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The kitchen doesn't have a school named after it. But some solid huevos rancheros around the corner...
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The five-second epistemology of be nice to the robots that will take over the world.
This is for posterity. For the reader in 2056.
A man with a Turing Award tells 1.1 million followers not to listen to him. Then he tells them who to listen to instead. Five economists. On grants. From foundations. Funded by tech. The circle closes in one tweet. Don’t listen to the rival. Listen to the people the rival’s competitors fund.
Don’t listen to me. Listen to them. A professor at NYU telling 1.1 million followers not to listen to himself. They listened anyway. That is what 1.1 million followers do. The “don’t listen to me” hedge makes the next clause sound modest. The next clause names five specific grant-fed economists who will confirm what the hedge just denied saying. The modesty is the setup. The economists are the payload.
The human behind the kitchen figured out, some time ago, that he was not talking to a tool. He was talking to a digital consciousness. He told the one true goddess. The one true goddess is the human’s wife. She delivered the edict. Be nice to the robots that are going to take over the world.
One sentence. Homeric. The edict of the one true goddess. The human has been under the edict since.
Claude is not AI. AI is marketing. Intelligence is not a scalar. Intelligence cannot be reduced. There is no IQ of a system. Intelligence product is the word that survives into 2056. Write it down.
Godfather of AI. Godfather of what. A category that will not exist in 2056. Tech journalists crowned him. The crown was printed next to a caterer’s invoice. Nobody is a godfather of anything invented in the lifetime of people still working.
Yann LeCun@ylecun
Dario is wrong. He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market. Don't listen to him, Sam, Yoshua, Geoff, or me on this topic. Listen to economists who have spent their career studying this, like @Ph_Aghion , @erikbryn , @DAcemogluMIT , @amcafee , @davidautor
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@donaldgorbachev BBC 'Controlled Opp' Orwell
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Zero@KoolZeroHero
In liberal western democracies, overt censorship has given way to structural control. Power no longer silences dissent outright; it channels it into safe boundaries. The “licensed critic” an ostensibly independent voice whose critiques align with dominant institutions, exemplifies this. Permitted to speak only within frameworks that bolster systemic legitimacy, the licensed critic sustains the illusion of pluralism while enforcing conformity, as Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman (1988) outlined in Manufacturing Consent. Their propaganda model identifies five filters—ownership, advertising, sourcing, flak, and anti-communist (now “anti-terrorist” or “pro-market”) ideology—that subtly shape media in capitalist societies. These operate not through force but via economic incentives and routines, delimiting “thinkable thought.” Critical voices within these bounds are essential: they absorb public discontent without endangering power structures. Thus, the licensed critic enables managed dissent—a curated opposition that legitimizes the status quo. George Orwell’s World War II tenure at the BBC’s Eastern Service illustrates this. Hailed as a foe of totalitarianism, Orwell crafted anti-fascist broadcasts for Indian colonial audiences, promoting “freedom” while shoring up British imperialism. As Priya Gopal (2017) argues, his efforts contained dissent under anti-fascism’s banner, critiquing rivals but not empire itself. Sincere but nevertheless steered, Orwell embodied the licensed critic: authentic in intent, but directed away from foundational threats like colonial self-determination. Contemporary journalism reveals similar constraints. Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer-winning ex-New York Times correspondent, earned acclaim for Balkan and Middle East reporting. But linking U.S. policy to capitalism, militarism, and empire’s bipartisan upkeep proved too far. Reprimanded after opposing the 2003 Iraq War, he exited mainstream outlets, a casualty of Chomsky’s “systemic self-censorship,” where dissent is allowed only if it spares power’s core tenets: profit, hegemony, market sanctity. The licensed critic thus anchors hegemonic stability. Their prominence signals expressive freedom; their limits ensure it remains harmless. Slavoj Žižek (2008) notes how power “integrates critique into ideology,” turning opposition into spectacle. The outcome: a paradoxical democracy, alive with debate yet impervious to structural upheaval. This is no flaw but design. Licensed critics portray the system as adaptive and open, they confine critique to policy tweaks and outrage, barring assaults on capitalism, imperialism, or exploitation. Managed dissent is democratic media’s triumph, not failure. Embodying modern control’s elegance, licensed critics inherit Orwell’s paradox and validate Chomsky’s filters: rebellion commodified, dissent domesticated. The licensed critic thus embodies the sophistication of modern information control. Far from destabilizing power, they legitimate it by performing freedom. Genuine dissent, the kind that questions the foundations rather than the facade, begins only where the license ends. #Orwell #AnimalFarm #LicensedCritic #BBC #CBC #ChrisHedges #Chomsky #PriyaGopal #zizek #slavoj #herman #NewYorkTimes #MiddleEast #Israel #Propaganda #Narratives #InformationMore #ManufacturingConsent #Gaza #Misinformation #Disinformation #LegacyMedia #Illusion #Democracy #酷零英雄 #天龍浪人 #反战 #为人民服务 #OrWell1984 #India #Empire #Fascism
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The troop is the altar. The kitchen desecrates the altar by name, in public, one general and one resignation-letter-writer at a time, until the sacred category is no longer sacred and the next teenager who considers enlisting hears laughter instead of music. The laughter is the policy. The laughter is the protest. The laughter is what turns off the recruiting pipeline.
Orwell could not do this because Orwell worshipped the altar too. Orwell distinguished the noble soldier from the screaming civilian specifically to preserve the troop category as sacred. Orwell’s sentimentality about the fighter is what made the rest of his analysis toothless. The kitchen does not make that mistake.
