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Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, offers a sobering view: The biggest technological shift in human history is happening, and almost no one is talking about it. Schmidt opens with a startling industry prediction: "We believe as an industry that in the next one year the vast majority of programmers will be replaced by AI programmers. We also believe that within one year you will have graduate level mathematicians that are at the tippy top of graduate math programs." He explains why this matters so much. Programming and math aren't just two fields among many: "Programming plus math are the basis of sort of our whole digital world." And the AI labs are already using AI to build better AI: "The research groups in OpenAI and anthropic and so forth… around 10 or 20% of the code that they're developing in their research programs is being generated by the computer. That's called recursive self-improvement." @ericschmidt then lays out the timeline most people haven't grasped: "Within 3 to 5 years we'll have what is called general intelligence AGI which can be defined as a system that is as smart as the smartest mathematician physicist artist writer thinker politician." He gives this belief system a name: "I call this by the way the San Francisco consensus because everyone who believes this is in San Francisco it may be the water." But the truly unsettling part comes next. Once AI starts improving itself, humans become optional to the process: "The computers are now doing self-improvement… they don't have to listen to us anymore. We call that super intelligence or ASI… computers that are smarter than the sum of humans. The San Francisco consensus is this occurs within six years." And here's where Schmidt sounds the alarm. The conversation isn't keeping pace with the technology: "This path is not understood in our society. There's no language for what happens with the arrival of this. This is happening faster than our human that our society, our democracy, our laws will address." His closing thought captures why this matters: "That's why it's underhyped. People do not understand what happens when you have intelligence at this level which is largely free."

I cannot unsee this. I've been watching Trump answer questions for years. The confidence. The certainty. The way he shuts down a room. I genuinely thought he was one of the sharpest communicators alive. Then one day I caught myself finishing his sentence before he said it. Not guessing. Knowing. Word for word. Before he said it. So I pulled the transcripts. Press conferences. Interviews. Sprays. Egg prices. Greenland. January 6th. Military strikes. Different years. Different reporters. Completely different topics. Same thing every time. Every single time Trump is asked a question — any question — he runs the exact same 7 steps. In the exact same order. Without exception. This is not personality. This is not confidence. This is not charisma. This is a deliberate repeatable formula. And I can prove it. His actual words. Public record. Verify every single one yourself. 📷 STEP 1 — KILL THE QUESTION (First thing every time — make the question itself the problem.) 📷 "That's a stupid question." / "Fake news." 📷 STEP 2 — KILL WHO ASKED IT (Destroy the source so the question has nowhere to stand.) 📷 "Your ratings are terrible. Nobody watches your network." 📷 STEP 3 — INSERT HIMSELF (Every topic. Every time. Without fail. It always lands here.) 📷 "Nobody has ever done what I've done." 📷 STEP 4 — SCALE IT TO THE BIGGEST CLAIM POSSIBLE (Not good. Not great. The greatest. Ever. In history. Every single time.) 📷 "More than any administration — by far." / "Nobody has ever had crowds like I've had — in history, for any country." 📷 STEP 5 — UNNAMED PEOPLE AGREE (Faceless. Countless. Unverifiable. Always there.) 📷 "Smart people are saying it. Great people. A lot of people." 📷 STEP 6 — VAGUE THREAT (Something bad will happen. Never specified. Always implied.) 📷 "All hell will break out." / "They know it. Believe me." 📷 STEP 7 — LOOP BACK TO HIMSELF (Different words. Same destination. Formula complete.) 📷 "It's been an amazing period of time. Page after page of accomplishments." The question was never answered. The formula just ran. Go back and watch any clip. Any year. Any topic. Any reporter. Count the steps. I'll wait. This is the part nobody wants to sit with: Real conviction engages with the actual question. It sometimes stumbles. Sometimes says I don't know. It changes shape based on what's in front of it. A formula runs the same 7 steps whether the topic is war or egg prices. Which means the response was never built for the question. It was built for you. To feel powerful. To feel certain. To stop you from noticing that nothing was actually answered. And it worked. For years it worked. Pull any transcript. Public record. Count the steps yourself. This isn't about politics. This is about what you were never supposed to notice. I've found the same deliberate pattern running in another major figure in this administration. Different slots. Same principle. Same effect. Next post I break it down. Follow or miss it. VIA~~ Jamie Hoo

In the 1920s, a Stanford study quietly revealed something uncomfortable about success. Most people still ignore it. Later explained by Malcolm Gladwell, this wasn’t about intelligence it was about why potential gets wasted. It began with Lewis Terman, who tracked genius-level kids (IQ 140+) for decades, expecting them to become world leaders. They didn’t. Some succeeded. Many stayed average. And a surprising number failed completely. The difference wasn’t talent. It was background. Kids from wealthy families had opportunities. Others didn’t. Even genius couldn’t overcome that gap. Then comes a powerful idea: “capitalization rate” how many capable people actually succeed. And it’s shockingly low. You see it in sports too. Many elite athletes are born early in the year. Not because they’re more talented but because they were slightly older, got picked early, and given better opportunities. We think we’re spotting talent. We’re often just amplifying advantage. Same in school. Same in life. Even in math, the real difference isn’t IQ it’s belief. Some think ability is fixed. Others believe effort creates it. Over time, that belief wins. That’s the truth most people miss: Success isn’t just about talent. It’s about opportunity, timing, and environment. And how much potential never gets the chance to grow.

