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[Mads Strange @MadsStrange_]

Jeg er chokeret over, hvordan Folketinget bevilger offentlige udgifter.

I går deltog jeg i et møde i Finansudvalget, hvor vi skulle godkende udgifter for flere milliarder skattekroner.

Lisbeth Bech-Nielsen ville som ny minister for Samfundssikkerhed og Beredskab have bevilget 700 mio. skattekroner på en hastebehandling.

Men hendes fremsendte dokument med oversigt over udgifterne var så fejlbehæftet, at det måtte trækkes tilbage igen - efter at jeg påpegede fejlene.

Og hun havde med kun halvanden dages varsel anmodet om at hastebehandle forslaget uden at ville svare på, hvorfor en hastebehandling er nødvendig.

Det her går simpelthen ikke.

Til det her møde havde jeg flere hundrede siders dokumenter, der skulle læses.

Så det var vitterligt kun et heldigt tilfælde, at jeg faldt over ministerens regnefejl.

Vi skylder alle de arbejdende danskere, at vi ikke bare klatter deres penge væk i vildskab uden at have den fornødne indsigt i, hvad deres penge bliver brugt på.

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Thomas Sowell: "The press [media] are also responsible for the distortion of facts. They choose to ignore certain things, because it does not fit their vision of the world."

[Martin Mygind @societyguidebk]

Hvor er denne overskrift fra TV2 dog syg og misvisende! SKAM JER!!!

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.”

— Milton Friedman

[Benjamin Haxha @benjamin_haxha]

Kan #dkmedier ikke stoppe med at kalde skattefinansieret tandlæge og offentlig transport for "gratis".

I er direkte med til at vildlede befolkningen, når I fremstiller det som "gratis". For det er i sidste ende vores allesammens skattekroner, som skal finansiere det. #dkpol

[Peter Sønderby-Wagner 🌍 @sonderby]

Skammeligt at hædre Merkel for den førte politik.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman: “Everybody is capable of persuading himself that what is in his interest is in the nation’s interest.”

“So you get a concentrated group of governmental bureaucrats who make it more and more difficult to follow policies which are in the general interest if they tend to conflict with their own bureaucratic interest.”

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

This is why Thomas Sowell's perspective on immigration still resonates today.

[Mark ₿jørk @Mark_bjork_]

@rikkestenpigen Hvor ser du dem henne? 🧐

[Mark ₿jørk @Mark_bjork_]

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[Reflection🪩 @0xReflection]

🚨 As promised, $BTC hit $79,000

I want to change someone's life and send 0.5 $BTC (~$40,800) to one person by tomorrow

Just like, RT and reply '+'

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[Ken Blackwell @kenblackwell]

Thomas Sowell is 95 years old.

Let that number sit with you.

Ninety-five years on this earth, and in all of them, he has never held public office, never had a viral moment, never begged for anyone’s attention.

What he has done is write 30 books and spend 50 years of patient research building a body of work that has outlasted every fashionable idea his critics tried to bury him with.

While the loudest voices in Washington were chasing polls and the cleverest minds on campus were chasing grants, Sowell was in the library reading the data, tracking the outcomes, and dismantling one bad idea after another.

He doesn’t argue feelings.

He measures results.

He isn’t selling anything.

His whole approach boils down to one line that every politician and activist in this country should be forced to recite before they open their mouths:

“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”

Sit with that, too.

Every federal program, every mandate, every well-meaning crusade carries a cost, and somebody pays it.

Sowell’s life work has been the simple act of asking who.

Listen to him on the “help” our communities have been promised for two generations:

“I’ve been doing studies now for 20 years of programs designed to increase equality. They increase inequality.”

“Even when the programs are designed for disadvantaged groups, they help the affluent members of the disadvantaged groups, while the lower members of those groups fall further behind than ever before.”

That is the whole affirmative action racket laid out in two sentences.

The kids from the same zip codes as the Harvard faculty get the slot, while the kids from the neighborhoods that actually need a ladder are told to wait their turn.

Sowell says it plain:

“The vast majority of blacks who go to places like Harvard, Cornell, and Stanford are not blacks from the ghetto. They’re from the same neighborhoods as the whites there.”

The race hustlers don’t want you to know that, because they need the grievance to stay in business.

Sowell’s advice to young people cuts right through the hustle:

“Stay away from the race hustlers.”