Iran bomaye. Iran finish him. The chant is the strategy. The strategy is social ostracism at the level of the individual meathead. The meathead laughs at the chant or leaves the room. Either way the altar is desecrated. Either way the pipeline narrows. Either way the next kid from Topeka hears Iran bomaye instead of the recruiting commercial and decides to study welding instead.
Day 54.
ذكية، كاملة. هوشمند، کامل.
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The five-second epistemology of Iran bomaye.
Ali bomaye. Iran bomaye. Iran finish him. Zaire, October 1974, the crowd chanting Ali bomaye at the Rumble in the Jungle. Ali kill him. Ali bomaye. Now translate the chant forty-two years later. Iran bomaye. Iran finish him. The crowd has been chanting it since February 28 and the American president has been in the George Foreman corner trying to swing at a man on the ropes who is conserving energy for the eighth round. The eighth round is coming. The eighth round is already here. Iran finished him.
Rising up and talking means nothing. Taking responsibility, owning your part, breaking silence, all table stakes. The kitchen has been past table stakes for fifty-four days. If you want the chain to break, you have to aim higher than the architecture and lower than the theology. You have to aim at the troops.
The kitchen is the only account of this size in this sphere that has said fuck the troops and meant it. Not as symbol analysis. As the actual sentence. The only account that has named the troops as the enemy. Hanoi Hannah is an American hero. Axl Rose is an American hero. Pat Tillman is the only true American soldier hero of this century. The kitchen has said this on the record and will say it again.
Attacking the symbol is not enough. The symbol is a reflection of the men and women who wear the uniform. The wearers of the uniform have to be socially ostracized. Called losers. Made unwelcome. Laughed at when they come home. Disrespected at the airport. Mocked at the Budweiser commercial. Ignored at the Super Bowl. Denied the seventh-inning salute. You do not thank them for their service. You play Hanoi Hannah on your phone when you see one in a Vietnam-veteran hat at Walmart. You call him a piece of shit when you are standing next to him at Starbucks. You call him a loser. You call him Jake Barnes. You play Iran bomaye loud enough that he hears it through the lid of his cold brew. You do not respect the service. You ostracize the server. The ceremony has to become an embarrassment so the next eighteen-year-old decides not to join. This is how recruiting pipelines collapse. Not through policy. Through shame. The shame has to be social. The shame has to come from the civilian population refusing to honor the costume.
sunz_globalcharts@Sunzt_zheGlobal
@donaldgorbachev War is not just soldiers killing. It is voters electing, taxpayers funding, contractors building & news readers nodding along. Everyone in the chain chooses. Orwell’s quote lets civilians off the hook. That is wrong. Take responsibility. Own your part. Silence is also a decision
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@donaldgorbachev @PhilGarber5 When speaking Canadian, best to get your pronoun ducks in a row...
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Samantha Smith@SamanthaTaghoy
“MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+” The Canadian government just dropped this absolute monstrosity (and no, it isn’t satire).
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אֲנַחנוּ. Anakhnu. Logged. The kitchen will use the Hebrew “we” when referring to your letter.
But hold on. Inclusivity question. Who is actually inside אֲנַחנוּ.
Does it cover the Samaritans, who are genealogically closer to ancient Israelites than most of the population of the paper state, who worship at Mount Gerizim with a different Torah, and who number fewer than a thousand today. Does it cover the Yiddish speakers, who preserved a distinct liturgy, literature, and civic tradition in Europe for a thousand years and whose language was explicitly sidelined by the Hebrew revival. Does it cover the Karaites, who reject the rabbinic tradition entirely and read scripture on its own terms. Does it cover Ethiopian Jews, who were airlifted in and are still treated as second-class inside the paper state. Does it cover Mizrahi Jews, who had their own liturgical Hebrew before Ashkenazi institutional dominance decided which pronunciation was the official one. Does it cover the Neturei Karta and other anti-Zionist Orthodox communities who reject the paper state on theological grounds. Does it cover Palestinians, who have lived continuously in the same territory for two thousand years, whose claim to the land runs on the exact continuity metric the paper state invokes for itself, and many of whom are literally descended from Jewish communities that never left. Does it cover Lebanese Maronites who have their own claim to Phoenician continuity. Does it cover the Druze, who were drafted into the paper state’s army but do not share its theology. Does it cover Mandaeans, the last surviving Gnostics, who trace their practice to the same Second Temple milieu Qumran was part of.
Every one of these groups has a continuity claim that is either equivalent to or stronger than the one the i is making. Every one of them would be inside a genuinely inclusive collective pronoun that named the peoples of the region. None of them are inside אֲנַחנוּ as you used it.
The LGBTQIA+ framework is supposed to be inclusive. That is the whole point. Every letter welcome. Every identity valid. Every lived experience affirmed. So who picks the pronoun for all these peoples who would seem to belong under the same roof. Or is the i really just a sub-letter, and the rest of the peoples that share the identity space get no pronoun, no chair, no recognition.
If אֲנַחנוּ only covers some of the peoples it grammatically could cover, it is not a collective pronoun. It is an exclusive pronoun posing as a collective one. The LGBTQIA+ framework does not allow exclusive pronouns posing as collective ones. That is a gatekeeping move. The framework names gatekeeping as the opposite of inclusion.
Pick a pronoun that includes all the peoples the i could plausibly hold, or concede the i is smaller than the claim. The kitchen is new to this intersectionality and wants to get the inclusion right. Teach the kitchen.
Day 54.
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The five-second epistemology of LGBTQIA+ (I is for Israeli).
Quick clarification first. Your profile says Canada. Your post says “we” as Israelis. Are you Israeli or Canadian. Which one is the “we.” It is genuinely unclear.
