Anne Linehan

The entire polling average is propped up by a single +8 poll. Plus 8. I mean, Dems haven’t won a statewide race in 32 years and people are running straight past a tilt by a hair, all the way to 900,000 margin? Ludicrous.

New from @LozierInstitute: 81% of online abortion businesses are sending abortion drugs to kill unborn children beyond the FDA's 10-week timeframe. The Admin can end this today. Settle the LA v. FDA case and restore in-person dispensing from the first Trump administration. lozierinstitute.org/new-cli-report…

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

I can confirm that Barnes and Noble will not be selling “Dangerous Misinformation” in their stores. If you own an independent bookstore and have the courage to sell it, please let me know - I’d love to give you free advertising.

The prints have started coming out and they look SOOOOO good. My favorite part of this process (besides seeing the launch of course) is the first time I see it in print. So much better than seeing it on a screen. Still available in my bio for one more day fyi

@Heavenly_Race_ This is one of the reasons why our neutral spaces were so important. Religion. Sports. Live events. Hell, even the weather. And when they were politicized we lost something important.

Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.

@AJamesMcCarthy Woah

Just in case this wasn't impressive enough, here it is with a human for scale

It's hard to convince people how dark those winter mornings are under permanent Daylight Savings Time until they live through it.

Here’s some behind the scenes of my photo of Starship’s engines. I can’t imagine how intense it would be to stand there ~600 feet from ignition.

Why not permanent Standard Time?

@less_tx It’s crazy. I see people post that if we had permanent DST, they could come home at 8pm and still play with their kids outside. Seriously? Enjoy an evening outside with your kids. Watch a sunset, enjoy dusk. Since we are stuck with Abbott and Co, I doubt Texas will be smart.

DST is another one of the bad ideas from the progressive era. It needs to begone. "The practice of DST was first tested and widely adopted in the early 20th century, since which many countries have abandoned DST partially or entirely." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_…

Our soldiers didn’t give their lives to protect a million Chinese birth tourists.

R. C. Sproul: “God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.”

Correct, which is why @elonmusk excised this department at Twitter.

If you don’t believe miracles happen, my op-ed on the doctrine of Providence, complete with reference to RC Sproul and the Westminster larger catechism, is the lead in the Washington Post’s opinion section of today’s Sunday edition. 😄 And for those who fighting the paywall, perhaps this might help! (And thanks again to religion editor @matthewschmitz for commissioning!)

Just started watching Hazardous History with Henry Winkler, and only 13 min into the first episode and I have laughed so much! 😂😂😂

We need to normalize not being on any medications as the default of human existence

I set 7 cameras near the pad for starship’s 12th test flight. In a first for me, all 7 got INCREDIBLE photos. Here’s a little peak at one… but there are a lot more. I’ll post some of my favorites tomorrow, and release at least one in print.

SpaceX's Starship rocket just successfully performed a flip maneuver and precisely splashed down on target in the Indian Ocean next to a buoy with @Starlink on it. The SpaceX team ends the stream with a "USA! USA! USA!" chant 🇺🇸