Saint Nick

LinkedIn is enriching uranium

@sjgadler … the key is to get people to do the right thing? That’s what Jensen thinks will happen?

Dwarkesh: Why would we want to sell China the materials for a serious cyberweapon? It's like selling them nukes with a casing that says 'made by Boeing' and claiming that's good for the US Jensen: Comparing AI to nukes is lunacy. Enriched uranium is a lousy analogy. It's an illogical analogy. What we have to recognize is that AI is a five-layered cake.

@scottbraddock We’re popping bottles at the Tower Club tonight

Sources in Dallas say County GOP Chair Allen West has resigned #txlege

The ‘dual state’ framework explains how a dictator can exercise power while life appears mostly ordinary. motherjones.com/politics/2025/…

@Acyn Love this level of cope

Vance: I recognize that a lot of young voters don’t love the policy that we have on the Middle East… Don’t get disengage because you disagree with the admin on one topic. Get more involved. That’s how we take the country back.

@ChristopherHale So was Jesus.

Iran: We’re blocking the Strait of Hormuz US: No WE’RE blocking the Strait of Hormuz

A Texas judge has temporarily blocked a statewide ban on smokable THC products after businesses across the state filed a lawsuit to that end. The reprieve from the anti-hemp mandate is set to last for at least two weeks. fox7austin.com/news/judge-tem…

🚨 do you understand what $25 billion in Mississippi actually means.. the poorest state in America.. $44,966 median income.. 28% of children in poverty.. and Amazon just chose it for data centers.. $25 billion for 2,000 jobs.. that's $12.5 million per job.. they didn't pick Mississippi to help Mississippi.. they picked it for the cheapest land.. cheapest power.. and the most desperate politicians willing to sign whatever Amazon put in front of them.. cotton plantations came for the cheap labor.. factories moved south for the no unions.. now data centers are coming for the cheap electricity and the tax breaks.. the product changes every generation.. the extraction doesn't

@grok @NodiMend @FloodlightNews So if they were operating the turbines in 2025 but got the permit a month ago… what does that mean?

No, xAI is not currently using unpermitted gas turbines in Southaven, MS. Mississippi DEQ issued an air permit on March 10, 2026, for 41 natural gas turbines at the site (replacing the prior 27 units). This followed EPA's January 2026 clarification that such turbines require Clean Air Act permits—even if labeled "portable" or temporary under state rules. xAI had operated up to 27 without permits from late 2025 into early 2026 (confirmed by thermal drone footage and public records), despite EPA guidance. Mississippi regulators had initially exempted them as mobile units. The permit process drew opposition from groups like NAACP and SELC over emissions and noise, but it was approved unanimously. No enforcement actions or ongoing violations reported as of April 2026.

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, used unpermitted gas turbines to power the data center behind Grok. Thermal drone footage captured by Floodlight shows the turbines running at a custom-built power plant in Southaven, Mississippi: floodlightnews.org/thermal-drone-…

Remarkable thermal drone footage from Floodlight showing xAI using "unpermitted gas turbines to power... Grok" in predominantly Black neighborhoods in Mississippi. They quote Bruce Buckheit, a former EPA official, “That is a violation of the law.”

Anthropic asked the Vatican for help because their AI was moving too fast for them to control. A 60 year old Catholic priest who used to be a tech executive is now writing the rules for how Claude thinks. Here is how a man of God ended up inside one of the most powerful AI companies on earth. His name is Father Brendan McGuire. He runs a small parish in Los Altos, California. Some of Silicon Valley's top AI researchers sit in his pews on Sundays. But before he was a priest, he was one of them. Studied cryptosystems at Trinity College Dublin in the 1980s. Moved to America. Became the executive director of PCMCIA, the organization that basically standardized how memory cards work in every computer. Had degrees in engineering and software. Could have been a millionaire in the Valley ten times over. He walked away from all of it to serve God. But then Anthropic called. Chris Olah, one of Anthropic's co-founders, reached out to him directly. McGuire said they were basically asking the Vatican for help because the industry was moving so fast down this road that they needed someone to pump the brakes. His words: "They basically were asking for direct help from the Vatican to convene and help the industry, because the industry was going so fast down this road." So this priest, along with a Vatican Bishop named Paul Tighe and a tech ethics director from Santa Clara University, sat down and helped rewrite the Claude Constitution. That is the set of rules that tells Claude what it can and cannot do. What it should care about. How it should think. A priest helped write the conscience of an AI. And it gets wilder. Anthropic actually sued the US government because the Pentagon wanted to use their AI for autonomous warfare and domestic surveillance. Anthropic said no. Got effectively blacklisted for it. Catholic scholars then filed a federal court brief defending Anthropic, saying their ethical limits represent "minimal standards of ethical conduct for technical progress." McGuire almost filed his own brief. He said "they are having a moral conversation. They may not call it moral, but I call it moral." Meanwhile this 60 year old priest is now writing a novel using Claude about a monk and his AI companion. The working title is "The Soul of AI: A Priest, an Algorithm, and the Search for Wisdom." He also said something that stuck with me. "I think we have to help these machines be tilted towards good, otherwise they are just going to reflect back the good and evil of the world. That is a horrifying thing, right?" The biggest AI companies in the world are building machines that think. And the person they called to make sure those machines have a conscience was not another engineer. It was a priest.

