Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[Higgenbotham]

A dissipative system, as is a human civilization, has really two stages; to grow or to collapse. Nature doesn't really do steady-state, it is an ever evolving equilibrium, and growth is how to stay on top of this always evolving equilibrium.

And reason allowed us to grow way out of balance.

We can't "reason" ourselves out of the imperative to grow because we need that growth to sustain all previous human advances that are currently embedded in our systems. Growth sustains.

So yeah, some of us do know that we're racing for collapse. And that what will make us collapse are the efforts we are making to not be currently collapsing.

There is simply no way out of this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comme ... t/m8200bh/

This idea is implicit within some of what is posted here. It's how far you are from steady state that will determine the nature of the collapse, in my opinion. When I drew the red line, it should have terminated below the black line.

My guess as to what the Central Bankers have accomplished is to move the path of the black line to be more like the path of the red line.

[tim]

https://www.malone.news/p/inauguration- ... m-mindwalk

And then the real bombshell landed this morning.

Presidential pardons for Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and the January 6 commission members. The implications are stunning, far-reaching, and only beginning to be appreciated. At a minimum, the findings of the “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government” of the US House of Representatives are not only validated, but they may have been too cautious.

If this “Last Minute Preemptive Pardon” Biden administration action withstands legal tests, we have established the legal basis for a rotating, permanently lawless executive branch. The President can direct not only his private CIA army to act in a lawless and unaccountable fashion offshore, but also virtually anyone under his administration can circumvent the law with impunity. This will completely undermine the tattered case that the United States is a nation committed to the rule of law. The corruption of the concept of “American Exceptionalism” will be complete. This will establish a “new normal” for the world- Administrative Lawlessness. And will confirm the weaponized accusations of our global adversaries. I cannot understate the international damage that will be done if this is allowed to stand.

And now Joe Biden (or Jill Biden?) is preemptively pardoning the members of the Biden crime family. USA has officially gone full banana republic. According to the BBC:

11:43 BREAKING

"Biden pardons family members in final moments as president”

Joe Biden has just issued a pardon for members of his family in his last moments as president.

"My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me—the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end," he said in a statement.

"That is why I am exercising my power under the Constitution to pardon James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden."

Biden has preemptively pardoned his family members as his final criminal act as President. Unprecedented. In terms of lawlessness, Biden and his administration embodies all that they accused Trump and MAGA of being.

How will we ever restore the rule of law? How will we restore the primacy of the US Constitution? Murray Rothbard must either be rolling in his grave or smirking from on high, completely validated.

If these preemptive pardons are allowed to stand, it will forever change this republic. We will no longer be a nation of laws. There will be laws for the little people, and lawlessness for predatory political and corporate classes. Mexico and its criminal cartel culture come to mind.

[aeden]

They are indeed leaving easter island b every minute from the fools on the hill.
Easter island b has indeed shown what happens to those who are a product liabilty
and maximum ruin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FFLp_w6kH8
We are inceasing production also.
See the world spinning around.

[vincecate]

This new Deepseek-r1 LLM model is amazing. It is as good as the best proprietary models out there but it is free and open source.
Running it takes far less compute power than equivalent models (maybe a factor of 30 less).
I can run it on my computer with a 96 core threadripper CPU, without using the GPU, and the output is faster than my normal reading speed. It was trained for around $5 million by Deepseek, a Chinese quant/trading company with older GPUs.

You can play with it free online at: https://chat.deepseek.com/

Up till this past week the narrative was that the US companies were way ahead of the world in AI and that only the Mag-7 can afford the $500 billion worth of Nvidia GPUs type numbers that are needed to train the next top level models.
It now seems people are realizing this is not true.

There is a real chance that Nvidia and the rest of the Mag-7 have a stock price collapse triggered by this Deepseek-r1 release.

Maybe.

[aedens]

Water intensive industries need to rethink their strategies for infrastructure as the study's findings in the report.
One of the implementations undone will be felt for decades as they never had a clue to what it could have been done.
Today is my last day in this area and on a path that will cost them double and as we trend more than maybe
when it bites and it will.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl5728

It was said this Administration is trashing US standing, alliances with scores of countries built over half a century.

Bullshit as you can loot your other friends who did just what we expected, and you will and did ignore.
The rest of you assholes as private institutions that hire professors who support and are US-designated terror organizations
will not be eligible for federal funding since lie cheat steal burn loot murder reaps what it has sown.
The Office may look at you in some years since your village idiots and useful idiots can now enjoy your normalization.

You can keep the cuffs.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9b7K1D2z74

[Higgenbotham]

What the global elite reveal to Davos sex workers: High-class escort spills the beans on what happens behind closed doors - and how wealthy 'know the world is doomed, so may as well go out with a bang'

By MIRIAM KUEPPER
01:56 23 Jan 2025, updated 07:58 23 Jan 2025

A high-class escort has spilled the beans on what happens behind closed doors in Davos during the World Economic Forum, including what the wealthy think really will happen to the world in the near future.

Salome Balthus, 40, is a high-end escort and author from Berlin who has travelled to Davos, Switzerland, to meet up with clients during the annual gathering of the global elite.

Salome revealed to MailOnline what she has learned about the global elite - and for many it is that they are doom-mongering about the fate of the world... so they've decided to enjoy it while it lasts.

Convinced that a climate change apocalypse is upon us they shamelessly spend their vast wealth on expensive escorts in Switzerland... which they fly to in their environmentally-unfriendly private jets.

'The elephant in the room is climate change. Everyone knows it can't be prevented any more,' she said, adding that the 'super rich' could generally be split into two groups on the topic.

