Fork America.

The matrix:

can we fork America?

Like, some people can be citizens of 2020 America, and some can be citizens of America Classic? https://t.co/L72QSscZPL

— Welcome To The Oort (@ClarkHat) March 23, 2017

Democracy dies in darkness.

— This magnificent prophecy now stands just below the masthead of The Washington Post.

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… provide resources from space, to grow businesses in space … (DSI)

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Democracy is slow-motion fascism.

(Via.)

A more suitable name for "the Cathedral" would be "the Circus".

— Richard Costa (@RichCosta) April 25, 2015

(I’m almost convinced …)

Attending the #HRx flotation comes this gem:

@Outsideness "The tech-comms will sell us the movement from which we'll purge them."

— scientism (@mr_scientism) April 5, 2015

Eric Raymond on the spontaneous response to Silicon Valleys SJWs:

Shut up and show us the code.

And if the answer is “Justice!”, then our reply has to be this: The code is its own justice. No compiler or network stack or 3-D printer gives a crap about the shape of your genitals or the color of your skin, and hackers as a culture don’t either.

Close to the core of the tech-comm mind-set, no? (Via.)

Succinct perfection from Fernandez:

The only socialist form of self-correction is apparently collapse.

ADDED: Glenn Reynolds being silly — “[Mancur] Olson wrote that — as with the German and Japanese booms after World War II — it takes a major calamity, such as a war or a revolution, to cut through that web and allow economic growth to take off again. I’ve argued in the past that massive democratic change — a ‘wave’ election — might accomplish the same end.”

ADDED: Collapse candidate No.1

Nothing lasts forever

Stolen immediately from T-Zip, this kind of crypto-nihilistic word game has an archaic classical pedigree, is (weakly) anticipated in the Odyssey, became an obsession among the Elizabethans, and contributed the engine of Heideggerian fundamental ontology. It still guides the Outside in reading of Milton, and no doubt much else besides. It hides a gnostic-skeptical metaphysics within a commonplace resignation. Zero, time, and camouflage are bonded in chaos. Make of it what you will …

ADDED: “The Austrian theory of the business cycle has never been a radical premise. It only stipulates that any workaround of the natural cycle of economic growth must come with ensuing costs. It’s a simple law: you can’t get something for nothing. A majority of economists believe the opposite. In other words, they believe in magic.”

Separation is Creation

(The imperative version is Split!)

A little background:

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