riverofgrass

Exploring humanity's root directory: Sumerians to Gnostics, politics to personal sovereignty. Random thoughts, eternal questions. 🌾🧬

[riverofgrass @RandomMusings]

@JoshuaBarzon Pink is Mini NY

[riverofgrass @RandomMusings]

@data_republican All cars look the same to me. I went through this twice in the last few years. Just no imagination or creativity. Cars used to be sexy and interesting. They are boring boring boring now.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨🚨THE DEMOCRACY FILES, PART 2: WHEN AND HOW TO DECLARE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ILLEGITIMATE 🚨

Some questioned whether a group of 200 ex-USAID officials could actually pull off their ambitions to rewrite the Constitution.

Here, they describe exactly how it works. They aren't working alone.

The videos all come from Renew to Thrive (R2T) group and associates. Danielle Reiff and Paul Zeitz play key roles within R2T.

R2T sits inside a much, much larger umbrella called United Democracy Alliance (UDA), which is an extremely hush-hush control plane of leaders from major "blocking" NGOs such as 50501 and Indivisible fulfilling various functions. UDA decides when protests get deployed, timelines, how to respond, all that.

R2T's role within UDA is concerned with "the day after tomorrow" - in other words, their function is to conceive what a rewritten American government will look like after the rest of UDA fulfills its purpose. As will be shown, Erica Chenoworth is credited with conceiving UDA in the first place under the Horizons "Big Tent" initiative.

Note here that National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A) is credited for operationalizing UDA. NSL4A is a group of 1,600 ex-military, intelligence, and diplomatic officials. They are led by Rear Admiral Michael E. Smith (Ret). NSL4A also played a key role in the "illegal orders" messaging which targeted Pete Hegseth. Zeitz is also a member of NSL4A.

It must be emphasized that the choice of a military-oriented organization to coordinate NGOs across domestic protests is an interesting one all in itself - especially in an umbrella conceived by a regime change expert like Chenoworth.

You will have a hard time finding any mentions of UDA in the public. They are extremely hush-hush and selective who they talk to.

Mike Smith himself makes a personal appearance in other calls, coordinating Insurrection Act exercises and roleplaying with R2G as one of the participants.

As the audio transcript shows, they have outlined a sequence of "redlines" in which case the federal government should be declared illegitimate. Invoking the Insurrection Act against "peaceful" protesters is one of the most discussed redlines. I will post the illegitimate criteria below, but basically, almost any effective pushback against NGOs is a measure of illegitimacy according to them.

Important to understand:
The audio shows they shopped this idea around governors, but the reality is that governors do not have to explicitly sign on to the pact to play their role in the coup. All they have to do is refuse troops in their state and let UDA / R2G do the work of dissolving the federal government.

[riverofgrass @RandomMusings]

Completely opposite experience. We are saving high double digit thousands on taxes. My car insurance decreased moving to FL. I bought a house in an AE flood zone and my home owners insurance including flood is only $2k more a year. My property taxes are only $1500k more a year. Once prop3 passes, they will eventually match or be less. I purposely didn’t buy in a HOA/CDD community. I’m less than 10 mins from the beach, have anything I want a my fingers tips, festivals and markets everywhere every weekend, and everyone where I live is happy.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

JUST IN: The man who stopped the school shooting in Bend, Oregon, has been identified as 36-year-old Kalub Giamanco.

Giamanco, a carpenter, was reportedly driving home for lunch when he heard gunshots.

After hearing the gunshots, Giamanco, who has a concealed carry permit, followed the suspect into the school.

He then shot and killed 16-year-old John J Griffin moments after the teen opened fire into a special education classroom.

Giamanco, who has two children of his own who attend the school, is family friends with one of the victims, a 7-year-old who uses a wheelchair and was shot in the face.

The 7-year-old survived and is in the hospital.

Three children at Silver Rail Elementary School were killed. Their ages are 5, 8, and 11.

According to Giamanco's brother, Giamanco doesn't feel like a hero because he feels guilty for not being able to save more children.

You are a hero, Kalub.

[riverofgrass @RandomMusings]

@MercuriusFilius I don’t chase bears

[riverofgrass @RandomMusings]

@elonmusk @tbpn @WalterIsaacson We have a little bit of demon mode. It’s called being human.

[riverofgrass @RandomMusings]

@elonmusk Why are we not living like the Jetsons???

[riverofgrass @RandomMusings]

@todayyearsold Leave

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@robbystarbuck You sound just like I did when I was your age though I don’t know how old you are. I’m in my 50’s now and have had my money stolen from me for decades without a choice. We need real solutions that our politicians will never offer or deliver.

[riverofgrass @RandomMusings]

I don’t like pumpkin anything either and then….we went to Detwilers for the first time and my husband picked up their pumpkin cake with cream cheese icing and OMG. I now like pumpkin cake. But only their pumpkin cake. Also why can their prices be so reasonable when Publix is out of this universe???

[riverofgrass @RandomMusings]

@data_republican Agree. We had dinner at a Marina in Ozona last night and while the food was good, the view made it even better.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances.

What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation.

Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture.

It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off.

Structural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic -- I call it the Anthropic Network -- to turn off its own AI doom cycle.

It starts with METR.

Dario Amodei proposes "third-party evaluators" to assess the risk of Anthropic's models.

He proposes METR for this purpose.

But METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic's success -- specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock.

Dustin Moskovitz invested this stock into Good Ventures Foundation, where it represents the majority of that organization's portfolio.

And GVF is the overwhelming funder of the entire Anthropic Network ecosystem.

This stock was worth $500 million early last year.

It is worth more than $7.7 billion just ~16 months later.

METR -- and all of those building a career its parent organizations -- cannot afford to disrupt that growth.

Because if Anthropic goes under, many of the organizations that fund METR go under as well.

But if Anthropic succeeds, METR and its parent organizations become more richly financed to regulate AI -- something those at METR want very much.

The "third-party evaluator" is not "third-party" at all.

The evaluator is on Anthropic's payroll.

If this were the end of it, that's bad.

But that isn't all.

The same organizations that fund METR also fund the many organizations, such as the Tarbell Center, that promote AI Doom.

The Tarbell Center publishes AI Doom articles in The Verge, Science, LA Times, The Dispatch, TIME, and others.

They are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's.

All of these organizations are financially dependent on the same exploding $7 billion money pile.

As Anthropic grows more and more powerful, its AI Doom Machine grows better and better financed -- louder and louder.

Meanwhile, the regulatory regime seeded in METR grows larger to solve the increasingly loud -- now hysterical -- problem of AI Doom that the Anthropic Network itself created.

From this standpoint, as Anthropic becomes more powerful, AI might be getting scarier, sure -- but the positive feedback loop also becomes more deafening -- independent of objective facts.

This itself is an objective fact.

The deafening AI Doom is part of an business model, that, as it expands, so too does the AI Doom messaging -- there is simply more money to do it.

But the problem also goes in the other direction:

If Anthropic dies, the Regulatory Regime and the AI Doom Machine are crippled or die.

Neither METR nor Tarbell nor the other organizations in the Anthropic Network can allow that to happen.

Hence, neither METR or the AI Doom Machine can be trusted to provide independent assessments of Anthropic's models or AI more broadly.

They simply are not organizations independent of Anthropic.

And Anthropic cannot detach itself from METR or Tarbell or countless other safety orgs (not shown here), either, because they drive hype for the models and the possibility of eventual regulatory capture, and Anthropic will not give that up willingly.

What's more, the people at all of these organizations are all the same ecosystem, the same community. They just shuffle between organizations.

The Anthropic Network is therefore, so long as it is successful, locked into a self-amplifying feedback loop inside an ideological monoculture.

And that feedback loop is winning.

That's what Jacob Coxon is.

China is keeping messaging tight. That is why optimism for AI is so high in China.

America has Anthropic: a massive company pushing anti-AI propaganda at a state level.

Anthropic will either create hysteria until American AI slows down and China wins, or it will create fractures throughout American society with severe political consequences.

Ironically, because of the structural financial incentives underpinning the Anthropic Network, it has become the same kind of self-amplifying virus that it fantasizes AI to become in the future -- while hiding its tracks just as carefully.

It is the mirror of the same AI virus that it hypothesizes to consume America.

Anthropic's business model, models itself after the very thing it claims to fear.

Except Anthropic's ideology infects humans, not computers.

Congress must investigate.

Evidence and Github in next post.

Then some supplementary figures.

[riverofgrass @RandomMusings]

@DarioAmodei I don’t know why but for some reason reason this post makes me think of the YES lyrics from I’ve Seen All Good People…

Don't surround yourself with yourself
Move on back two squares
Send an Instant Karma to me
Initial it with loving care (Don't surround yourself)

[riverofgrass @RandomMusings]

We just sold our lake house and are moving to SW FL. The new owners bought my furniture package which included our tempur pedic bed which is hands down the best bed we’ve ever had. We are going to purchase exactly what you did and I had the same thought. Holy shit this bed is expensive but we spend more time in it than anywhere else!!! Which base did you get? I’m so tempted to get the one that soothes you to sleep I figure why not spend the extra 2k at this point!

[riverofgrass @RandomMusings]

@dandinohill None. Independent. All political parties have failed us.

[riverofgrass @RandomMusings]

@mattvanswol He didn’t even hold back. Have a woman a full throttle punch for what? The world has lost its damn minds

[riverofgrass @RandomMusings]

@CBSNews I just learned yesterday United health care wasn’t even his health insurance company.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

NBC’s reaction to finding out 5 USB sticks in Milwaukee were MISSING RESULTS of the Election at midnight is priceless.

Steve Kornacki was speechless…

[Townhall.com @townhallcom]

A CNN panel moment NOBODY expected...

Bush WH spokesman Pete Seat, sitting next to Obama strategist David Axelrod, drops this:

"Barack Obama got on the 2008 Indiana primary ballot because Democrats in St. Joseph County submitted fraudulent petition signatures. People, including the county Democratic chair, went to jail over it. He shouldn't have been on that ballot."

Axelrod's response: "How did that get determined?"

Seat: "It was exposed two years later. Went through the courts. People went to jail. That's the problem: nobody caught it before he was already on the ballot."

Fact check: TRUE✅

In 2013, 4 Indiana Democrats were convicted for forging those signatures and copying names straight off old petitions, including one from a former governor who said he never signed it. County chair Butch Morgan went to prison for orchestrating it.

The thing they tell you never happens happened again.

Election fraud isn't a theory. It happened, and a party chairman did time for it.