John Bind⛑️🪖🧢

generally, women are drawn to terrorism but shit at it

@iowahawkblog An acre is what a man can plow on a day more or less

Because the USA is denominated in miles. There are 640 acres in a square mile. 640 can be divided by 2 easily. A square half mile is 160 acres, a square 1/4 mile is 40 acres, a square 1/8 mile is 10 acres. Nobody in America knows what a kilometer is, let alone a hectare

Veganism has existed as a meaningful dietary practice for approximately 80 years. Humans have eaten animal products for approximately 2.5 million years. In every human culture, in every climate, in every era for which we have archaeological evidence, animal protein was not just eaten but actively sought, fought over, celebrated, and distributed according to social hierarchy. The Inuit ate almost exclusively animal products and had no cardiovascular disease until Western food arrived. The Masai built extraordinary physical culture on blood, milk, and meat. The Plains tribes of North America organised their entire civilisation around the buffalo. Veganism, as a viable option, requires: - A global supply chain to deliver nutrients your local environment cannot provide - A supplement industry to replace what your food won't give you - Enough income to afford the fortified alternatives - Enough food security to make ideological food choices rather than survival ones Tell someone in rural Zimbabwe or the highlands of Bolivia or the Arctic Circle to go vegan. Watch them look at you. This is a diet that works only in the specific conditions produced by the civilisation it claims to oppose. The supply chain it depends on runs on fossil fuels. The soy it eats runs on deforestation. The B12 it needs runs on pharmaceutical manufacturing. You are not opting out of the system. You are buried in it.

@michaeljknowles Why does she have three first names? And they're male names.

The most absurd part of this story—and the part no one seems to have noticed—is that this woman is not a bachelorette.

Another loophole finally getting attention H-1B workers get laid off switch to B-2 stay in the U.S. and keep searching Now USCIS is starting to reject it For years it’s been workaround after workaround Looks like one more lever is being pulled back rnlawgroup.com/is-uscis-setti…

@OwenGregorian "insurance companies are lobbying for policy exclusions for AI generated code"

Meta Is Building an Encrypted Chatbot After AI Agents Went Rogue and Expose Sensitive Data | AJ Dellinger, Gizmodo Add Meta to the list of companies that have had AI wreak havoc on their internal systems. According to a report from The Information, an AI agent, working on behalf of an engineer, provided guidance that ultimately led to sensitive user data being exposed to people who weren’t authorized to see it. As is often the case with these situations, like the one that led to an AI agent deleting critical code and knocking a server offline at Amazon, the autopsy reads like a comedy of errors. Per The Information, it started with a Meta employee asking a technical question on an internal forum designed for employees to help each other when issues arise. An engineer saw the question and asked an AI agent to analyze, which resulted in the agent actually posting a response as the engineer. The original poster saw the guidance and, thinking it was coming from a fellow Meta employee, decided to act on it. Turns out the AI agent didn’t quite know what it was talking about. When the employee acted on its advice, it reportedly made a massive amount of data, including sensitive company and user information, available to Meta employees who did not have clearance to view or access it. The exposure lasted for about two hours before it was fixed. It’s not the first time someone at Meta has trusted an AI agent a bit too much. Earlier this year, Summer Yue, the director of safety and alignment at Meta’s superintelligence lab, handed the open-source AI agent OpenClaw access to her inbox. It ended up deleting all of her emails, even as she pleaded with it to stop. Maybe that’s why Meta is looking outside of its own walls to find someone to help out with security. Wired reports that Moxie Marlinspike, the person behind Signal and its open-source encryption protocol, is working with Meta to bring end-to-end encryption to its AI chatbots. Marlinspike has been working on an encrypted chatbot called Confer, and will reportedly be helping Meta integrate the technology into its own AI offerings—though his platform will continue to operate independently, so it doesn’t seem he’ll be joining the company. “We are using LLMs for the kind of unfiltered thinking that we might do in a private journal – except this journal is an API endpoint to a data pipeline specifically designed for extracting meaning and context,” he wrote in a blog post. “As Meta builds more AI products beyond the basic chat paradigm, the privacy technology from Confer will be a part of the foundation of everything that is to come.” gizmodo.com/meta-is-buildi…

