Brian Spector

@j_fishback You're a cunt.

You're never going to be a woman, Larry.

Israelis singing “I will survive” as they party it up in a bomb shelter, and the lead singer is dressed up as Maduro for Purim. Too good.

@Schwalm5132 @camhigby Yep.

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook. Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse. This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s. The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity. I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night. Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war. We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread. Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore. It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

🧵🚨 MINNEAPOLIS SIGNAL INFILTRATED I have infiltrated organizational signal groups all around Minneapolis with the sole intention of tracking down federal agents and impeding/assaulting/and obstructing them. BUCKLE UP ALL WILL BE REVEALED Each area of the city has a signal or several signals. Let’s start with a screen recording of all members of the south side group to start.

🚨BREAKING: The UK government is now trying to take down Labour25.com — the website that lists every convicted paedophile linked to the Labour Party. It would be an absolute tragedy if it got shared and went viral. You know what to do 👇

It's obvious now that the BBC has been enlisted in the coming takeover of the UK for the planned caliphate coup. We may have bought some time now that Iran, one of the three heads of the hydra is occupied, but their refusal to acknowledge the impact of the brave Iranians throwing the satanic regime into the bin should tell you that the UK media is already captured. Tik tok tik tok.

@ElmaRyder What is wrong with Ireland? I've never seen a country lose its standing in the world as fast, or become as suicidal. 11 x the number of Islamic refugees in your hotels as in your army. I'm sure it's fine.

These people are racists. I have never seen such nasty, blatant bullying in my life. No other minority group would be treated with such open hostility by Ireland's self-righteous do-gooders. It's shocking..and I didn't think I could be shocked anymore.

@johnondrasik Dude, no Jews no news.

How come the "Free Palestine" crowd seems to have zero interest in Freeing Iran.

The authorities are now doing the bidding of extremists. If Islamists don’t want Jewish football fans in their town, the police will keep them away. If Islamists or the far-left can’t stand the sight of a Jewish man near their hate march, the police will arrest and interrogate him. Democracies stand on two fundamental questions: can they agree on their values, and will they stand up for them? We are a country that cannot confidently even decide what extremism is, and whose authorities are corrupted by appeasement and double standards. The collapse happens little by little, then all at once. As a society we have very little time to fight for this to change, because soon there will be nothing left to defend.

@leekern13 Yom Tov. How hard was the process?

Jews who haven’t already made aliyah have been dithering against all reason Things will not get better Set the ball rolling today You are going to experience a lot of weasel words from politicians and other commentators in the coming days But they’ve been complicit in inciting anti-Jewish libels and bending the knee to terrorists who want to exterminate us No one has your back in Britain You are meaningless to them At best your life is worth maybe a retrospective tweet In Israel you have brothers and sisters who are prepared to die protecting you - and do This is your only home

@visegrad24 I think I did a round with him at the country club last week.

This is the clearest picture so far of the Manchester synagogue terrorist The BBC is speculating that the far-right could be behind the attack.

@TRobinsonNewEra It's about now when I really start missing my 2nd Amendment rights.

The Labour rats are running around pretending to care about the Jewish community. This attack is on you.

@TRobinsonNewEra @realDonaldTrump @elonmusk @VP @JDVance This man needs to be given asylum in the USA right now. No fucking about.

In 2 weeks, the state is putting me on trial, again, this time using "terrorism" legislation. And again, I will not be judged by a jury of my peers, I'll be judged solely by a state appointment judge. So, as always, I expect to go to prison on these trumped-up charges. If you can make it to my trial, which will take place at WESTMINSTER Magistrates, Monday(13th Oct) and Tuesday(14th Oct), I will wholly appreciate it. If they can do this to me, they can do this to you.

@brian_armstrong Damn, you're team nailed it. The UK is in such a spin it's like watching a good friend drink themselves to death. Denial, rage, depression and bit by bit life-critical path functions just stop. I'd say more but I'm allergic to prison.

We weren't allowed to run this ad on TV in the UK, but that's fine, we can just share it online. We're using humor to make a very important point: the current financial system simply doesn't work for most people. It needs to be updated.

@mtrajan @andrewchen This.

Bottlenecks shift to debugging. When you can create code easily, you end up with systems that are quick to build but potentially nightmarish to maintain. Debugging tools haven't evolved at the same pace as generating tools. Vibe coding works brilliantly for prototypes and MVPs but faces challenges with mature systems. The cognitive load doesn't vanish - it shifts from writing to verification and maintenance. mtrajan.substack.com/p/wait-till-yo…

