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America cannot lead the AI race without building the power and computing infrastructure AI requires. On that I agree completely. But the piece gets the diagnosis wrong — and a wrong diagnosis produces the wrong cure. 🧵
The Gallup poll it cites shows a majority of Americans oppose data centers near their home, including 63% of Republicans. The real enemies of AI are electric utilities that use data centers to jack up rates and GW+ developers that fail to engage communities.
The electricity price comparison also misses the structural problem. Investor owned utilities don’t make money when you use what we have already paid for more efficiently. They only make money when they invest new money even if they don’t need to.
Everyone is debating whether AI will take jobs.
Wrong question. The right one: where is it showing up first, and how do you tell signal from noise?
Read three pieces this week. The Economist on labour history. Bloomberg on Korea's AI dividend debate. Reuters on India IT.
One signal jumps out.
Wrong question. The right one: where is it showing up first, and how do you tell signal from noise?
Read three pieces this week. The Economist on labour history. Bloomberg on Korea's AI dividend debate. Reuters on India IT.
One signal jumps out.
The Economist's case: no technology in history has produced sustained mass unemployment. Diffusion is slow. Aggregate OECD employment is at record highs. Industrial Revolution wages stagnated because of food prices and the Corn Laws, not because machines stole labour's share.
Solid history. Wrong altitude.
Solid history. Wrong altitude.
OECD aggregate employment is a lagging indicator. By the time that chart breaks, the political response is already drafted.
The action is one layer down. Sector. Firm. Function. That is where the signal lives now.
The action is one layer down. Sector. Firm. Function. That is where the signal lives now.
We are still trying to place Long COVID into a biologically coherent framework.
This study is interesting because immune activation, antiviral signaling, metabolism, mitochondria, cell survival do not appear as separate findings - but as parts of one connected system🧵
This study is interesting because immune activation, antiviral signaling, metabolism, mitochondria, cell survival do not appear as separate findings - but as parts of one connected system🧵
A possible axis is this
something keeps innate immunity on alert - immune cells produce inflammatory signals - their metabolism shifts - mitochondria come under stress - stressed mitochondria can further amplify immune activation.
That is a loop, not a list.
something keeps innate immunity on alert - immune cells produce inflammatory signals - their metabolism shifts - mitochondria come under stress - stressed mitochondria can further amplify immune activation.
That is a loop, not a list.
The study compared 50 people with Long COVID with 50 recovered controls around 10 months after SARS-CoV-2.
Both groups had been infected. The key difference was whether symptoms persisted.
Both groups had been infected. The key difference was whether symptoms persisted.
HOW THE LORD WORKS MYSTERIOUSLY: 🧵
As you must now know, there was a pro-freedom march in London today.
Led by @TRobinsonNewEra, it was a huge success. According to Metro Police, only 50k showed up.
Does this look like “only” 50k? Lol.
There is a backstory here that…
As you must now know, there was a pro-freedom march in London today.
Led by @TRobinsonNewEra, it was a huge success. According to Metro Police, only 50k showed up.
Does this look like “only” 50k? Lol.
There is a backstory here that…
2/
…involved one of the speakers and goes back more than a decade:
I met Nigerian Anglican Bishop Jwan Zhumbes in seminary. We were immediately drawn to one another by a desire to confront Islam and bring aid to those who suffer at the hands of Muslims.
Knowing I was a…
…involved one of the speakers and goes back more than a decade:
I met Nigerian Anglican Bishop Jwan Zhumbes in seminary. We were immediately drawn to one another by a desire to confront Islam and bring aid to those who suffer at the hands of Muslims.
Knowing I was a…
3/
…writer, he invited me to visit his diocese in Nigeria’s Plateau State to see the sheer scale of the terror for myself. Much to his surprise, I accepted and went.
In those days you had to fly into Lagos or Abuja and take the extremely dangerous open roads to the north….
