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Tweet Anthology
This is an anthology of my tweets from Sep to Dec 2016.
When one of my tweets is actually a reply to another tweet, which content is needed for a good understanding, the preceding tweet is in italics. I name the author when this is relevant, either because the person is known or the source is another media. My tweet then follows below it.
Don’t be surprised, if you count characters, to see that some of the tweets are longer than the 140 characters allowed on Twitter: I have rewritten a few of them in accordance to standard spelling (no abbreviations left). And some others are compounded.
September 2016
Automated jobs aren’t coming back. What’s going to take their place?
A leisure shock… and some won’t survive it.
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Leisure Shrine. From oil rent to robot rent: A new economic strategy for Gulf States to prevent toil shock.
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Most absurd: Corporate bureaucracies on social networks, rigidly unilateral, pretending to be interactive.
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Looks like humanities majors are the college grads taking the “non-college” jobs.
Yet companies are STILL interested in recruiting humanities majors. (They’ve been saying that for the last 50 years.)
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Adidas releases images of the shoes that will be made in its super automated “speedfactory.”
The end of China’s ascent?
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Automating the Gulf: “Robots are no Shiites, alhamdulillah.”
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Hawking: “AI could spell end of human race.” Oscar Wilde: “The only thing one really knows about human nature is that it changes.”
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Heard that, Trump supporters: Donald wants America to look more like Dubai.
The only interesting idea in this campaign trail so far.
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Brexit. Self-fulfilling prophecies & self-filled prophets. Vide Dali, Young virgin auto-sodomized by the horns of her own chastity.
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JASTA. Just Another Stupid Thing from America.
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Chancellor Cantor on @Rutgers_Newark students: “I’m spending my time with the future of this country and this world.”
Escapist!
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JASTA aka jestA, Just Another Silly Thingummy from America.
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JASTA. Brotha, when you take commercial airplanes in your face, you should know it’s no time for jasting.
October 2016
Everyone should do what they can to insure Hillary’s win. Any disagreements are pale compared to the alternative. (Dr David S. Wilson)
What happens to the grades of those of your students who do not dislike Trump, I wonder… Regards.
Stupid innuendo based on no information. Can you stoop any lower?
Based on elementary psychology.
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Trumpbashing. Scholars in election fuss: Students taken hostages.
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Job outsourcing by multinationals. Everybody knows… but nobody knows who.
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John Podesta made a characteristically bourgeois jab at Assange (‘’I bet the lobster risotto is better than the food at the Ecuadorian Embassy.’’)
Derogatory comments on Ecuadorian cuisine are odious hate speech.
After election: How does the risotto taste now, John Podesta?
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Clinton Foundation extorts $1m from Qatar for being a military dwarf.
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It reminds me of the comments before Brexit. They all “knew”… Such experts… Are they friends of yours?
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To all commentators of American elections: Are Brexit commentators friends of yours?
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To the brainwashed: Vote Hillary Clinton.
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Please support the “Preserve Endangered Saudi Way of Life” campaign.
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From Brexit to Election 2016. To those who see Donald Trump as dead man walking: Don’t tell me Brexit commentators are your mentors!
Brexit has proved intelligentsia is moron-entsia. They fail to deliver.
“It won’t pass” was the word until the very morning of June 24. To a man. Do you realize?
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After Brexit the word was “UK’s economy will crash.” To a man. And now: Two banks cancel Brexit recession forecasts (Financial Times).
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To the brainwashed: Vote Hillary Clinton.
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Experts as Failures: From Brexit to Election 2016. [That was before the results and it has turned true, hasn’t it?]
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“My dream is a hemispheric common market.” (Hillary Clinton) Does it include Russia?
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A reminder to the brainwashed: Vote Hillary Clinton.
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Brexit is a shame… upon “analysts” – who saw nothing coming and now keep silent about their resounding failure. Next: Election 2016.
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No To Show Girls.
Saudi Arabia spearheads movement against commercial exploitation of women. Thumb up.
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People who bet are losers to begin with. As a meritocrat you should know that [to Dr Erik Brynjolfson, who regularly gave his followers the odds of Trump winning Election 2016. If I remember well, Trump’s odds never rose above 20 or 25 per cent.] What is the merit of making one’s fortune on a bet, that is, on luck?
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Audience in Charlotte gives Trump a standing ovation when he says if companies like Ford ship out jobs, he’d pick up phone.
The way for Donald Trump to really know about such moves as president is to adopt Senator Gary Peters’s outsourcing accountability bill. [For more on that bill, see here.]
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Hollywood has eyes for Snowden only. Not for Julian Assange. Any idea why?
