toly 🇺🇸

@toly

Oct 19

vibhu

@vibhu

Oct 19

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toly 🇺🇸

@toly

4h

Alec MacGillis

@AlecMacGillis

5h

Striking detail in the big NYT piece on Taiwanese families adjusting to working at the huge new TSMC chip plant in Arizona: their surprise at the lack of rigor in US schools.

Garry Kasparov

@Kasparov63

8h

Baltic Takes

@Baltic_Takes

23h

“Dear Italian students, who today take to the streets carrying flags with the hammer and sickle and wearing T-shirts emblazoned with ‘CCCP’,” began an open letter in Italian by Lithuanian expat Neringa Budryt.

“I would like to ask you a question: do you truly know what the sent? And do you know what would have happened to many of you had you openly demonstrated in countries living under the oppression of communist regimes?

Let me tell you something. It is easy to display a red flag when, for you, communism is merely an abstract idea of equality, social justice, and rebellion against the system. It is easy to wear a T-shirt with "CCCP" on it when you have never experienced the reality of a communist regime.

We come from that part of Europe where communism was not a T-shirt, a symbol of rebellion, or a romanticized notion of equality. It was the system in which we lived—a system we never chose.

We know the history of Soviet repression, Stalinist purges, the Gulags, and mass deportations. Above all, we know the word "Siberia"—a place to which thousands of innocent people were forcibly deported, simply for thinking differently.

In Siberia—amidst freezing cold, starvation, and forced labor—many lost their lives; those who survived carried the scars of that experience forever. Entire families were torn apart, and generations were denied the chance to live freely in their own homeland.

In the countries of the Soviet bloc, censorship, political police, surveillance, and the suppression of dissent drastically curtailed individual freedoms.

We grew up in a system where state control permeated even our daily lives. At school, we were required to wear the red necktie of the "Pioneers." We were monitored; they tracked where we went and even whether we attended church. Even faith—a choice that should belong to an individual’s own conscience—could become a cause for suspicion.

We used to celebrate Christmas with our windows blacked out, to ensure no one would see us and report us. Because it was forbidden—just like so many other things: jeans, rock music, and all the symbols of a Western lifestyle. My mother returned from a Soviet labor camp. And do you know what happened to her? She was barred from continuing her education because she had been labeled an enemy of communism.

Under a communist regime, you could not protest. You risked arrest, imprisonment, interrogation, persecution—and, in certain historical contexts, even death. In the Soviet Union and other communist regimes, political dissent could cost you your freedom and your life.

Demonstrations independent of the authorities were not a guaranteed right; they were often suppressed by force.
That is why it strikes me to see young Italians proudly displaying the hammer and sickle—symbols associated with regimes that persecuted and imprisoned millions of people.

Today, you are free to take to the streets, shout against the government, criticize institutions, and wave your flags precisely because you live in a democracy that grants you these freedoms. Under an authoritarian regime of that kind, protesting against those in power could have landed you in prison.

This is not about denying the existence of social injustices, inequalities, or the right to fight for a better world. You are free to take to the streets to demand a more just society—but you should not idealize a system that denied so many people the very things you are free to exercise today: the right to choose, to believe, to speak, and to dissent. Before wearing a T-shirt with "CCCP" on it, listen to those who experienced that world. Talk to the deportees and their descendants; read the accounts of those who endured the gulags and forced exile to Siberia. Learn what it meant to be stripped of your freedom, your home, your loved ones—and even any prospect of a normal life—simply because of your background or your beliefs.

Before waving the hammer and sickle, please, study history thoroughly.”

toly 🇺🇸

@toly

9h

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

11h

@chamathuch.

As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers.

SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we’re investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue.

That means the 200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many.

toly 🇺🇸

@toly

9h

Palmer Luckey

@PalmerLuckey

10h

Alexander Hamilton fought anti-automation and pro-import arguments in the 1700s that hardly differ from the modern day.

toly 🇺🇸

@toly

11h

Chris Freiman

@cafreiman

12h

Pro tip: if you want to encourage others to vote, don’t wear an “I Voted” sticker. Instead, lie and tell them that you *didn’t* vote. This way you can trick them into believing that their vote will have a slightly higher chance of deciding the outcome of the election.

toly 🇺🇸

@toly

13h

atomique🐦

@atomiquest

13h

New in Politburo or Parrot 🦜

Share your shift!

Every shift ends with a stamped report, RELEASED or ARRESTED, ready to post.

Show me your days, parrots and sentence. 16 years in Kolyma because it was the real Politburo? Happens to the best of us 🫡

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Brennan Watt

@bw_solana

14h

SolanaNews.sol

@solananew

Oct 24

🚨SOLANA'S 2026 SO FAR, BY THE NUMBERS:

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- RWA holders grew from 126K to 831K
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toly 🇺🇸

@toly

15h

Lukasz Olejnik

@lukOlejnik

18h

Shocking text. “We think it’s safer to wait for the Russians (...) Stay safe". That was the French ambassador in Kyiv, writing to the European ambassadors’ Signal group on 24 February 2022, as explosions were already going off in the city. Lots of EU States participated in this ic, military and analytical blunder of this age). For 3 months Dutch intelligence kept telling Prime Minister Rutte that an invasion was “unlikely". The agencies relied on a "trusted source" near the Kremlin who turned out to know nothing, because Putin shared the plan with maybe 10 people. USA put the Russian attack plan on the table. Western EU dismissed it. 12 hours before the tanks crossed the border, Russian forces had already changed how they communicated. But the official Dutch assessment still said war was merely “possible". The head of Germany’s BND was asleep in a Kyiv hotel when bombing started. Fled in a panic. Kept his job.

toly 🇺🇸

@toly

18h

Solana

@solana

23h

150ms

toly 🇺🇸

@toly

Oct 25

Fox News

@FoxNews

Oct 24

NEW: Fireworks explode and tear gas fills the streets of Paris as protesters clash with heavily equipped riot police.

