Jason Tschetter

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Jason Tschetter

@jasontschetter

Reluctant adult, proud dad, lifelong learner, frustrated golfer, nerd hobbiest, drone pilot, professional tech leader. Skol Vikes!

Prior Lake, MN Katılım Aralık 2010
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Shadow Intel
Shadow Intel@TheShadowIntelX·
Elon Musk just put the entire university system on trial. Not the curriculum. Not the professors. The premise. Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.” For a thousand years, universities held one monopoly. Access. You paid the toll or you stayed ignorant. The internet erased that in a decade. Every lecture. Every framework. Every textbook. Free. From any screen on Earth. The six-figure tuition is no longer buying knowledge. It is buying a signal. Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.” That is the product. Not intelligence. Not creativity. Not vision. Compliance. You are paying $200,000 to prove you can tolerate bureaucracy on a schedule. Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.” The entire system is a sorting machine for corporate HR. It does not measure what you can build. It measures whether you can sit still, follow directions, and deliver on command. Four years of obedience dressed as education. Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.” The system optimizes for average. It rewards the compliant. It certifies the patient. It quietly filters out everyone who refuses to wait for permission. The ones who reshaped the modern world never finished the test. Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.” They did not drop out because it was too hard. They dropped out because the speed limit was too low. The most dangerous thing a university does is convince a generational talent that finishing the syllabus is the achievement. It is not. It is the floor. A degree is a receipt for compliance. The future has never belonged to people who finish their homework. It belongs to the on
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The Babylon Bee
The Babylon Bee@TheBabylonBee·
Study Finds People With Thousands Of Unread Emails Are Most Likely To Become Serial Killers buff.ly/dejMlpz
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Can’t wait to see what the next 72 hours will hold.
AJ Inapi (Allan)@aj_inapi

China spent 20-30 years building a silent economic empire around the world… And now President Trump is flying into Beijing to start dismantling parts of it in front of the entire world. Most people think this China visit is about diplomacy. They’re missing the real game completely. This isn’t a “peace summit.” It’s a pressure summit. And President Trump is walking into Beijing from the strongest negotiating position the U.S. has had against China in years. Why? Because since January 2025, the administration has systematically attacked the pillars of China’s global leverage: → Massive tariffs designed to force supply chain relocation → Semiconductor restrictions choking China’s AI and military-civil fusion ambitions → Rare earth diversification to break Beijing’s monopoly weapon → Investment restrictions blocking Chinese penetration into strategic U.S. sectors → LNG and oil expansion strengthening American energy dominance → Indo-Pacific friend-shoring to reduce dependency on Chinese manufacturing Most people only look at tariffs. That’s surface level. The real strategy is much bigger: President Trump’s team is trying to dismantle China’s ability to economically coerce the world. And then came the Iran conflict. This changed everything. When Iranian oil infrastructure and Strait of Hormuz traffic became unstable earlier this year up till now, China suddenly faced a brutal reality: Its economy is still highly vulnerable to external energy shocks. That matters because China imports enormous amounts of oil, and Iran has been one of Beijing’s key pressure valves against Western influence. So now President Trump arrives in Beijing with leverage on multiple fronts at once: Trade leverage. Technology leverage. Energy leverage. Supply chain leverage. Geopolitical leverage. That’s why this visit matters. Watch for what comes next: • Increased Chinese purchases of American energy and agriculture • Pressure campaigns around fentanyl precursors • Negotiations tied to rare earth exports • AI and chip access being used as bargaining tools • Quiet pressure on Beijing regarding Iran and Russia This is not America begging China for stability. This is the United States forcing China to negotiate inside an American-designed framework. And whether people like President Trump or not, one thing is becoming very difficult to deny: The era of passive U.S. foreign policy is over. We are watching the return of hard-power economics in real time. Most headlines will talk about “diplomacy.” The real story is the restructuring of global leverage. And the scary part? Most people still don’t fully grasp how deep this economic war already is. The next generation better start learning geopolitics fast. The world being built right now will determine who controls trade, energy, technology, food, shipping lanes, AI, and global finance for the next 30 years. That’s exactly why I wrote the ebook.

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Jason Tschetter@jasontschetter·
“We must learn to be human before systems learn to be gods.” -Elon Why did that give me goosebumps, did Asimov just poke me while I was reading that?! Wow!
Mykhailo Rohoza@MykhailoRohoza

