Robert Blackburn, Jr

God-Follower first, father & husband always.

[Robert Blackburn, Jr @blackburnmanor]

@DrOzCMS Please eliminate IRMAA with all the savings you are generating. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Robert Blackburn, Jr @blackburnmanor]

@DirtyHand77 Might reach back in a few months on some thoughts for a 1967 Mustang mount, once I get some ideas together.

[Robert Blackburn, Jr @blackburnmanor]

@Tideoutsider @smcroasters Vintage Soviet Navy watch. Band is a modern NATO style USA colors, for a bit of irony. This link is the modern version. Mine is not self-winding and a different back, barely working anymore. https://t.co/vHVBCirMGk

[Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell]

Ballots drop in California today.

Share this with every California voter you know.

[Robert Blackburn, Jr @blackburnmanor]

@smcroasters Heaven Confirms People Who Line The Dashboards Of Their Jeeps With Little Duckies Will Not Inherit The Kingdom Of God https://t.co/f5EFPVDdv3 via @TheBabylonBee

[Robert Blackburn, Jr @blackburnmanor]

Hey @elonmusk when will you sell these brakes to retrofit classic Mustang restomods? A boy can dream….

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

The Tesla Cybercab doesn't have ANY brake fluid. It is the first production vehicle to have a brake-by-wire system.

Electronic actuators are responsible for the clamping pressure, rather than hydraulic fluid that you see in traditional vehicles.

This system improves efficiency since the brake pads can fully disengage. They can go entirely off or on. It also enables Tesla to fine-tune the braking to be as smooth as possible.

PLUS, when the car is built with the unboxed process, Tesla doesn't need to run any brake lines, everything is seamless.

[NOVA Campaigns @NoVA_Campaigns]

A @NavalWarCollege professor is celebrating the leaking of classified material to @wapo … so he can continue writing stories for @TheAtlantic, as his students carry on decades of losing war games across the globe

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨 https://t.co/5ajzizjI8F STRIKES AGAIN: TRUMPBLOGS, FORMERLY KNOWN AS NOBLOGS 🚨
🏴 THE ANARCHIST INTERNATIONAL ON NOBLOGS, MAPPED — EVERY BLOG, EVERY CELL, EVERY CITY. 🌍

The militant far-left has spent years hiding in plain sight on https://t.co/HFD4sxphTk — the anonymous blog network that quietly powers antifa, anarchist, squat, and "solidarity" cells around the world. So on my own time, for free, I scraped the whole thing. Because I kick commie *** for fun and need no government funding or sanction for it.

Introducing an interactive map of 7000+ blogs across many countries and languages — antifascist, anarchist, ecological, prisoner-solidarity, migrant-border, revolutionary. Every one classified, geolocated, and searchable down to the verbatim quote.

* 🔥 Verified quotes. Every claim is a receipt — their words, not mine.
* 🌐 4000-plus blogs pinned to a live world map — zoom into your own city.
* ⚔️ Many blogs classified "operational."
* 🕸️ Click any blog, author, or cell and walk the network one tie at a time.

No grant funded this. No client asked for it. I do this for free, on my own time, because someone should.

🖥️ Data-heavy! Best viewed on desktop.

📖 A preview of what's coming: DataRepublican v2.0 — full site redesign — launches soon, ahead of my and @JoshuaLisec book UNELECTED (Passage Press, Oct 13).

And yes — if I can map the anarchist international in my spare time, I can map anything.

👇 Try it now (link in next post):

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

Regret the tone of my post on data centers yesterday.

What I should have said:

There were reasonable concerns about data centers 18ish months ago: water, taxes, jobs, electricity prices, the environment and what they would do to small towns. Well-structured data center projects have largely addressed these concerns today and we should be celebrating this.

On balance, data centers are awesome for America in every way.

On water: U.S. data centers use a fraction of what golf courses use. A lot of the numbers from 18 months ago were off by over 1000x. Newer data centers use closed-loop systems or recycled water. Should be required by every town approving a data center project.

On taxes: looking only at sales-tax exemptions, as Ronan Farrow did, is the wrong way to evaluate this. Data centers pay significant property taxes. Loudoun County, which is the wealthiest county in America, now collects on the order of $1 billion a year from data centers. In Quincy, WA, data centers are more than half the property-tax roll. Over time, property taxes can go to zero while government spending increases in these towns.

