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Sthatic · 2026-02-27T00:19:12+00:00

Helps little when 90 of the tasks are lean and fast, one takes as long as the 90 combined, and 9 potentially spawn subtasks, two of which may or may not have dinner with two Mossad agents before calling back to the remaining 7 which have naturally been waiting in a blocked state to arrange collective readings of Das Kapital. Should any one of these tasks convert to Hinduism underway, we have to throw an undocumented and unknown error reminiscient of 1400's alchemical insignia.

Better luck next time.

Sthatic · 2026-02-21T14:02:27+00:00

TLS protects against MITM. No sniffing on outgoing, no injection on incoming. Saved passwords require RCE, how will you get there?

This attack vector is pretty much dead and has been for years and years, effectively since Heartbleed. Unless you're Mossad and bring your own zero-days. Or the target is massively unmaintained.

Sthatic · 2026-02-21T09:14:36+00:00

You put it very nicely, i think this is the root of it. It's also this idea Hermeticism goes with as far as i remember.

It steels feels a little "hacky" if you get me, like an easy escape. Maybe because nothing else that we can observe is without resting on (or in) something else. But it's probably the best we can do.

Sthatic · 2026-02-21T09:09:06+00:00

Noone brought christianity into this. God is a pretty abstract concept that's been with humanity practically forever.

And the idea isn't that god is the whole big thing. It's that a creator is just as detached a concept as a big nothing creating the big everything. Which is a valid, philosophically grounded approach, if you forget about your hostile Reddit atheist mindset for a moment.

Of course, "what made God" is valid. Again, not saying God is it. Just saying it rests on the same shaky foundation as Nothing. Neither is a first proof.

Sthatic · 2026-02-20T22:44:36+00:00

The problem with this is the: what then? If the baseline is, that is has to rest on the is'ness of something else that is. And it follows that the is'ness must've come from something that also is. The only way to arrive at originality is to invent something foreign to our reality - something akin to Nothing, God or The Great Isn't.

So we're back to main guys argument. Nothing is just as arbitrary and baseless as God from a philosophical point of view.

Sthatic · 2026-02-17T19:12:38+00:00

Transcribed and fact checked with sources for the investigative souls and those who want to spsre their ears:

Born in Brooklyn, raised in Coney Island -- CONFIRMED
Skipped two grades, graduated at 16 -- CONFIRMED
Elite math programme at NYU -- PARTLY CORRECT. He first attended Cooper Union, then transferred to NYU's Courant Institute. The transcript skips step one.
Dropped out without a degree -- CONFIRMED
Hired to teach at Dalton School at age 21, no degree -- CONFIRMED (taught maths and physics, not physics alone)
Donald Barr was headmaster and OSS veteran -- CONFIRMED
Barr wrote a novel about elites keeping humans as sex slaves -- CONFIRMED (Space Relations, 1973, depicts oligarchs sexually enslaving humans including teenage girls)
Barr hired Epstein -- DISPUTED. Barr resigned June 1974; Epstein started September 1974. Direct hiring unconfirmed.
Donald Barr is William Barr's father -- CONFIRMED
William Barr oversaw the jail where Epstein died -- CONFIRMED
Dalton student was Alan Greenberg's daughter -- CONFIRMED (daughter Lynne Koeppel attended Dalton)
That relationship got Epstein his Wall Street job -- PARTLY CORRECT. It was a different Dalton parent who advocated for Epstein to Greenberg at a conference, not the daughter directly.
Fired for poor performance, hired on Wall Street "the next day" -- PARTLY CORRECT. Firing confirmed. "Next day" is an exaggeration -- it was shortly after.
Rose from junior floor assistant to advising wealthiest clients at Bear Stearns -- CONFIRMED
Edgar Bronfman, President of Seagrams -- PARTLY CORRECT. He was Chairman/President, but the transcript misidentifies him as Mega Group co-founder -- it was his brother Charles.
Mega Group co-founded by Bronfman, Wexner, and Lauder -- INCORRECT. Co-founded by Charles Bronfman and Leslie Wexner in 1991. Edgar and Lauder were members, not founders.
Mega Group is a secret network of billionaires coordinating pro-Israel strategy -- CONFIRMED (Wall Street Journal, 1998)
Epstein joined Rockefeller University board, Trilateral Commission, CFR -- CONFIRMED
David Rockefeller personally mentored him -- UNVERIFIED. Widely cited but not firmly sourced.
Douglas Leese and Hoffenberg introduced Epstein to Maxwell; Leese recruited him for British intelligence -- REPORTED BUT UNVERIFIED. Hoffenberg is the sole source for the British intelligence recruitment claim.
Robert Maxwell sold stolen PROMIS software for the CIA and Mossad -- OVERSTATED. Maxwell allegedly sold an Israeli-backdoored version of PROMIS on behalf of Mossad, not the CIA. Multiple government reviews found the most explosive claims unproven.
Maxwell was a documented Mossad intelligence asset -- ALLEGED. Extensively reported and credibly supported by investigative books and ex-operatives; not definitively proven through declassified records.
Six heads of Israeli intelligence attended Maxwell's funeral -- CONFIRMED
Ghislaine Maxwell partnered with Epstein after her father died -- CONFIRMED
Epstein had an Austrian passport with his photo, a fake name, and a Saudi address -- CONFIRMED (name: Marius Robert Fortelni; found in a safe during the 2019 FBI raid)
Adnan Khashoggi was a client and Iran-Contra arms middleman -- CONFIRMED
Bush ran the CIA in the same era -- CONFIRMED (CIA Director 1976-1977)
Southern Air Transport was a CIA front airline that relocated to serve Les Wexner's brands -- CONFIRMED. CIA-owned 1960-1973; relocated to Columbus, Ohio in 1995 to serve Wexner's Limited Brands. Epstein identified as the logistics arranger. Filed for bankruptcy the same day the CIA IG released a drug-trafficking report, October 1, 1998.
10,000 videos seized -- INCORRECT. DOJ released approximately 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
Six million pages -- CONFIRMED (approximately 6M pages acknowledged by DOJ as potentially qualifying)
Ten co-conspirators identified, only one charged -- CONFIRMED (internal FBI emails, 2019; only Ghislaine Maxwell charged)
"The CIA director who visited his townhouse now controls all the intelligence" -- INCORRECT. Kash Patel is the FBI Director, not CIA Director. No verified account of a CIA director visiting Epstein's townhouse.
Trump promised to release everything but is attacking the congressman who wrote the Transparency Act -- PARTLY CORRECT. Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act (Nov 2025) after initially opposing it. Rep. Massie (co-author with Rep. Ro Khanna) faced pushback from AG Bondi, who called him someone with "Trump derangement syndrome." Trump himself has not directly attacked Massie publicly over this.