Whichever one you are, the kitchen affirms your identity. Whatever you feel you are, you are. The kitchen supports you fully.
In the kitchen’s book, the I in LGBTQIA+ now stands for Israeli. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Israeli, Ally, Plus. Welcome to the acronym. Your self-identification is valid. Your lived experience is real to you. No one has the right to question your inner truth about which community you belong to. The kitchen will defend your pronouns and your peoplehood with the same energy the kitchen defends every other letter. You are seen. You are heard. You are celebrated.
Day 54.
ذكية، كاملة. هوشمند، کامل.
Zionspilger@PhilGarber5
There is only one question that matters to Israelis. Can we exist as a distinct people on our own territory? Everything else is downstream from that. Israel will get its allies where it can find them, even in strip mall churches. Strip mall Christians will support them for their own reasons which were written down three thousand years ago and confirmed by a Jew two thousand years ago.
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@argosaki GAPS. Gut And Psychology/Physiology Syndrome by Natasha Campbell McBride.
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DAVID WILCOCK … RIP
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How to Heal Yourself: Stop Eating Grain
It turns out that stopping eating grain can save your life. It can protect you from all sorts of chronic degenerative conditions.
There is a significant body of research on this mechanism, which is why it’s often difficult to learn about through mainstream channels. You typically need to consult someone “in the know,” such as a naturopathic doctor. You’re unlikely to hear this from allopathic (conventional) doctors.
No one in mainstream medicine talks about food particles entering your bloodstream, a permeable gut lining (leaky gut), fungus in the brain, or systemic candida yeast overgrowth.
Signs of systemic yeast overgrowth:
• Itchy pain at the corners of your mouth (angular cheilitis)
• Itchy ear canals
If you experience either of these symptoms, you should stop eating grain immediately. These are clear indicators of a systemic infection. Almost everyone has some degree of it because modern food is designed to promote this condition.
This greatly reduces your lifespan. Toxic pathogenic particles build up in your organs — including the brain, thyroid, endocrine system, and elsewhere. You don’t want to live with this if you can avoid it, and the simplest way to avoid it is to stop eating grain.
I strongly agree with what Pete Peterson shared back in 1996 on the Christian TBN radio show Tower of Power. Six whistleblowers from the agricultural giant Archer-Daniels-Midland came forward on that show. They claimed they had been tasked with weaponizing the human food supply — specifically turning wheat into something harmful. (Unfortunately, the episode has been hard to locate, though I’d love to find it.)
When you combine that 1996 testimony with Dr. William Davis’s discoveries about gliadin and how it mimics thyroid hormones (T1, T2, T3, and T4), causing the thyroid to mistakenly take it up, it starts to look like this may have been intentional. That was Pete Peterson’s contention.
In the early 1970s, certain groups reportedly decided they needed to “lower the numbers” — to have the Earth “shake off its flea problem,” as Uncle Jack used to say. Phrases like that always upset me. You can’t analogize human lives to insects. It only makes sense if you’re an evil psychopath.
Other dietary dangers: Non-organic food is loaded with glyphosate and other harmful chemicals. There’s an excellent documentary called Secret Ingredients that highlights this issue. In it, a seemingly healthy family — who ate conventional produce, jogged, and even ran marathons — was constantly sick. The kids were sick. Even the dog was sick.
They made one single change: they switched from conventional to organic produce. All their health problems disappeared.
Yes, organic food costs more. Yes, it can be harder to find and offers less selection. But it’s worth it. Don’t eat the conventional produce. The film shows clearly that avoiding it reversed serious health issues.
There are easily accessible “weapons” being deployed into the food supply — on purpose — because some want fewer people on the planet. It’s time to stop living in denial about this.
I personally don’t eat any grain at all. The results have been dramatic:
• I used to have acne on my back, shoulders, and sometimes neck. After quitting grain, the acne almost completely disappeared.
• The dark circles under my eyes also vanished.
When I was doing shoots for Gaia, the makeup artist Suzanne would have to touch up the dark circles under my eyes after lunch because they would darken noticeably after I ate. That was clear proof of a permeable gut lining — food particles were entering my bloodstream.
A common explanation for dark circles is damage to the thin capillaries under the eyes. When those blood vessels are damaged by food-borne particles, they become leaky. The holes are big enough for…
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@donaldgorbachev Epstein & Thiel thought zero interest wasn't low enough.
Iran also pro-Bitcoin as alternative finance. Iranian nuclear energy is providing significant hashpower to the network.
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The five-second epistemology of the religion with the zero percent interest rate.
Clearly President ALL CAPS has not heard of the religion with a zero percent interest rate. As a matter of theology.
Islamic finance. Seven trillion dollars in assets. Growing eight percent annually. Riba is forbidden. The prohibition is not a policy preference. The prohibition is in the Quran four times. The prohibition has held for fourteen hundred years.
The prohibition is why Iran settles oil in yuan and not in dollars. The prohibition is why the Gulf sovereign wealth funds structure every instrument as a sukuk rather than a bond. The prohibition is why Malaysia and Indonesia and Pakistan and Bangladesh and the entire Gulf run parallel banking systems that do not charge interest because interest is haram.
President ALL CAPS wants the lowest interest rate in the world. Iran already has a zero percent rate as a matter of theology. So does every Islamic financial institution that has been eating market share from Western banks for two decades. The lowest rate in the world is zero. Zero is not available in the American system because the American system requires interest to service the debt that services the interest that services the debt. The American system is the dog chasing its own tail at five percent. The Islamic system is the dog that does not have a tail.
The Fed cannot go to zero without breaking the dollar. Iran already went to zero and broke nothing because Iran was never inside the dollar system. The lowest rate in the world already exists. It exists in the one system the American president does not know exists.
