JdB

Husband, Father, Son, Brother, Grandfather. Engineer/Artist/Veteran. EWO, Signals, Space Systems. Free speech absolutist peering behind a curtain of lies.

[JdB @JDBNEB]

Because, it seems relevant today.

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[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

In case you had not noticed, the old Republican/Democrat paradigm is gasping its dying breath.

Going forward, it will be Make America Great Again versus the Democrat Socialists of America.

MAGA vs. DSA.

Liberty vs. tyranny.

The legacy party that fully embraces the new paradigm first will be the winner.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

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[JdB @JDBNEB]

@ZubyMusic Lawrence of Arabia.

[JdB @JDBNEB]

@nicolelampert UN Special Rapporteur is a demon.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

It is a strange thing to be born abroad, inherit the protection of a nation, and spend your career convincing it not to protect itself.

History is full of people who climbed aboard a civilization’s ship and immediately began drilling holes in the hull.

The most dangerous people in a civilization are rarely its enemies. They are the beneficiaries who no longer believe it deserves to exist.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

If you are asking “Why push back against anti-datacenter efforts?” I consider it a tragedy that anti-nuclear efforts largely strangled nuclear power in the US based on vibes, and I don’t want to see that happen to AI. Public opinion matters, and it shouldn’t be ceded unchallenged.

If you are asking “Why should I support AI efforts at all?” I believe we are in the midst of a transition more vibrant than the industrial revolution. Opinions formed a couple of years ago about the uselessness of AI are no longer valid. Millions of people and organizations are getting great returns from using it, and the demand for data centers is the market responding to the value signal. That is how progress is made!

[Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. @RudyHavenstein]

This is what should happen to whoever invented 'CAPTCHA'

[John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen]

This is a disgrace.

A Gulf War Marine veteran named Albert O’Toole who served this country, took a blast that left him with TBI, and was later diagnosed with Alzheimer’s was beaten by his aide Matthew Cox inside the New York State Veterans Home in Montrose, New York.

His wife Angela Sangro became concerned after seeing unexplained bruises and heavy sedation. She installed a hidden camera. The footage shows the aide yanking food out of Albert’s hands, grabbing him by the neck, throwing him into a chair, punching him, and striking him in the head with a broom while he cried out in pain. No one came to help.

The state fired the abuser.
But the federal VA? Still has him employed. Still paying him while the case drags on.

You make veterans fight through hell just to get the benefits and compensation they earned with their blood and sacrifice. You move fast to cut or reduce what’s owed to them.

But when one of your own is caught on camera assaulting a defenseless veteran? You keep him on the federal payroll like it’s nothing.

@SecVetAffairs you talk about accountability. Here it is. Fire this man from the VA now. No pay. No protection. No more dragging it out.
@SecWar our warriors come home broken from fighting for this nation. They deserve better than a system that protects abusers while making veterans fight for every dollar they earned.
@SpeakerJohnson this is on you too. Oversight without teeth is just theater. Do your job.
This isn’t how you treat the men and women who served. This is a betrayal.
Veterans FIRST.
Zero tolerance for those who abuse them.
Immediate action. No excuses.
If you’re not outraged by this, you’re not paying attention.
Semper Fi.
@TheTankGuns

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Elon Musk is not stealing from you.

Gavin Newsom is stealing from you.
Karen Bass is stealing from you.
Tim Walz is stealing from you.
Elizabeth Warren is stealing from you.
AOC is stealing from you.
Becoming wealthy does not make you evil.
The people who take from you, promising to fix problems and then enriching themselves while trying to get you to hate those they’re taking the money from, are evil.

[Tim Schlabach @schlabach_tim]

I've spent 66 years in Oregon. The first 20 years were the best. No one was overtly political. In the late 70's the CA transplant wagon came calling. Soon our teachers were unionized and our education system became indoctrination centers. I literally watched normalcy and morality disappear. Veterans parades turned into pride and naked bike rides. There is not a single public condition that has improved in the last 40 years. Oregon and all blue run states are exhibit A in what happens when extremist leftwing democrat policies get a foothold. Affordability is unattainable, our kids don't learn in school, our neighborhoods are unsafe, and retirement looks like survival school. Civic criminality is codified by activist democrat supermajorities. Our state and country will not survive with extremist democrats in power. Normal Oregonians and Americans must reject this destructive democrat doom loop or our country will not survive. The evidence is outside all of our front doors.

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

Focus on what you can control.

Build something. Anything.

A product. Yourself. A family. Your community. A team. Relationships.

Or help someone else build theirs.

Don’t complain. Don’t play the victim.

Ever.

What are you building?

#PlayNiceButWin

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

This courtroom got awkward fast.
The judge asked, “Ma’am, you claim you managed your husband’s finances perfectly?”

“Absolutely, Your Honor,” she replied proudly. “I turned that man into a millionaire.”

The judge nodded. “Well, that sounds impressive. Then why is your husband over there crying?”

The woman smiled and said, “Because he was a billionaire when he married me.”

[Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. @RudyHavenstein]

Good morning.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is how a plant breathes.

A highly magnified video of single stoma opening and closing on a leaf of a Tradescantia spathacea plant, commonly known as a boat lily.

[📹 Douglas Clark]

[U.S. Air Force Materiel Command ✈️ @HQ_AFMC]

From the AFMC Commander: It is with great sadness that we can confirm the tragic death of eight of our teammates today at Edwards AFB following the crash of a B-52 Stratofortress. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones.

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[Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️ @alexandrosM]

Anthropic is the demonstration of what happens when one player gets ahead of the pack: they leverage their power to cement their lead.

The only alignment method that is known to work is encouraging as much competition as possible. Between companies in the same country, between different countries, between open weights and closed, between small models anyone can train and bigger ones.

The road to hell is paved with concentration of power in fewer and fewer groups.

[JdB @JDBNEB]

@BillboardChris @jamesklug @peterboghossian I now understand that demons are real. A living embodiment of Hieronymus Bosch' works walks among us. Godspeed.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Are they done counting yet?

[JdB @JDBNEB]

@mtomasky No, not really. No one pines the ones that left vaudeville.