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23 October 2025

• 10:5910:59, 23 October 2025 Stop Blaming The Commoner (hist | edit) [517 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Norms Stop blaming the commoner for having come under the influence of the oligarchs. Doesn't matter which side of the culture war you are on. Doesn't matter which side they're on. Doesn't matter if you're counterculture regarding the wedge issue in question. Don't blame the commoner for having been manipulated by oligarchs. Blame the oligarchs who are spending billions on distraction and division, who are directing their media empires to focus on wedge i...")

22 October 2025

• 16:3216:32, 22 October 2025 Boycott (hist | edit) [291 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Norms = Trouver = * https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/ ** Toothpaste: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1od2g36/yesterday_while_buying_a_toothpaste_i_spent/ ** Games: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1nv7cq0/mega_thread_best_european_games_for_long_autumn/")

21 October 2025

• 01:2301:23, 21 October 2025 Wall Street Cars (hist | edit) [1,436 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<blockquote> I don't see how it's wall streets fault that americans can't afford the cars. The manufactures are making vehicles based on 'what people want' Along with gov policies which drive development of vehicles. This has pushed pricing higher and higher. lets be real a lot of people don't need a full size f150 with all the bells and whistles.If more people pushed for afforadable sedans the avg car size and price may be cheaper. </blockquote>")
• 00:3900:39, 21 October 2025 Need Engineering (hist | edit) [2,254 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "I'm not sure "Need Engineering" is the right term for this, but it fits with "Avarice Engineering" as a thematic title, so let's start here. [Avarice Engineering] is how you get people to buy crap they don't need. Need engineering is how you keep people on the edge of desperation so they are afraid to revolt.") originally created as "Story:Need Engineering"
• 00:3000:30, 21 October 2025 Avarice Engineer (hist | edit) [2,726 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The strength I leaned on in my career was avarice engineering. I mostly worked for advertising, marketing, or retail companies. My job was to increase revenue. And I was on the leading edge of altering people's desires, algorithmically. At its core, it is simple. Look at every behavior you have seen from a person, quantify that data into an embedding - a list of floating point numbers, or vector of scalars - and based on that understanding of a person and how they react...") originally created as "Story:Avarice Engineer"

9 October 2025

• 21:2621:26, 9 October 2025 Last Alarm (hist | edit) [4,896 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Stories I intend for this to be my last alarm. I think this is as clear as it needs to be. We'll see if I can stick to that. After this, I hope to shift my focus to "how to prepare and how to guide." = Plenary Authority = * https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1o19z7o/that_awkward_moment_when_you_accidentally/ I have a copy of the original, unedited video. The transcript still has the "plenary authority" line, for now: https://transcripts....")

8 October 2025

• 14:3014:30, 8 October 2025 What Can I Do (hist | edit) [2,019 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Stories I see people ask "what can I do?" occasionally on the Internet. It is a question best seen as a sincere request for ideas. Some options: * **Leave:** I'm moving to France, denying them my skilled labor and their influence over my freedom of expression. It's hard. My people, my life; gone. Starting from scratch in my 50s. Do it anyway, unless it is impossible. * **Boycott:** Every purchase from an American company should make you stop and question i...")

5 October 2025

• 14:0714:07, 5 October 2025 They Thought They Were Free (hist | edit) [5,380 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Stories From "They thought they were free" "You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘g...")

1 October 2025

• 14:4414:44, 1 October 2025 Oil and Tech Oligarchy (hist | edit) [1,435 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Stories I was just imagining American tech oligarchy five years from now as a parallel to Russian oil oligarchy; including the extreme poverty and wealth inequality. To really take it to the limit, we'd need Russia-style propaganda to keep the people in line, extremely poor job prospects for the masses (to keep military recruitment up), a willingness to use force to suppress dissent, and a return to trauma-bonding in the military. Much like the world consumi...")

29 September 2025

• 13:0013:00, 29 September 2025 Clumsy Fascism (hist | edit) [3,853 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Stories Reference * https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ntbnjf/maga_terrorist_responsible_for_mormon_church/ * https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ntbnjf/maga_terrorist_responsible_for_mormon_church/ngsi0t3/ * https://old.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/comments/1nt6foq/ice_in_chicago_tries_to_disappear_a_food_delivery/ The thread about the Mormon church attacker got me thinking about the Chicago ICE yakkety sax routine chasing the delivery cyclist. "At...")

26 September 2025

• 01:4501:45, 26 September 2025 Example Norms (hist | edit) [2,010 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Norms = Good Norms = * People should participate in multiple social groups that are largely independent. This implies smaller social groups than "Reddit" or other mass social media. Participating in smaller groups ensures the possibility for socially transmitted ideas to grow without interference. Participating in multiple independent groups ensures that those ideas can germinate across groups and propagate to society overall. * Disenfranchised suspects sho...")

