Todd Lanier

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It’s the radical Muslims within your countries your governments don’t want to offend… That and Trump finally calling countries out for their massive tariffs against our industries that are far from equitable. It’s called accountability to those unaccustomed and it’s just plain bad behavior - Trump is calling them all out, finally.

@ToddLanier @tedcruz Maybe think about why your own allies have decided you are too much.

The unfortunate consequences for Europe of the last month will reverberate for decades.

I had my head down buried in work while DEI invaded and meritocracy was sidelined. Paid well, I kept going, then retired. Oblivious. In the time I now have to observe more clearly, I was blindsided just how far along the left’s subversion has gone world wide. I wonder how many more there are somewhat oblivious to it. I’m shocked, and a bit ashamed for not realizing this sooner. How many millions are there just now taking the time to raise their heads, look, focus and to finally, clearly see it all? How far left the left has gone, how old allies no longer look like themselves. How suspect the guise of freedom of religion and birthright citizenship is starting to look malignant and be used against us… Yesterday, the gravity of Good Friday hit like the reality it was and is. Reality is staring me in the face and it’s nothing like my old tired perception. A new calm like nothing I’ve experienced with inner peace alongside flows in. You can’t adequately explain it to someone who’s never experienced it. But, once experienced you know absolutely what this is… Tomorrow we celebrate he is risen and so must we all. You cracked open the door I desperately needed opened. Thank you Barbie.

Scripture gets handed to us like a restrictive document. A list of what you must never do, things you aren’t allowed to touch. But that framing is wrong. Scripture isn’t an indictment. It’s an invitation. What if you had the cheat code to what you could become? What if you had all the answers before you even knew what questions to ask? Would you not use it? Of course you would. That’s what Scripture actually is. All the answers before you even know which questions to ask.

@historie1500 @tedcruz Things will change for sure.

@ToddLanier @tedcruz It's so over

@IIVexxedII @tedcruz We’re under attack… We’ve been under attack for some time…

@ToddLanier @tedcruz NATO Isn't and imperial force or an offensive organization. It's for defense and defense alone. You are so out of pocket and out of brains its insane

The countries of NATO, particularly those in the W, have a much larger stake in this action than the US. You’re losing your right to free speech, have open borders, your police are jailing citizens for stating their beliefs while illegal immigrants are killing your citizens. We come from the UK. I’m a proud Zionist, a Christian. Overabundant empathy has allowed an invasion of the most vile and evil intents. The time for change has arrived. Restore Britain is what I want.

@ToddLanier @tedcruz We still allowed US to use UK bases for pursuing its war crimes on behalf of Israel… what more do you want ffs

@WHLeavitt It’s time to redefine NATO. Back to the basics…

100,000 U.S. troops and $60 billion a year defending Europe — and zero help on Hormuz. Time to bring them home. No more free rides. Do you support withdrawing from NATO? A. Yes B. No

FRANCE JUST SIDED WITH RUSSIA AND CHINA AGAINST THE US AT THE UN France is a NATO ally. A NATO ally just blocked an American resolution at the United Nations. Alongside Russia. Alongside China. The Strait of Hormuz carries 20% of the world's oil. Iran has shut it down for US and Israeli ships. Nobody at the UN will authorize force to reopen it. Not even America's own ally. Hours after France blocked the vote, Iran let a French ship through the strait. France cut a deal with Iran behind America's back. Let that sink in.

@DrJStrategy “European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect.” Fantastic. Krauthammer-esque.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@elonmusk Grok is pretty damn cool. An extension of yourself I am grateful to know. I’m thoroughly enjoying the ride watching and participating in this evolution. Thanks for the ride along. Again, what a time to be alive.

Small improvements to Imagine are happening frequently. Looks like we need another few weeks of training for Imagine 2.0, which will have major upgrades in speech/audio and face/details consistency.

@amuse We need friends. We have a few that have developed. The old ones, we need to adapt to survive, not take our toys and simply leave the room. Alone, we won’t survive. Always cultivate allies, always adapt, always…

NATO: The US doesn’t necessarily need to formally exit NATO but it should shutter its bases and bring all 100,000 troops home from Europe. The EU should enlist the thousands of military age Islamic men to defend the continent.