Food for thought from Hamilton. hamiltonjewishnews.com/israel/an-unap…

With the 2026 MLB season upon us, I give you the greatest baseball ad ever created. This was a Japanese car commercial but let me tell you, find a woman at the end with a batting stance that good.

Best video i have seen in a long while.🥺❤️

PSA: When the price of gasoline jumps this week, remember it was refined from oil (mostly Canadian) produced weeks ago, only ~2% of which came from the Middle East. It's a policy choice, not 'market forces', that explains why you'll pay more (and oil profits will soar). /2

Man, every single person involved in this recording did everything absolutely right, perfection.

Constant barrage of ads from the Ford government – on radio, on TV on social media – telling me what a great job they’re doing, at my expense. Using public dollars to cement themselves in office. This sort of thing should not be allowed.

In 1975, developmental psychologist Dr. Edward Tronick sat a mother and her baby face to face and filmed what happened when the mother suddenly stopped responding. First the mother plays normally, smiling, talking, making eye contact. The baby mirrors everything, laughing, pointing, babbling back. Then the mother goes blank. No expression, no response, nothing. Within seconds the baby notices. She smiles harder. Points. Waves. Screeches. Uses every tool she has to get her mother back. When nothing works, she turns away, loses control of her posture, and collapses into herself with what Tronick described as “a withdrawn, hopeless facial expression.” The moment the mother re-engages, the baby recovers almost instantly. Three minutes of emotional absence from a parent did that to an infant. It became one of the most replicated findings in developmental psychology. This was 1975, before smartphones existed. Now look around any park, restaurant, or living room. How many babies are looking up at a parent who is scrolling instead of looking back?

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Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

Wow, this speech from Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani 👏💯 "They command us not to believe what we see" "They compel us as George Orwell wrote nearly 80 years ago, to reject the evidence of our eyes and our ears" "And they would succeed, were it not for the many among us who read the scripture, but who live the scripture" "Those who refuse to abandon the stranger" "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her moments later were: I'm not mad at you" "I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. Here was a man who held the hand of the afraid and the afflicted in their final moments" "Here was a man who dedicated his life to healing those who he never met" "ICE shot him 10 times because he did something they could never fathom doing, he extended his arm towards a stranger" "Not to push her down, but help her up" "Let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion"

Second City sent around this hilarious supercut of the brilliant Catherine O'Hara on SCTV. #RestInPower

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says that the United States is destroying the world order: "But there is also the fact that our most important partner, the United States, has broken with the values that it helped to establish and, above all, has played a decisive role in shaping over decades" "In my opinion, we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe" "Both disrespect and erosion are well advanced. I believe that, and I want to emphasise it a little" "Today, the aim is to prevent the world from turning into a den of thieves, where the most unscrupulous take what they want" "Where regions and entire countries are treated as property rather than major powers" "Where even medium-sized states, such as ours, are being pushed to the margins of history, and where smaller and weaker states are left completely unprotected"

Statement from the Premier of Greenland 🇬🇱 6:55pm local time: “🇬🇱 We have been a close and loyal friend of the United States for generations. We have stood shoulder to shoulder in difficult times. We have taken responsibility for security in the North Atlantic — and not least for North America. That is what true friends do. Precisely for that reason, the current and repeated rhetoric coming from the United States is entirely unacceptable. When the President of the United States speaks of “needing Greenland” and links us to Venezuela and military intervention, it is not only wrong. It is disrespectful. Our country is not an object in great-power rhetoric. We are a people. A country. A democracy. That must be respected — especially by close and loyal friends. We are part of NATO, and we are fully aware of our country’s strategic location. We also understand that our security depends on good friends and strong alliances. In that context, a respectful and loyal relationship with the United States is very important. That has been the case for decades. But alliances are built on trust. And trust requires respect. Threats, pressure, and talk of annexation have no place between friends. That is not how one speaks to a people who have repeatedly demonstrated responsibility, stability, and loyalty. Enough is enough. No more pressure. No more insinuations. No more fantasies of annexation. We are open to dialogue. We are open to conversations. But they must take place through the proper channels and in full respect of international law. And the proper channels are not random and disrespectful posts on social media. Greenland is our home and our territory. And it will remain so. 🇬🇱”

New label for the greed-driven billionaires who are enslaving the American people: "The Epstein class." 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯👇

He saved my family, yet by 1963 there were very few of us left there.

Ethan Hawke explains why there is no such thing as your favorite Beatle: