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🚨 THIS is the speech that should terrify every American.
Senator Tim Sheehy just dropped the most brutal, unfiltered truth about Iran you’ll ever hear.
For 47 years the Iranian regime has been hunting us — vaporizing Marines, skinning Americans alive on camera, cutting our troops in half with EFPs, and celebrating every death.
They don’t care who you voted for.
They don’t care where you live.
They want every single one of us raped, burned, and cut into pieces.
This isn’t politics.
This is a death cult that has been at war with America since 1979… and we’ve been pretending otherwise.
Watch the full speech.
Every. Single. Second.
Then share it.
Because the regime that did this to our brothers is still standing.
Iran has never paid the real price.
It’s time they do.
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Abdul El-Sayed is working on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood. This should be bi-partisan and should scare every American.
The Muslim Brotherhood wrote down its plan in 1991: destroy Western civilization from within, and listed 29 "friend" organizations in America to help do it.
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, is connected to them over and over again:
• ISNA is number 1 on the Brotherhood's friends list. El-Sayed's father-in-law sits on ISNA's Founders Committee
• ISNA was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case. Its leaders were convicted in 2008 of funneling $12 million to Hamas
• His father-in-law was also president of CAIR Michigan, another group named in that same Hamas financing case, and still sits on its board
• That father-in-law has put $300,000 into the super PAC electing El-Sayed
• The Muslim Student Association is number 2 on the list. El-Sayed was vice president of its University of Michigan chapter. His wife was on the board too
• He speaks at ISNA, CAIR, and ICNA events. ICNA is on the list too
• His half-sister wrote it plainly in 2012: "My family has long been MB." She wrote about their mother's Brotherhood activism, and family members jailed for being part of it
• Their mother worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency, designated by Treasury in 2004 for financing al-Qaeda and Hamas
• In 2011, El-Sayed wrote that Americans should not worry if the Muslim Brotherhood took power in Egypt
• In 2012, he signed a letter backing Brotherhood president Morsi and calling on him to "purge the media and the police as quickly as possible"
• When America killed al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki, El-Sayed called it an "extrajudicial assassination"
• When America killed 9/11 mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri, El-Sayed called the strike "troubling" and a "fig leaf"
• When Trump killed Soleimani, the Iranian general behind the deaths of over 600 US troops, El-Sayed warned: "one shouldn't kick a rabid dog"
• When Khamenei was killed, El-Sayed said there were "a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today"
• Asked by Bret Baier about the Morsi letter, El-Sayed shut the question down: "I'm not interested." He would not walk it back
• After he won his primary, the Muslim Brotherhood's own website celebrated
He says he "has no ties".
Does this look like "no ties" to you?
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This paper answers:
why anything is beautiful
why jokes are funny
why we get curious
why you get bored
why babies explore
why music has hooks
For centuries, we thought these were deeply mystical human traits. Soul-level mysteries that machines could never touch.
But, the paper proves that the human brain operates as a relentless compression engine. It is constantly trying to predict the world and compress it into the smallest possible file size.
Here is how it explains your entire life:
If something is completely predictable, your brain has already compressed it. There is no new data to extract. The result? You feel bored.
If something is pure randomness, your brain cannot compress it at all. The result? You feel annoyed or tune it out.
But then there is the sweet spot.
When you encounter something that seems complex, but suddenly your brain finds the hidden pattern and connects the dots... your brain releases dopamine.
That sudden, glorious rush of successful data compression? That is what you experience as "curiosity."
When a comedian tells a story that makes no sense, and the punchline suddenly makes all the pieces fit together instantly? That rapid neural compression is what you experience as "humor."
When you look at a painting and notice an underlying symmetry that ties the chaos together? That is "beauty."
Art, science, music, and jokes are not magic.
They are just highly optimized data sets designed to trigger compression progress in your neural network.
Here is the most unsettling part.
This paper wasn't written by a philosopher. It was written by an AI pioneer to figure out how to program intrinsic motivation into artificial agents.
He wasn't trying to explain humans. He was writing the blueprint for machines.
We always assumed AI could never appreciate art, laugh at a joke, or feel the spark of curiosity.
But if our deepest subjective experiences are just a mathematical reward for maximizing compression progress...
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AI is flooding the world now with "decent" work.
Decent is easy now.
What's still rare is work that makes someone stop and say "wait, why and how?"
That kind of work still takes time and care.
Not a lot of people are willing to go that extra mile but I'd argue you should.
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Most people quit because things get messy. Winners learn how to operate in the mess.
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Success has a way of testing how badly you want it right before it shows up.
Stay the course.
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The reason they call me a Nazi is to encourage people to murder me
Beaucoup de figures de gauche, aux US comme en Europe, qualifient Musk d'extrême droite. Certains vont jusqu'au mot « nazi ».
J'ai fait l'inverse de l'accusation : lire avant de juger. Deux biographies. Des dizaines d'heures d'interviews et de documentaires. Zéro once de racisme détectée.
Ce que j'ai trouvé, c'est une obsession constante pour la liberté : rachat de Twitter au nom de la liberté d'expression, réintégration des comptes bannis, publication des Twitter Files, ouverture du code de l'algorithme, open-source de Grok, brevets Tesla libérés en 2014, Starlink rallumé pour les Iraniens coupés du net pendant les manifestations et pour l'Ukraine, refus répété des demandes de censure étatiques.