…writer, he invited me to visit his diocese in Nigeria’s Plateau State to see the sheer scale of the terror for myself. Much to his surprise, I accepted and went.
In those days you had to fly into Lagos or Abuja and take the extremely dangerous open roads to the north….
Who wants us to file the criminal complaint drafted against Phil Weiser for laundering money into his campaign?
$995,457 in Smurfed contributions to ONE Colorado campaign committee. New data run.
1,620 fake or stolen donor identities documented.
The committee: Phil Weiser for Colorado.
The candidate: PHIL WEISER - sitting Colorado Attorney General, now running for Governor 2026.
During the 2025–2026 Colorado state election cycle (January 2, 2025 to April 29, 2026). This is tweet 1 of 6.
See tweets five more tweets in this thread:
Colorado State Police @CSP_News where are you? Its all state or federal govt. data. How about you
@CBSNews? Or @FoxNews? Or @KDVR? what about you @DenverChannel or @Colorado_Based
- how come you didn't find all this? @OfficialCOGOP
@kimmonsonshow @AwakenedOutlaw
@EmeraldRobinson @amuse @AsheinAmerica
@ShawnSmith1776 @gatewaypundit @DougCOGOP
@FBI @FBIDirectorKash @HarmeetKDhillon
@SecScottBessent @DAGToddBlanche
$995,457 in Smurfed contributions to ONE Colorado campaign committee. New data run.
1,620 fake or stolen donor identities documented.
The committee: Phil Weiser for Colorado.
The candidate: PHIL WEISER - sitting Colorado Attorney General, now running for Governor 2026.
During the 2025–2026 Colorado state election cycle (January 2, 2025 to April 29, 2026). This is tweet 1 of 6.
See tweets five more tweets in this thread:
Colorado State Police @CSP_News where are you? Its all state or federal govt. data. How about you
@CBSNews? Or @FoxNews? Or @KDVR? what about you @DenverChannel or @Colorado_Based
- how come you didn't find all this? @OfficialCOGOP
@kimmonsonshow @AwakenedOutlaw
@EmeraldRobinson @amuse @AsheinAmerica
@ShawnSmith1776 @gatewaypundit @DougCOGOP
@FBI @FBIDirectorKash @HarmeetKDhillon
@SecScottBessent @DAGToddBlanche
21.2% of corrupt Weiser donor addresses FAILED USPS validation. Legitimate baseline: 1–3%.
• 5,096 USPS-invalid address ($150,039)
• 161 USPS-Vacant, person left ($41,906)
• 2,708 donors who MOVED but the committee kept reporting the old address
• 344 "phantom" identities that failed in both 2025 and 2026
This is tweet 2 of 6:
• 5,096 USPS-invalid address ($150,039)
• 161 USPS-Vacant, person left ($41,906)
• 2,708 donors who MOVED but the committee kept reporting the old address
• 344 "phantom" identities that failed in both 2025 and 2026
This is tweet 2 of 6:
Top named respondents (composite score 20/20):
• RONALD DAVIS - PO Box 4525, Edwards CO. USPS-Vacant.
• MARGARET KNIGHT - PO Box 20154, Colorado City. USPS-Vacant.
• THOMAS RUSSELL - Westminster CO. Tied to $6,695,279 in lifetime federal contributions at one namekey. Tweet 3 of 6.
Weiser is using strawmen for fraudulent contributions!
Why are you taking contributions from the exact same name, from 5 different addresses in Colorado @pweiser @PhilForColorado ??
• RONALD DAVIS - PO Box 4525, Edwards CO. USPS-Vacant.
• MARGARET KNIGHT - PO Box 20154, Colorado City. USPS-Vacant.
• THOMAS RUSSELL - Westminster CO. Tied to $6,695,279 in lifetime federal contributions at one namekey. Tweet 3 of 6.
Weiser is using strawmen for fraudulent contributions!
Why are you taking contributions from the exact same name, from 5 different addresses in Colorado @pweiser @PhilForColorado ??