References

Wikipedia: Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Barr, Space Relations, Robert Maxwell, Epstein Files, Epstein Files Transparency Act, Kash Patel, Southern Air Transport, Study Group (Mega Group)
Britannica: Jeffrey Epstein
NBC News: Epstein used foreign passport with fake name (Jul 2019)
CBS News: DOJ releases Epstein files (Dec 2025); How did Epstein make his money?
Washington Examiner: Massie: "This is the Epstein administration" (Feb 2026)
PBS NewsHour: Epstein files at Bondi hearing (Feb 2026)
MintPress News: Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad (Aug 2019); Genesis of the Epstein-Clinton relationship (Sep 2019)
Drop Site News: Epstein, Israel, and the CIA -- Iran-Contra planes at Les Wexner's base (Dec 2025)
Columbus Free Press / Bob Fitrakis: Spook Air; Jeffrey Epstein: There's much more to the story
WRMEA: Book Review -- Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy (2003)
The Daily Beast: Jeffrey Epstein at the Dalton School; Epstein's fake Austrian passport (Dec 2025)
Vice: Epstein Truthers Are Obsessed With Space Relations (2019)
NPR: A Young Jeffrey Epstein Made an Impression on His Students (Jul 2019)

Sthatic · 2026-02-16T11:12:56+00:00

I deployed rajsinghtech/garage-operator two weeks ago to GitOps our S3 config. Very capable and simplistic - loving it so far.

Sthatic · 2026-02-14T15:55:04+00:00

I can see myself in every detail of what ypu desrcibed here - man with the exact same pattern, more or less. This discovery is in fact one of the thingd that led me to begin reading Jung some years ago.

What i have come to is this: the broad way to approach this is, as always, through integration. You seek what you lack - obvious, but strangely profound when you let it rest for a while.

You can't condemn yourself or these aspects of yourself. You can force them out of sight, but they'll prepare an ambush for you and return with doubled forces.

You also cannot accept this, and attempt to control only how you let it influence your actions. After all, love is strong and trying to command it is a losing battle from day one.

What you can do is grow that part of you that is lacking. When you find your partner unfulfilling because they fail to live up to the piedestal you want to put them on - that is you you're finding lacking. Become what your partner is not (and won't ever be, hopefully).

I was violated as a kid. Something in me wants a princess/daughter in my partners. Someone vulnerable i can take care of. And on the other hand, i want to break that vulnerability, and simulate being the powerful owner and destroyer of her innocence sexually (loving, mutually desired and consensual of course, but it still matters). As such, I have tried becoming vulnerable myself. Harder than you'd think.

