Microsoft just open-sourced DOS 4 https://t.co/iOeLUVfVok (as well a release of beta binaries, disk images, and PDFs from @rozzie's archives!) (but who did the PR?!) pic.twitter.com/g3VyOCsT40

— Scott Hanselman 🌮 (@shanselman) April 25, 2024

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He was also a victim of the Jehovah's Witness cult (yes a cult, they practice excommunication and isolate people from their families) which is probably the source for a lot of his very shitty traits (14)

I would like to introduce you to someone, u/cujobob, S/He also has similar views and opinions as you. you guys can have a conversation about whether a dead man is apart of a cult or not. If you want to discuss why DMX gets a pass for his behavior I can do that. (-9)

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He definitely got respect from many. (9)

Many idiots. (-13)

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Pass? How? People say he's a rap legend not the Pope. He was man enough to put ALL his flaws and mistakes on display and people respect that. I've never heard anybody say “DMX is the perfect role model” only that he was real and a great rapper and there's no “pass” required for that (645)

Respect? Nah lol good music yes (-3)

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Nothing I said was racist. But, yea keep proving who you are on here. Too many of these fake butt, crying butt, culture vulture butt wanna be rap fans/ experts hiding on this system trying to change the culture. We don't need you. Now what else you got to say? (1)

I didn't say it was. I was saying you telling me i don't belong here is the same shit racist while people have been telling minorities since forever. But i don't expect hood neighbors to understand reading comprehension.If going to jail and killing each other is the culture you want to continue living in, then by all means, continue to be an idiot. I'd rather not be another statistic. (0)

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Most if not all male rappers get a pass.Look at Kanye. Antisemitic, being sued for locking kids in cages at his school, beefed with little white girls, publicly threatened to kill Pete Davidson, said slavery was a choice, forced adidas execs/employees to watch porn.Kodak: literal male feministJay z - Groomed Beyonce. Cheated on Beyonce. Ties to other problematic people. Diddy - it's finally catching up with him, finally. After DECADES of weird behavior and scandals. Look how much it took / it's taking and we're still here waiting.Now let it be a female rapper and their career is in jeopardy the moment they say the wrong thing lol. Nicki Minaj gets shit on CONSTANTLY for who she married, could you imagine if she did any of that other shit her actual self? (1)

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So now you're spewing racist white people rhetoric. (0)

Nothing I said was racist. But, yea keep proving who you are on here. Too many of these fake butt, crying butt, culture vulture butt wanna be rap fans/ experts hiding on this system trying to change the culture. We don't need you. Now what else you got to say? (1)

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This first came into effect under Obunga right? So it must be bad if Brandon is restoring it

Evening all.

I don't know how I feel about inhabiting this place. But I do know I can use it to draft.

Shiri's Slippers

Long time readers will know of my grudge with Scott Alexander, high priest of the SFBA Rationalist Cult. Previously it was suggested that we begin a bombing run of their spaces but I called a 'hold.' Honestly there's no time like the present.

Ultimately my problem with these people is that the demand the status of seriousness without being willing to do the work to be serious. In forums like /r/theschism or themotte, the topics of the day have been, bizarrely, subtracted out of the conversation.

The most important political conversation happening today is about the Supreme Court ruling on the immunity which a President enjoys.

You won't see this talked about.

See I used to think that Scott Alexander's "You Are Still Calling Wolf" was the most damaging piece Scott ever wrote. For his own reputation. For the political damage it did to the brains of his followers.

Scott Alexander doesn't think of himself as a cult leader of course, even though his followers do, and have regular struggle sessions about this fact. See this hilarious exchange in which a twitter thread praises Scott Alexander for not being a prophet.

Now I can't assume everyone has familiarity with the spiritual mechanisms Scott Alexander has engaged with. To recap: Scott Alexander self-consciously wrote Unsong to imitate schizophrenic individuals attempting to write a holy text. Scott Alexander copied the prophet motion without, apparently, understanding what it meant that he did this for his followers.

Then his followers didn't do this either.

The other very very funny recurrence at work here is the SFBA Rationalist Cult's founder, whose work included a number of overtly spiritual calls, led to an early incident in the cult history where they linked hands and sang "We are not a cult." To this day SFBA Rationalist Cultists, when they gather, engage in praise of the founder under an ambiguous amount of irony. And as you all know at this point: in a post-ironic world, all expression is genuine. (I'm referring here to the Valentine's Day musical that some postrats put on as a dating show.)