Just hit 1k LP on NA @TFT. Here are 4 comps you can learn to climb on this set -- don't need to learn anything else if you don't want to. First 3 comps can be played on all encounters/gods.
1. Corki/Riven
2. Asol AP Flex
3. Yi
4. Fast9
Notes below:
1. Corki/Riven
2. Asol AP Flex
3. Yi
4. Fast9
Notes below:
1. Corki needs DB. After that you just need shred + antiheal.
2. AP Flex can run a lot of different front line, but this is the simplest way to transition. Blitz always in on 8 (over Rhaast, who comes back on 9). Sona always over Liss. Tank items on Illaoi if Nunu1.
2. AP Flex can run a lot of different front line, but this is the simplest way to transition. Blitz always in on 8 (over Rhaast, who comes back on 9). Sona always over Liss. Tank items on Illaoi if Nunu1.
3. Yi best with Malware or Targetlock optics. Biomatter playable.
4. Fast9 only force from win streak, econ augment, or econ galaxy. You lose anyway without items, so can't overtake econ. Can drop Graves for Morg if you are too low to reliably get his upgrades in time.
4. Fast9 only force from win streak, econ augment, or econ galaxy. You lose anyway without items, so can't overtake econ. Can drop Graves for Morg if you are too low to reliably get his upgrades in time.
Are you a fan of ‘Manchesterism’?
Aesthetically it is Pink Pantheress Britain with Werking Class… in the North Characteristics
Times change…
🚨This double homicide is a brutal reminder of what the gender cult does when it succeeds in isolating kids from their families and turning them against the people who love them most…
Here’s my account of how “trusted adults” (public school staff + activists) secretly recruited my little girl into the gender cult… while viciously vilifying her parents behind our backs.
It’s devastating to learn your child was secretly harmed at school.
It’s a whole new nightmare to discover they were attacking you — the parent — behind closed doors, painting you as the enemy for trying to protect your kid.
This is their playbook.
🧵 1/
Here’s my account of how “trusted adults” (public school staff + activists) secretly recruited my little girl into the gender cult… while viciously vilifying her parents behind our backs.
It’s devastating to learn your child was secretly harmed at school.
It’s a whole new nightmare to discover they were attacking you — the parent — behind closed doors, painting you as the enemy for trying to protect your kid.
This is their playbook.
🧵 1/
2/ After discovering the secret gender club and transition push, our school’s response turned into a nightmare.
Here’s the activist coordinator Kimberly Chambers directing staff on how to “handle” me — the dangerous parent who found out:
🔴 “Tread lightly because this parent has HUGE potential to coming in to understanding or rejecting their child.”
🔴 “Any conversation with this parent should have the impression in our minds as ‘evidence’ — verbiage is everything.”
They treated me like a threat to neutralize. Not a loving parent — a barrier.
This revealed it wasn’t one rogue teacher.
It was a coordinated system against families.
The gender cult doesn’t just affirm kids. ➡️ It plots against parents.
3/🧵
Here’s the activist coordinator Kimberly Chambers directing staff on how to “handle” me — the dangerous parent who found out:
🔴 “Tread lightly because this parent has HUGE potential to coming in to understanding or rejecting their child.”
🔴 “Any conversation with this parent should have the impression in our minds as ‘evidence’ — verbiage is everything.”
They treated me like a threat to neutralize. Not a loving parent — a barrier.
This revealed it wasn’t one rogue teacher.
It was a coordinated system against families.
The gender cult doesn’t just affirm kids. ➡️ It plots against parents.
3/🧵
3/ Then this follow-up from activist coordinator Kimberly Chambers:
🔴 “Kristen Draper [school board] has been briefed… and has fielded all of the other middle schools as they began GSA’s and pushed through these barriers.”
🔴 “How this is handled will set a precedence for other parents as they hear about it.”
🔴 The art teacher calls my daughter “they.”
