Adam Smith

Morpheus - What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. tabletmag.com/feature/rapid-…

@_The_Prophet__ The UK is not our friend

⚡️This is a huge signal. This is the moment allied AI sovereignty becomes unavoidable. The U.S. just told the closest allied bloc on Earth that access to frontier cognition is an American national-security decision. Britain asked for a carve-out. The answer was no. That is the signal. The hierarchy is now visible: Capability first. Alliance second. Commerce third. That is a hard break from the old software world. In the old world, allies bought American products, companies signed contracts, cloud access worked, and everyone pretended digital infrastructure was neutral. Frontier AI has crossed out of that frame. The strongest models now sit inside U.S. sovereign control. The UK denial is the real dagger because Britain is not a hostile actor. It is Five Eyes. It is NATO. It is one of the closest intelligence partners the U.S. has. If even Britain cannot get a carve-out, every other government understands the message instantly. American AI access is permissioned. The permission comes from Washington. The permission can change. The “completely illogical” line is the doctrine. From the U.S. security view, carve-outs create holes. A British user, Canadian user, EU company, foreign-national employee, overseas contractor, or allied research lab can still become a transfer path. Once the model is treated as controlled capability, friendship does not erase leakage risk. That is why this is much bigger than Anthropic. The event has now escaped the company-specific box. It has become a sovereign-dependency story. Every government looking at this now has to ask whether critical workflows should depend on a model that can be pulled by U.S. export-control logic. Hospitals. Defense contractors. Banks. Energy grids. Courts. Universities. Government ministries. Cyber teams. National labs. The question becomes simple: what happens if the model goes dark? That question is now alive in every capital. This will accelerate sovereign AI policy. Canada, the UK, Europe, Japan, the Gulf, India, and others will still use American models because the capability gap is real. They will also build fallback layers: domestic compute, local inference, open-weight systems, sovereign clouds, data residency, model portability, national evals, and government-controlled AI infrastructure. Most of them will not catch the U.S. frontier soon. That does not matter. Sovereignty is not only about matching the frontier. It is about ensuring the administrative nervous system of the country does not depend entirely on someone else’s switch. This also strengthens the decentralized AI catalyst. The market does not need to believe decentralized AI beats Anthropic tomorrow. It needs to understand that centralized frontier AI is jurisdictional, permissioned, and politically gated. Once that becomes common knowledge, alternatives gain strategic value.

@jackmallers physician heal thyself

Ego is the most expensive burden a person can carry. Bitcoin is an ego test. It's a journey that comes with humility, then curiosity, then experience, then wisdom. Ego is fiat. Wisdom is proof of work. Kill your ego. Ask questions. Stay curious. Keep learning.

For this spectacle to come off a lot had to work -- a lot of difficult stuff, some of the most difficult stuff humans do and have ever done. And it had to work at exactly the right time. Not a small thing. America has every right to be profoundly proud.

@adamscrabble am I right in assuming "take action" means send money?

Did he stab someone ?

The people who created 40 Trillion in debt are angry that Elon Musk created 1 Trillion in wealth.

🚨🚨 The National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted intelligence: UKRAINE CONSPIRING WITH USAID TO LAUNDER $200 MILLION INTO BIDEN’S 2024 CAMPAIGN & THE DNC! In other words, the Democrats funded the war in Ukraine so they could launder the money back into their own coffers through USAID and use it to overthrow the U.S. government. 📝 More damning declassifications to follow. @jsolomonReports

@tim_cook Don’t want it. Either stop this creepy spyware or all Apple devices will be banned from the premises of my companies.

@ErikVoorhees @bourscheid Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you

No, you don't get it. He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies. To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined. Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems". $100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12 If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation. But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.

I really don’t understand true greed. If I was worth $1 trillion, you’d have to physically stop me from solving as many of the world’s problems as possible. Everyone would have a home, food on the table, proper healthcare, happiness. I just don’t get it.

@TFL1728 Can't beat that price

For those visiting for the World Cup from around the world, welcome to the United States. We are very happy you’re here and hope you are enjoying your stay. If you are a little confused by America, however, I want to help you get up to speed quickly. I think this embodies America more than any trip to Buc’ee’s or even the quite excellent BBQ. I clipped this from an email sent to my inbox by @palmettoarmory. GOOOOOOALLLL!

Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story? You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements. I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff. In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility. I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times. Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention. Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months). His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats. Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.

🚨 BREAKING: In a stunning announcement, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed that he is going to release Dietary Guidelines that will ban ultra-processed foods, ease restrictions on saturated fats and fundamentally transform what American soldiers and schoolchildren eat.

@curtis_yarvin Future Past Present

I have seen the future And it’s murder

@ScottJenningsKY No, by definition

Is there one ... just ONE ... liberal human male who isn't weird AF in the United States of America? ONE?

@pmarca Can Confirm

James Burnham was right!

That’s because fraud at scale takes time!

Lost 300 followers over this post. Good riddance.

@SantiagoAuFund That's priced in today's dollar. What will a dollar be and what will a dollar be worth in a century? Not a justification, just asking by what ruler can we base todays decisions on?

If the reports are correct, SpaceX is pricing at a CENTURY worth of Revenue. Not a Century of Earnings. A Century of Revenue...

I'm in my very early 60s. The best President of my lifetime is Donald Trump. The best Vice President of my lifetime is JD Vance. The best SecDef/War of my lifetime is Pete Hegseth. The best SecState of my lifetime is Marco Rubio. The best SecTreasury of my lifetime is Scott Bessent. The best entrepreneur of my lifetime is Elon Musk. We truly live in a Golden Age.