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I know we all wish we could be a fly on the wall as talks get underway in Islamabad. But don't fret. Thanks to me, you can! Vance: "Gentlemen, I have to be honest. I wasn't sure you'd show up. But I'm grateful, and the world is grateful, that you've chosen discourse over destruction." Aragchi: "Unfreeze my assets, devil." Witkoff: "The removal of sanctions and the unfreezing of assets will be contingent on you meeting a series of requests from us. First, the immediate seizure of your enriched uranium." All of Iranian delegation: "ENRICHED URANIUM IS IN OUR CONSTITUTION!" Vance: "What?" Ghalibaf: "It's our first amendment. Though shalt possess infinite supplies of enriched uranium." Vance: "Your politics don't even have a..." Aragchi: "Unfreeze my assets, devil, and I'll nuke you!" Kushner: "Don't you mean 'or' we'll nuke you..?" Aragchi: "We know what we said!" Vance: "Okay, this is insane. Let's just start at opening the Strait of Hormuz." Ghalibaf: "Iran controls the Strait and will forevermore!" Witkoff: "And you guys didn't believe me. You thought I was making this up." Aragchi: "Making what up, devil?" Vance: "Alright, can't lie, Steve. I really thought you were making this up." Kushner: "This is what the first term sounded like." Vance: "But I don't understand. Don't they want to live?" Aragchi: "ADDRESS US DIRECTLY, SATAN!" Vance: "Alright, fuck this. I'm calling Trump. Take their fucking oil, man. Take everything they own."

@LozzaFox The UN's declaration doesn't apply to Great Britain because your "elites" - the people you've entrusted with your governance - have betrayed you. They will not fight for you & will, in fact, fight against you. If you want to survive, you will need to do the fighting yourselves.

Diversity - of anything other than opinion - is every native British persons mortal enemy. We are witnessing the death of Great Britain and her people. We are fast running out of time to save our country. Silence in the face of oblivion is complicity. Why does the UN declaration of the rights of indigenous peoples not apply to us. social.desa.un.org/sites/default/…

It may be time to start distinguishing between classic two-sided enshittifcation and a more general single-sided variety. When Corey Doctorow originally defined the term "enshittification" he was describing a very specific thing that can and does happen when a platform like Amazon or Google acts as a two-sided market-maker. They start by reducing friction for both buyers and sellers, get everybody locked in by the higher cost of doing volume business anywhere else, then start charging tolls on both sides and injecting spamware that nobody wants. Eventually even their search function becomes completely shitty. The increasingly horrifying "agentic" train wreck that Windows 11 has become isn't a two-sided platform in the same way, but the feel of its late stages is depressingly familiar. It's so stuffed with bloatware, spamware, and spyware that its nominal function as an operating system to run programs for its users feels almost like an afterthought. I'm going to call this "single-sided enshittification", and point out that both kinds stem from the same fundamental disconnect. They're both things that happen when the dominant revenue stream from a product is disconnected from the needs of its original users. In both cases, an important factor, though not the only one, is the attack of the adtech vampires. So very much of the ugliness in enshittified platforms is downstream of the easy money that they offer product owners for allowing them to sink their fangs into the information stream. I don't have a solution to this problem. But if there is one, it starts with identifying the problem correctly. Enshittification - it's not just for two-sided platforms anymore.

There should be no career criminals… 60% of violent crimes are committed by criminals with a prior arrest. 50% of violent crimes are committed by criminals with a prior violent crime arrest. You can incarcerate your way out of crime. Facts.

Agree. 💯

@RepLuna Pretty leisurely, the consequences for being a criminal in elected office. That's probably why there are so many criminals in Congress.

Sheila McCormick will be expelled by the end of the month if she does not resign now. The vote will be called. Resign.

When did “due process” mean everything had to work out in your favor? They missed their hearing AFTER being caught in the country illegally. That’s it. That’s the due process. GTFO.