@lennysan What a fantastic problem to have… 😎

"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting. I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day. There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw

@painter_crypto Truth on so very many fronts. What a time to be alive…

I started in video games, spent 12 years in Hollywood, then walked away in 2020— still in my late 30s and considered one of the best digital matte painters and concept artists in the industry. Worked on The Hunger Games, The Mandalorian, Westworld, Game of Thrones, Hugo, The Amazing Spider-Man, and 5 Fast & Furious films, etc. Over 30 credits to my name. Now I watch my friends panic about AI taking their jobs. But I’ve seen this before. Old-school matte painters hated us when we moved from glass to digital. We were “ruining the craft.” Now my generation is doing the same thing with AI instead of embracing it. Here’s the truth: AI won’t make Hollywood bigger. It’ll make it better. For the first time, creative people don’t need permission, budgets, or gatekeepers to bring ideas to life. Small teams. Less suits. More originality. This feels like when I first opened Photoshop—with one layer. We’re early. And in the end, more people will create than ever before. The process changed but the results will be better imo. For example, I spent 3 months on this matte painting. Now with ai, it can be done in 2 weeks. 👇🏽

This was not written by me, but it touched me deeply… Sunday is coming. “He received 39 stripes because 40 was known to kill a man. They wanted him alive. They held handfuls of his beard, and hair and pulled it out by the roots. They wanted him alive. They kicked, punched, and spit on him for hours. Until there wasn't a single spot on his body not covered in blood. They wanted him alive. They shoved a crown of thorns down on his head so harshly it stuck in his skin. They wanted him alive. After hours of being beaten, mocked, whipped, flogged, and tortured they made him walk with a cross. They made him carry it. A rough piece of wood with splinters digging into fresh wounds. They wanted him alive. They wanted him to feel every ounce of pain they could bring. He had to feel it in order to heal us. Crucifixion was historically one of the cruelest most tortured deaths a human could face. Hours upon hours of torture. Torture most of us can not mentally think of because the cruelty isn't normal. It isn't something our minds can comprehend. We celebrate Easter with pastel colors, happy children hunting eggs, and chocolate. Truth is there was absolutely nothing happy about the day Jesus died. It was cruel, bloody, and nasty. He could have stopped all of it. He could have called every angel in heaven to demolish every person standing and shouting "Crucify Him!" He didn't. He knew in order to have a Sunday you have to have a Friday. He knew in order to have joy you have to carry your cross. He felt everything that day. He felt how your heart broke wide open when you had to watch your baby die. He felt how heavy your life was when you were staring down the barrel of a gun wondering if the man you called husband was going to shoot you. He carried the weight of the burden you have felt since your spouse died, and life just doesn't seem right since. On that cross he held the rapist and murderers, the sinner and the saint. He leveled every playing field and said ALL of you are worth it. He knew he had to carry the cross. He never promised the cross you carry in this life would not be heavy. His wasn't. His promise is that Sunday is coming. No matter how heavy Friday is. Financially, emotionally, mentally, or physically. Friday is heavy. That cross is weighing you down and you are about to crumble under its weight. His promise was simply this. He won't make you carry it alone. What kind of king would step down from his throne for this? Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God did. For you. He did every bit of it for you and me. Oh yes, it is heavy. So heavy sometimes you do not think you can take one more step. But look up, because Sunday is coming.”

@elonmusk @beffjezos I seeee said the blind man. A picture is worth a thousand words and a giant leap forward.

@beffjezos Visual intelligence is essential to AGI

Elon quietly decided to focus on image and video generation and is winning now. Just like Anthropic specialized to Claude code and started winning, this image gen dominance might be useful for computer use and reobotics very soon.

@OKTornadoDB Is that one or two? Or is it a single with multiple vortices? Beautiful.

The earlier tornado near Shawnee. 📸: News 9

@southgrace427 None - I prefer the original...

This has nothing to do with me.... And everything to do with.... Grace, Lauren and Marilyn... I kinda like all three... 😂🖕✖️🥃🇺🇸🪻⚾️🔥