#contrarian — Public Fediverse posts

Claude is a Contrarian

https://medium.com/@rdsubhas/claude-is-a-contrarian-dbce4de5cada

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699373

#HackerNews #Claude #Contrarian #AI #Debate #Tech #Culture

Monday Manager JO Hambro’s Herson: ‘The UK market is under M&A attack’ https://www.byteseu.com/2263007/ #Contrarian #GreatBritain #housebuilders #JoHambro #Kier #m&a #MondayManager #UKEquities #UnitedKingdom #Wickes

SpaceX Shares Fall Below IPO Price: A Contrarian Buy Worth Considering
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=spacex-shares-fall-below-ipo-price-a-contrarian-buy-worth-considering
<p>A few weeks ago, Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX) was the most hyped stock on the market
#contrarian #spacex #shares #below

Solo investing beats small groups for speed and conviction. Five years in, I've learned committees dilute the best contrarian bets. Trusting your own thesis is harder but far more profitable than chasing consensus. #investing #contrarian #behavioralfinance

Crowdsource: Hydration Motivation: Spite Edition

Ok gang, I was searching for stickers or magnets or something as little reminders to drink more water, and honestly the most successful motivator for me is spite or at least something that actually feels like A Real, Specific Goal than just "be hydrated because it's good for you" (although that should be enough).

So far the one I like best says, "Drink more water. Outlive your enemies." And that's not bad…

I don't run(!) but if I did I would buy the tank top that says, "I run so I can keep up with The Doctor" (this one says "work out" (well, it says "workout" but it should say work out as the verb not the noun…) but you get the idea).

So… if we could collectively brainstorm (like when Martha got the world to think DOCTOR all at once to un-creepy-old-age him)… anybody got any "slogans" that are maybe not quite reverse psychology but like, contrarian and perverse (see 2b or 3) or just petty and spiteful and revenge-ful…

Or something that's like, I'm doing this really bland thing to give myself a Fun, Cool Superpower. Or to 'imitate' a really badass person.

I'd be ever so grateful for your ideas!!!

(Not really looking for "tips HOW to drink more water" - just little mottos I can stick in various places to remind myself why it's "important" (to me!))

@Kristine @evan

(Did you miss me putting in the #Contrarian hashtag? 😇)

@Kristine

As usual there should be a multiple selection option for the poll that includes not making a selection.

#Contrarian

There are few things that make me less likely to #boost a #toot than when it starts with "BOOST THIS!!!|".

#contrarian #DontTellMeWhatToDo

3 Bloomberg: #JPMorgan #strategists are out with a #contrarian take: the #coin is looking much more attractive over the long term than gold. #Bitcoin #crypto #markets

💡 Đang thử nghiệm các công cụ AI viết nội dung (X, LinkedIn) và nhận ra: hầu hết tối ưu “an toàn, trung tính”. Nhưng những bài thành công thường phá vỡ giả định, đặt câu hỏi, nói điều không thoải mái. 🧠 Tôi đang hướng tới góc nhìn phản biện – không nóng bỏng, mà phân tích có cấu trúc. Các bạn nghĩ tư duy phản biện có còn thiếu trong AI hiện nay, hay người dùng chỉ muốn nội dung an toàn? #AI #AItools #ContentCreation #Contrarian #SaaS #ViệtNam #Marketing #NộiDung #SángTạo #Tech 🚀

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"Always remember that conformity is where tomorrow's greatness goes to die." - Futurist Jim Carroll

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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing his end-of-2025 / introduction-to-2026 series, 26 Principles for 2026. You can follow along at 2026.jimcarroll.com. He welcomes your comments.
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I've long suggested that one of the best ways to align with the future is through this thinking: when everybody is running one way, run the other way!

Be the contrarian. The hole in the bucket, the square peg with a bunch of round holes, the one who says "why not?' when everyone else is saying 'why?'

We are on Day 17. Yesterday, we looked at the terrifying math of the future—the sheer scale of change that is coming. 1-2-4-16-64 vs. 1-2-3-45.

When faced with that kind of overwhelming scale, the natural human instinct is to feel overwhelmed. And I am willing to admit that one reaction I see in common with all of my audiences is that this feeling is universal. I've been doing text-message-based polling from the stage for over 15 years, and one overwhelmingly consistent attitude is that people feel universally overwhelmed by the speed of the future.

So they try to avoid it. They try to fit in. They take the cautious route.

They choose the comfortable over discomfort.

The result? When we feel a need for comfort, to fit in, to follow the herd instinct, we try to be like everyone else. We look for safety in numbers. Case in point: we look at our competitors and say, "Well, they are doing AI this way, so we should too." Korn Ferry made this observation about AI: "Among the most expensive keeping-up-with-the-Joneses games in corporate history."

