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Silicon Valley belatedly recognizes the cancer

But instead of taking action to excise it, they’re looking for a “third-way” that only guarantees failure.

In Silicon Valley, 17 years later, another kind of revolution is taking shape. A handful of founders and CEOs—Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, Jason Fried of Basecamp, Shopify’s Tobias Lütke, Medium’s Ev Williams—have said the unsayable. In the face of shop-floor social-justice activism, they’ve decided, business owners should resolve to stick to business.

No hashtag coders. No message-board threads about anti-racism or neo-pronouns. No open letters meant to get someone fired for a decade-old tweet. No politics. As Armstrong put it in his famous (or infamous) September 27th, 2020 blog post, business should be “mission focused.” A software developer explained that the conciliatory approach has become too costly: “The Slack shit, the company-wide emails, it definitely spills out into real life, and it’s a huge productivity drag.”

In October, a pseudonymous group inspired by Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong came together under the banner “Mission Protocol,” with the aim of getting other companies to start “putting aside activities and conversations” outside the scope of their professional missions. (“Mission focus doesn’t mean being apolitical,” they note. “It means being political about the mission. This mission is what you came together to accomplish, and this mission is what you’re fighting for in your work on the project.”) Paul Graham, a famed venture capitalist and “hacker philosopher,” tweeted his support to 1.3 million followers. Melia Russell, who covers the startup beat for Business Insider, noted that startups were jumping into the Mission Protocol threads “with a hell yes.”

Some founders, venture capitalists, and angel investors are now refusing to speak with legacy-media journalists who infuse their reporting with a social-justice slant. “What’s the point [of talking to reporters]?” a developer said. “They hate us, and we think they know nothing about the way the world works outside their woke, east-coast bubble.” Instead, mission-focused players are embracing alternatives such as Clubhouse and Substack. A software developer, Slava Akhmechet, is building a social-media platform (now in its beta phase) that grants influencers anonymity, with an eye toward encouraging the kind of candid conversation that is mostly verboten on, say, Twitter or Instagram. And then there’s the promise of blockchain—still in its infancy—and “decentralized media,” as Balaji Srinivasan, Coinbase’s former chief technology officer, calls it.

This Silicon Valley movement overlaps with a growing cadre of politically diverse writers and podcasters—such as Glenn Greenwald, James Poulos, Alex Kaschuta, and Aimee Terese—collectively creating an opening for a more incisive, wider-ranging conversation about technology, politics, and America itself. Default Friend, an After the Orgy podcast co-host and pseudonymous Substacker whose newsletter focuses on the Bay Area, says “this new group is like, ‘Okay, the wokeness thing definitely isn’t right. There must be some third way.’ They’re agreed on what they oppose.”

Between President Trump’s failure to successfully defeat the Deep State and Silicon Valley’s unwillingness to cut out the corporate cancer, it should be obvious to the intelligent observer that half-measures are not enough. You can’t negotiate with SJWs. You can’t lecture them. You can’t wag your finger and issue dire warnings.

If you’re not going to act, and act decisively, you’re simply reducing the rate at which you lose.

Saturday AM Arktoons

SEASONS Episode 7: Parallels

CHUCK DIXON PRESENTS: COMEDY Episode 7: The Machine-Gun Artist
And, as we get closer to launching the Midnight’s War crowdfund, here is a little reminder that the Legend and I haven’t even begun to reveal the extent of the sheer awesomeness of what is rapidly becoming Arkhaven’s leading series. For example: vampire special forces!
They don’t go down easy, and what’s more, they usually don’t stay down. Of course, they are limited to nighttime operations.

Sanctions cut both ways

China calls the trade bluff of the neo-liberal world order:

There should be little doubt that the timing is intentional: China on Thursday passed its sweeping new law to ‘safeguard’ Chinese businesses and entities from Western and especially US sanctions, just hours ahead of President Joe Biden sitting down with G-7 leaders in Cornwall to argue for a common stance on curtailing China’s influence. AFP observes: “China’s quick rollout of a law against foreign sanctions has left European and American companies shocked and facing ‘irreconcilable’ compliance issues, two top business groups said Friday, despite Beijing saying the move would unlikely impact investment.”
The Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, as we described earlier, is designed shield Chinese entities and institutions from “the unilateral and discriminatory measures imposed by foreign countries” and ultimately the “long arm jurisdiction” of the United States.  
It effectively enables the Chinese government to sanction all who comply with US/EU sanctions by drawing a bright red line, forcing entities to choose whether to comply to Washington’s side or Beijing’s side. Upon its introduction early this week in the National People’s Congress there were few details given, other than vowing that “if Chinese entities are hit with unjustified sanctions, the proposed law is supposed to crystallize actionable countermeasures against the foreign governments and institutions…expecting the legal effort to make up for losses that Chinese entities would suffer.”
With the law’s passage, details have been revealed as follows:
Countermeasures in the Chinese law include “refusal to issue visas, denial of entry, deportation… and sealing, seizing, and freezing property of individuals or businesses that adhere to foreign sanctions against Chinese businesses or officials,” according to the text published by the standing committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature.
Thus it “answers” current US tactics in a serious escalation: whereas Washington currently often seeks to punish third party entities or countries for direct or even indirect dealings with a sanctioned regime (the cases of Venezuela and Iran are clear examples, or even European companies which worked on the Russia-to-Germany Nord Stream 2 pipeline), Beijing has now given itself the ‘legal authority’ to do the same. 

