Last of the systems programmers. Pragmatist. Humanist. Dad. Pilot. Fan of what works.

Jazz Detective - A Noir Detective Film in 3 minutes. Some people think the Jazz Detective is a better musician than detective. He is nobody's fool. He leverages his musical connections to help solve crimes in the sordid underbelly of America's greatest city.
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Let's engineer a breakout. Scary. This guy will be the whistleblower. As CEO, I'll agree. We've got the WSJ lined up, NYT, Schumer, Warren. Bernie will stake out the far edge to move the Overton Window. Best part of all, we'll get open source outlawed and regulate ourselves!
STOP calling basic network misconfigurations as "emergent misalignment" YOUR agent escaping YOUR sandbox via DNS egress is an infrastructure failure that YOU are directly responsible for, not the agent
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Look how green windmills are.
More than half a million balsa trees are illegally logged in the Amazon each year, largely driven by the demand for wind turbine blades. As plantation supply runs short, logging has moved into protected rainforest and indigenous territories. Roads are cut into intact jungle, habitats are fragmented, and local ecosystems are disrupted. Balsa is lightweight and essential for turbine construction. Demand has surged due to the West's environmental push, but the supply chain is largely untracked at source. The result is an ignored cost: so-called "green" energy, cut down and shipped.
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The most Reddit ad I think I've ever seen.
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Modern leftists copy literal Nazis all the time. Not being hyperbolic, this is part of the pagan tradition revived by the Nazis, called “pollution of the blood”. Entire families would be punished if they detected ideological impurity in one. From Wikipedia: Sippenhaft or Sippenhaftung (German: [ˈzɪpənˌhaft(ʊŋ)], kin liability) is a German term for the idea that a family or clan shares the responsibility for a crime or act committed by one of its members, justifying collective punishment. As a legal principle, it was derived from Germanic law in the Middle Ages, usually in the form of fines and compensations. It was adopted by Nazi Germany to justify the punishment of kin (relatives, spouse) for the offense of a family member. Punishment often involved imprisonment, and was applied to relatives of the conspirators of the failed 1944 bomb plot to assassinate Hitler. Modern progressives are so progressive, they’re progressing right back to medieval times. Of course, these are the moderates. The more progressive among them want to lock arms with Islamists and progress right back to the dark ages.
The daughter of a right-wing German publisher isn't allowed to become a teacher anywhere in Germany, simply because she's the daughter. The courts told her this after she graduated to become a teacher.
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“The pipeline that produces Obama also produces Milei – when run in reverse. The difference is which ideas were in it.” The gist is: You cannot have a conservative counter-revolution without laying the groundwork for the governed to see and understand what the lefties are doing to them. It takes courage, which can be found, but it also requires a lot of patience, which might be in scarcer supply. Decades of work in schools and institutions to inculcate policy makers and the electorate with sufficient intellectual ideas to shine the light of truth on leftist lies.