So these people all have this habitual denial of their spiritual connection. They Think They're Atheists, and atheists can't be in a cult. And if it is a cult, they think it's a benign one, a harmless one, if they're pressed. But secretly, they believe they are an elevated specimen of human thinker, and this was accomplished with Shiri's Slippers.

I thought they were a harmless cult when I first encountered them. The most devastating review of the founder's work was always: what's novel in it isn't good, and what's good in it isn't novel. The SFBA Rationalist Cult literally bricked a bunch of minds in the 2010s and we're only still figuring this out.

Because the consequences of Scott Alexander's foray into politics were that he was one of the foremost beacons of fascism denialism. These people all had a grudge against the academy. They think they're better than schooling. But then they create their own forms and fall down dead wrong.

It turns out that the fools at the academy are better equipped.

There's this crackpot tinge of resentment against the fools at the academy for rejecting their founder's bad writing as bad writing. This is one of the things that make them less a harmless cult and more a destructive torment nexus of incompetence. It's not a coincidence that these people developed idiot confidence and SBF is now under arrest for Big Fraud. They're all frauds. They can't even function as a cult because of their bizarre denial complex around their cultishness.

The consequentialist argument against the utility of the SFBA Rationalist Cult goes something like:

The consequences of Scott Alexander's writing is an island of people separated from mainstream intellectual politics. They're really alone out there.

Fascism

At this point I think it's more important than ever to drag Scott Alexander's flock kicking and screaming into accepting that they were wrong about the fascism. That doesn't mean that I need them to immediately endorse the use of the term 'fascism.'

If there's one thing that I wish they understood, it's that whatever it is that Trumpism represented, the people who were warning of the danger Trump faced were not overreacting. The wolf was real. This incompetence and waste of energy in our politics is an authoritarian bound now by legal processes. They seemed to think that Trump could never succeed at instituting a fascistic purge, and that therefore the people who were warning of Trump's desire to implement a fascist purge were overreacting.

Whether or not the wolf can succeed is somewhat independent of whether or not the wolf exists.

But the real bad wrong turn that Scott Alexander took was writing "Shiri's Scissors."

Shiri's Scissors

Scott postulated a class of controversial statement that caused irrational behavior in people, dividing them from one another. And I was confused by this at first because I was at this point understanding that these people coin phrases as if by instinct. What Scott Alexander was pointing to with "Shiri's Scissors" was the mere word

CONTROVERSIAL.

This is what made Shiri's Scissors an unnecessary concept and bad writing. Controversial topics have always existed.

And I tried to take this up with someone in Scott Alexander's circle and they resisted my notion that it was a pointless concept.

Only now do I understand that there's an alchemical process at work in Shiri's Scissors: it allows people to view controversy as enabling irrational behavior and therefore discarding them.

Instead of controversy being an invitation to dispute, a marker around discourse's present topics of conversation, Shiri's Scissor allowed these cultists to subtract themselves from discourse.

Controversial topics have always existed. Concepts which justified disregarding people who reacted to controversial topics have not.

With Shiri's Scissors

Scott Alexander Cut The Cord

TETHERING

His Cult

To Political Reality

Whether or not you want to use the term fascist, the gathering of physical forces armed with actual weapons to assault the Capitol on 1/6 was an act of war which is exactly the kind of thing the leftists have been warning about. But Scott Alexander and his flock aren't tuned into the Supreme Court hearing today on the most important subject of most thinking minds.

They put Shiri's Slippers on and just walked away. Right off of the map (IN POLITICS THE TERRITORY IS THE MAP IS THE TERRITORY) into a domain of their own making, still bitter at the fact that other people dared find their intellectual contribution bad.

See Shiri's Scissors/Slippers, as a concept, create a reality in which there's just these bizarre artifacts in discourse which are incomprehensible. It makes discourse not just unnecessary but impossible because it contains within it the assumption of the unreasonable (AND THEREFORE, TO THESE BRICKED CULTISTS, INCOMPREHENSIBLE) nature of those with which they interacted with politically.

Postscripts

Cult Takes on Christian Nationalism

An interesting sampling of the topics du jour of these spaces. Both TheMotte and TheSchism platformed this curious bit of "rationality" around the decrease in Christian Nationalism by raw percent. I don't think it's a stretch to say that this is motivated reasoning: these people want to believe that fears of a Christian theocracy are overstated. TheMotte, and TheSchism.

