@LeadingReport @ROYALMRBADNEWS CIA/Mossad operative Shellenberger says Epstein didn’t work for the CIA or Mossad.
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James Hatfield
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James Hatfield
@_jameshatfield_
Sensory signal graph collision detection simulator. Building CEA systems.
Texas, USA Katılım Şubat 2017
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BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein likely did not work on behalf of any intelligence agencies, according to Michael Shellenberger.
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My most common criticism goes something like this: “John, some of your articles and posts are very well written and thought out, but then you post something ‘unhinged’ and lose all credibility.”
That’s by design. Let me explain.
Infantry Dort is forcing my hand here, so I’m going to expose my greatest secret for success.
Roman stoics wisdom is timeless but very difficult to read….
So years ago I wrote a colloquial translation of Seneca’s “On the Shortness of Life” using modern language and examples.
I couldn’t get it published, but @RyanHoliday read it, came to sea (yes on a boat) with me, and later developed a far better formula of his own with “Daily Stoic.”
Today Ryan does a fantastic job with all stoics but way back then I started with shortness on the advice of @tferriss and @neilstrauss because it’s THE most powerful stoic advice.
It’s THE most important work in history for productivity and purpose.
Seneca’s core lesson is simple: time is short & the world is conspiring to take it from you.
That leads to the most important tip:
You MUST separate the bullsh!t from real opportunities of value in your life.
When you reach a certain level of success you get showered with awards, think tank invitations, speaking opportunities, cocktail parties, black tie events, TV gigs, etc.
90% of these (99% for industry award dinners) are total wastes of your time. They can bring you money but they snowball into more BS opportunities until, one day, you have no time left for research & deep thought.
@RadioFreeTom is the best example. Once a great naval academic, now a man who wastes enormous amounts of time getting his ego stroked and his wallet filled.
There is nothing wrong with getting paid. More exposure is always valuable. But only if it advances your purpose in life.
That’s what Seneca teaches. When you are on your deathbed, will you die peacefully because you invested your time & money and influence in doing good? Or did you waste all those opportunities chasing applause?
It sounds easy but it’s not. At the highest level, CEOs, think tank presidents, TV producers, and event organizers are REALLY good at telling you they want to advance your core work. But most just want to cash in on your success or drive a hidden agenda.
So how do you separate those who truly want to help you improve the world from those who really just want to use you to improve their event, advance their hidden agenda, or line their pockets with fraud?
There are several ways but I find brutal honesty the best.
TRUTH angers people. It’s not polite. It doesn’t serve alternate agendas.
Speak it often enough & you will be labeled “toxic” and ALL the bullshit invitations will evaporate.
Hammer on the nail of truth with some dumb memes, a “crazy” hypothesis & a few impolite replies & all the wrong types of people will ostracize you.
No political appointments. No flying to Denver to give a 6min speech. No waiting an hour in a green room for your TED talk or MSM appearance. No figuring out which fake trophy to hang on your wall.
Believe me, I’ve done them all. The I drove them all away.
It’s scary but opportunities won’t dry up completely. Serious journalists, serious world leaders, CEOS, actual (not internet) influencers with REAL problems will reach out.
They will reach out despite your unhinged posts, not because of them. They will reach out because, while the Tom Nichols of the world are wasting time on an MSNBC panel or writing another BS book about his own feelings, you did real research.
You will build a friend group of people like Dort & @DataRepublican and @CynicalPublius who will call out your own BS because they care more about solving hard problems than stroking your ego or lining pockets.
My “unhinged” posts are a filter. They hammer down points of truth while making me “toxic” to every institution that wants to waste my time.
The people who matter? They find you anyway. And when they do, you start fixing REAL problems together.