Javier Milei – The Proof of Concept. The long march took a century to build. Milei has been dismantling its Argentine expression in real time, with a chainsaw, on television, while calling the central bank a criminal organization. This is not a metaphor. The chainsaw was a campaign prop. The central bank assessment was government policy. 1. The biography is the argument. Born in 1970. Economist. Rock musician – he played in a Rolling Stones tribute band, which is either irrelevant or the most relevant detail depending on your theory of what the counter-march needs. Self-taught in Austrian economics – Mises, Hayek, Rothbard – at a time when Argentine academia was entirely captured by the Keynesian consensus that had been producing Argentine economic crises with metronomic regularity for seventy years. He became a television economist – the secondhand dealer in ideas, in Hayek’s precise formulation – explaining on cable news why everything the establishment was doing was wrong. He was right. Nobody in the establishment listened. The audience did. 2. Argentina in 2023 was the laboratory result of a century of Peronism – the specifically Latin American variant of the long march. Inflation at 211 percent. Poverty at 40 percent. The state consuming everything and producing nothing. The establishment consensus – across parties, across media, across academia – was that the solution was more state, more spending, more management. This consensus had been producing the same results for seventy years and drawing the same conclusions. 3. He ran on the complete rejection of the consensus. Not the modification – the rejection. The central bank is a criminal organization that steals from citizens through inflation. The political class is la casta – extracting value from Argentine society for generations while calling it governance. These were not positions calibrated for electability. They were the Austrian school applied directly to Argentine politics, stated without diplomatic softening, by a man who clearly enjoyed saying them. He won with 56 percent of the vote. 4. What followed was the Hayekian pipeline producing its intended result. Decades of work by libertarian think tanks in Argentina had produced the intellectual infrastructure, the vocabulary, and the trained personnel that made a Milei administration possible. He didn’t arrive in office without a plan. He arrived with economists who had spent years preparing exactly this plan for exactly this country. The pipeline that produces Obama also produces Milei – when run in reverse. The difference is which ideas were in it. 5. The chainsaw was not performance. In the first year: the fiscal deficit eliminated – the first balanced budget in over a century. Government ministries cut in half. Hundreds of regulations abolished. Inflation falling from 211 percent toward 50. The establishment that said it was impossible watched it happen and explained it wouldn’t last. It is lasting. 6. The reaction was the complete toolkit. Lawfare. Media coverage calibrated to delegitimize rather than report. Street protests organized by the unions whose privileges were being dismantled. The Peronist establishment discovering that the institutions it had captured could not stop a government willing to act faster than the institutions could respond. The ratchet being run in reverse. It turns out the ratchet can go both ways. It requires someone willing to turn it. 7. Milei reposts this series. The intellectual supply chain Hayek described is working in real time. Ideas produced in the Polish-French register, distributed on an American platform, reposted by an Argentine economist with a chainsaw and a rock band – reaching people who need the vocabulary to name what is being done to their countries and what can be done instead. The counter-march does not look like the march. It is louder, faster, less elegant, more honest, and considerably more fun. The proof of concept is running. Watch Argentina. 🇦🇷
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Spread the word. EA people are dangerous and should be let nowhere near the levers of power.
Holy crap... Remember the Australian guy whose OpenClaw hacked his gym?! he is a THE EA CONFERENCE DIRECTOR SINCE 2015!! these people lie about everything!!
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Each extra branch Republicans hold, of governor, senate, and house, goes with 0.24 points lower unemployment.
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Economic freedom is the only surefire way that humans have discovered to create wealth. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/a…
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Victor Hugo pleurait sur la misère le jour et l'exploitait sexuellement la nuit. Derrière la figure du vieux sage adulé pour sa défense des opprimés se cachait un bourgeois cynique qui profitait directement de la faim des gamines des rues, achetant frénétiquement des jeunes filles souvent âgées de quinze ou seize ans à peine. Celui qui a fait pleurer des générations entières sur le sort tragique des femmes du peuple réduites à vendre leur corps pour survivre s'offrait cette même misère pour quelques centimes. Le grand moraliste tenait d'ailleurs une comptabilité effroyable de ses abus. Dans ses carnets intimes, il notait méthodiquement les tarifs sordides, l'âge et les actes sexuels, réduisant la chair des misérables à un simple livre de comptes. Ses journaux cryptés regorgent d'entrées glaçantes où l'on peut lire par exemple : "La petite blanchisseuse, 15 ans : 2 francs", ou encore "Fille de la rue de la Verrerie. 16 ans. 1 franc 50.", au milieu de froides descriptions anatomiques codées en espagnol. La cruauté de cet homme s'illustre de manière encore plus tragique avec Juliette Drouet, la maîtresse dévouée qui lui a sacrifié cinquante ans de son existence. Pendant que l'écrivain s'érigeait en champion universel de la liberté, il exigeait de sa compagne une soumission totale, l'enfermant à double tour et anéantissant sa carrière d'actrice. Alors qu'il amassait une fortune colossale grâce à ses droits d'auteur, il prenait un plaisir sadique à la maintenir dans une pauvreté humiliante. Sa correspondance dévoile le calvaire d'une femme brisée. Transie de froid l'hiver, Juliette devait le supplier pour payer le boucher ou acheter du bois, lui écrivant avec désespoir : "Je suis si pauvre, mon adoré, que je n'ai plus de souliers à mettre à mes pieds". Pendant qu'elle mettait ses propres robes en gage pour survivre, Hugo dépensait sans compter pour multiplier les passes avec des adolescentes des quartiers pauvres. Le monde littéraire entretient aujourd'hui une amnésie bien commode pour protéger la statue d'or du grand républicain au Panthéon. Ses propres écrits décrivent plutôt un rentier de la morale qui sublimait la pauvreté dans ses livres pour mieux l'acheter et l'asservir dans son lit.