They weren’t supporting a child.
They were coordinating with the school board to treat parents as barriers to defeat — and using my case to set the playbook for every other family.
This is institutional warfare on parents.
4/🧵
🔴 “Kristen Draper [school board] has been briefed… and has fielded all of the other middle schools as they began GSA’s and pushed through these barriers.”
🔴 “How this is handled will set a precedence for other parents as they hear about it.”
🔴 The art teacher calls my daughter “they.”
They weren’t supporting a child.
They were coordinating with the school board to treat parents as barriers to defeat — and using my case to set the playbook for every other family.
This is institutional warfare on parents.
4/🧵
People fail to understand this...
You really do not get a choice in how trauma conditions your nervous system, especially in infancy or early development. Trauma becomes interwoven with formational identity, attachment, threat perception, and survival adaptation. It becomes instinctive self-preservation.
Being abused is not a choice, and no one truly knows how they would respond under those conditions.
So when people reduce trauma responses to simplistic statements about “choice” while someone is functioning in survival mode with hypervigilance, dissociation, conditioned fear responses, or maladaptive coping mechanisms, they are fundamentally misunderstanding trauma psychology.
A key mechanism here is neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to change and reorganize itself based on experience. A simple way to understand it is this: your brain is not a fixed machine, it is more like a system of pathways that gets reshaped by what you repeatedly think, feel, and experience. The more something happens, the easier it becomes for the brain to do it again.
In childhood, especially, the brain is extremely “plastic,” meaning it changes quickly and efficiently in response to the environment. This is how we learn language, emotional regulation, social behavior, and safety cues. The brain learns patterns of danger just as efficiently as it learns patterns of safety.
When someone grows up in a safe environment, their brain strengthens pathways related to trust, calm response, and flexible problem-solving. When someone grows up in chronic threat, neglect, or abuse, the brain strengthens pathways related to scanning for danger, anticipating harm, reacting quickly, shutting down emotions, or dissociating. These are not random or chosen behaviors; they are the result of the brain repeatedly reinforcing whatever responses increase survival in that environment.
This is what neuroplasticity does: it reinforces what is used most. It does not judge whether the pattern is “healthy” or “unhealthy,” it only adapts to what is necessary for survival at the time.
So when trauma is prolonged or begins early in life, the brain does not just “remember” it as a story. It builds the nervous system around it. That is why certain emotional reactions, body responses, or coping strategies can feel automatic—they are deeply trained neural pathways.
Importantly, neuroplasticity does not stop in adulthood. It continues throughout life, which is why change and recovery are possible. But it also means early adaptations do not simply disappear on command; they have to be slowly rewired through new experiences that repeatedly signal safety over time.
In other words, the same mechanism that allows humans to learn and grow is also what encodes survival adaptations under trauma.
In other words, you are trivializing an extraordinarily complex psychological issue you are not remotely equipped to speak on with certainty. Questions would serve you better than slogans.
You also cannot collapse an argument into slogans that fit your belief; it is disingenuous and misses the nuance. It becomes harmful because it strips away context that is essential to understanding behavior in a psychologically informed way. When empathy is selectively applied only after judgment is delivered, it loses coherence. Saying you are sorry for what someone went through and then immediately dismissing the implications of that experience only communicates that the story matters less than being right in the moment. It is meant to close the conversation because you feel you are justified, and being right becomes more important than understanding the person in front of you.
And let me make this explicitly clear: explaining trauma is not the same thing as excusing behavior.
Understanding causation, conditioning, and trauma adaptation is not absolution. It is simply psychological reality, it is well-supported within trauma research, developmental psychology, and neurobiology.
You really do not get a choice in how trauma conditions your nervous system, especially in infancy or early development. Trauma becomes interwoven with formational identity, attachment, threat perception, and survival adaptation. It becomes instinctive self-preservation.
Being abused is not a choice, and no one truly knows how they would respond under those conditions.