“After 2027, there will be no way back.” Elon Musk said this in a podcast with Lex Fridman — a line that was later cut. When asked “Why?”, he fell silent for almost a minute. Then he quietly said: “It’s not a catastrophe. It’s a transition.” The transcript left behind three themes that gave him away: autonomous intelligence, loss of meaning, and energy dependence. It all sounded like a forecast — but now reads like a diagnosis of the era. The first sign is the collapse of attention. Musk said humanity will stop thinking in cycles. Planning for the future will shrink to the horizon of updates. People will stop building and start simply replacing. MIT research confirms: a generation born after 2000 holds attention for about 8 seconds — less than a goldfish. Musk called this “cultural Alzheimer’s.” We’re not losing memory — we’re losing the ability to think. The second sign is artificial intelligence that no longer obeys. Musk said: “When a system starts correcting humans, the time of linear logic is over.” Even now, algorithms decide who we date, what we buy, and what we think about. This isn’t a machine uprising — it’s dissolution into convenience. People won’t notice the moment when choice becomes an option, not a right. The third sign is energy dependence. Musk explained: civilization can no longer survive even a day without electricity. By 2027, in his view, the balance will shift — energy will become currency, and control over it will become power. From that moment on, everything non-autonomous will disappear. This isn’t an apocalypse — it’s a change of biological form. At the end, he said a line that didn’t make it on air: “Technology is stronger than us, but not smarter. As long as we have meaning, we are alive. Lose it — and we become code.” Then, after a pause, he added: “We must learn to be human before systems learn to be gods.” Are you ready for the transition — or already living in a world where choices are made for you?

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Dustin
Dustin@r0ck3t23·
Cathie Wood just named the contradiction nobody wants to touch. She compared Elon Musk to Thomas Edison. Not as praise. As a pattern. Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.” The media sees a reckless billionaire setting fires. Wood sees the only person in the room building anything at all. The gap between those two readings tells you everything about who controls the narrative. Start with Tesla. Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.” He built the exact machine environmentalists spent thirty years begging for. Didn’t lobby for it. Didn’t write a whitepaper. Built it. Forced every major automaker on Earth to abandon the combustion engine. Then the second he won, the same movement made him the enemy. Because the establishment never wanted the problem solved. They wanted the problem funded. And those are two very different things. A solved problem kills the committee. Kills the nonprofit. Kills the careers built on managing the crisis instead of ending it. Musk ended it. And they have never forgiven him. SpaceX looks like an escape hatch if you never read past the headline. Which is exactly what the press counts on. Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.” Mars was never the exit. It is the lab. Build under conditions so brutal that every breakthrough changes what is possible back home. You learn to keep a human alive in a frozen irradiated vacuum. Fixing an energy grid on a temperate planet becomes arithmetic. He is not running from the cradle. He is stress-testing the technology that preserves it. But that story doesn’t sell ads. Doesn’t move polling numbers. So they bury it under hit pieces and congressional theater and call it journalism. Most people who reach his level stop building and start protecting what they have. They buy senators. They buy newspapers. They buy silence. Musk keeps picking the hardest unsolved problems on the planet and running straight at them. That is what terrifies the establishment. Not that he might fail. That he might succeed without them. Without their funding. Without their approval. Without anything they can hold over his head. A man they cannot buy is a man they cannot control. So they do the only thing they have left. They send the media after him. Every legacy outlet runs the same playbook. Strip the context. Clip the quote. Frame the motive. Let the algorithm do the rest. It has worked on every builder before him. It will not work on this one. They will spend their careers trying to tear him down. He will spend his building the thing that saves them anyway. The stones always come from inside the walls.
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Hard Pass
Hard Pass@HardPass4·
I don’t give one single fuck that a solider bet his own money that his team would win. I call that Big Dick Energy and it shouldn’t be punished.
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The Real Mike Rowe
The Real Mike Rowe@mikeroweworks·
coffeeandcovid.com/p/800-million-… A reasonable person who spent the last 24 hours scouring the Internet searching for an accurate understanding of what just happened to The Southern Poverty Law Center could not be blamed for coming away from the process less informed and more ignorant than they were this time yesterday. The amount of irrelevant and inaccurate information around this story is extraordinary. Most of the analyses, on both sides of the aisle, focus on the informants, and whether or not they were paid by the SPLC to foment racism within the very organizations they claim oppose. (The KKK and the Charlottesville debacle, in particular.) But most of these articles miss the larger point, i.e., the underlying financial crimes that led to an $800 million dollar war chest that will now likely be frozen, thanks to years of bank fraud and illegal fundraising. Columns like the one I’ve attached are why I invited @jchilders98 onto the podcast last month. Jeff has a way of cutting through the clutter on days like today, when both sides miss the larger point. Yes, Jeff writes from a right of center perspective, and unapologetically so. But he’s also a lawyer with tons of experience in this area, and a lot of useful insight. So, if you're curious about what all this means from a legal perspective, or the black-letter law that governs financial crimes like those alleged, this column is definitely worth your time. Likewise, if you’re one of the many Americans who have financially supported The Southern Poverty Law Center over the years, this will be an essential, albeit very painful read. PS If you like his blog, you'll love the episode we recorded last month. bit.ly/41L81yj It's been amazing to watch the C&C Army grow...
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John Stossel
John Stossel@JohnStossel·
A grand jury indicted the SPLC on 11 felony counts of wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering. I don’t know if they are guilty of these charges, but I do know the group is a money grabbing slander machine:
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Jason Tschetter@jasontschetter·
It’s important to remember that “trust the science” is a slogan that is used to align the masses, not to drive understanding or agreement. Science exists to support testing, challenge, and debate. Anyone unwilling to put their “science” up to scrutiny is a salesperson and has an objective.
John Stossel@JohnStossel

