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Just to make things perfectly clear…

@Grok summarize the historical flaws and errors in the book titled “Black Athena” breitbart.com/politics/2026/…

@bdomenech @Variety 🤦🏻‍♂️

James Bond Auditions Have Officially Started, ‘Game of Thrones’ Casting Vet Nina Gold Tapped to Find Next 007 (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2026/film/news… via @variety

@NobleNegroe Don’t worry, there’s Justin Pearson

Welp! There goes Memphis’ Black representation 😭😭

@XVanFleet @mog_russEN 他没有 😂😂

@mog_russEN I had no idea that Trump reads Chinese🤣🤡😂

🚨⚡️ SPOTTED: Trump caught sneaking a peek at Xi Jinping's private notebook during a Beijing banquet while Xi stepped away! 🤣

@elonmusk @FT Then why take SpaceX public?

Yes, I need to make sure SpaceX stays focused on making life multiplanetary and extending consciousness to the stars, not pandering to someone’s bullshit quarterly earnings bonus! Obviously, IF SpaceX succeeds in this absurdly difficult goal, it will be worth many orders of magnitude more than the economy of Earth, but don’t expect entirely smooth sailing along the way.

SpaceX is intending to guarantee Elon Musk cannot be fired and offering a trillion-dollar pay deal linked to building a colony on Mars. ft.trib.al/byv6y9T

Is this that White privilege I hear so much about?

@WallStreetApes @elonmusk The dude who only produced 4 films that nobody even remembers or saw changed the enjoyment and entertainment of movies forever to virtue signaling at 24 fps.🤡🌏

@elonmusk This clown is why all our movies suck now apparently ‘Producer DeVon Franklin co-led a task force developing new representation and inclusion standards for Oscars eligibility’

Who specifically is the asshole who added DEI lies to Academy Awards eligibility instead of it just being about making the best movie?

Thune is talking filibusters… Dems are talking… Ban Voter ID Open Borders Grant Amnesty End Free Speech Pack the SCOTUS Force Woke Education Ending Electoral College Grant PR & DC Statehood Imprison Political Enemies Etc DESTROY AMERICA. Pass the Save America Act!

True.😂

From the free newsletter: UN Wants $131 Trillion for "Reparations" profstonge.com/publish/post/1… "The UN is a union of corrupt kleptocracies fleecing the West." "But the kicker is colonialism is the best thing that ever happened to the Third World."

@WallStreetApes @elonmusk Economic Destruction 101 on how to destroy a business model.

@RodDMartin Didn’t Xi once say the there was no such thing as the Thucydides Trap?

2/ So what is "Thucydides Trap"? Graham Allison documented 16 cases of rising powers challenging established ones. Four ended in peace. But in the twelve that led to war, the established power defeated the rising power 7-5. If Xi knows this history, he understands the odds are stacked against China — especially right now.

🧵 Xi Jinping just invoked the Thucydides Trap with Trump. Most assume this is a threat. But what if Xi is signaling something else — that he recognizes China is now in a weakened position against the United States and thus needs to avoid a war? The historical record and current realities both suggest he has reason to worry. Thread 🧵

@CynicalPublius @its_Lexieroy @grok Seems he has.

@its_Lexieroy @Grok, has Donald Trump ever called men "stupid"?

🚨TRUMP JUST CALLED TWO FEMALE REPORTERS “STUPID”… AGAIN In case anyone’s keeping count: Today alone, he called not one, but TWO female reporters “stupid” to their faces. This isn’t a one-off. He’s going to keep doing it. He’s going to start calling them far worse. Because nobody in that room — or in his own party — has the spine to stop him. When does the press corps finally push back? Do YOU think this is acceptable behavior from the President of the United States? YES or NO?

Democrat California governor candidate Xavier Becerra responds to the 85,000 missing children under the Biden Administration He’s told young kids were found working overnight in slaughterhouses, replacing roofs and operating machineries in factories His response “Probably because they needed to earn some money” This is the Democrat Party….. Save California and stop voting for these failed Democrat politicians. These career politicians have done absolutely nothing for anything Just look at his response here… first he denies, then he blames Trump (even though it happened under Biden), then he says the little kids that went missing wanted to work in slaughterhouses and facilities It’s insanity

They can’t win on the merits. They can’t win with thirty million illegal alien votes. They can’t win with ballot harvesting and dead voters. Even three assassination attempts didn’t do the trick. So, hey, why not just shred the constitution and simply take over? #Democrats

@ABC So we're ending electoral apartheid in the USA? Excellent news--it's the only way to a just, post-racial society.

@OwenGregorian I like his keyboards.

