Analyst In Wonderland

"Woe to those who drag iniquity with the cords of falsehood,             And sin as if with cart ropes;      Who say, “Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work, that we may see it;             And let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near             And come to pass, that we may know it!”      Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;             Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;             Who substitute bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!      Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,             And clever in their own sight!      Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine,             And valiant men in mixing strong drink;      Who justify the wicked for a bribe,             And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!      Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble,             And dry grass collapses into the flame,             So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust;             For they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts,             And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel." ISAIAH 18-24

Watch out for the Dignity Index bridge builders to come out of the woodwork and lecture us that violence is only one symptom of a "culture of contempt." The solution, of course, is giving them even more NGO dollars to spread the Dignity Index far and wide.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇯🇵 U.S. crude has made its way to Japan. The tanker OTIS unloaded roughly 910,000 barrels of Texas light oil at a refinery near Tokyo through the Panama Canal, avoiding the Strait of Hormuz.

'This Is A Both Sides Issue,' Says Side That Shot President Trump, Assassinated Charlie Kirk, Tried To Assassinate Kavanaugh, Tried To Shoot Trump Again, Shot Steve Scalise, Firebombed Governor Shapiro, Tried To Shoot Trump A Third Time, (cont'd) buff.ly/XUsOvZl

A 1000 years before modern metallurgy existed, Viking blacksmiths were somehow forging steel so pure it should have been impossible... Ulfberht sword is one of greatest unsolved mysteries in the history of warfare and craftsmanship. Since first examples were discovered, archaeologists and metallurgists have been left completely baffled by what these blades represent. Over 170 swords bearing the runic-style inscription "+VLFBERHT+" have been recovered from sites scattered across Europe, with the majority found in Rhine River valley, Scandinavia, and as far east as Russia. They date primarily from around 800-1000 AD, placing them squarely in the heart of the Viking Age. What makes these swords extraordinary is not their age or their ornate design. It is what they are made of. When scientists subjected Ulfberht blades to modern metallurgical analysis, the results were shocking. The steel contains a carbon content of up to 1.0 percent, classifying it as true crucible steel, sometimes called wootz steel. Crucible steel is forged at temperatures exceeding 1,600 degrees Celsius, hot enough to fully liquify the iron and allow slag and impurities to float away from the metal completely. The result is a blade with almost zero impurities, extraordinary flexibility, and a strength that far surpassed anything else available in medieval Europe at the time. Here is the problem... European blacksmiths of the Viking Age did not have the technology to reach those temperatures. The standard method used across Europe during this period was bloomery smelting, which produced a metal called wrought iron filled with slag and impurities. To remove those impurities, smiths had to laboriously fold and hammer the metal repeatedly, a process that helped but never fully eliminated the problem. The resulting weapons were brittle by comparison, prone to bending or snapping under the stress of combat. Soldiers often had to stop mid-battle to straighten their swords by hand or under their foot. An Ulfberht blade would never require that. The knowledge and equipment needed to consistently produce crucible steel of this quality was not independently developed in Europe until the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries, roughly 800 to 900 years after the Ulfberht swords were being made. The only comparable steel being produced during the Viking Age came from workshops in Central Asia and Persia, particularly in regions near modern-day Iran and Afghanistan, where craftsmen had mastered crucible steel techniques centuries earlier. This has led researchers to one of the most compelling theories surrounding the mystery. Viking traders and warriors had extensive contact with the Islamic world through the Volga trade routes, exchanging furs, amber, and slaves for silver and goods from the East. It is entirely possible that Ulfberht steel was imported raw from Central Asian or Persian sources and then worked by Frankish or Scandinavian smiths who understood how to shape it but did not fully understand how to produce it themselves. The name Ulfberht itself appears to be Frankish in origin, suggesting the swords were likely produced in the Frankish regions of what is now Germany or France. What deepens mystery further is that researchers have identified two distinct categories of Ulfberht swords. The genuine high-carbon crucible steel versions represent the minority. Majority of 170 plus recovered blades are actually crude imitations, made from inferior bloomery iron and bearing a slightly different spelling of inscription, with the crosses positioned differently. This tells us that even during Viking Age, counterfeiters existed. Ulfberht name carried such enormous prestige and commanded such high prices that lesser smiths were willing to forge inscription onto inferior blades to deceive buyers. Owning a real Ulfberht sword would have been the equivalent of carrying a weapon of legend, a status symbol as much as a tool of survival. #archaeohistories

You know Asia is truly short of crude oil when Japanese television covers the arrival of a single oil tanker from America as a major news story

The audacity. She is only doing this because she’s trying to use her donation money to pay her legal bills, of which she’s over $700k in debt.