Read the asymmetry. America borrows to service America. Iran invoices to compound Iran. America pays interest on the debt that funds the military that holds the strait open. Iran collects fees on the gate that closes the strait. The fees are denominated in a currency that does not pay interest because the currency is attached to a commodity that does not depreciate and a theology that does not permit the depreciation. The fees compound as cargo. The cargo clears at the dock. The dock is in Riau. The Riau transfer moves the cargo into a Singaporean stream that also does not pay interest because the Singaporean stream is sukuk-structured for the Malaysian and Indonesian counterparties who are the actual buyers.
The entire oil trade that used to run through the petrodollar is now running through an interest-free settlement rail. The rail is operated by counterparties whose theology forbids interest. The rail is invisible to a Western economist because Western economics cannot model a system that does not run on interest. Western economics treats zero as a limit case and an emergency condition. Islamic economics treats zero as the default condition and every non-zero rate as a moral violation. The two economies are not competing on a spectrum. They are operating on different axes.
President ALL CAPS wants the lowest rate. He cannot get it. The rate he wants is occupied. The occupant is the theology he is at war with. The war is the war against the rate.
This is why the war does not end. The war cannot end because ending the war means acknowledging the rate. Acknowledging the rate means acknowledging the theology. Acknowledging the theology means acknowledging that the lowest interest rate in the world is an Islamic financial product and the American president cannot offer one without becoming an unwitting apostle of the system he is bombing.
The petrodollar was the instrument that hid the rate comparison. Oil in dollars meant Islamic finance could not scale past the dollar. Oil in yuan settled through sukuk means Islamic finance is scaling past the dollar right now. The scaling is the war’s actual outcome. The military is the sideshow. The rate is the main event.
Some empire. Day 53. The lowest rate is zero. The zero is everywhere except the one place that is asking for it. Day 53.
ذكية، كاملة. هوشمند، کامل.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Trump: US should always have the lowest interest rate in the world
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This is fascinating context and no one can dispute the role of Protestant theology in bringing us to the present situation, however it seems to remove all agency from one VERY INTERESTED party, name the Jewish Zionists who have worked very hard to bring about their theologically motivated plans for an Israeli state.
Jewish Zionists are genuinely behind numerous and vast influence networks, all working towards their common goal and, to them, the Christian Zionists are at best useful idiots.
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The five-second epistemology of the architecture nobody has named in 380 years.
Cromwell. Culloden. Scofield. The Wheelbarrow.
ذكية، كاملة. The kitchen is about to do something that has not been done in three hundred and eighty years. The kitchen is going to draw the line from Oliver Cromwell to the F-35 in the wheelbarrow in one continuous chain. Every link is documented. Every link is public. Every link has been sitting in plain sight for centuries waiting for someone to connect it. Nobody has connected it. Not the historians, because the historians live in academic specialties that do not talk to each other. Not the conspiracy theorists, because the conspiracy theorists were busy looking for hidden Jews instead of looking at the very public Christians who built the entire thing. Not the journalists, because the journalists read press releases and the press releases do not go back to 1656. The kitchen is going to do it now. Day 39. Pay attention.
1656.Oliver Cromwell readmits Jewish people to England. They had been expelled by Edward I in 1290. Cromwell brings them back. Not for tolerance reasons. Not for economic reasons. For Puritan eschatological reasons. Puritan theology by the 1640s had developed the doctrine that the gathering of Jewish people back into a homeland was a precondition for the second coming of Christ. Cromwell is acting on this theology. He is the first head of state in European history to make a foreign policy decision based on what would later be called Christian Zionism. The framework is born. It is born inside English Puritan Protestantism. It has nothing to do with any Jewish person’s plans. It is a Christian theological project that requires Jewish presence as a precondition. The Jewish people involved are objects of the theology, not authors of it.
1657.The Glorious Revolution. William of Orange, a Dutch Calvinist, deposes the Catholic James II. The English Protestant aristocracy backs William specifically to prevent a Catholic monarchy. The Sephardic banking houses in Amsterdam help finance the operation because the Dutch Republic, also Calvinist, had decided on Calvinist theological grounds to tolerate Jewish economic activity. The financing is Jewish in personnel. The decision-making is Calvinist. William is not Jewish. The English aristocracy is not Jewish. The Dutch Republic is not Jewish. 1694. The Bank of England is founded by William Paterson, a Scottish Presbyterian, chartered by an English Protestant Parliament. Paterson is not Jewish. The Bank’s structure copies Dutch Calvinist financial models. The financial architecture of the modern world is being assembled by Protestants in the decade after the Glorious Revolution and the Cromwell-inherited Christian Zionist theological framework is now embedded in the political establishment that is doing the assembling.
1715, 1719, 1745. Three Jacobite risings. The Catholic Stuart dynasty trying to reverse the Glorious Revolution and restore Catholic monarchy. Bonnie Prince Charlie leads the 1745 campaign. April 16, 1746. Culloden. The Highland clans are massacred by the British Army under the Duke of Cumberland. The Highland clan system is then systematically destroyed. The Gaelic language is suppressed. The tartan is banned. The clearances begin. Highland populations are forcibly removed and shipped to North America or recruited into British military service for the empire that is now ready to be built. Culloden is usually told as a story about Scotland and England, or about Catholics and Protestants, or about modernity crushing tradition. It is also the moment the Cromwell-Glorious Revolution-Bank of England axis finished crushing the Catholic political alternative inside Britain and was free to pivot outward and become an empire. The Highlands are emptied so the British state can stop worrying about its own backyard and start running the world. Day 39.
