In it for the tech... MTG #premodern purist
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Just going to start a thread for my premodern deck land alters I've been having fun with. Inspired by some foil peel alters originally, but really don't enjoy foils that much. Then stumbled across a few Japanese mtg players doing non foil and then found @skyfolkmtg who inspired
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It's because the game is complete.
I've said it before and I'll reiterate it once more:
When a new game comes out, you all rush to play and figure out the blueprint/what works best.
A.K.A. know the META.
EVERYTHING in crypto is known now.
The "fun" part was learning something NEW by yourself via trial and error and gaining edge/alpha, whatever you wanna call it.
Now you have kids who were playing Fortnite jumping "into the trenches" and knowing exactly how to rape everyone with tutorials left and right.
Within a week they can win.
EVERYTHING is overly saturated.
And unfortunately, most are outperforming "OG" traders because OGs won't sacrifice their ethics for a quick buck.
So as OGs go extinct, the newer folks demonstrate their raping skills and consequently, everyone compares to that.
It's no longer about investing in crypto to "make it" - as it used to be.
It's about who can extract the fastest and hardest.
That's why there's this weird time sink, where most people feel like either their losses are going towards morons undeserving of their wins OR they've been here "too long" to not be above certain retards [i.e.: mentally inept Fortnite scrubs].
It's over for Crypto Twitter.
~ Dr. Axius.
i've been trying to figure out why the 2026 drawdown feels so much more personal than 2018/2022 even though it’s not nearly as bad price wise. my take:
a lot of people on here have decided there's now a clock running. ai is coming, the door to escaping the middle class is closing, and if you haven't made it in the next couple years you're on ubi as a pleb forever.
i don't know if that's true. but it doesn't matter if it's true. people here believe it, so they're putting a deadline on themselves and when the market doesn't cooperate on that timeline it feels like they’re missing the last train out of a burning town rather than “just a bad few months but we can recover”
this also explains retails pivot to memes as a “fast track” to making it.
add instagram to the mix. 22 year olds in mansions and lambos all over your feed, most of them you suspect got there by rugging people like you.
envy is one of the strongest emotions there is, and envy plus a ticking clock is my guess to why we are seeing crash outs instead of just "this cycle sucks but we’re all in this together bros”
it truly is diff now
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These are the positions I hold that actually affect who I vote for
- Fuck you, don't touch my guns
- Fuck you, stop protecting pedophiles
- Fuck you, stop letting in terrorists
- Fuck you, stop alienating young white men in order to create the violent extremists you claim to fear
- Fuck you, stop censoring my speech
- Fuck you, stop engineering mass shootings
- Fuck you all for the rest of your lives for everything related to COVID
- Fuck you, stop releasing habitual violent felons
- Fuck you, stop refusing to prosecute interracial crime in cities as a form of segregation in order to more effectively maintain your partisan vice grip on the black vote
- Fuck you, don't kneecap our AI progress
- Fuck you, stop collaborating with China
- Fuck you, don't exclude me from the job market based on my race and gender
- Fuck you, stop hiring H1-Bs
- Fuck you, stop giving my money to african pirates
- Fuck you, stop giving my money to Israel
- Fuck you, stop giving my money to Ukraine
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NO NEW HUMANS
Best contraceptive ever built: a screen in your hand.
Put the phone down. Throw the condoms out. Go fuck.
No new humans, no humanity.
a Claudia music video.
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This but Victorian
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
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Predictions:
- Infinity Migrants
- Crime Legalized (Except for White People)
- $5000 Tax Stamps
- Nick Shirley Put Into An Iron Maiden
- Still No Epstein Prosecutions, Obviously