InfantryDort@infantrydort
To those throwing around the term “unprofessional” like any of us give a damn anymore. They’ve confused professionalism with tone. Say something in a calm voice, with the right buzzwords, and you can explain away ANYTHING. Total failure. Bad policy. Broken outcomes. Doesn’t matter. As long as it sounds right, it passes. But speak plainly? Oof. Use humor. Be direct. Call something exactly what it is? Now you’re “unprofessional.” That’s the tell. And also f*ck you, no. Because what they actually mean is you didn’t use the approved language. I’ve watched people sit quietly while polished voices walked us through disasters. No pushback, outrage, nothing. Just nodding along like NPCs because it felt pRofEsSHuNaL. Then someone says one blunt sentence and suddenly the hall monitors show up. Quoting regs that don’t apply and clutching pearls over tone. Trying to police speech instead of fixing the damn problem. That’s not professionalism, it’s bullying. And they’re projecting. It’s people who got very comfortable controlling others through language, and now they’re losing that grip. So they lash out. They’ll tolerate failure if it’s delivered softly. But they can’t tolerate truth if it lands hard. That’s the difference innit? And more people are starting to see it. But whatever. Keep walking into my L shape ambushes online. Unlike IRL, I don’t have to do a barrel change with words.
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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@SableHummer @senb0n22a @Linahuaa You haven’t really used it have you? The API allows anything you can do with Claude. The UI will catch up when it makes sense.
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@senb0n22a @Linahuaa It lacks the tooling and really everything else that would make it competitive with Claude and even Gemini.
This is a one winner race and Grok is in like 4th
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Elon recruited 11 cracked AI bros, gave each ~1% equity, and asked them to copy OpenAI.
Made them work like slaves and pressed every single drop of juice out of them.
2 years later, Grok is now worth $250B.
Each of the 11 bros left with a $1B bag.
Grok may not be SOTA, but everyone can still be happy with the result of this collaboration..
Grace Kay@graceihle
And just like that, Elon Musk's last xAI cofounder is out. Ross Nordeen has left the company, according to people with knowledge of his exit. If you're still counting, Nordeen is the eighth cofounder to leave this year and the seventh since SpaceX acquired xAI.
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@Watchman_motto I’d just bring some aggregate sand in to fill in the ruts a little. Leave the grass. Cheaper than gravel and you keep the aesthetics which IMO are great.
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I share about 100 yards of drive way with my ~70yr old neighbors.
For some reason he’s obsessed with knocking down the center grass in the middle of the tire ruts and covering it with gravel. He talks about it all the time, probably 30% of all conversations I have with him are about this. He’s asking if I want to pitch in for more gravel, etc.
When I put my parents in a guest house behind the barn, my dad started talking about it too. He got some roundup and sprayed his section of road.
Am I missing something here? I see no problem with it. It looks fine. It occupies 0% of my mind. I’m prepared to spend 0 dollars to remedy this “problem”
What is happening?
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@AutismCapital or you’re being bombarded with propaganda but don’t have the discernment to recognize it for the op that it is.
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@Salbahs_ @Rainmaker1973 If you believe that then you should also believe that everyone involved has already been executed while body doubles from Central Casting were hired to replace them in public until the sealed indictments are released. You’re watching a movie.
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@_jameshatfield_ @Rainmaker1973 A group of people ate white infants and took their teets off in order for the kids not to be able to bite during the abuses... not 1 person was arrested.
And the man who organised it disappeared from his cell.
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They let her feed the neighborhood
for 14 years.
The moment they noticed
she didn't need them
they called it a violation.
This isn't sanitation.
It's the ritual
that runs every time
a body produces without permission.
Her cart is not the threat.
Her proof is.
Proof that a woman with a recipe
and fourteen years of calluses
can sustain a community
the system never fed.
So now she must rent
the kitchen they approve.
File the permit they designed.
Pay the toll
on the road she already built.
The tamale was never the problem.
The sovereignty was.
And you watched it happen
and called it a health code
because the obedience script
was already installed in you
long before they came for her cart.
You didn't see a vendor get regulated.
You saw the machine
eat the last thing
that didn't need it.
And you're still deciding
how you feel about that.
