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Scott Aaronson four days ago on the possibility that AI models will soon break widely used cryptographic systems, and on what responsible disclosure looks like when the parties who need to be notified are effectively the entire world.
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Again, a candidate who lost a national election is calling for an end to the constitutional mechanisms by which she lost, and there's not a peep out of our fascist happy label media about it.
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🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in Illinois after a 1-year-old baby girl with MULTIPLE HEALED BROKEN BONES was found DE*D in a PLASTIC BAG in the attic of a BURNING house...
...and the only person convicted, her own MOTHER, walked out of court with only 2 YEARS OF PROBATION!
Yes, you read that right.
Oh... and her mother hid her de*th for SIX YEARS, and she won’t spend a single day of her sentence behind bars.
The little girl's name was Ana Marie Townsend, she was 1 year old.
Her grandfather called her vibrant, smart, and curious, even at 12 months.
On July 3rd, 2017, firefighters were called to an abandoned house on Hamlin Avenue in Markham, Illinois.
Someone had set it on FIRE.
In the attic, they found a baby girl stuffed in a plastic bag.
She was ALREADY DE*D before the fire was set, the medical examiner ruled it a H*MICIDE.
And the autopsy showed this was NOT the first time she’d been hurt, she had MULTIPLE healed fractures.
IT GETS WORSE.
When the grandparents called asking about their granddaughter, prosecutors say the parents played FAKE BABY CRIES from the internet over the phone.
To make them think she was still alive... then both parents VANISHED.
For TWO YEARS, Ana Marie didn’t even have a name.
She was just “Baby Jane Doe.”
Melody wasn’t found until 2023... hiding in CALIFORNIA.
She was convicted of concealing a hmicidal deth and child endangerment.
The father? He has NEVER been caught.
And Melody wouldn’t tell police where he was.
Her sentence?
Just 2 years of probation and some counseling.
That’s it.
ZERO days in prison.
WE. DO. NOT. HAVE. TO. LIVE. LIKE. THIS.
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The grandson of the man who invented Reese's Peanut Butter Cups used to eat Reese's every day. This year he threw a bag of them in the trash and said it wasn't edible.
He wrote Hershey a letter about it, and Hershey basically told him to read the package.
Turns out the package was telling him all along.
The bag was the new Reese's Mini Hearts, and the label says "chocolate candy and peanut butter crème." Brad Reese, whose grandfather invented the cup in 1928, says several Reese's products made the same swap, milk chocolate out and compound coating in. Hershey says the classic cup hasn't changed.
Those exact words matter because the FDA owns them. To print "milk chocolate" you need at least 10% chocolate liquor, 12% milk solids and 3.39% milkfat, and "peanut butter" has to be at least 90% peanuts. Fall short and you lose the word, so the wrapper says "candy" or "crème" instead.
Grab a bag of Reese's Pieces and you'll see it. The front says "peanut butter candy." Flip it over and sugar is the first ingredient.
Compound coating is the same trick as the Reese's Pieces center, by the way. Press the expensive fat out (cocoa butter in one case, peanut oil in the other) and put something cheaper like palm kernel oil back in. Reese's Pieces has run that play for decades. A lot more of the aisle followed after cocoa hit an all-time high in late 2024. Mr. Goodbar used to say "milk chocolate with peanuts" and now says "chocolate candy with peanuts." Almond Joy and Rolo got the same edit, with no announcement. And Hershey's CFO told investors the formula changes had "no consumer impact whatsoever."
Cocoa fell 78% off that peak by March. If this was only about cocoa prices, "milk chocolate" should start showing back up on wrappers. Worth a look at the bowl before trick-or-treaters show up Saturday.
On a candy wrapper, "candy" is the word you get after the FDA takes the real one away.
Reese's Pieces have no chocolate in them. The peanuts had their oil pressed out and a cheaper fat put back in.
Sugar is first, then partially defatted peanuts, then hydrogenated palm kernel and soybean oil, then corn syrup solids. Everything after that is 2% or less, and it's the dyes, the glaze, some vanillin and a little milk. There's no cocoa anywhere.
Partially defatted just means the peanuts went through a press. The peanut oil comes out one side and gets sold as peanut oil. What's left is a dry peanut flour, and that's what the center is made from, because flour holds a shape in a panning drum and doesn't go rancid. Then they put fat back in, and the fat they picked is hydrogenated palm kernel oil, which is solid at room temperature and costs less than peanut oil. You can see the swap on the panel. 38 pieces have 6 g of fat and all 6 are saturated. Peanut oil is mostly unsaturated, so that number isn't the peanut.
