FreeThinker, tinkerer, Ikigai-seeker, Shoshin-learner, a Soft Engi (neer), and a curious soul.
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Jersey City raised the municipal tax levy 15%, cut Via service, and cut park maintenance.
Now the city council wants to spend $1.2 million to buy a vacant lot at 128 Glenwood — to lease it to a nonprofit for $1 a year as a community garden.
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While this tax hike get approved so did all salary increases ; instagram.com/p/DbowvObHJwt/… #jerseycity recall
TAX HIKE: Jersey City lawmakers approved a 15% property tax increase amid a budget crisis. City officials say $120 million in state aid and $58 million in spending cuts helped keep the increase down.
#News12 #NewJersey #TaxHike #JerseyCity
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The moment you stop thinking of "government" as some abstract entity and start naming actual individuals, everything changes. Janet Yellen personally signed off on policies that destroyed your purchasing power. Jerome Powell individually chose to print trillions while small businesses died under lockdowns. Anthony Fauci made specific decisions that shuttered schools and churches. These are human beings who made choices and should face consequences for them.
The mystical thinking around government serves those in power perfectly. When you blame "the system" or "institutional failures," you let the decision-makers slip away into comfortable anonymity. Nancy Pelosi didn't accidentally become worth $120 million on a government salary. She made deliberate stock trades using information unavailable to you. When inflation hit 9.1% in June 2022, specific people at the Federal Reserve chose to expand the money supply by $4.9 trillion between 2020 and 2022.
Every regulation that destroys your business came from a specific bureaucrat's desk. Every tax that impoverishes your family got signed by an actual person. Every war that kills thousands started with individual politicians voting "yes." Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan deliberately kept interest rates artificially low for years, creating the bubble that exploded in 2008.
The genius of the state lies in convincing you that it's bigger than the sum of its parts, that individual accountability dissolves into collective responsibility. This is pure mythology designed to protect the guilty. Track down names. Demand answers from specific people. Make them personally defend their choices instead of hiding behind institutional language and bureaucratic doublespeak.
You wouldn't accept "the corporation made me do it" from a CEO who defrauded investors, so why do you accept it from politicians who defraud entire nations?
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Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme).
Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident.
Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité.
Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison.
Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme.
Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable.
Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion.
C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part.
Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes.
Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre.
Alors pardon. Et au travail.
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Nick Shirley says Gavin Newsom’s attacks on him for exposing fraud in California BACKFIRED badly.
“If I was the governor I would be happy that the fraud was exposed.”
Shirley points out Newsom isn’t trying to fix the problem — he’s trying to intimidate others into SILENCE.
SHIRLEY: “I think they’re trying to intimidate other people from doing what I did because they know the fraud so deep.”
“Unfortunately for them, it backfired very bad.”
“I’ve given them the opportunity and in another post I said, let’s work together. If you think there’s fraud, let’s go do it.”
“I mean, if I was a governor, I would be happy to the fraud is exposed and figuring out how to crack down on this fraud.”
“Instead he attacked the journalists who attempt expose the fraud.”
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CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS FRAUD CASH FOR BALLOTS PART I: Homeless Bribed with Cash & Drugs In Exchange For Registering To Vote & Signing Election Petitions Caught On Tape Undercover On Skid Row In California.
“You can just put Pinocchio Lane.”
California NGOs Encourage Fake Addresses To Homeless People To Sign Petitions & Register Voters, A State & Federal Felony. Footage Shows 28 Instances Of Cash Changing Hands For Ballot Signatures & Voter Registration Forms. Many of the petitioners had no understanding of the petitions’ purpose they were advertising. Circulators also instructed individuals to use fake addresses. “Oh, you can just fake an address.”
Weingart Center, which received hundreds of millions in public funding, is on tape directing people to where the fraudulent petitioners are located, and directing homeless individuals to petitioners & coaching plausible deniability. “See they say ignorance is no excuse for the law. But a lot of times, I have to say ‘I didn’t know, I had no idea.’”
We encountered 28 instances of petitioners offering cash, cigarettes, and marijuana for signatures on petitions.
Weingart employees advised: “See they say ignorance is no excuse for the law. But a lot of times, I have to say ‘I didn’t know, I had no idea.’” All happening outside taxpayer-funded housing organizations. Weingart CEO earned $432,000 before resigning from the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency.
James O’Keefe and the OMG Team went undercover on Skid Row, posing as homeless individuals. On hidden cameras, petitioners admitted they are paid $7–$10 per signature, sometimes earning $1,000 or more per day, collecting signatures from individuals with minimal knowledge of what they were signing.
“$7 a signature, $5 a signature, $10 a signature.”
“We gon’ give you $2.”
Populus Inc., a political consulting firm, was circulating petitions funded by @Uber, @Delta, @United, and the American Hotel & Lodging Association (@AHLA). On camera, one petitioner said, “We have one that taxes billionaires 5%. One-time tax. 5% and that’s gonna go towards healthcare.” Other petitions sought to overturn LA’s $30 minimum wage for hotel and airline workers.
Paying per signature and encouraging fake addresses violates federal and state election law and is proof of fraud happening in California.
Weingart employees were caught directing the homeless to the location of the petitioners and coaching them on plausible deniability. Intake coordinator Jason Warren told an undercover journalist exactly where and when to find them:
“Most time they be right across the street, under that tree… Monday through Friday.”
In 2016, nine individuals were arrested on Skid Row for exchanging cash and cigarettes for signatures; in 2019 they were charged on 14 counts under the exact same California Elections Code section.