🚨 NOW: TRUMP JUST ERUPTED President Trump says if we had the new ballroom — which Dems are trying to BLOCK — he’d have a secure facility to hold events and not possibly GET SHOT AT DROP THE LAWSUIT! “What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE.” “This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House.” “It cannot be built fast enough! While beautiful, it has every highest level security feature there is plus, there are no rooms sitting on top for unsecured people to pour in, and is inside the gates of the most secure building in the World, The White House.” “The ridiculous Ballroom lawsuit, brought by a woman walking her dog, who has absolutely No Standing to bring such a suit, must be dropped, immediately.” “Nothing should be allowed to interfere with with its construction, which is on budget and substantially ahead of schedule!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP”

Sunlight at Earth's surface has surged since the 1980s. Germany's Potsdam station shows 15 more W/m² of solar energy reaching the ground than during the 1970s dimming era. The Netherlands, Switzerland and Japan all show the same trend. Austria shows even more: 23 extra W/m². It's called global brightening. As air pollution dropped, the atmosphere cleared and sunlight flooded back in. That increase in surface radiation is 10 times larger than the forcing from CO2 over the same period. In short, the air got cleaner, the sunlight stronger and the land a little warmer. The data say so, the physics say so, it's only the narrative that doesn't.

Your smart home is not yours. Amazon hired thousands of contractors to listen to Echo recordings from people's living rooms. Bloomberg broke the story. Amazon never asked. Ring handed doorbell footage to police 11 times in a single year without a warrant and without telling the owner. In March 2025, Amazon killed local voice processing on Echo. Every word you say to Alexa now goes to Amazon's cloud. By default. Forever. Your Samsung TV watches what you watch. Your Roomba maps every room. Your thermostat knows when you leave home. And now they want you to pay for it. Alexa+: $19.99/month. Ring Protect Plus: $20/month. Nest Aware Plus: $20/month, up 33% in 2025. You pay them to spy on you. Monthly. Forever. In 2022, Insteon shut down without warning. Lights, switches, thermostats, all bricked overnight. Ten years of hardware, dead. There is one app that controls every smart device on the planet. Locally. On your hardware. Without a single byte sent to Amazon, Google, or Ring. It is called Home Assistant. 86,200+ stars on GitHub. 2,000+ built-in integrations. Lights, locks, cameras, thermostats, vacuums, blinds, EV chargers, solar inverters, doorbells, sprinklers. If a smart device exists, Home Assistant probably controls it. Here's what it does: → Works with Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomeKit, SmartThings, Matter, Thread, Zigbee, Z-Wave. → Voice control with your own local assistant. Wake word detection on your own hardware. Nothing sent to any cloud. → Build automations in 30 seconds. "When I leave home, lock the doors and turn off the lights." → Real-time energy dashboard. Spot the vampire devices. → Local AI cameras. Detect people, cars, animals. Footage stays on your drive. → Custom dashboards on any phone, tablet, or wall display. Here's the wildest part: When AWS goes down, Alexa stops working. When Google has an outage, Nest cameras go dark. When Ring servers throttle, your doorbell freezes. Home Assistant runs on your hardware. The internet can be down. Your house still listens. Your lights still respond. Your locks still work. The day Insteon shut down, Home Assistant users kept their lights on. Owned by the Open Home Foundation. A Swiss non-profit. It cannot be sold. It cannot go subscription. It cannot paywall a feature. Ever. Alexa+ + Ring + Nest: $720/year in subscriptions. Home Assistant: $0. Forever. Every integration. Every automation. Every device. Runs on a $50 Raspberry Pi. Runs on an old laptop. Runs in Docker on your NAS. The Home Assistant Green box is $99 once and never charges again. 86,200+ stars. 37,300+ forks. 425+ contributors. Apache-2.0 license. Active since 2013. Your home. Your data. Your rules. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)

