David Ennis

@krassenstein The liberal mind can put words together, but the resulting verbal constructions are not connected to physical reality. Their brains have developed without the capability of processing relationships, cause and effect, or processes. I call this condition logical palsy.

BREAKING: Actor Ben Stiller just posted this letter to America: “I love our country. But, like so many of us, I’m concerned about the future of our democracy. We’ve now seen the violent murder of American citizens, killed in cold blood in broad daylight by masked ICE agents. These were our neighbors, their lives ended by armed militias entering our communities with impunity. They were denied due process in life and dignity in death by an administration who refuted the reality the world saw, shifting blame to the victims and creating false narratives about their lives and those fateful days. The Framers of our Constitution believed in checks and balances to power, adding the Bill of Rights specifically to protect individual liberties from potential government overreach. And yet here we are. Innocent people are being harassed, separated from their families, and in some cases killed. Peaceful protest is a constitutionally protected form of free speech that is essential to our existence as a democracy. We have the right to disagree with the actions of the government we elect. The First Amendment also names and protects the freedom of the press. And yet journalists and political commentators have been arrested. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”. Our elected representatives, from the President and members of Congress to the people they appoint and approve, have a responsibility to act with integrity and honesty. To uphold our ideals and values as a nation. To not lie to us, in the face of the plain facts. We must demand that they represent the expressed will of the people they serve, including removing ICE from our streets. We must demand justice and an end to this lethal chaos. I believe we can reverse this slide toward division and hate. Facing this moment with a return to empathy and love for one another might sound naive, but it’s ultimately what will move our country forward and out of this.”

This is a brilliant post. It is an extended aphorism worthy of Eric Hoffer, but with deeper wrinkles and sharper edges. It's the first post I ever bookmarked. The large language model is much more than an apt metaphor for the brain with good memory and verbal prowess but without understanding. To me and a few of my colleagues who have studied this through the lens of the learning process; it labels a physical reality in the state of the development brains of such people. Their brains ain't lit. For a brain to "light up" with understanding, we have found that three physically distinct information processing areas of the brain need to be stimulated to work together to perceive connections and relationships between things. When a person can simultaneously perceive relationships between things (physical things and abstract things) diagrammatically, linguistically, and symbolically, understanding happens. Understanding is a mental state-the ideal mental state. Any physics teacher who might be reading has seen many students who could solve problems but had no idea what it all meant. Those students were operating exclusively in the symbolic area. There is much more to all of this. But this is Mr. Eriksen's wonderful thread, not mine. I was just so impressed with and enabled by his words that I couldn't shut up.

A vast number of humans, probably a majority, aren't people. They are large language models. I'm not saying this as a generality, as a clever or funny way of saying, "they are stupid". No. I mean something very concrete and specific, and there are a lot of people who appear very intelligent, maybe even win awards for writing good poetry or something, who are nevertheless not people, not fully sapient, just a large language model walking around in a human body. First, you have to understand what a large language model is. It's a computer (organic or inorganic), which has been trained on a data set consisting solely of language (written or spoken), and rewarded for producing language that sounds like the data set, and is relevant to a prompt. That's all there is in there. This is why ChatGPT and Grok lie to you constantly. It's not because they are somehow just indifferent to the truth — they actually do not understand the concept of "truth" at all. For something to be a "lie", or an "inaccuracy", there has to be a mismatch between the meaning of words, and the state of reality. And there's the critical difference. You see, in order to identify a mismatch between the state of reality, and the meaning of a sentence, you have to have a model of reality. Not just one model, of language. This is why Grok and ChatGPT hallucinate and tell you lies. Because, for them, everything is language, and there is no reality. So when I say someone is a large language model, I do not mean he is "stupid". He might be very facile at processing language. He might, in fact, be eloquent enough to give great speeches, get elected president, win the Nobel Peace Prize, and so on. What I mean is that humans who are large language models do not have a robust world-object model to counterweight their language model. They are able to manipulate symbols, sometimes adroitly, but they are on far shakier ground when trying imagine the objects those symbols represent. Which brings us to this woman. Most conservatives understand her behavior in terms of concepts like "suicidal empathy", or "brainwashing", or an "information bubble", interpreted as reasons why she is delusional, but the truth is far worse than that. To delusional is to have an object model of the world that is deeply and profoundly wrong. But to have an object model of the world that is deeply and profoundly wrong... you have to have one in the first place. To sapient humans, words are symbols, grounded in object model of reality, that we use to communicate ideas about that reality. We need those words because we don't come equipped with a hologram projector, or telepathic powers. But for another type of human, that object model isn't very large or robust at all. It consists only of a grass hut or two with a few sticks of furniture, and it can never be matched up with the palaces in the air which she weaves out of words. And so, to her, there is no reality. Or at least very little. Reality consists only of her and her immediate surroundings in time and space, and words referring to anything bigger or more complicated are not descriptions of reality... they are magic spells which will make other humans drop loot or give her social approval. You cannot correct her worldview with contradictory evidence, because there is no worldview to correct. You cannot confront her with the logical inconsistencies in her worldview, because her object model doesn't actually have any, it's not complex enough for that. The relevant parts of her world-object model can be summed up as follows: "If I say Goodthing, I get headpats and cookies from all the people like me." That model is simply not big or complicated enough to contain notions like self-defense or vehicular assault. She has no theory of mind for a man whose job includes violence. She cannot explain or predict his behavior. It is too far away from her daily experience to fit into her reality at all. And if she can't imagine things like these, how can she possibly imagine concrete meanings for vast and complex ideas like demographic replacement, culture shift, and western civilization? This is not about intelligence or lack of it. This is about what her brain is trained to do. Her upbringing, education, and life did not force, or even encourage, her to develop a robust world-object model. It wasn't necessary for her to get safety, approval, or cookies. She just had to be glib. So it really didn't matter if she had an IQ of 125, or whatever, because if she did, then she was just an IQ-125-large-language-model, and only used that brain capacity for writing clever poetry, and saying things that aligned her to her local social matrix. She couldn't actually understand the world no matter how smart she was, because her brain was trained up wrong. I don't know if this is correctable, or if there was some critical developmental phase that was missed, but it doesn't matter, because once the LLM-humans are adults, they won't sit still for corrective therapy, percussive or not. What's important is that they can't be taught things. They can be programmed to repeat stuff, and if you win a culture war, you can even program them to say the sensible stuff. But even then, they will just be saying it for headpats and cookies. They will never truly understand the sense of what they are repeating, because they don't understand things. They are just Large Language Models. And we have to figure out some way to take the vote away from them.

