Walter Kirn
@walterkirn
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It's real. I know business owners there. And this devastating style of governance continues almost unchecked across the country. It's a zombie march without thought or reality testing.
Around half of Seattle businesses report that are considering moving or shrinking, blaming a business environment that they say is getting worse and don’t believe it looks like it will get better, according to a survey from the Downtown Seattle Association and Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.
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This is what @walterkirn means when he says it's all a psyop.
I never said this. This is a Dolly Parton quote that I retweeted. Beware, if you use AI to do your research. Google Gemini is full of shit, and I’ve seen Grok lie too. I find it chilling.
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I drove a Full Self Driving Tesla for the first time a few weeks ago.
I was very impressed.
I'm not getting any better at driving myself and it seems there's hope.
This is such a great, common-sense idea. I remember Palmer Luckey talking about this a few years ago, wondering whether it could be done at a competitive price point, while a lot of people were like, “What for?”
Now Anduril and Qualcomm are actually doing it — rebuilding an American computer manufacturing capability and reducing our dependence on Chinese supply chains.
And they’re doing it with their own money. Bravo.
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I keep hearing this and I have trouble understanding it. In fact I don't understand it at all. But I want to.
Superabundance is coming soon.
Everyone will have more money than we know what to do with.
The Flock-style systems are in place. The thoughtcrimes have been defined. The COVID era precedents for controls on movement & commerce have been established. The willingness of many citizens to serve as voluntary lookouts & tipsters for officialdom has been demonstrated.
Ready?
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You would have to lack curiosity, I think, not to wonder what an extremely thoughtful and powerful man who is regularly accused of being a version of the Antichrist has to say about the Antichrist after giving much thought to the subject.
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For months, everyone has been talking about Peter Thiel’s secretive Antichrist lectures in Nashville. @gb_rango attended all four off-the-record lectures, held inside the historic Grand Lodge of Tennessee Free and Accepted Masons.
Now, with Thiel’s blessing: a comprehensive, firsthand reconstruction of his sprawling theory of the end times, from AI doomers and one-world government to the fate of America.
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Thanks for having me on, Scott Adams School. Always a pleasure.
Walter Kirn: Everything that happens before the election is a PSYOP.
KIRN: “Everything that happens, the polling, the rumors, the word of mouth, the social media posts, the trends, the little anecdotes that get repeated and go viral. Everything is subordinate to that election. And none of it is true in and of itself. It's all instrumental.”
“Not only don't I trust the polls, I do trust the polls. I trust them to be nudging people in all the ways that polls can for all the people who can pay for polls.”
“The news now is all about behavior modification. It's not about truth.”
For the next week, every poll or viral story you see, don't ask if it's true. Ask what it's trying to get you to do.
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Walter Kirn: Everything that happens before the election is a PSYOP.
KIRN: “Everything that happens, the polling, the rumors, the word of mouth, the social media posts, the trends, the little anecdotes that get repeated and go viral. Everything is subordinate to that election. And none of it is true in and of itself. It's all instrumental.”
“Not only don't I trust the polls, I do trust the polls. I trust them to be nudging people in all the ways that polls can for all the people who can pay for polls.”
“The news now is all about behavior modification. It's not about truth.”
For the next week, every poll or viral story you see, don't ask if it's true. Ask what it's trying to get you to do.
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Weber County man arrested after allegedly placing signage identifying license plate readers via @KSLcom
Not many kids want to grow up and work for a nationalized SpaceX with lunchtime struggle sessions and rockets that kinda work sometimes but don't get launched that often anyway, as the parts are needed for failing bullet trains linking Omaha to a town thirty six miles from Omaha.
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Did Flock Systems disappear? Or are we just moving on?
Clockwork Orange at scale
🚨 NEW: Respect Orders are now live across England and Wales
People who cause harassment, alarm or distress to others can receive bans from town centres, anger management courses or unlimited fines
Anyone who breaches an Order can be arrested and jailed for up to 2 years
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Just a reminder to everyone who's feeling they didn't get much done this month:
You survived the plague. Or at least the threat of the plague.
Don't be so hard on yourselves.
BREAKING:
5 hospitals have been closed for quarantines in Siberia due to a possible plague outbreak.
The 28-year-old lab technician Darya Shipilova, died yesterday after breaking a test tube with live Yersinia pestis the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute on September 25th while handling samples.
A mask mandate has now been introduced at the huge aluminum plant in Irkutsk.
Some U.S. politicians are now calling for commercial air travel to and from Russia to be stopped until the situation is clarified.
This first symptoms of pneumonic plague typically start about 4 to 7 days after exposure. 200 people are under observation.
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“Aldi is like Ross, but for food.”
—@walterkirn
Come on, honey. Bat Signal just went up. We have a city to save!
Bringing my SWAT team @amandafortini. Party might get wild.
Bringing my SWAT team @amandafortini. Party might get wild.
The reason to threaten Musk is to terrify anyone who would even think of opposing these people. If they can take out the world's richest man and our greatest contemporary industrialist, then just think what they can do to you and to the average Jane and Joe.
We must stop them.
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