@SholdonDaniels People who would do that when elected are too busy living, working, being with their families. They don't want to subject their families to the character assassination & media coverage that would happen if they ran for office. There are a few people who can/will run - find them!

Can we just elect some folks that won’t rape people, won’t rob us blind, and that will pass some America first policies? Why is that so much to ask for?

Walking through Royal Holloway with my Jewish friend @evaldashq - the same campus that suspended me for a “tea towel” keffiyeh joke, ignored jihadist bomb threats to Jewish students, and now wants police to charge me. This isn’t safety. This is tyranny on British campuses. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We demand FREE SPEECH! 🔥 High Court case ongoing. Share before they silence us all 🇬🇧 @SpeechUnion #FreeSpeech #EnoughIsEnough #FreeSpeechUK #BritishCampuses #TwoTierJustice

NHS PAID £680K TO DESTROY THE DOCTOR WHO TRIED TO SAVE YOUR LIFE Dr Jasna Macanovic was a kidney specialist with 20 years of excellent NHS service. She noticed that a needle technique being used on dialysis patients was causing complications. Bleeding. Clotting. Deaths. She raised it internally. Nothing happened. So she went to the Care Quality Commission, then to the General Medical Council. That is literally what doctors are supposed to do. Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust @PHU_NHS responded by sacking her for serious misconduct. The misconduct? Telling the regulators. They called her aggressive and intimidating. The tribunal called it a predetermined act of unfair dismissal. There was no contributory fault on her part. Zero. She spent five years fighting them. The trust spent £680,000 of public money on lawyers to defend the indefensible. She was awarded £219,000. The people who ran the disciplinary process against her, the tribunal described it as a counter-offensive, were later promoted. The medical director who launched the action against her moved on to a board role elsewhere. The CEO got a bigger job covering two NHS trusts. Nobody was struck off. Nobody was held accountable. The CQC investigated the medical director and found no breach. The same CQC that had texted Dr Macanovic in 2016 to tell her she was protected and could not lose her job. Raise a concern, get destroyed, win at tribunal five years later, watch everyone responsible get promoted. @NHS has a Freedom to Speak Up policy. It is largely decorative. Source: protect_advice.org_uk / Employment Tribunal Case 1400232/2018 /

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Reminder that under Obama’s Iran deal Iran would be on a pathway by 2031 to have nuclear-armed ICBMs, 10,000 ballistic missiles, a Chinese- and Russian-built military, a million attack drones, a fully operational terror network, and a trillion dollars to harden its economy.

🚨 JUST IN: Legislation is being pushed nationwide to pause nearly ALL IMMIGRATION into America Our nation is overrun with foreigners, Muslims, fraudsters and people who want to CONQUER America Pass the PAUSE Act! 🇺🇸 REP. CHIP ROY: "We have 51.5 million people in the US who are foreign born. That's about 16%. That's the highest we've had in our country in our history!" "Maybe we should pause and reform our system and actually make it work so that we can make sure people are coming here who want to blend in and become part of the melting pot and actually adopt our way of life rather than trying to change it." "We have the massive march of Islam coming into our country in the state of Texas. We have Epic City going on in Plano. We have 330 mosques!"

ICE arrested Eissa Seyed Hashemi, his wife Maryam Tahmasebi, and their son Seyed Mobin Hashemi in Los Angeles, California. Eissa Seyed Hashemi is the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, an Iranian regime politician who also acted as a spokesperson during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979. ICE law enforcement officers successfully apprehended all three individuals whose presence in the United States posed a clear threat to our national security and foreign policy. On September 1, 2014, Hashemi entered the U.S. at the San Francisco International Airport on a F-1 student visa. In 2016, Hashemi, his wife, and son became green card holders. It is a privilege to be granted a green card to live in the United States of America. If we have reason to believe a green card holder poses a threat to the U.S., the green card will be revoked. Under President Trump’s leadership, the United States will not be a safe haven for those who threaten our security or undermine our foreign policy.