@TheLaurenChen I was with you until you used the term, "liberal brainrot." At that point you slipped into being part of the problem. We've all done that. Although it's hard when they're constantly shooting at us, we need to understand the mental processes under their thinking (and our own).

I just figured out why the Minnesota ICE death is bothering me so much. This liberal woman was willing to take on federal agents, to disrupt ICE operations, in order to protect criminal Somalis. Obviously, she probably didn't imagine she would be killed. But surely, she must have known that, at the very least, she could be arrested. She has three kids. So she was willing to be separated from her kids to protect criminal Somalis. Speaking as a mother, this is insanity. This is not rational thinking. What it is, instead, is the result of liberal brainrot that convinces progressive women they have more of a duty to nurture and protect poor, brown (criminal!) strangers than their own country, and hell, even their own children. I am praying for this woman's soul and for her family. But I mean it when I say this type of thinking is almost wholly responsible for the decline of Western civilization.

@simonateba I'm calling AI on that image, though. There is no actual photographic evidence from that angle.

1- The Police Use-of-Force Rule on Moving Vehicles Core Police Rule taught nationwide: Officers should not intentionally place themselves in front of or in the path of a moving vehicle and then use deadly force to stop it. 2- DOJ / FBI / National Policing Standards The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI training doctrine states: A moving vehicle alone is not considered a deadly threat. Officers must attempt to move out of the vehicle’s path rather than fire. Deadly force is not justified if: The officer voluntarily placed themselves in front of the vehicle. The vehicle is attempting to flee. There are other avenues of escape 3- International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) The IACP model policy says: Officers shall not fire at or from a moving vehicle unless: There is an imminent threat other than the vehicle itself, and No reasonable alternatives exist Standing in front of a vehicle creates the danger and invalidates the justification. 4- Minnesota training explicitly teaches: Officers must avoid positioning themselves in front of vehicles during enforcement actions Use of deadly force is not justified when the danger results from the officer’s own tactical decisions This is drilled into recruits. 5- Supreme Court Context While not a numbered rule, courts repeatedly rule that: An officer cannot manufacture a deadly-force scenario and then claim self-defense. This is known legally as “officer-created jeopardy.” 5- How It’s Taught to Police Police are taught: Step aside Let the vehicle go Identify later Do not block with your body Do not draw a gun in front of a car Why? Because: Cars are common People panic Officers escalate situations unnecessarily Innocent people get killed.

@JennMGreenberg Frame by frame observation of the video tells me that the officer might have shot mainly to defend his colleague from being dragged by an out of control, hostile, non-compliant driver. That officer should have been reassigned after his own previous trauma.

I’ll probably make almost everyone mad by saying this, but … It’s entirely possible that Renee Nicole Good genuinely believed that the ICE officer trying to force open her door posed a lethal threat. It’s also entirely possible that the ICE officer in front of her SUV genuinely believed she was trying to run him over. When you’re in a situation that tense, a lot of instincts kick in. It’s easy for us to watch video clips on X and say, “She is a terrorist,” or “He is a murderer,” or “Look at her wheels,” or “He could have jumped,” but they didn’t have that luxury. For them it happened extremely fast, in a split second, and they couldn’t see five different angles. They had time to react but not to think. And when it was done it was done. Pray for everyone involved. Especially Renee’s loved ones. Especially her poor children. And wait for an investigation to conclude before you assume you know all the facts.

@PhilosophyOfPhy I can kind of imagine. Right now I seem to be the only person in the world that knows that 2+2=4 is nonsensical and the consequences of teaching it, and that the first law of the universe is that all change is the effect of force exerted through distance.🤪 No, seriously.