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San Francisco's latest law could put food vendors out of business
“Data team found out of 88 inspections of mobile food vendors in 2025, there were 60 health violations”
The new requirements passed means street vendors must
- Have a built-in handwashing station
- No more home cooking
- Vendors must rent time and space in approved kitchens for prep work
- Carts must meet state and local health codes for sanitation, meaning they must proper sinks, temperature controls, overhead protection and access to restrooms
One Spanish street vendor interviewed says she’s been operating for 14 years without any of these requirements
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@Salbahs_ @Rainmaker1973 We’ve got gallows, guillotines and firing squads ready for that occasion. First a little tar and feather humiliation parade but yeah… not gonna happen.
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@_jameshatfield_ @Rainmaker1973 They will bribe your politicians into making it mandatory
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An unlikely alliance. Bourbon and batteries. I wonder if it even makes sense to skip the bourbon and just make the carbon.
SciTech Era@SciTechera
This is insane. Bourbon waste is now being turned into high performance energy storage. Researchers just converted bourbon distillery waste into advanced carbon materials for supercapacitors. Actually, Kentucky produces 95% of the world’s bourbon, generating 6–10× more stillage than the actual product. Now, scientists used hydrothermal carbonization to turn this wet biomass directly into hydrochar, then engineered it into hard carbon (battery-like storage) and activated carbon (charge storage). Results were HUGE 👀! > 48 Wh/kg energy density (comparable to commercial supercapacitors) > Up to 25× higher energy density in hybrid lithium-ion supercapacitors > 96% capacity retention after 15,000 cycles What makes this powerful is that both electrodes come from the same waste source, eliminating the need for expensive materials and even avoiding energy intensive drying. This shows waste can become high performance energy material, not just something to dispose of. Acceleration is everywhere
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When are they going after the transnational crime syndicate who acquired the businesses and the banks, accounting firms, etc. who facilitated the transactions, the government officials who enabled the corruption by turning a blind eye to obvious fraud?
There were hundreds of touch points in this fraud where it should have raised giant red flags. Everyone involved should be held accountable. Not just the doctors who signed the paperwork.
Felix Prehn 🐶@felixprehn
96 licensed doctors just got charged with stealing $14.6 billion from Medicare. They used AI to generate fake voice recordings of patients giving consent for medical equipment that was never delivered. Fake urinary catheters. Billed to your tax dollars. One single scheme accounted for $10.6 billion in fraudulent claims. That's more than double the previous record. 324 people charged. 96 of them held medical licenses. People who swore an oath to protect patients were running a criminal enterprise using stolen identities. The DOJ called it the largest healthcare fraud takedown in American history. They seized $245 million in cash, crypto, luxury cars, and other assets. But $245 million recovered on $14.6 billion stolen is 1.7 cents on the dollar. Here's how the scheme worked. A transnational criminal organization bought dozens of medical supply companies across the US using foreign straw owners. Shell companies with real Medicare billing numbers. They obtained the identities of over one million Americans and used those identities to submit billions in fake claims. The AI component is new. They generated synthetic voice recordings to satisfy Medicare's requirement for patient consent calls. An algorithm faked the voice of an 80-year-old woman in Ohio agreeing to receive medical equipment she never heard of. Then they billed Medicare $4,000 for a catheter that was never shipped. Multiply that by a million stolen identities and you get $10.6 billion. This is not a one-time event. Medicare spending on certain categories has "exploded" in recent years according to the DOJ. Skin substitute billing increased so dramatically that CMS had to completely overhaul the reimbursement methodology for 2026, cutting payments by nearly 90%. The broader pattern is that healthcare fraud is scaling faster than the systems designed to catch it. The DOJ's own healthcare fraud unit has a reported return on investment of $106.76 per $1 spent on enforcement. That's the most effective dollar the government spends. And they're still underwater because the fraud is growing faster than they can prosecute. So what's the play? Healthcare cybersecurity and fraud detection is now a $20+ billion market growing at 15%+ annually. The companies building the AI systems that detect fake claims, verify identities, and flag anomalous billing patterns are selling to buyers who have no choice but to buy. CrowdStrike (CRWD) has expanded into healthcare endpoint security. Palo Alto Networks (PANW) is building the zero-trust architecture that hospitals need. Veeva Systems (VEEV) provides the compliance infrastructure for pharma and healthcare. But the bigger structural trade is that every healthcare fraud crackdown leads to regulatory reform that benefits the insurers. UnitedHealth, Humana, and Cigna all benefit from tighter claims processing because they lose less to fraud. UNH is the largest healthcare company on earth with $22 billion in annual profit. Their stock is up 500% in 10 years. People in my weekly sessions have heard me break down the healthcare fraud cycle before. The enforcement wave creates the regulatory tightening, which benefits the incumbents, which compounds their earnings. Same pattern every time. Free live webinar session every week where I cover all of this. Link is in comments
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@HereToday581533 @felixprehn No, the problem was a corrupt government who didn’t bother to investigate such a massive increase in claims from recently acquired providers.
