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Thom Hunter

@Thomist_

Grok says I delve into undercurrents of global power thru a lens of philosophical skepticism & historical analysis, unpacking intel ops/geopolitic strategies

The Left Coast Katılım Eylül 2012
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Anas Alhajji@anasalhajji·
🧿The Hormuz Crisis is not an oil crisis. It cannot be compared to past oil shocks. 🧿It is not an energy crisis. It cannot be compared to what the US experienced in 1972-1973 or any other in Europe. 🧿It is not a lockdown crisis. It cannot be compared to COVID-19. 🧿The Hormuz Crisis is a manufactured global crisis — the largest since World War II, intended to change the global economic and financial system and trade patterns. Its ramifications across every sector, every industry, and every field are beyond our current comprehension. We will learn as we go. 🧿The innocence is gone forever.
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Cigarette Nostalgia
Cigarette Nostalgia@CigsMake·
Teamwork and lots of cigs built Manhattan
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Adam Townsend
Adam Townsend@adamscrabble·
I’ve got a looooong chat running with Google Gemini for the last week about bathroom fixer-upper stuff for apts in Astoria Cos I’m obsessive, meticulous & anxiety-laden, I go over every detail and Gemini keeps trying to tap out I won’t let it, this is how we beat the machines
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Peter Girnus 🦅
Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz·
Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.
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Catherine Herridge
Catherine Herridge@C__Herridge·
LEGACY: @DNIGabbard declassified highly sensitive records and internal documents from the Obama White House. The records make an even stronger case that the 2016 Russia collusion narrative was not rooted in credible intelligence. Rather, intelligence was manipulated by the outgoing Obama Administration in coordination with IC leadership to fit a preferred political narrative. As of May 2026, DNI Gabbard has declassified well over half a million pages of government records that were previously withheld from the American people.
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Svetlana Lokhova
Svetlana Lokhova@RealSLokhova·
Special Counsel Durham planned to indict Marc Elias for his participation in the anti-Trump Conspiracy. Someone (Lisa Monaco/Maggie Goodlander) stopped the prosecutions. AG Blanche ought to: --immediately indict Elias, there is more than enough evidence --open an investigation into obstruction of justice by the Obama/Hillary crew
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Marc E. Elias@marceelias

Donald Trump recently posted that I am "a terrible lawyer with a horrible track record." 🙄 In 2020, my team and I defeated him in 64 of 65 cases.⚖️ Today we beat DOJ in two more voter file cases. We are now 7-0.💪 I guess I'm not so terrible after all...😂

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Fight With Memes
Fight With Memes@FightWithMemes·
The HR department exists for one reason: to perpetuate the HR department.
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Brad Setser
Brad Setser@Brad_Setser·
But China's EV industry (and its ICE industry) and its clean tech industry all developed behind big protective walls (high baseline tariffs in the WTO deal, 'buy China' policies for government and SoE purchases, EV subsidies that required made in China cars/ batteries ... 8/
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Thom Hunter@Thomist_·
@shipwreckedcrew 3/ It was this relationship that made Epstein a ‘made man’, and ushered him into the vast Rockefeller financial and intelligence networks that the ruthless and brilliant David Rockefeller helmed for over 50 years.
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Shipwreckedcrew@shipwreckedcrew·
There is no “list”. There has never been a list. The “collection of names” came up in the Maxwell trial. There is an exhibit under seal and Maxwell explain what it was in the interview with Blanche. This has always been an invention of the plaintiffs’ lawyers in FL who have made millions keeping this fraud/grift alive via social media.
Will Chamberlain@willchamberlain

The whole point is that there's nothing to blow open. The last time that Massie read names on the House floor, he defamed four random civilians who had nothing to do with Epstein other than being in a random police lineup with him. Massie was a fraud, a faker, and now he's done

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Michael Millerman
Michael Millerman@millerman·
@ericjackson Computer science has become political science. To learn governance, read Plato.
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Windscribe
Windscribe@windscribecom·
We won't be far behind if C-22 passes. In its current state, VPNs would almost certainly require us to log identifying user data. Signal isn't headquartered in Canada so they can just shut off Canadian servers, but our HQ is. We pay an ungodly amount of taxes to this corrupt government, and in return they want to destroy the entire essence of our service to basically spy on its own citizens. Not happening. We'll move HQ and take our taxes elsewhere.
Globe Politics@globepolitics

Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

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Thom Hunter@Thomist_·
@C_3C_3 "Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey has ignited a wave of debate over the director’s decision to draw inspiration from Emily Wilson’s 2017 English translation of the ancient Greek epic." greekcitytimes.com/2026/05/13/chr…
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C3@C_3C_3·
Ah yes… It all makes sense. This is raging leftist feminist Emily Wilson She “translated” Homer’s masterpiece which Christopher Nolan supposedly used in his adaptation of the Odyssey. Every single time.
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@BaldingsWorld When will the SecNav be visiting Hanoi to discuss: "Interoperability. Collaboration. Cooperation... to deter aggression and maintain a free and open maritime domain"? dw.com/en/china-vietn…
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Zineb Riboua
Zineb Riboua@zriboua·
My latest Iran's Economy is Collapsing Understanding the IRGC's Dilemma The IRGC likes to boast about its immunity to external pressure, but the economic situation reveals an organization that is disoriented, operating a model so rigid and so dependent on conditions that no longer exist that it has no productive response to the pressure now bearing down on it. zinebriboua.com/p/irans-econom…
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Anas Alhajji@anasalhajji·
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