Jensen Huang: “If that $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I'm going to be deeply alarmed.” The Nvidia CEO expects his highly paid engineers to be spending at least HALF their salaries on tokens to supercharge their abilities. @Jason: “ The conversation we've had on the pod a number of times is, ‘Oh my God, look at the token usage in our companies.’ It is growing massively.” “And some people are asking, ‘Hey, when I join a company, how many tokens do I get? Because I want to be an effective employee.’” “You've postulated, I believe, $75,000 in tokens for each engineer, something like that.” “So are you spending, at Nvidia, $1 billion, $2 billion on tokens for your engineering team right now?” Jensen: “We're trying to.” “Let me give you the thought experiment: Let's say you have a software engineer or AI researcher and you pay them $500,000 a year. We do that all the time.” “That $500,000 engineer, at the end of the year, I'm going to ask them, how much did you spend in tokens?” “If that person said, ‘$5,000,’ I will go ape… something else.” “If that $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I'm going to be deeply alarmed. “And this is no different than one of our chip designers who says, ‘Guess what? I'm just going to use paper and pencil, I don't think I'm going to need any CAD tools.’” Jason: “This is a real paradigm shift, to start thinking about these all-star employees, it almost reminds me of what we learned in the NBA when LeBron James started spending a million dollars a year just on his health and his body, like in maintaining it. Here he is at age 41, still playing.” “These are incredible knowledge workers. Why wouldn't we give them superhuman abilities?”

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𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚.𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗝𝗢𝗘 𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗘𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗕𝗔𝗧𝗘. Joe Kent goes on Tucker Carlson. Within minutes — not hours, minutes — the same clip, same caption, same outrage floods hundreds of accounts simultaneously. HonestReporting.AI Labs tracked every amplification event in real time, and the data is damning. The trigger quote — 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 — was clipped and posted across hundreds of accounts almost simultaneously. Not after it trended. During the broadcast. Real breaking news takes time to spread organically. This had a running start. Who amplified it? Look at the coalition: Russian state TV (RT). Iranian state media through HispanTV. Hamas-aligned Quds News Network. Turkish state broadcaster TRT. Sputnik Brasil. And simultaneously — Jackson Hinkle, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Max Blumenthal. Russia, Iran, Hamas, and MAGA dissidents. All posting the same message. At the same time. When does that happen naturally? It doesn't. The charts tell the story precisely. Within 2 to 4 hours of the Tucker broadcast, tracked amplification events spiked to 30 — dominated by MAGA dissident amplifiers and Pro-Palestinian/Islamist networks firing in parallel. The second chart shows how far the narrative traveled from what Kent actually said. By the time the amplification cycle was complete, the message had escalated from Kent's original claim all the way to "Israel controls America" — an approximately 85-90% departure from source material. That is not interpretation. That is narrative laundering. The rollout wasn't spontaneous. Kent resigned. Tucker booked him within hours. Real whistleblowers are chaotic. They call journalists from parking lots. They don't have a media tour lined up before the ink dries on their resignation letter. And here's what got buried in all of it: from 2020 to 2024, Joe Kent publicly and repeatedly called for destroying Iran's nuclear AND ballistic capabilities. That record was almost completely absent from the amplified conversation. Narrative laundering doesn't only determine what to amplify. It determines what to erase. The FBI was already investigating Kent. He resigned to control the narrative. The speed, the uniformity, and the foreign state amplification are not organic. This was a coordinated information operation — and the people pushing it included both foreign adversaries and Americans who should know better. 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮, 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻, 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

Imagine describing beef to someone from the future. "So explain this to me. You had an animal that ate the inedible plants, on the land you couldn't farm, with rainwater, and produced the most nutritionally complete food available to humans." "Yes." "And it required no electricity, no factory, no petroleum, no synthetic inputs." "Correct." "And it built topsoil while it ate, sequestered carbon through the root systems it grazed, and supported dozens of dependent species in the surrounding ecosystem." "That's right." "And you tried to replace it with a factory that uses fossil fuel-derived solvents to extract protein from seeds grown on chemically depleted monoculture farmland." "The packaging said..." "The packaging." "It had a leaf on it." "..." "And a reassuring green colour." "Right." "And you went with that." "The documentary was very compelling." "Was it." "David Attenborough narrated it." "Right. Yes. That explains everything."

