Google's "Culture of Fear", Wall Street's DEI Retreat, Paving the Way For End to War in Ukraine via Negotiations, Machiavelli on Political Origins, Some Actual Great News
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So probably this comes down to a clownish attempt to prove they are not evil...but what if the real intent is to forever undermine actual Progress in dei
"The moms are speaking up for their sons". You bet they would be.
DEI has reached the point where it threatens the expectations of core constituencies of the regime. So it will be reined in, at least to the point where these constituencies are again in sight of their comfort zone.
As for the rest of us in the slave-pits of the post-liberal West, it won't necessarily make too much difference.
I would disagree with Polansky on this point "The US founders, in other words, consciously sought to create a wholly new society based upon just principles rather than the contingent events that gave rise to past governments".
While there was certainly a plurality of views among the Founders, there was always an attempt to show continuity with British political tradition even among the most liberal Founders. The American Revolution is not a Revolution but a counter-revolution. Most of the colonists believed that Parliament violated the historic liberties afford to English men, this includes representation in government which goes all the way back to Witans of Anglo-saxon kings. Thomas Jefferson believed in the Anglo-saxon myth which stated that prior to the Norman Conquests England was a republic where every landowner had a role in choosing their government and didn't have the complex feudal system of barons, dukes, etc.( this ignores the existence of the Earls among the Anglo-Saxons tho). John Jay in the Federalist papers stated that nations revolve around people coming from common history, language, customs, and religion. The common law was also retained.
The main innovations that were made by the Founders were the system of checks and balances and separation of powers, which Hamilton stated would prevent the tyranny that arose in the British Constitution( Hamilton also would advocate life terms for Senators similar to the House of Lords and a King not really liberal). I wish I could write more but I have mental fog, but I think i explained it somewhat
Edit: Despite this I don't think the American Revolution was justifiable considering that the American government was more tyrannical than King George implementing onerous taxes just a few years after Independence. Likewise by not making Christianity the official religion they rebelled against God and the English Constitution( which was based on Christianity see King Alfred's Doombook among other things). The Covenanters talked about this and what would happen, and in the end they were right
"Its wild success and monopolistic position has made it grow fat, lazy, and worst of all, stupid."
Which is exactly the strategy for making money off of AI. All you have to do is own it, thereby making it proprietary, or invest in it to a grab a share of the profits. No "innovation" beyond that is required.
White WOMEN are speaking up about DEI? That's actually nightmare level bad for the liberal left, pissing off that demographic. Interesting development.
Afa Ukraine, clearly reality is setting in. But I get the sense the conflict is kind of getting away from the west. There's a lot of "One hand not talking to the other." Macrón called for a potential all-out ground invasion in Ukr, about a week(?) Before Nuland resigned. Total bluff imo, but there's clearly chaos happening in the back rooms.
Whoever calls the game that is the US/NATO criminal syndicate attacking Russia (Clinton/Talbot/Nuland expand NATO up to Kiev) is not backing away from killing Slavs at good returns from the military industry complex.
Russia is agreeable to burn US dollars and weaken Kiev.
Time, and logistics is on Russia’s side.
While US government debt is climbing even with great Bidenomics.
The concerns over the violence and cruelty that are central to the establishment of any real-world regime recalls the embarrassment and unease we feel when contemplating our parents having sex. Regardless of our feelings, facts are facts.
The most liberal and well-ordered states have their origins in explicit violence. The English state was created by two critical acts of conquest: one by William of Normandy, the other by William of Orange. There is nothing to regret about this. The effluxion of time makes whatever pain or injustice that was involved with these events irrelevant.
The current obsession with origins that is sweeping the Anglophone world (1619 for America, 'settler-colonialism' etc) is less about improving present day conditions as it is about preparing a case for the legitimacy of a new, emerging, regime. For this reason alone we need to take the issue of origins very seriously indeed.
Would the conclusion of the first part of your essay be what the academic agent described as putting the woke away, eg a tactical but not a strategic retreat? Thank you 🙏
"The removal of Victoria Nudelman is the removal of a maximalist from the chessboard."