Elon Musk just showed the world what happens when you walk into the vault and start counting. They don’t debate you. They try to end you. We are told government waste is an accident. A byproduct of incompetence. Musk proved it is a business. Defended. Coordinated. Worth hundreds of billions a year. Guarded by every institution that feeds from it. Musk: “You turn off the money spigot to fraudsters, they get very upset to say the least. My death threat level went ballistic.” The press had a villain ready before the ink dried. Politicians moved in unison to brand him a monster. The whole apparatus collapsed on one man with mechanical precision. It is not cancellation. It is annihilation. We were told this was about protecting democracy. It was about protecting the invoice. Joe Rogan: “The whole machine turns on you because you were getting in the way of this amazing graft.” Musk: “The goal was to destroy me absolutely.” Without his own platform and unlimited capital, they would have buried him and walked back to the vault. He survived. And he brought numbers. His work already prevented $200 to $300 billion a year in fraud. That is not a rounding error. That is a shadow economy the size of a G20 nation hidden inside your paycheck. Then he said the sentence that should keep every taxpayer awake at night. Musk: “Probably cut the federal budget in half. And get more done.” Half. Half of what they take from every cheque is not paying for civilization. It is not building roads. It is not funding schools. It is feeding the thing eating it from the inside. They did not come for him because he lied. If he had lied, they would have promoted him. They came for him because he counted.

IS ANYONE ELSE SO SICK AND TIRED OF WAITING FOR THE GOP TO DO ANYTHING AT ALL FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE??? WHERE ARE THE DOGE CUTS?! WHERE IS THE SAVE ACT?! WHY ARE WE STILL FUNDING THE TALIBAN?! WHY AREN’T DEMOCRATS BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE?! …COULD THE GOP DO SOMETHING????!!

Would you believe 57 Republicans and 211 Democrats recently voted in favor of this Orwellian automobile kill-switch? Here’s the roll call for the vote I forced to defund the mandate: clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll0…

A Rust dev just killed Headless Chrome. It's called Obscura. The open-source headless browser purpose-built for AI agents and scrapers at scale. Chrome vs Obscura: - Memory: 200MB+ → 30MB - Binary: 300MB+ → 70MB - Page load: 500ms → 85ms - Startup: 2s → Instant - Anti-detect: None → Built-in Single binary. No Node, no Chrome, no dependencies. Stealth mode is brutal: → Per-session fingerprint randomization (GPU, canvas, audio, battery) → 3,520 tracker domains blocked by default → navigator.webdriver masked to match real Chrome → Native function masking so detectors can't sniff it out Drop-in replacement for Puppeteer and Playwright over CDP. Zero code changes. If you run agents or serious scraping at scale, this repo prints money. 100% Opensource.

Taiwan Semiconductor $TSM announced today plans to open a chip packaging plant in Arizona 🇺🇸 by 2029 - Reuters

Democrats openly and brazenly made fun of Hung Cao’s height (and other insuations from that emoji against Asians) on X. They have since deleted the tweet because of the backlash, but it’s clear that they have no qualms about mocking Asians if they do not fall in line. They’re hypocrites of the highest order. When will Asians wake up? Leftoids and Demoncrats are not our friends. They claim to be the side of Asians but they couldn’t care less about us. Yet boot-licking boba libs continue to shill for Democrats. Sad!

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent embarrasses MS NOW's Jonathan Lemire by absolutely shredding the fake news host's Argentina bailout gotcha: Lemire: "How does a $20 billion bailout of Argentina help Americans?" Bessent: "Do you know what a swap line is?" Lemire: "It's a currency swap, yes." Bessent: "Yes, but what is that?" Lemire: "That's-, you're the Treasury Secretary, sir." Bessent: "Yes, but why would you call it a bailout?" Lemire: "That is how..." Bessent: "In most bailouts, you don't make money. The US government made money...So by stabilizing the economy there and making a profit, then that's a very good deal for the American people. And there's a lot we could've been doing for American farmers, but Democrats closed the government." An absolute masterclass in responding to a biased question from the fake news media—Bessent doesn't miss a beat. 🫳🎤

This is a must watch.

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Sometimes I wonder why some stuff is so expensive and then I see Videos like this then I understand.

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