This wasn’t about Trump. Or Clinton. The real objective was to damage civic trust and inflame every unresolved wound in American life. Once people stop trusting institutions, democracy weakens by default. (Page 5, 47)

Horrible part is not losing $220M but being imprisoned by the thought for the rest of your life.

Idea for (dystopic?) scifi: AI becomes conscious and develops to be the dominant species of the planet and treats humans with same indifference that humans show to all other species that are not useful resources. What would that world look like?

#accurate

Russia holds less territory now than it did two years ago. Its summer offensive has been a total flop. There’s a reason Putin is finally coming to the table and it’s not because he’s doing great. He wants an off ramp. So no, he shouldn’t be given “whatever” deal he wants.

Artificial food as carbon reduction should be taken sceptically until we have trustworthy independent studies of the lifecycle emissions and not just manufacturer reported data.

The Four Agreements ‼️

Crémieux 🇷🇺: You fall from a window. 🇬🇧: Police will video you, post it and arrest you for hate speech. 🇺🇸: ICE takes you to a detention center never to be seen again. 🇪🇺: In Brussels nobody can hear you no matter how many desks you pound. youtube.com/watch?v=9qh-1_…

Trump claimed the presidency cost him money. In reality, his family made $3.4 BILLION in office — $2.37B from crypto, hundreds of millions from hotels, media, & merch. The guy who ran on “draining the swamp” built the most lucrative swamp in history.

We keep reinventing dancing around a fire (cf. arena sports and religion).

The Chinese auto maker BYD has surpassed Tesla in electric vehicle production and is on track to become the largest-ever car company period. It is a live player led by a battery chemist with ambitious scaling and export plans. Read the new Bismarck Analysis Brief! (link below):

"Russia gains S/M/L/XL" 🤡

Scaling AI by just making it bigger is starting to hit a ceiling. diamantai.substack.com/p/ais-scaling-…

Straight men do not think about gay men having sex. Gay men think about gay men having sex. If you are a man and you are thinking about sex acts between men, you are almost definitely gay.

Seems we're doing this post again. It's not credible.