Grok Swanson 🇺🇸

What did the Founders think of Caesar? That he was a tyrant and compared George III to him. That’s why they idolized Cato and Cicero, Caesar’s political opponents. In fact, George Washington’s favorite play was Joseph Addison’s “Cato,” and John Adams had a Cicero portrait.

“But Lewis and Clark didn’t have to deal with Orcs, Trolls, Balrogs, and Ring-wraiths!” True, but they did have to travel with a woman.

@sky_gray40190 @TheCinesthetic No, you’re right. I just forgot his name and knew he was apart of that band lol but I’m glad you enjoy the song too!

@Reason2ReasonX @TheCinesthetic Not trying to be a jerk, but it's not really a Goo Goo Dolls song, it's a solo John Rzeznik song. I agree that it's a good song and overlooked - probably because it was for a Disney movie.

Jim’s first solar board ride in Treasure Planet (2002) still feels unbelievably cool. The animation, the movement, the way the camera glides with him through space while “I’m Still Here” kicks in. Early 2000s Disney hit something special there.

@alphafox Reminds me of space mountain

Mall's in the 70s / 80s just had a vibe 😌

🇺🇸 Samuel Adams: Firebrand of the Revolution! He was a Boston son, Harvard man, and the brewer who helped birth a nation. Leader of the Sons of Liberty, mastermind of the Boston Tea Party, signer of the Declaration. He hated taxes more than bad ale and never bowed to tyrants. Here are 5 facts about this Founding Father. 1. He was a terrible businessman—blew his dad’s loan on bad bets and lazy habits, then “managed” the family malt house by mostly ignoring it. Real men focus on freedom, not ledgers. 2. Harvard thesis at age 21: “Is it lawful to resist tyrants if nothing else saves the commonwealth?” The kid was plotting revolution before most men shave. 3. Never actually brewed beer himself—he was a maltster like his kin. The modern Samuel Adams brewery just borrowed his name for marketing. Irony: the patriot who hated taxes now sells pints. 4. Organized the Boston Tea Party from the shadows but likely never tossed a single crate. Mastermind, not deckhand—pure Sons of Liberty style. 5. Wore the same red suit for years in Congress, looking ragged as hell. Didn’t chase wealth or finery; chased independence like a hound on a fox. “If ye love wealth better than liberty… go home from us in peace.” Real men risked everything so we wouldn’t have to. Never forget it. #SamuelAdams #FoundingFathers #SonsOfLiberty #PatriotsParlor #LibertyOrDeath

I’m back everyone. I got locked out of my account but a year later I’m back and getting hyped up for our great nation’s 250th anniversary! 🇺🇸 Thank you for your support.

George Washington never went to college. His father Augustine died when George was 11, and the money for English boarding school died with him. His two older half-brothers had already been polished at Appleby Grammar School across the Atlantic. George got Virginia, a demanding mother named Mary, and whatever books he could find at home. At 14 he tried to escape it all by joining the British Royal Navy. His mother shut it down. So he did the next best thing: he taught himself surveying from his late father's instruments, and at 16 he rode west into the Shenandoah wilderness on a commission from Lord Fairfax, who owned over five million acres of Virginia and needed them mapped. His teenage journal survives. It is brutal, funny, and absolutely not the voice of a marble statue. On his first night at a frontier inn, he stripped down and climbed into what passed for a bed, only to find "nothing but a Little Straw Matted together without Sheets or any thing else but only one Thread Bear blanket with double its Weight of Vermin such as Lice Fleas etc." After that he preferred sleeping outside by the fire, even when it rained, even when his clothes froze stiff on him by morning. One journal entry, almost in passing: thirty Native warriors walked into camp carrying a fresh scalp from battle. The teenage surveying party shared their liquor with them and watched them perform a war dance by firelight. George wrote it down the way a modern teenager logs a weird night out. He swam horses across swollen rivers. He ate roasted meat off forked sticks because "our Spits was Forked Sticks our Plates was a Large Chip as for Dishes we had none." He met German settlers and noted in frustration that they "would never speak English but when spoken to they speak all Dutch." He measured timber in country where almost no English speaker had ever walked. By 17 he was the commissioned surveyor of Culpeper County, the youngest official surveyor in the colony of Virginia. By 18 he had parlayed the earnings into nearly 1,500 acres of Shenandoah Valley land in his own name, bought outright, while boys his age back east were still reciting Latin in heated parlors. The man who would one day command the Continental Army, defeat the largest empire on earth, and then voluntarily refuse a crown, did not learn leadership in a lecture hall. He learned it at 16, in a tent, in the dark, hundreds of miles from anyone who could save him.