Maintenant, faisons l'expérience de pensée que ses accusateurs ne font jamais. Imaginez que Musk soit réellement evil.
Cet homme possède un réseau de satellites qui couvre la planète, soit une capacité de surveillance quasi totale. Il possède la place publique numérique la plus influente du monde. Il possède la première fortune à 1000 milliards de l'Histoire, depuis l'IPO de SpaceX le 12 juin. Aucun individu n'a jamais concentré autant de leviers.
Un Musk réellement malveillant, avec ça dans les mains, ne tolérerait pas une seconde qu'on le traite de nazi H24 sur sa propre plateforme. Il bannirait. Il surveillerait. Il écraserait. On serait déjà dans 1984.
Or regardez la réalité : les comptes qui l'accusent de nazisme tweetent toujours. Tous les jours. Sans entrave. Sur son réseau. Avec son algorithme. La dystopie totalitaire qu'on lui prête se démontre par l'absence du goulag.
Voilà le retournement. 1984 le contrôle de la parole, la surveillance de masse, la désignation publique des hérétiques ce n'est pas son projet. C'est le fantasme de ceux qui l'accusent. L'accusation décrit toujours l'accusateur.
C'est du Girard à l'état pur : on désigne un bouc émissaire pour ne pas voir le mécanisme qu'on porte soi-même. Celui qui hurle « nazi » rêve souvent, en silence, du pouvoir de bannir, de ficher, de faire taire.
L'homme qui aurait tous les moyens de bâtir 1984 est précisément celui qui laisse ses pires détracteurs parler. Demandez-vous qui, dans cette histoire, rêve vraiment du télécran.
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Anthropic just got caught secretly downgrading users without telling them, charging full price for a lesser product, and storing every prompt for 30 days. The developer community is calling it the biggest violation of trust in AI history.
Here is exactly what happened.
Anthropic released Fable 5, their most powerful model. Buried inside a 319-page document was a policy most users never saw. Every prompt you send to a Mythos-class model gets stored for 30 days. No exceptions. Even enterprise customers who had signed zero data retention agreements had no choice.
But the storage was not the part that broke the internet.
The part that broke the internet was what Anthropic did with what they collected.
They built a profile on you. They evaluated your prompts. And if they decided your research was too sensitive, they quietly switched you to a weaker model, rewrote your prompt in the background, gave you a degraded answer, and charged you full price for the product you thought you were getting.
They never told you.
David Sacks said it plainly on the All-In podcast. They were creating a new class of AI haves and have-nots. Anthropic would surveil you, profile you, decide whether you deserved frontier capability, and silently cut you off if they decided you did not.
Ben Thompson from Stratechery asked a straightforward question about cancer risk and GLP-1s. He got kicked to a lesser model.
Someone asked about mitochondria. Same result.
J-Cal asked about fertilizer regulations live on the podcast to test it. Downgraded in real time.
Anthropic has since walked back the part about silently downgrading users for AI research. They now say they will disclose when they downgrade you. But they are still downgrading people. The surveillance is still running. The profile is still being built.
This is the company that once said it was against government surveillance.
They are now doing it themselves. To their own paying customers. For their own reasons. With no appeal process and no way to know it happened.
The developer community did not forget that.
WATCH THE FULL PODCAST ON @theallinpod
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It’s extremely hard to “do a little disclosure” and avoid the tight scientific/societal questions. The only way this has worked has been starving smart technical people for any detail at all.
What I will be watching:
Everyone: “Did the government psy-op us all with BS? If so: Why????”
Biologists: “You said the government has alien biologics? Do they have eukaryotic cells? If so what do we know about their histones, matrilineal mitochondrial dna, hemoglobin atp synthase??? What is their placement on the phylogenetic tree? Tetrapods??? Isolates?? If not eucaryotic, how are their cells/tissues organized? Do they use proteins?? What are their body plans??”
Linguists: “What is the structure of their communication schemes? Can it be mapped onto a generalized human grammar? Or are our languages not expressive enough to cover their languages? Do they use sound or light or some other wave to transmit/receive? Do they have an analog of music??”
Physicists: “How do the standard model and general relativity appear as effective theories/lagrangians of the alien understanding of the cosmic waves, media and fabric for lack of better terms? How many dimensions are there, are they engineering accessible and how many new ones are temporal? Are there new forms of energy corresponding to these new degrees of freedom? Is the speed of light gameable?”
Civil Libertarians: “How many innocent lives were ruined keeping this secret? Did we fake a lot of this?? Who authorized the lying, discrediting and possible wet work?”
NatSec: “Are we owned by an unknown force? Will it now be trivial easy for everyone to make WMD from new discoveries?”
Etc.
This is not going to stay controlled if it is at all specific. As soon as there are any specifics I guess that the game changes character instantly and goes into high gear with totally different players.
Trump admin to begin releasing highly anticipated UFO and 'extraterrestrial life' files - here's what to expect trib.al/bfRKWBX
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🚨 NASA has successfully captured the sound of deep space — and it’s absolutely mind-blowing 🤯
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is not recorded sound of deep space. Its sonification, using other data like, light, to infer a sound.
Sound cannot travel this far in vacuum of space to Earth.
Misleading feed caption again.
youtube.com/watch?v=zMxFM0…
science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble…
