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@SpencerHakimian Really man, you are losing it..

This video is going extremely viral as people notice what really happened.

@EWErickson Own it, toad, you got wacked..

One of the side benefits of this hell site is you get to see people who think of themselves as experts reveal they don't really know what they are talking about, but presume themselves smarter than the legion of accountants and lawyers who help athletes navigate their finances.

@SeattleWXGuy Please come directly north! Cold here in AK..

Thats a LOT of broken records!

@SpencerHakimian People are noticing you are losing it..

People have begun noticing something terrifying about Trump’s movement

@ANC_Historian My first year here, I remember that well!

In 1969, Bill Tandy of Tandy Industries of Oklahoma proposed building an all-inside (often described as domed) city across Knik Arm from Anchorage, despite a complete lack of demand. Something about Alaska seems to inspire mad megaprojects. Much more in my article later today.

@JamesSurowiecki Never heard of her..

"Let's go back to basics, by which I mean back to one of the most famously beautiful women of the 20th century."

@nature_c2ngn You are wonderous AI bullshit..

Route 163 Through Monument Valley in Arizona 😲😍

@PeabodyEsq Ha! How about "Tell us the first time you," "What do you think when you see this," "Show a picture of when.."

I'm so sick of "Do you remember this movie" posts.

@SpencerHakimian Man, you have totally lost it. What happened to you? Making more $ with this crap?

She works at JPMorgan

@gothburz "This cabbage contains a safe proprietary biolumanent that communicates with your smart refrigerator and.."

I am the parent who voted for the cameras at your gymnastics studio. You asked me about them once. I told you they keep you safe. This is technically accurate. The company's website says the cameras are "community safety infrastructure." The city council approved them unanimously. I was at that meeting. I brought a notebook. I circled the word "safety" because I wanted to remember why I supported the budget. The cameras are not just at gymnastics. They are at the pool where you take lessons on Saturday mornings. The playground behind the library. The parking lot outside your school. The fitness center where your father goes on Tuesdays. The Marcus Jewish Community Center, which is where you do your floor routines on Wednesdays at four-fifteen in the blue leotard with the silver stripe that you picked out yourself because it matches your backpack. A neighbor filed a public records request. He is the kind of person I used to call paranoid at block party conversations while holding a paper plate. He obtained the audit trail. The access logs. That is how you learn what the cameras actually do. The logs show that employees of the camera company were watching the gymnastics room. Not for safety. For sales. They were demonstrating the product to police departments in other cities, showing what the system could do by showing what you were doing on the balance beam, and your cartwheel was, technically, a feature and your floor routine was a use case and the other children in your Wednesday class were test data in a live demo environment because the company did not build a separate one. In the FAQ the company states, and I am quoting this because I printed it out and taped it to the refrigerator before I read the access logs, "Nobody from Flock Safety is accessing or monitoring your footage." The city says it authorized "select employees" under something called a "demo partner program." Select. As in chosen. As in the company chose specific people and gave them permission to watch the camera that points at the room where you practice your back walkover, and this was officially approved, and I did not know, and the city calls this a partnership. I attended the town hall. I prepared a three-minute statement. I timed it at home twice. Sixteen other parents spoke. Some of them cried. The mayor said she understood our concerns and used the phrase "guard rails" three times in four sentences and said the renewed contract would prohibit future demonstrations using our cameras. She said this as she voted to renew. Protesters chanted in the parking lot. I did not chant. I was still holding my three-minute statement, which I had not been able to finish because I started describing your leotard and had to stop. I consider this civic participation. I should have read the original contract. I should have asked what "demo partner program" meant before I became the kind of parent who supports municipal surveillance budgets. I should have been the neighbor who files public records requests instead of the neighbor who calls him paranoid while holding a paper plate. I reviewed the compliance documents. Per the city manager's office, the matter has been resolved. The cameras keep you safe. Since February of last year, twenty-three cities have cancelled their contracts with the same company. In New Mexico, the cameras misread a license plate and police held a twelve-year-old at gunpoint. She is a year older than you. In Colorado, police forced a family to the ground. The father was covering his daughter. In Washington State, they passed a law this spring prohibiting these cameras at schools. In North Carolina, last month, they approved them on two school campuses. Twelve million searches across three thousand nine hundred agencies. Every plate. Every route. Every Tuesday your father drives to the fitness center and every Wednesday I drive you to gymnastics at four-fifteen. On paper, the company deletes the data after thirty days. I do not know what thirty days of your life looks like as a data set. I do not know who has been authorized to look. I could pull you out of gymnastics. Your coach says you have a real chance at regionals. You have been practicing your back walkover for seven weeks. You land it now about sixty percent of the time. Last Wednesday it was seventy. I call this progress. I signed the re-enrollment form. Page four, paragraph six, section (c): "Enrollee acknowledges the presence of security monitoring equipment on premises and consents to the recording of activities for safety and operational purposes." I initialed next to where it says "safety." I dated it. I drove you to practice. The cameras keep you safe. I told you that. I am telling you that.

