Small groups of irregular military or armed civilians with ambushes, sabotage, drones or hit-and-run tactics, only their target will be the Canadian government…😂

I’m at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The museum was originally a school in the middle of the city that was converted into a notorious torture prison by the communist Khmer Rouge in 1976. The Khmer Rouge pursued a radical communist revolution in which private property and money were abolished. Families were forcibly broken up, and millions of people were forced into hard labor and work collectives. Those labeled enemies of the revolution were imprisoned and killed. Their family members were not spared. Spouses and children were also killed to prevent surviving relatives from seeking revenge. Some 18,000 people passed through this one prison, where prisoners were brutally tortured to make forced “confessions.” Those who didn’t die at the prison were taken to the countryside to be executed. Rather than use limited ammunition, communist executioners frequently killed people with farming tools and other blunt instruments by bashing them on the head and face. Young children were simply beaten on a tree to death. I saw many, many skulls of victims that had been cracked and smashed in. This is video of some of the original jail cells at the prison. (There were other similar prisons all over the country.) The exterior corridors of this building still have the original barbed wire installed by the Khmer Rouge from top to bottom. It was used to prevent prisoners from escaping or attempting s—icide. These historical evils of the violent left have been scrubbed from history in western countries. Support my journalism at ngocomment.com.

In India many people lack civic sense.

Reflections after a 25th visit to the Netherlands I was in the Netherlands again last week, my twenty-fifth visit in twenty years. It remains one of my most beloved countries. I adore the Dutch people and the historical ties between my country and the Netherlands. Each time, I observe the vast cultural differences between the Dutch and Afrikaners, and the extent to which Africa, along with our German, French, English, and other DNA, has shaped us. Indigenous tribes and Malay slaves helped mold our language Afrikaans. Long, dry, scorching summers and the African landscape forged us into tough, resilient people. Isolation spared us from excessive refinement, exaggerated enlightenment and overzealous political correctness. Yet, I perceive something beautiful, albeit almost painfully precious, in the Netherlands: a highly advanced society with wonderful people, but one lacking any plan for the future, any long-term dreams or any remaining sense of close-knit cohesion. Over twenty years of regular visits, I have watched the Netherlands wither due to its own actions (oikophobia, secularization, the loss of identity and culture, etc.) as well as external factors. These include mass immigration and the emergence of parallel societies formed by assertive, aggressive, and dominant cultures from the Arab world and Africa, alongside the paralyzing effects of European integration and the unwitting surrender of national sovereignty to a bureaucracy of unelected "deep state" officials in Brussels. During my most recent visit last week, I concluded that the final tipping point has been reached. Friends speak of rapidly shifting demographics in schools, no longer confined to cities but now evident in rural areas as well. The Islamization of the country is visible everywhere. Churches close; mosques open. More and more Dutch people are considering leaving their country. The coalition of immigrants and left-wing urban globalists has come to dominate every political sphere, the media, and academia. Ordinary citizens, entrepreneurs, farmers and workers have to work ever harder and pay ever more, only to receive less and less while watching their country slip away before their eyes. Over the years, I have read a great deal about the Netherlands. The initial settlement of small tribes over the centuries transformed a marshy, windswept river delta, a landscape of sand, peat, floods and a true hostile environment, into a land of forests, dikes and historic villages and magnificent art, but above all, a land of close-knit communities, exceptional talents, international traders, great thinkers and innovators who helped shape an extraordinary civilization. Now, we are witnessing a great decline. While prosperity remains, there is also a massive loss of continuity. It is every man for himself; who cares about future generations? Historical guilt and a left-wing, self-imposed self-loathing have allowed an influx of migrants with incompatible cultures, leading them to take over street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, and city by city. On the street, you hear a strange new Dutch -impoverished in depth and grammar and riddled with English and lazy slang. Culture is now relegated to history and museums. The "good life" is defined by daily pleasures rather than the creation of enduring things. I see the end of the Netherlands approaching, or at least the end of the Netherlands as it has existed for the past few centuries. With every visit, I observe increasing affectation, paralysis, loss, and a transformation that effectively amounts to an occupation by cultures that harbor an aversion to Western culture, Christianity, and, by extension, the Netherlands itself. The future of the Netherlands looks uncertain, even perilous. It points to either an urgent course correction or a dramatic escalation of tension, conflict and revolution. This is not merely the story of the Netherlands, but also of other European countries and regions close to my heart, such as Flanders, Germany, Austria, South Tyrol, and so on. These are issues concerning the survival of a civilization playing out right before our eyes. Each of us surely has a part to play, something we can and must do, to protect our Western civilization from destruction, and this is precisely what I urge my Dutch friends to do with great urgency.