“Equip yourself with skills that people are willing to pay for.”

That is the whole ball game right there, a matter of skills, work, and accountability rather than slogans, hashtags, or another federal program designed to pad a consultant’s salary while leaving the South Side worse off than before.

Here is the line I want every young person in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and every other corner of America to read tonight:

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”

That one sentence explains our schools, our cities, and why the neighborhoods the War on Poverty was supposed to save are in worse shape now than they were before the checks started flowing.

Sowell has pushed a whole generation of us to stop reacting and start asking harder questions.

What are the incentives?

Who actually benefits from this policy?

What do the numbers look like five, ten, twenty years later?

Ask those questions honestly, and the illusion falls apart.

The most dangerous man in America right now isn’t the one shouting on television.

He is the 95-year-old professor in Palo Alto who doesn’t need you to agree with him, because he has the data on his side.

Ninety-five years of telling the truth.

Thank you, Dr. Sowell.

[Mark ₿jørk @Mark_bjork_]

@MadsStrange_ @PayamSamar

[Josh Kale @JoshKale]

This is big... Anthropic just announced a model so powerful they won't release it to the public out of fear over the damage it will cause 😨

Claude Mythos Preview found thousands of zero-day exploits in every major operating system and web browser...

The numbers are hard to believe:
> $50 to find a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, one of the most security-hardened operating systems ever built

> Under $1,000 to find AND build a fully working remote code execution exploit on FreeBSD that grants unauthenticated root access from anywhere on the internet

> Under $2,000 to chain together multiple Linux kernel vulnerabilities into a complete privilege escalation exploit

For context: these are the kinds of findings that previously required elite security researchers working for weeks.
Anthropic engineers with no formal security training asked Mythos to find exploits overnight. They woke up to working code the next morning.

The results were so impressive Anthropic assembled Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, and seven other organizations into Project Glasswing:

A $100M defensive coalition. They're not releasing this model publicly. Instead, they're racing to patch the world's infrastructure before models like this proliferate.

[Nickolei Granell @N_Granell]

Alle medierne i Danmark har siden valget, beskrevet massivt om skandaler i dele af blå blok.

Desværre glemmer de at passe deres arbejde, som frie uafhængelige og upartiske medier!

Dækningen er massiv og ensidig rettet mod blå side, mens tilsvarende problemer eller svagheder på rød side, får langt mindre opmærksomhed.

Det er ikke nyt.

Danske medier (både public service og private) har længe været kritiseret for at have en tendens til at være mere kritiske over for blå politikere og partier, en kritik, der kommer fra både blå vælgere og flere politikere, og som Socialdemokratiet ironisk nok selv har været med til at sætte på dagsordenen ved at kræve undersøgelser af bias i mediestøttede medier.

Frie, uafhængige og upartiske medier burde jo netop passe deres arbejde ved at grave lige dybt i alle retninger.

Når en blok er i "intern krise", er det relevant at dække det. Men hvis samme medier systematisk nedtoner lignende historier fra den anden side (eller kun tager dem op, når det passer ind i en større fortælling), så bliver de ikke upartiske – de bliver medspillere i magtkampen.

Det er ikke konspiration, det er simpelthen en observerbar ubalance i prioriteringen af, hvad der er “skandale” og hvad der er “intern uenighed”.

Medierne glemmer (eller vælger at glemme) at være lige kritiske over for alle. Det er sundt at holde øje med det og læse bredt, både blå og røde kilder for at få et mere fuldt billede.

Valget viste jo også, at vælgerne ikke er enige med mediernes prioritering: hverken rød eller blå blok fik flertal, og Moderaterne sidder igen med nøglen.

Politik er rodet på begge sider, og medierne burde vise det hele, ikke kun det, der passer til én fortælling.

#dkpol #dkmedier

[Mark ₿jørk @Mark_bjork_]

@prestigelisten Fair game, I must have been half asleep. Read it 3 times to be sure, but no..

[Mads Brügger @MBrgger]

Det er altså lidt mærkeligt at DR mener det skal deklareres at journalist ⁦@mrconfino⁩ er udlandsredaktør for Jewish News, men ikke at P3-vært som interviewer Mette Frederiksen er gift med Mette Frederiksens spindoktor. https://t.co/vYC5Dq5Vd1