Ed Bear

you're villifying the wrong people and arguing by false equivalence, simon. people still trust science, they just do not trust "science imposed upon them by experts at the point of a gun." no one is saying "airplanes don't fly" or "computers don't compute." they are saying "you lied about climate change, epidemiology, trade offs with products like roundup, GRAS designations, nutrition, race, gender, and 500 other topics>' and many of these criticisms have validity. and in response, the experts blame the questioner and demand deference. and those who refuse to engage on facts rarely have the facts on their side. trust was lost because "the experts" proved not only untrustworthy, but outright dictatorial. they faked evidence and data, made up wild pseudoscientific theories, and vilified sound science, and pushed utter fakery in its place. they censored opposition and claimed "the science was settled" to prevent investigation into their frauds. and they forced the whole world at the expense of lives and trillions of dollars of lost welfare to play along. it was high handed, dishonest, tyranny. have you stopped to consider that they earned this loss of faith? because they did. MIT wrote a literal article about "anti mask twitter" which it vilified by claiming “most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe that science is a process, not an institution.” as though it proved we had somehow turned our backs on science. but we did not. science is and must be a process. it is never an institution. that's dogma, not the methods of bacon. we did not stop trusting science, the experts stopped performing it and were dancing around in the flensed skinsuit of scientific method that they had stripped from the bones that made it valid: dispute, dissent, replication, validation - open and honest discourse. if you want to win back trust, you need to restore open debate and engagement, share methods, means, and data. wailing about "they won't trust us!" and blaming the folks who called out the deviation from sound science is just another arrogant presumption for institutions to dictate doctrine. you want to respect for sceince? start respecting to process of science again.

By observing the actions of Nvidia, AMD, and Intel… The consumers are not the target customer. Corporations boast record profits yet wages are up only 1% over the last year. Corporations don’t need you as a customer, their new customer base is either another corporation or a government. If you replace workers with AI, all those jobs earnings get consolidated under the model providers roof instead of distributed. Therefore consumer focused development dwindles and new ways of monetizing your data becomes the focus. For example the partnering of Nvidia and Palantir. A company that built its business on gaming partners up with a surveillance and data quantification company with the dreams of Government contracts tied to corporate sidestepping of individual rights. Now the gov can buy surveillance from a corporation and they didn’t violate the constitution because you agreed to the terms of service.

A vision of a modern Tenochtitlan in 2026, in a timeline where the Aztec Empire repelled Spanish conquest and modernized on its own terms. Enjoy:

Academia *knew* entire fields could not be replicated. They watched junk science proliferate and said nothing. This was not oversight. It was cowardly complicity.

History Matters....Knowing History REALLY Matters......Courage, Bravery and Character exemplified🇻🇦 When the bishops arrived at Nicaea in 325 AD Constantine was not prepared for what he saw. He had called the council, the first great gathering of Christian leaders from across the entire Roman world, to settle theological disputes and unify the church. Bishops came from Egypt, Syria, Persia, Spain, Britain, North Africa. Over 300 of them. And many of them were broken. The Great Persecution of Diocletian had ended only 20 years earlier. Some of the men who walked into that council hall were still carrying its marks on their bodies. Empty eye sockets where eyes had been gouged out. Stumps where hands had been cut off. Burn scars. Broken limbs that had never healed properly. Bodies that bore twenty years of evidence of what Rome had done to them for refusing to deny their faith. These were the men the Roman emperor had invited to his palace. Ancient accounts describe Constantine moving through the gathering and stopping before each scarred bishop. He kissed their wounds. Their empty eye sockets. Their mutilated hands. The burn scars on their faces. The man who commanded every army in the Roman world knelt before the men Rome had tried to destroy. Twenty years earlier these bishops had been hiding in catacombs, being tortured in imperial prisons, watching their congregations fed to lions. Now they were being seated at the emperor's table. The same empire. Twenty years. And the whole world had turned upside down. If God could do that in 20 years, imagine what He can do with whatever you're facing right now. Share this with someone who needs hope today. "Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy." — Psalm 126:5