Albert Einstein (1905) was the first person to conclude that if the speed of light is constant for all observers, then time itself must be relative, not absolute. Can you imagine what he might have been feeling at that moment to be the only person in the world who knew that time is not absolute?

@ginamilan_ DNA and fingerprints from shell casings would not be of use until they found the man who matched them. That would not have happened without the homeless man, or until days after someone smelled the shooter's body decaying in the storage unit.

From what I’m hearing and my sources in Rhode Island, authorities identified the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings through DNA, shell casings, and a homeless man providing a license plate number to police.

@Wendehorn117664 @gatewaypundit The Providence police commander had said earlier that the homeless man absolutely broke the case. So I was astounded when a reporter asked the FBI member at the press conference if the homeless guy would get the reward, and he said, yeah he probably deserves some of it.

@gatewaypundit Gove him the reward! I'm sure he could use $50K and start over

REVEALED: Here is How a HOMELESS MAN Blew the Brown University and MIT Cases Wide Open and Led Authorities to the Assassin thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/reveal…

@PhysInHistory It's all merely-yet profoundly-belief. Now, put that in your pipe and smoke it, as we old people say.

Should mathematics be considered a language or a tool? ✍️

@EdKrassen Could you, your cohorts, and MAGA -- all -- please stop being so goddamned stupid? You're all equally toxic.

Sorry to let you down MAGA, but Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente wasn’t Muslim. He also didn’t come into America under Biden. He also wasn’t an illegal immigrant. He also wasn’t transgender. But somehow MAGA still wants to blame Democrats because that’s what they will always do.

@kate_p45 @nicksortor I'm surprised that so few people know that he also killed the MIT professor, two days later.

@nicksortor Glad he is dead, but the Providence PD and Brown University officials failed. They gave him just enough time to escape and off himself.

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: The Brown University shooting suspect has been found DEAD of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a storage facility in Salem, NH, per Fox Good riddance, dirtbag. Burn in hell.

@nicksortor You left out that he is also the killer of MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro on Monday. The only logical connecting motive is insane jealousy. Cameras wouldn't have prevented the Brown murders, but could well have prevented the MIT one. Brown is going to need that $8 Billion.

@nicksortor The Brown shooter was a Brown student, and is also the MIT shooter, is now dead by suicide. Motive? I think that the only thing that ties it all together is insane jealousy of the success of former classmate Prof. Nuno Loureiro, and the potential success of the Brown victims.

🚨 HOLY CRAP! A Providence, RI radio host just accused Brown University of TAKING DOWN security cameras in an effort to SHIELD illegal aliens If this is true, this is a MONUMENTAL scandal. This must be thoroughly investigated NOW!

@RealJamesWoods I disagree. Yeah, campus security was lax. The investigation may not have been flawless. But hundreds of professional personnel from about eight agencies have all been slow-walking this case? BTW, it is now solved. The same shooter also killed the MIT prof, and is now dead.

If she were the Vice President of the campus Democrat Club, the killer would have been caught, tried, and in prison by now. There would have been crystal clear video of every moment.

Motive: Brown University and MIT murders My sympathies for the loved ones of the victims. The shooter was a failed Brown physics graduate student from about 20 years ago. The Brown victims were aspiring techies with bright futures like he once thought he had. The MIT professor was a world renowned success who had been a student in the same Portuguese school at the same time as the shooter. What ties it all together? Raging jealousy in a disturbed mind with delusions of grandeur. He obsessed that the victims had stolen from him. That's my theory.

@amazing_physics Amazing fact, if true, about that gold deposit, but it wouldn't make everyone billionaires. That much gold would break a lot of existing billionairs, as the price fell to the price of common metals.

Asteroid Psyche 16 has been found to contain gold reserves worth $700 quintillion. That's enough to make everyone on Earth billionaires☄️💸

@tweeterazzis @alphafox You know that an idea is satire when it would negatively affect or limit the variations in sex.

@alphafox the absolute state of women in 2025

No other animal in nature wipes, so why do we do it?

@MakunaMars @alphafox Yes. The bullet is not accelerating.

@alphafox A. The cartridge is still encasing the bullet. B. The bullet isn't spinning around the rifling of the barrel. C. No expelled gasses propelling the bullet. Did I miss anything? 🤔

Can you identify the issue with this illustration? 😭

@newstart_2024 So two legs of the stool which represent the end of meaning for humans are abundant sex without children and financial security without work. I think that the third, and most frightening leg of the stool is the end of the need for learning and understanding.

Bret Weinstein just said something that won’t leave my head: For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding. Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds. Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected. Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think. And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing. Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure? Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting. Watch it all the way through, then tell me — honestly — does this explain the absolute intensity we’re seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something? Real answers only. Quote-post if it hits you in the chest like it hit me.

@sciencegirl That 2 + 2 = 4. It's not only wrong, it's meaningless. Numbers are ratios. Ratios don't add. No wonder 85% of people don't understand math. Quantities add. 2 marbles + 2 marbles = 4 marbles.