Need more proof? We seek out "best practices," which is usually just a fancy word for "copying the average."

I rest my case.

In a linear world, fitting in was a survival strategy. You survived by being a cog that fit perfectly into the machine.

In an exponential world, conformity is a death sentence.

Here's why: read the full post at the link below.

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**#Uniqueness** **#Conformity** **#Contrarian** **#Rebellion** **#Innovation** **#Curiosity** **#Differentiation** **#Misfits** **#Authenticity** **#Exponential**

The story of Oblio has defined much of Futurist Jim Carroll’s approach to life.

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/12/decoding-tomorrow-mastering-2026-16-unapologetic-uniqueness-always-remember-that-conformity-is-where-tomorrows-greatness-goes-to-die/

Are you at independent, free-thinker? One quick test, but not ultimate indicator: do your beliefs occasionally align with the majority? If not, you are simply a #contrarian.

#CriticalThinking
#logic
#ConspiracyTheories
#cognitivedissonance

Just an excellent piece by #JenniferRubin in the #Contrarian.

“The Nobel Prize Committee announced its annual awards over the last week or so. Aside from the number of winners based at U.S. universities (which have been until now the crown jewel of our education and scientific communities), something else caught my attention: Are the Nobel Prize judges…trolling Donald Trump?…”
https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/a-nobel-prize-for-trolling?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#Nobel #authoritarianism #democracy #peace #war

'Source' - #DailyPictureTheme

Love. The ultimate source.

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#vss365 - #contrarian
#WordedArt - #refill
#BlueSkyRelay - #revive
#DailyHaikuPrompt - sand / hibernate

#WritingCommunity #poetry #haiku

#KBFPhotography #MobilePhonePhotography #Photography

@dailyhaikuprompt
@vss365 @writingcommunity @poetry @haiku @photography

I exist among
transparent human simulations
who I constantly
strive to prod, poke,
and agitate repeatedly
in an effort to release
their suppressed passions
as a ferocious counter balance
to my #contrarian
aggression

This constant
conflict friction
generated
by these continuous
strained interactions
is designed purposely
to ignite
and spark their
dormant souls
back to life

I am their spiritual liberator

Crass slayer of monotony

Saving not only themselves
from a mundane existence
but myself as well

#vss365 #poetry #poem #amwriting

We came not for the show
but the bloody spectacle
of our existence dissolution

Nasty beasts were released
to assist the thought police
in canceling all #contrarian dissent

In fact anyone deemed different
of appearance or opinion
were labeled as threats
and caught in the net
of state sanctioned repression

Once the complicit population
shaken from former indifference
was worked into a sufficient frenzy
our extinction ticket was punched

Even the predators of this feast know
the blood thirsty spectators
today cheering on the carnage
will soon enough
be their squealing lunch

#vss365 #poetry #poem #amwriting

🚂🚫 Mert Bulan's 25-minute diatribe on why he's too cool for the #AI #hype #train is a masterclass in ignoring the future while reminiscing about the glory days of #Luddite #skepticism. 🤖🛑 Apparently, all you need to resist technological progress is a website, a blog, and an inflated sense of #contrarian self-importance. 🙄✨
https://mertbulan.com/2025/06/26/why-i-dont-ride-the-ai-hype-train/ #Tech #Resistance #Views #HackerNews #ngated

@Jorsh #Contrarian noticed this, too: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/did-american-movies-help-propel-trump

Their list of positive counter-examples validates my decision to renew my Disney+ subscription for another year after deciding to cancel Prime and Netflix. Andor alone was worth it.

Says The #Contrarian re #Trump in Los Angeles: "The galling #hypocrisy of #Trump and his #MAGA sycophants should not be lost on anyone. For starters, Trump #pardoned hundreds of Jan. 6, 2021, #insurrectionists. ..." https://tinyurl.com/2p9mjsj9

but the stock may be oversold given current political headwinds.
Contrarian opportunity or continued headwinds? What's your take? 🎯
Get the complete analysis: https://www.theinsidersfund.com/2025/06/insider-buying-week-05-30-25-could-harvard-university-go-public/
#InsiderBuying #AVTR #Biopharma #Contrarian #NotInvestmentAdvice

Jennifer Rubin: "Other countries, much older than the United States, have gone through grim, even disastrous years, decades, or centuries. And yet in Europe, the spirit of liberal democracy (however imperfect) remains alive and well. A sense of the public good still thrives, and millions of people strive to hold on to the achievements of Western Civilization."
#Contrarian #politics #history

🧐 Oh, you use #Emacs as a #file manager? How delightfully #contrarian of you. Who needs those quaint, user-friendly #interfaces like Windows Explorer or Nautilus when you can wrestle with dired-mode instead? 😏 Enjoy your artisanal, hand-crafted file #management experience. 📂🔨
https://lynn.sh/guix-emacs-file-manager.html #UserFriendly #DiredMode #HackerNews #ngated

Jennifer Rubin at The Contrarian explains how Judge Beryl Howell (DC Circuit) threw the book at the Trump regime in her summary judgment overturning the EO against the law firm Perkins Coie.

