Buck Clemons
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SPLC was one of the most powerful censorship forces in the country for decades. Lavishly supported by many big American companies for many years. This is astonishing, and deeply concerning.
U.S. Department of Justice@TheJusticeDept
🚨HAPPENING NOW: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC"). Our indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups.
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! FBI Director Patel says leftist NGO Southern Poverty Law Center, which has now been indicted, was using donor to pay leaders of the KU KLUX KLAN to stage "HATE CRIMES"
"They used the FRAUDULENTLY raised money by lying to their donor network—THOUSANDS of Americans—to go ahead and actually PAY the leadership of these supposed violent extremist groups.
"Furthermore, our investigation revealed that the Southern Poverty Law Center—on TOP of perpetuating this widespread decade-long multimillion dollar fraud—conducted more criminal activity.
They attempted to HIDE their criminal activity from our financial banking network.
They set up shell companies and entities around America so that the financial institutions that we rely on as everyday Americans were DECEIVED in believing that money was NOT coming from the Southern Poverty Law Center in the perpetration of this scheme and fraud, but rather fictitious entities they stood up to perpetuate this ongoing fraud."
@FBIDirectorKash
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@_baldtires I know @Boeing had one until the big change about a decade ago when the Finance Bro's took over and all the problems started. He told me there were others at the big Primes. He, and his peers, painted aircraft pictures for the company as their full-time job.
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How much would it cost for any modern aerospace company to hire an in-house artist to make renderings like this? As much as an engineer? How much comparable value would they provide to the world at large? Art is so important.
Francisco Cunha@OnDisasters
The stuff dreams are made off "Roy Gjertson studied art in Minnesota and Los Angeles before serving as a B-24 radio operating and gunner during World War II. After the war, he resumed his career as an illustrator for aviation companies in California. Gjertson is best known for the work he did for General Dynamics in San Diego. During his two decades there, he drew everything from commercial airliners to futuristic space shuttles for the company’s advertisements and proposals". ℹ️📸 Never Was Mag
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You're missing the whole point. The policy had the effect they wanted. There were no surprises, or unintended consequences, the entire time. They new what they were doing, what price would be paid (in blood and damage), and they did it anyway. Donald Trump wasn't supposed to win in 2016, and when he did, they fixed that and went back to what they were doing.
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Look, I get it, Dems.
You think buying Greenland is dumb.
You think trash-talking NATO is dumb.
You think Hegseth firing generals is dumb.
You think bombing Iran is dumb.
Fine. Maybe you’re right. Maybe you’re wrong. I’ll buy you a beer and we can argue about it.
But that’s not the point.
Every administration in American history has done dumb things.
Jefferson had an embargo that tanked his own economy.
LBJ had Vietnam.
Carter sold the Panama Canal for $1.
W. had “Mission Accomplished.”
Obama had…. where do I even begin?
Dumb is bipartisan. Dumb is American. Dumb is fine. DC runs on dumb decisions.
What NONE of them ever did, what is truly, mind-melting, pants-on-head, clown-car-fire, galaxy-brained, lead-paint-chip-eating, 50-IQ-Neanderthal-ripping-a-bong dumb, was pay NGOs by the busload to smuggle tens of millions of people, including actual convicted criminals, across a border we spent trillions pretending to defend, then hand them free four-star hotels, free cell phones, free ATM cards, and a court date in 2031 they were never going to show up for.
That is not a policy. That is a SNL cold open someone forgot to write a punchline for.
A five-year-old with a juice box could tell you that was Bozo-the-Clown-on-crack, Weekend-at-Bernie’s-running-DHS, “hold-my-beer-I’m-gonna-try-something” levels of stupid. My golden retriever could have run a tighter border. A Magic 8-Ball would have outperformed the entire Biden interagency.
That’s the new threshold, Democrats.
That’s the low-water mark. That’s the floor. That is the Mariana Trench of public policy and you personally rented the Titan submersible.
Argue all you want about the Strait of Hormuz. Write your op-eds. Go on cable TV with Tom Nichols. Clutch your pearls about Greenland.