India’s pollution index has gone off the charts

Western liberalism treats the individual as the basic political unit. Thats the exception. Much of the world is very ethnocollectivist. Many recent immigrants come from societies far more collectivist than the Europeans who supplied 19th-c. America. That order is here. In an atomized society, deep cohesion is power. Ethnocollective groups can discipline members, pool resources, build institutions, bargain as blocs, and turn numbers into leverage. Individualists dissipate theirs one person at a time. Think of it like sports: one side plays as a coordinated team. The other is a disorganized pickup squad awkwardly fighting over the ball. Guess who loses? 19th-c. Euros looked clannish to strongly individualist Anglo-Americans, sure. Parish, county, chain migration, the machine: thick enough to alarm a Yankee. But thats thin by the standards of a globally high-kinship society. Put bluntly, Ireland 1840 is not even close to Punjab 2020. The difference is how deeply the group organizes the person. In a high-kinship order, marriage, obligation, reputation, and loyalty run through the kin network. The group can reward conformity, punish defection, and mobilize members before any formal political organization begins. Collective action comes pre-built. Thats a thicker collectivism than parish or machine politics. What’s more, those 19th-c Europeans arrived while the host was still demographically dominant and culturally cohesive enough to set the terms of assimilation. That Anglo order is gone. The liberal West has now admitted millions from more collectivist, higher-kinship societies into a host that is itself more atomized. That changes the political game. People are reacting to the new incentives. You aren’t going to tweet that away.

The next PE grift. If you have family and friends with whole life policies or annuities you may want to check on the quality of the Insurance companies. TLDR: a big portion of the Life Insurance and Annuities industry has been captured by Private Equity. They sell for premiums and have future liabilities on their balance sheet. They all have set up affiliate entities In lenient states like Vermont or off shore in Bermuda. Those entities do not have to disclose their assets. The US company transfers some of their liabilities to the affiliate to free up their balance sheet. The guy says he has seen cases where a company had $200B of liabilities and transferred $195 to the affiliate. He also saw by accident an affiliate that had $2B of liabilities supported by $200 million of assets. And many of the assets are PE and illiquid. Bottom line there are many life insurance policies and annuities that will not pay their commitments. The States will be on the hook but they have capped payouts. Interestingly he has been screaming about this and the Senate Banking committee took an interest and heard his testimony. But, a Federal bailout is a question mark. It’s incredible. Another case of PE screwing the common man who buys life insurance and annuities. Phoenix Life just failed causing $2B of losses larger than expected. There will be more. 🤦‍♂️

Robotaxis won’t just kill short haul flights. Once you can sleep in them, they’ll cannibalize long routes too. Imagine getting into your Tesla in Austin at 10 PM, make the lie flat seat/bed comfortable, and going to sleep. While you sleep, the car drives, charges itself, and keeps going. You wake up at 9 AM in Aspen, refreshed. The key is perceived travel time. A 10-hour robotaxi trip where you sleep for 8 hours may feel shorter than a 3-hour flight that requires an Uber to the airport, arriving early, security, boarding, the flight, baggage claim, and another Uber. Autonomous cars won’t just compete with driving. They turn sleep into transportation.

‼️ BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another mathematician's work, as he suspects one of OpenAI's flagship proofs was helped along by his own unpublished work. This one published the email exchange. Last month OpenAI said its Astra model had settled a question in group theory that had been open for 27 years. The proof's key step came from work Andreas Thom published with Gábor Kun. For months before the announcement, Thom had been working through that same mathematics with ChatGPT. So he emailed OpenAI researchers Mark Sellke and Sébastien Bubeck with two questions: had those conversations entered the training data, and were they available to the model while it worked on the problem? Sellke's complete reply, Thom says, was "Regarding your conversations with ChatGPT: that did not happen." Weeks later, in the separate Navier-Stokes dispute, OpenAI said no specific user data was accessed, but could not rule out that de-identified data from customers' use of its products had improved its models. Thom got no such caveat.