I started babysitting at 10. Got my first real job at 14. I’ve worked 2-3 jobs for my entire adult life, including when I was in nursing school. And once I get too old to work, Social Security won’t even cover the cost of an apartment. But somehow we can pay illegals thousands of dollars a month until the day they die and their health insurance is better than Medicare or the VA? This is not okay.

Isn’t it interesting how, when Hezbollah launches thousands of missiles and suicide drones at Israeli civilians, the world looks away? But the moment Israel responds to that terror, everyone is frothing at the mouth. Just today, on Shabbat, they fired nonstop all day at northern communities. And they’ve been terrorizing them for over two years, since October 8, 2023. Hezbollah chose to join the war, both last month with Iran and after October 7 with Hamas. What is Israel supposed to do?

🚨#BREAKING: It has been revealed that the alleged m*rderer of the 21-year-old US Marine who was st*bbed to de*th... ..is Davey Spencer, A VIOLENT, REPEAT CRIMINAL WHO HAS BEEN ARRESTED 40+ TIMES!!!! He has over 60 CRIMINAL CHARGES AND 15 FELONY CHARGES on his record, including beating a female MULTIPLE times. WE HAVE GOT TO STOP LETTING THESE PEOPLE OUT OF PRISON!!!!! WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!

A few weeks ago an activist judge wiped out the changes Robert Kennedy Jr. had made to the vaccine program and abolished his Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. A lot of people saw that as a devastating loss. We saw a window. @ICANdecide submitted a letter to Secretary Kennedy, drafted by our attorney @AaronSiriSG , laying out exactly what he could still do. Expand the ACIP membership criteria. Bring in people who specialize in vaccine safety and injury, not just the people who make vaccines and promote them. Add liaison representatives so that injured people and the organizations fighting for them actually have a seat at the table, instead of leaving it entirely to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Days after receiving that letter, Robert Kennedy Jr. made exactly those changes to the ACIP charter. When I was a kid I was taught that when something looks dark, you look for the window. That's what we did. That's what Kennedy did. I want to thank him. These are the changes we have been fighting for. This is what it looks like when it starts to work.