But until Trump proposes something even half as mind-bendingly, bone-crushingly, civilization-forfeitingly brain-dead as what Biden and Kamala did with our borders, I genuinely do not care.
Zero F’s given by me.
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@faraz_r_khan @EV_Trapper @mkadnk @IngeniteForge @connorkapoor @sendcutsend @gofinalrev @ForgeForgeForge I have a client, if you DM me I will put you in touch with them. They can do short run parts, quickly, without as much tooling costs.
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@EV_Trapper @mkadnk @IngeniteForge @connorkapoor @sendcutsend @gofinalrev @ForgeForgeForge Who else is there for low volume?
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Yes brother. Lots of people on here can help you. For metal casting, I'm just going to be honest in that you need some volume or else the price is just absurd.
What is the part like? You can use noramark, xometry or contact one of my followers on here who I'm sure would be more than willing to help you out!
Ingenite@IngeniteForge
Anyone know of a good option for metal casting or milling for a small object in the U.S. for a prototype?
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@IngeniteForge I have a client that can help you. You can DM me and I'll send you my contact info.
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Buck Clemons أُعيد تغريده
I don’t know why someone just now reposted this thread from Tammy and I also don’t know why I didn’t see it in the first place other than it was crazy at the time. But I just want you to know how much I love this thread and @HeyTammyBruce .
Tammy Bruce@HeyTammyBruce
In the 90s I was a host on a talk radio station in LA, the same that aired Rush. I was president of LA NOW, & the liberal wkend host when he visited the station. He was so vilified by my then-crowd, I expected a monster. Instead, I met a remarkable, kind and encouraging man... 1/
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@Tyler_Plummer @EV_Trapper DM me. I have a client that can help if you are in need of cores for casting.
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Which of my friends builds die cast molds/tooling for aluminum die casting?
We have a need for a vendor who can help us with making our coring. (Our volume is insane)
If you know someone in our industry please let me know here or DM me.
Thank you for your attention on this matter
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Somebody just won the Internets today!
US Oil & Gas Association@US_OGA
And to think that plumbers and electricians and welders and pipe fitters and fabricators and coating specialists and scaffolders and marine engineers and shipyard laborers built this technological marvel. You know what's missing from this list? Ass-clown late night comedians. Don't see them this list.
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Sounds familiar, especially to someone like @Jringo1508
Brett Adcock@adcock_brett
Today I'm excited to introduce Hark, a new artificial intelligence lab building the most advanced, personal intelligence in the world We've been in stealth for 8 months, assembling one of the greatest AI and hardware teams on the planet I want to explain why I started Hark and what we're focused on I've spent the last 3 years working on the hardest AI challenge imaginable: giving AI a humanoid body. On the digital side, I've been using all the existing LLM chatbots - and I have to say, they feel incredibly dumb to me AGI, in the limit, should feel like a sci-fi movie. It should be able to listen and talk. It should have persistent memory and be highly personalized. It should see and touch the world. But we're far from this today We are crafting a new interface to AGI. Intelligence that lets you offload your mental workload into a system that begins to think like you and sometimes ahead of you We started Hark with one goal: build the world's most advanced personal intelligence - paired with next-generation hardware designed to serve as a universal interface between humans and machines hark.com
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Buck Clemons أُعيد تغريده
Why would you want to put yourself, and your company, in a position of trying to figure out what foreign policy mission to fulfill and which to not? How are you and your engineers supposed to determine what is the right thing to do when the whole DC inter-agency process struggles with what is legal and what is ethical? Should the big 5 primes do the same with their missiles and aircraft?
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I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA.
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Can you hear yourself speaking? It is not about guardrails, or policies, or EOs. Its about a Government contractor telling the the US Government what goals can be pursued and which ones cannot. Imagine training on a system, for a decade and when war comes, the contractor decides it doesn't like this one and pulls the tool. How does a contractor get to influence foreign policy like that. It is also dumb for the contractor - why do they want to put themselves into a position where they have to make a decision like that. Try to hold a large corporation to account for anything and see how evasive they become. How can something like they are proposing work? How can we buy anything if the terms of use are predicated on the ever-changing Board of Directors and CEO? Do they really want to be involved in a targeting process? Getting kicked out of the Pentagon and stopping this insolence is a blessing in disguise for Anthropic.
