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Dr. Ben Braddock retweeted
Golden Age Problems
.@jamespoulos on why Anthropic's UBI-like proposal could become a bribe to surrender your humanity:
"Interesting to see a company do this instead of a government, which shakes up some of the preexisting ideological stances on UBI."
"You read the sci-fi corpus and you quickly learn that you can be very optimistic within a dystopian setting or very pessimistic in a utopian setting."
"One corporation eats everything, no one owns their data, total surveillance state. But you can have an optimistic UBI: we’re gonna send everyone money so that they can preserve their humanity."
"The flip side: a utopian AGI world. But we’re gonna give everyone money to basically bribe them to surrender their humanity and become food or battery packs or biological bootloaders for this post-human intelligence."
Dr. Ben Braddock retweeted
🚨🇧🇷 Flávio Bolsonaro solta fogos de artifício durante ato de campanha em Fortaleza, Ceará.
Dr. Ben Braddock retweeted
The problem of late modernity: a man cannot have a conversation without some self-aggrandizing activist posting about it
NEWS: I obtained a recording of Peter Thiel's latest Nashville Antichrist lectures. In his third talk delivered on Oct. 12, he breaks with the Trump admin on the U.S. war with Iran. “I think we should not have done it,” he said. “There were a lot of mistakes that were made.”
politico.com/news/2026/10/21…
Dr. Ben Braddock retweeted
Under the leadership of Secretary Hegseth, we are growing our elite Special Tactics community. The memo directs the establishment of a new Air National Guard Special Tactics Squadron, placing our most lethal warfighters at the heart of the @USSOCOM & @AFSpecOpsCmd community at Hurlburt Field & MacDill AFB.
Dr. Ben Braddock retweeted
Dispatch from the ground 👇
Milan is quiet today. Damage remains visible on some of the busiest shopping streets, though most affected shops have already been repaired. Just the regular army checkpoints at the Duomo and in surrounding areas.
I spoke with some soldiers, however, and they expect heavy reinforcements over the weekend. Several accounts linked to Antifa networks have announced more demonstrations planned for this Saturday and every weekend after that, in Milan, but also Bologna, Turin, Rome, Florence, Padua, Genoa, and Bari.
The main one seems to be “M1710” (October 17th Movement), which has gained 16.8k (and counting) followers on IG in two days. Yesterday it published a “manifesto” declaring itself an independent movement of disaffected youth inspired by mostly leaderless uprisings over the past fifteen years, from the Arab Spring and Occupy to Hong Kong 2019.
It tries to distance itself from existing far-left groups, deploying generic, anti-establishment rhetoric, yet nearly all of the 57 accounts it follows are openly antifa. Typical of how the far left has operated in Italy since the early 2010s, borrowing the Five Star Movement’s “no leaders, no party” branding to present itself as something new and exciting at every opportunity.
(Full text below.)
Dr. Ben Braddock retweeted
BREAKING: US military aircraft are being evacuated from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, per initial reports.
This is a major imminent strikes indicator.
Dr. Ben Braddock retweeted
Pieces of Halley's Comet are going to burn up over most of the country before dawn Thursday.
If you're in the clear, step outside after the moon sets, around 3 to 4 AM, and look up. From a dark spot, 10 to 20 an hour.
Dr. Ben Braddock retweeted
Pou chèf gang yo ak manm gang yo k ap kenbe kat konpatriyòt nou yo an otaj ann Ayiti:
Mesye nou kidnape yo pa konbatan. Yo se teknisyen nan domèn avyasyon ki fè pati misyon nou ann Ayiti, nan kad yon misyon entènasyonal. Misyon nou an gen sèlman pilòt ak pèsonèl teknik, ki gen kòm travay prensipal fè evakyasyon medikal epi sove lavi moun, pa fè lagè.
Men, nou te kidnape yo yon fason lach pandan yo t ap retounen apre yo te fin achte manje nan yon makèt nan zòn nan.
Se poutèt sa, jodi a nou te lanse yon operasyon militè pou pote yo sekou. Nou gen yon sèl objektif: fè kat konpatriyòt nou yo retounen lakay yo vivan, san okenn mal.
Men, mwen vle pou nou menm, chèf gang yo, konprann yon bagay byen klè: atak jodi a pa anyen devan sa k ap vini si nou pa remèt toule kat otaj yo vivan.
Epi pa pran pawòl nou yo pou menas san fondman. Nou deja fini ak gang yo nan El Salvador, e nou kapab fini ak nou tou.
Nou toujou gen tan pou evite sa.
Remèt nou kat konpatriyòt nou yo vivan, san okenn mal, epi tout bagay ap retounen jan sa te ye anvan kidnaping lan.
Desizyon an nan men nou.
Dr. Ben Braddock retweeted
The Fellowship for American Statecraft is beautiful.
open.substack.com/pub/conund…
Dr. Ben Braddock retweeted
On Monday night’s lecture, Peter Thiel argued that Democrats no longer really care about the Ivy League. His evidence:
-Gavin Newsom (Santa Clara)
-Josh Shapiro (Rochester, Georgetown Law)
-Jon Ossoff (Georgetown, LSE)
-Joe Biden (Delaware)
-Kamala Harris (Howard)
If we add Mamdani (Bowdoin) and AOC (BU), the trend is even clearer.
Dr. Ben Braddock retweeted
Milan is quiet today. Damage remains visible on some of the busiest shopping streets, though most affected shops have already been repaired. Just the regular army checkpoints at the Duomo and in surrounding areas.
I spoke with some soldiers, however, and they expect heavy reinforcements over the weekend. Several accounts linked to Antifa networks have announced more demonstrations planned for this Saturday and every weekend after that, in Milan, but also Bologna, Turin, Rome, Florence, Padua, Genoa, and Bari.
The main one seems to be “M1710” (October 17th Movement), which has gained 16.8k (and counting) followers on IG in two days. Yesterday it published a “manifesto” declaring itself an independent movement of disaffected youth inspired by mostly leaderless uprisings over the past fifteen years, from the Arab Spring and Occupy to Hong Kong 2019.
It tries to distance itself from existing far-left groups, deploying generic, anti-establishment rhetoric, yet nearly all of the 57 accounts it follows are openly antifa. Typical of how the far left has operated in Italy since the early 2010s, borrowing the Five Star Movement’s “no leaders, no party” branding to present itself as something new and exciting at every opportunity.
(Full text below.)
Dr. Ben Braddock retweeted
Ilhan Omar finally reappeared and is seen leaving this building marked in red. You can tell which building it is on Google because the Eleven on the River building, marked in green, can be seen in the skyline behind.
This red building houses the “Somali American Community Outreach And Consulting Center”.
🧵
Dr. Ben Braddock retweeted
Justin is building an incredible company that will let us speak with plants.
What a beautiful sci-fi technology.
This totally changes agriculture, horticulture and so many areas of plant science.
I’m so excited to see what they build.
1/ Today we’re unveiling Bombadil, @electricplantco's foundation model that reads the electrical signals of living plants and turns them into a continuous view of their physiology.
Trained on 7M+ hours of plant electrical signal across 125+ species. That makes Bombadil the most species-diverse model of directly recorded electrical biosignals in existence. The animal equivalent would be one model that reads the brainwaves of blue whales, horseshoe crabs and fruit flies.