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@felixprehn So AI caused the problem, and now gonna make money fixing the problem. AI is like the tree in the garden of Eden.
The tree of knowledge of good and evil
God warned us
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96 licensed doctors just got charged with stealing $14.6 billion from Medicare.
They used AI to generate fake voice recordings of patients giving consent for medical equipment that was never delivered. Fake urinary catheters. Billed to your tax dollars. One single scheme accounted for $10.6 billion in fraudulent claims. That's more than double the previous record.
324 people charged. 96 of them held medical licenses. People who swore an oath to protect patients were running a criminal enterprise using stolen identities.
The DOJ called it the largest healthcare fraud takedown in American history. They seized $245 million in cash, crypto, luxury cars, and other assets.
But $245 million recovered on $14.6 billion stolen is 1.7 cents on the dollar.
Here's how the scheme worked.
A transnational criminal organization bought dozens of medical supply companies across the US using foreign straw owners. Shell companies with real Medicare billing numbers. They obtained the identities of over one million Americans and used those identities to submit billions in fake claims.
The AI component is new. They generated synthetic voice recordings to satisfy Medicare's requirement for patient consent calls. An algorithm faked the voice of an 80-year-old woman in Ohio agreeing to receive medical equipment she never heard of. Then they billed Medicare $4,000 for a catheter that was never shipped.
Multiply that by a million stolen identities and you get $10.6 billion.
This is not a one-time event. Medicare spending on certain categories has "exploded" in recent years according to the DOJ. Skin substitute billing increased so dramatically that CMS had to completely overhaul the reimbursement methodology for 2026, cutting payments by nearly 90%.
The broader pattern is that healthcare fraud is scaling faster than the systems designed to catch it. The DOJ's own healthcare fraud unit has a reported return on investment of $106.76 per $1 spent on enforcement. That's the most effective dollar the government spends. And they're still underwater because the fraud is growing faster than they can prosecute.
So what's the play?
Healthcare cybersecurity and fraud detection is now a $20+ billion market growing at 15%+ annually. The companies building the AI systems that detect fake claims, verify identities, and flag anomalous billing patterns are selling to buyers who have no choice but to buy.
CrowdStrike (CRWD) has expanded into healthcare endpoint security. Palo Alto Networks (PANW) is building the zero-trust architecture that hospitals need. Veeva Systems (VEEV) provides the compliance infrastructure for pharma and healthcare.
But the bigger structural trade is that every healthcare fraud crackdown leads to regulatory reform that benefits the insurers. UnitedHealth, Humana, and Cigna all benefit from tighter claims processing because they lose less to fraud. UNH is the largest healthcare company on earth with $22 billion in annual profit. Their stock is up 500% in 10 years.
People in my weekly sessions have heard me break down the healthcare fraud cycle before. The enforcement wave creates the regulatory tightening, which benefits the incumbents, which compounds their earnings. Same pattern every time.
Free live webinar session every week where I cover all of this.
Link is in comments
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@amuse It is going to be a huge shock to a lot of pussy americans when Canadians stand up and violently resist tyranny.
