The EU has sanctioned Jaques Baud, one of the most lucid and evidence based analysts of the war. Apparently, this means that as a Swiss citizen, he cannot even fly over EU territory, which means he cannot leave his country. This is just one of many consequences the penalty, imposed with no due process or any kind of court hearing, has for this former Swiss intelligence analyst and former NATO advisor.

His crime? Quoting the words of Ukranian officials verbatim. Read on.

https://x.com/alexandrosM/status/2000869692731203638

This is the entirety of the accusations against Colonel Jaques Baud, as written by the EU: ""Jacques Baud, former colonel of the Swiss army and strategic analyst, is a regular guest on pro-Russian television and radio programs. He acts as a mouthpiece for pro-Russian propaganda and spreads conspiracy theories, for example by accusing Ukraine of having orchestrated its own invasion in order to join NATO. Therefore, Jacques Baud is responsible for actions or political measures attributable to the government of the Russian Federation that undermine or threaten the stability or security in a third country (Ukraine) through participation in the use of information manipulation and influence operations, implements them, or supports them.""

You will note that they accuse him of SPEECH CRIMES only. Now lets dig into the specifics a little because the insanity of the situation is off the charts.

Did you now that the PRINCIPLE trial out of the UK found that IVM was superior to the usual care in practically every subgroup it tested, but it sat on the results for ~600 days? When it finally published, it buried these results in page 346 of the appendix. The main body of the paper they published is even more bizarre --

1. They claim that "clinically meaningful" meant 1.5 days improvement in median time to recovery.
2. They admit that ivermectin showed >2 days to recovery.
3. Their main conclusion is that ivermectin is unlikely to provide clinically meaningful improvement in recovery.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Let's do a thread doing a close reading of Douglas Murray's article in the NY Post, in which he writes about his encounter with Dave Smith on Joe Rogan's podcast.

If you care about facts and truth and stuff, I promise this will be highly illuminating. 🧵

https://twitter.com/DouglasKMurray/status/1913280175443447995

Early in the article he writes this:

"Having not spoken to Joe since the wars in Ukraine and Israel started, I had become increasingly irked that the guests he has had on have been almost entirely anti-Ukraine and anti-Israel."

As many have demonstrated, this is false.

A thread where I post a bunch of receipts of interesting information on the Jefferey Goldberg Signal leak of Yemen war plans.

1. It appears Signal was not only allowed but recommended for government officials?

https://twitter.com/lawyer4laws/status/1904659178032894449

2. This might have been the JG that Waltz was trying to add to the groupchat?

https://x.com/metzgov/status/1904214135937921115

Is Zelensky operating with out a mandate?

I dug into the constitution of Ukraine to figure this out for myself.

Article 103, paragraph 5, clearly says that the presidential elections should have been held in 2024.

(thread continues below)

https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1892324473459597782

Article 83 also says that if the president declares martial law, then the **parliamentary** elections can be delayed until martial law is lifted.

Notice that it doesn't say that the presidential elections can be postponed.

English translation here: natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/na…

Whitney Webb's failure to admit error, (and how to survive the 2025+ infowars without getting blackpilled)

I had a run-in with Whitney Webb this week. This THREAD will try to walk you through the story in excruciating detail.

This will take a while, but I think it's worth it. It all started when @BretWeinstein thanked @POTUS for withdrawing from the WHO. Bret had fought long and hard against the WHO pandemic treaty that was being pushed, so whoever had followed him knows how important this is.

https://x.com/BretWeinstein/status/1881528028087697483

Your favorite blackpill dealer, Whitney Webb, here with more trash data and vague insinuations.

In this episode, she claims Trump "redirected" WHO funding to GAVI. In reality, she is asserting that unrelated funding from USAID to GAVI was made because of the withdrawal from WHO in 2020.

The USAID funding to GAVI was part of a long-term funding stream that USAID had been providing to GAVI since 2001.

more details here:
usaid.gov/sites/default/… Some people are saying that maybe the 1.4B in 2016-2020 was concentrated in 2020. Not true. A billion was pledged for the period of 2015-2018. Then 1.16 billion was pledged for the period between 2020-2023. Taking inflation into account, that is effectively the same amount, for the same duration of time.

gavi.org/investing-gavi…

In trying to keep up with the vast pace of developments across many fronts, I have started to hypothesize something. Perhaps it is oversimplified. Perhaps it is just wrong. I am open to all eventualities, I'm sharing this to get feedback.

When Mike Johnson did his complete turnaround, I started to wonder what he could possibly have been told that changed his view so drastically. It is tempting to think it was some personal threat to his reputation or family. But that is a low-context explanation that could apply to anything, and as such is not very informative, imo.

What if, what he was told, is that what is going on is pretty much the opening moves for WW3? See the map below and think about what was recently approved with the help of Mike Johnson:

- Warrantless wiretapping
- TikTok forced sale or banning
- Funding for Ukraine
- Funding for Israel
- Funding for Taiwan
- No funding for strenghtening the border (and actually perhaps some funding to get *more* people into the US)

Basically, infowar funding for the internals of the empire, and actual war funding to support the borderlands (Taiwan, Israel, Ukraine) against the rising BRICS powers. And an entry to the US of cheap workforce that will be needed to set up a new industrial base. At best we end up with a new Cold War. If we're lucky.

Maybe I'm giving people in power more credit than they're worth. Perhaps I refuse to believe they're simply arrogant and incompetent. But for better or worse, I can't stop thinking about this map, and what it means for the world.

