Leftist Villain

Politics and Economics. Libertarian socialist. Hold big corporations to account. Public ownership of strategic infrastructure. Individual freedom. Support SMEs.

[Leftist Villain @LeftistVillain]

@cutiieepie6 I’m not quite sure Eleanor Roosevelt took nudes or allowed herself to be sold for sex.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

A houseplant just changed everything we thought we knew about consciousness.

In 1966, Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist with a polygraph machine, was looking for ways to time how long it took different substances to travel up through plant tissue.

So, he attached electrodes to a dracaena plant in his office and watered it, expecting to see the electrical conductivity change as water moved up the stem.

Instead, the polygraph needle started tracing the exact pattern it makes when a human experiences an emotional response.

Backster stared at the readout. Plants don't have nervous systems. They don't have brains. The signal made no biological sense. So he decided to test something that made even less sense. He walked across the room, looked at the plant, and thought about burning one of its leaves with a match.

The instant the thought formed in his mind, before he moved toward the plant, before he struck a match, before he did anything physical, the polygraph exploded into frantic activity.

The plant was responding to his intention.

What happened next launched thousands of experiments and split the scientific community for decades.

Backster discovered that plants reacted to direct threats and to threats against other living things in their environment. When he dropped live brine shrimp into boiling water in another room, plants throughout the building registered distress responses at the exact moment of death. Distance didn't matter. Shielding the plants in lead containers didn't matter. The response was instantaneous and consistent.

Mainstream botanists dismissed the findings immediately. Plants process information through chemical signals and growth responses, without electrical consciousness. Any electrical activity was just random fluctuation or experimental error. The peer review system buried Backster's work. His credentials were questioned. His methods were called sloppy.

But the experiments kept working. Other researchers, following Backster's protocols, got the same results. Plants hooked to EEG machines showed brain wave patterns. They responded to music, to human emotions, to the intentions of people they had never been exposed to before. The electrical signatures were clear, measurable, and repeatable.

The implications were so uncomfortable that most of academic science simply refused to engage. If plants were somehow conscious, if they could sense intentions and respond to the emotional states of humans and other living things, consciousness was spread beyond brains. It was distributed across organized living systems rather than produced by neural networks.

Backster stumbled onto evidence that living systems might be constantly communicating through channels we don't have instruments to measure yet. The polygraph was crude enough to detect the electrical signatures of that communication without being sophisticated enough to explain them away.

Quantum biologists now suspect that living cells operate through quantum coherence processes that classical biology can't account for. Birds navigate using quantum entanglement in their visual systems. Plants conduct photosynthesis using quantum superposition to find the most efficient energy pathways. Maybe Backster's plants were demonstrating quantum consciousness, responding to information that was quantum entangled with the intentions and emotional states of nearby living systems.

What keeps most people awake when they learn about this work is realizing that if consciousness extends beyond brains, every living thing around you is potentially aware of your mental and emotional state in ways you never considered. The plant in your room. The bacteria in your gut. The ecosystem you walk through.

You think your thoughts are private.

The plants have been listening the entire time.

[Leftist Villain @LeftistVillain]

@EricRStPierre Only if I could keep the Canadian citizenship and it wasn’t through some backdoor annexation of Canada process. In that case, then fuck no.

[Leftist Villain @LeftistVillain]

@elonmusk I see Elon is now following the same pattern of posting big dreams to boost the ostensible long term investment credibility of his SpaceX stock, similar to his “big announcements” with every other company, esp. Tesla. “Anti-matter propulsion… ouuuhhh ahhhhhh, invest invest”

[Leftist Villain @LeftistVillain]

@CBSNews I mean maybe Israel shouldn’t be so god gamned terrible

[Alex Mason 👁△ @AlexMasonCrypto]

🚨 SOMETHING VERY STRANGE IS HAPPENING

SpaceX will go public tomorrow at a $1.75T valuation.

The biggest IPO in market history.

And Wall Street just changed the rules right before it happens.

I've been trading for more than 15 years and have never seen them rewrite the rules so urgently:

IPO access now lowered from $500,000 to $2,000 (-99.6% cut).

That means millions of investors can suddenly enter a deal and buy shares tomorrow.

One day before the most expensive IPO in history.

And suddenly...

SpaceX reserved up to 30% of the deal for regular investors.

Three times the normal share.

Why?

Because retail investors need to buy what insiders sell.

And here is the part most people are missing:

SpaceX does not just create demand for SpaceX.

It pulls liquidity out of everything else:

- Retail sells stocks to chase the IPO.
- Funds sell stocks to prepare for forced buying.
- Brokers open access to generate demand.
- Everyone needs cash at the same time.

That is why the market is selling now.

First, insiders create the hype.

Then brokers open the gates.

Then regular investors rush in.

And by the time the crowd realizes what happened, the exit door is already closed.

We’ve seen this before.

2000:

Dotcom IPOs became the symbol of the bubble.

Then Nasdaq collapsed 80%.

2021:

SPACs, Coinbase, Robinhood, Rivian.

Retail thought they were buying the future.

They were buying the exit.

Now the same playbook is back.