It's not within their capacity to understand that a threatened minority might resort to fascism, the fascism might drive people away from the church, and that Christian Nationalism can still be a very real threat. These are the people who have said nothing about the Trump Supreme Court case.

Cult Takes on Lab Leak Origins for Coronavirus

Now I will admit that I'm more willing to believe that COVID came from zoonosis than I was before engaging this material. But I want to share some reading I've done in Blood Money, a book about Chinese mindsets and tactics in dealing with the US as an adversary.

Roughly, the Wuhan lab was built with the help of French scientists. Then the Chinese government kicked the French scientists out.

It was always a possible black site.

Scott Alexander's coverage of his cult's perfect thinking about perfect thinking about viruses is one of the worst things Scott Alexander wrote, but not the most damaging.

As mentioned earlier, the DEFUSE grant was rejected. Further, the grant said that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was responsible for finding the viruses, and the University of North Carolina would do all the gain-of-function research. This was a reasonable division of labor, since UNC was actually good at gain-of-function research, and WIV mostly wasn't. They had done a few very simple gain-of-function projects before, but weren't really set up for this particular proposal and were happy to leave it for their American colleagues.

Even if WIV did try to create COVID, they couldn't have. As Yuri said, COVID looks like BANAL-52 plus a furin cleavage site. But WIV didn't have BANAL-52. It wasn't discovered until after the COVID pandemic started, when scientists scoured the area for potential COVID relatives. WIV had a more distant COVID relative, RATG-13. But you can't create COVID from RATG-13; they're too different. You would need BANAL-52, or some as-yet-undiscovered extremely close relative. WIV had neither.

Are we sure they had neither? Yes. Remember, WIV's whole job was looking for new coronaviruses. They published lists of which ones they had found pretty regularly. They published their last list in mid-2019, just a few months before the pandemic. Although lab leak proponents claimed these lists showed weird discrepancies, this was just their inability to keep names consistent, and all the lists showed basically the same viruses (plus a few extra on the later ones, as they kept discovering more). The lists didn't include BANAL-52 or any other suitable COVID relatives - only RATG-13, which isn't close enough to work.

Could they have been keeping their discovery of BANAL-52 secret? No. Pre-pandemic, there was nothing interesting about it; our understanding of virology wasn't good enough to point this out as a potential pandemic candidate. WIV did its gain-of-function research openly and proudly (before the pandemic, gain-of-function wasn't as unpopular as it is now) so it's not like they wanted to keep it secret because they might gain-of-function it later. Their lists very clearly showed they had no virus they could create COVID from, and they had no reason to hide it if they did.

If there's one thing I want you to understand, it's this:

These people have almost no ability to understand deception.

The notion that China lies about the purposes of the lab just doesn't enter the picture.

Are you sure the Chinese would not use US science to create a virus that then escaped?

And then lie about it?

We're not going to know the truth. China may never reveal what it knows. But these people are not very good at finding the truth because they're not very good at understanding lies.

And these are the people who believe that AI can be 'aligned.'

They fundamentally don't understand humans. They don't understand deception.

They refuse to see the wolf of the present political era. They have deliberately chosen to walk away from mainstream politics with their Magic Stupid Slippers.

This is what a truly dangerous cult looks like. Most dangerous cults self-destruct. The bad ones are those that get big enough to confuse a large enough number of people.

POV: You're Scott Alexander and you're tired at people yelling at you about the fascism your side missed.

There's also a pattern I want to discourage, where one side will come up with some new trivial finding, or re-dredge up and re-package something that everyone already everyone else had already considered, then release it as THE SMOKING GUN! Then they release another SMOKING GUN!, and another, and after five or six SMOKING GUNS, they say their opponents are stubborn and refuse to yield to evidence, since they've obstinately ignored every single SMOKING GUN! without changing their probability even a little bit.

I've saved the chaser. This is how Scott chose to close his coverage.

But fifth, if the coronavirus' story is a comedy, all of this - Rootclaim, the debate, the $100K - is a tragedy. Saar got $100 million, decided to devote a big part of his life to improving human reasoning, and came up with a really elegant system. He was so confident in his system, and in the power of open discussion, that he risked his money and reputation on an accept-all-comers debate offer . Then some rando who nobody had ever heard of accepted the challenge, turned out to be some kind of weird debate savant, and won, turning what should have been Rootclaim's moment of triumph into a bitter defeat. Totally new kind of human suffering, worthy of Shakespeare.

I look forward to the movie, especially seeing who plays the dashing young blogger who helped the participants meet.

