Some people were making me mad on the internet so I wrote a blog post about it. On the different reasons for people have for being left wing and how people manage the psychological tensions of the fact that they come apart. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

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Yeah that's explicitly banned by the US Constitution, and for good reason. You wanna triple down on being a banana republic, you do that by passing bills of attainder.

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The Golden Shares became a thing because Larry and Sergei feared facing the same fate of getting kicked out of their own company that happened to Steve Jobs. Everyone overlooks the fact that it was the essential factor in his later success, therefore most beneficial to the man and society.

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Anthropic found the origin of the NIST elliptic curve seeds: they were generated with drand48()! No one was seriously worried, but this should put some FUD to rest, completing the NIST ECC rehabilitation arc… just in time to be retired in favor of PQ. Also, we raised $36 Ki for ISRG. Yay!

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typically, the primary condition of winning a war is that the enemy doesn't get a vote

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