So when people reduce trauma responses to simplistic statements about “choice” while someone is functioning in survival mode with hypervigilance, dissociation, conditioned fear responses, or maladaptive coping mechanisms, they are fundamentally misunderstanding trauma psychology.
A key mechanism here is neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to change and reorganize itself based on experience. A simple way to understand it is this: your brain is not a fixed machine, it is more like a system of pathways that gets reshaped by what you repeatedly think, feel, and experience. The more something happens, the easier it becomes for the brain to do it again.
In childhood, especially, the brain is extremely “plastic,” meaning it changes quickly and efficiently in response to the environment. This is how we learn language, emotional regulation, social behavior, and safety cues. The brain learns patterns of danger just as efficiently as it learns patterns of safety.
When someone grows up in a safe environment, their brain strengthens pathways related to trust, calm response, and flexible problem-solving. When someone grows up in chronic threat, neglect, or abuse, the brain strengthens pathways related to scanning for danger, anticipating harm, reacting quickly, shutting down emotions, or dissociating. These are not random or chosen behaviors; they are the result of the brain repeatedly reinforcing whatever responses increase survival in that environment.
This is what neuroplasticity does: it reinforces what is used most. It does not judge whether the pattern is “healthy” or “unhealthy,” it only adapts to what is necessary for survival at the time.
So when trauma is prolonged or begins early in life, the brain does not just “remember” it as a story. It builds the nervous system around it. That is why certain emotional reactions, body responses, or coping strategies can feel automatic—they are deeply trained neural pathways.
Importantly, neuroplasticity does not stop in adulthood. It continues throughout life, which is why change and recovery are possible. But it also means early adaptations do not simply disappear on command; they have to be slowly rewired through new experiences that repeatedly signal safety over time.
In other words, the same mechanism that allows humans to learn and grow is also what encodes survival adaptations under trauma.
In other words, you are trivializing an extraordinarily complex psychological issue you are not remotely equipped to speak on with certainty. Questions would serve you better than slogans.
You also cannot collapse an argument into slogans that fit your belief; it is disingenuous and misses the nuance. It becomes harmful because it strips away context that is essential to understanding behavior in a psychologically informed way. When empathy is selectively applied only after judgment is delivered, it loses coherence. Saying you are sorry for what someone went through and then immediately dismissing the implications of that experience only communicates that the story matters less than being right in the moment. It is meant to close the conversation because you feel you are justified, and being right becomes more important than understanding the person in front of you.
And let me make this explicitly clear: explaining trauma is not the same thing as excusing behavior.
Understanding causation, conditioning, and trauma adaptation is not absolution. It is simply psychological reality, it is well-supported within trauma research, developmental psychology, and neurobiology.
We absolutely need better professional rigor in mental health care.
We don't have enough good ones such as @KnownHeretic, @TruthAgape, and others, plus including organizations like @genspect, @segm_ebm, and @againstgrmrs.
We don't have enough good ones such as @KnownHeretic, @TruthAgape, and others, plus including organizations like @genspect, @segm_ebm, and @againstgrmrs.
I wouldn't allow Chud's PAST videos into evidence. They have to be ruled to be more probative than prejudicial AND might only be introduced for the limited purpose of establishing his M.O. They may not be used to determine whether he acted that way in this instance.⬇️
That's why they're more prejudicial than probative in this case. Prosecutors are going to submit into evidence the livestreamed video of what actually happened. Not what might've happened if he followed his M.O. That's unless the livestream was consistent with his M.O.⬇️
We haven't seen the livestreamed video of what actually happened. He's presumed innocent, so every factual element of murder charge will have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in court. Prosecutors will also have to prove the provocation hadn't ended, and no lethal threat.⬇️
This was way harder than I expected, but I got Hermes Agent running natively on an iPhone (completely offline)
Link below. You can use my Swift package to embed Hermes Agent in your app with a couple lines of code!
Link below. You can use my Swift package to embed Hermes Agent in your app with a couple lines of code!