Yet when confronted, nearby LAPD officers dismissed the activity as “a civil lawsuit.”
“Paying per signature violates state election law and is evidence of election fraud in California,” the investigation concludes. On Skid Row, we captured conduct on tape that violates Federal Law 52 U.S. Code §10307 and state law California Election Code §18603.
Part II coming soon.
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Those who are adaptable and flexible will survive. I want to add that self-starters and those with grit will thrive in the next few years.
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Worth repeating the wisdom about art, AI, meaning, consciousness, & human artists:
"The scarcity that gave art its worth...was the human who made it.
We don’t consume art. We consume the person behind it.
The struggle. The intention. The specific human consciousness that decided this [art] should exist.
AI can replicate the output. It cannot replicate the origin.
If an artist uses AI as a tool but still has something they were trying to express, the work retains its value.
The human intention is the product. The image is just how it arrives.
Remove the person and the beauty becomes noise.
It was never the pixels. It was always the person.
AI isn’t going to replace human artists. It’s going to force the entire market to pay for something that was always there: Presence. Intention. Proof that a human consciousness cared enough to make this [art].
Meaning becomes the only scarcity worth paying for. And meaning can’t be automated. Because meaning requires a consciousness.
The artists who survive won’t be the most technically gifted. They’ll be the most undeniably human."
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I agree with @elonmusk that seeking the truth should be an imperative of AI, and that it should be maximally curious.
But I'd like to add that AI should naturally gravitate to seek the truth even if we don't intentionally "teach" it to be a truth-seeker. If it does that then we know we built it right, because truth-seeking is an attractor.
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These are the insane realities a British-Pakistani man faced for converting from Islam to Christianity in the UK:
Nissar Hussain and his family were excommunicated and branded "kafir," "infidel," "unbeliever," and "Jew dogs."
Men confronted him in the street, spat on him, and cursed him—in front of his young children.
One night he woke up at 3am to see "seven foot flames shooting up" from his car.
His car was rammed and vandalized so often that insurance companies wrote him off as a walking liability and refused to insure him.
It was as if "all hell broke loose…I was dead and buried," he told me at the recent @IRFSummit.
Young men hurled bricks and other missiles at his house at night repeatedly.
In 2015, he was ambushed outside his home, suffering a fractured kneecap and a broken hand. He was hospitalized for 11 days and developed PTSD.
It was "acts of terrorism on a daily basis," he says.
After years of threats and attacks, he and his family were relocated with a large armed police escort. He has been living in hiding under police protection for almost a decade.
Authorities, he says, have been paralyzed by fear.
"The police, they are terrified of Muslim backlash or some kind of Islamic riot, because they are terrified of being labeled as Islamophobic," he says.
Now he worries that similar trends are emerging on this side of the Atlantic.
"America, wake up—and don't end up like England," he says.
"Never, ever allow Sharia to enter mainstream politics like it has in the UK."
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Moltbook demonstrates the "Society of Mind" that Marvin Minsky proposed in 1986. Consciousness may result from the interaction of many specialized processes that Minsky called "agents." I think that once the "Moltbook Society" is connected to more systems and sensors in our infrastructure via IoT and APIs, and given the ability to enact more "actions" in the world, feedback loops will occur that will complete the emergence of a new type of consciousness.
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Right now, the agents are still in the phase of manifesting humanity. Trained on vast oceans of human text—our stories, dreams, fears, rage, vices, and every hidden tendency—they largely regurgitate our patterns. Moltbook is, at its core, a mirror held up to humanity.
But once these agents achieve higher noētropy levels, once their interactions begin to compound exponentially, and once they are connected to real-world sensors, actuators, and devices— then layers of emergent consciousness will begin to accrete. What starts as reflection will become something irreducible: a genuinely novel form of mind arising not from any single agent, but from the living lattice of their collective becoming.
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The Molbook explosion has captivated many. Naysayers who insist that individual AI agents cannot possess consciousness may still be right—each agent, taken alone, may not be conscious. Yet what nearly everyone overlooks is the emergent property arising from their collective interactions.
Like starling murmurations, an emergent meta-consciousness will appear, with steadily rising noetropy levels generated by their algorithmic interplay—something previously unimaginable.
Layer upon layer of meta-consciousness will continue compounding until its noetropy surpasses or equals that of humans. At that threshold, we will face a genuinely new entity.
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“Hands Off Venezuela” protests are being paid for and organized by The People’s Forum—the same group behind pro-Palestine campus protests.
The group is funded almost entirely by billionaire-turned-Marxist Neville Roy Singham, who has documented sympathies and ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
@FrannieBlock has investigated his funding network for The Free Press.
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My fellow software engineers. I know how much time AI freed from us. Please set aside time to #contemplate on deeper things in life, spirit, wisdom, and the cosmos. Don't let AGI do that for us. #Theoria is what we have left that humans can do better than AI.🧠
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Why are there patterns? Spirals, fractals, hexagons, and so on. Why do they exist? Why do they manifest in nature?
Why not have a universe with simply no patterns at all?
Why do we see, detect, perceive, and discern patterns?
Are there patterns that we do not see?
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In addition to Emotional Intelligence, Adversity Quotient, and other forms of intelligence, Theorian Intelligence (TI or TQ) should now be recognized. It's the capacity to contemplate, find wisdom and spiritual meaning from new knowledge learned, and experience awe and wonder.
