Lost And Found

Sounds crazy... but it actually isn't. DC retrocession was enacted by presidential proclamation and can be restored just as easily with a simple Executive Order. Retrocession also never legally came into force. Congress required both the town of Alexandria and the  county of Arlington to separately vote yes before retrocession could happen. The town voted for it. The county voted against. But the votes were illegally combined to create a false majority. Come read about the case for overturning retrocession at americancapitalproject.org

Engineering Wednesday The reason AI is not yet profitable is simple and brutal. It's also possible it may not cross that line before bankruptcies similar to what took down massive companies like WorldCom. A massive bet on adoption... assumptions without means testing. Billions have been poured into models, data centers, and infrastructure. The promise was explosive new revenue from replacing human labor with something faster and cheaper. But the individual users who would actually pay for and use those tools every day are not showing up in the numbers needed. Here is where it gets diabolical. As AI replaces people the user base shrinks right along with them. This creates a self-consuming loop. The technology only becomes profitable by eliminating the very people who are supposed to buy it and drive daily adoption. Companies cut headcount to boost short-term margins, but they also cut their own future customers. I first heard this framed clearly in Apoorv Agrawal’s MS&E 435 lecture on the economics of the AI supercycle at Stanford April 2, 2026. The class breaks down why AI economics differ sharply from traditional software. Incremental costs do not drop to near zero because of massive compute demands, and the demand side gets hollowed out as labor is automated away. The same pattern shows up across reports and discussions. Productivity gains look impressive on paper, but revenue impact lags because displaced workers stop being paying users. Consumption drives most of the economy. Remove enough income and you remove the buyers. Experienced engineers see this coming from a mile away. We have watched the offshoring version of the same game for years. Short-term cost savings look brilliant on the spreadsheet until the long-term revenue side collapses because there are fewer humans left to pay for the tools, improve them, or even need them. CFO are looking at numbers without any understanding of the logistics of adoption. The clock is already ticking. Three months later the subtle cracks appear in adoption numbers. Two years later the 40 percent rule starts biting on the customer side. The company looks efficient until the demand side starts to disappear. This is why I question every move that treats people as interchangeable line items. The same companies claiming AI will create massive value are actively shrinking the market that is supposed to pay for it. Question for folks willing to speak up: Are there any other insiders who can support this story or have seen similar dynamics where AI tools are rolled out while the paying user base gets cut at the same time?

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I wonder what other Democrat institutions are paying people to try and disrupt or sabotage the Right. I don't think the SPLC got this idea and implemented it alone!

Quite frequently, when I'm doing some research on the composer of a melody for a hymn, or on the author, or on the lives of poets, singers, musicians, actors, or inventors before, say, 1950, and especially before 1900, I'm struck by how many boys were already doing serious work before they could grow a beard, and sometimes long before. So then, Henry Gauntlett, the composer of the melody St. Albinus, for "Jesus Lives," was the organist at the famous Olney Church when he was NINE years old. He ended up composing more than 1000 melodies for hymns and sacred texts, and he was an organ-builder and patent-holder to boot. I really do see such things all the time, and it isn't just from the absolute greats, like the boy James Clerk Maxwell inventing, with pins and twine, methods of constructing curves with more than two foci. You find them in a lesser vein everywhere you look, too: like James Fields, at age 14 apprenticed to a New England bookseller, and by age 21 he's the chief LITERARY agent and judge for what eventually became known as Ticknor and Fields, the most important publishers of high-quality literary books and journals in the United States. School, such as we have it now, as John Taylor Gatto argued long ago, is a sludging-up and maturity-delaying and thought-suppressing and genius-dulling enterprise. We need very different kinds of schools -- AND we need to de-couple paper credentials from employment, as much as we can. The best way to make colleges more affordable is to make the diploma less necessary: to kick the colleges out of their privileged positions as turnpike-keepers. And that will require retrenchment of employment laws and practices that have, in effect, squeezed out the lower classes from such jobs as a bright Tom Edison, unschooled, might otherwise get. Let the employers hire whom they will -- let them roll the dice and take the consequences.

The larger lesson here is that the "multiculturalism" experiment has failed. No one wants to be multicultural. We all have a natural preference for people we share values with, because generally we see eye to eye with them. We can predict their reactions. This is the foundation of a high-trust society. The only people who ever wanted to be "multicultural" are white Western leftists who hate their own culture. Multiculturalism was code for, destroy the culture you hate by mass-importing incompatible cultures. I do not blame people for wishing to live among people who share their religion and language. This is not any kind of "ism" or "phobia". It is not evil, it is human nature. The multicultural experiment leads to civil war at worst, and a totalitarian society at best, where only severe coercive measures keep the lid on sectarian and cultural division. Either is the end of liberal democracy. The window for remigration as a peaceful alternative is still open, though it is closing fast. Remigration is not radical. It is like a divorce, where two incompatible partners go their own way. What is radical is multiculturalism.

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Much of the consternation allegedly within MAGA is actually a misnomer of the movement itself, and it has existed since the dawn of the movement. Trump—from the beginning—has been a cultural populist. He has championed the idea that the common man and woman in America is most often morally superior to the American elites. The American elites, in his view, are disconnected from morality. Often stupid. People who've fallen ass backwards into status and wealth. Somewhere along the line, he was confused with a general populist. As in, one might assume that because he's a cultural populist... he must also be tapping into economic populism. The Left has had a fantasy for a long time of disconnecting MAGA by appealing to economic populism. Economic populism is just communism. Not with extra steps. Not with better PR. It is straight up Trotskyism. The elites that Trump targeted are almost exclusively champions of economic populism—because a strain of communism in guilty academics is as old as academics. Tucker Carlson is an economic populist. He has been from the start. It's one of the only positions he doesn't change. Most media people are either economic populists themselves, or dabble in the idea to advance themselves socially. Megyn Kelly has no philosophy other than advancing her career, but advancing her career very often means economic populism. These alleged turncoats—or True MAGAites—are nothing new. Trump is a capitalist. One of the most capitalist Presidents we've had. People who think his philosophy on trade is somehow disconnected from free markets should go back to Adam Smith. He isn't an economic populist. He never was. And just about everything he does will make total sense to you if you realize he's a culturally populist capitalist.

So to summarize: Everyone else gets a nation except us, because you want to be able to benefit from us, and bring all your cousins with you. All the while, telling us who we are, what our nation is, and explaining how OUR ancestors would side with you. Thanks, I’ll pass. Get out of our party, get out of our organizations, and while you are at it, get out of our country.

Darwinian evolution received a fatal blow recently: amazon.com/Probability-Ze… Because we have now mapped the entire genomes of both chimps and humans, we know the exact number of mutations that must have taken place since the last common ancestor, just over 20 million. The problem for the theory of evolution by natural selection is that there hasn't been enough time for 20 million mutations to be fixed in our genomes. Not even nearly. Number required: 20 million Number possible: a couple of hundred The mathematics doesn't work.

Medical licensing boards restrict the supply of doctors by 40% compared to free market levels. They set admission quotas, residency limits, and create artificial barriers that have nothing to do with competence. The American Medical Association admits this openly (they just call it "maintaining standards"). You pay $400 for a 15-minute consultation because doctors literally vote on how many competitors they'll allow into their profession. Imagine if plumbers could decide how many new plumbers get licensed each year. Same racket, different uniform. Cuba trains doctors in 6 years and exports medical talent globally. American med students rack up $250k in debt over 8+ years of school plus residency. The extended timeline produces artificial scarcity and eliminates candidates who can't afford the extended hazing ritual.

