🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔

PE in RE. Free thinker/Semper discens. Many interests: KSU/real estate/engg licensure/ethics/public policy/safety. RTs/likes are of interest, not endorsements.

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

“Can we build up more resilience by ensuring that there are carefully-designed redundancies in our most critical systems?” An excellent read, especially needed for emerging tech like AV &AI. #wordsofwisdom @NSPE @NHTSAgov @theNAEng https://t.co/4usYxKaVpE # via @techcrunch

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

"Time for justice"

Will. Never. Happen.

Oxymoron = government accountability

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

Leaked files from around the world just proved that regulators lied to the public to push the vaccines and erased incriminating data.

This article covers it all, especially the leaked FDA conversation. It's time for justice.
https://t.co/hH5bv8Qzan

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

A country run by banks will
always be in debt

Healthcare run by Big Pharma
will never cure disease

A state run by war
will never know peace

A nation run by media
will never know the truth

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

Well said 👇

Trust, lost is difficult to regain

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

Why I've lost trust in most all intellectuals and the institutions that purport to represent them: they have had almost nothing to say (except by way of support) of the entire Covid response.

I just cannot take these people seriously now or ever. This goes for many supposedly great minds I once respected.

It should be obvious by now that this was and is probably the most important shift in the historical narrative In decades if not hundreds of years.

Why the silence about the following?

* A entire generation was denied actual eduction
* The response showed public would mostly believe any absurdity, even that masks were protective against microbial infection and that standing far apart from people was the key to health
* Governments canceled religious holidays with two thousands years of tradition and got away with it
* A grass-roots movement would rise up among us to defend and enforce preposterous claims including that hiding under the sofa would cause a respiratory infection to go away
* Governments the world over learned that they could perhaps spend without limit, run up debt, and inflate away the obligations
* Industry realized there were far more profits in panic and mandates than in normal marketing
* The ruling class discerned that they could get away with endless abuse of the people provided it was pushed as public health
* The vaccine industry realized that no lie was beyond plausibility even when they were caught and even when their product caused vast injury and death
* Media was revealed to be nothing other than a deep-state megaphone
* Academia proved itself to be mostly useless

Any actual intellectual worth his salt would have been sounding alarms throughout this amazing fiasco. Some have. Very few, mostly associated with new institutions that are displacing the old failed establishment. Legacy thinkers have generally pretended that none of this happened.

Remember these days: an entire generation of vaunted intellectuals is hereby discredited, revealed as sycophants, and otherwise exposed as having chosen the comforts of social position and financial stability over truth.

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

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[George Noble @gnoble79]

NVIDIA IS BUYING ITS OWN CHIPS AND CALLING IT REVENUE

And your retirement account is secretly holding the bag.

This scheme is literally straight out of the Enron playbook...

In January 2026, a special purpose vehicle called Valor Compute Infrastructure was created with one purpose:

Buy Nvidia's chips so Nvidia could book the sale as revenue.

Valor raised $5.4 billion and purchased over 100,000 of Nvidia's GB200 GPUs.

But $1.9 billion of that money came FROM Nvidia itself.

Nvidia invested $1.9 billion into the shell company, then sold that same shell company $5.4 billion worth of its own chips and booked every dollar as revenue.

It's the Girl Scout whose dad bought all the cookies and then she wins the sales contest because Dad was the customer. Except this Girl Scout is a trillion-dollar company and the cookie sale is $5.4 billion.

But it gets MUCH worse:

The remaining $3.5 billion in financing came from Apollo Global Management. Apollo structured the debt, packaged it into securities, and then sold those securities to Athene.

And guess who Athene is? Apollo's OWN insurance subsidiary. The one that sells fixed annuities to American retirees as safe, conservative retirement products.

Follow the chain:

Nvidia funds a shell company with $1.9 billion. The shell company buys $5.4 billion in Nvidia chips. Apollo finances the remaining $3.5 billion. Apollo sells the debt to its own insurance arm. That insurance arm packages it into annuity products and sells them to retirees who think they're buying something safe.

The retirees have no idea that their retirement savings are now backed by 100,000 computer chips sitting in some data center that will be worth pennies on the dollar in three years.

Now look at what's happening inside Athene:

$74.2 billion in US reserves but $217 billion in assets have been shifted to a Bermuda-based captive insurer, outside normal US regulatory oversight.

$103 billion of that portfolio (roughly 35%) is classified as Level 3 assets. That means there is no observable market price.

These assets are valued by internal models, not by actual markets.

And sitting on top of all those unpriced assets? 16.6x leverage.

If you're getting flashbacks to 2008, you should be.

