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I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ to try.

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1000% THIS 👇

Could have been rooted out decades ago, and certainly a decade ago, but propaganda campaigns were created to protect the very people and institutions protecting Trump while pretending to oppose him. This was pointed out in real time, but instead of acting, liberals/Dems shot the messenger.

We wrote about the $2t SpaceX IPO as world-historical
land grab in low Earth orbit, a push for communication-and-compute monopoly and the effort to build a vertically-integrated full ideological stack.

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Regulation should be:
1. You cannot backstop an investment, nor can you backstop their leases or debts.
2. You cannot invest in somebody who is a significant customer (over $5m annual revenue), and any shell corp/SPV shit is considered fraud.
3. You cannot provide free services to an investment.

The post-AI-bubble regulation should start by making it illegal to do circular deals - money invested cannot be used to pay for services, money invested cannot be used for buying hardware, etc, etc. Hell, I'm game for making it illegal to invest in customers at all.

Health officials confirm measles case was found in Maryland - WTOP News A case of measles has been confirmed in a Baltimore area resident who recently traveled internationally.

A case of measles was confirmed in a Baltimore metro area resident who recently traveled internationally, according to the Maryland Department of Health. wtop.com/maryland/202...

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Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Steyer #duet #democrat #california #governor #tomsteyer #genocide #hasan YouTube video by Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk

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Measles case confirmed in Ottawa County This is Ottawa County’s first case of measles since 1991. There have been eight confirmed measles cases in Michigan this year.

Michigan: Measles case confirmed in Ottawa County.
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A Substack note by Garry Kasparov from April 21 2026 reads: Russia has reindustrialized and retrofitted its society for perpetual war. They are teaching children to hate, to die for the motherland, and also how to kill with modern weapons. Only total defeat will destroy this virus, and it begins with victory for Ukraine.

🎯

@garrykasparov.bsky.social via Substack

Though my arguments might be verbose, they’re ultimately pretty simple: AI does not provide even an iota of the benefits — economic or otherwise — to justify its ruinous costs. Every new story that runs about cost-cutting or horrible burnrates increasingly validates my position, and for the most part, boosters respond by saying “well LOOK at how BIG the REVENUES are.” It isn’t! AI revenues are dogshit. They’re awful. They’re pathetic. The entire industry — including OpenAI and Anthropic’s theoretical revenues of $13.1 billion and $4.5 billion — hit around $65 billion last year, and that includes the revenues from providing compute generated by neoclouds like CoreWeave and hyperscalers like Microsoft. I’m also just gonna come out and say it: I think the AI startups are misleading their investors and the general public about their revenues. My reporting from last year had OpenAI’s revenues at somewhere in the region of $4.3 billion in the first three quarters of 2025, and Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao said in an an affidavit that the company had made revenue “exceeding” (sigh) $5 billion through March 9, 2026, which does not make sense when you add up all the annualized revenue figures reported about this company.

In any case, I keep coming back to the word “hysteria,” because it’s hard to find another word to describe this hype cycle. The way that the media, the markets, analysts, executives, and venture capitalists discuss AI is totally divorced from reality, discussing “agents” in terms that don’t match with reality and AI data centers in terms of “gigawatts” that are entirely fucking theoretical, all with a terrifying certainty that makes me wonder what it is I’m missing. But every sign points to me being right, and if I’m right at the scale I think I’m right, I think we’re about to have a legitimacy crisis in investing and mainstream media, because regular people are keenly aware that something isn’t right, in many cases, it’s because they’re able to count.

The AI bubble has entered its most hysterical phase, with every defense worded in the future tense, every argument written with enough word salad to put Sweetgreen out of business, and few tangible explanations as to how any of this works out economically.
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Today's free newsletter is about four signs that the AI bubble is bursting: Anthropic's services and economics are decaying, AI demand is inflated, more than 50% of data centers under construction are for two companies, and NVIDIA is warehousing $150bn+ of GPUs.
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@soccurt.bsky.social just made me realize that the Neuralink brain-computer interface will no doubt be rebranded in time as USB X.

Back to books - Sweden's schools cutting back on digital learning Swedish classrooms swap laptops for books, pens and paper, raising concerns from the tech sector.

The sooner the better.
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Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

The Unraveling of Donald Trump Donald Trump has seemingly permanently fractured the fragile coalition that brought him into power. Is MAGA effectively dead?