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The eagerness for OpenAI to sign the contract on the very night their rival got fired is likely to be a lot more revealing than the contract terms, which in any event are ambiguous and unlikely to be enforced by a court that gives a lot of deference to the executive.
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@robbystarbuck We will not have won the cultural war in Hollywood until a proper film can be made of Atlas Shrugged.
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The irony here would be hilarious if it didn’t also remind me of the relentless blacklisting of every openly right wing figure in entertainment.
Under Paramount’s old ownership, I got a call after I endorsed Trump in 2016 telling me that I should publicly retract it. It was a pretty clear threat of losing business in my eyes and guess what? I didn’t retract and they wound down our business.
Every right wing person in that business who made their opinions known has had this happen. I have endless stories I could share.
Hollywood desperately needs disruption, and to bring back films made for the 75% of our country who aren’t crazy instead of catering to the 25% of woke lunatics.
I hope Ellison actually does this because it would be a beautiful way to correct decades of discrimination against right wing films, filmmakers and actors. Also, the freak outs over one studio doing this to great success would be delicious.
Variety@Variety
Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery has raised concerns among artists, who worry that Ellison’s coziness with the Trump administration could stifle free expression. “Ellison scares the shit out of me,” says one A-list director. “Are the movies they put out going to be catered to Trump’s taste? Are they going to start cracking down on content that they don’t find to be ideologically aligned with the right?” Read the full cover: wp.me/pc8uak-1lGXCp
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Can someone explain to me like I’m 5 why this doesn’t violate anti monopoly laws?
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
Paramount is now expected to own the following assets & film rights: Assets: • TNT • CBS • CNN • MTV • TCM • Showtime • Adult Swim • DC Studios • Paramount+ • Nickelodeon • HBO/HBO Max • Comedy Central • Cartoon Network Film Rights: • Star Trek • Gremlins • Beetlejuice • DC Comics • Tom & Jerry • Harry Potter • Citizen Kane • Transformers • A Quiet Place • Looney Tunes • The Conjuring • Mortal Kombat • Game of Thrones • Dora The Explorer • Mission Impossible • The Lord of the Rings • SpongeBob SquarePants • Avatar: The Last Airbender • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles • Dune 3 (distribution rights) • Minecraft (distribution rights) • MonsterVerse (distribution rights)
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Failure to pass the SAVE Act is a win-win for @LeaderJohnThune . Without a Save Act in place they are free to manipulate future elections as needed and because they fail to pass it they demoralize the GOP base - they lose the election and no longer have any pressure on them to do anything, because they are not in power. Then they get to fundraise off the rage and the stuff the Democrats propose. If they pass the Save Act, then they will have a better chance of winning the mid-terms and then the pressure is on again to do more.
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@KILLTOPARTY You leverage it into a new job, probably management, obviously
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@TheBugleDaily1 *In a deep voice* "...and I'm keeping the dress."
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I give up! I can't out meme the actual Star Trek Starfleet Academy show!
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@Osint613 No, Iran would be communist and look like North Korea, after supporting the Soviet Union in the Middle East
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Former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz:
The entire dilemma in Iran came about because the British and the American governments overthrew the democratic government of Iran and replaced it with the dictator, the Shah, who was later overthrown in turn by today’s rulers, who then established a brutal dictatorship, unlike what many people had hoped for at the time.
Had it not been for the overthrow of Iran’s democratic government at the beginning, carried out for oil interests, Iran would today be a very successful Western country
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@ClownWorld Maybe they should build a wall around NYC? Question, will it be more like WestBerlin or more like Escpae From New York?
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Supporter of Zoharn Mamdani argues businesses shouldn’t be allowed to leave over taxes and that the city should seize and operate them instead
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