shameless shitstain AI fuckhead according to folks on interwebs
Social scientist somewhere along the road to serfdom. ex HF macro strategist, ex tech entrepreneur, now in professional services working on AI. In the market for a bunker, I’ve seen too much.
- waymo executives admit what we all knew to begin with, that their self driving AI is really just remote operators in the philippines.
- Russian General Is Shot in Latest Attack on a Top Military Leader in Moscow (Nataliya Vasilyeva/New York Times) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink
- Who could have predicted there was a flaw in this brilliant business strategy
- That‘s the spirit.
- Mandelson's firm, General Counsel, covered-up Mandelson's relationship with Epstein. Here's Global Counsel's CEO and co-founder, preparing to tell the press that Mandelson barely knew Jeffrey Epstein. Who did he check that line with? Jeffrey Epstein.
- Epstein is like the evil Forrest Gump, somehow present and responsible for every terrible thing of the last twenty years.
- US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe, with initial focus on London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels. www.ft.com/content/f869...
- This happens in dictatorships. Trust no-one. They may report you to the Gestapo, the KGB or the Stasi.
- 🧵 importantissimo
- 🚨🚨Given current situation and with the sharply deteriorating situation in #trumpland, I think it is unwise, imprudent and just a very bad idea for the EU to go ahead with plans to grant #US border authorities unprecedented access to Europeans’ data. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...
- Does anyone really believe the $170 million paid to Epstein was for 'finamcial advice"? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
- ‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
- In 2018 Steve Bannon bragged to Jeffrey Epstein about his influence over European politicians including Nigel Farage and that he could “shut down any crypto legislation or anything else we want”. What is Reform’s first and only piece of draft legislation? A pro-crypto Bill.
- NEWS Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation. Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service." Doc buff.ly/uhpSOTz
- I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵
- Christopher Steele, who used to head up MI6's Russia desk, told Tom Swarbrick that the latest Epstein files published by the DOJ on Friday show the extent of the connection between the disgraced paedophile financier and Russia.
- Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
- Lots of people assume Bezos made mistakes or doesn't know how to run a newspaper. Seems more likely he has totally different motivations. Trump wants the Post to stop being a viable independent news organization. So, for the financial success of his business empire, Bezos needs the Post to do that.
- Donald Trump said he would have passed on Kevin Warsh as his nominee to lead the Federal Reserve if Warsh had expressed a desire to hike interest rates
- I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
- 🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Congrats again to the elite Obama administration economists & others who told us that this guy was a "credible Treasury Secretary" and a "renaissance man" because he went to the the right schools & the right cocktail parties.
- Clown show. @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/bes...
- 1. A reminder: Walmart's $1 trillion valuation is the product of decades of unchecked anticompetitive behavior. It's no coincidence that Walmart began its insane growth spurt after the 1980s decision to stop enforcing key antitrust laws. More than others, Walmart recognized what this meant.
- The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
- this is literally the critique of crypto that was offered when it was launched, so please, fuck off into the sun
- As a scholar of Soviet espionage, may I say: Duh.
- Epstein is being described by the Polish PM as a possible Russian spy. If so, it would explain a great deal. All the Epstein “evidence” would actually be kompromat taking in the rich and powerful to serve Kremlin interests. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
- Nothing like enjoying your slightly cheaper pint while imagining the toddler crying from hunger that paid for it.
- Reform UK says it would re-impose two-child benefit cap for most families to fund £3bn support package for pubs - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
- Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
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- "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof"
- "Can I prove it? No" sure didn't stop this treasonous little dork from trying to overthrow the republic on January 6. He was a ringleader in the effort to overturn the 2020 election and this never really seems to come up
- Spill it, Leonard.
- exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...
- In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
- Should We Force Women to Have Men’s Babies and Other Questions From the First Century.
- The chart says it all. Silver’s rollercoaster ride over the past week has seen it called a “death trap”. And yet many investors remain bullish. “Keep on stacking,” was one Reddit user’s advice. “This is the most obvious long term buy signal ever." Read the full story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/8RqVIi5
- Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
- New: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok. The chatbot still produces sexualized images — even when told the subjects don’t consent. even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation. even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse. www.reuters.com/business/des...
- "The French offices of the social network X, owned by Elon Musk, were raided on Tuesday, February 3, the Paris prosecutor's office announced." www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...
- "Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005." "it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
- A whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is so classified that the lawyer of the whistleblower hasn't been allowed to look at the complaint itself. Neither has Congress. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
- Amazing coda here.
- See Melania & almost die www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
- A good overview of Warsh, and in particular his conviction that the AI boom is in the process of fuelling a(n as-yet undocumented) growth in productivity that justifies interest rate cuts on a quicker basis than Powell has done up to this point. This is something to keep in mind going forwards...
- The treasury suspected someone was leaking information to investment banks. There must now be a full, independent into Peter Mandelsons conduct. At this time he was not only business secretary, but deputy PM.
- I have spoken with several senior FBI counterintelligence officers who believe that there is a reasonably strong prospect that Tulsi Gabbard is a foreign intelligence asset.
- As you read WSJ's piece on the super-secret abuse complaint about Tulsi Gabbard, remember that she tried unsuccessfully to wring counterintelligence function away from FBI last year. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
- New: privacy-focused telecom Cape has introduced what it calls "disappearing call logs." Rather than keeping data on who you called and when for months or years, Cape says it deletes those records after 24 hours. www.404media.co/privacy-tele...
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- Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
- I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
- From the outside this looks like the inevitable dystopian outcome of the policies adopted by Trump Regime. That feeling one has of watching a horrendous traffic accident in slow motion.
- Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
- Texas Dems flipped a +17 Trump district yesterday. Meanwhile in Nevada:
