Meh

This is fine.

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Anduril gets a $20B contract. Tesla about to start on TerraFab. Hadrian announced a new factory. The new techno-industrial base is alive and well.

Donald Trump runs 13 US bases on UK soil with over 11,000 troops. We never voted for this. We say NO to being the lapdog of US imperialism. Shut the bases down. Kick all US troops out NOW.

JUST IN: Elon Musk says "people can pretend or dress up all they want…" "But they can't force their mental illness to be my new reality."

Very interested in what the coming era of highly bespoke software might look like. Example from this morning - I've become a bit loosy goosy with my cardio recently so I decided to do a more srs, regimented experiment to try to lower my Resting Heart Rate from 50 -> 45, over experiment duration of 8 weeks. The primary way to do this is to aspire to a certain sum total minute goals in Zone 2 cardio and 1 HIIT/week. 1 hour later I vibe coded this super custom dashboard for this very specific experiment that shows me how I'm tracking. Claude had to reverse engineer the Woodway treadmill cloud API to pull raw data, process, filter, debug it and create a web UI frontend to track the experiment. It wasn't a fully smooth experience and I had to notice and ask to fix bugs e.g. it screwed up metric vs. imperial system units and it screwed up on the calendar matching up days to dates etc. But I still feel like the overall direction is clear: 1) There will never be (and shouldn't be) a specific app on the app store for this kind of thing. I shouldn't have to look for, download and use some kind of a "Cardio experiment tracker", when this thing is ~300 lines of code that an LLM agent will give you in seconds. The idea of an "app store" of a long tail of discrete set of apps you choose from feels somehow wrong and outdated when LLM agents can improvise the app on the spot and just for you. 2) Second, the industry has to reconfigure into a set of services of sensors and actuators with agent native ergonomics. My Woodway treadmill is a sensor - it turns physical state into digital knowledge. It shouldn't maintain some human-readable frontend and my LLM agent shouldn't have to reverse engineer it, it should be an API/CLI easily usable by my agent. I'm a little bit disappointed (and my timelines are correspondingly slower) with how slowly this progression is happening in the industry overall. 99% of products/services still don't have an AI-native CLI yet. 99% of products/services maintain .html/.css docs like I won't immediately look for how to copy paste the whole thing to my agent to get something done. They give you a list of instructions on a webpage to open this or that url and click here or there to do a thing. In 2026. What am I a computer? You do it. Or have my agent do it. So anyway today I am impressed that this random thing took 1 hour (it would have been ~10 hours 2 years ago). But what excites me more is thinking through how this really should have been 1 minute tops. What has to be in place so that it would be 1 minute? So that I could simply say "Hi can you help me track my cardio over the next 8 weeks", and after a very brief Q&A the app would be up. The AI would already have a lot personal context, it would gather the extra needed data, it would reference and search related skill libraries, and maintain all my little apps/automations. TLDR the "app store" of a set of discrete apps that you choose from is an increasingly outdated concept all by itself. The future are services of AI-native sensors & actuators orchestrated via LLM glue into highly custom, ephemeral apps. It's just not here yet.

the rape of Britain has been happening for more than a decade the legacy media refused to cover it because it did not match their narrative look at the relative topic coverage:

Elon Musk on Usenet, 1994. Debugging joystick latency. Long before the myth.

This is what Trump is up against just from Norm Eisen’s lawfare: 1. Venue Shopping ∙78% of Eisen-affiliated cases filed in D.C. District Court or other Democrat-heavy jurisdictions (S.D.N.Y., N.D. Cal., D. Mass.) ∙This is strategic: D.C. and S.D.N.Y. have highest concentration of Obama/Biden-appointed judges 2. Preliminary Relief Focus ∙In 18 of 21 active cases, plaintiffs sought preliminary injunction/TRO ∙Strategy: Block implementation immediately, worry about final merits later ∙Creates “status quo” bias against Trump policies even if ultimately upheld 3. Coalition Plaintiffs ∙No case has single plaintiff; average is 4.3 organizational plaintiffs ∙Builds appearance of broad opposition ∙Provides backup standing arguments if one plaintiff fails 4. Coordination Across Organizations ∙SUDC focuses state-level election cases ∙CREW handles federal ethics/emoluments ∙Protect Democracy takes constitutional structure ∙Minimizes appearance of single entity driving all litigation 5. Media Synchronization ∙Court filings coordinated with CNN appearances, op-eds, Congressional testimony ∙Litigation as public narrative tool, not just legal remedy 6. Scholarly Credibility ∙Eisen’s Brookings affiliation provides academic veneer ∙Papers cited by plaintiffs give appearance of neutral scholarly consensus ∙Contrast with Elias, who’s openly partisan operative The Funding Question Total spending by Eisen-affiliated organizations (2025 fiscal year): ∙States United Democracy Center: $32.4M ∙CREW: $28.7M ∙Protect Democracy: $24.1M ∙Democracy Forward: $15.8M ∙Combined: $101 million This doesn’t include: ∙Outside law firms working pro bono or reduced rates ∙Individual donor funding of specific cases ∙Dark money pass-throughs (Sixteen Thirty Fund, others) Where money comes from (aggregated from tax filings): Major Foundation Support: ∙Open Society Foundations (Soros): ~$12M across orgs ∙Wyss Foundation: ~$8M ∙Democracy Fund: ~$6M ∙Sixteen Thirty Fund: ~$15M (itself funded by undisclosed donors) Individual Mega-Donors (disclosed contributions >$100k): ∙Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn founder): ~$4M ∙Laurene Powell Jobs (Steve Jobs widow): ~$3M ∙Pierre Omidyar (eBay founder): ~$2M ∙Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook co-founder): ~$2M A bunch of billionaires control everything that’s going on because they file a lawsuit every single time Trump does something. I guarantee you this is not how our founding fathers envisioned our country to operate and the only reason is possible is because of NGOs.