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The Prime Minister of Haiti, Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, and the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, must ensure that all operations conducted by Salvadoran forces in Haiti comply with international human rights law.
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In 2025 alone, gang violence in Haiti caused over 5000 deaths. Without any warnings or condemnation by Amnesty International. By taking sides, Amnesty is making itself more and more irrelevant and trustworthy as ‘guardian of human rights’.
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Many Americans supported the you know who in WWII. I don't mean the Japanese. Many of them held gov roles in FDR's admin. Some were literally spies. But the American people looked across the world and said HELL NO we can't live in their world and those traitors were silenced.
SHAME: The U.N. General Assembly just elected the murderous Islamic Republic of Iran to its Committee for Program and Coordination, the main body shaping the world organization’s priorities on Women’s Rights, Human Rights, Disarmament and Counter-Terrorism. 144 voted for Iran. 🧵
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Task-switching on complex work can cut productivity by up to 40%, and a distraction of just three seconds can double the chance of error. Alexis Zahner, Martin Gutmann and Scott J. Allen lay out five systems learning teams can build to protect focus at work. Read it here: bigthink.com/plus/five-syste…
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“a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments”
SpaceXSI just secured a major regulatory win in Mississippi for its massive 1.2 GIGAWATT power plant
After two days of testimony, Mississippi’s Environmental Quality Permit Board voted to uphold the air permit for SpaceXSI’s permanent Southaven power plant on November 10
The project includes:
• 41 permanent natural gas turbines
• Approximately 1.2 GW of power generation capacity
• Electricity to support SpaceXSI’s expanding SI compute infrastructure, including Colossus II
The decision keeps the existing air permit in place, supporting SpaceXSI’s plans to expand its massive computing infrastructure
The race for superintelligence is also an energy race, and this decision clears a major regulatory hurdle toward expanding the power infrastructure needed to keep scaling SI compute at an extraordinary pace
This is really bad whatever I feel about Michel Houllebecq his impolite and raw speech has been a source or needed truth telling and courage. France is getting bullied by Islam, first the Charlie Hebdo massacre now French state institutions are going after their own citizens.
Michel Houllebecq, the author of “Submission” - the international best-selling book depicting France folding to Muslim immigration - was just criminally charged by France for hate speech.
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…STILL thinking about this incredible tweet
Nvidia sinks after report implicates CEO Jensen Huang in 2nd affair axios.com/2026/11/11/nvidia-…
Ok I stand corrected he's gotta step down, you can't just be baggin' everyone. Next thing we'll learn is that he only hired admin staff that worked at Hooters. Jensen needs some time off. He's gotta go into his Steve Jobs gets booted from Apple arc.
JUST IN: Jensen Huang of $NVDA reportedly also had a relationship with Nvidia's vice president of health care, per the NYT
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Kmele Foster did a solid job explaining to people who don't know what the definition of capitalism is. What it is and isn't and they couldn't dispute it.
#1 Slavery isn't a concept inherent to capitalism, slavery existed thousands of years before capitalism.
BREAKING 🚨: Kmele Foster: “It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working, ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy.”
Jemele Hill: “How is it not?”
Kmele Foster: “I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty. The idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is. That is not white supremacy.”
Jemele Hill: “Do you think capitalism has always worked that way?”
Kmele Foster: “I’ve actually just described the basic facts of the economics.”
Hill: “That ain't how it's always worked.”
Kmele Foster: “Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism. The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism in an intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable, it barely needs to be defended.”
Jemele Hill: “How was it absurd?”
Kmele Foster: “It barely needs to be defended.”
Jemele Hill: “What do you mean it barely needs to be defended?”
Kmele Foster: “You actually have to articulate what the connections is. How are these two things the same? I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell with whomever you like. What does that have to do with white supremacy?… What is the white supremacy dynamic of private property?”
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This pisses me off as a parent of ASD children with REAL CHALLENGES. I can't get care for them bc of the hype around neurodivergence. I see it all the time, kids in classes that AREN'T ASD they're "Neurodivergent" they speak they have zero global issues except hyper-ness.
I’m sorry that I said neurodivergence isn’t real. I meant to say more specifically that it’s an incoherent, ridiculous term invented by activists 45 seconds ago and I lose respect for anyone who uses it. Also it isn’t real.
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a majority of languages on Earth lack a writing system or a written standard. which is fine for them. the fact that the most dominant language forms do have orthographic technology makes it clear what forms of language are superior at their jobs.
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The dog exists because Ice Age hunters could not live on lean meat.
