Brian Lusk
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@RealBrianLusk
Occasional YouTube host, researcher and producer. IT professional. Constitutional conservative in search of a political home.
Donald Trump has a similar challenge understanding the Iranians because he thinks everyone eventually just wants a “deal.” That assumption worked out for him pretty well—so far—in Venezuela, because the Maduro regime was basically just a bunch of mobsters pretending to be socialists. But the Iranians want different things because they believe different things. And they are willing to watch a lot of the world burn to get them. In fact, they’re willing to light the matches. These are the bastards, after all, who used thousands of children to clear minefields and soak up enemy fire in the Iran-Iraq war. Indeed, just this week, the regime lowered the age for “war supporting” roles to 12. If you’re that determined, or simply that evil, closing the Strait of Hormuz and blowing up your neighbor’s oil and gas facilities is hardly a moral or strategic red line. Listening to Trump, he clearly believes that if you kill the fanatic(s) at the top, you’ll eventually find someone who wants to cut a deal. I don’t think this is logically preposterous. It’s certainly possible that you can liquidate enough Iranian leaders until you find that person. But the regime isn’t organized in a way to make that easy, particularly only striking from the air. Yes, Iran has someone called a “supreme leader” but under him are layers upon layers of true believers who are convinced this war is an existential battle, not a mere negotiation. Trump’s view of “leadership” is entirely personalized, which is one reason he rejected the idea of building support for the war in advance. It’s also why he thinks other leaders can just cut a deal, the way he thinks he can. - Jonah Goldberg
The world is truly upside down! The Washington Post has published a brilliant article, written by, get this, a professor! To give you some flavor, here are a few choice lines by @jmurtazashvili: 1) "We are living through the first alt-war: a conflict in which the war fought online and the war fought in reality have diverged so completely that they might as well be happening on different planets. It’s not that people lack information, it’s more that they are constructing an entirely different alternate reality — one that confirms what they already believe." 2) "What worries me more than the fake videos are the people who cannot fathom that this war is going well for the United States, for Israel and maybe even for the long-suffering people of Iran. The strategic picture is more favorable than the online narrative suggests." 3) "Two weeks into the war, I watch otherwise reasonable analysts sprint to catastrophe. Former officials, thinktank scholars, credentialed professionals who are supposed to know how to read a conflict. Within days they had written the obituary: quagmire, overreach, disaster." 4) "The liberal internationalist left and the isolationist right — two camps that have agreed on almost nothing for decades — have suddenly found themselves in lockstep, racing to declare the war a failure before it had barely begun. This is the new blob: not the old foreign-policy establishment that the term originally described but a new amalgamation that has arrived at the same conclusion from opposite directions. Together they are the most powerful engine of the alt-war." The truth. In the mainstream media. By a professor. And written well. Four things I thought I'd never see again in my lifetime.
Dear Conservative Voter: I know sometimes things can look bleak. You may be disappointed right now. But do not listen to the bad actors who are telling you to vote democrat. Republicans may be disappointing you right now, but democrats want to destroy you. They want you dead.
President Trump wants to appease President Putin. Most Americans reject it. We reject Putin.
Regime forces the moment they hear the sound of Israeli drones 👇 They are "brave" only when facing unarmed protesters...
The US has given Ukraine an ultimatum: there will be security guarantees only if Kyiv gives all of Donbas to Putin, — Zelensky.
Everyone is wrongly conflating AI success with data centers, endless cloud surveillance data gathering and LLMs to produce generative chat slop in the utopian/dystopian impossible goal of creating AGI. It's dumb, extremely costly with a lot of collateral damage and will not result in positive ROI, much less the stated goal. Edge computing, mesh networks, and decentralized "narrow" AI is where it's at. That is what the Department of War is investing in, and betting literally everything on for future wars. It will be like the nervous system of our entire military. Only special interest grifters are focusing on what LLM the DoW is using or not using for the same sort of stupid white collar tasks as corporate American is trying to use LLMs for.
We went from “no more wars” to Fox News showing where US troops are going to invade Iran.
super funny that microsoft had a strong brand like 'office' and some mbas decided that 'microsoft 365' and 'copilot' should replace it
JENSEN HUANG: “I would advise that every college student, every teacher should encourage their students to go use AI. Every college student should graduate and be an expert in AI.”
Of course we trust Iran more than Trump. Iran lies, there's no particular reason to trust them EXCEPT for the fact that Trump lies even more, that there's even less reason to trust him. We say him lie over and over again about trade deals with other countries, for example. For country after country, he announced trillions in direct investment in America, which country after country denied, and which trade numbers don't actually show (there has been no increase in foreign direct investment). It's not simply trusting Iran more, it's about trusting Europe, Japan, India, South Korea more than Trump -- trusting ANYBODY more than Trump. Trump has provided no details, such as who he's actually in negotiations with. Indeed, he claims he decapitated the government so that nobody exists who can negotiate a deal. It's an obvious lie.
Found an AI perspective I’d never heard before from a teacher of teens. It’s a bit meandering but your three minutes will be well used.
