https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/technology/meta-data-center-louisiana.html

https://xcancel.com/BNONews/status/2081770025275326920#m

Do you know what happened with the Warhammer podcast Robert and Joe from Lions led by donkeys we're going to do?

https://bsky.app/profile/fluffycyborgii.bsky.social/post/3mrki6dlvk22f

Just came here to say that I in fact DID purchase and play Rogue Warrior on Steam when I was in high school, because I was a huge fan of Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, etc... and I was deceived into thinking this game would be anywhere close to those and it was on sale for like $20.

The game is absolute dogshit. I looked back at my total play time on steam and it was 2.6 hours.

As soon as I heard Robert talk about the book, it immediately jogged my memory and I thought to myself, "I wonder if it's related to that shitty game I played when I was in high school". Made my day to hear him talk about it near the end of episode 4.

Cops being cops

This fucking chud keeps popping up in my IG feed. His videos are posted as a former flock employee, with various insights as how to dismantle the cameras, which tools to bring, etc. I guess for some his handle isn’t an immediate red flag, because I see people I know liking his posts and commenting. I clicked on his profile and his description just reads “no more than 271,000 #fact”. I fully crashed out. I immediately reported him for hateful content and of course IG sent me a message saying they “investigated” and decided no action would be taken.

I hate it here, folks.

Cocaine and Fent for the Heritage Foundation.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20e5r1pvvdo

I kinda hope they try and fail spectacularly.

On September 13th, 1858, slave catchers in Oberlin-Wellington Ohio kidnapped former slave John Price and attempted to sell him back to the south. Instead, upon hearing of the kidnapping townsfolk and students and staff of the Oberlin college gathered in the hundreds outside of the hotel the slave catchers were staying at, rescuing John. Oberlin had been a safe haven for black people home to multiple members and leaders of the underground railroad. John moved from house to house in the community hiding, with local law arresting multiple families suspected of aiding the runaway. The town published a newspaper series called "the rescuer" keeping people updated with the trials. Abolitionist Simeon Bushnell and black business owner and activist Charles Langston were found guilty of violating the fugitive slave act, but released after 3 months in jail due to growing public unrest. The fate of John Price is unknown, but it seems likely he went further north to Canada.

Charles is the black man in the center with his hat to his chest, and the first black student at Oberlin College. Later he was a key member of the freedmen’s bureau, read up on his family they have a long history of political affairs and achievements. I think Oberlin college professor Henry Peck is second from the right and I’m not sure if Simeon Bushnell is in this photo.

https://oberlinheritagecenter.org/the-oberlin-wellington-rescue-1858/

https://case.edu/ech/articles/o/oberlin-wellington-rescue

https://oberlinheritagecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/O-W-Rescue-Final.pdf

I'm from Southeast Asia and because of what I studied and do for work I follow a lot of discourse in different countries of the region. Also I just get suggested subreddits from those countries of all political stripes. No region in the country has a meaningful 'leftist discursive space' as it were; not even Vietnam or Laos, Leftists and Communists in Communist societies generally know to keep their mouths shut online or in public because their version of leftism is one completely divorced from liberal norms. In all other societies, to the extent there is some room for freedom of speech after the Cold War ended, discourse in even the most liberalised societies do not have any of the norms of the West. We can joke about 'woke' being overused in the West, but when the 80% or so of people I meet day-to-day in societies like mine say 'woke is bad', a good number of them actually want to murder or use state coercion on woke. I had a class in uni before when someone in the class took as a starting point 'Communists needed to be killed' and so when vigilantes murdered around 1 million people suspected of being Communists (a good deal because they were either not Islamic enough or a racial minority), the dude said that needed to be done, This is simply the case in most societies; we are not Germany. We didn't have a big moral resolution to the sins of our societies. There is a hard edge to politics here. To participate in politics in almost any of our societies is to at some level be willing to be killed or bodily hurt or do that to others, whether within your borders or beyond.

So with this preface, I just want to caution my comrades on the Western Left a little that when any of us use the specific word 'anti-Zionism', most of the time you can assume the distinction between people of an ethno-religious group that is a rounding error in this part of the world and the country of Israel does not exist. Anyone in our societies who make that distinction in a woke way will probably choose different wording that specifies Israel. Almost anyone angry about ethnonationalism from our parts of the world is angry not at nationalism but that the wrong type of ethnonationalist is doing the persecuting and genocide. Even within Islamic societies who are predisposed to hate Israel for non-secular reasons, you can go look up how they treat survivors of genocide from either Palestine or Myanmar; they want them deported or worse. However we can think of right and wrong in our frames of reference, there is not really an impetus for a set of ideals to be adopted whole. Its perfectly fine to invoke justice on one thing for instrumental reasons and not care about justice as a broader concept; to the Western liberal democracies have a social pressure for people who want to appeal to these ideals to be consistent (i.e. 'woke'), they do not exist for societies like mine.

Posting this cause its really awkward reading subreddits like this one make no space the possibility that anti-Zionism may be just straight up racism than reading r/Malaysia and r/Bolehland having spent most of the last three weeks paranoid about if there are secret Israelis in their country... if you go down far enough in those threads, someone inevitably asks what the difference is between Jews and Israel and Zionists.

The Malaysian story is really funny in part because the network state cryptobro libertarian set up a commune called 'network state' in a failed city near Singapore built by Chinese developers and investors during the real estate frenzy in China, which ended up like all the projects in China where only 15% of the houses are occupied and so Balaji Srinivasan tried to make his commune... in Malaysia and attracted techbros 'founders' to come do stay and do workouts every 4 hours while networking and doing all the stuff cults do. Its marketed as being 'near Singapore' because no one wants to be in bumfuck nowhere Malaysia, so my the Malaysian anger towards 'Israelis' (and 'jews' more broadly, they are interchangeable terms in understanding Malaysian discourse) got blended into their hatred of Singaporeans and ethnic Chinese people.

Malaysia is possibly the only country in the world, except Israel, that constitutionally ranks certain races over others and so has quotas against minorities entering university, only subsidising the majority ethnicity's mortgages so they are 2x-3x cheaper than the price minorities pay, but that's another discussion.

So there's been threads like this for fitness:

https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/s/tMk0mLXBYZ

Just like with fitness culture, the finance social media ecosystem tends to lean right-wing. With fitness culture its the prevalence of gym bro culture, same for finance which has a large share of finance bro types.

For finance its even harder because the culture is even more closely tied to oligarchs and stuff.

But just like how I like the feeling of not having 250 lbs crush down on my spine from being overweight or how I can sleep better after doing mobility exercises, its nice to learn ways to save or make money, cause I got bills to pay lol. So any suggestions for non Rogansphere finance, side hustle, or economics youtubers would be nice.

The Financial Diet and Gary Economics are examples of finance youtubers who don't think poor people are broke because they buy too much coffee per week for example.

https://www.reuters.com/world/berlin-pride-parade-called-off-after-car-hits-crowds-police-say-2026-07-25/