'The one group thinks it only affects the poor, the "not-white race", while the others fear that it could get worse but there's no sense in trying to do anything about it so they just enjoy themselves,' she told MailOnline.

'The one half is in despair and the other, dumber, half is celebrating future mass deaths. It's not just like that in Davos of course, but it's concentrated there [during the WEF].'

Salome elaborated that some of the uber wealthy people fitting into the first group were saying that those in third world countries 'might all die but us in the North, we're fine'.

She said: 'They say that in a democracy you have to sell it, to lie to people and tell them "we didn't know better and didn't think it would get this bad", not admitting that they know.

'Then there's the other group that thinks it might not be so easy, maybe it will also affect us due to unforeseeable chain reactions.

'But they say they can't do anything against the others so they live following the mantra "after us, the deluge".

'They say they will enjoy a few more nice years on earth and know that there's no future. They are very cynical and somehow deeply sad.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... beans.html

[aeden]

march sweeps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Js7wUKHO48

[aeden]

usual suspects
https://wccftech.com/chinese-ai-lab-dee ... ys-ai-ceo/

[Higgenbotham]

1:05
MAGA, you see the tech Bros of Silicon
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Valley, believe that the American Empire
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is on the verge of collapse. Silicon
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Valley wants to speed this up but use
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the coming Administration to create safe
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landing zones for them and their cash
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where they can also run their own
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governments.

I'm not speculating. These
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men say it they say it on podcasts and
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at conferences and in interviews and in
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blog posts. Some are quiet some are very
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very loud but they all are on board.

Peter Thiel:

And
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I think that if we want to increase
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Freedom we want to increase the number
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of countries.

Marc Andreesen:

If you want to replace the
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elite that you have today what you need
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to do is you need to have a better elite
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and there's a way to do this it's been
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done before."

What I mean by
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Silicon Valley's ultimate exit it
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basically means build an opt-in Society
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ultimately outside the US run by
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technology and this is actually where
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the Valley is going.

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The idea actually comes from someone
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named Curtis Yarvin in Patchwork. Yarvin
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wrote the basic idea of Patchwork is
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that as the crappy governments we
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inherited from history are smashed they
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should be replaced by a global spiderweb
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of tens even hundreds of thousands of
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sovereign and independent mini countries
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each governed by its own joint stock
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Corporation without regard to the
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resident opinions.

https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no

DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America
58,436 views Nov 13, 2024

The tech billionaires, as she refers to them, are on the right track in this respect:

How about regular white people in America and Europe trying to survive after a collapse? Wouldn't ethno-states be a necessity?

I'm not sure whether they would be a necessity but they might be. I would answer that this way. An extreme example of an ethno-state would be the Sentinilese, which is a tribe that has lived on an island off the coast of India virtually unchanged for 60,000 years. The Indian government has said these people have a right to exist and should be left completely alone by the outside world. I don't know what race they are but they are very dark skinned. If you were to ask the typical US liberal whether this is good policy they would probably say, "Of course, this promotes diversity!" On the other hand, if you were to ask these same liberals whether Iceland, which is also an island, and is very nearly all white and the only comparable white enclave in the world that I can think of, whether Iceland should ban immigration they would probably say, "Of course not, this is racist!" How is that any different? What I am describing here is what diversity is. Diversity means encouraging the widest possible variety of subgroups so as to increase the chances of survival. What the Indian government is doing with the Sentinilese is good policy because in the event of a catastrophic change in the environment, it increases the chances that the human race will survive in some form.

Likewise, encouraging the diversity of subgroups in the US would be a good thing. It would increase resilience. It would provide test cases for what works and what doesn't. I recently read about some African Americans from Atlanta who decided to buy some land and form their own community which, I'm assuming, would exclude whites. This is not racism; it is what diversity is. Diversity is not cramming a bunch of different people into one space. It is a group of people making a determination of what would be in their best interests and exercising the freedom to do that. It may be a good idea or a bad idea. If it's a bad idea, it will fail or be less successful than some other idea. It may fail due to bad governance. I say let the market prove it out and for The 97th Percentile to stop telling people what's good or bad. The technology exists to do this and it should be encouraged. Of course, that would also include diverse groups that don't pertain to race.

What shouldn't happen, though, is that the tech billionaires grab the best resources and in doing so crowd out every other potentially viable, legitimate type of subgroup.

[Higgenbotham]

Patchwork: A Political System for the 21st Century
Chapter 1: A Positive Vision
MENCIUS MOLDBUG · NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The basic idea of Patchwork is that, as the crappy governments we inherited from history are smashed, they should be replaced by a global spiderweb of tens, even hundreds, of thousands of sovereign and independent mini-countries, each governed by its own joint-stock corporation without regard to the residents’ opinions. If residents don’t like their government, they can and should move. The design is all “exit,” no “voice.”

(I’m not aware of any specific writer that has proposed exactly this, but it is certainly not an original or interesting idea in and of itself. I’ve certainly read about six zillion science-fiction books in which this is the general state of the future. The devil, however, is in the details. We will go into the details.)

The essential inspiration for Patchwork is the observation that the periods in which human civilization has flowered are the periods in which it has been most politically divided. Ancient Greece, medieval Italy, Europe until 1914, China in the Spring and Autumn Period, and so on. Burckhardt once observed that Europe was safe so long as she was not unified, and now that she is we can see exactly what he meant.

Small is good. Local is good. Different is good.

https://www.unqualified-reservations.or ... on-part-1/