#133. Daddy is disappointed in you
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🧵Threads of the Week🧵
> Liberal father figure Jon Stewart finally returned from going out for cigarettes with a Daily Show appearance that was as condescending as ever, and not even funny. He recycled his former nemesis Dubya’s appeal to the price “freedom” (not for you and me, of course. For them).
> Google’s Gemini, another AI image creation tool, won’t depict minorities in a bad light, because that would be “unsafe” and “biased,” so if you want it to draw a black guy, you have to ask it to draw the Pope or a Swedish woman, because it applies a thick layer of ideology — an automatic diversity filter. This generates some fun results, like this strong independent black woman who don’t need no Fuhrer. This also works in the reverse. Meanwhile ChatGPT is smoking and sparking like a malfunctioning robot.
> The new regime strategy for punishing digital dissidence is to try you wherever you’re least likely to get a fair trial (as long as that place has internet access).
> Here’s Alan Keyes looking smarter than Obama, and a good thread about why Keyes never made it. I recollect Alan Keyes getting widely treated as a dumb kook, roughly like Herman Caine, even though Keyes was probably 10x smarter than that guy. Such is the default posture of libs toward conservative blacks.
> The left wins because it has the power of infinite kvetching.
> The male Karens are tired.
> A woman who moved here five years ago, who doesn’t have the right to vote, now serves on the SF Elections Commission. Have you had your fill of humiliation yet?
> There’s a lot of immigration happening right now, but what about Ellis Island? What about those filthy Italians and Irish with naught but a wooden barrel to wear around their otherwise naked bodies? There were a lot of immigrants then, too. But those immigrants were different, and our orientation toward them was different.
> Anon tells you everything you need to know to have a happy relationship, like molest your wife, be toxic, and most importantly: listen.
> The thing that drove me to a point of hilarity, which was compelled by a — I’m not gonna say what race, what people, uh, doctor. And what hospital and what media went to. We know I can’t say that…. … … It was a Kanye West.
😬Cringe Corner😬
> The Guardian’s “far right extremism reporter” Jason Wilson is tying Chris Rufo to “dissident right magazine that regularly showers praise on dictators and authoritarians, puffs racist idealogues, and attacks liberal democracy,”
. A revelation, considering that Chris wrote a bylined piece for them a while back. Nice work, Sherlock.🎥A/V of the Week🎥
> Sam Hyde has an urgent AI safety warning.
> Here’s another Bukele banger.
> Biden locks in.
> Blaze editor
appears on to discuss the absurdities of how Hollywood treats abortion, among many other things.🤓Dudley of the Week🤓
It’s me, Dudley, your editor in chief. I usually don’t post my own stuff here but this week I unleashed a number of bangers, if I may be so bold. If you’re not following the NRP on Twitter too, you are probably not gonna make it.
First, I had to bring the hammer down on Breakdancing Bitcoin Dad, and on the normalization of divorce, arguing that reversing this trend could be One Weird Trick to save the world, because:
I also argued that Jon Stewart is the literal, actual, Worst Person Alive, because he originated bitchy, condescending snark as the default mode for liberal political discourse, which trickled down to Gawker, and eventually all of media, and all of social life.
Also had to sneak in a quick dunk on the foids with too much free time.
📰Longreads of the Week📰
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on the dissident right’s inexorable transition into being perceived as “traitors” by their Western host nations.
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on what makes the Christian creation myth special.
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explains that the culture war is not a sideshow. It’s the main event. Culture provides a set of higher order rules and language that enable people to figure out how to live.
> Following that NYC salon, Catherine Sulpizio writes at
about Gone With the Wind.
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memorializes Navalny.
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is writing a serial memoir, it seems, and the writing is quite lovely.
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is thinking about how he will initiate his sons into adulthood.
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on taking the sacred seriously, with living Integralism.
> For the
, Ace covers the “Monarchy vs. Democracy” debate in Los Angeles between and .
> Pluribus’s
lays out his rather inspiring 3-step plan to provide insurance to dissidents and effectively end cancel culture.
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goes way deeper into Starship Troopers discourse than the links we shared earlier this week.
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indulges in crypto-right fanfic.
🐦Tweets of the Week🐦
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When I went to look at Gemini, I saw this:
"Your conversations are processed by human reviewers to improve the technologies powering Gemini Apps. Don’t enter anything you wouldn’t want reviewed or used. "
So when I type in "Bill Gates drives a candy van around a Caribbean island," I can expect to be sent to Thought Criminal Gulag in a perfectly efficient amount of time.
Imagine using a corporate AI image generator and not one of the many free and open source ones that exist out there.