@ReysukaXO I couldn't read a word she said..

why the Krayt Dragon from Star Wars is a dinosaur:

@Alec_Zeck @simonmaechling Eat a mackerel that's been outside in the sun for 5 days then get back to us..

@simonmaechling There you go. I’ve been waiting for you, specifically, to engage. Present your issues with these statements. 😉

Viruses have never been demonstrated to exist. Bacteria and fungi are pleomorphic, meaning they cycle through various forms and shapes to adapt to their environmental roles. They proliferate specifically to bioremediate the conditions they encounter. While the phenomenon of two or more people getting sick in the same space is obviously real, there is no empirical evidence that healthy people become sick when exposed to sick people or their bodily fluids. Microbes heal. Fear of microbes causes illness.

“One day, he was instantly killed in a horrifying way by forces vastly in excess of anything he was ever designed to experience, for no reason, to no ones particular surprise or upset. In this we are more like him than different”

@SpencerHakimian WTF is the matter with you?

Did anyone else catch that?

@gnoble79 "the aura of genius" How sullied the name of an actual genius, Tesla, has become..

Elon Musk is the Ivar Kreuger of our time, and the OpenAI trial is PROVING it in real time. If you don't know who Kreuger was, you should: In the 1920s he was the most admired businessman in the world. The "Match King." He controlled 90% of global match production, lent money to sovereign governments, and his securities were the most widely held in America. But after his death in 1932, auditors spent 5 years untangling over 400 subsidiary companies and discovered the whole thing was held together with fictitious assets, forged bonds, and the unquestioning loyalty of people too dazzled to ask questions. Investors lost $750 million (~$17 billion in today's money). His deficits exceeded Sweden's national debt. Doesn't this sound familiar? The Musk playbook is the most DANGEROUS house of cards I've witnessed in my career. This week in federal court, Musk took the stand to argue that Sam Altman stole a charity. 3 days later he'd contradicted himself under oath so many times that the judge told his lawyers she suspected plenty of people don't want to put the future of humanity in Mr. Musk's hands. OpenAI's attorney asked if Tesla is pursuing AGI. Musk said no. The attorney then pulled up Musk's OWN post from March 4 where he wrote Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI. His own words entered into evidence against him. BY HIM. Then the attorney asked if xAI used OpenAI's models to train Grok (which violates OpenAI's terms of service). Musk called it a general practice among AI companies. Pressed for a direct answer, he said "partly." Think about that: Musk is in court accusing OpenAI of betrayal while admitting under oath that xAI violated the very same company's terms of service to build Grok. Then came the credibility test: Musk was asked to name his companies that benefit society. He listed Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and X without hesitation. Every one of them is an uncapped for-profit enterprise. Then why did xAI start as a benefit corporation and quietly flip to a for-profit C-corp? No clean answer. This is someone who repeatedly launches entities with noble-sounding charters and converts them into for-profit corporations once the money gets serious. Then his money manager Jared Birchall took the stand: OpenAI's lawyer asked about the donor-advised funds at Vanguard and Fidelity that Musk used to send his $38 million. Did Musk have any legal right to direct where the money went once it entered the DAF? Birchall couldn't answer. Said the legal question was beyond his expertise. The entire lawsuit hinges on that donation creating enforceable obligations. But the man who managed Musk's money just told a federal jury he can't confirm Musk had any enforceable claim over those funds. Now step back... This is a man who promised full autonomy by 2018, a million robotaxis by 2020, and unsupervised FSD by June 2025. EVERY deadline was missed. He claimed he invested $100 million in OpenAI. The real number was $38 million. His defense? His "reputation" made up the difference. Kreuger had 400 subsidiaries and used one entity to prop up another through structures nobody could follow. Musk has Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and X. He shifts AI talent from Tesla to xAI, has xAI building the brains for Tesla's Optimus robot, and uses X as a megaphone while the algorithm amplifies his narrative to 200 million followers. Kreuger's investors trusted the man, NOT the math. They loved the confidence. They stopped asking questions because the aura of genius made questioning feel foolish. The same psychology applies to Musk's empire today. Kreuger's reckoning took 5 years of forensic auditing after his death. But Musk is providing his in REAL TIME: contradicting his own posts under oath, admitting to the practices he's suing others for, watching his logic collapse under cross-examination. Different decade. Different industry. Same ending. The truth always catches up.

@TheRealThelmaJ1 Dis you mean your farm wagon?

Hey car people I need some help! I think this damn thing just fell off my car but I don't know what it is. It has some writing on it down by that nut but with my cataracts I can't tell what it says

@mikep_lbi All snow gone?

Tis' a good day ...

@Dr_Gingerballs Years ago I signed up and promptly signed out..