The shell is sugar with 4 dyes and a coat of shellac.
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The more someone calls for wealth redistribution, the less they are capable of wealth creation.
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What just happened in Poland is something every Western citizen should look at squarely. Because it's the trailer for what's coming to the rest of us.
Friday night in Warsaw, the president of the Constitutional Tribunal and his vice-president were "suspended" for a month. The announcement appeared on the Tribunal's own website, which the Tribunal's leadership says was unlawfully taken over. Right after, riot police deployed around the country's highest court and entered the building. The President of the Republic, Karol Nawrocki, was mid-flight to Senegal. He turned the plane around.
Read that again, slowly. In a European Union member state, in 2026, police walk into the constitutional court and the head of state has to rush home.
This is not an accident. It's the endpoint of a method. December 2023: barely in office, the Tusk government cuts the signal of the public news channel and puts public television into liquidation. Then it stops publishing the Constitutional Tribunal's rulings in the official gazette. When the Tribunal suspends one of its reforms, a ministry calmly replies that the court has "no legal basis" to operate. The justice minister moves to strip the court president's immunity. And when none of that is enough, they send in the uniforms.
The official story is "we are restoring the rule of law." It's always the official story. Nobody has ever dismantled a democracy while announcing they were dismantling a democracy.
Now zoom out. Why now?
Because the globalist project is losing its grip. They lost the media war: people get their information elsewhere, compare, verify, and no longer trust the official line. They lost the trust of the people. And the countries that are bouncing back, the ones finding their energy, their birth rates, their pride again, are precisely the ones that understood that the Brussels machine, as it runs today, is not the cure but the disease. Poles elected Nawrocki against the system's candidate. The message was clear.
When a system loses trust, it has two options: reform or harden. They chose. All-in.
Think of an organ transplant. The body rejects the organ. The surgeon doesn't conclude the organ is incompatible. He raises the immunosuppressants. Then raises them again. Until the body can no longer defend itself at all. That's the mechanism now in motion: platform regulation in the name of fighting "disinformation," Chat Control that keeps coming back to the table, the digital euro, a presidential election annulled in Romania in 2024, and now police inside a constitutional court.
And this is where history should chill us. No totalitarian regime of the 20th century began with people who thought they were evil. They all began with elites convinced they were right against their own people, and ready to suspend the rules "temporarily" to save the people from themselves. We know how that ended. Millions dead. I'm not saying it's tomorrow. I'm saying it's the slope, and you don't climb back up a slope once you've started sliding.
And don't think this stops at the Vistula. The tools are European, which means they're already in France, in Germany, everywhere. What's being tested in Warsaw is the answer to one simple question: how far can you go against an institution that gets in your way before anyone pushes back? If the answer is "very far," France in 2027 has been warned. And every Western democracy should be taking notes.
So they have to be stopped now. Not with violence. With what still works as long as we use it: the vote, free speech, refusing to self-censor, and demanding that our judges, our media, and our elections stay independent from ALL powers, including the ones claiming to protect us. This is the moment it's decided. Once the hard phase begins, it's already too late.
Watch Poland. And open your eyes.
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Megan Rapinoe says men can play women's sports because sports aren't fair in the first place
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“I’m a socialist because I believe in the redistribution of wealth.”
Do you redistribute your own wealth?
“No”
Then you’re not a socialist. You’re a hypocrite and a virtue signaller.
“I believe the government should do the redistribution, not me.”
Then you’re an authoritarian and a collaborator. So you are a socialist after all!
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Elon Musk was right about almost everything.
And the more I look at Europe in 2026, the more I think we should actively listen to him, instead of treating him like a billionaire who tweets too much.
Behind the rockets, the cars and the memes, there's a very simple conviction he's been repeating for years: civilization is not a given. It's a fragile inheritance. And an inheritance can be lost in a single generation.
What is Western civilization? It's the idea that the individual matters. That truth is found through reason and experiment, not by decree. That power must be limited, challenged, reversible. That you have the right to build, to start something, to say no. It's the scientific method, the rule of law, democracy, the industrial revolution. It's what lifted billions of people out of poverty, far beyond the West.
Elon understood something a lot of smart people refuse to see: if this civilization collapses, it's not just "the West" that loses. Humanity loses its greatest engine of progress. No Mars, no abundance, no ambitious future. Just the management of decline.
