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When can we vacation in Venezuela? Let's Trump that place & Cuba, too. Let's rename it the Ameribbean.
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America has nothing to fear from Russia, China, India, all of Europe and the entire Western Hemisphere. Mexican and Canadian immigrants have always been welcome. They're Christians. Islam is a problem cause of a book they believe which instructs them to kill Christians.
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Patrick McCormick retweeted
When you die, you don't know you're dead, you don't suffer from it, but it's hard for everyone else. The same goes for when you're an idiot.
Albert Einstein
On Veterans Day I'm remembering my dad, Dr. Raymond "Sam" McCormick, a B-24 navigator with the 8th Air Force. Shot down over France in June 1944, he was one of two survivors of his crew and spent 10 months as a POW. Thank you, Dad, and every veteran. 🇺🇸
Musk loves humanity and is unashamed to be a member. He knows this looks ridiculous but understands humility, particularly in China.
Regardless of the form of government, AI will provide for all unless we are too afraid. It won't matter what the government wants to give away for free because it will actually be free.
I think Musk understands this and believes that if China India, and the US were to partner in the AI race, the sheer size and efficiency would control global supply.
The only thing stopping this would be manipulation of either production or delivery, both of which are already optimized to be free of any such concerns.
AI leaves no room for false claims regarding actual cost because the AI empowers every individual to start a more efficient version of any businesses without any of the startup's mistakes.
AI removes any excuse for arriving systematically at abundance. That's Musk's purpose in life and the universe is improved by the presence of such purpose.
I'll take a lot of shit for saying this, but Musk has a ton of humility. It fuels his understanding by allowing him to remove unnecessary concerns programmatically, which is why his management flourishes.
We are alive in the time of Super-Edisons in no small part cause of this guy. He helps us dream of the impossible by showing it's possible.
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We need something better than this. 8 pages of graphs & 9 paragraphs needs a visit to the marketing department. If you can fit it into a sentence & add a picture that prove it, that would help. Brevity is wit. Use your I. Hell - use your AI.
THE 15% BAND
Look at this chart.
59 races. Senate and governor.
States ordered from reddest to bluest in 2024.
The solid lines are 2024.
The dashed lines are 2026.
The shaded bands are what moved.
One formula fits all of it:
Republican 2026 = 0.85 × Trump 2024
Democrat 2026 = Harris 2024 + 0.15 × Trump 2024
For every 1,000 Trump points, 850 stayed Republican. 150 landed on the Democratic side.
The numbers:
Senate: Republicans kept ~85% of Trump’s share
Governor: ~86%
Variation explained: 88%
What makes it strange:
It didn’t matter how red the state was. Wyoming, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts: same 15% (p = 0.69). The Democratic gain was sized by Trump’s vote, not Harris’s. The Harris part is zero.
The 0.85 beat both standard election-swing models in every set of races.
Drop any single state and the multiplier stays between 0.846 and 0.853.
Why seats flipped:
At 0.85, any state where Trump got under about 58.5% falls below 50%. Texas, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, South Carolina, North Carolina: all under that line. All flipped.
What this means:
Midterms are messy. This one isn’t. Two sets of races, different candidates, different campaigns, and the same 15% decrease almost everywhere.
A pattern this even demands answers at the ballot level: paper ballot hand counts, poll-book check-ins against votes counted, and voter files showing who actually turned out.
The numbers raise the question.
The ballots can answer it.
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Patrick McCormick retweeted
These are the most important words a White House Chief of Staff have ever spoken…
Listen. You know I am right.
Patrick McCormick retweeted
Andreessen wrote that “software is eating the world.”
What seems obvious today is that “AI is going to eat bureaucracy.”
For the last couple of months, I have been running circles around the bureaucratic processes of my university.
Here is a recent example. This summer I was charged with producing an assessment of a certificate program. Normally, as a professor, it is a significant fraction of your time. You often get to deduct this time from your teaching duties. It is a lengthy process that ends up with a complex report that might span 100 pages or so.
I threw thousands of documents and all the expected analysis at my AI. There was still some manual labour, because I have not connected my AI to my email… But I did weeks or months of work in hours.
And the result is massively better than what I would have done by hand.
I am just burning through the legalese, the forms, everything.
Where does that lead us?
If you are not using agentic AI, you are seriously handicapped. You are going to be swarmed, overwhelmed. You won’t understand what is happening.
But if you are using AI, if you are using it well, then the time tax of bureaucracy is melting with every month that passes. I’m soon going to automate entirely the bureaucratic component of my job.
What a time to be alive.
Elections should be on policy - not people. All of our ballots should be issue choices. The people who's job it is to enact those policies should be chosen randomly, like jury duty.
Messaging still blows because of propaganda. Trump needs to rescind the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act.
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Like Reagan, Trump took a bullet from the corrupt. He's no poet. He risked his life and exposed problems. We owe him that.
Trump has been talking down to the American people for his entire second term, something he never did in the first. It started with the Epstein debacle. Now that he’s losing and unpopular, he’s going to point the finger at his own citizens with no concern for what his meltdown will do to the future of the conservative movement or the Republican Party. It’s going to get worse and uglier. The worst thing conservatives can do now is feel any obligation at all to defend this bullshit. It’s indefensible and we all know it.
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