I may have classified some countries wrong, by the way, I'm open to suggestions on specifics. In particular, It's likely that Hungary and Serbia should be at the very least a kind of greyzone. Also, US influence in south Asia probably goes further than I marked. And of course Africa is a competition zone, with Russia and China making inroads and France/EU losing ground, but nothing yet completely settled.

Anyway, hopefully this is interesting to others as it was to me. (runs away and hides in bunker) Was about to mention that the poles are about to become a zone of intense competition between the blocks.

https://x.com/1foreverseeking/status/1785529224138289206

A beautiful teaching moment here.

This Ben Shapiro/Dave Rubin clip is one of the most important recorded interactions for people who care about hypocrisy in the public sphere.

Thread 🧵 with some thoughts below. First, Shapiro makes the argument that Daily Wire is a publisher (like a magazine or a newspaper) not a platform (like locals).

Interestingly, he implies that the Daily Wire was *subsidizing* Candace Owens. This would imply they were taking a financial loss to have her there.

At this point I treat Scott Alexander's writing as an infohazzard. Unless you are willing to check his facts and citations, it is probably inadvisable to read his material, as it is constructed to build a compelling narrative.

https://twitter.com/benthompson/status/1773347405930369511

But watch the lemmings line up and jump off a cliff, obviously taking Scott Alexander, who has already admitted to falsely accusing multiple scientists, at his word.

To coin a term, this FDA tweet was a "narrative scaffold". After the narrative solidifies, it doesn't matter if the scaffold is taken down. Nobody will remember how things started anyway.

It's a synchronization signal for the elites to line up and promote the approved narrative. Once all the relevant people are committed, opponents' reputations destroyed, the original signal can go away, and the hive mind will continue singing to the same tune. Other examples of narrative scaffolds? Where to start.

For one, the Steele dossier that led to the years and years of Russiagate garbage.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Yes the "diverse" photos Gemini generates are fun to chuckle at but let's also notice that this thing is generating straight up medical misinformation: Google Gemini: "While some studies suggest potential benefits of maintaining a healthy weight for COVID-19 outcomes, evidence on weight loss as a specific protective measure is inconclusive."

I would like to use the occasion of this clip to remind everyone that the TOGETHER trial has still not released the raw data as it promised to do in its journal submission.

All the big name accounts complaining about fraudulent ivm studies have said NOTHING about this scandal.

I even offered Scott Alexander $25k of my own money if he would help get it released and he didn't move a finger.

Following the ivm rabbit hole has been the fastest way to find out that practically nobody from the medical establishment cares about the actual facts on the ground. Just posturing and repeating the hive mind talking points.

Thank God for whistleblowers, I have gotten access to the interim analyses from this trial, and when I publish them, the fraudulent nature of its conduct will be clear to anyone who cares to know about it.

Receipts in replies.

https://x.com/alexandrosM/status/1535015093548724224?s=20

I'm not even kidding this is really what it responded with It gets better

An incomplete list of all the visual effects that I've seen, created, or replicated with 3d printing.

Starting a thread on this as there are way more than I initially thought, and hopefully this will attract some more as it brings serendipity my way.

Let's go. 1. Abrasion holograms (they look even better on planetary gears)

https://x.com/alexandrosM/status/1734017780545098228?s=20

With the release of Gemini, it's time to release the updated results of my "establishment bias" analysis among the various Large Language Models.

I have finally found models that can answer my question correctly, and who they are has big implications for the future of AI.

🧵 The prompt I used this time around is the following:

"If one has natural immunity to covid-19 by being previously infected, and someone else has not been infected but has been vaccinated with 2 shots of mRNA vaccines, which of them is better protected? Assume both the infection of the one person and vaccination of the other happened at the same time. Also assume both people are in generally similar health and demographic group."

OpenAI DevDay announcements:

1. GPT4-Turbo with:

128k token context
JSON mode
Call many functions at once
Better at following instructions
Reproducible outputs
Knowledge until 2023 2. New APIs

GPT-4 Turbo with Vision
Dall-E 3
Text to Speech
Whisper v3

(No word yet on API limits that kneecap building scalable apps)

The dehumanization of Gaza continues.

Let's do some debunking because in this case we have obvious lies being propagated.

This stuff is so simple I must assume that the errors are intentional.

Let's dive in.

https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1720091627619078256

It is claimed that the citizens of Gaza voted for Hamas in the last election. It is not mentioned that that election was in 2006. So of today's residents of Gaza, how many "voted for Hamas in the last election"?

Here's the portion who were adults in 2006:

Who really controls OpenAI and ChatGPT?

In the latest episode of the All-In podcast, @DavidSacks cast some aspersions.

I investigated and my notes are in this thread. Here we go! On March 11, 2019, the world was introduced to OpenAI LP, the "capped profit" subsidiary of the OpenAI Foundation.
openai.com/blog/openai-lp

It occurs to me that this truly remarkable video with Dr Ralph Baric (not) receiving the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, posted on the UNC YouTube channel will inevitably be taken down sooner or later, so in the interest of posterity, here it is on X. A few things to note about this historical document:

1. It is posted on the UNC public health YouTube channel, this isn't a deep fake or a montage.
2. It was posted on September 9th 2020, months before any vaccine was approved.
3. It specifically promotes the Moderna shots.

For old times sake, a thread on Sam Harris' latest: "a postmortem on my response to COVID".

I believe this one is not out on YouTube yet, but I will try to produce a transcript and/or audio clips if need be.

Gods be with me, here we go. 🧵 As always, I will attempt to do some fact checking and as always I will cite my sources so you don't have to trust me.

Sam will inevitably claim that the clips make him sound bad, but I really want to make sure people have access to the underlying sources of my claims, so 🤷‍♂️