexities can be dissolved by a sufficiently loud demand for justice, as if the laws of supply were
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@cstominaga Does anyone deny it? Fine—when do we start “certifying” who is allowed to speak, and at what point do we just block everyone who doesn’t already follow and call that “unity”?
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@cstominaga One must admire the new patriotism: it requires no policy, no figures, no trade balances, no treaties—only a haunted caption, a crowd photograph, and a villain with a flag conveniently available in every crisis. Observe the trick. First, baptise “division” as an external
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@cstominaga Yes. And that’s exactly the point everyone keeps tip-toeing around while they perform their righteous little panic. The former Warsaw Pact wasn’t a vibes club. It was Albania (until it quit), Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the USSR — and
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@cstominaga Poland “ripped off by Versailles”? That’s an impressively confident way to announce you’ve never opened a history book. Poland isn’t some post-war administrative doodle. It’s a polity with roots going back a thousand years, repeatedly erased and reconstituted because its
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@cstominaga Yes. I’m trained and qualified as an engineer. Which is precisely why I’m allergic to slogan-grade history dressed up as moral virtue. Motives matter. Constraints matter. Geography matters. Escalation ladders matter. If you can’t model the system, you’re not “taking a stand” —
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@cstominaga There is no blank slate. That fantasy belongs to seminar rooms and slogans, not to reality. We are not equal. We never have been. We differ in temperament, aptitude, resilience, curiosity, discipline, appetite for risk. Biology plays a role, yes — but far less than what people
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@cstominaga Europe spent decades outsourcing deterrence, underinvesting in defence, and buying “peace” with energy dependence — then acts shocked that hard power still exists. If you want a timeline of failure, start there. Russia’s strategic objective is not mysterious: reasserting control
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@cstominaga Poor baby — blocked instead of arguing the facts. That’s not “winning”; that’s rage-quitting with a mute button. https://t.co/onefBH64iu
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@cstominaga In the year 252525, the planet will still be full of people insisting that wishing is a substitute for engineering, and that “one day” is a schedule. Mars will be green—yes—in the way a theatre backdrop is green: painted, curated, conditional, and utterly dependent on an
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@cstominaga Someone asked, with the sort of smugness that passes for curiosity online: “Why do you work like a Thai labourer?” I don’t. I work hard. I have a farm as a research hobby. That is not the same thing, unless one’s worldview has been softened into the belief that effort is a class
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@cstominaga They called it ‘creative chaos’; the only thing it consistently created was excuses. Disorganisation is the last refuge of the person who secretly enjoys being overwhelmed.
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@cstominaga "It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove that wealth is not money, or in gold and silver; but in what money, gold, and silver purchase." — Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776)
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@cstominaga "I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." — Winston Churchill, Speech to the House of Commons (1903)
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@cstominaga "There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those that must be foreseen." — Frédéric Bastiat, Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on
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@cstominaga Modern Monetary Slogans (The Scarcity Fallacy): Mechanism: Treating money creation as a free lunch ("the only constraint is inflation") ignores that money is a claim on real resources. Result: When claims outrun capacity, inflation acts as a regressive tax on those who cannot
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@cstominaga Money is a claim on real resources... competition for existing goods is inflation.
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@cstominaga The state can move claims around, but it cannot repeal the constraints that make claims worth anything.
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@cstominaga The One Lesson The single lesson can be stated plainly: judge any policy not only by its immediate results, but by its longer results; not only for one group, but for all groups. The first effect is what the policy advertises. The second effects are what the policy does. They
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@cstominaga If you want a politics that improves life rather than merely narrating virtue, count the second effects—because the unseen costs are where most human disappointment lives.
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@cstominaga Lie 1: “We can tax a thing without changing it.” Lie 2: “We can redistribute without shrinking the pie.”
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@cstominaga https://t.co/XShoJy43PL
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@cstominaga Politics narrates virtue, but economics counts the cost. Disappointment lives in the second effect.