And decline has a face. It's the temptation to centralize everything. To plan everything from the top. To replace responsibility with regulation, innovation with the precautionary principle, debate with moderation, the citizen with the user.
In Europe, that temptation has a name: the European Union.
The EU is a totalitarian project. Not because it has tanks, but because it wants control over everything while answering to no one. A Commission nobody voted for writes the rules for 450 million people. France voted no in 2005, and got the same text anyway under another name. The DSA polices what you're allowed to say online. Chat Control wants to scan your private messages. The AI Act strangles builders before they've written a line of code.
It sells itself as peace and prosperity. It delivers stagnation, surveillance and contempt for voters. An empire of lies.
We've already seen where the dream of total control leads. The 20th century is full of it. It always starts with good intentions, and it always ends in scarcity and silence.
Now, the part that's going to upset people.
I'm done with all the smart guys telling me "Europe is finished, I'm moving to Dubai" or "I'm relocating to Asia."
I get the impulse. But if you think you'll be able to hide, you're fooling yourself.
Ideas don't stop at borders. The rules strangling Europe today will be exported tomorrow. If the center collapses, there's no comfortable periphery. No island. No bunker far enough away.
But don't get me wrong. Refusing to run doesn't mean feeding the machine. You don't feed glucose to a cancer. Don't pour your talent, your taxes and your companies into a system built to cage them. Build where freedom still lets you build. But don't look away. Fight with everything you have for this empire of lies to fall.
You don't exit History with a one-way ticket.
We are living through History with a capital H again. Those who thought it ended in 1991 were wrong. It's back, and it asks every generation the same question: will you defend what was handed down to you, or watch it disappear while commenting on it?
And let's be honest: what holds most people back isn't a lack of ideas. It's fear.
Stop being afraid for your image. Your polished personal brand, your frictionless LinkedIn posts, your careful silence in meetings: none of it will protect you when things tip over. It just makes you replaceable.
Stop being afraid of shocking your parents. They grew up in a world where everything seemed guaranteed. You're growing up in a world where nothing is. You owe them respect, not your silence.
Stop being afraid of being ostracized. A few dinners where people look at you sideways, a few unfollows, a few friends who keep their distance: that's the price. It has always been there. Everyone who ever moved anything forward paid it before you.
History doesn't remember the people who were right in private. It remembers the ones who had the courage to say it and act on it.
Social comfort is the most effective cage ever invented. Nobody needs to silence you if you do it yourself.
Fighting doesn't mean playing the hero on Twitter. It means fighting at your own scale.
Build where you're free to build. Start a family and pass something on. Learn history and tell it. Defend free speech even when it bothers you. Vote against the machine, back the people who want to dismantle it, run for office yourself. Refuse mediocrity in your own work. Create more than you consume.
Every founder who refuses to feed the machine is an act of resistance. Every voice that says no out loud is an act of resistance. Every parent who passes on a love of truth, beauty and effort is an act of resistance.
Elon was right. The future doesn't arrive on its own. It's earned.
If you want a future, you'll have to fight for it.
Don't run. Don't feed it. Fight.
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My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will:
1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.
2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority.
3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority.
This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.
All that is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. That is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one.
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Major American television networks barely gave this story thirty seconds of airtime, because what happened at a graduation party in Charleston, West Virginia, did not fit their script.
On the evening of May 25, 2022, around forty neighbors, parents, and young children gathered outside an apartment complex in Charleston to celebrate a high school graduation and birthday party.
When thirty-seven-year-old Dennis Butler, a violent criminal with four prior felony convictions, sped his car down the street right past the playing children, parents politely asked him to slow down.
Thirty minutes later, Butler came back for revenge. He parked his car, pulled out a stolen AR-15-style rifle, and opened fire directly into the crowd of forty mothers and kids.
He never got to reload. Standing among the families was a law-abiding American woman with zero police or military background, carrying a legally concealed nine-millimeter pistol in her waistband.
While everyone else dove for the grass, she stood her ground, drew her handgun, and fired across the yard, fatally striking the gunman in seconds.
Not a single child or guest at that party was scratched. The next morning, Charleston Chief of Detectives Tony Hazelett told reporters that instead of a mass casualty tragedy, one brave woman saved dozens of American lives.
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In 1987, Patrick Stewart refused to unpack his suitcase for six straight weeks.
My throat still tightens every time I read why.