Rubin also chides the media for failing to point out consistently that EO’s are NOT laws and that most of Trump’s weird pronouncements will turn out to be just so much hot air.

#EO #RuleofLaw #lawfirms #lawfare #PerkinsCoie #BerylHowell #Contrarian #JenniferRubin

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/putting-trumps-threats-in-writing

AMEN to #JenRubin / #Contrarian on Ex. 23:9: “You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger: You were strangers in the land of Egypt.” -- “There could be no more relevant message today, as we see immigrants targeted, demonized, abused, deported, and abandoned.” https://bit.ly/3RNay5M

Glad you had a nice dinner, #BillMaher

Not super helpful w current #US #democracy death-spiral. (BTW, #Mussolini likely a gracious 🍽️ host, too.)

So you’re not a “#liar”—just a petty, ridiculous preening #contrarian #provocateur weasel-whore.

We Get It (and have for some time). Lots and lots of #Americans would/will sell out their/everyone’s #freedom/#country for access/appetizers, yucks/clicks. Cuz 🤑💰🤑 and “The #Democrats 😩 XYZ…”

#GTFOH☠️

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-praises-gracious-measured-trump-after-wild-white-house-meeting-you-can-hate-me-for-it-but-im-not-a-liar/

#DiningWithFascists🍷🚬

Ah, #Fediverse. My feed this morning seems to contain

50% #HandsOff reports, signs, congratulations, etc.

10% Very Thoughtful opinions that the HandsOff protests yesterday are "part of the problem," "emblematic of the problem," making things worse, or actually supporting fascism.

#hottakes #contrarian #thoughtDiversity #protest #gatekeeping

The article is worth reading. However, I think the title, "How to beat back Trump’s divide and conquer strategy," should instead be "How to stand up to bullies and not capitulate." #Contrarian #JenniferRubin #PunchABully #StrongerTogether

How to beat back Trump’s divid...

Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021) — https://time.com/6092844/peter-thiel-power-biography-the-contrarian/
#HackerNews #PeterThiel #Biography #Contrarian #Power #TechIndustry

"Because it’s going to take a team to do this, the Democracy Index will be located at a new venture that launched today, The Contrarian."

#Contrarian #WashingtonPost #DemocracyIndex #democracy #media
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Joyce Vance announces the development of a new venture, Democracy Index, affiliated with the Contrarian:

"The Democracy Index is a project that will use the expertise of lawyers and political scientists to track developments in Trump 2.0., based on facts and transparent analysis. At heart, it’s a proposal for civics education, something whose restoration is near a dear to my heart."

~ Joyce Vance

#Contrarian #WashingtonPost #DemocracyIndex #democracy #media
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-democracy-index-and-the-contrarian

@benroyce You are right that the misanthropic ‘dynamic’ is beneficial among members of the MAGA cult. And it is a vicious cycle in #USpol that we need to break.

Something in them (a #DeplorableGene 🧬 ?) seems to *compel* them to be #contrarian to social norms and even their own self-interest, but only if it will benefit ‘their kind’, chiefly #DonaldTheDeplorable.

I so wish people would 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 before they s̶h̶o̶o̶t̶ write from the hip. Sadly, a few [personal] [mis] interpretations or maybe folk just looking to argue?
#contrarian

https://pastebin.com/8jXYaQsq

@kim_harding @Daojoan

Small problem with Westenberg's doom complex - it's based on earth history and data trends - not Joe Shmoe's "predictions."

The frailty of the climate system and the rapid decline of biodiversity is playing out now. The only uncertainty is how bad it will get & how fast - and if it can be reversed at all.

...For that the odds are poor given the delay in changing course and political dysfunction.

#contrarian preaching that all is well -- #climatechange denial.

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#MetalInjection
GEORGE KOLLIAS Rejoins CONTRARIAN, New Album Coming

https://metalinjection.net/news/george-kollias-rejoins-contrarian-new-album-coming

#GeorgeKollias #Contrarian