@washghost1 @Breaking911 Nothing ever happens lol

@Breaking911 Kinda late isn’t it

BREAKING: U.S. officials say the U.S. is moving toward indicting former Cuban President Raúl Castro, 94, over the downing of planes 30 years ago.

@EchoesofWarYT Looks solid but that’s one goofy song to play in the background lol

Who else is excited for this?!

@GeeksGamersCom But why lol

Pedro Pascal Promotes The Mandalorian and Grogu by Kissing Stephen Colbert On The Mouth "For many online, the moment immediately became meme material. But it also raised another question entirely: how exactly is this helping promote The Mandalorian and Grogu to mainstream Star Wars audiences?"

@hostis_black Safari uses Google

The update channel is the leash. Cut it tonight. Every browser that does not answer to Google has a link in the stores. #browsers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hostis.black/#browsers

On May 4th, a Swedish privacy lawyer caught Google Chrome silently installing a 4 GB AI model on every desktop computer it could reach. If you delete the file, Chrome treats the deletion as a temporary error and downloads it again at the next opportunity. The file is called weights.bin. It lives in a folder called OptGuideOnDeviceModel inside the Chrome user profile directory. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device large language model. Hundreds of millions of devices now carry it. Two thirds of every desktop browser in the world is Chrome. Alexander Hanff, the Swedish privacy lawyer, installed a clean copy of Chrome on a fresh Mac, ran a script that visited a hundred webpages with no human input, and watched the system logs as Chrome silently wrote 4 GB to his disk. Chrome 147 ships with an "AI Mode" pill rendered in the address bar. A reasonable user, knowing Chrome just installed an on-device AI model, would assume that visible AI Mode feature uses the model sitting on their hard drive. Local query. Local processing. Local privacy. Every part of that assumption is wrong. The visible AI feature ships your queries to Google's servers. The 4 GB file on your hard drive does nothing visible. It powers obscure features buried in right-click menus that almost no Chrome user has ever clicked. The invisible binary sits on your disk and waits for the version that does. Chrome is the most-installed surveillance product of all time. Two billion users. Every URL you visit, every search you type, every form you fill out, every site you stay on, every site you leave. The advertising model that pays for Chrome requires every one of those signals. Chrome holds 64% of the global desktop browser market. Two-thirds of every reader of this sentence is reading it through software that just took 4 GB of their hard drive without asking. Until last year, Chrome's surveillance ended at what you typed into the address bar and what your activity log showed. The model can now read the page you have open, the text you have selected, the draft you are writing inside a Gmail tab before you have decided whether to send it. Google's "Help me write" feature requires that capability by definition. Help me write means read what I am writing. Locally. In real time. Pre-send. It's time to switch browsers. The cartel cannot watch the screen it is not running on.

@DrClownPhD 👏🏽

Troy, but instead of Brad Pitt, it’s Elliot Page.

@DiscussingFilm I’m not gonna support this. If people want to avoid more of this goofiness don’t pay to see it. Everyone here that is complaining but will see it in theaters are apart of the problem.

Christopher Nolan explains why he cast Travis Scott in ‘THE ODYSSEY’: “I cast him because I wanted to nod towards the idea that this story has been handed down as oral poetry, which is analogous to rap.” (Source: time.com/article/2026/0…)

@NostalgiaGalaxy What’s the song? @Grok

Watching Monday Night Raw in 2005.

Thomas Jefferson was 33. James Madison was 25. Alexander Hamilton was 21. Young men built this country. Young men will save this country.

@autastar @ClownWorld This lol

@ClownWorld why do people go to comedy shows and get like this? what is even the point, you took your girl out on a date, and it ends with you getting arrested for assault. if i was his girl id run like hell, if he's willing to do this in public, what will he do behind closed doors to you?