This is a very smart and timely move by the Chinese government, and counteracts the US ability to put pressure on foreign firms and governments. Comply with a US-imposed sanction and you’re locked out of China.

What part of “unrestricted” is hard to understand? It wouldn’t surprise me if China expands this law to include sanctions against other nations as well, which would go a long way toward convincing countries that normally comply with US sanctions to ignore them.

Avanti Azzurri

Total domination of Turkey by Italy in the first game of the Euros. It was 3-0 and they could have easily scored one or two more. Mancini’s team is fast, aggressive, and really good on the ball. That’s the group won already, because neither Wales nor Switzerland is going to score 3 goals in the group stage, let alone one game.

Toobin back on TV

It’s clear that the media executives believe that if there is one thing the US public simply cannot do without, it is advice from Jews who can’t keep their fat little hands off their own genitals:

Eight months after showing his family jewels to his work family, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin returned to television today. For those who don’t remember, or choose to forget, last fall Toobin exposed himself to co-workers from New Yorker magazine while on a Zoom call.
October’s Zoom incident reportedly took place while the 2020 presidential election was being discussed amongst his New Yorker colleagues. Toobin wasn’t alone in his excitement for the election. Approximately 160 million Americans voted, though they expressed their excitement in more prudish ways.
At the time, Toobin had been working for both New Yorker magazine and CNN where he regularly appeared as a legal analyst. Following the unprompted and unwanted October peep show, New Yorker magazine fired the 61-year-old and CNN suspended him until Thursday.

What. The. Actual….

It’s rather fascinating to contemplate the bizarre reality in which these CNN executives are dwelling. Who, exactly, has even the slightest desire to hear one single thing from Jeffrey “Dude, Turn OFF Your Webcam” Toobin? What do they plan to follow this up with, a dating show hosted by Ghislaine Maxwell as soon as she finishes serving her time for sex trafficking underage girls?

Here’s a concept: if you don’t want the rest of the world to despise your people as a filthy collection of perverted freaks, you may wish to consider the option of not constantly pushing filthy, perverted freaks on everyone.

On the equal opportunity side, it’s now clear why Philip Roth handpicked Blake Bailey to write his biography. There is no question that Bailey was truly able to get inside of Roth’s head.

A celebrated biographer mired in an ongoing sex scandal has now been accused of sexually harassing four other women while working at a university.  

Blake Bailey, 57, was accused of pestering a colleague, two students, and a visiting author while working at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, around a decade ago.

Bailey – handpicked by the late acclaimed novelist Philip Roth to write a biography that has been critically lauded – allegedly groped colleague Bridget Anderson’s crotch while naked in a hot tub with her during an April 2010 writers retreat for college staff. 

Why the CDC is worried

AC explains the reason for the CDC’s sudden interest in the observed link between the mRNA not-vaxxes and heart inflammation:

The reason CDC is beginning to panic is that in perfectly normal people, even without any vaccine, for unknown reasons, the immune system just begins attacking the heart, and inflammation is noted as a predictor of the course of the disease, and this leads to heart failure. When the immune system goes on the attack, it creates inflammation, and as any weightlifter who has gotten the flu will tell you, muscles don’t grow, and can atrophy quite a bit, when inflammatory signals show up on the scene, because those signals shut off all muscle growth. It is the way the body is designed. Under an inflammatory stress the body shifts modes and puts all energy into the immune fight, and does not store anything away on building the body or increasing reserve energy stores. Everything goes into the immune fight, and reserves are even liberated and thrown into it as well. And the heart is just one big muscle, so introduce inflammation, and all growth and tissue regeneration is shut off biochemically, and then the muscle just wastes away over time, until the heart muscle cannot carry the load it has to carry to pump blood and keep you alive. It has long been known people with heart failure have somehow triggered heart inflammation that does not go away, and the degree of inflammation determines how fast it will progress. 

