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Matt H 🇳🇿 retweeted
The best determinant of whether you're a part of the Imperial Core or not is whether the US ambassador to your country is a former politician/donor or if they're a career diplomst
Matt H 🇳🇿 retweeted
In free nations, we investigate crimes to see who is guilty of them.
In communist tyrannies, they investigate men to see what they can be punished for.
Matt H 🇳🇿 retweeted
People have this intuitive sense that people who create wealth are actually hoarding it from everyone else. That assumes the wealth existed beforehand. That assumes a kind of law of conservation of wealth, where wealth is never created or destroyed but just moved around. That isn’t how wealth works. Elon created something that didn’t exist before.
Matt H 🇳🇿 retweeted
Interesting idea. Had tokens to burn so I got Opus to put it to the test
Of course it can. Take all 100,000+ games on steam, scrape their descriptions and metadata, semantically plot them in vector space using embeddings, mathematically choose a location in vector space far away from neighbors, convert that back to a description and metadata, boom, brand new ideas ranked by how unlike any other ideas they are.
Matt H 🇳🇿 retweeted
Global warming is now blocking an ice age that had been already starting. Yay.
Here’s a rather extraordinary discovery: humanity seems to have interrupted the beginning of the next ice age. We thought it might happen in the future, but the evidence suggests it's already happened.
A new study in Science argues that the next major glaciation had already begun roughly 2,000 years ago, before modern warming reversed the trend in the 20th century.
The evidence comes from the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island, the last surviving remnant of the enormous Laurentide Ice Sheet that once covered much of Canada and reached as far south as Illinois.
Because Barnes is frozen directly to its bedrock, advancing ice buries and preserves vegetation beneath it. Researchers radiocarbon dated plants emerging as the ice retreats to reconstruct its history.
They found that after melting to a minimum extent around 3,000 years ago, the ice began expanding again about 2,000 years ago. The researchers interpret this as the earliest stage of the next glacial period.
Left to natural orbital cycles, that cooling would have unfolded extremely slowly, potentially taking tens of thousands of years to rebuild a continent spanning ice sheet.
But around 1960, the trend reversed. Summers became warm enough that Barnes began losing more ice than it gained, despite Northern Hemisphere summer sunlight continuing to slowly decline in a way that should favor renewed glaciation. Greenhouse warming had (thankfully) overwhelmed the natural cooling tendency.
The Barnes ice cap may now disappear entirely within the next few centuries, removing the final remnant of an ice sheet that repeatedly served as the nucleus for much larger glaciations.
There is a remarkable deep time perspective here. For millions of years, orbital cycles have pushed Earth between warmer interglacials and colder glacial periods. According to this study, that ancient cycle had started turning once again.
Then, in the geological equivalent of an instant, humanity pushed hard enough in the opposite direction to stop it.
Just so we're clear, this is a very very good thing.
📸 Geology Sciences
Sources:
1) phys.org/news/2026-10-global…
2) science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Matt H 🇳🇿 retweeted
the closest park to my house has a very clearly posted “dogs must be leashed” sign that most ppl ignore. there’s an actual dog park a mile away, but people come to play fetch all the time. i also take my baby there daily and have to spend the entire time there’s an off-leash dog tracking the dog carefully.
recently there was a pitt bull mix playing fetch and when it would run for the ball, it would stop and get distracted by my baby. the owner would shout and it would then reengage with the ball. i was positioned between my kid and the dog, but i still just picked my kid up and left pretty quickly.
a couple weeks later i saw a pitt bull being walked through the park on a leash with a muzzle on. i felt relieved and grateful that i could just relax and not worry about my kid getting mauled to death at a public park because some dog owner is too lazy to walk 20 minutes to an actual dog park to let their dog run.
strangers don’t know your dog. they have no idea if it’s friendly, or if you’re a reliable narrator when you claim it is. they have to reasonably assume the worst, which is scary when your dog is on the loose. we have a bunch of norms and laws in place to make it so dogs can exist in society, and you’re hurting other people when you don’t follow them.
i almost never see families at my local park, and my guess is because it’s full of unleashed dogs. dog owners have decided their convenience is more important than anyone else’s ability to use the park. i doubt any one owner would ever think of it this way, they each have their special reason that their special dog is different, but collectively they’ve driven everyone else out.