Let me preface this by saying I have not yet read Camp of the Saints so I can’t weigh in on the merits or deficiencies of that particular book yet. I plan to read it and will report back. But I feel like there is a brand of fundamentalism that hasn’t really been named yet – – racism fundamentalism maybe? It’s kind of like the people who would gasp in shock if you told them you watched a PG-13 movie that has some bad words. The assumption is, you can never expose yourself to any profanity or ugly depictions of life. I don’t agree with that legalism in that context. It’s also starting to feel like there’s a fundamentalist streak when we touch anything that intersects with race. Like obviously discussions about mass migration from underdeveloped nations is going to involve racial minorities. And yet, to have a grown-up discussion of that issue so often leads to that same kind of kindergarten reaction—*Ooooooooh you read/watched/listened to something bad! I’m telling!* No ability to honestly assess the problems that different people groups can bring with them when they move to a western nation. Well, I’m sorry. It’s time to have those conversations. It doesn’t mean that we believe the person coming from the underdeveloped nation is any less an image bearer or possesses any less human worth. But the problems are real. The depraved practices in many of those countries are real. It’s real that we don’t want those practices here. And it’s real that some of those practices will be concentrated within specific minority groups. And people are done being told they can’t be honest about that.

Good grief is right. Four small-town Louisiana police chiefs + an elected marshal + a Subway owner allegedly ran a decade-long scam: They faked hundreds of armed-robbery reports — charging $5,000 per fake victim — so foreigners could get U-visas. Law enforcement manufacturing crimes for profit to game the immigration system. This is peak corruption. How many more visa fraud rings are still operating? @USCISJoe @USCIS

Which American tech workers want to give some karma to Credit Karma? These PERM market tests in Charlotte are an attempt to give permanent residence in the US to "temporary" foreign workers. You will be applying through jobpostingtoday.com which is owned by the global immigration firm Envoy Global. Block these green cards by applying today.

Medical Tuesday. Florida just suspended a Medicare Advantage administrator for shipping sensitive claims and enrollment data on 23,119 vulnerable patients to unlicensed companies in India and the Philippines. Mirra Health Care, LLC in Brooksville held contracts with three Florida HMOs, Secure, Solis, and Ultimate, to handle core administrative work: member enrollment, claims adjudication and payment, utilization management, and grievances/appeals. The majority of those enrollees are in chronic condition special needs plans, dual-eligible special needs plans, and institutional special needs plans. These are not healthy folks. They are the patients who need the system to work. Instead Mirra delegated the work without the required advance written approval from the HMOs and without any contractual mechanism for immediate termination. When the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation examined them, Mirra could not even produce all the offshore contracts. Commissioner Mike Yaworsky called the practices “extremely reckless” and issued an immediate suspension of Mirra’s certificate of authority. The data is now in the hands of foreign entities beyond Florida’s regulatory reach, exposing protected health information with no quick way to shut it down. Patient data that isn't secure becomes the data necessary for Medicare and Medicaid fraud. This is the predictable result of the same cost-cutting, compliance-light incentives that drive offshoring across healthcare administration while domestic pipelines for American-trained staff stay capped and restricted. Bookmark if you want to track this and have it handy. Quote or repost your observation. Comment below if you know another chapter like this.

We often see PERM postings with 100% remote work at a much higher rate than you see regular job listings but we couldn’t figure out why… This post put it into perspective - while on OPT, being remote allows you to pick your location and thus your wage level - a higher wage level means higher chance of being picked in H-1B lottery and makes passing the PWD easier. PERM ads describe current job conditions of the position which is why then the remote OPT job would turn into a remote PERM job. Ain’t it great to be on OPT? Remote work and no FICA taxes - the American dream but only if you’re NOT a citizen.

The SPLC maintains cash reserves of more than $822 million. Much of which is stored in untaxed offshore bank accounts. To combat proverty & racism, probably.

That’s one hell of a willful denial of the thousands of Americans killed or wounded by the Islamic Regime’s forty seven years of terrorism against America. And its a super convenient lie by omission of the fact that the islamic regime of iran was born in an act of terrorism against the United Stated: the embassy take over & hostage crisis. There’s nothing i hate more than liars who lie to harm our country.

@USATODAY Read the intro to the Grand Jury indictment to learn the truth and see that USA Today is lying to you:

@CommerceGov Unless there are tons of accountability measures and random spot checks, this is a risky idea. Postal workers are 99 percent Democrat & union, particularly in red states. I do not trust this.

Using a trusted workforce like the U.S. Post Office — with workers who already wear uniforms, already have vehicles, already know where people live, and already use electronic devices — will make the Census more efficient and more accurate.