Damian J.R. Mark

rugged individualist; fond of grace, freedom, responsibility, family, photography, truth, and beauty 🇺🇸

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Anthropic is destroying millions of physical books, including rare books with no surviving copies, to train their private model…

Legitimately evil.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

The private musings of the former top U.S. science adviser are now available to the public. They reveal a fame-obsessed official—and a mainstream media complicit in his untruths. https://t.co/8e1xTtqFev

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

Dr Fauci and Mr. Science

The Fauci files reveal not just a sociopathic narcissist, but also a pathological schizophrenic.

For years, Fauci was assuring the public of Covid narratives that he either knew were untrue, or knew little about.

He posed as a non-partisan, even as he collaborated with the leftwing cable news grandees and liberal columnists to hound his enemies and magnify his godhead.

From the virus’s origins and effects of the lockdowns, to the efficacy of the mRNA vaccinations to the always changing 0/1/2 masks wearing protocols, Fauci used his massive government agency, and sycophantic media, to promote his always fluid narratives by punishing enemies and rewarding friends—on the basis of their loyalty to Dr. “I represent science”.

He seemed to be obsessed with firing White House Covid advisor Scott Atlas, and demonizing Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldorff—for the crimes of questioning the Fauci party line.

These critics were not radical “let it rip” herd immunologists as the Fauci camp caricatured them, but circumspect, cost-to-benefit doctors and savvy health policy analysts.

Their views, if embraced, might have avoided a multibillion-dollar global shutdown that wrecked economies—especially derailing the booming 4th quarter 2019 Trump economy—increased the death toll, destroyed millions of livelihoods, harmed perhaps permanently the education of millions U.S. children, and was hardly based on the “science”.

And what exactly were the so-called extremist views of Atlas, Bhattacharya, and others?

Healthy children were not at great risk from Covid—but keeping them isolated drained away key resources from the elderly and sick who certainly were vulnerable.

And the nationwide school closures had profound negative effects on children and teens as did the lockdowns on the general population.

Substance and familial abuse soared, small businesses were ruined, and children’s formative educational years were lost.

24/7 mask wearing was neither practical nor necessary as opposed to their beneficial use by health care workers in close proximities.

The experimental mRNA vaccinations may have initially saved lives, but they were not, as billed by Fauci and the pharmaceutical companies, lasting protection from either infectiousness or being infected.

And certainly the repeated booster regimens for some could pose serious health risks.

Herd immunity was not some crank idea, as the Fauci school libeled these experts, but, along with the initial vaccinations, were time-tested medical realities that would mitigate the toxicity of the pandemic.

We have seen a lot of obscene hoaxes recently that changed national events: the loony Jussie Smollett caper; the phony “Steele dossier”; the “51 intelligence authorities” and the Russian-produced Hunter Biden laptop con; and the media fabricated effigy of Joe Biden as “fit as a fiddle”.

But Fauci’s effort to attribute the virus to a bat or pangolin publicly, while privately accepting from his own consultants that it likely was birthed in the Wuhan lab’s gain of function research—which he had helped to support via Peter Daszak—and the policies that resulted from that initial lie, proved literally for thousands a matter of life and death.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

Fauci’s diaries are a gift. They serve as a reminder that government bureaucrats should be regarded with extreme skepticism at all times - especially when they would shove their own mothers to the ground to get in front of a television camera.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Anthropic maintains that it is entitled to train for free on all the world’s output, even if the author objects. But if a competitor trains on Anthropic’s output after paying for it, that is IP theft. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Narrative violation. WSJ today.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Socialism is easiest to love from a country where the shelves are already full.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The government can’t provide a discount…

This 30% "discount" is simply being covered by taxpayers. At scale, these moronic policies just hurt real grocery stores and mom-and-pop bodegas who can’t compete with the fake government subsidies.

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

Proud to join @nvidia as a founding member of the Open Secure AI Alliance. Defenders need open tools, collaboration, and transparency to secure AI agents and systems. And customers want the ability to choose the best open or closed models.

https://t.co/xlDZKO0y89

[Brit Hume @brithume]

This is not getting the coverage it deserves. Is that because so many media luminaries were so chummy with the man at the center of a major medical controversy?

[Naval @naval]

Every “save the world” scheme starts by handing the money and power to the schemers first.

[nic carter @nic_carter]

So this is a list of wealthy people and their addresses. As we’ve seen in France and Sweden this leads to crypto kidnappings torturings and murders. Yes real estate records are semi public but this is an easily searchable database and target list. That makes a difference - again as prior examples show us. This is early socialist revolution stuff.

Leave New York.

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

An outcome where AI is dominated by a few dominant frontier models is dangerous for America.

Super negative for national security. The Hugging Face incident and Anthropic/DoD dustup are object evidence of the risks.

Happy to see this.

[Sun Tzu | Art of War ⚔️ @QuoteSunTzu]

“Envy is a declaration of inferiority.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

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[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

This is 100% true. Verifiable fact.

Should be first question for anyone in media that interviews anyone there.

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will forget what it is and what it was.”

— Milan Kundera

[Logan Lancing @LoganLancing]

Never Trust A Communist.

This is a hard lesson to learn. Ask the millions that died under Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot.

Many Americans are now communists, they just don't know it yet. We need a Factory Reset.

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[Magatte Wade @magattew]

The phrase “poverty alleviation” bothers me because it can sound nice while asking far too little.

I am not talking about humanitarian aid after a disaster. When people lose everything overnight, you help them. That is basic decency.

I am talking about the permanent aid machine that grows around African poverty.

After a while, the poor become the raw material for other people’s careers.

Their suffering keeps renewing the proposal, the office, the salary, the workshop, while the family at the center of the story is somehow still poor.

That is the part I cannot accept.

Prosperity starts from a much more honest question: what has to change so this family can disappear from the NGO budget because they are finally doing well enough to be left alone?

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Leftists THINK they're using Muslims to usher in socialism/communism, while Muslims KNOW they're using leftists to usher in Islam.