Man Finds Robot Dog Is Bad at Protecting His Chickens, But Might Be Good at Sending Data to China | Tom Hawking, Gizmodo It’s not every day you see a video that starts with chickens and ends with a genuine national security concern, but then, these are strange times. The story starts with YouTuber, musician, and increasingly influential amateur cybersecurity researcher Benn Jordan’s attempt to get a robot dog from Chinese firm Unitree—also responsible for the questionable Gundam and the kung-fu deathbots—to guard his chicken coop. The robot proves an abject failure at doing this, and at anything else remotely useful. What it does turn out to be good at, according to Jordan, is sending data back to China. While the robot’s general uselessness is amusing, the really interesting part of the video comes once Jordan starts to look into the robot’s information security features—or, more specifically, the alleged lack thereof. This section of the video starts strong with the revelation that Jordan was able to obtain root access to the dog—yes, that’s a phrase I just typed—by adding Curl commands to the end of his wifi password. This allows full access to the dog, which, as Jordan says, involves “not only controlling their movement, but also recording, downloading, and livestreaming audio and video information from the robot’s surroundings without an authenticated connection through the app.” (At this point, it’s probably worth noting that police departments across the country are merrily spending tax revenue on these robots like it’s Monopoly money.) There are also other fun little pieces of information, like the dog’s weird built-in ChatGPT implementation, through which Jordan was able to convince it to “disable its safety functions and give up API info”; the fact that the dog’s radio control frequency is easily replicable; and most of all, the fact that while the robot’s firmware doesn’t take your security seriously in the slightest, it takes the security of the data it’s sending home—and the location to which it’s sending that data—very seriously indeed. The last part of the video catalogs Jordan’s attempts to figure out exactly what information the robot is collecting and where it’s being sent. The ins and outs of it are really worth watching for yourself, but the tl;dr is that, as Jordan puts it, “some, if not all, Unitree robots are intentionally and secretly sending heavily encrypted information to Chinese servers and going to great lengths to prevent anyone from finding out about it.” On a completely unrelated note, hey, did we mention that the US military has been buying these robodogs? As Jordan says, “If we were living in a time when the Federal Government would take this type of thing seriously, this would be something I would report privately.” But, of course, we are living in the most stupid of all possible worlds, so instead, we’re watching this on YouTube. It’s hard to think of a more quintessentially 2026 story than this saga, and there’s probably a word in German for its very specific mixture of absurdity, stupidity, hilarity, and terror. In the absence of such a word, however, I’ll leave you with this screenshot—wherein, just to be clear, it’s the robot dog saying “Hey little lamb over there, you’re off course [and] going [in] the wrong direction”, not Jordan himself. The key figure, though, is the real dog, gazing upon its robotic counterpart—and, indeed, the entire scene—with a mixture of bewilderment and genuine concern. We are all this tiny dog, pondering the foolishness of mankind. Or maybe we’re just the robot dog, narrating its own divergence from the path of sanity. What a piece of work is man, indeed. gizmodo.com/man-finds-robo…

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This type of thinking is racist. We are supposed to be a colorblind society where race is not a determining factor. It’s always either race or Trump — they have no gravitas in their shallow opinions. It’s always divisive.

Notice the flip flop here. In 2015, Xi said that "there's no such thing as the so-called Thucydides Trap in the World" and now? Xi just sat across from Donald Trump in the Great Hall of the People and asks whether the two powers can “overcome the Thucydides Trap” and “forge a new paradigm” for great-power relations. Funny! Because a decade ago, he used the phrase "so-called" to describe it and outright denied that it was an applicable concept. So why the change of tone you ask? This is what you'd call a tell, an involuntary admission that Beijing’s position has deteriorated sharply since 2015. Back then, China was at the height of the post-financial crisis boom. Beijing was surging with double digit growth (on paper), the Belt and Road Initiative was rolling out to great fanfare, island building in the South China Sea was barely met with any Western response (thanks Obama), and the American president was still preaching “strategic patience.” Today, in 2026, the material reality has flipped. China’s much-hyped “century of rejuvenation” has slammed into structural headwinds that no amount of state media spin can hide - a demographic death spiral, a property sector collapse that wiped out trillions in household wealth, local government debt bombs lurking on the books, and a tech ecosystem increasingly isolated by US export controls and friend-shoring. The GDP overtake narrative that once enthralled the elites at Davos has quietly died; projections now show America pulling further ahead in nominal terms. Xi’s “China Dream” is at best delayed and at worst, never materializing. Trump 2.0 brought tariffs back on the table, hardened alliances with Japan and the Philippines, accelerated arms sales to Taiwan, and an American public finally awake to the CCP’s game. Knowing that China requires continued access to Western markets, capital, and technology to avoid stagnation at home, Xi now does a U-Turn and reaches for the historical analogy he once dismissed. Basically when you’re strong, you deny any threat exists hoping to lull the bigger power into complacency. When your power and strength wanes, warn that resistance will produce the very conflict you claim to fear. Xi is essentially saying to America, "don't contain us, don’t push back too hard, or you’ll be the paranoid Sparta that started the war against Athens.” It's actually a veiled threat to keep the one-way transfer of power and wealth open, OR ELSE. This 180 deg shift proves that the balance is tilting back toward American strength. The correct US response is to reject the premise entirely, and continue to maintain unrelenting pressure on every front and force Xi to choose between genuine reform at home or managed decline on Beijing’s terms. Xi’s sudden invocation of the Thucydides Trap - something he used to dismiss - simply confirms that the pressure worked. Americans should take this as a sign that their country is not in decline, despite the insane amount of propaganda now also being touted by American influencers and podcasters.