@SamaHoole @instapundit

Activist: "The water usage for beef is obscene. Thousands of litres per kilogram." Farmer: "That's rainfall." Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The figure includes all the rain that falls on the pasture. The cows drink from the stream. The rain falls whether there's a cow here or not." Activist: "It's still water consumption." Farmer: "Should I stop the rain falling on my field?" Activist: "Grow crops instead. More efficient." Farmer: "This is a 35-degree slope in the Welsh hills. Show me the crop." Activist: "Technology..." Farmer: "To make tractors climb mountains?" Activist: "There must be a solution." Farmer: "There is. It's called a cow." Activist: [checks phone]

I don't like the colors, but I'm bound and determined to build a better system to give the users the ability to quickly navigate sam.gov and grants.gov (coming soon) and other money making opportunities as we discover them. Why? When our government actively helps our businesses send our jobs overseas and import workers to take the remaining jobs, we need a source of income and I can think of no money I would rather receive in return than our own taxpayer money from our own government that does not have our back. hireamericanllc.com

@ChiefEngineerCE My man discovered what westerners learned eons ago. A single price is best.

You might not realize it but... It's worse for Indians they are scammed more than any other region out there. I know ...right? Their phones are near useless with the scam calls. They don't trust their own financial institutions and it's likely every company that has offshored there is being drained of every cent in kickbacks and corruption. There are X accounts dedicated to reporting the mysterious fees, accounts vanishing, and which companies are not to be trusted. This is the culture and their own media reports it non-stop.

The 'temporal smoothing' effect seen in ice cores doesn't just hide spikes, it also obscures the massive thermal lag between the air and the deep ocean. If CO₂ was the root cause of warming it would rise first. But it doesn't. CO₂ increases are almost always shown to lag behind temperatures, by as much as 700 to 1,000 years. This is caused by oceanic inertia. The oceans hold roughly 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere and also contain 90% of the planet's retained thermal energy. The oceans act as the master flywheel. Historically, CO₂ levels have been shown to lag temperature rises by centuries. The ocean warms, and like a glass of soda left in the sun, CO₂ slowly outgasses into the gossamer thin film of our atmosphere. Water is also 1,000 times denser and heavier than air. Oceans cover 71% of the planet's surface to an average depth of 2.3 miles. This is why the oceans have intertia. They are the powerhouse of the thermal world. Ocean currents are slow yet ceaseless and it takes roughly 800 to 1,000 years for a parcel of water to complete this journey (called thermohaline circulation). The weight placed on CO₂ levels at 0.042% of the atmosphere is really a thermodynamic rounding error. The oceans are the true climate drivers with a 1,000 year memory. Ice cores are just a low-resolution blurred history of the relationship between CO₂ and temperatures in the atmosphere. This physical process cannot physically record short-term spikes. We aren't necessarily seeing unprecedented changes happening. We are simply the first generation with the technology to see the flicker in high definition.

Planned Parenthood of Illinois will pay $500,000 to end EEOC investigation over DEI-related race-based segregation, harassment, and disparate treatment. White employees were subjected to derogatory and race-based harassment during mandatory, segregated DEI trainings on a weekly basis—including messages that they “are white and do not feel racism the same way non-white patients feel" and that “white supremacy is exerted at every level of oppression (individual, interpersonal, organizational, and societal).” In addition, white employees were unlawfully denied paid time off granted to black employees. The @USEEOC is committed to fully utilizing all statutory tools to fulfill the agency’s mission of protecting every American worker from unlawful discrimination.

In 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer was arrested after killing two people in San Diego, California. When asked why she did it, she replied, "I just don't like Mondays.” Learn more: historydefined.net/brenda-ann-spe…

A republic if you can keep it. Land can only be held by people. If you do not have children you forfeit your claim to the land.

By unintentionally favoring audiovisual media over the written word what you gain in current information and analysis you lose in historical information and primary source documents. can't help that auditory memory is a lot better than visual memory