From the little that I know about this, it seems that hers was a "self-removal", not a "being removed"; and I would argue that her doing so was preemptive, preferring to position herself on -- at/near the head of -- the [Ukr/]Euro-Allied negotiating team, rather than as a member of the increasingly disinterested US/UK team.
The financial pressures against woke and DEI are generated by the need to compete in global markets. They reveal the dirty truth: both woke and DEI are exceptionally parochial phenomenon, unimaginable outside their origins in Anglo Yankee culture and the very specific redistributive culture of the racial spoils system as it evolved from Tammany Hall to Civil Rights and the post Cold War era.
Now that capitalism is very busy organising anew along planetary lines with supply chains constrained by various geopolitical fissures it is clear that both woke and DEI constitute impediments to collective achievement and routine profit. This does not mean an immediate end to either. It is way too soon for that, but it suggests that the turn America took under Obama was a reactionary and expensive digression. A course correction is beginning to emerge.
"The sun will end its life as a white dwarf - a dead star that has exhausted all the fuel that it's capable of burning. It will slowly cool and fade away to lower and lower temperatures." A further example of 'go woke, go broke'.
How could google fail is pretty obvious if you know anyone at Google. I do. I also know OG google employees from when it was less than 100 people. The latter were bona fide genius types. The former are sort of like self-regarding DMV employees who attend Yoga classes. That's what you get when you hire into what amounts to a lucrative public utility.
In 2010 when they were still relatively innovative: about 10,000 people. By 2019, still under 100,000 people. Consider that 2019 Google doesn't make money in any different ways than they did in 2010. Then they nearly doubled in headcount over the next few years. Still no innovations, no new profitable lines of business. What do you think those numskulls are doing besides inventing new pronouns?
FWIIW, Brave has a pretty good search engine; not as good in the long tail as it hasn't been around as long, but it was built with around a half dozen people.
Looking forward to Nudelwoman defenestration. I sort of wondered if she were responsible somehow for the recent signal intercept about the Crimean bridge.
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Anything that can be programmed can be manipulated and abused. The human factor will always remain the go to source for reality and truth.
Google's web search product gives me big Kodak vibes relative to a ChatGPT.
So probably this comes down to a clownish attempt to prove they are not evil...but what if the real intent is to forever undermine actual Progress in dei
"The moms are speaking up for their sons". You bet they would be.
DEI has reached the point where it threatens the expectations of core constituencies of the regime. So it will be reined in, at least to the point where these constituencies are again in sight of their comfort zone.
As for the rest of us in the slave-pits of the post-liberal West, it won't necessarily make too much difference.
I would disagree with Polansky on this point "The US founders, in other words, consciously sought to create a wholly new society based upon just principles rather than the contingent events that gave rise to past governments".
While there was certainly a plurality of views among the Founders, there was always an attempt to show continuity with British political tradition even among the most liberal Founders. The American Revolution is not a Revolution but a counter-revolution. Most of the colonists believed that Parliament violated the historic liberties afford to English men, this includes representation in government which goes all the way back to Witans of Anglo-saxon kings. Thomas Jefferson believed in the Anglo-saxon myth which stated that prior to the Norman Conquests England was a republic where every landowner had a role in choosing their government and didn't have the complex feudal system of barons, dukes, etc.( this ignores the existence of the Earls among the Anglo-Saxons tho). John Jay in the Federalist papers stated that nations revolve around people coming from common history, language, customs, and religion. The common law was also retained.
The main innovations that were made by the Founders were the system of checks and balances and separation of powers, which Hamilton stated would prevent the tyranny that arose in the British Constitution( Hamilton also would advocate life terms for Senators similar to the House of Lords and a King not really liberal). I wish I could write more but I have mental fog, but I think i explained it somewhat
Edit: Despite this I don't think the American Revolution was justifiable considering that the American government was more tyrannical than King George implementing onerous taxes just a few years after Independence. Likewise by not making Christianity the official religion they rebelled against God and the English Constitution( which was based on Christianity see King Alfred's Doombook among other things). The Covenanters talked about this and what would happen, and in the end they were right
"Its wild success and monopolistic position has made it grow fat, lazy, and worst of all, stupid."
