Lynn Langmade, Ph.D. @lynnlangmade

Agency owner by day, digital alchemist by night—transforming pixels into possibilities. AKA Dr. Langmade. Exploring AI, art, & entrepreneurship. Join me. vergemarketing.agency Need Content? Check out Verge Joined July 2013

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Kentucky Girl @Notwokenow

a week ago

Y’all, this is hysterical. Everyone in the south will identify.

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Handre @Handre

3 weeks ago

In 1913, Congress sold you the income tax as a tiny levy on the rich. The top rate was 7 percent, and it only kicked in on income above $500,000 (roughly $15 million today). The bottom rate? One percent. They promised it would stay that way. They lied, of course, but the lie was elegant: target the millionaires, calm the working man, then expand the definition of "millionaire" until it includes a plumber in Ohio. By 1918, five years later, the top rate hit 77 percent. Five years. The "temporary" emergency of the First World War gave the state its excuse, and the state never gives an excuse back. Once you accept that Washington owns a percentage of your labor, the only question left is which percentage, and that question gets answered every April by people who have never met you and never will. Income tax is a claim on your time. When the government takes 24 percent of what you earn, it takes roughly three months of your working year and assigns that labor to itself. You work January through March for the Treasury. Call that what it is. A man forced to work for another man without pay has a word in the dictionary, and it is not "citizen." Free market thinkers spotted the trick a century ago. Frank Chodorov wrote a whole book on it, "The Income Tax: Root of All Evil," published in 1954, and his argument has aged better than the dollar has. The tax requires you to confess your entire financial life to the state and prove your innocence on demand. No warrant. No suspicion. Just compliance, backed by liens, wage garnishment, and the polite threat of armed men. The IRS now employs more people than the FBI, ATF, and DEA combined. You were told 1913 was the beginning of a fairer system. It was the beginning of a permanent one. Nothing the government touches stays small, and nothing it calls temporary ever ends.

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Lynn Langmade, Ph.D. @lynnlangmade

3 weeks ago

@James18642978 @buck_dev @UmibozuZealot @DayleenVann wealth is not a zero sum game.

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Lynn Langmade, Ph.D. @lynnlangmade

3 weeks ago

@James18642978 @buck_dev @UmibozuZealot @DayleenVann Why should anyone have to pay ANY capital gains tax at all? Taxation is theft by governments who have a monopoly on violence.

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Noah @antibearthesis

4 weeks ago

Me refusing to sell my 1 SpaceX IPO share because it might be a Mars boarding pass someday

Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance

4 weeks ago

BREAKING: Thousands of retail investors received just 1 SpaceX share at IPO

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dany @danywander

a month ago

a reminder that branding matters.

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Aaron Cannon @AaronLCannon

a month ago

I started talking to my co-founder like Claude

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Boring_Business @BoringBiz_

a month ago

CEOs walking into work after realizing that the AI tokens are going to cost more than the employees they fired

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Champagne Joshi @JoshWalkos

a month ago

Bro was genuinely scared to death. 😂 🤣

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Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly

2 months ago

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read books, drink tea, and eat pastries in a humble seaside cottage on a rainy day?

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⛆ 🌧️ ⛆ @spooky_nature

2 months ago

the rain sounds so soothing, doesn’t it??

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Eric Jiang @veggie_eric

2 months ago

genuinely hate that I can no longer use "—" in anything I write anymore

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Axel Savage @LibertySavage01

2 months ago

Does anyone know when WWI will be over so we can get rid of the temporary federal income tax? Asking for a friend

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Lynn Langmade, Ph.D. @lynnlangmade

2 months ago

@litcapital The em dash was used by our best writers long before AI trained on their writing and is a punctuation mark taught in English at the collegiate level (I used to teach classes on how to use it). We shouldn't stop writing like humans because AI has gotten good at imitating us.

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Lynn Langmade, Ph.D. @lynnlangmade

2 months ago

@dissidntdad those poor lambs 😥

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Renee @TexasCowgrl1111

3 months ago

Hypothetically…….. I’m being taxed on money I never made. Let that sink in. If I bought my property outright for $60,000 in 2009 Now the county says it’s worth $246,000. Did I sell it? No. Did I make a profit? No. Did I get a check for $246,000? No. But my taxes jumped like I did. That’s the problem. This isn’t income. This isn’t cash. This is a number someone decided on paper — and now I’m being billed for it. If my stock portfolio doubles, I don’t pay taxes until I sell. If my income doesn’t increase, I don’t magically owe more income tax. So why does owning a home work differently? Why am I being taxed on unrealized gains? A house isn’t just an investment — it’s where people live. And this system means you can do everything right, pay off your home, and still get squeezed harder every year because of a number you never turned into money. You don’t truly own something if you can be taxed out of it. This isn’t about “services” or “inflation.” It’s about being charged for value you never received. And people are starting to notice. This needs to be on everyone’s mind✔️

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Rhys @RhysSullivan

3 months ago

LLMs are weird because it's like having a brilliant employee who never stops working but is also a compulsive liar

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Lynn Langmade, Ph.D. @lynnlangmade

3 months ago

@Mathew_Winters1 So inspiring how you're killing animals!!!!

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Henry Shevlin @dioscuri

3 months ago

Big personal news: I’ve been recruited by Google DeepMind for a new Philosopher position (actual title), focusing on machine consciousness, human-AI relationships, and AGI readiness, starting in May. I’ll continue my research & teaching at Cambridge part-time. Absolutely stoked!