POV: You're the high priest of a cult of reason, worshiping a false god of perfect information, perfectly understood. These people don't just believe that salvation is possible through brainthinking alone, they believe that they have achieved salvation and are enlightened by their own intelligence.

Even as they stand in proud ignorance of contemporary politics.

Wild: Over 400K fans are expected to be in attendance for the #NFLDraft

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— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) April 25, 2024

Caleb Williams will be ruined by Chicago

The first picture is of my dad, me and my brother a few weeks before he would be hospitalized.

My father contracted HIV in the Navy due to unsafe medical practices conducted by the military. He would unknowingly give HIV to my mom. According to how far along my mom's conditon was, she contracted it sometime between my birth and after my brother's birth. Neither me nor my brother have it, so it is most likely my mom contracted HIV after my brother was born. Because they were having unprotected s*x to have children, my father likely contracted HIV close to when I or my brother was born, but we can never know for sure. He served in the Navy in California. It was not common practice at this time to test heterosexual, non-drug using, non-hemaphiliacs at this time, so my parents went unnoticed until my dad became sick.

My dad became sick very suddenly. He started being extremely fatigued and losing his appetite. He was unable to work and would collapse from exhaustion at home. He was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with AIDS.

In the hospital, he caught the common flu and died from a blood clot related to his AIDS diagnosis. My mom is still alive and HIV positive. She is doing well.

Please get tested, no matter who you are or what your lifestyle is.

>navy

>California

>”unsafe medical procedure” (obvious bs)

>fruity pic (even I picked up on this)

Is “unsafe medical practices” in the Navy code for unprotected gay s*x?

https://twitter.com/Liz_Andromeda/status/1783618711137505445

All my prompts had "dark skin" in to be fair but I forgot about aggressively wrestling the ai with things like "Nigerian, African" to actually make it do dark skin

!g*mers

I thought the exercise makes you dislike other people's problems thing was just a meme, but I am currently myself experiencing it.

Can anybody explain why the more I exercise the less I give a shit about what women have to say about anything?

Is being sexist a 'healthy human male' trait that the whole world is trying to gaslight men into believing isn't a good thing?

Discuss.

Currently one of the primary reasons everyone was okay with pushing all the women's rights stuff no matter how stupid it got at times was that the more feminist societies were at all times successfully more developed as well.

However, we are now beginning to see the deviation between the most successful nations and the most feminist nations of the world, especially on the tail end where the lower income nation states are currently able to keep improving without giving women and western civilization equivalent human rights.

For example, places like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Afghanistan are all seeing good GDP growth in current year.

We can see places like China and South Korea with their disdain of feminism also have strong growth in spite of the lack of pro women policies and cultures.

It is currently only in the western world that we are seeing an almost 1:1 match for rise in income and high levels of feminism.

There too Europe as one of the more feminist parts of the world is going through periods of continual stagnation and it is only in North America where there is a strong presence of feminism while the GDP also keeps climbing.

Today, the strongest GDP growth in the world can be found in countries such as China and India, both of which are clearly not the bastions of women's rights in a vein similar to the western world.

As for highest GDP, the US remains number one, and in the case of the US, radical feminism has failed to successfully take root in the current generation, as multiple interest groups such as the gays, transwomen, and sane people hold American radical feminism back.

America is proof that the world is okay with whores as long as they don't try to marry men or have kids going to the same school.

The US judicial system has also proven to be robust enough as to not put up with women lying their way into getting someone jailed for a false accusation. The primary issue remains that of costs of going through the legal process, rather than biases in the law itself against men.

We can expect this to be the standard of feminism in the current century, where you can only lose to feminism if you are poor or are is a people facing industry where public shaming can cost you your job and well being.

It is also very likely that as LGBTQ+ and various minority interests spread around, that women's rights becomes an ever smaller part of a conglomeration of multiple human rights interests, resulting in stagnation or even steps back in women's social privileges.

One of the signs of this is the disdain held for women not being sent to war in Ukraine even though the country is fighting for its right to exist, and is willing to sacrifice all men to hold off Russia.

As men continue to get weaker through this century and do not think of women as special creatures, it is likely that there will be a strong push for women to also participate at the front line in wars of survival.

In conclusion, if there is another war in Europe like the one Ukraine is going through, it is pretty much guaranteed that women will be forced into front line roles just like the men.