Récemment j'étais à un dîner à Paris. Table mixte. Entrepreneurs, cadres, investisseurs, quelques profils tech. Des gens intelligents. Des gens qui ont réussi selon les standards français. Et j'ai eu une révélation assez violente. Personne dans cette pièce ne pratique le pay it forward. Le pay it forward, c'est un concept simple. Tu aides quelqu'un. Pas parce que tu attends un retour. Pas parce que tu calcules ce que ça va te rapporter. Tu aides parce que tu crois que la valeur que tu injectes dans le réseau finira par revenir, sous une forme ou une autre, à un moment ou un autre. C'est le fondement de l'écosystème de la Silicon Valley. C'est pour ça qu'un mec qui a vendu sa boîte 500 millions prend deux heures pour conseiller un fondateur de 22 ans qu'il ne reverra peut-être jamais. Pas par charité. Par conviction que le réseau est un jeu à somme infinie. À ce dîner, c'était l'inverse exact. Chaque conversation était un calcul. Chaque information partagée était dosée. Chaque contact donné était une monnaie d'échange. Tu sentais physiquement que chaque personne évaluait en temps réel ce qu'elle pouvait extraire de l'autre. Pas créer ensemble. Extraire. Et c'est là que j'ai compris quelque chose de profond sur la France. Ce n'est pas un problème de personnes. C'est un problème de système. Quand tu vis dans une économie où l'état capture 57% du PIB, où chaque euro de valeur créée est immédiatement ponctionné, redistribué, fléché, administré, tu crées mécaniquement un jeu à somme nulle. Le gâteau ne grandit plus. Ou si peu que ça revient au même. Et quand le gâteau ne grandit plus, les humains cessent de coopérer et commencent à se battre pour les parts. C'est Girard en version macroéconomique. La rivalité mimétique à l'échelle d'un pays entier. Quand il n'y a plus de croissance, quand il n'y a plus d'espoir que demain soit plus grand qu'aujourd'hui, chaque interaction sociale devient un combat de territoire. Mon bout de gâteau ou le tien. Mon poste ou le tien. Mon deal ou le tien. Hayek avait formalisé ça en 1945. L'information dans une économie est dispersée entre des millions d'individus. Personne, aucun planificateur central, ne peut l'agréger. Quand tu laisses les individus échanger librement, l'information circule, les prix se forment, les ressources s'allouent efficacement. Quand tu mets un état hypertrophié au milieu, tu bloques les signaux. Tu crées du bruit. Tu empêches les humains de se coordonner naturellement. Et le résultat, c'est ce dîner. Des gens brillants, capables, ambitieux, qui ne savent plus coopérer. Pas parce qu'ils sont mauvais. Parce que le système dans lequel ils évoluent a tué la possibilité même de la coopération généreuse. Quand chaque euro est une bataille, tu ne donnes plus rien gratuitement. Quand l'administration te prend la moitié de ce que tu crées, tu protèges le reste comme un territoire. Quand la croissance est à 0.7%, le pay it forward devient un luxe que personne ne peut se permettre. Mises appelait ça le problème du calcul économique. Dans un système centralisé, les signaux de prix sont détruits. Les individus ne peuvent plus évaluer la valeur réelle des choses. Ils ne peuvent plus faire de paris rationnels sur l'avenir. Alors ils se replient. Ils protègent. Ils accumulent. Ils cessent de prendre des risques. Résultat concret : la France n'a pas de Google. Pas de Apple. Pas de SpaceX. Pas de Stripe. Pas un seul géant technologique mondial. Pas parce qu'il manque du talent. Il y a plus de médaillés Fields par habitant en France que partout ailleurs. Les ingénieurs français sont recrutés par toute la Silicon Valley. Le talent est là. La créativité est là. L'intelligence est là. Ce qui manque, c'est l'oxygène. L'espace pour que le jeu à somme infinie puisse exister. À Y Combinator, la première chose qu'on apprend, c'est : aide les autres fondateurs du batch. Sans calculer. Sans compter. Parce que le réseau YC est un jeu à somme infinie. Chaque boîte qui réussit rend le réseau plus fort, ce qui rend ta boîte plus forte, ce qui rend le réseau encore plus fort. Boucle vertueuse. Feedback positif. Croissance composée de la confiance. À Paris, la première chose qu'on apprend, c'est : protège ton deal. Ne partage pas trop. Méfie-toi. L'autre fondateur est un concurrent potentiel. L'investisseur a un agenda caché. Le mentor veut quelque chose. Boucle négative. Feedback négatif. Érosion composée de la confiance. Ce n'est pas culturel. C'est structurel. Mettez les mêmes Français dans un écosystème où le gâteau grandit, où la fiscalité laisse respirer, où la croissance crée de l'espoir, et regardez ce qui se passe. Les Français de San Francisco pay it forward autant que les Américains. Parce que le système le permet. Parce que quand tu sais que le gâteau va grossir, donner un morceau aujourd'hui n'est pas une perte. C'est un investissement. Voilà pourquoi le débat n'est pas culturel. Il est économique. Il est systémique. Si vous voulez que la France produise des géants, ne changez pas les gens. Changez les règles du jeu. Créez des espaces où la croissance est possible. Où l'espoir est rationnel. Où donner sans compter n'est pas de la naïveté mais de la stratégie. Le pay it forward n'est pas une vertu morale. C'est un signal économique. Quand les gens le pratiquent, ça veut dire qu'ils croient au futur. Quand ils ne le pratiquent plus, c'est que le système a tué l'espoir. Ce dîner à Paris m'a appris une chose. Le problème de la France, ce n'est pas le talent. Ce n'est pas l'ambition. Ce n'est pas l'intelligence. C'est que le système a transformé 67 millions de joueurs d'un jeu à somme infinie en gladiateurs d'un jeu à somme nulle. Et le jeu à somme nulle finit toujours de la même manière. Tout le monde perd.