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This little illuminated dragon is very happy about Pretext. He's too busy having fun to care about people's "hot takes" on how "it's not that special."
(This little dragon also only works on desktop right now but maybe I'll do mobile later)
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Cheng Lou@_chenglou
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
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This is a perfect illustration of how we perceive the Hormuz risk.
Everyone is seeing the avalanche coming, yet everyone thinks that somehow it is under control... it isn’t.
There is no plan. No alternative routes that can scale fast enough... Hormuz opened or closed is all that matters.
The current avalanche is so big and dangerous that markets think this will resolve quickly due to the heavy economic costs... it won’t.
One month in, we hear reports that this operation might take from a few weeks to six months, to years... the avalanche will hit much earlier
Within a few weeks:
- Taiwan runs out of LNG -> no AI
- Fertilizer supplies are getting decimated -> no food
- Japan, Europe, Australia run out of diesel
The only thing keeping markets afloat is an unreasonably high amount of hopium... once it's gone, expect a violent rerating
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I am not sure if everyone will be able to appreciate this. Zero days are immensely treasured by national security organizations. They are essentially weapons for cyber warfare. They get sold for millions of dollars each. Countries stock pile them and the country with most diverse stock pile will have the cyber superiority.
Now models are getting to a point where you can point them to any software in global supply chain and they will spit out zero days for you! In future, the software doesn’t even have to be open source because binaries are good enough for decompilation and analysis.
I am highly doubtful if models at this capabilities would ever get any public release even through APIs without dumbing them down.
In other words, we are quickly reaching a point where frontier labs will have way more capable internal models that would never see a light of day. All public models would be significantly nerfed.
chiefofautism@chiefofautism
someone at ANTHROPIC just showed CLAUDE finding ZERO DAY vulnerabilities in a live conference demo claude has found zero day in Ghost, 50,000 stars on github, never had a critical security vulnerability in its entire, history... it found the blind SQL injection in 90 minutes, stole the admin api key, then did the exact, same thing to the linux kernel
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Not a good look for Israel
Michael Haynes 🇻🇦@MLJHaynes
JUST IN: Israeli Police prevented Cardinal Pizzaballa from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre today, as he went to say Mass. @LPJerusalem calls it a “grave precedent” which “constitutes a manifestly unreasonable and grossly disproportionate measure.” Full statement from @LPJerusalem below —— Joint Press Release The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land Holy City of Jerusalem Palm Sunday, 29 March 2026 This morning, the Israeli Police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, together with the Custos of the Holy Land, the Most Reverend Fr. Francesco Ielpo, OFM, the official Guardian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, as they made their way to celebrate the Palm Sunday Mass. The two were stopped en route, while proceeding privately and without any characteristics of a procession or ceremonial act, and were compelled to turn back. As a result, and for the first time in centuries, the Heads of the Church were prevented from celebrating the Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. This incident is a grave precedent,and disregard the sensibilities of billions of people around the world who, during this week, look to Jerusalem. The Heads of the Churches have acted with full responsibility and, since the outset of the war, have complied with all imposed restrictions: public gatherings were cancelled, attendance was prohibited, and arrangements were made to broadcast the celebrations to hundreds of millions of faithful worldwide, who, during these days of Easter, turn their eyes to Jerusalem and to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Preventing the entry of the Cardinal and the Custos, who bear the highest ecclesiastical responsibility for the Catholic Church and the Holy Places, constitutes a manifestly unreasonable and grossly disproportionate measure. This hasty and fundamentally flawed decision, tainted by improper considerations, represents an extreme departure from basic principles of reasonableness, freedom of worship, and respect for the Status Quo. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land express their profound sorrow to the Christian faithful in the Holy Land and throughout the world that prayer on one of the most sacred days of the Christian calendar has thus been prevented.
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@anon526327 @FightWithMemes People who have seen studies on the effects of a carnivore diet on diabetes…
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Modern nutrition is built on a flimsy foundation of lies and pharma money.
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On a scale of rinsing out ziplocs to reuse them and fried bologna sandwiches how poor were you?
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