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[Andrew Torba @BasedTorba]

We cannot allow Silicon Valley to monopolize AI.

Monopoly building is their core business model. It is what they know how to do. Take something that begins as an open frontier, pour billions of dollars into it, centralize the infrastructure, capture the distribution channels, lock everyone into a handful of platforms, and then position themselves as the indispensable gatekeepers between ordinary people and the technology itself. We watched this happen with search. We watched it happen with social media. We watched it happen with mobile computing, cloud infrastructure, digital advertising, and online commerce. We cannot allow it to happen again with artificial intelligence.

The stakes are simply too high.

AI is rapidly becoming a new layer of civilization itself. It will increasingly mediate how people search for information, write software, create art, conduct research, educate their children, build businesses, practice medicine, communicate, and make decisions. Whoever controls that layer acquires enormous power over everything built on top of it. If five corporations control the models, the compute, the interfaces, and the rules governing what those systems are permitted to say and do, then five corporations effectively become the librarians, teachers, editors, programmers, researchers, and increasingly the intellectual gatekeepers of civilization.

That cannot be our future.

There is something particularly insulting about being told that this technology somehow belongs exclusively to the corporations that trained the models. Trained them on what?

Us.

Our books. Our websites. Our photographs. Our conversations. Our code. Our research papers. Our journalism. Our art. Our forums. Our public archives. Decades of accumulated human knowledge and creativity were vacuumed into enormous datasets and transformed into these systems. Silicon Valley did not conjure this knowledge out of thin air. The models are standing on a mountain of human civilization that billions of people spent generations creating.

These systems also do not live in some magical digital cloud floating above the earth. They run on our electrical grids. They occupy enormous data centers built on our land. They consume energy generated by our infrastructure. Their chips move across supply chains protected by our governments and ultimately by our people. Their companies enjoy legal protections, capital markets, universities, roads, communications networks, and political stability created and maintained by the civilization around them.

After drawing upon all of that, we are supposed to accept a future where a tiny priesthood in Silicon Valley owns the intelligence layer of the digital world and rents access back to everyone else on whatever terms they decide?

No.

The models belong to all of us. The knowledge underneath them is our inheritance. The infrastructure supporting them exists inside our civilization. The people whose lives and work generated their training material are not incidental to this story. They are the story.

This is why open models matter. Local models matter. Open-source tooling matters. Independent compute matters. Alternative AI companies matter. The ability to download a model, modify it, run it yourself, build on top of it, and decide for yourself what it should do is not some niche hobby for programmers. It is one of the most important technological questions of our generation.

We need thousands of AI companies, thousands of models, thousands of applications, and millions of people experimenting freely with this technology. We need models running in massive data centers and models running on laptops in basements. We need businesses, churches, schools, families, researchers, developers, and communities building AI systems around their own values and their own needs. No central committee in San Francisco should determine the intellectual boundaries of artificial intelligence for eight billion people.

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[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

The federal government makes you work months out of every year

Then it uses that money to create horrible things that harm you

Then it lies to you about it

Time for a constitutional reset

Share if you agree

[Congressman Randy Fine @RepFine]

Guess we know how many illegals are registered now.

[Zack @Asmongold]

@HasanabiProd I've spent hours covering the UK grooming gang reports.

I have zero sympathy for people who are downplaying it and calling it bullshit.

The atrocities against those children and the years of authorities covering it up is disgusting

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country

[Brad Edison Bonham @BradEBonham]

I’m 100% convinced that our national debt sits largely in two buckets:

Fraud
Illegal immigration

That’s it—solve those two things and we have a balanced budget.

[Jay Bee @TheJayBee]

Don’t let Chuck Norris become a Democratic voter. Pass the SAVE America Act.

[Maverick Alexander @MaverickDarby]

"𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳"

A wholesome basketball movie starring JD Vance just in time for March Madness.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Failing to pass SAVE is an act of high treason against the people of America

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The Senate must enact the will of the people

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Probability of murder and cannibalism again is ~100%

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

Another great move by the Viking front office.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

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[Theo Wold @RealTheoWold]

The fraud problem isn’t just in Minnesota. It’s happening in every state in America— including Idaho.

When I was Solicitor General of Idaho, we knew these people were misspending public dollars but activist judges in the state wouldn’t let us move the cases forward.

I’ve written bills to criminalize NGOs from using public money to flood the state with illegals but the legislature refused to move it forward.

Gov. Little refuses to turn off the refugee spigot.

And it all comes back to one thing: Politicians deciding that power through mass migration is more important than protecting their citizens.

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

MOOD

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The Minnesota Somali fraud exposes everything that is wrong with government. Politicians and their administrators spend other people’s (taxpayers’) money to advance their own interests —getting themselves and their party elected and reelected by supporting an ethnic group which votes as a block — under the guise of supporting a purported good, in this case child daycare, autism care and ‘healthcare’ broadly defined.

When this fraud is combined with a system which allows one voter to ‘verify’ up to eight other voters who do not have to show state or federal ID, at best you destroy the American people’s confidence in our democratic voting system, and, at worst, you have rigged elections.

The only way this stops is for the people responsible to suffer severe criminal consequences and for there to be a Federal internal audit system where private citizen bounty hunters who find fraud earn rewards equal to a percentage of the grift identified.

The time to fix our broken system is now.