I can't get the phrase "tone deaf" out of my head:
AmEx "There's nothing like platinum"
https://youtu.be/KjYyG4FgmPQ?si=XukUoeky00YT_cs5
Battlefield 6 Trailer
https://youtu.be/LqWVp3p-FPk?si=VCbhrJ1xdZBRl3ba
Andrew Tate Car Collection
https://youtu.be/DDSlF3iI2-s?si=pGAzZJfUCjbXiTD7
Maybe it's just me. But these things all seem wildly outside the zeitgeist. And
that's in spite of my disgust, registered here, with people like Sabine
Hossenfelder for her blatant shift to the grift or Lex Fridman's
self-aggrandizing sycophancy (https://youtu.be/Z1Ua1hVRtdE?si=e5-SJeSPI11svpqV).
But I guess it's an obvious next step after the hustle culture we've forced
ourselves into. Success is measured by your accumulation of status symbols,
shame be damned. There are some glimmers, though. E.g.
ICE List
https://icelist.is/
The Reckoning
https://www.youtube.com/@PFthereckoning
DDoSecrets
https://ddosecrets.com/
The purpose, though, is not to decrement the status but to hone in on whatever
"accountability" might mean now. How can we, each of us, understand what it
means?
On 10/7/25 12:27 PM, Santafe wrote:
Yeah. Nice.
I just got back in the country a few days ago, and got to experience the
White-Nationalist ICE recruiting ads that I gather started fairly recently.
Like recruiting ads for war criminals, or those who hope for the chance to be.
I guess they are being run everywhere, as a quick google search shows local
news reports from a bunch of cities in many states.
The impressive thing is how belligerently, flamboyantly trashy it all is. It's
like, anything anybody ever considered low, degraded, or depraved, they
scent-roll in, just to binge on their ressentiment. If I were trying to think
of ways to mock somebody for being stupid and ugly, I would never have the
imagination to put together the scripts they use.
It almost feels superfluous to spend time thinking about how to deal with the
people in various offices, when they are ballasted by a sector of the public
that thinks this is what they have wanted for so long and can finally have.
Unless one could figure out how to rehabilitate that disease to any kind of
state of health, it’s very hard to see what, short of a heavy collapse that
just clobbers the whole country, will thump them hard enough to push them back
into whatever corner they came bursting out of, and let the rest of the public
get coordinated enough to re-establish some agency over how the country
operates. Not that the “rest of the public” knows what to do; the status quo
ante was the python squeeze that got us into this whole mess, and we can’t be
aspiring to go back to that. But something short of the whole country’s
pouring gasoline on itself and setting itself on fire would be nice.
I have thought, too, that americans are going to get to experience something
that many of my Russian friends have known most or all their lives: how do you
go about trying to be a good and decent person, in a country with a uniformly
bad government (corrupt, cynical, and murderous with no mitigating benevolences
toward anybody) that you don’t see work for yourself to change?
Eric
On Oct 7, 2025, at 14:48, glen <[email protected]> wrote:
https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fweval.org%2fanalysis%2fsycophancy-probe%2fad51e9a522f01e98%2f2025-09-04T17-50-49-741Z&c=E,1,RyTKGFwr1wjARn9k5vTd-WC-XLWBsqDCtuIl7B4-zdfEGde94UyemTKPbutU21Znk5UHrObUvCB4noUNqNJfjZgpEjXEqVt8KlXtEncB9g,,&typo=1
If only we could find the political will to amend the Constitution with
something like this. Or at least add it to Senate advice and consent.
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