Reid Pettit

Travel, adventure, friends, and follower of Jesus.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Married women will literally starve 😳

[Reid Pettit @Reid99]

@profstonge 😃

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Anthropic's "Project Panama" should DISTURB EVERYONE. Anthropic is secretly buying up rare books, slicing their spines, scanning them, and shredding the originals - and it's court sanctioned.

Some of these are the last known physical copies in the world. Now, they're gone forever, for the sake of digitization.

Wanting to digitize them is understandable, and I have no idea if Anthropic is doing anything with malintent. But DESTROYING rare books on purpose is both wrong and dangerous. And based on internal memos, Anthropic knew that's how people would react if this ever got out.

A digital file can be edited, updated, or quietly rewritten overnight. Anthropic could be completely accurate with their reproductions, but that doesn't stop someone else down the line. Without the original physical copy, there is nothing left to check the file against. Every dictator in history who has tried to control the will of the people has known that. This just makes it way easier than gathering up all the books and burning them.

Buy physical books, on acid free paper if you can so they'll last longer.  No one can quietly change a physical book overnight. It is a reliable witness.

[Reid Pettit @Reid99]

@BernieSanders You sir are a charlatan and a fraud.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Maybe the people saying Black people are too stupid to get an ID to vote… are the racists.

Maybe the people saying married women can’t figure out how to get a birth certificate… are the sexists.

Maybe the people who won’t name a single number they’d cap immigration at… are the extremists.

Maybe the people who claim to trust science… but can’t define what a woman is aren’t following it.

Maybe the people obsessed with “equity” while ignoring merit… are the ones holding people back.

Maybe the people calling everyone else a threat to democracy… are the ones trying to rig it.

Maybe the people who fight for the working class from a private jet… are fighting for something else.

Maybe the people who say they care about the poor… have run every major American city for 50 years and made them ALL worse.

Maybe the people calling for more gun control… travel with armed security paid for by taxpayers.

Maybe the people who demand unity while calling half the country fascists… don’t want unity, but surrender

Maybe it was never about justice, or equity, or tolerance, or democracy.

Maybe was always about power.

And maybe you can tell, because they never stop accusing YOU of exactly what THEY are doing.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Anthropic maintains that it is entitled to train for free on all the world’s output, even if the author objects. But if a competitor trains on Anthropic’s output after paying for it, that is IP theft. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

When you do not have a relationship with God, you will spend your entire life chasing the fulfillment that only He can give you. You will chase it through relationships, sex, attention, success, beauty, money, status, or whatever else promises to make you feel whole.

But none of it will ever be enough.

You might feel satisfied for a moment, but the feeling always fades, and then you have to chase the next thing. The next relationship. The next compliment. The next achievement. The next person who makes you feel wanted.

We were created for communion with God. There is a part of us that was made to know Him, to be loved by Him, and to find our identity in Him. When that relationship is missing, we don’t stop needing fulfillment. We just try to find it somewhere else.

And that is where so much of the deception begins.

[Reid Pettit @Reid99]

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[John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen]

While Obama, Hillary, and Panetta were at Andrews AFB on September 14, 2012 putting on the dignified transfer show for our brothers…

The Annex team and DS team was still in Germany. We got left there on purpose so we couldn’t be at that ceremony.

When we landed at Ramstein, the USO was waiting on the tarmac. They knew we left everything behind in Benghazi, so they had clothes, shoes, socks, and toiletries set up for us.
The Tripoli Embassy people who had all their luggage and plenty of time to pack went through the line first. As we sat there just watching, they took every last damn thing. Socks, Underwear, Pants, Toothpaste, Toothbrushes, Mouthwash, all of it. Looked like flies hoarding on a fresh pile of shit. They couldn’t get to the stuff fast enough. Nothing left for the guys who still had blood on their boots.

As the whole team from Benghazi just sat there looking at these flies, the @The_USO team came up, talked to us, and asked if we were the guys from Benghazi. They left and came back with a couple hundred bucks each on a card so we could go buy clothes and toiletries the next morning, thank GOD!

We got debriefed again in Germany and asked if we wanted to talk to the FBI. We looked at each other this was a terrorist attack. The military should be handling it, not treating it like some criminal case.

We learned about the ceremony and had to watch that whole thing from Germany. Then once their ceremony was over, they came to us and said, “You can go home now… but you got to find and buy your own plane ticket back.”

We watched the whole “it was a video protest that turned into a riot” lie from Germany as well and knew every word of it was bullshit.
That’s what we were doing while they put on the show.
Never forget.
Never stop telling the truth.
#alwaysmoveforward #benghazi #tig #13hours

[Wilco de Kreij @Emarky]

Last week I got permission to drive again. First time in a year!

Why? A year ago, I blacked out behind the wheel and crashed straight into another car. We had our three kids in the back (our youngest was 2 months old at the time), but thankfully everyone was okay.

Turned out to be a form of epilepsy, so I wasn't allowed to drive for a year.