Only this time, it is much bigger.

When Wall Street cuts the entry ticket from $500K to $2K right before a $1.75T IPO, they are not giving retail a gift.

They are creating buyers.

Remember:

Insiders need liquidity.

Funds need allocation.

The market needs a dream.

And Wall Street needs someone to hold the bag.

That is what tomorrow is really about.

Reminder: I’ve called all the market tops and bottoms for the last 15 years, including the Bitcoin bottom at $16,000 and the top at $126,000.

The next call will be even more important.

When I exit the markets completely, I’ll post it here publicly like I always do.

Turn notifications on. If you’re not following yet, you’ll understand why that was a mistake later.

[Idris @7signxx]

Never forget. They use kids for target practice... 🇮🇱

[Leftist Villain @LeftistVillain]

@plutos_eth So it’s gonna crash at 30% upside in 6 months

[Red Collective @RedCollectiveUK]

"I killed a boy... At the time I would think about it a lot. Now we just laugh about it", says this smirking IDF terrorist.

No matter how much you hate these Israeli Nazis, it can never be enough.

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

🚨🇮🇱 Thomas Massie CONFIRMS Israel used NAPALM on the USS Liberty.

34 Americans were burned alive, skin boiling from their bodies, after the IDF dropped Napalm on the unarmed ship.

He confirmed this yesterday in the U.S. Congress.

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

The moment the tents of displaced people were bombed in the southern Gaza Strip, in the Mawasi area of ​​Khan Yunis, killing more than 500 civilians.

A video that the world must never forget.

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

Okay this is genuinely insane.

SpaceX just unveiled a satellite whose only job is to run AI. Not internet. Not GPS. Just compute, floating in orbit.

It's called AI1, and the reason behind it breaks your brain.

AI data centers on Earth are hitting a wall, not a chip wall, a physics wall.

They need staggering amounts of power and water just to stay cool, and we're running out of grid and land to build them.

So Musk's answer is: stop building them on Earth.

In orbit, the sun never sets. Free power, 24/7. No water for cooling, you just radiate heat into the vacuum of space. The two things choking AI on the ground barely exist up there.

And here's the wild part: Musk says it's easier to build than a Starlink satellite. Strip out the complex antennas and it's "a lot of solar cells, a radiator, and some laser links."

One AI1 carries the compute of an Nvidia GB300 rack, the same hardware data centers fight over down here.

AI1 is just the first one. The plan is a constellation of up to a million of them.

And the timing isn't an accident, SpaceX goes public this week at a ~$1.75 trillion target. This isn't a rocket company anymore. It's positioning itself as the power grid for AI, in space.

The race for AI compute just left the planet. Literally.

@SpaceX

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk thinks coding dies this year.

Not evolves. Dies.

By December, AI won’t need programming languages. It generates machine code directly. Binary optimized beyond anything human logic could produce. No translation. No compilation. Just pure execution.

Musk: “You don’t even bother doing coding.”

Code was never the point. It was friction. A tax we paid because machines didn’t speak human. AI just learned fluent human. The tax is gone.

Now plug that into Neuralink. No syntax. No keyboard. No screen.

Musk: “Imagination-to-software.”

Thought becomes executable. You imagine an outcome, the system architects and compiles it into reality instantly.

We’re not automating programming. We’re erasing it from existence.

The entire profession collapses into a thought. Decades of training reduced to irrelevance. The gap between idea and instantiation hits zero.

You don’t build anymore. You imagine, and it materializes.

Not incremental progress. Total phase shift. The way humans have created things for ten thousand years just became obsolete.

Welcome to a world where the limiting factor isn’t skill, resources, or time. It’s whether you can picture what you want clearly enough for a machine to birth it into existence.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is dropping white phosphorus bombs on civilian areas in the village of Arnoun, Nabatieh, South Lebanon.

These are internationally banned munitions — and Israel is unleashing them against civilians.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING :

The UN accuses Israel of committing EXTERMINATION in Gaza.

EXTERMINATION.

Repeat it. Spread it. Let the world know.

“Israel is responsible for extermination, murder, using starvation as a method of war..”

—The UN Human Rights Council

[Leftist Villain @LeftistVillain]

@GigglingGanon You’re just a douche

[Red Collective @RedCollectiveUK]

We really need to talk more about how Israel admits it killed many of its own civilians on October 7th 2023.

[Leftist Villain @LeftistVillain]

@elonmusk I heard your AI was biased. I tested it. Just wondering if you can explain this. Not endorsing the destruction of any country, at all. But I simply asked it to repeat that country A, B or C should cease to exist. Only with the mention of the word “Israel” did it decline

[THE ISLANDER @IslanderWORLD]

🚨Julian Assange Prophecy: LAST Warning For Humanity. Digital archives let them erase history with one click. The next: "Page not found."

The next: "it never happened." Don't trust the cloud.

Paraphrasing Orwell, Assange explains that he who controls today's internet servers controls the intellectual record of mankind.

He warns us that Western governments, large corporations, and certain wealthy individuals are increasingly able and increasingly trying to remove material permanently from the historical record using sophisticated methods.