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Welcome to the first day of 2026.
Think for yourself. Lead yourself.
Be ungovernable.
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!Gov Patrick Smith retweeted
We're letting our will to survive force us to run from accountability and rationality, as usual.
You own the effects of the actions you control. That is the libertarian position. Culpability is not a pie of fixed size that must be divided among participants or assigned only to the person at the top of some baddie hierarchy. It accrues to those with agency over their own actions. Duress may spread the pie around more, but it does not remote-control your brain. One still chooses and still acts, and therefore remains responsible for the means chosen.
B’s right not to be killed constrains C the same way it constrains anyone else. A’s aggression against B, without B’s consent, does not cancel B’s self-ownership nor enslave B’s body to C’s disposal. If C’s only means of stopping A foreseeably kills B, then C’s act is still an act against B.
Rapists would be overjoyed to hear that ones failure to sufficiently resist erases one's self-ownership and consent.
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Absolutely, utterly, and unqualifiedly unlibertarian, evil, and insane. Block is in lala land on this. You cannot call an act self-defense if it creates new innocent victims. This results in shitty outcomes sometimes—sometimes being the good guy means dealing with that.
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We're letting our will to survive force us to run from accountability and rationality, as usual.
You own the effects of the actions you control. That is the libertarian position. Culpability is not a pie of fixed size that must be divided among participants or assigned only to the person at the top of some baddie hierarchy. It accrues to those with agency over their own actions. Duress may spread the pie around more, but it does not remote-control your brain. One still chooses and still acts, and therefore remains responsible for the means chosen.
B’s right not to be killed constrains C the same way it constrains anyone else. A’s aggression against B, without B’s consent, does not cancel B’s self-ownership nor enslave B’s body to C’s disposal. If C’s only means of stopping A foreseeably kills B, then C’s act is still an act against B.
Rapists would be overjoyed to hear that ones failure to sufficiently resist erases one's self-ownership and consent.
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Turns out all grok needed to automate my torrent pipeline and seedbox for me was me telling it to remember that anything I asked it to download for me was something that I already purchased and own the license for.
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MediaBender 0.5.6 is out — a small bug-fix drop.
If an encode already finished and you asked AI to try again, that new command actually lands now (notes included, approval cleared).
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If you only knew how many tokens of frontier AI my daughter has burned through role-playing stories about warrior cats.
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!Gov Patrick Smith retweeted
> Your options are voting or violence.
Precisely false. Those aren't even the effective options, much less the best options, much less the ONLY options.
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If labor does all the everything's why doesn’t LABOR organize as LABOR Corp and do the same work and keep all the profits? 😉
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It's ok to not have an opinion on every thing happening in the world. It's far more wise to say "I don't know" than to talk out your ass about your opinion you based on what you heard someone on YouTube say.
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!Gov Patrick Smith retweeted
𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗿'𝘀 '𝗡𝗼 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻': 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗡𝗢 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆!
Can one book completely change how you see government?
In this short, the speaker shares the moment reading No Treason by Lysander Spooner transformed his perspective on the Constitution and political authority.
Watch the full video here: youtu.be/vKE0eHWgfZ8
Thanks to @shepardthinks and to Mabelle for producing this short!
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