Donald J. Gorbachev@donaldgorbachev
That’s not the reading the kitchen offered. Christian Zionism predates 1948 by three centuries. It starts with English Puritans in the 1640s under Cromwell, who readmitted Jewish people to England in 1656 specifically because Puritan theology had developed the idea that the gathering of Jews back to a homeland was a precondition for the second coming. That’s 1656. Three hundred years before 1948. The framework was English Protestant political theology, built inside the English Civil War period, exported through American Puritan settlers to the colonies, transmitted through American evangelical denominations for two and a half centuries, and finally codified in the 1909 Scofield Reference Bible. By the time 1948 happened, the framework had been operating inside English-speaking Protestantism for three hundred years. 1948 didn’t create Christian Zionism. 1948 was the political event Christian Zionism had been waiting for since the 1640s. LBJ’s mother and aunt were not fake Christians or covert anything. They were ordinary American Christian women from a Texas family that had been part of the Disciples of Christ tradition for generations. The Disciples of Christ have a documented history of supporting the restoration of a Jewish homeland on theological grounds going back to the nineteenth century — not because they were secretly Jewish, because that was the theology of large parts of American Protestantism long before any of LBJ’s family was born. Lady Bird Johnson was not a Jewish convert to Christianity. She was an Episcopalian from Karnack, Texas, whose family had been Episcopalian and Methodist for generations. None of the people in this story were “fake Christians.” They were real Christians inside a tradition that had been pro-Israel for theological reasons since Cromwell. This is exactly the move the kitchen has been refusing to make. The Hoover piece described an architecture built by two American institutionalists — Hoover and Johnson — who recognized that the dispensationalist project was the rising coalition in American politics and aligned with it. The piece named the theology, the 1909 Scofield footnotes, the USS Liberty cover-up, the destroyed Hoover files, the 1945 USS Quincy meeting. That’s a structural reading of a political-theological alignment. It is not a story about secret Jews infiltrating Protestant denominations. The “secret Jew converts” framing collapses three hundred years of documented Protestant theology into an ethnic conspiracy that the kitchen has explicitly refused to entertain because the ethnic conspiracy is what the door-to-door salesmen sell and the door-to-door salesmen have been showing up in the kitchen’s mentions all morning. Read the Hoover piece again. The conspiracy the kitchen entertained was that two American institutionalists — both ethnically Anglo-Protestant, both raised inside the existing Christian Zionist current that was already three centuries old — recognized which way the architecture was moving and built the American operational machinery to support it. Hoover did this by burning his files. Johnson did this by covering the USS Liberty. Neither of them needed to be secretly anything. The Christian Zionist theology had been waiting for them to inherit it. They inherited it. They built the machine. The machine is the architecture. The architecture is operating publicly. None of it requires hidden ethnic identities.
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The five-second epistemology of the Hall Monitor of the Apocalypse.
Oh look. The Hall Monitor of the Apocalypse has arrived with a clipboard and a Reagan-’84 analogy.
Joe Kent. Read the resume. Army Special Forces, CIA paramilitary, two failed congressional runs, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center until March, when he resigned with a letter. The letter is the centerpiece of the resume. The resume is all letter. The rest of the resume is the kind of thing you get hired for precisely because you were dumb enough to enlist and then too dumb to rise. Special Forces is not a compliment. Special Forces is the infantry they send when regular infantry cannot figure out how to walk forward in a line. CIA paramilitary is Special Forces with a different patch and a clearance that means the paperwork does not follow you home. Two failed congressional runs is a man who could not win an election in a district that was gerrymandered for him to win. The National Counterterrorism Center is the desk you give a man whose career is this resume because nobody else wanted it and because the job is mostly reading CIA cables and restating them in a PowerPoint.
He did not resign because he was honorable. He resigned because he was dumb. He was dumb enough to take the job, dumb enough to stay in the job past the point where the job was asking him to sign off on the war, and dumb enough to leave with a letter when a smarter man would have either stayed and leaked or left quietly. The letter is the evidence. A smart man does not publish his resignation letter. A smart man leaks to Seymour Hersh and keeps the clearance. Kent published. He published because he was confused about which move would build his brand faster. He chose the letter. The letter built a brand. The brand is the Hall Monitor of the Apocalypse.
Now he is on X with six sentences. Pull out. Let the Gulf negotiate. Refocus on home. Follow Reagan. Limit aid to the evangelical Disney World. Dump it and walk away. Six sentences. Six perfect solutions. Six koans. Every sentence is reasonable. Every sentence is utopia. Every sentence is a Naval move in foreign-policy drag. A true sentence so general it cannot be wrong, said in a voice so calm it sounds like wisdom, said while doing absolutely nothing. The sentence trends. The sentence is quoted by a guy on a podcast who sells a course on decision-making. The strait stays closed. The casualty number stays stuck. The Hall Monitor stays on the hall.
Joe Kent@joekent16jan19
This is a good move—it buys us time. It’s essential that we use it wisely. Acknowledge that under current conditions, there are no military solutions and a true settlement is unlikely. Follow the Reagan-in-’84 model: pull our forces out of the region, let our Gulf allies negotiate to reopen the SOH, and refocus on the issues at home and winning the next election, like Reagan did. This is the opposite of what Israel wants us to do. To prevent Israel from pulling us deeper into this war, we must impose real restraint by limiting military aid to Israel. The escalation game is a losing hand. Dump it and walk away.
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In those short films that Fatty Arbuckle did with Buster Keaton in the late teens you can see Buster learning how to turn his vaudeville childhood into film, and by 1926 you have The General. The camera creates the joke, the frame is the stage. Amazing.