November 2016
Watch Donna Brazile’s remake of the Bloods vs the Cribs. She’s one of the Cribs.
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Clinton Foundation extorts $28m from Morocco for being a military dwarf.
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Funniest b-movie ever: Dr Clinton and Mrs Riggs.
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Doonald (دونالد) like Doonald from MakDoonaldz (ماكدونالدز).
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Is media buzz on Twitter’s financial situation a concerted operation against Wikileaks, shying people away from leaks exposure?
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I suggest Clinton Foundation may benefit privately from the American military shield to these countries [Qatar, Morocco, &c].
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If these polls are based on interviews, given media Trump-bashing many people must be reluctant to say they will vote for Trump. But they will. [And they did.]
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Californians, we have to stand up and protect our plastic bag ban. Vote Yes on 67! (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nov 7)
Presidential elections are so boring!
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Many say they want to go to Canada. Let them spend one winter there. They will come back, or live on their yachts like sea vagrants.
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Obama’s Kill List
They had a man on their kill list, sent a drone attacking his car, the man was not alone in the car, they all died. The kill list means the man on the list plus any person taking a ride with him (even hitchers). So let us know the people on the kill list, so we can save our lives.
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HRC got 89% of Black vote, 71% of Jewish vote, 63% of Hispanic vote, 55% of Asian vote, 40% of White vote (including Jewish vote).
Don’t forget historic volumes of dead, ineligible, & duplicate votes… Clinton won a 100% of those!
May the dead rest in peace now.
Given 1/20 Jews (and some Arabs) among Whites in U.S., this 40% White vote makes a maximum of 36.5% “Wasp” vote for HRC.
At about 65% for Trump, Wasp vote (although that includes Catholics and others) is clearly becoming communautarist in U.S.
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Last December, Boris Johnson said, “The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.” (Richard Dawkins)
Why, he goes to the same places as a billionaire!
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Big Brother Julian is watching you. Don’t mess around with the future for the sake of present vested interests.
Big Brother Julian is watching you. Anything to hide? Don’t even think of it.
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As Trump Leaves Press Behind for Steak Dinner …the press that vilified him whines.
Don’t go out for a steak without throwing bones to journalists.
Donald Trump prefers his steak well down AKA the worst possible way. (The Huffington Post)
And how do you like the bones, journalists?
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Thank you for coming to see us! We hope you enjoyed your visit as much as we enjoyed showing your our new museum galleries, Arnold Schwarzenegger! (Richard Nixon Library)
I always hated that the justice warriors of those days called themselves Deep Throat, boasting their equities in porn.
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Politico Editor RESIGNS After Publishing Home Addresses Of Alt-Right Icon R. Spencer, Advocating For ‘Baseball Bats.’ (Kevin MacDonald)
He’s got baseball bats in the belfry.
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To Richard Dawkins: The reason U.S. is so strong in science is the freedom the people there have to not believe in it.
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As about all other media were sycophants for the other candidate, Wikileaks is part of checks and balances. Make no mistake, what’s “wrong” with Wikileaks is not that it advanced the fortunes of one candidate, but of the wrong one. Wikileaks should acknowledge that it did its best to undermine HRC’s candidacy. And that it worked mighty well.
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Montebourg as minister wanted to induce companies to re-localize in France with subsidies to automatize. Re-localizing is not necessarily about jobs, it can be about productivity.
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Meet Lakshmi, the banking robot from Chennai.
We now know banking can be made by robots. The sooner robots replace bankers the better. My heartfelt thanks to Lakshmi! [Joking, of course: Lakshmi only replies to customers’s queries at your local branch. And yet…]
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Israel’s ‘Helicopter #Drone Gift’ to #Russia makes USA uneasy. Fearing exposing of its technology, USA demands explanation from Israel. (Newscast Pratashya)
Explanation may be the drone was U.S.’s gift to Israel to begin with, so USA might as well demand explanations to themselves.
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We cannot afford to lose the war on poverty.
We’ve afforded it all right for the last couple of million years.
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‘Meme’ is a useless word (see Randy Thornhill). Or it only means: a word as its occurrence is quantified on WWW.
December 2016
I published classic poetry and threw my free-verse poetry & now I am appalled because I may have been successful with the latter.
I wouldn’t have minded success from my free-verse poetry… but I burnt it all… for the sake of what I would call an ideology of classicism.
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I wish the Chinese had taken my job away.
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“Dutch Disease”: When oil/gas abounds, manufacture declines. People just hate working. Robotics is like oil: a ‘Dutch disease.’ & contrary to oil it is here to stay.