The regression of feminism ideals is imminent in the second half of this century. A scenario we can already see the signs of with how J.K Rowling is reviled in liberal spaces for having the same views about women's rights as everybody did 2 decades ago instead of forever moving left with the times.

As the BMI of the average woman goes up, the halo effect around women also weakens, over time resulting in men not caring about women's issues.

In conclusion, women's rights are going to see a reversal in the decades ahead.

We can expect women's rights to fall back to levels that can be found in Eastern Europe by the end of the century.

Alberta is literally trying to become a one party dictatorship being run by r-slurred alcoholic hicks. I wish Biden would go full Iraq war on Danielle Smith.

Embarrassing fact, I used to be a skybaby my first experiences with any other TES games were the Oblivion G*merpoops. Now TESIV is my fav even if Todd burnt the jungle down

Wtf Are We Doing?.How in Tf Is THIS Real Life Right Now?… pic.twitter.com/QqeodqRl7i

— 𝕰𝖒𝕲 (@Emilio2763) April 24, 2024

!BIPOCs

I am back home from getting my abcess drain removed. Feels like I need a Norco, !druggies lmao. Luckily I have plenty. There was only one painful part of the no prep, no pain med surgical removal, but I'll be able to work in about a week and a half again. Gotta make that money ASAP after feeding my Roth IRA as much as it's fat maw could take.

Feminine medicine is a world apart from what I thought it would be entering my 30th year. Most of my initial doctors on this case, which was caused by abnormal streptococcus infection and nothing more, were assuming up and down that I had caught an STD to cause this orange-sized tubo-ovarian abcess. But big shocker, I stand with my bf and he stands with me, we'd never waste this relationship on affairs

Want to hear REAL drama? Even my father assumed I had caught something more.... shameful, shall we say? It's completely driven my mom into a frenzy. He and I've hashed it out with no issue though

Anyway, I pray for a speedy recovery, and I urge anyone reading this to please consider seeing their physical pain as more serious than, "I need to take a sick day." If my abcess had burst, it would have been a 100% fatality

Also, I goombled !goomblers my online pittance away while in the hospital for 4 days, please up or down vote so that I may continue my degenerative coin farming venture

Some others I made with a model someone made for figures.

!anime !coomers

while I have your attention again I have been shit awarded to big negative DC, help pls

The right used to hate backwards women hating ideologies like Islam

Now many “red pill” influencers are embracing it

Apparently all it takes is a couple extra 💰💰💰 to support the cultural decimation they used to warn about

Pathetic pic.twitter.com/jinV6vxnwd

— Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) April 24, 2024

https://twitter.com/joe_norte/status/1783071396714664361

Pre-Weimar Christianity was more like Islam than modern day Onlyfans Christianity.

men will pick their allies carefully and they will not be fooled.

https://twitter.com/H0US30FW0LV3S/status/1783353685122203777

Everyone in that photo genuinely looks inbred lmfao

https://twitter.com/joe_norte/status/1783354888015011903

so?

does most people around the world are inbred.

it is only in our cosmopolitan society where race mixing is celebrated and the norm

LMFAO rightoids want to RETVRN to inbreeding now !moidmoment !mayomoment

https://twitter.com/AvdullahYousef/status/1783537047598227907

Keep crying Lauren 👍🏻

Converting to Islam couldn't save that whiteoid's teeth

After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we're approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years.

Over the next few months, we'll be sharing more details about our launches coming later this year, including World of Warcraft: The War Within and Diablo IV's first expansion, Vessel of Hatred. To celebrate these upcoming releases and to bring our communities together in new and special ways, we will soon share some exciting plans for other industry trade shows and conventions like Gamescom. We can't wait to tell you more about those plans soon. We're also looking forward to the Overwatch Champions Series' stops at both Dreamhack Dallas and Dreamhack Stockholm. And we're thrilled to be planning multiple, global, in-person events to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Warcraft, which will be held in addition to the in-game celebrations across our Warcraft games throughout 2024. While these events are distinct from BlizzCon, we're harnessing all of our creativity and imagination to ensure that they carry the same spirit of celebration and togetherness.

Our hope is that these experiences – alongside several live-streamed industry events where we'll keep you up to date with what's happening in our game universes – will capture the essence of what makes the Blizzard community so special.

No matter how you choose to connect with us at these events this year – whether it be in person or virtually – we can't wait to see you there!

My guess that it's a combination of low interest, having nothing to show, and microsoft not liking live events, even though it's the 20th anniversary of WoW. I haven't been excited for a Blizzard release since Overwatch anyway.