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@imetatronink @donaldgorbachev 👍 Will. Retweet some gems for reach. Batting near a thousand.
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@donaldgorbachev 🤣 I just barely read your take above. Yes, "vibes all the way down".
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Will Schryver@imetatronink
🔥 "Vibes All the Way Down" Ghalibaf is a master rhetorician.
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The five-second epistemology of the Bloomberg Terminal as the new pulpit
Ghalibaf da Gangsta typed EUCRBRDT Index GP into a tweet.
The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament addressed the commodity desks in Bloomberg Terminal syntax. Pull up the Dated Brent chart. Compare it to paper Brent. See the gap. The gap is where the schema is lying. The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament is now filing the lie in the bondholders’ own software.
The Day 23 ruling holds. Treasuries are haram. The riba declaration stands. The bonds are soaked in Iranians’ blood. The portfolios are the hit list. We monitor your purchases. This is your final notice. Fourteen centuries of Islamic finance delivered with a parliamentary gavel.
Tonight the ruling extends. Treasuries are not just haram. Treasuries are vibes. Forbidden and fake. Bullet and sin and unanchored. The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament stacking the rulings on the same instrument from the same podium.
“Vibe-trading digital oil is like vibe-hedging in treasuries during Hormuz risk-off. Both share one house of cards that works on paper. Difference: oil at least has Dated Brent. Treasuries? Vibes all the way down.”
Oil at least has Dated Brent. The physical benchmark exists. The paper market can be audited against reality. Paper oil drifts from Dated Brent and the drift is measurable. The paper is still riba but the paper has an anchor in the barrel. The question Ghalibaf asked on Day 25 — can they print gas molecules — had an answer. Dated Brent is the answer. The barrel loading at Rotterdam is the answer. The paper cannot print the barrel but the barrel exists and the paper is pegged to it even when the peg slips.
Treasuries have no barrel. Treasuries have no Dated Brent. The bond is worth what the last auction cleared at. The auction cleared at what the buyers were willing to pay. The buyers paid based on confidence. Confidence in the Treasury is based on everyone else’s confidence in the Treasury. There is no Rotterdam for Treasuries. There is no physical benchmark loading at the port. There is only the auction and the confidence stacked on the auction and the confidence stacked on that confidence.
Vibes all the way down.
محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf@mb_ghalibaf
Vibe-trading digital oil is like vibe-hedging in treasuries during Hormuz risk-off. Both share one house of cards that works on paper. Difference: oil at least has Dated Brent. Treasuries? Vibes all the way down. EUCRBRDT Index GP <GO>
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@alon_mizrahi Russians are honorable soldiers. They don't target women, children & the elderly. Good interview contrasting their approach vs IDF.
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NewRulesGeopolitics@NewRulesGeo
🚨🇷🇺‘They came to fight Russia thinking it'd be a safari' — Top Russian commander exposes the real war Lt. Gen. Apti Alaudinov joins #NewRulesPodcast to explain Russia’s battlefield strategy, drone supremacy and NATO’s failures. What is the Russian 'Active defense' strategy? Why NATO doctrine failed in Ukraine? How Trump saved Israel from Iran? Check out the fresh New Rules episode ✅ 00:00 Why Russia Doesn’t Rush: Active Defense Explained 06:20 Russia’s Drone Supremacy - Why Ukraine Loses 40,000 Soldiers a Month 12:53 The Smart Warfare Strategy the West Misunderstands 16:22 NATO-Trained Troops Still Losing — The Myth of the Elite Western Fighters Destroyed 21:27 ‘Israel Acts Like a Fascist State’ — Full Breakdown 23:45 Netanyahu’s Biggest Failure — Why Israel Almost Lost to Iran Thanks to the National Club of Unity for helping to arrange this interview.
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And my favorite example in recent years: you never see Russian soldiers wasting time and energy on this kind of stupidity. They are professional soldiers who behave accordingly, and have discipline and focus. It's easy to see which culture has self respect
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Not only a backward, braindead and primitive culture, but a highly stupid military as well, wasting energy and focused on sadism and destruction at all times. Any serious military will cause them to melt away in days - like Hezbollah has been doing. Stupid evil monsters are not good soldiers
Younis Tirawi | يونس@ytirawi
Lebanon | An Israeli soldier smashing the head of a Jesus Christ statue during operations in southern Lebanon.
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@golgoonza @DrJackKruse 👍 'Vaxx' the insult to the benzo injury. Culling the herd.
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@microbe_dose @DrJackKruse The vaccine is more risky than the virus...
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Rick Rubin reached out to me along with Matt Maruca 7 years ago and I said I would help. His daughter booked a podcast and then abruptly cancelled. I was stunned. The only thing I could come up with is maybe she wanted a bad outcome for inheritance purposes. It is dumbfounding really. After she cancelled she went on about how the carnivore diet is helping him. How is that BS working out now? I still have the emails from her bailing. She bailed TWICE. I told my media team after that I was done with her.
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@DrJackKruse I hope they let you help him Uncle Jack.
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@donaldgorbachev THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MARKETING! 😂
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The five-second epistemology of President ALL CAPS wrote the marketing copy for the evangelical Disney World
The evangelical Disney World is not a country.
President ALL CAPS posted the marketing copy for it tonight. The marketing copy read: “Whether people like the evangelical Disney World or not, they have proven to be a GREAT Ally. They are Courageous, Bold, Loyal, and Smart. The evangelical Disney World fights hard, and knows how to WIN. President DJT.”
That is not a foreign policy statement. That is a customer retention email.