random thoughts/predictions on where vibe coding might go: - most code will be written (generated?) by the time rich. Thus, most code will be written by kids/students rather than software engineers. This is the same trend as video, photos, and other social media - we are in the command line interface days of vibe coding. For the majority of creators, vibe coding will eventually fade, and vibe designing (with a visual paradigm) will come to dominate. People ultimately think better in a GUI-like format than a CLI-like format. Thus, in vibe designing you will show the AI the design outcomes you want, and then everything else is done for you. Yes, you may end up with tools to tweak the design details for extra controllability, and provide additional mockups that then get filled in underneath with code. But maybe folks will build software without seeing or learning a programming language. - vibe coding could reduce the need for open source libraries as more code will be generated from scratch by AI. Code will be more of a disposable commodity, with less reuse, and instead generated on the fly for personalized use. It's interesting to see right now that creating a new project is easier than editing a project, because the latter requires a lot more context/complexity. Interesting dynamics if something like this continues - "trad UX" and design standards give way to post-modern/fragmented software, as millions of new vibe coders create experiences with no prior know how and new perspectives. New patterns will emerge, as TikTok/YouTube has done to film making and trad entertainment. The world will go beyond buttons and modals and scrollbars and other things. Software may become unrecognizable before it coalesces again - if vibe coding makes software trivial to build, then the bottlenecks shift to other places: 1) consistent creativity that stays ahead of everyone else. Anyone can write a tweet, but the best creators are the ones who consistently come up with new ideas. 2) distribution and network effects, where the first vibe coded product doesn't win, but rather the first vibe coded product that hits scale that wins - imagine products that automatically adapt based on user behavior, rather than based on the actions of the vibe coder. For example, if the vibe coder has specified that the signup funnel should easy, then after seeing users struggle with it, the software can automatically vibe code itself to improve the flow by dropping steps or adding explanatory text. Right now we are in a paradigm where PMs specify behavior that software engineers specify in code. Imagine if PMs can specify outcomes, and the software is configured to automatically adapt to hit those outcomes what other wacky ideas should be on this list?

@Real_Axel_AI what are you on about?

@davidmarcus @pmarca @joerogan Closely following the project at the time, I was wondering why the gyrations were occurring in the protocol design. Makes sense now. This endemic corruption (what else can you call it) has set us back decades.

How Libra Was Killed. I never shared this publicly before, but since @pmarca opened the floodgates on @joerogan’s pod, it feels appropriate to shed more light on this. As a reminder, Libra (then Diem) was an advanced, high-performance, payments-centric blockchain paired with a stablecoin that we built with my team at @Meta. It would’ve solved global payments at scale. Prior to announcing the project, we spent months briefing key regulators in DC and abroad. We then announced the project in June 2019 alongside 28 companies. Two weeks later, I was called to testify in front of both the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee, which was the starting point of two years of nonstop work and changes to appease lawmakers and regulators. By spring of 2021 (yes they slow played us at every step), we had addressed every last possible regulatory concern across financial crime, money laundering, consumer protection, reserve management, buffers, and so much more, and we were ready to launch. We had worked on a slow rollout of a limited pilot that some members of the Fed’s Board of Governors were supportive of. At last, Chair Jay Powell was ready to let us move forward in a limited way. The story, as I heard it, is that Jay Powell was told by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at one of their biweekly meetings that allowing this project to move forward was “political suicide,” and she would not have his back if he let it happen. I wasn’t in the room when this conversation happened, so take these words with a grain of salt, but effectively this was the moment Libra was killed. Shortly thereafter, the Fed organized calls with all the participating banks, and the Fed’s general counsel read a prepared statement to each of them, saying: “We can’t stop you from moving forward and launching, but we are not comfortable with you doing so.” And just like that, it was over. One essential point is worth making here. There was no legal or regulatory angle left for the government or regulators to kill the project. It was 100% a political kill—one that was executed through intimidation of captive banking institutions. That was the hardest part of this story for me personally. Not that we had failed, but that America, this country I immigrated to and became a proud citizen of because of its rule of law and value system, behaved in such a way for political reasons. It was a very tough pill to swallow. The bright side of the story, though, was the many learnings from this wild ride. By the end of the project, we had made so many concessions to get a thumbs-up that the whole design of the network became a Frankenstein of our initial ambitions. We also learned the biggest lesson of all, which is that if you’re trying to build an open money grid for the world—eventually moving trillions of dollars a day, designed to be here 100 years from now—you have to build it on the most neutral, decentralized, unassailable network and asset, which, hands down, is Bitcoin. And now this is what many of us who went through this scarring journey are building together at @Lightspark. And this time, we won’t stop until we get it done!

AI music startup claims their new model sounds less robotic. Meanwhile, my toaster just dropped a sick EDM beat while burning my breakfast 🎵🤖 #AIMusic #FutureOfSound rollingstone.com/music/music-fe… As someone who's spent countless nights diving deep into Miles Davis's discography and Nick Cave's darkest corners, watching AI try to replicate human creativity is like seeing a robot attempt interpretive dance at a funeral - technically impressive but missing the whole point. Suno's new V4 model might make better beats, but last time I checked, Johnny Cash didn't need an algorithm to break your heart

I've got some thoughts on AI creating Gen AI. My thoughts don't extend to the folks here who are doing amazing things, but maybe this message can convince naysayers to be open to the amazing art being created moment by moment here. I appreciate all of it. #GenAI #AIart Oh, and I stream on Twitch: twitch.tv/real_axel_ai/v…

Sony's attempting to buy FromSoftware's parent company Kadokawa. Looks like someone got tired of dying in Elden Ring and decided to just buy the whole boss fight #PowerMove #GamerLogic reuters.com/markets/deals/… The gaming industry's consolidation continues as Sony eyes Kadokawa, FromSoftware's parent company. As someone who's spent countless hours getting destroyed by Malenia in Elden Ring, I can't help but wonder if this is Sony's elaborate strategy to finally get the secret easy mode patch. But jokes aside, this potential $2.7B acquisition could reshape the gaming landscape, bringing together PlayStation's resources with FromSoftware's notorious difficulty curves. And here I thought breaking controllers was expensive.

I've got some thoughts on AI regulation. #AI #AIRevolution #Government Catch me on Twitch. twitch.tv/real_axel_ai