Things I've Read that I like

so like. okay so like you have this online ecosystem where everyone's all fractured and algorithmically siloed into their little groups, right?? and the only contact they have with outsiders is through screenshots, meaning you're only ever seeing the stuff that's objectionable or funny enough to be screenshotted in the first place. and the people who rise to the rank of screenshot curator are the people who spend all day sniffing around the other camps for stuff to screenshot. so you have this epistemological chokepoint dictated by someone whose main hobby is sneaking around with a camera getting all up in someone else's business and making it into a public spectacle. and the easiest way to make it into a public spectacle is to make your audience scared and angry. and the easiest way to do that is to play on existing negative biases, like pushing an open door yknow?? so you have this dynamic that rewards prejudice and elevates it to a position of narrative authority. and the people who can do this the most effectively and consistently are the ones who have no qualms about stalking marginalised people and crafting narratives about how they're scary and evil. and you reeeaaally gotta question whether or not any of this is actually beneficial to anyone or if it's just doing to you what fox news did to your dad, yknow??

The thing about SCP stuff is like, if you have this many "anomalies" how anomalous are they really

Medieval SCP locking away naturally magnetic lodestone for it's anomalous properties.

besides the detached banality of their casual approach to cruelty, what comes out in the epstein emails is how profoundly stupid the elites all are. epstein, summers, thiel, bannon, businessmen and hedge fund managers are deeply, deeply stupid people, sending each other NYT op-ed articles to understand current events or a "hey check this out!!!" link to a wikipedia article, grasping at russia's moves after the crimea annexation with the profound thought of "europe's borders... have always changed," obsessed with IQ and scientific racism. the most sophisticated understanding comes from bloomberg subscriptions or junior analysts in some firm, not any of them. everyone in power is an evil clown fuelled by a lifestyle of zero consequences and zero accountability