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Spend quality time with my kids instead of working long weeks. Go back to school because I love learning . Pay off my debts, including my mortgage so that I can give my children something resembling an inheritance Write those papers that have been vanishing, either in file folders or in the back of my head. Write that book that I’ve been trying to write and only have a few chapters into but a lot of thought and some notes and outline structure. Usually, my exercise is at the end of the day after I am toast, and it’s really hard to make myself do it. I would make myself do it early. I would hit the gym a lot more. I haven’t taken a real vacation for a long time. Like I can really only remember one or two and maybe the last 20 years. My wife and kid get vacation but I get a fair bit of work and that’s not my idea of vacation. My idea of vacation isn’t about high levels of activity. I don’t think AGI is gonna guarantee that though. I think it’s very likely that it’s gonna be treated like literal metal gold, and how much real gold is given to real citizens anywhere on the planet? Maybe Dubai or the Cherokee nation does something, but 99.99% of humans don’t get that. Most of them are engineered into wage slavery for their lifetime. Only after all their best years are gone do we get to slow down, and that’s really weak because the cost to have us do the job are higher than the cost of replacing us with somebody newer.

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack. Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords. LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm. Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks. Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages. Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

Taxation is a punishment for being productive.

BEWARE! Mandatory Age Verification is DIGITAL ID with a different name. Fear mongering about "Protecting Children" to demand more surveillance and more infringement on your 4th amendment Rights.

This is super weird. And bad.

My radicalizing moment was taking my son to urgent care and the illegal ahead asking price, told free, and then I have to pay $125 copay. How did I know he was illegal? They discussed it.

The Templars have always been the Watchmen. We tried to warn you about Islam in every generation but only NOW you believe us.

Today I received a postcard urging me to vote “yes” on Spanberger’s redistricting plan which would entrench Democratic control in Virginia. What’s interesting is that this postcard was mailed out from Oakland CA!! The Dems are working hard to turn Virginia into another People’s Republic of California. Virginians, VOTE EARLY. VOTE NO!!!! Let’s save Virginia!!!

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Senator Cruz CONFIRMED that Biden’s FBI wiretapped Susie Wiles during a PRIVILEGED CALL with her lawyer without the consent of EITHER party. To make it HORRENDOUSLY worse, they then tried to HIDE evidence of their actions by marking the file “prohibited.” This makes Watergate look like CHILD’S PLAY. Accountability is not optional. These people MUST be held accountable.

This data from The Economist provides the answer for what seems to have happened to blue states in the last decade.

🤔 Why do you suppose the Senate refused to actually ban CBDC and multiple Senators have introduced digital ID legislation? Once this level of freedom is surrendered, it will never be reclaimed peacefully. It is the “one ring to rule them all”. If we lose this fight, western civilization is lost.

Let me get this straight. There's SNAP fraud, EBT fraud, Medicaid and Medicare fraud, home healthcare fraud, daycare fraud, medical transportation fraud, and hospice fraud, but definitely, absolutely no election fraud?

The “No Kings” people are acting like Kings again

At 330M citizens that suggests 33M replacements are here and operating.

@USDA @GOP Not true for Walmart.

When you see this label, it means exactly what it says.      Born here. Raised here. Harvested here. Processed here. 🇺🇸      No shortcuts. No exceptions. No confusion.      That’s Product of USA. 🔗 productofusa.gov

EXCLUSIVE: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is finalizing a plan to move oversight of In-Q-Tel, the venture capital firm that funds high-tech gadgets and software for U.S. spies, to her office — and away from the CIA. politi.co/4sE80I7

Here's their plan: 1) Keep as many illegals in our country as possible and get rid of ICE 2) Give them amnesty 3) Never lose another election We can't let them succeed! We must pass the Save America Act!

🚨OMG… THIS IS THE SINGLE GREATEST CRIME EVER PERPETRATED AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BY THE ENEMY WITHIN. Border Czar Tom Homan: “No one ever talks about it. I’ll talk about it.” “Why did the Democrats release illegal aliens into the interior United States rather than put them into an ICE bed? Why not put them in an empty ICE bed — $127 a night — rather than a hotel at $500 a night? The Democrats did it on purpose. If you put them in an ICE detention bed, they get a hearing in 35 days.” In other words, you’ve been robbed, deceived, betrayed, extorted, blackmailed, and defrauded—and sedition and amnesty are what they want next.

@JamesOKeefeIII @TrumpWarRoom

By acclimation what we’re dropping today is the most explosive video criminal evidence of election fraud in history by an investigative reporting team. It’s not circumstantial evidence. Felonies caught on tape. I’m proud of this team. The Justice League goes live in one hour.

Senate Republicans, If you stay in DC — while democrats flee for a paid vacation — you can pass the SAVE America Act with a simple 51 quorum & unanimous consent.

So basically: a) ICE deploys somewhere b) TSA lines plummet c) Traffic vanishes d) ERs clear out e) Construction sites are ghost towns f) Class sizes shrink ...and we're still supposed to believe there are only 11 million illegal aliens in the country?!