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Having a Nazi tattoo is not “a scandal.”
It’s not “bad optics.”
It’s disqualifying.
There isn’t a political spectrum where that’s up for debate.
https://www.theindex.media/p/i-can-t-believe-i-need-to-say-this-but-nazi-tattoos-are-bad
https://www.theindex.media/p/i-can-t-believe-i-need-to-say-this-but-nazi-tattoos-are-bad
Our public life has become unserious with rot.
We’re ruled by grifters who don’t care if their half-baked ideas work.
They only care if the pitch lands.
https://www.theindex.media/p/we-are-ruled-by-used-car-salesmen-and-grifters
https://www.theindex.media/p/we-are-ruled-by-used-car-salesmen-and-grifters
Don’t rationalize it. Don’t negotiate with it. Don’t turn the choice into a think-piece debate.
Just say no.
And if your child screams at you, fine. Better they scream at you now than spend their adulthood unable to sit in silence, unable to read a book, unable to hold a single thought of their own.
https://www.theindex.media/p/if-you-let-your-kid-use-sora-you-re-a-bad-parent
A failed demo means the tech is real enough to break.
A perfect video means nothing.
https://www.theindex.media/p/meta-bombed-apple-chickened-out
Colin Powell warned Bush: “You break it, you bought it.”
That’s the real rule of AI.
Deploy it in your workflows, and you inherit every hallucination, bias, and failure.
The vendors can walk away. You can’t.
https://www.theindex.media/p/the-pottery-barn-rule-of-ai
Kennedy wasn’t cut down by the Soviets or the mob.
He was cut down by a drifter with a rifle.
That fragility is unbearable - so we invent cabals to feel safe.
https://www.theindex.media/p/the-random-nut-theory-of-history
Apple survived Steve Jobs.
Microsoft thrived after Gates.
If Tesla can’t survive Musk, maybe it deserves its decline.
Freemium is broken.
Obsidian (from @kepano) shows a better way: give the burger away, sell the fries.
The base app is complete. The business is optional services.
Trust compounds. Adoption explodes. Everyone wins.
https://www.theindex.media/p/the-fries-with-that-software-model