I told my department head two days ago, "I hate LinkedIn with every fiber of my being and never go on it. The performative nonsense is nauseating. If you see me active on LinkedIn, it means I'm looking for another job."

@LeamPeregrines @Warwick_DC @RLSTownCouncil Tuck in now! Tuck in!

Well... how wrong we were. FOUR!

@GenXFatBastard @gothburz Have another Twinkie, Sparkles..

@gothburz Sounds like someone is butthurt

I am the Senior Policy Advisor for Western Hemisphere Strategic Engagement at the Department of State. In January I learned my department's new enforcement posture from a Truth Social post at 6:47 AM on a Saturday. I was at my daughter's swim meet. "THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO!" All capitals. No interagency review. I screenshot it and emailed it to my team with the subject line "New guidance." Someone printed it. It's on the wall next to the org chart. The difference between a presidential directive and a presidential post is formatting. I don't need formatting. I need clarity of intent. I have held this portfolio for twelve years. Fourteen if you count the Senate staff work. People ask if I get tired of Cuba. I don't get tired of gravity. Some things are permanent. You staff them accordingly. Today we signed Executive Order 14623. I wrote the first draft in 2014 as testimony prep for the Senator's Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing. Eleven phrases carried over verbatim. People in this building would call that a failure of imagination. I call it message discipline. You don't rewrite what works. You promote it. "Unusual and extraordinary threat to United States national security." That's the phrase that unlocks everything. Without it, you're issuing a press release. With it, you're invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Seven words. Fourteen years. One consistent finding. The finding is: Cuba remains unusual and extraordinary. I review this annually. Cuba remains. The island has no navy. No air force. A GDP smaller than Jacksonville, Florida. The most powerful man in the country is ninety-five and attended this morning's Workers Day parade from what appeared to be a camping chair. This is the threat assessment. I write it. I believe it. Belief is not the obstacle people think it is. Belief is a workflow. Today's innovation: secondary sanctions. The previous framework sanctioned Cuban entities. The new framework sanctions anyone who transacts with Cuban entities. Deutsche Bank. Société Générale. Banco Santander. We didn't expand the embargo. We made the embargo contagious. In my quarterly review I called it "compliance export." My supervisor highlighted the phrase. The dollar is not a currency. The dollar is an enrollment system. Every bank that clears in dollars has signed a terms-of-service agreement with the United States Treasury, whether they know it or not. Today we updated the terms. Any institution that maintains Cuban exposure has thirty days to divest or we revoke their clearing privileges. That's not a sanction. That's an account settings change. I drafted the notification template myself. It's three paragraphs. Very clean. The Secretary has been saying "Cuba is an unusual and extraordinary threat" since he was in the Florida state legislature. Twenty-two years. A man yelling at a Caribbean island from a strip-mall district office in West Miami. Now he says it and banks in Frankfurt restructure their Latin American portfolios by close of business. The difference between obsession and vision is a Senate confirmation vote. The country is running twelve-hour rolling blackouts. Hospitals are rationing diesel for generators. Today they bused students from the eastern provinces to hold signs about American imperialism in the Plaza de la Revolución. I logged this as our highest engagement signal in Q2. We are, measurably, the most important thing happening to them. We received four hundred and twelve constituent inquiries last fiscal year regarding family reunification with Cuban nationals. We forwarded them to Consular Affairs. Consular Affairs forwarded them back to us. We forwarded them back to Consular Affairs with a note referencing the existing sanctions framework. This is called a closed loop. In systems engineering, a closed loop is considered efficient. I signed the template. It's one paragraph. Very clean. The Summit of the Americas was held at the Trump National Doral golf resort. Thirteen heads of state. Cuba was not invited. You don't invite the subject of the meeting to the meeting. Three men at a golf resort deciding which countries get access to the dollar. Behind them, through the window, a groundskeeper on a riding mower. He was there before the communiqué. He'll be there after. Today at the Forum Club in Palm Beach the President said we would be "taking over" Cuba "almost immediately." He said we'd "stop by" on the way back from Iran. Stop by. He said the USS Abraham Lincoln would park one hundred yards offshore and they would say "Thank you very much, we give up." The audience laughed. In my planning framework, a "stop by" requires a logistics annex, a pre-staging memo, and Congressional notification under the War Powers Resolution. I have already drafted the logistics annex. It's three pages. Very clean. Directional becomes operational within two budget cycles. The Cuba desk has existed continuously since 1961. I am the fourteenth person to hold my specific role. The previous thirteen all recommended the same policy. The same sanctions. The same annually renewed finding. Three were promoted to Deputy Assistant Secretary. Two became ambassadors. One wrote a book. By any internal metric, that is a functioning pipeline. In January they gave us three additional FTEs. That's not how institutions respond to failure. Sixty-five years. One policy. Three additional FTEs. I have never been more optimistic. Cuba remains.