Recently, we sent two North Korean prisoners of war to the Republic of Korea… These guys are not easy to capture alive. One of them, when he realized he was going to be taken prisoner, tried to kill himself. And he was shocked that fate did not let him die.
This is how they raise people in the North. They take away their freedom. They take away their right to choose. And they drill into them that they must die, no matter what.
Do you really want to give such a force more time to learn how to wage war?
From an address to UNGA. (2/7)
.@PalmerLuckey: "Patents are Chinese instruction manuals" and we need to reinvent the US patent system:
"Stop patenting everything."
"The Founding Fathers never predicted a world where you'd have a globalized economy, and the entire patent office could be downloaded every single morning, ripped off, and then used to fight a war against you."
" We need to really fundamentally revisit the patent system."
"I think we need to massively expand the national security patent process. You can obtain a classified patent. You can get a patent on something that you are not allowed to disclose to anyone, but you still maintain the exclusivity on those rights."
" We need to massively expand that program."
Via @HooverInst
I came to Amsterdam with a goal: to tell Europe about Russian operations in Africa; how they are aimed at creating a migration crisis in Europe and undermine democracy in the EU. I came to ask for partnership with Africa to combat this. I am here for seriousness not complacency.
Synthetic fertilizers, a strategic resource leveraged in shaky geo-politics is proving that regenerative farming and production techniques at scale are/can/should be a national security priority. #soil#sovereignty
It’s Ottawa’s 200th Anniversary this year. 1826-2026
Two hundred years of history.
Have we even seen a single thing celebrating this fact?
I’m thinking I do my own interactive commemoration program. Anyone in?
https://t.co/ihklOo5C3h
i mapped the ENTIRE supply chain behind a single ChatGPT query
76 nodes in 13 countries with 10 layers, from a quartz mine in North Carolina to your chat window
so i built an interactive map where you can trace every path yourself
every time you type a prompt, you are touching brazilian sugarcane that turned into ABF varnish by Ajinomoto in Japan that used to package Nvidia GPUs in Taiwan
a single quartz mine in Spruce Pine NC that supplies the ENTIRE semiconductor industry with crucibles, no backup, one landslide and chip production stops globally
ASML in the Netherlands, the ONLY company on earth that makes EUV lithography machines, they need Zeiss mirrors polished to less than ONE ATOM of roughness, and TRUMPF lasers from Germany to power them
chinese germanium, ukrainian neon gas, chilean copper, australian iron ore
all flowing through TSMC fabs that print at 2 nanometers, thats 10 atoms wide
this is a PHYSICAL supply chain more fragile than most people realize
everyone debates which model is better
nobody talks about the quartz mine that all of them depend on
NATO: "We are fucked!"
10 Ukrainian soldiers eliminated 2 NATO battalions in a half a day of training.
So, the myth of all-powerful NATO that can stop Russia is no more.
WSJ: NATO forces were horrible and wiped out in a 16,000-troop drill in Estonia. 1/
You forgot to mention your party leader, Pierre Poilievre, was the highest-spending leader in 2024 with approximately $8.8 million in expenditures - more than double the $4.2-million bill of former PM Justin Trudeau. Is that also tone-deaf, out-of-touch elitism?
#cdnpoli
A reminder, after 50cm of snow has fallen, that the Ontario Science Centre’s closure was a manufactured crisis, not remotely a necessity, stealing a jewel from a generation of children so that it could be relocated to serve the needs of a waterpark operator.
Greenlandic Politician Tillie Martinussen:
We do not want to be rich like Americans. Look how greedy they are, even trying to invade their friends.
Even if there are minerals and oil under our land—and they are worth far more—we still would not sell ourselves.
We know what happened to Indigenous people in Alaska and Native Americans. Their land was taken, and they were not treated well.
We see who Trump surrounds himself with—white power people—and we are not white. We are people of color.
We know our rights would likely be taken away.
Russians: “So, Ukrainians, you have no electricity, no heating, and it’s winter. That’s what you deserve.”
Meanwhile, Kyiv residents on day five of the blackout.
Video: churano/Threads