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Merkel says ‘only right’ to expect multinationals to pay taxes. (Saudi Gazette)
It’s more common to give them tax breaks so they invest in your country. What can Merkel do about that? Nuffin, poor thing.
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There are 3.5 million cashier jobs in the United States.
And many of these cashiers are discourteous, whereas machines are always polite. There’s an issue with manners & eye-rolling. The solution: Machines.
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Civil servants are human “expert systems.” We don’t need them anymore.
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Retweet if you think Gen. Mattis must keep his bags under the eyes and not have them removed them surgically like so many others. He’s got the bags under the eyes for the job.
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BMW’s current campaign is about “driving pleasure,” but it’s soon over. With the ascent of self-driving cars we won’t let people drive, it’s too dangerous. Self-driving cars will put an end to traffic death toll, on the proviso that men stop driving altogether.
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Yesterday they were saying: “POTUS Obama is the account with most followers on Twitter.” Today they say: “What the heck is that President who thinks like tweeting!”
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How does he have time for a radio show, golf, touring AND doing all these interviews?! Heck, we’re not complaining! (Nights with Alice [”Top-notch classic rock radio show hosted by THE Alice Cooper”])
Golf is decadent. [Through all his career, Alice Cooper was called by some a decadent. Now he is playing golf, that was overlooking the one-man moral lobby that I am, for which it is golf that is decadent.]
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Tourists disappointed as strike closes Eiffel Tower for second day.
French office of tourism has issued an apology: “To all kind foreigners who are visiting us: Pucker up, you can kiss my a**’’
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Mexico uncovers tunnels leading to US. (Bangkok Post)
This is a reminder for Donald Trump to build the wall, all right, but deep enough. And I mean real deep, like you can’t go deeper without being dipped in the melted core of the earth. After that, to detect illegals, check if they’ve got bottoms like baboons’.
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Are we talking about the same cyberattack where it was revealed that head of the DNC illegally gave Hillary the questions to the debate? (Donald Trump)
Donna Brazile was the cheating crib. At school they told me cribs are bad. I wish I’d never listened to them, I’d be candidate to U.S. elections by now.
XXXI Money & Size (The Science of Sex IV)
“Even in contemporary Western society high-income men have more biological children than low-income men, whereas among women the opposite is true (Hopcroft 2005; Nettle and Pollock 2008).” (Buunk, Pollet, Dijkstra & Massar, in Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences, ed. G. Saad, 2011).
The rich man is free-riding on the poor. He is married to one woman (at a time), have one or two children with her, his legal children, who receive all their parent’s care and support as they grow up, but that man is also a cryptic impregnator of many other women, of whom the society recognizes no bond with him. The statement above, highlighting the difference between high-income men and women and the difference between low-income women and men, could not hold true otherwise.
It is talked time and again, in our contemporary Western society, about the plight of single mothers. Most of these women are low-income. One should be careful not to indict too quickly, for these women’s plight, men of their own status and treat these latter as callous and irresponsible individuals who do not accept to take responsibilities for their behavior. What came first, egg or hen? a poor man’s irresponsible behavior or a poor woman’s tendency to let herself impregnate by rich men? Let the facts be known, and who shall accuse a low-income man of irresponsibility if he doubts his paternity? He has got every right in the world to doubt it.
The plight of low-income single mothers is the rich man’s deed. It is the rich woman’s also, because, in some other societies, rich men marry several women, and all these women’s children are his legal children, to whom he is bound by law to provide support during their bringing up. In our society, the rich woman does not want resources to be scattered among so many children. She wants that only her children benefit from the man’s resources. At the same time, the man’s resources do not always benefit his own genetic children, but those desired by the woman from such and such men with whom she cuckolded her partner – which plight, again, is that of low-income and not high-income men. This is the situation under our laws.
A number of the rich man’s children, perhaps most of them, are thus raised in low-income homes or by low-income single mothers. When a single mother finds a partner who wants to live with her, the children she had before they met are more likely than other children to suffer abuse from the partner (see XXVIII). A child raised by a single-mother is also more likely to become a delinquent (see The Bell Curve, a book already dealt with in XXX). With the acuteness of deprivation rises the likelihood of abuse, molestation, rape, and murder of children by their “parents.” So, we have that rich man here, creeping in the dark, like a sneaky pest, in order to inseminate women because of a biological urge to multiply his offspring, and he cannot even insure that they receive proper care, whereas he is spoiling the few children of his one long-term partner with an overabundance of goods.