(Which is super practical with 3 young kids 🙈 My wife drove me pretty much everywhere for a whole year ❤️)

The thing is... Being allowed to drive and feeling safe are two different things. What if it ever happens again?

Hopefully never, but there's no way to be 100% sure.

So yesterday, we picked up our Tesla Model Y with Full Self Drive 🎉

I've followed the technology for years, mainly because I'm a nerd and think it's cool (after all, my business runs on AI from A-Z) 🤓

But after the accident, it stopped being just a fun tech feature.

Sure, I still have to pay attention, but it's amazing how well it drives (better than some humans 😂).

For us, it feels like an extra layer of protection.

Funny how quickly technology can go from "that would be cool" to "I'm really glad this exists."

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

OH: “i’ve switched to Kimi from claude for a bunch of work. it’s just so much more fun because it just does the thing instead of lecturing you”

Woke lobotomized models are the enemy of American competitiveness.

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

Firefighters, Teachers, and Sheriffs Associations all come out against CA Socialist wealth tax Prop 40 promoted by AOC, Bernie & Ro that is driving companies, jobs and revenue out of the state.

Prediction - in 100 days, in a major blow to the national socialist agenda, the CA Wealth Tax Prop 40 will fail by a large margin. CA will also pass the Retirement & Personal Asset Protection Prop 42 as CA voters say enough is enough and choose families over big, failing gov’t tax & spend. 🧐🇺🇸💰

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

This is concerning. For the first time, a Chinese model Kimi K3 has taken #1 on the Frontend Code Arena and is scoring at or near the frontier on other benchmarks.

Meanwhile America is tying itself in knots: politicians and bureaucrats are banning new data centers, piling on state regulations, and pushing for new federal agencies to pre-approve frontier models.

This is how you lose the AI race. The rest of the world won’t play by our rules if we bog ourselves down. Permissionless innovation is how America won the internet and became the technological envy of the world. We can do it again with AI -- while addressing risks in a targeted way -- or we’ll watch our lead evaporate.

[Reid Pettit @Reid99]

@SenEricSchmitt Thank you senator!

[Reid Pettit @Reid99]

@SenSanders A couple idiots in the North East.

[Reid Pettit @Reid99]

@NYGovPress Extraordinary narrow mindedness in terms of solving a problem.

[Pippa Malmgren @DrPippaM]

@auxiliumglobal Auxilium Biotechnologies has successfully bioprinted kidney and liver tissues aboard the International Space Station (ISS) — the first time either tissue type has been manufactured in space.

The San Diego-based company's AMP-1 orbital bioprinter produced kidney, liver, and cartilage tissues along with 28 nerve repair implants during Mission AXLM-3, which returned to Earth via SpaceX-34 on June 17, splashing down off the California coast. This marks the first mission to manufacture three distinct tissue types during a single spaceflight using one autonomous platform.
https://t.co/HQenttHfV7

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: "Trump often applies pressure through a very forceful approach.

"The last American presidents politely asked us, "Please, finally do a little more for your own defense," but across Europe those requests largely fell on deaf ears.

"Now there is an American president who says, rather bluntly, "Enough is enough."

"And I cannot blame him. Just look at the numbers: the United States spends around 80 percent of NATO's defense resources, while Europe accounts for only about 20 percent.

"That is unacceptable. It has always been unacceptable."

Yes. It always has been.

I never cease to marvel at how Europe's (and Canada's) leaders act as though they believe that they are somehow the side "indulging" the President of the United States.

The sheer arrogance.

I'm a lifelong Atlanticist, but if Europe doesn't step up and soon, even I'm for pulling out of NATO.

Explain to me the downside to the U.S. Now, explain to me the downside to a bunch of freeloading European "powers" that use our defense budget to subsidize their welfare programs. And this is particularly galling coming from a country (the UK) that has nearly twice as many admirals as warships. It's a joke.

They keep threatening to "go it alone" on defense. What, with a Boy Scout troop? Puh-lease. And if they did, in what possible respect would that hurt us?

It is no different from a small child threatening to hold his breath until he turns blue.

Our European friends would do well to take stock of who they have actually become and how far they've actually fallen. Their richest country is poorer per capita than our poorest state. And after that impossible feat, perhaps they will actually begin to understand why Presidents since Bush have been telling them these exact same things. They're just at the end of the 25-year-long line now, and Trump is saying the quiet parts out loud.

It's the Pacific Century, folks. NATO can partners, or not. But they no longer get to be dependents. And we no longer care about their pathetic, unearned condescension.

It's good to see that Chancellor Merz -- leader of a country that sometimes shows up to NATO exercises with broomsticks because it doesn't have enough rifles, despite having the world's third largest economy -- has finally realized that.

May others follow. Quickly.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

The moment you realize those old stunning, impossible looking oil paintings of sailing ships in storms were absolutely accurate.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

People are dying in Kyiv because it takes Lockheed more two years to make a Patriot missile.

Missile parts are made in hundreds of baby factories scattered across congressional districts.

We have a Congressionally-optimized supply chain which can’t win a war.