Back then it was mortgages bundled into securities that nobody understood, sold to investors who had no idea what they were holding, rated as safe by agencies that never looked under the hood.

Today it's GPU-backed securities. Computer chips bundled into structured credit instruments, routed through an offshore insurance subsidiary, and sold to you as a retirement product.

The collateral is 100,000 GPUs leased to a single customer through an xAI subsidiary. If xAI stops making lease payments for any reason - financial distress, a pivot in strategy, anything - the entire structure unravels.

And Nvidia releases new architectures every year, so each generation delivers dramatically more compute per watt. A 5 year lease on technology that's obsolete in 2 years creates a mismatch that should terrify every annuity holder in America.

Every single step in this chain is technically legal. The SPV is legal, the lease is legal, Nvidia's equity stake is legal, the securitization is legal, and the Bermuda transfer is legal.

But legality and legitimacy are not the same thing.

I've seen every trick Wall Street has ever pulled in my 45 years of doing this.

And what I'm looking at right now is a pipeline that takes AI infrastructure risk, launders it through 8 layers of financial engineering, and deposits it in the retirement accounts of Americans who never agreed to fund Elon Musk's data centers.

In 2008 it was mortgage-backed securities.

In 2026 it's GPU-backed securities.

Different asset. Same greed. With the same ending.

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

@TedLogan1010 No

[Straight Arrow @StraightArrow__]

One California race is headed to a runoff; another is still too close to call. Here are your key takeaways from Tuesday's primary elections. https://t.co/KWhCNbW9LB

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

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[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

The bodycam footage of Henry Nowak has just been released.

An 18-year-old who was stabbed FIVE TIMES called the police for help.

His attacker told officers Henry was a racist.

So they handcuffed the victim.

Henry told them over and over:

"I've been stabbed."
"I can't breathe."
"Please brother, I can't breathe."

An officer responded: "You've been stabbed, mate? I don't think you have."

Henry died in handcuffs.

The mainstream media has said NOTHING.

Where is the same outrage from when George Floyd died?

Watch this footage. Share it everywhere.

Pray for Henry’s family.

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

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[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

96% of patients declared COMPLETE REMISSION of alpha-gal syndrome after ear acupuncture — lasting months to years.

Basically EVERYONE in the study could eat meat again within weeks of undergoing Soliman Auricular Allergy Treatment (SAAT).

There were ZERO adverse reactions.

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

That ivermectin's usage was denied and mocked during covid was criminal.

[Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH® @P_McCulloughMD]

The Fascinating Properties of Ivermectin

Publication of new paper on the anti-cancer properties of ivermectin prompted me to review the wondrous story of this wonder drug, by John Leake @johnsearsleake @McCulloughFund @NicHulscher https://t.co/kwP7Peul5F

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

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[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Former high-level CIA official David Rush is in JAIL after committing jaw-dropping fraud, stealing $40 MILLION worth of gold bars, $2M in cash and 35 Rolexes from the CIA

A total of 303 gold bars were found, and Rush claimed he needed it for "work-related expenses"

His activities reportedly go back to 2009!

The former official was also caught apparently lying about his background to get hired. @davidspunt

He's now in jail. FAFO!

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

@EvryManAWildcat Sounds like you're a burger guy. Might try Fizz's (37th & Rock) slider combo plate.

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

@ElectionWiz The official channel for public input on this specific application:
https://t.co/9B0v3xaYOj

[Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH® @P_McCulloughMD]

Study Reports 96% Remission Rate of Alpha-Gal Syndrome with Novel Desensitization Technique

With nearly 500,000 Americans now affected by tick-induced meat allergy, a peer-reviewed study reports almost unbelievable results using Soliman Auricular Allergy Treatment (SAAT). Enjoy meat again! @NicHulscher @McCulloughFund https://t.co/kN6PpBHFZ5

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

@JulieChangRE "communist block apartments"

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

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[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

Don’t forget what this weekend is all about

RIP to all the heroes who gave everything for our freedom 🇺🇸🙏🏼

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

@LebangMolo42687

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

@Desi_isFatal @JordanHallWX In the late 70s if memory is correct, a spring storm brought snow in Selden, rain in Rexford, and Colby had a dust storm, which seemed very backwards at the time.

[Costa Kapothanasis @CostaKapo]

“We’re facing the largest supply shortage of lubricating fluids in the modern history of America. Realistic, middle-of-the-road estimates are for our average available supply in this product category to drop by 40%.”

Internal AutoZone Memo

[🇺🇸 Tim Austin, PE 🤔 @TimAustin_PE]

@sciencegirl