Meanwhile, the consequence of his unlawful inseminations is that the poor’s scarce resources are scattered among a greater number of children, and what could have been moderately comfortable homes and neighborhoods cannot escape been shanties and slums (women use contraceptives with their partners much more than with their lovers; see XXIX). The poor woman, poor because, if I understand the logic, in our meritocracies her merit is nought, and craving for the genes of success in the guise of a successful man ready to impregnate her, plunges herself and her family in ever direr straits.
Such a polity must over time become so unequal, merit so unevenly distributed among two sharply segregated social castes, wealth and power accumulating in an ever shrinking number of hands, it is a blessing that our school system so much impairs the success of intelligent children, by boring them to death. School-teachers, in their own hypocritical way, are laming the rich and avenging the poor as far as they can, which is, however, not very much, to say the truth.
Still, as free riders, the rich must be sanctioned. No better established moral norm has ever cropped up from the biology department that free riding is to be prevented and/or uprooted (read, for instance, philosophy professor Patricia Churchland). (Free markets themselves are supposed to be a contrivance to prevent free riding. Alas, as evolutionary psychology has demonstrated, there are no impersonal market forces: it’s either pal or pigeon!)
A free rider is a parasite. Biologist Richard Dawkins has talked about parasites in the animal world thus: “Animals might at times behave in ways that are not in their own best interests, manipulated by some other animal. Actually, in a sense they are acting in their own best interests (…) they theoretically could resist manipulation but it would be too costly to do so. Perhaps to resist manipulation by a cuckoo you need bigger eyes or a bigger brain, which would have overhead costs.” (The Selfish Gene, 1976). I wish to tell the poor that they ought to think on the matter in actuarial terms, and compute the gain of uprooting the rich having in mind the infinity of time in the future compared with the costs incurred via a revolution of a few days. There just cannot be too great a cost when it is about eliminating free riders. If you can convince yourselves there is the slightest good in your raising, by depleting your own scarce resources, the children of the rich, then, fine, away with the idea of a revolution.
Dr. Robin Baker, often quoted on this blog and a participant in it, said of late: “The question over the number of children (and grandchildren) produced by high and low status/income males is one that is desperately in need of real data, data that even now is impossible to obtain. But until we do, the discussion will continue and everybody can hold their different views.” (see Comment to XXX). He had written earlier: “Some men have a higher chance of being cuckolded than others, and it is those of low wealth and status that fare worst. … Moreover, the men most likely to cuckold the lower-status males are those of higher status.” (BW 44-5) (already quoted in XXVIII). He wrote this latter statement in 1998; the statement I have quoted at the beginning of the present essay is from 2011 and confirms his 1998 picture. Although I have no idea what the methodology used in the latter studies is, the consistency of both sets incites me to think the picture is accurate, and I shall not put too much weight on Dr Baker’s recent comments. As a concluding remark on this point, I must stress that Baker envisions the end of reproductive inequalities in the future as a result of laissez-faire.
From my earlier discussion of Baker’s works, it should be clear by now that women orgasm with large-penised men because they want to favor these men’s semen in sperm competition. Quoth (already in XXX) : “If penis size is an important factor in sperm competition, it would be surprising if males and females did not have some reaction to penis size. First, males should perceive males with a penis larger than themselves as more of a threat if they ever show a sexual interest in the same woman. Second, females should prefer to mate with males who will give them male descendants with a penis more efficient at removing a rival’s sperm.” (HSC, 174) To be precise, the passage states that women prefer to mate with large-penised men because they want large-penised boys, but the inference is clear, as on the other hand female copulatory orgasm is a way to favor one man’s semen over others’, that they orgasm with large-penised men – no matter how vehemently women usually deny that size matters. (Later I will tell why they deny it.)
Some are mocking White racists as in fact resenting Negroes for their large penises and their racism as sexual jealousy. How could it be otherwise, may I ask? (Data on penis size by race can be found in Baker & Bellis, Human Sperm Competition.) Small-penised men must thwart this preference of women by subduing large-penised men socially. They’ve got no choice, there must be something which they be preferred for. Today, in contemporary Western society, due to Negro emancipation, White working-class men can be preferred on no basis at all: they don’t have large penises compared to Negroes and they don’t get high incomes comparing with high-income men. As a matter of course, racism is rampant among them. Some will say the problem is that workers are too ignorant to be tolerant, but I rather think they know too well, and something must be done to make them forget what they know.
Because they could become embarrassing, as a patently doomed species, and we all know that we are going, I mean humanity, to leave room for another being better suited to explore the universe, and it is just a question of time, after White working-class men have vanished from the scene, that the rest of us take the same exit.
February 4, 2016
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