twentyfiveight
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twentyfiveight
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Overly Abundant 🙏🏾




DRAKE ICEMAN (ALBUM) MAY 15TH 🚨





Niggas saying tezzus the worst member of øway when it’s really sk8star

The collapse they are trying to achieve is the fight for the resources for their doomsday bunkers and who will inherit the 'New Word'! Everything is explained in the leaked Bombshell Pentagon Report from 2003 about the imminent collapse! youtu.be/DmWleKazik8

After Aang lost Appa he really didn’t gaf about anything he told that pregnant lady to abandon hope 😭😭😭

BREAKING: Vibe-coding platform Lovable reportedly suffered a breach that exposed users’ AI chat histories, source code, & database credentials.

‼️🚨 WELCOME TO THE NEW AMERICA! 🇺🇸 ⚠️ COMING SOON! 💀 Where your silence has been weaponized. And your compliance is the currency of your own extinction. 🧵👇 YOU don’t need a history book to know we lost something. YOU can feel it. In your bones. In your breath. In that quiet ache you carry when the screen goes dark and you finally admit to yourself that nothing feels real anymore. That’s not depression. That’s your soul trying to scream through the noise. Because deep down, you know what I’m about to say is true: You were born into a lie so massive, so well designed, you defended it before you ever questioned it. You were trained to obey before you could even speak. Taught to smile at the leash because it came with likes and upgrades. And now? You’re trapped in a country that looks like freedom but moves like a prison. The Social Credit System you heard about in China? It’s here. Just hidden under different names. Every purchase. Every click. Every silence. Scored. Profiled. Analyzed. Not for your benefit; but for your obedience. And the worst part? They never had to use force. You volunteered. You downloaded the cage. You gave it your face, your fingerprint, your voice. And you did it for convenience. Not because you were stupid. Because you were tired. Because you were just trying to survive. Because you just wanted to feel safe for one more day in a world that keeps deleting pieces of your humanity every time you speak out. But I see you. I see the exhaustion behind your smile. The fear in your scroll. The grief you don’t talk about because you think no one would understand. I understand. Because I’ve felt it too; that sinking feeling that somehow, we’re all dying before we ever get to live. But here’s the truth they hope you never remember: You are not crazy. You are not broken. You are not alone. You are waking up in the middle of a war they said didn’t exist. And your pain? It’s not weakness. It’s proof you haven’t been fully conquered. That ache you feel when reading this? That’s the last living part of you remembering what freedom feels like. LIKE. SHARE. FOLLOW. Not for me. For the version of you that still believes you were born for something more than silent slavery behind a shiny screen. Let this post be the line in the sand. The moment your heart finally said: ENOUGH. You are not here to behave. You are here to remember. And once you do; nothing can stop you. 🧵 Continued Below 👇





Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com