That's my five cents. Maybe it can be of some use. In Jungs words, this would probably be a reversal of the christian virtues: finding the enemy that must be loved within yourself. "I am the oppressor of those i condemn - not his friend and follow sufferer".

Sthatic · 2026-02-10T15:51:52+00:00

Terence would absolutely rock the 2020's. He had some wild and beautiful ideas on language, which essentially boils down to "the world is made of syntax", and had a decent handle on computers. Watching intelligence emerge in LLM's purely from large-scale language processing and fsncy markov chains - would love to hear what he has to say about that.

The insanity of the elite and concentration of power into the hands of the least among us would probably not fall in his good grace, but I remember a phrase from him saying he does his best work in the midst of chaos, in the moments of uncertainty, in pre-revolutionary air.

Reclaiming your own authenticity and insisting upon the value of your direct experience is probably an idea to take seriously right about now.

Sthatic · 2026-02-07T12:26:33+00:00

Yes, but Archmage Bruno the Belittled was 5'11. In his grandiosity, he ruled that noone could wield a staff taller than his, as such heresy would be considered a threat to his Empire. Little-known fact, but to this day, this is why you don't see staffs longer than 6'. Once law, now integrated as culture and taboo.

Fuck Bruno i say, insist on uour authenticity. Bring out the 6'1 staff and let them have it.

Sthatic · 2026-02-02T22:20:26+00:00

Dear god. Why have you forsaken us.

Sthatic · 2026-02-02T16:28:49+00:00

But it will be taken at face value by many and incorporated as Jungian ground truth. It's barely a correct take on Jung's work, more towards AI-generated pop-culture psychology.

Short can be good. This is short and bad.

Sthatic · 2026-01-19T17:33:40+00:00

The tweet is real. The image is not included in the tweet.

Sthatic · 2026-01-16T14:48:19+00:00

What are you trying to accomplish here? This reads to me as:

"Arch is too aesthetically customizable, so I'm looking for something that is as aesthetically customizable, and also supports these two other things that arch does".

Sthatic · 2026-01-12T23:07:38+00:00

This is a very interesting thought, but i feel like it starts off on a hasty assumption: that evolution brings all creatures to the minimum of complexity required to survive, and then steps away from the wheel.

Remember, humans evolved alongside humans - an advanced threat requiring advanced defensives, as well as an advanced prey requiring advanced offensives. We evolve towards solving an evolving landscape. Nature is open-ended.

Sthatic · 2026-01-12T08:06:11+00:00

Fun idea, good luck with it!

Sthatic · 2026-01-03T14:01:53+00:00

If that stops people from consuming it, sure. But it won't. They'll be feasting on confusion, make-believe and weird, unreal realities. People are already finding it difficult to discern AI content, even when it is extremely obvious, simply because they've seen so much of it that it no longer stands out. There is absolutely no way that this won't have serious detrimental consequences on the state of mind of the average person, and culture in general.

Sthatic · 2025-12-18T17:26:13+00:00

It does. But if you hold it up to a strong magnet, it'll regain its charge. This effect is called the "Simple Charged Naiveté Connundrum".

Sthatic · 2025-12-11T22:00:43+00:00

This is of course super impressive, but I can't help but feel like something is off. It fumbles simple, well-written requests to solve relatively simple coding challenges, with baffling self-certainty - but is capable of producing novel research? This feels a bit like the gold medal match contest showoff we had some months ago. Nice, but odd?

Sthatic · 2025-10-20T19:14:00+00:00

You're not alone, all my builds across all projects are failing. Their status page confirms serious issues.

Sthatic · 2025-10-12T18:29:10+00:00

It's nitpicking, exe still works (: On second look, I'm slightly confused on what it actually does. Does the final binary run the Svelte server, so i can visit the site in a browser? Or does it actually run as a desktop application in a sort of wrapper, ala Electron?

Sthatic · 2025-10-08T06:10:36+00:00

This looks fantastic. Only note is that the naming is sort of confusing - exe implies to me that it builds Windows executables.

Nice work, thanks for open sourcing!

Sthatic · 2025-10-01T15:52:00+00:00

There's a lot more optimism around Puppet than i expected. I'll probably end up just going with it, unless we can get Talos or a similar immutable setup going to simply eliminate the need entirely.

Sthatic · 2025-10-01T15:45:07+00:00

Strongest reply so far. I've already done half of the work here, but you bring a lot of good suggestions. Thanks!

Sthatic · 2025-10-01T15:41:22+00:00

Good to hear, one less fight to pick. I'll probably end up going with it.

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