Officers charge into crowds and make arrests as a largely peaceful march of 110,000 people turns violent.

Nearly 1,000 people were arrested Saturday nationwide icials.

toly 🇺🇸

@toly

Oct 25

RadioGenoa

@RadioGenoa

Oct 24

If you could bring ONE historical leader back to life today to fix Europe, who would you choose?

toly 🇺🇸

@toly

Oct 25

Brivael Le Pogam

@brivael

Oct 24

My post about Hitler and the far right got millions of views. Clearly, it hit a nerve. So today I'm going to show you, step by step, why the notion of "far right" as it's used in France makes almost no sense. And why the people who wield it are usually the last ones who should be lecturing anyone.

Let's start with the only question that matters: what makes a political system work or fail? To a very large extent, it's the economy. A country that produces wealth, that lets its citizens create, trade and build, stays standing. A country that destroys that collapses, no matter how beautiful its slogans are.

And in economics, there are really only two worldviews.

The first is collectivism. The idea that the State knows better than you. That it must plan production, set prices, run companies, decide what you earn, what you buy, and eventually what you think. The individual is just a cog serving a grand collective project: the class, the nation, the race, the people.

The second is freedom. Capitalism, property, individual liberty, individual responsibility. The idea that millions of people creating value for one another produce infinitely more prosperity than an office of planners, however brilliant they may be.

Now look at the list of the great totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. Stalin: total planning, forced collectivization, millions dead. Mao: the Great Leap Forward and the deadliest famine in human history. Pol Pot: money abolished, cities emptied, nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population exterminated. Mussolini, the man who coined the word fascism: "Everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State." And Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, whose program proclaimed "the common good before individual good." He subjected the entire German economy to State plans: the Four-Year Plan, frozen prices and wages, unions dissolved into a single state labor front, industrialists producing whatever the regime decided.

Their flags were different. Their designated enemies were different. But the machinery was the same: the individual doesn't exist, only the collective matters, and the State decides everything.

Why does it always end in totalitarianism? Because collectivism doesn't work. And when a system doesn't work, it has only two options: admit failure or force people. They always choose force.

Ludwig von Mises proved it as early as 1920: without free prices, without a market, a planner simply cannot know what to produce, how much, or at what cost. He is flying blind. A planned economy isn't a less efficient version of the market. It's an impossibility.

Friedrich Hayek drew the political conclusion in 1944 in The Road to Serfdom, a book he dedicated "to the socialists of all parties." One chapter is titled "The Socialist Roots of Naziism." Another, "Why the Worst Get on Top." For Hayek, controlling the economy isn't controlling one sector among others. It is "the control of the means for all our ends." Whoever controls your bread controls your life. Then your speech. Then your thoughts.

Milton Friedman put it his own way: a society that puts equality before freedom ends up with neither.

So we know exactly what works. It's not an opinion. It's a century of real-world experiments. Listen to the Austrian school, Mises and Hayek, with Friedman from Chicago alongside them: economic freedom, limited government, individual responsibility.

And this is where we get to the great accusatory inversion. Part of the left-wing press spends its time screaming fascism. Why? Because the fascism fantasy is the best way to never talk about the track record of their own ideas. Deep down, they know: if their collectivist program were applied all the way, it wouldn't work, because a collective economy cannot work. And an economy that doesn't work always ends up having to coerce, surveil and ban. In other words, it becomes exactly what they claim to be fighting. The real heirs of totalitarian logic are not the ones being pointed at.

So who gets called "far right" in 2026? People who want safe cities. People who want to keep their culture. People who just want to live a peaceful life, raise their kids, and not have to board up their shop every weekend. People who want the law to apply to everyone.

If that's the far right, then the word no longer means anything. And maybe that was the point.

toly 🇺🇸

@toly

Oct 24

jack

@jack

Oct 24

there is no moat

toly 🇺🇸

@toly

Oct 24

atomique🐦

@atomiquest

Oct 24

Politburo or Parrot new update is live 🦜

1. New random events added

Mama Bear (Белая Медведица) has been seen at the station window. She is very interested in your tins.

The teleprinter has more to say. Some telegrams get personal (is the parrot starting to like you?). Some ilosophical.

Some special telegrams give you more options than AUTHENTIC or PARROT: burn them, file them, even answer them. What you choose changes how your story ends.

2. 12 new telegrams, most with spelling and naming errors, as players asked.

3. Fixes and polish all over the station.

Stay focused, comrades. The parrot is out there🫡
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