This is the real Hermes Agent, totally unmodified. It *should* be App Store safe but who knowsgithub.com/achimala/Swift…
The ugly technical details:
The first challenge is that Hermes Agent is written in Python. iOS, famously, is not. To circumvent this, we simply embed the entire Python interpreter along with the agent codebase, which is fortunately pretty easy these days. We can precompile the Hermes Agent codebase and its core dependencies to bytecode and bundle and interpret it inside the host app.
That's enough to get Hermes to wake up and say hello, but so far all we've got is an overengineered LLM wrapper. To use its features and memory, we need to give it a shell and a persistent filesystem. iOS sure as hell won't let you run shell commands, but iSH (github.com/ish-app/ish) managed to get a Linux shell on iOS by emulating x86 + reimplementing the syscalls in userspace, effectively doing everything inside the app to stay within Apple policies.
This would work, but is pretty slow and unwieldy since it's emulating x86 on ARM. Fortunately, Codex found an arm64 fork (github.com/OpenMinis/ish-…). We embed this too and redirect Hermes' shell calls to it, then remap filesystem commands to Apple's sandbox-friendly app container APIs. Now Hermes has persistent memory!
At this point we can use any external LLM provider with Hermes and get basic functionality. But why stop there? With MLX we can fit ~2B parameter models on device. Qwen-3.5 at 4bit quantization is pretty dumb, but just smart enough to be barely passable as a POC Hermes model that runs entirely offline. I also threw in the on-device Apple Intelligence model, which is terrible (it technically works, but the 4K token context window makes it unusable, and it's generally quite dumb)
The first challenge is that Hermes Agent is written in Python. iOS, famously, is not. To circumvent this, we simply embed the entire Python interpreter along with the agent codebase, which is fortunately pretty easy these days. We can precompile the Hermes Agent codebase and its core dependencies to bytecode and bundle and interpret it inside the host app.
That's enough to get Hermes to wake up and say hello, but so far all we've got is an overengineered LLM wrapper. To use its features and memory, we need to give it a shell and a persistent filesystem. iOS sure as hell won't let you run shell commands, but iSH (github.com/ish-app/ish) managed to get a Linux shell on iOS by emulating x86 + reimplementing the syscalls in userspace, effectively doing everything inside the app to stay within Apple policies.
This would work, but is pretty slow and unwieldy since it's emulating x86 on ARM. Fortunately, Codex found an arm64 fork (github.com/OpenMinis/ish-…). We embed this too and redirect Hermes' shell calls to it, then remap filesystem commands to Apple's sandbox-friendly app container APIs. Now Hermes has persistent memory!
At this point we can use any external LLM provider with Hermes and get basic functionality. But why stop there? With MLX we can fit ~2B parameter models on device. Qwen-3.5 at 4bit quantization is pretty dumb, but just smart enough to be barely passable as a POC Hermes model that runs entirely offline. I also threw in the on-device Apple Intelligence model, which is terrible (it technically works, but the 4K token context window makes it unusable, and it's generally quite dumb)
Another Caesar is coming, and Western civilization is at a turning point, says German historian Oswald Spengler.
He claimed we live in “the most trying times known to history of a great culture."
And there's no offramp.
Here's what Spengler predicted:
He claimed we live in “the most trying times known to history of a great culture."
And there's no offramp.
Here's what Spengler predicted:
Oswald Spengler is best known for his two-volume work “Decline of the West”, first published in 1923.
A German schoolmaster turned reclusive scholar, Spengler presented a unique vision of history that predicted the rise and fall of civilizations…
A German schoolmaster turned reclusive scholar, Spengler presented a unique vision of history that predicted the rise and fall of civilizations…
His work became an instant success upon publication, selling 100,000 copies by 1926 as its philosophy — depicting western culture as a tired civilization amidst decline — resonated with German intellectuals looking to make sense of their predicament after WWI.