Every Hollywood insider told the 47-year-old British stage actor that Star Trek: The Next Generation would be a disaster. Even his closest friend, Ian McKellen, begged him not to throw away his Shakespearean career on a television gamble.
Stewart kept his bags packed by the door, waiting to be fired and sent home to London.
That "six-week failure" lasted 36 years.
Watching him late at night here in Japan, we saw something Hollywood never expected.
In Japan, we call this quiet, unbreakable spirit "Fudoshin," an immovable heart under fire.
Most action heroes scream and fire weapons to look strong.
Captain Picard never needed to raise his voice.
Born into deep poverty in Yorkshire, terrified of a violent home, he left school at age 15 and lost all his hair by 19, convinced his life as an actor was over before it began.
Yet one English teacher, Cecil Dormand, handed that frightened 12-year-old boy a copy of Shakespeare, said "Read it out loud," and secretly paid for his first drama course.
Never forget what happened decades later.
On the morning Queen Elizabeth II knighted him as Sir Patrick Stewart, he invited that same retired schoolteacher to sit beside him at his knighthood luncheon.
No suitcase left unpacked.
No rage on the bridge.
Just a cup of Earl Grey tea, a tug of his uniform, and three quiet words that commanded the galaxy:
"Make it so."
He passed away at 86 surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, and laughter.
And this December, in Avengers: Doomsday, Professor X will grace the screen one final time.
A boy who thought he wouldn't last six weeks in Hollywood gave the world an eternity of nobility.
From Japan, with tears and our deepest salute:
Thank you, Captain. Engage. ✨🖖🇯🇵
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By today's standards, virtually everyone throughout pre-capitalist history lived in poverty. Even kings lacked comforts, conveniences, and medical care that ordinary people take for granted today.
A person living under the material conditions of a medieval king would today be considered to be living in inhumane conditions.
Capitalism helped transform a world where poverty was the natural condition of mankind into one where even the poor enjoy luxuries that royalty couldn't have imagined.
Socialists look at this unprecedented achievement in human flourishing, focus on the fact that some people have more than others, and declare the system an injustice.
Imagine being so obsessed with inequality that you lose sight of the greatest improvement in living standards in human history.
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Bill Maher opens the floodgates when he asks, “Why?” James Talarico is a “very weird dude.”
Ted Cruz spends the next 2 full minutes going down the list.
Maher gives Talarico the benefit of the doubt until the “I really love trans children” quote drops.
Then he folds.
CRUZ: “I’m not going to convince you to love Ken Paxton. But you got to admit, Talarico, I think, is a very weird dude.”
MAHER: “Why?”
CRUZ: “Because he is like the ultimate woke social justice warrior. This is a guy who stands in front of a church... he says God is non-binary. He says there’s six genders. He stands in front of a church and says he weeps for his whiteness and weeps for his masculinity.”
MAHER: “That’s just weird. That is weird. I couldn’t agree with you more.”
KID ROCK: “Maybe he’s gay.”
MAHER: “What?”
KID ROCK: “Maybe he’s just gay.”
MAHER: “But why are we inferring — because he thinks Jesus is non-binary, which I don’t think he means as —”
[Kid Rock’s face isn’t buying a word of Maher’s explanation]
KID ROCK: “I know what he meant!”
MAHER: “What do you think he meant?”
KID ROCK: “Yeah, he’s trying to go into this whole ‘what’s a woman.’ Like, are we really talking about this 250 years later?”
MAHER: “No, I just think — look, I don’t know that much about it, but I have heard those quotes. I think what he meant by the Jesus is non-binary thing is that, you know, there are a lot of people who believe in God. I mean, your whole album is about Jesus, but in a more sort of ethereal way, more spiritual way. You know, he’s not the man in the sky with the beard, that kind of thing.”
CRUZ: “So Bill, all of these, he’s on video. He was asked, ‘Who do you really love?’ And his answer is, ‘Trans children.’ Well, I don’t know anyone else who would answer that question that way.”
MAHER: “Is that the full answer?”
CRUZ: “Yes, I promise you. You can pull up the video. He was asked, ‘Who do you really love?’ And he pauses and thinks and says, ‘I really love trans children.’ ... He also says on video that his objective is to, quote, ‘dismantle capitalism.’”
MAHER: “Look, I am not for any of that sh*t.”
CONTEXT: Talarico really did say it. On a 2023 podcast, he was asked what he loves other than family and friends, and his answer was the “trans children” who had rallied at the Texas Capitol the day before.