Wolves and people wanted the same animals, and for a long time nobody could explain why a band of hunters would feed a rival through a winter. In 2021 a team of Finnish researchers did the sums for the coldest stretch of the last Ice Age and found the answer in the human liver.
By late winter a reindeer or a horse has burned through its fat and is nearly all muscle. A person can only clear so much protein. Push it much past a third of what you eat and you get sick, then weak, then worse, however full your stomach is. So a hunting band took what it needed, the marrow, the brain, the tongue, every scrap of fat, and was left sitting on a heap of lean meat it could not safely finish.
A wolf can live on lean meat for months.
The surplus went to the pups by the fire. Nobody was competing for it. A few thousand winters of that and you have a dog.
So the oldest friendship on earth rests on one fact about your metabolism: you are the fat-eater in the partnership. Your ancestors dealt with the skinless chicken breast twenty thousand years ago by throwing it to the wolf.
Today the lean cut is on your plate with a health sticker on it, and his descendant gets a brown biscuit made of maize.
He was better fed in the Ice Age. So were you.
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Today, Victor Davis Hanson announced his new policy that he will make no appearances on podcasts contributing to the disturbing rise of Jew hatred.
Good for him. 👏👏👏
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Rubio is literally now laughing at the reporters :
“Breaking News ! The IRGC is bad !”
Almost every major security problem we have in the West is down to :
Iran
Russia
Qatar
Islamic Fundamentalism
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.@PalmerLuckey explains why China sucks at Zero to One and just has to copy all of America's best ideas:
"We're still kicking their butt on zero to one. We're way ahead of them. It's not even close."
"I've been able to get to where I am largely because I've become interested in a lot of things and I'm good enough that I can draw connections between different fields in a way that people who are native to those fields might not."
"The Chinese system doesn't produce people like that."
" It's very hard to reinvent yourself in modern China."
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China is trying to build its own version of Planet Labs.
They even copied their names:
“They call theirs Pigeon or something. It was close to Dove.”
“They named it eerily similar.”
“We have the largest Earth imaging fleet. It's ~10x larger than anyone else, & most importantly, it images about 100x more area than any other commercial actor, at least Western ones.”
“We're the only ones that cover the whole world every day.”
— Planet Labs CEO Will Marshall (@Will4Planet)
So much of the inflation and housing cost issue we're experiencing right now is downstream of the totally insane as of yet not totally clear or accurate cost of COVID. It pushed over the edge delicate supply systems. Case in point the Beef Industry.
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I think we're entering a civilizational rupture that nobody can predict. Not me, not the labs, not governments.
I don't know how much people realize how fast we're moving.
Look at what Anthropic's new model did during testing.
It solved two open problems in theoretical physics, both on black holes. One of the calculations was laid out in 2003 and nobody had ever finished it, because it was too laborious.
It formalized the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 30 hours, with a thousand agents that organized themselves. The first attempt took 11 days.
It wrote an operating system that boots on a laptop, starting from an empty folder, in 8 days.
It designed three electronic devices, boards, enclosures and software included. All three worked without a single electrical modification.
It found a new method to predict the structure of viral capsids, the shells used to deliver gene therapies.
And on robot control, it more than doubled the previous version's score.
All of that in a single announcement, on a Monday.
I think discoveries are going to stack up so fast that they'll produce an abundance we've never known: energy, health, materials, food. And with it a phase of immense joy, the joy of a civilization realizing that scarcity was never a law of nature.
Except that joy is going to land in a world order that's cracking everywhere, and that was designed by Malthusians. People convinced that resources are finite, that there are too many of us, and that the job of an enlightened elite is to manage scarcity on everyone else's behalf.
To me, Bill Gates is the most famous face of that worldview: a man nobody elected, who has weighed on the planet's health, agriculture and climate policies for twenty years. The degrowth crowd is the militant version. They don't even want to manage scarcity anymore, they want to organize it.
Abundance is the worst possible news for that worldview. If energy becomes nearly free and diseases fall one after another, nobody needs anyone to ration anything for them.
So I don't think they'll fight it. I think they'll try to capture it.
In the name of safety, climate or public health, we'll be told this power is too dangerous to be left in everyone's hands. We already saw the movie during Covid: the permission slips, the passes, the QR code to go get a coffee. Now imagine the same logic with an AI that can see everything, trace everything and decide everything in real time. Orwell never imagined a tool like that.
The technology is winning on its own. The question of the next ten years is who abundance will belong to.
We are living through the greatest civilizational revolution in human history. It's happening right now, and most people are looking the other way.
