This is insane. Regime change will result in a bloody civil war, killing hundreds of thousands and creating another massive Muslim refugee crisis. Topping a leader is NEVER as easy you think. It almost always results in further involvement, a civil war, and chaos. Resist this!

Keep the pressure up. Regime change in Iran would be a catastrophe.

I'm not much of an advice giver,but if you want to develop an ability that will give you an advantage in the future develop your contemplation skills. Learn to be alone and just THINK. Be bored. Make your brain do things it need not do when you feed it stimulation constantly.

Dan Carlin Jacques Barzun is my favorite historian of all time. He gave an interview in the late 90s where he said this, and it aligns so well with this: "Acquiring a liberal education awakens and keeps alive the imagination. And by the imagination, I don't mean fanciful things; I mean

He's not just defending AI energy use. He is smuggling in a whole anthropology where humans are basically inefficient meat computers that you have to pour food and years into before they become useful. And once you accept that, the next move is obvious. If people are just costly

related thought: I think a lot of “former gifted kids” go on a journey of being told a lot about their potential as young people, then go through a crisis after early career setbacks and come to believe that they were “deluded,” that they are in fact “not that special.” 1/

There is a screenplay flopping about in the middle of the intersection at Venice and Overland, so close to the Sony lot, getting continually driven over and buried into the fabric of the road, and in 22 years in LA I've never seen a more perfect metaphor for being a writer here.

The UAE secretly paid Trump $187 million. Money in his pocket personally. And then Trump overrode decades of national security objections to selling Nvidia chips to UAE because we feared UAE would send the chips to China. Corruption has consequences.

Best Warners merger would be no merger: Nerflix, Paramount & WBD are already behemoths which should stand alone.

Insane to me that the sales pitch for AI is, “It will put you permanently out of work and completely replace human artists, writers and musicians. All the fun things that once gave your life joy and meaning will now be done by machines. Get on board!”

never forget what you’re fighting for

World War World War 2 <— you are here World War 3 2 World 2 War World War: Tokyo Drift World and War World 7 War 8

As Paul Kingsnorth notes in his new book Against the Machine, we’re being governed by tech-addled men who despise literature, despise the environment, despise myth, folklore & all the things that make for human flourishing. Only a new Romantic movement can combat them.

David French Who knew the guy who bankrupted a casino, was blacklisted by all major banks, stole money from cancer charities and tried to overthrow the government was gonna be a complete loser as president

Hollywood’s old system is wobbling. At Slamdance, Ted Hope and 14 filmmakers sketched a blueprint for a “New New Hollywood”: build your own system, own your audience, reject gatekeepers and organize politically. Ankler Rushfield reports: theankler.com/p/14-dangerous…

Trump/Russia Trump/Epstein Epstein/Russia It’s all connected. This afternoon, around 2:50 PM, I’ll take to the Senate Floor to unpack some of the numerous, well-documented connections between these parties. I hope you’ll tune in.

Trump. Russia. Epstein. Let’s unpack the ties that bind. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Wow did something happen in the US in January 2025?

Robert E Kelly Inside Edition I hope you’ve seen this amazing animated gif. x.com/imgur/status/8…

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a movie about an entertainment industry in danger of getting wiped away (literally) by an evil conglomerate buying everything up to make the world a worse place, feels as prescient as ever.