Climate alarmists like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say, “The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” Really? In order to get you ready for other scary “facts” you will hear on Earth Day, 3 scientists address some climate myths:

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M.A. Rothman
M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman·
𝐕𝐃𝐇: 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐀 𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐅 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐃𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐘. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀 𝐖𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐘𝐎𝐔. Victor Davis Hanson just did what no one in legacy media will do. He looked at the Iran war empirically. The verdict isn't close. Iran — 𝟗𝟑 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞, the largest military power in the Middle East by every measure, feared by the Gulf monarchies and Europeans alike — has just suffered one of the most lopsided asymmetric defeats in modern history. Hanson: "𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘶𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘰 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘴𝘺𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘸𝘢𝘳, 𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵." The scorecard: Iran has lost 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 — possibly 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬 — in a half-century of investment in missiles, drones, submarines, and capital ships. Gone. Their command and control is "𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘳." Nobody — not the theocracy, not the IRGC, not the political class, not the army — knows who's actually in charge. They're afraid of each other. They're afraid to look soft. And they're afraid that cutting a deal means "𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦." Meanwhile, the American left spent one day calling Trump a warmonger and a "𝘏𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦." The next day, after he announced negotiations, they called him a "𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘰" — a Neville Chamberlain, a Jimmy Carter. Hanson nailed the pathology. They don't analyze the war empirically. They analyze it politically. In his words, Tom Friedman and Bill Kristol "𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱." 𝟏𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐬 are in that theater right now. Risking their lives to make sure Iran never puts a nuclear-tipped missile on Tel Aviv, London, or eventually Chicago. And half the political class is 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 because of who's in the Oval Office. Read that again. And the losers don't stop at Tehran. 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚: no more Venezuela. No more Latin America. No more Middle East. Assad is gone. The drone pipeline with Iran is severed. Bogged down in Ukraine, bleeding over a million and a half casualties. 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚: took 80 percent of all Iranian oil. That pipeline is now contingent on the United States. And Beijing just watched America broadcast to the world that it's about to mass-produce a half-million to a million drones. Any fantasy of crossing 110 nautical miles to take Taiwan just got a lot more expensive. 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞, in Hanson's words, is "𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘳." We asked them for bases and airspace. That was it. Spain closed its embassy in Israel — "𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴, 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵." France wouldn't let us use its airpower or clean up H-z-b in Lebanon, its own post-colonial responsibility. Italy wouldn't let our bombers land in Sicily. The United Kingdom — the nation that built the Royal Navy — "𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘳" to protect its own base in Cyprus. Turkey, a NATO member, is openly siding with Iran and threatening a NATO partner, Israel. Hanson's verdict: "𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘕𝘈𝘛𝘖, 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺." Going forward, the United States will pick and choose which NATO members are actually worth the alliance. The rest are "𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘦." And the Strait of Hormuz? The left spent two weeks shrieking that closure would end the world. Reality: it carries 𝟐𝟎 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 of world oil, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝟖𝟎. The Saudis are expanding their Red Sea pipeline. The Emirates are expanding theirs. A pipeline across the desert through Jordan to Haifa is on the table. Within a few years, the Gulf "𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯." Their leverage becomes their liability. If the war ends in two or three weeks, Hanson estimates seven months to economic recovery. Then comes the realization. Iran is not threatening the Middle East. Iran has no ballistic missile threat. Iran has no immediate path to a nuclear weapon. Iran has no military. Its command and control is wiped out. Its population is stewing. "𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘭." Not the next day. Not the next month. But within months — or within two years, like the Soviet Union — regime change. This war was fought on Western American terms. No Fallujah. No house-to-house in Taji. No villages in Afghanistan where you can't tell friend from enemy. The asymmetry — by design — was total. The 24-hour news cycle will keep shrieking. The Democrat-media borg will keep cycling through whichever narrative hurts Trump most that morning. But the map has already been redrawn. 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝. 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝. 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝. 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬.
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Jason Tschetter@jasontschetter·
I 100% believe that responsible gun ownership is a significant tool in community safety. But you have to link responsibility and accountability, just like we do with cars. Bad judgment like drinking and driving has consequences that are carried alongside the benefits, and gun ownership needs to follow the same logic.
John Stossel@JohnStossel

I’m not a gun person. I was raised among leftist gun haters. So when I first heard about @JohnRLottJr’s book, “More Guns, Less Crime,” I was skeptical. But he was right. Here he explains why government ignores many examples where guns SAVED people:

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