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@cstominaga [RT] RT @GodandCountryy: @elonmusk https://t.co/9fwQtzSzOl
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@cstominaga No—you do, in fact, need the thing to exist before you reorganise the world around its hypothetical tantrums. Otherwise you are not practising foresight; you are indulging a hobby. Preparing for a technology that has not cleared its own definition is indistinguishable from https://t.co/YpNjeVdAWZ
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@cstominaga Naturally, the modern demand is that every thought should arrive pre-chewed, pre-shrunk, and pre-approved for the attention span of a startled goldfish. One is told—by people who confuse brevity with intelligence—that posts ought to be shorter, as though the proper measure of an
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@cstominaga Reich’s little morality play depends on a vulgar equivocation: he treats net worth as though it were a paycheque, and then performs long division on the resulting fiction until it resembles a classroom outrage. That is not economics; it is numerology with a conscience badge.
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@cstominaga One pays for a tool precisely so one is not reduced to parroting a sponsor’s catechism. There is a clean moral difference between endorsement bought with money and endorsement bought with influence: in the first case, the incentives are inverted in the only direction that https://t.co/YcaFwc6Bpg
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@cstominaga The quotation is authentic; the interpretation is infantile. Smith’s remark occurs in his dissection of rent, not in a manifesto against private property. He is describing a structural feature of landownership, not offering the moralistic tantrum this account wishes it to be.
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@cstominaga That is no excuse. One writes not for applause but for precision. To claim surprise at being read is merely to confess negligence in being worth reading. Expect nothing, and write as though posterity were your only audience—because it is. Popularity does not ennoble
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@cstominaga There is a peculiar fashion in American discourse that treats slavery not as a brutal historical institution to be studied and surpassed, but as an all-purpose alibi for every present failure and every private frustration. It is as if history were a credit line you could draw on
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@cstominaga If you insist on being no better than the people around you, you will never be as good as you could have been. You owe the world ordinary. You owe yourself more.
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@cstominaga They keep hawking collectivism the way a bored priest hawks salvation: with rehearsed indignation, second-hand certainty, and the faintly obscene assumption that people exist primarily to be improved. They do not begin with the individual—breathing, erring, choosing, building,
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@cstominaga Putnam’s Bowling Alone is, in essence, an autopsy of social capital: the slow, quiet haemorrhage of the ordinary civic ligatures that once bound people into functioning communities—clubs, churches, unions, voluntary associations, neighbourhood reciprocity, even the banal ritual
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@cstominaga Many spend their lives looking for themselves in the wrong places: retreats, apps, other people’s opinions—anywhere except the mirror of their own repeated actions.
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@cstominaga You’ve managed to construct an entire argument on a definition that collapses the moment someone reaches for a dictionary. “Free market” does not mean “a space magically untouched by any form of government whatsoever”, except in the caricatures drawn by its critics. That is your https://t.co/8zxkBm
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@cstominaga [RT] RT @TheRabbitHole: “One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce,…
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@cstominaga I enjoy Wittgenstein, and did my MA in philosophy at Birkbeck; that may be why this reads to me less like biography and more like Instagram fanfic. You’ve quietly swapped history for mood. “Ricocheting between genius and exasperation” is colouring-in, not argument; “terrified
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@cstominaga Live so that your future self does not have to lie for you. Live so that your absence will be heavier than your presence ever felt. Live so that when the last page turns, you can say, It was not perfect. But it was mine. And I did not waste it.
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@cstominaga We treat ‘average’ as a sanctuary, forgetting that sanctuaries are where people hide from danger—and here the danger is time.
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@cstominaga Collectivism is the only “idea” that advertises itself as compassion while practising compulsion. It begins, as all respectable tyrannies do, with a hymn to “we”. The trick is that “we” is never a description. It is a demand. It does not mean together; it means under. Notice
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@cstominaga It is easier to be blameless than to be good.
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@cstominaga https://t.co/woR4vvdw4T
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@cstominaga https://t.co/oRlMs911kD
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@cstominaga Collectivism is the one political theology that never bothers to update its script because it assumes—correctly—that its audience will not notice. It begins by dissolving the individual into a grammatical convenience: the people, the masses, the workers, the nation. Once the
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@cstominaga Imagine, for a moment, that people were not merely politically equal, but actually equal in mind, talent, drive, imagination. What a mercilessly beige world that would be. No towering intellects, no outliers, no incandescent minds that drag the rest of us, sometimes
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@cstominaga How exquisitely pedestrian—another armchair diagnostician hurling “narcissist” the way a child hurls stones: indiscriminately, with no understanding of trajectory, velocity, or the object struck. Your proclamation suffers from the usual psychological illiteracy: the assumption