Eric Metts

@MarioNawfal He can't name his favorite Bible verse. He forgot to put his hand on the Bible during his swearing in. When Pope Francis died, he posted a pic of himself as Pope. Then he criticized the next Pope and posted a pic of himself as Jesus. It's not strange or unclear.

@MarioNawfal He's on tape bragging about grabbing women by the pussy. He's been found liable in court for sexual abuse. He publicly paid off a stripper. Epstein called him his closest friend and currently Trump protects the Epstein files. By no accounts is he a man of faith.

The silence of Republicans as their president threatens to commit genocide is deafening. They're all complicit.

The President has lost his mind.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

We need to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump. Threatening war crimes is a blatant violation of our constitution and the Geneva Conventions.

Marc Andreessen explains why we are only three years into what is effectively an 80-year technological revolution: He opens with a blunt assessment: "This is the biggest technological revolution of my life. This is clearly bigger than the internet. The comps on this are things like the microprocessor and the steam engine and electricity." But to understand why, you have to go back 80 years. In the 1930s, the pioneers of computing understood the theory of computation before they'd even built the machines. And they faced a fundamental choice. Build computers in the image of the adding machine — hyper-literal, mathematical, capable of billions of operations per second, but unable to understand human speech or deal with humans the way humans like to be dealt with. Or build computers modelled on the human brain. Neural networks. They chose the adding machine. And that single decision shaped everything — mainframes, PCs, smartphones, every dollar of wealth the computer industry created over the next 80 years. IBM itself is the successor company to the National Cash Register Company of America. The lineage runs that deep. But here's what makes this moment so extraordinary. They knew about the other path. The first neural network academic paper was published in 1943. Marc points to a remarkable piece of forgotten history: "There's an interview you can watch on YouTube with the authors. It's him in his beach house, not wearing a shirt, talking about this future in which computers are going to be built on the model of the human brain." That was 1946. The vision existed. The path just wasn't taken. So neural networks spent the next eight decades living in the shadows. Kept alive by a small academic movement — first called cybernetics, then artificial intelligence — that refused to let the idea die. And for most of that time, it simply didn't work. "It was basically decade after decade after decade of excessive optimism followed by disappointment." By the time Marc reached college in 1989, AI was a backwater field. Everyone assumed it was never going to happen. But the scientists kept working. Quietly building up an enormous reservoir of concepts and ideas across those decades of disappointment. And then Christmas 2022 arrived. ChatGPT. And suddenly: "All of a sudden it's like: oh my god. It turns out it works." That moment wasn't the start of something new. It was the payoff on an 80-year-old bet that almost everyone had written off. Which is exactly why Marc's framing matters so much: "We're three years into what is effectively an 80-year revolution." Most people are treating AI like another technology cycle — something to adapt to, ride, and wait out. But if Andreessen is right, we are not adapting to a new cycle. We are standing at the very beginning of the longest and most consequential technological transformation in human history. The road not taken in the 1930s is finally being built. And we have barely broken ground.

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

@mfproudman @360_Secure @TimothyDSnyder My dude, thousands of people were arrested and convicted of crimes as a result of their actions in the BLM riots, no? Did I get my research wrong? Plus, Biden didn't pardon them. What world are you living in?

There were crimes committed Jan 6, and even criminals have civil rights. Then there were the 1000+ who were not violent, some of whom were let into the Capitol by the police, and the Biden Administration extended its attack on wrongthink to include many other right-leaning or MAGA-associated causes. Constrast with the response to BLM riots.

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. If we see this, we can stop it, overcome the movement that brought us to this point, and make a turn towards something better. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-cou…

@mfproudman @TimothyDSnyder Those 1500 people pled guilty to their crimes or were convicted by a jury of their peers, no?

For context, the Biden Administration used the Jan 6 riot as a pretext to arrest about 1,500 people. Civil rights violations were numerous; Peaceful protesters ended up in federal prison. And this doesn't get to the political prosecution of Trump himself, nor the many other abuses. They put Tulsi Gabbard on a terror watch list. Which party is the danger to democracy?

@CVecchioFX What exactly does this entail? Imma go to investopedia lol

Look at that backwardation...prompt spread (difference between the front-month oil futures contract and the subsequent contract) blowing out to records

The threat of NATO’s break-up, easing sanctions on Russia, a massive energy crisis in Europe, halting aid for Ukraine and blocking the loan for Kyiv by Orbán - it all looks like Putin’s dream plan.

We are living through a generational reordering of the global economy away from free trade and open capital markets toward one increasingly shaped by national interests, clandestine statecraft, and great power competition operating below the threshold of open military conflict.

@leadlagreport Currencies are telling it all. NZDUSD about to fall off a cliff over the next few months

Trump declares almost 50% of Americans to be public enemy number one – right after Iran. This is no longer politics; this is open civil war from the mouth of a president. Anyone who brands half of their own people – millions of ordinary Americans who simply vote differently – as the "greatest enemy" hasn't understood America; Trump hates it. This rhetoric isn't "tough," it's treacherous. It destroys precisely what makes America strong: the idea that Americans, despite all their differences, are one nation. Trump has just proven that he doesn't want to be president of all Americans – but merely the leader of a faction that considers the rest the enemy. Insane. And extremely dangerous.

The war in Iran has already cost $22.8 billion. For $22.8 billion, we could: • Provide Medicaid to 6.8 million kids • Build 2.6 million public housing units • Fund Head Start for 1.3 million • Hire 240,000 teachers • Cancel $20,000 in student debt for 1 million borrowers

He took the greatest military force in world history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, and demanded that the media lie about this and everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone can mistake this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength. His weakness is something negative, gravitational, so deep that it can draw in a whole country. But only if we fail to see it. Only if we let it.

Fukuyama: "The world has become a very dangerous place, because the most powerful country is under the control of a 10 year old boy..." Frank isn't holding back. We're all here for it.