jordan leitz

I am thankful that we have a ceasefire.  It happened much faster than I expected and it was the right move.  But let’s be clear that this war ends (if the ceasefire holds) as a total strategic disaster. The scorecard  Nukes: Iran still has the HEU Proxies: no change or impact  Missile  and drones : Iran demonstrated its arsenal is sustainable and survivable under massive US and Israeli pressure.  Strait of Hormuz: Iran’s leverage to use it as a bargaining chip has dramatically increased. Regime: killed Khameini but his son is still in place and unless they collapse in the aftermath will probably be just as strong or stronger then when this started. US allies: totally screwed in the Gulf and horribly strained relations in Europe. Global economy: major damage.  Israel: will be even more globally isolated after this and no more secure.  Region: as unstable as ever requiring a greater US commitment. US capacity to be prepared for major contingencies in the IndoPacific set back for years. But at least we took out their navy and destroyed their useless Air Force 🤷‍♂️. An epic strategic disaster.

Holy moly: Sam Altman told Axios in a half-hour interview that AI superintelligence is so close, so mind-bending, so disruptive that America needs a new social contract. - It's on the scale of the Progressive Era in the early 1900s, and the New Deal during the Great Depression. - Altman warns: widespread job loss, cyberattacks, social upheaval, machines man can't control - "soon-to-be-released AI models could enable a world-shaking cyberattack this year. "I think that's totally possible," Altman said. "I suspect in the next year, we will see significant threats we have to mitigate from cyber."

🚨 BREAKING: Abdul Abubakar Ali, who claimed to have served 1.5 million meals through Feeding Our Future, will serve just one year and one day in prison. Why would anyone follow our laws when there are virtually no consequences?

JUST IN: A dismal February jobs report. The U.S. economy LOST 92,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate ticked back up to 4.4%. Even healthcare shed 28,000 jobs in February. December was also revised down to -17,000. January was revised to 126k. Unemployment rate: 4.4% —> highest since December (and one of the higher rates in past few years) Wage growth: 3.8% (well above 2.4% inflation)

My mom and I have been told that my brother's psychosis - now full blown diagnosed Schizophrenia - is most likely drug induced from his years of smoking weed. This drug isn't harmless, no matter what our culture and screaming people in comments sections tried to tell us.