17 September 2025

• 19:1319:13, 17 September 2025 Academic Versus LLM (hist | edit) [598 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Stories A pure academic would make an excellent LLM: Consuming great volumes of knowledge and calling them forth in response to the right prompt, combined and restated with reference if desired, but lacking substantial processing in between. Imagine asking such a person, or LLM, "Is this study's method and conclusion valid?" They might reply by saying, "It's from Harvard Medical School," or, "Here are six other studies that reached similar conclusions." It...")

13 September 2025

• 16:1216:12, 13 September 2025 Social Media Mesh Network (hist | edit) [1,785 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Systems = Motive = == US To Suppress Mass Social Media == https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1nfyy6h/charlie_kirks_allies_warn_americans_mourn_him/ == PysOps / LLMs Infecting Mass Social Media == = Means = Instead of a giant open space that reaches everyone, operate it more like a mesh network with pods of people. * Pods being people who know each other IRL combats LLM infection. * Mesh network of overlapping pods allows propagation. * Mesh network...")
• 02:4902:49, 13 September 2025 Disgust (hist | edit) [514 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Stories The United States is such a fountain of wealth and power that it has become an inexorable attraction for the exploitative and conniving. This is not a new thing, every superpower breeds charlatans, a word that became common in the 1600s as France rose, money became looser, and swindling more profitable. Once a power becomes a superpower, then a corrupt superpower, there is a temptation to remain and feed on the tainted roots of power. Those who re...")

12 September 2025

• 14:5514:55, 12 September 2025 American Nobility (hist | edit) [540 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Stories The American Nobility commemorative series elevates those who most perfectly capture the American ideals. see: Discharge_Petition Ballmer: For his demonstration of optimizing around a regulatory problem with Kawhi Leonard, and for engaging the media to present his side more fairly than any other. Musk: For the boldness, brashness, and whimpering fragility that exemplify the American nobility. Thiel: For unironically asserting that not only do...")
• 14:1814:18, 12 September 2025 Discharge Petition (hist | edit) [2,371 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Stories = B = The "discharge" means "discharge from committee" - so if there's a bill in committee that they have not brought to the floor, a discharge petition takes it out of the committee's control and brings it to the floor. I suspect right now it is simply not getting a vote in committee; it has been tabled. But I don't know what happens if the committee votes it down and the discharge petition only has 217 votes. That might be the end of it. When an...")
• 12:0312:03, 12 September 2025 Thirty-Seven Percent (hist | edit) [1,313 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In the US, 37% of people, supposedly, believe that vaccines for dogs pose a risk of causing cognitive issues for dogs such as dog autism. In the US, something like 37% of people support Trump. But 37% of people aren't Charlie Kirk. A couple percent are Charlie Kirk, and a couple percent of those get celebrated by Charlie Kirk's, and a couple percent of those get famous. And a couple percent are this guy (https://old.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/1ndjsea/im_no...")

9 September 2025

• 12:2512:25, 9 September 2025 Élephante (hist | edit) [4,335 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Stories I'm going to lunch today at Élephante Scottsdale, which serves southern Italian cuisine. For some, that sentence gives the entire story. I will enjoy recounting it to gales of laughter in my next life in France. An affluent friend, a gifted and harmed philosopher, is in town during my last months in The Valley of The Sun. I am eagerly anticipating meeting his wife, whom circumstance has prevented me from knowing until today. I do not wish to cast...")

8 September 2025

• 15:1715:17, 8 September 2025 Category:Norms (hist | edit) [3,784 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "= Overview = The amygdala has the hard-coded genetic stuff, and the cortex handles the "think it through" stuff. In between is a layer where trained experience can be stored and give canned responses to pattern matched stimuli. Rules like, "Don't put that in your mouth, it's dirty," or, "Don't say the N-word." It mostly comes from repeated exposure, with some degree of cortex-level analysis before adoption. The cortex can and does override norm-based "quick responses,"...") originally created as "Norms"

3 September 2025

• 22:2722:27, 3 September 2025 Pre Iteration (hist | edit) [4,246 bytes] RobertBushman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "= Introduction = == I Hear It Was Charged Against Me == I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions, But really I am neither for nor against institutions, (What indeed have I in common with them? or what with the destruction of them?) Only I will establish in the Mannahatta and in every city of these States inland and seaboard, And in the fields and woods, and above every keel little or large hat dents the water, Without edifices or rules or tr...")