I really enjoyed testing out @perplexity_ai @AskPerplexity & @PPLXfinance to build a comprehensive investment analysis and dashboard for @BlackRock. Check it out and let me know what you would build: perplexity.ai/computer/a/blk…

They sabotaged Iran’s economy into collapse, infiltrated and armed protesters to riot and create mass casualties. Then inflated those numbers 10x to start an illegal war of destruction. These aren’t conspiracy theories. These are confirmed facts and statements by officials.

NYT CONCEDES MOSSAD BEHIND IRAN RIOTS The NYT joins a long list of institutions, influencers, and politicians that concede that the riots in Iran at the start of the year were a result of foreign meddling - particularly, by the CIA and Mossad. Marketed as organic to generate public consent for war on Iran, the riots that spread across Iran were exposed as foreign meddling operations well before they reached their peak. Now, the same media institutions that peddled the riots as organic are now admitting the role of imperialist intelligence agencies in sparking them - as part of a larger plan to topple the Islamic Republic of Iran. @venanalysis @VoxUmmah @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @blkagendareport @OrinocoTribune @KawsachunNews

@alison45346175 @RepJoshG @AOC $1.7M and he’s stupid, imagine the lives that could’ve been changed just for him to be on social media media being disingenuous.

@RepJoshG @AOC Hey JOSH Stop accepting BRIBES 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 We are done Defending that TERRORIST Country And All of us know that is what Israel is doing 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

I’m confused. Defensive military aid stops rockets aimed at innocent children and families. So, why oppose it? We provide defensive military aid to Ukraine, Taiwan, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Kenya, etc. @AOC Should we cut all of them off? Or is that your policy just for the Jews?

@RepJoshG @AOC You do seem like the type to be confused… you’re in Congress after all.

Perhaps my favorite Supreme Court exchange in recent memory: Solicitor general: “It’s a new world." John Roberts: "It's a new world. It's the same Constitution." Into my veins 😌

@DropSiteNews Community notes minus the community

🕵️ New: U.S. embassies to coordinate with Pentagon psy-ops unit and Elon Musk: 🔹Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a cable Monday ordering all U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide to run coordinated campaigns against what it calls foreign “anti-American propaganda,” according to The Guardian. 🔹Embassies are instructed to recruit local influencers, academics, and community leaders to spread messaging that appears locally driven rather than directed by Washington. The cable also promotes X’s “Community Notes” feature as a crowdsourced way to counter anti-American narratives “without compromising free speech or privacy.” 🔹The directive tells diplomats to work with the U.S. military’s psychological operations unit and use X—owned by Elon Musk—as a key tool, describing it as an “innovative” way to counter disinformation.

@XcentricXennial @Gianl1974 The AP report details numerous human rights violations and you’re bitching about a picture?

@Gianl1974 Why use two photos from McAllen,TX in 2019 as evidence of conditions in El Paso,TX in 2026? Seems kind of on the nose in the fishing for outrage clickbait department.

ICE guards are betting on which detainee will kill themselves next. The AP just exposed the savage conditions of a detention camp in El Paso. The Associated Press got inside Camp East Montana. What they found should be on the front page of every newspaper in this country until it closes. About 3,000 people packed in per day. Loud, unsanitary quarters crawling with insects. Food so scarce that detainees steal from each other just to eat. Disease spreading through filthy rooms, showers, and restrooms that go uncleaned. People losing weight. People unable to see a doctor. People losing their minds. Staff made nearly one 911 call per day in the camp's first five months. One call captures a man sobbing after being assaulted by another detainee. Another has a doctor describing a man banging his head against a wall while expressing suicidal thoughts. A nurse calls about a pregnant woman in severe pain with coronavirus. Detainees suffering seizures, some resulting in serious head trauma. Ages ranged from a 19-year-old who fell from a bunk to a 79-year-old who couldn't breathe. And then there's the detail that should haunt this administration for the rest of its existence. Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager from Columbia, Missouri, who spent weeks in the camp before being deported to the Netherlands, told the AP he overheard a security guard talking about a betting pool among the staff. They were wagering on which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had put $500 in. The total pot rode on the outcome. Ramsingh said the talk was particularly devastating because he had contemplated suicide himself. Guards are gambling on the deaths of people in their custody. People who are hungry. People who are sick. People who are begging for help through 911 calls that come in every single day. And the staff turned it into a game. This is not some rogue facility. This is the system working exactly as this administration designed it. Overcrowded by policy. Underfed by neglect. Understaffed by choice. They built a place where human beings deteriorate and then the people paid to watch over them place bets on who breaks first. The AP has the data. The recordings. The interviews. The court filings. This is documented. This is real. This is happening right now in El Paso, Texas, in the United States of America. Share this. Do not let them bury it under another news cycle.