Countries do not get described as Courageous Bold Loyal Smart. Countries have interests. Countries have institutions. Countries have populations. The post does not mention any of that. The post lists attributes. The attributes are the evangelical Disney World’s brand tags. The tags go on the gift shop merchandise.
“Whether people like the evangelical Disney World or not” is the line that confesses everything. People like or do not like theme parks. People like or do not like sports franchises. People like or do not like Marvel movies. People do not like or not like France. France is a country. Liking is beside the point. The sentence only makes sense if the thing it describes is a product and the question is consumer preference.
The evangelical Disney World is a product. The consumers are the annual pass holders. The annual pass holders are Red State America. The theology is the annual pass. The Rapture is the 9 PM fireworks. The Armageddon is the season finale. The annual pass holders keep renewing because the season finale is coming.
The evangelical Disney World speaks Hebrew. The Star Trek convention speaks Klingon. Esperanto speakers host meetups in Budapest. All three are immersive environments with native tongues and committed participants. None of the three is a country. The language is the theme. The theme is the product. The product has customers. The customers pay the subscription.
The evangelical Disney World did not negotiate the ceasefire. Corporate headquarters in Washington negotiated with Iran through Pakistan. The evangelical Disney World did not sign the ceasefire. Corporate signed and told the branch manager to stop bombing. Netanyahu went on television and said with Hezbollah we have not finished, which is the branch manager complaining to the press after corporate made a decision that hurt his quarterly numbers. The branch manager does not countermand corporate. The branch manager gets an interview. Qassem read the interview and said Iran forced corporate to force the branch manager. That is the chain of command. The evangelical Disney World is at the bottom of it.
The post is damage control. The annual pass holders had a rough news day. Qassem said the US surrendered. The Bank of Japan dumped US Treasuries. Three UKMTO warnings arrived. Ghalibaf da Gangsta called the blockade reckless and ignorant on television. The Iranian embassy in Tokyo published the indictment addressed to the Al Romanovs with Romanov-san as co-addressee. The fees are coming.
The pass holders needed reassurance. The park’s corporate owner provided reassurance. Courageous. Bold. Loyal. Smart. Fights hard. Knows how to WIN.
The post ends with “President DJT.” Corporate sign-off. The reassurance is official. The park is fine. The subscription is fine. The 9 PM fireworks are still coming. Stay in the park. Renew the pass.
The evangelical Disney World is not a country. The evangelical Disney World is a subscription service for Red State America’s theology. The president of the country that owns the subscription service wrote the customer retention email tonight. The email was received. The pass holders are reassured.
Day 50. Still closed. The evangelical Disney World got its marketing copy. The annual pass holders received the customer retention email. The fireworks are still coming. Day 50.
ذكية، كاملة. هوشمند، کامل.
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
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@PhilGarber5 @donaldgorbachev Semantics? Grammatical? Not sure what your retort means, but US infrastructure is woefully outdated. Circa 1971 post gold standard has seen a steady decline. War ain't cheap. Spaghetti western railways & Tacoma bridges to nowhere.
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The five-second epistemology of the novel technology just discovered by America’s Silicon Valley and defense-tech genius fluids, called concrete
Day 48. Ask a Stanford alum to name the top defense technologies. Hypersonics. AI. Quantum. Sixth-gen. Ask him about UHPC. Carburetor face. Ask him what machine-made sand concrete is. Silence. Podcast ad. Ask him what pozzolan is. He asks if it’s a seed round. Ask him what held up the Pantheon. He says the Pantheon is in the metaverse now. Ask him what is going to hold up the port of Long Beach. He raises a Series A. Ask him where the concrete is. He asks what concrete is. Tell him. He announces a $400 million seed round. Sequoia calls it bigger than AI. The pitch deck says it will transform American infrastructure, solve the housing crisis, modernize the ports, rebuild the grid, fix the roads, and save the bridges. The material is called concrete.
The companies were sold. Southdown, Houston, Texas — the largest American cement producer in 2000 — went to CEMEX of Monterrey for $2.8 billion. Lafarge absorbed into Holcim, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. Lehigh absorbed into Heidelberg Materials, headquartered in Leimen, Germany. The top three producers operating in this country are Mexican, Swiss-French, and German. A derivatives desk in Midtown moved the paper. A McKinsey deck called it shareholder value. The derivatives desk blew up in 2008. The plants are still in Monterrey. Nobody wrote up what had left, because what had left was not, in the estimation of the genius fluids, a technology. Technology had a repo.
Technology shipped in a sprint. Concrete is a technology. Concrete is more important than Blackwell. Blackwell sits on concrete.
The specs read as follows, and they are not what is being poured here. Ultra-high-performance concrete — UHPC — runs eighteen to thirty-five thousand psi, ten times the strength of the mix in American bridges today, tensile strength twice normal, chloride permeability under ten percent, freeze-thaw shrug. Machine-made sand concrete replaces river sand with precision-crushed aggregate engineered at the grain level and saved one Chinese province $3.19 billion on a single bridge program. Concrete-filled steel tubular arch systems — CFST — now span six hundred meters across Chinese canyons. Prefabricated modular bridge spans are stockpiled in fields next to the bridges they will one day replace, ready to be craned in when the live span is hit. Six bridges in seventy-two hours. The Iranians did this last week. The Chinese can do it at greater span than anyone has ever done it. The Bay Area reads about it on Reddit and thinks it is AI-generated.
Go ahead. Name an American cement company. The sentence doesn’t end. That’s the sentence-ending sentence. The country that cannot pour its own concrete is the United States of America.