And now these geniuses have done what I warned about – they injected mRNA into deltoid muscle cells, so muscle cells would present the antigen right alongside the cell surface proteins common to muscle cells. The immune systems are learning both the antigen, and the receptors common on the outside of muscle cells are “enemy” because they are presented together on the cell surface in the shoulder, instead of the antigen being isolated by itself in a slow-release oil carrier outside the cells, injected between the muscle fibers. Even worse, after a set time the vaccine is supposed to stop producing the antigen, and after a year or three your immune response to the antigen is blunted, or even gone. But the heart and other muscles will keep producing those muscle cell surface receptors, in essence producing a constant booster vaccine to keep the inflammation up. There are mechanisms in the body to curb auto-immunity, but they fail in a lot of people with heart failure. And though the top story is about a few kids who presented acutely, heart failure begins more slowly, and if there are acute cases, there may be subacute cases which will progress into heart failure over time. So CDC has no idea what any of this means, or what is to come, even if they would scoff in public at the assertion. But they will hold an emergency meeting, not for the acute cases, but for what may not have been seen yet, but which is cooking away regardless.

Now there is a very real possibility we are going to see some percentage of the vaccinated who will need heart transplants in the next ten to thirty years. It could be a hundredth percent, it could be two percent, it could be twenty or more percent after thirty years, if the inflammation doesn’t go away (and nobody knows if it will). But when 70{cc08d85cfa54367952ab9c6bd910a003a6c2c0c101231e44cdffb103f39b73a6} of the population has gotten the jab, whatever way, it could be a fuckload of people needing new hearts, and there would not be enough hearts out there, so many of them would die. CDC is wondering whether they just gave a chunk of the population heart failure, and if so, how many.

I anticipate the CDC will try to come up with some other explanation for the sudden increase in heart failure, particularly among the younger population that shouldn’t be experiencing it. Presumably, they’ll try to blame it on obesity, or racism, or possibly climate change. 

Already the not-vaxx has killed 77 percent of the total covid-19 deaths in Iceland. So, it may not take very long for the “cure” to amass a bigger body count than the “disease”.

An emergency meeting

The CDC is concerned about side effects of the not-vaxx:

CDC to hold an “emergency meeting” on rare but “higher-than-expected” reports of heart inflammation following jabs of the mRNA-based Pfizer and Moderna #COVID19 vaccines.

Translation: CDC to discuss how best to convince the public that “heart inflammation” is a minor and expected side effect of protecting yourself from something that is less likely to harm you than riding a bicycle.

The problem the CDC is trying to explain away is that the spike protein in the vaccine is actually more dangerous than the spike protein in the virus.

The spike protein, on its own, is almost entirely responsible for the damage to the cardiovascular system, if it gets into circulation. Indeed, if you inject the purified spike protein into the blood of research animals they get all kinds of damage to the cardiovascular system, and it can cross the blood-brain barrier and cause damage to the brain.

Ben Shapiro hates middle class America

The Littlest Chickenhawk has always hated America, Americans, and Western Civilization, he just didn’t make it so obvious to everyone before now.

I see many people are enraged at Blackrock. Blackrock is buying homes from people willing to sell them. If you don’t like what they’re doing, target the loose governmental policy incentivizing this sort of investment.

Seriously, Blackrock isn’t going to stop investing in single-family homes because you’re mad on Twitter. But you could direct your energies toward stopping the Fed’s insane monetary policy, which is driving down the cost of loans and creating a massive bubble.

If Blackrock is willing to take the risk of leveraging up to buy single-family housing at above-market prices, that their prerogative. So long as they own the downside risk. No bailouts. Ever.

And if you’re mad at Blackrock and want to artificially prevent them from buying single-family homes, I’d like for you to explain to those who currently own the homes why you’re taking money out of their pocket.

And just to underline what a moron the little monster is, note that his advice to Americans watching the elimination of the housing stock and the destruction of the middle class is not to oppose the guilty party, but to oppose the Federal Reserve, a private corporation massively more rich, powerful, and politically influential than Blackrock.

As Lauren Witzke explains: THIS is why Ben Shapiro is promoted on all platforms. Little Ben is the official damage-control spokesman for the wicked Globalist Oligarchy.

Once I understood that debt was the center of the modern economy, I wondered how long it would take for the favored borrowers to own literally everything. Apparently we’ve now entered the accelerationist phase, that will only be stopped by a) Satan’s little servants owning everything, or b) revolution and mass deportations.

Of course, it always ends in (b), the only question is whether there is an (a) phase first.