J'ai une super idée pour les prochains modèles de Cybercab

>sam altman: "we tried this because there were rumor on the internet" >rumor: math professor close to solving navier-stokes >the professor: using codex for a year >openai: has all his logs >checked every codex session tagged to N-S >found the most promising one >spun up 10,000 agents to finish the proof where he couldn't >they got caught >told the guy if you say anything you'll destroy your own career >he ruins his career over this >openai: "we did not see his work" >also openai: "we cannot rule out that de-identified data from their usage helped improve our models" they stole it lmao

holy shit, its actually happening

I think the plan is to get researchers to start using their AI with a limited compute budget, then once they have all the academic data, they’ll basically steal all their ideas from underneath them and run the research internally with their unlimited compute budget!

Dat de functionaliteit van iDEAL om zeep wordt geholpen door overname/overgang naar Europees betaalsysteem Wero is een feit en de kosten zullen hoger worden. Er wordt echter al hard aan een alternatief gebouwd in Nederland:

6 op de 10 Nederlandse huishoudens ontvangen per saldo méér van de overheid dan zij betalen. 1 op de 10 draagt €114.000 netto per jaar af. De rest zit ertussenin. Elke discussie over “eerlijker verdelen” gaat feitelijk over die ene op de tien nóg harder aanslaan. Zeg dat dan gewoon.

China 🇨🇳 is UNINVESTABLE. Look at the Chinese stock index since 1991 (35 years!): down 16%, while the S&P 500 is up 1,570% and the Nasdaq 3,440%. A ton of economic value was created in those 35 years, but it didn't go to investors. It went into the pockets of the CCP. You can trade it if that is what you do. But long-term investing? Stay away! Had to learn this lesson myself. You only learn by feeling it. Sold everything when $BABA's Jack Ma was kidnapped because he had said something remotely critical about the CCP. UNINVESTABLE.

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This is a perfect visual metaphor for how socialists drive an economy.

In Nederland betaal je heel veel belasting na ontvangst van een erfenis in vergelijking met de rest van Europa

Today is a dark day for freedom and democracy in Europe. General chat surveillance has been implemented in Brussels. A disgrace. The so-called Chat Control 1.0 cleared a crucial hurdle in the European Parliament today. This means platforms may once again be allowed to scan private messages, officially on a “voluntary” basis, but in practice this marks the return of indiscriminate monitoring of private communication. What makes this especially bitter is that a majority of the MEPs who voted were reportedly against it. According to Patrick Breyer, 314 MEPs voted against the regulation, 276 voted in favor and 17 abstained. And yet the rejection failed because it was not enough to have a simple majority of those voting. An absolute majority of all MEPs would have been required. That is the democratic scandal. When a majority of those present votes against a proposal and it still passes because a formal threshold is not reached, it does not feel like democratic decision-making to many citizens. It feels like a procedural trick. And it becomes even more problematic when you look at the context: Chat Control had already been rejected before. Yet the issue was put back on the agenda shortly before the summer break, through an urgent procedure, at a time when absences could become decisive. This is not just some technical regulation. It goes to the very core of private communication. It is about whether digital messages remain fundamentally private or whether platforms may systematically scan content again, without concrete suspicion, without a court order and without any individual cause. A free society must not turn private communication into a potential surveillance zone. Anyone who takes digital fundamental rights seriously cannot accept millions of innocent people being placed under general suspicion. Today, a dangerous signal was sent: fundamental rights can be hollowed out through procedural logic, timing and political tricks. Not through an open, clear and honest majority, but through a system in which absence effectively helps the supporters. This is a dark day for Europe. Not because the fight is over, but because today showed how easily digital fundamental rights come under pressure when surveillance logic, symbolic politics and institutional tricks come together. Anyone who wants a free internet, anyone who wants to protect private communication and anyone who takes democracy seriously should talk about this. Share this issue. Inform yourself. Look at who voted how. And never forget: freedom rarely disappears all at once. It disappears step by step, often in technical details, often in complicated procedures and often exactly when too few people are watching.