Are we witnessing the final unraveling of Donald Trump and the fragile coalition that brought him to power? His choice to pursue war in Iran has all but sealed his fate. My latest.
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Scam messages offering ships safe transit through Hormuz, security firm warns Fraudulent messages promising safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for cryptocurrency have been sent to some shipping companies whose ​vessels are stranded west of the waterway, Greek...

“Fraudulent messages promising safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for cryptocurrency have been sent to some shipping companies... [A]t least one ​of the vessels, ⁠which tried to exit the strait on Saturday and was hit by gunfire, was a victim of the fraud.”

thx to cory doctorow (@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy) for this review:

"The authors are offering more than a psychoanalysis – they're surfacing the material basis for Muskism, the benefits it delivers to its adherents, and the victories it has racked up."

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We are about a week past Sam Bankman-Fried's deadline to declare who has been helping him write his “pro se” briefs. No filing has appeared on PACER.

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When the CEO Becomes the Brand Research suggests that Elon Musk’s political stance appears to have reshaped how different groups perceive Tesla. Overall sales trends hint at trouble. The company’s growth stalled in 2024, and delive...

Interesting piece from @hbr.org that fails to consider the scenario we lay out in an @theatlantic.com piece coming out today: the CEO doesn't just engage in political messaging but builds an entire alternative informational ecosystem to support his politics.

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No! ICE must be abolished! Pretending these agencies just need guardrails means you just believe they are poorly trained. They are not. They are trained to be corrupt & brutal. But you know this Senator. You know this.

Superpower Suicide The geopolitics of our moment

“Superpower Suicide” is a concept to help understand the approach of the Trump regime to the rest of the world. We are fighting a war for no reason we can name, losing it, and covering our defeat with genocidal and apocalyptic propaganda.
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Yes, We Continue Wearing Masks—Here’s Why: Common Questions Answered - WHN Picture a typical family gathering today. Most people have moved on from masking: kids run around freely, aunts and uncles chat over snacks, and only a couple of family members still choose to wear we...

Masks reduce that exposure, and when both people mask, protection compounds.

So no, it’s not that “masks don’t work.” It’s that not all masks, or how they’re used, work the same.

For more information, visit our “Yes, We Continue Wearing Masks” page: whn.global/yes-we-conti...

#CleanAir #Masking

Black background with WHN branding at the top reading “whn.global.” Large pink and white text says: “Masks don’t work.” Below it: “Let’s debunk this →” Smaller text near the bottom reads: “Short answer: They do, but only when used correctly, and not all ‘masks’ are created equal.” At the bottom: “World Health Network — Science for a safer, healthier world.”

Black background with “whn.global” at the top. Large pink text says: “The physics is clear: well-fitted respirators (N95/FFP2 or better) cut what you breathe out and what you breathe in.” Below, white text with one pink-highlighted phrase says: “Confusion often comes from studies that used loose surgical/medical masks, allowed people to take masks off while exposed, or mixed very different mask types and fits, conditions that blur the true benefit.” At the bottom: “World Health Network — Science for a safer, healthier world.”

Black background with “whn.global” at the top. Large pink heading says: “Dose matters.” Below, large white text says: “Infection risk rises with the dose you inhale; cutting that dose (even partially) lowers risk. When both people mask, the reduction compounds, dropping exposure much more than one person masking alone.” At the bottom: “World Health Network — Science for a safer, healthier world.”

Black background with “whn.global” at the top. Large pink heading says: “Fit is crucial.” Below, white text says: “Respirators are designed to seal and maintain high filtration across a range of particle sizes. Loose surgical/medical masks mainly help with source control and can leak around the edges; a well-fitted respirator protects you and others.” Lower down, smaller white and pink text says: “For more information, visit our ‘Yes, We Continue Wearing Masks’ page: whn.global/yes-we-continue-wearing-masks/” At the bottom: “World Health Network — Science for a safer, healthier world.”

“Masks don’t work.”

We still hear this a lot, and it usually comes down to misunderstanding how masks actually work.

Masks aren’t just tiny strainers. High-quality masks (like N95s) use electrostatic charge to attract and trap airborne particles, including those that carry viruses.

Crimea was my first thought as well. Not enough people did biographies of Florence Nightingale when they were in school.

Crimean War = 730,000 British, French and Russian combatants.

34,000 were killed in action, 26,000 died from wounds and *130,000* died from diseases (mostly cholera and typhus)

It is weird how so many things keep getting worse and everyone is expected to keep sending emails and maintain "normal" levels of productivity.