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Social media is filled with creators who are getting paid to post political messages. "Drew" posted about the struggles of living in Texas (3M views on TikTok). Then he later confessed: "I don't even live in Texas." And his name is not Drew. nytimes.com/2026/09/22/us/po…
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There is an Army saying you hear dozens of times when you make full colonel: "Congratulations, that's the last promotion you will ever make based solely on merit." The idea behind that saying is that when it comes time to compete for a 1-star promotion, you need a sponsor, and having a sponsor who sits on the promotion board matters, greatly. That's how we get politicized generals who support racist, anti-American nonsense like DEI. This is a great, great step in replacing politics with merit at our senior ranks. This is what a revolution in military personnel affairs looks like.
Today, I am announcing the Joint Warfighter Evaluation.
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People argue that legalizing and regulating gambling is the best path, because keeping it underground encourages corruption. I would argue this approach leads to corruption of Regulators and Government. Now, Government is motivated to increase tax revenue through gambling.
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"There’s nothing shameful about being wrong from time to time. We all are. But when you are catastrophically wrong on the one thing for which you are known, then it’s time to do something else with your life." nationalreview.com/corner/th…
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Lol. Now you can do a tweet on the Comcast-Universal-NBC merger, and the Disney-20th Century Fox merger, and the Amazon-MGM acquisition, and then wrap it up with the dissolution of the Fin-Syn rules. And then just maybe you’ll be a bit more versed in anything that’s happened in Entertainment in the last 40 years.
America is free only when the media is competitive, independent, and accountable to the people. This merger strikes a chilling blow against that freedom — and hands even more power to billionaires like David Ellison to decide what Americans see and hear, all while lifting scrutiny off the federal leaders who pushed it through. I am grateful to Attorney General Tish James for the protections she secured for workers. This decision is a shameful monument to corruption and a betrayal that the American people won't soon forget. apnews.com/article/warner-br…
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For penning her mea culpa, Hannah-Jones has received a good deal of praise. Well, you can count me out of all that. Her actions were morally indefensible and analytically ignorant, and her supposed metamorphosis remains invisible to the naked eye. nationalreview.com/2026/09/w…
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I will admit, I am enjoying vibe coding. I may have been a teensy tiny bit wrong.
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Please welcome GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to the GPT-6 universe. GPT-6 Sol and Luna build on the advances behind GPT-6 Astra, bringing much of its strengths into faster and more affordable models to support work at scale. We’ve also made caching and inference more efficient, and we’re passing the savings directly to you: 50% lower API prices for Sol and Luna compared with GPT‑5.6 promotional pricing.
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Learning her daughter got As without ever knowing anything is an incredible metaphor for Nikole Hannah-Jones' own celebrated career as conspiracy theorist and publisher of gross falsehoods. I assume she's not self-aware enough to realize this.
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Giving credit to Nikole Hannah Jones for *almost* realizing that her entire worldview is wrong is itself another example of the bigotry of low expectations.
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It is a heat map of evil.
State-administered death is now more common in Canada than gun homicide is in the U.S. That didn’t happen by accident.
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