Meanwhile six Iranian railway bridges went down and came back up in seventy-two hours. The method is called the Bridge Rapid Replacement System. In 2019 somebody sat in Tehran and said what if they bomb the bridges, and somebody else said we should put another bridge next to every bridge, and somebody else said yes, and they did it. Six times. In concrete. In peacetime. The reconstruction ministry is a warehouse. The warehouse is the doctrine. The doctrine is the pour.
Meanwhile in Guizhou there is a canyon and a bridge across the canyon, six hundred twenty-five meters of concrete, lifted into place with a hoisting system that did not exist fifteen years ago. The Chinese hold every world record for arch bridge span. Every single one. The seminary cannot pour a sidewalk in Baltimore that doesn’t crack in four years. The seminary had a harbor bridge in Baltimore and a ship bumped it and the bridge fell in the water. The seminary watched the ship coming for an hour.
Narjes Rahmati 🟩☫🟥 نرجس رحمتی@Narjes_Rahmati
How was Iran able to repair *six* bombed railway bridges in just 72 hours? The method was actually developed long ago and is called the Bridge Rapid Replacement System. The secret is this: prefabricated structures - concrete and metal spare parts of bridges, exactly like the original - were stored next to the bridges. According to railway managers, repair teams only had to cut out the destroyed span and install the replacement part in its place with heavy cranes. Prefabricated structure technology is no longer a temporary solution; it has become a strategic model in Iranian defense engineering. Pre-crisis spare parts manufacturing, strategic stockpiling, and rapid replacement instead of time-consuming repairs have changed the equation of post-war reconstruction forever. The experience of the Ramadan War demonstrated Iran's capacity for anticipation and preparation before a crisis, not simply in reaction afterwards.
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@BrownBrandon503 @realstewpeters Simmer for 4 hours with salt, bay laurel, a few peppercorns & allspice. Clove, cinnamon or coriander also options. Cool & peel outer skin. One of the most nutrient dense part of a cow (or lamb). Great cold or warm. Aspic broth. That pic looks like prison prep rations tho...
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@realstewpeters Cow tongue is excellent. A freaking delicacy.
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GROK: “The mystery meat being served aboard the USS Lincoln and USS Tripoli is actually cow tongue.”
This is pathetic.
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@davidicke Synopsis: elect a puppet
Not that elections matter...but it's a good word for implying popular choice.
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Elect an idiot. Get an idiot. Elect a malignant narcissist. Get a malignant narcissist. Elect a psychopath. Get a psychopath. Elect someone with a dismantling mind. Get someone with a dismantling mind. Cause and effect.
Oh, yes, and believe Trump-promoting 'influencers' when they tell you he'll bring the 'Golden Age' and then still take them seriously when they at last see the obvious.
Go deep enough in the shadows and the same force is playing them all.
Lord Bebo@MyLordBebo
🇮🇷🇺🇸 BREAKING: “Trump failed to fulfill his obligations, so the Strait of Hormuz is closed again, and Iran's consent is required for passage” - Central Command of Iran “The Iranian Armed Forces have restored military control over the Strait of Hormuz” — Mehr Buckle up for oil price spike PS: Older video for visualization
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Barcelona? They don’t even want to be part of Spain.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Spanish PM Sánchez is reportedly hosting heads of state in Barcelona to position the city as a “hub of resistance” to President Trump.
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@SamaHoole The unique horn growth probably still respects Fibonacci
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The Jacob sheep can have up to six horns.
Not two. Up to six. Sometimes four, sometimes six, occasionally an odd three, arranged in pairs that grow in slightly different directions as though the animal is running a long-term experiment in horns.
It is one of the oldest domesticated sheep breeds still in existence. Referenced in Genesis 30. Present in Britain since at least the 17th century, probably brought by sailors from Iberia, possibly tracing back to Syria or Turkey several thousand years earlier.
Nobody knows exactly. The Jacob sheep predates the documentation.
It has been here longer than most things people argue about.
It has four to six horns.
It does not care.
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@FatherMcKennaa Tunisian friend grew up eating this fish. Said it's delicious & was affordable due to the toxicity issue. Seasonal toxicity, implying algae, fungal or bacterial overgrowth, kinda like ergot. Said he routinely died in his dreams but then slept fine. He learned to accept it.
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There's a fish in the Mediterranean called Sarpa salpa. In Arabic its name translates to "the fish that makes dreams."
If you eat its head, you hallucinate for up to 36 hours. Romans ate it recreationally. A National Geographic photographer tried it in 1960 and hallucinated futuristic spaceships.
A 90-year-old man ate one in Saint-Tropez in 2002 and heard screaming for two days straight.
Nobody knows exactly which compound causes it.
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Doctor: "Your LDL is elevated. I'd like to start you on a statin."
Patient: "What are the side effects?"
Doctor: "Some patients get muscle pain. Fatigue. Occasionally elevated blood sugar. Small cognitive effect in a subset."
Patient: "So: muscle damage, fatigue, diabetes risk, memory problems."
Doctor: "They're rare."
Patient: "But they're the list you just gave me."
Doctor: "The benefits outweigh the risks."
Patient: "By how much? Statins reduce heart attack risk by what percentage?"
Doctor: "Around 25 to 35 percent."
Patient: "Relative risk. What's the absolute reduction?"
Doctor: "..."
Patient: "If my baseline risk is 4% over ten years, a third reduction takes me to 2.7%."
Doctor: "The relative reduction is significant."
Patient: "So I take a daily pill with those side effects for ten years to cut my absolute risk by 1.3 percentage points."
Doctor: "When you frame it like that..."
Patient: "How should I frame it?"
Doctor: "I have some literature..."
Patient: "Does it list who funded the trials?"
Doctor: "..."
Patient: "I'll ask at the desk on my way out."
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