I genuinely do think there are a lot of basically good people who have never really thought about the ways in which they are behaving badly as dog owners, because nobody ever really calls them out for it.
If your dog is ever off leash, you are being antisocial and behaving badly. If your dog ever jumps on somebody who didn’t specifically ask for that to happen, then you are behaving antisocially (even if the dog is just being “friendly”). If you have an invisible fence in your yard, but your dog comes running right up to the line at full speed only to stop at the last minute and bark at everybody who walks by, then you are behaving antisocially. Honestly, even behind a fence, this is an aggressive and annoying imposition on anybody walking by.
If somebody has ever respond with fear or annoyance at something your dog has done and you’ve reflexively protested, “oh don’t worry, he won’t hurt you” or “he’s friendly” then that’s antisocial behavior. (You should just simply say, “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have done that, I won’t let it happen again” and then you should work to actually make it not happen again. Telling people not to worry, that you think your dog is just peachy, is bad behavior.)
This is all bad behavior. It’s all antisocial. And I have these experiences with dogs and their owners routinely. This is all extremely common stuff.
Matt H 🇳🇿 retweeted
If your first response to the Tesla Roadster is "is that safe??", you've lost all sense of wonder.
Safety is not and never was the meaning of life. I'd happily spend a few micromorts on a flying car.
(Also, Tesla has a sterling safety record, so probably won't even need to).
Matt H 🇳🇿 retweeted
a car just did something straight out of science fiction and half the internet immediately started debating commercial viability
not every engineering achievement needs a fucking business model. you are allowed to experience wonder
Matt H 🇳🇿 retweeted
The point of Capitalism is that someone who doesn’t give a shit about you still has a financial incentive to make your life better. Many Socialists confuse good intentions with good outcomes.
Matt H 🇳🇿 retweeted
BREAKING: Journalist writes correct description of Timeless Decision Theory
The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult is OUT NOW: amazon.com/Zizians-Inside-Tr…
I investigated a trans cult that used mind control, human experimentation and homebrew cocktails of hormones and drugs.
Then came the bodies.
Discover the truth about trans violence.
Matt H 🇳🇿 retweeted
If there is one lesson the professional class needs to learn about the last 15 years, it is this:
There is *nothing* more radicalizing in modern politics than a middle-middle class person observing somone on public assistance outbidding them for middle-class experiences
Matt H 🇳🇿 retweeted
The Great Filter is probably vindictive morons who end up with the power to shut down spaceward expansion in a civilization, and then do so in order to satisfy their petty jealousies and ideological nonsense.
Praying it doesn't happen, fearing it might.
We want to be the ones exploring the alien ruins of one planet civilizations some day. We do not want them exploring ours.
Matt H 🇳🇿 retweeted
the real kicker for me is that boomers understood that social security would be underfunded, created a trust fund to make up the difference, but deliberately underfunded the trust fund with the explicit plan to make younger generations make up the difference.
the correct thing to do is to cut benefits significantly for current retirees. this generation failed to plan appropriately for their own retirement and its appropriate that they’d have less as a result. additionally, younger generations will watch this and understand that they need to make different decisions if they don’t want to suffer similar consequences.
I understand that the social security conversation is political poison. But I’m not running for office so I don’t care about that. Taking huge chunks out of the paychecks of young working Americans in order to pay for the retirements of older Americans who have a net worth several times higher, all to prop up a system that everyone knows likely won’t be there when those younger people are retirement age themselves, is morally abhorrent and economically insane. Everyone knows it, too, but we’re held hostage by elderly politicians who refuse to surrender power, and older voters who, as a group (with exceptions, obviously), simply don’t care all that much about the financial and cultural future their grandchildren will inherit.
Matt H 🇳🇿 retweeted
"The Swiss voted for bigger pensions.
For it to pass, they must now explicitly vote again the higher taxes to fund it."