Which is exactly the strategy for making money off of AI. All you have to do is own it, thereby making it proprietary, or invest in it to a grab a share of the profits. No "innovation" beyond that is required.
White WOMEN are speaking up about DEI? That's actually nightmare level bad for the liberal left, pissing off that demographic. Interesting development.
Afa Ukraine, clearly reality is setting in. But I get the sense the conflict is kind of getting away from the west. There's a lot of "One hand not talking to the other." Macrón called for a potential all-out ground invasion in Ukr, about a week(?) Before Nuland resigned. Total bluff imo, but there's clearly chaos happening in the back rooms.
Whoever calls the game that is the US/NATO criminal syndicate attacking Russia (Clinton/Talbot/Nuland expand NATO up to Kiev) is not backing away from killing Slavs at good returns from the military industry complex.
Russia is agreeable to burn US dollars and weaken Kiev.
Time, and logistics is on Russia’s side.
While US government debt is climbing even with great Bidenomics.
The concerns over the violence and cruelty that are central to the establishment of any real-world regime recalls the embarrassment and unease we feel when contemplating our parents having sex. Regardless of our feelings, facts are facts.
The most liberal and well-ordered states have their origins in explicit violence. The English state was created by two critical acts of conquest: one by William of Normandy, the other by William of Orange. There is nothing to regret about this. The effluxion of time makes whatever pain or injustice that was involved with these events irrelevant.
The current obsession with origins that is sweeping the Anglophone world (1619 for America, 'settler-colonialism' etc) is less about improving present day conditions as it is about preparing a case for the legitimacy of a new, emerging, regime. For this reason alone we need to take the issue of origins very seriously indeed.
Would the conclusion of the first part of your essay be what the academic agent described as putting the woke away, eg a tactical but not a strategic retreat? Thank you 🙏
"The removal of Victoria Nudelman is the removal of a maximalist from the chessboard."
From the little that I know about this, it seems that hers was a "self-removal", not a "being removed"; and I would argue that her doing so was preemptive, preferring to position herself on -- at/near the head of -- the [Ukr/]Euro-Allied negotiating team, rather than as a member of the increasingly disinterested US/UK team.
The financial pressures against woke and DEI are generated by the need to compete in global markets. They reveal the dirty truth: both woke and DEI are exceptionally parochial phenomenon, unimaginable outside their origins in Anglo Yankee culture and the very specific redistributive culture of the racial spoils system as it evolved from Tammany Hall to Civil Rights and the post Cold War era.
Now that capitalism is very busy organising anew along planetary lines with supply chains constrained by various geopolitical fissures it is clear that both woke and DEI constitute impediments to collective achievement and routine profit. This does not mean an immediate end to either. It is way too soon for that, but it suggests that the turn America took under Obama was a reactionary and expensive digression. A course correction is beginning to emerge.
"The sun will end its life as a white dwarf - a dead star that has exhausted all the fuel that it's capable of burning. It will slowly cool and fade away to lower and lower temperatures." A further example of 'go woke, go broke'.
How could google fail is pretty obvious if you know anyone at Google. I do. I also know OG google employees from when it was less than 100 people. The latter were bona fide genius types. The former are sort of like self-regarding DMV employees who attend Yoga classes. That's what you get when you hire into what amounts to a lucrative public utility.
Consider their headcount over time:
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/number-of-employees
In 2010 when they were still relatively innovative: about 10,000 people. By 2019, still under 100,000 people. Consider that 2019 Google doesn't make money in any different ways than they did in 2010. Then they nearly doubled in headcount over the next few years. Still no innovations, no new profitable lines of business. What do you think those numskulls are doing besides inventing new pronouns?
FWIIW, Brave has a pretty good search engine; not as good in the long tail as it hasn't been around as long, but it was built with around a half dozen people.
Looking forward to Nudelwoman defenestration. I sort of wondered if she were responsible somehow for the recent signal intercept about the Crimean bridge.
Excellent post, particularly liked the parts re CF, and the establishment of political entities.