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19 tweets from @47fucb4r8c69323 that Backscroll ranked for substance.

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-15 07:28Z

I don't know if this still exists in America, but like 20 years ago businesses would hire guys with signs to stand on corners and wave and twirl the signs around to get attention. If you think about it, the modern-day social media manager is just the digital equivalent of that

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-14 07:12Z

"notice that promotion of rapey behavioral norms drives off the competition by making the scene threatening for normal women who do not want to be aggressed upon, keeping the men single and paying for sexwork and coaching." I once listened with horror as a prostitute in Bangkok

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-14 02:59Z

Ironically, the only thing this does not and cannot apply to is creative writing. LLMs can replace just about all representational labor and semiotic production except human connection. Some people value human connection, and they always will, so, no, the clankers won't take

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-13 02:48Z

The psychologist Robin Hogarth had a theory about what he called “wicked learning environments”, where “rules may change, if there are rules at all; patterns don’t just repeat; feedback could be absent, delayed, or inaccurate; [and] all sorts of complicated human dynamics might

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-12 23:32Z

NVDA is now cheaper than it was 10 years ago looking at straight P/E, while FCF is just, well just look lmao

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-12 13:29Z

Bernard Williams speaks of the necessary objectification that happens in a teleological view: anything becomes an instrument towards the goal. This reminds me of the angst both Nietzsche and Fukuyama describe at an end point of history: the last man is content, but not

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-12 01:00Z

There is a somewhat well known anecdote in advertising, or at least this is what I heard at a conference long ago: At one point after founding Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page met with Les Moonves to discuss targeted advertising and how they could ensure much better targeting

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-11 03:22Z

Matt Levine on the last Money Stuff podcast is talking about ETFs like the Nancy Pelosi ETF as performance art. Once again, Silly Business Theory #SBT proves itself to be true.

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-10 05:55Z

Makes total sense; the more mass-appeal a piece of media, the more it'll look AI generated. "Slop" often just means too generic as well as vapid.

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-10 04:57Z

you can boil down Wittgenstein's therapeutic method to this: Philosophy is the dismantling of bullshit. Any supposed philosophy doing anything else is not philosophy. It is bullshit. This is why David Chalmers used to be a philosopher and is now a bullshitter.

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-09 11:27Z

Think of how we use the word naked as it relates to animals. A "naked cat" is a cat without its fur. So we cannot say that "naked" necessarily means without clothes on, as a cat with fur, like the emperor, has no clothes. Instead, we have to assert that "naked" means "skin

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-07 01:47Z

The biggest issue I have with the technological revolution being tied to California culture is the ghosting. Cali is a very cowardly place where you avoid awkwardness at all costs. So instead of a simple "we changed our minds" or "we're not interested", they just disappear.

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-06 11:50Z

There are higher order effects to this. If weird appears to get the money, strivers will affect weirdness even if they're not weird. And you'll see effects in the language, like "normal" will be used to mean undesirable in many cases and, if the trend last long enough, normal

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-05 20:15Z

I hate people, I am cynical, I am easily disgusted by others. But humanity is the only life form we know of that can find another species cute and be motivated by that to want to care for, provide, nurture and bring happiness to that creature. The cynic says this is unfair to https:// x.com/DanielleFong/s /DanielleFong/status/2073847647035965885 …

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-03 19:36Z

Poetry is manipulating natural language to produce an experience. Coding is manipulating natural language to produce an experience. Obviously the skills and temperament to be good in one are different than those required for the other. But understood as ways people use

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-03 12:00Z

One of the hard things to understand about Wittgenstein is that his view of logic deepened his faith in the metaphysical. By showing the boundaries of logic, he showed the necessary existence of that which is beyond the boundary of logic; and so, arguing any metaphysical point

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-03 03:57Z

I'm writing an article on this very topic as I develop my Silly Business Theory #SBT. Cultural capital, or the broader social capital, has always mattered more than financial capital. Consider how the sovereign of a nation can kick out its creditors, but the sovereign can only

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-06-26 02:35Z

If we look at the percent of unhoused homeless as a percent of the US total population, we see a shocking stability across time and our current homeless population is returning to the pre-Millennial dip of the 2010s. That makes me wonder if there is a kind of min-max

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-06-26 02:35Z

Look at how that green (teal? cyan? celes? edgar?) line at the bottom is flat as hell—so even in times of increasing total homelessness like post-pandemic, the people actually living rough on the streets is pretty consistent and has been for twenty years. There’s a bit of a drop

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