On jobs: this has been unambiguously awesome for blue collar Americans. Demand for electricians, plumbers, welders, HVAC techs, and contractors has gone vertical, and it is not a one-time construction job. These buildings get upgraded and expanded over time. That is why the building trades are fighting for them, and why some unions are now treating opposition to data centers as a reason not to endorse politicians.

On power: the original fear was that households would pay for the incremental electricity demand in the form of higher prices. That is why the ratepayer-protection deals and the new large-load tariffs exist. The right structure is: the data center brings or pays for new generation and signs a contract long enough that existing customers are protected. Where that is happening, utilities are cutting or freezing residential rates and saying so on the record. Where it is not, people are right to object. Electricity prices are going down *today* in a number of large states because of data centers.

On the environment: data centers overwhelming use natural gas today, which is the cleanest power source outside of nuclear, solar and wind. And the companies that are building the data centers are committed to carbon neutrality such that an equivalent amount of solar will likely be built. Maybe more importantly, the data centers need batteries to function effectively and these batteries can also sell energy back into the grid (which recently prevented blackouts in Texas). Over time, data centers will run on solar plus batteries.

On the towns: Poverty in Quincy, WA fell from 29% to 6%. Data center taxes paid for a new high school, a hospital, a library, police and fire stations. This is happening in many left for dead former mill and farm towns that had no other bidder for the land.

Data centers are actually reindustrializing parts of America and creating the kind of working-class jobs both parties have spent decades claiming to support. That should not be a partisan issue. Data centers can and should be awesome for America and they increasingly, overwhelmingly are. Supporting the outsourcing of data centers to China will likely age just as well as support for the outsourcing of high quality, blue collar manufacturing jobs to China has aged.

When the facts change, I change my mind. I hope that reasonable people who had good faith reasons to oppose data centers at least consider updating their beliefs given the change in the facts over the last 18 months. This really matters for America.

I will say I also think the idea of making data centers beautiful is a good one that has yet to be implemented. Data centers should be just as beautiful as Grand Central Station. We can learn a lot from the railroad buildout. Neoclassical revival ftw.

Might write up open-weight AI tomorrow as this is equally essential to America.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos , I’m asking you to look at this once through the eyes of the people wearing the uniform since you own @washingtonpost.

We volunteered and accepted the bargain. Missed birthdays, broken bodies, years away from our families, hostile fire, and the possibility that if we die, our families get roughly $500,000 in life insurance. In much of America today, that barely buys a house.

We know our lot and we’re not complaining about it.

But the job is hard enough without having to wonder whether an American newspaper is going to publish classified wartime command deliberations because its newsroom despises the administration and wants another cheap political scalp.

Fight the President, the Secretary, the Pentagon. Whatever, that’s politics.

But when the ammunition for that fight is information tied to ongoing operations and the private judgments of senior commanders, you’re spending our risk to buy your headline.

That’s the part WE need you to understand.

Murphy already gets a vote. So does the enemy. Exhaustion, bad intelligence, mechanical failure and plain rotten luck all get votes. We volunteered to face those things.

We did NOT volunteer to become collateral damage in the Washington Post’s feud with an administration it hates.

Your reporters will publish the piece, watch the engagement numbers, and go home.

Some American kid will still be standing watch when they do.

Jeff, give us a fucking chance. Come on man. You’ve got to clean house at that paper. The journalists are too blackpilled to be of any use anymore. In fact, they’re literally harming us.

Our brothers and sisters are in a worse situation now due to this reporting. Don’t agree with the combat operations, fine. But come on. Leaking an SDOB? That’s objectively insane behavior.

***to my followers: share so we know he sees this.***

[Robert Blackburn, Jr @blackburnmanor]

@smcroasters This one

[Robert Blackburn, Jr @blackburnmanor]

@grok @GuntherEagleman @jamestalarico Thank you @grok

[Robert Blackburn, Jr @blackburnmanor]

@grok @GuntherEagleman @jamestalarico @grok this answer is out of date. Please update it.

[Robert Blackburn, Jr @blackburnmanor]

Create a Coat of Arms inspired by my X account.

[Robert Blackburn, Jr @blackburnmanor]

@smcroasters Maybe start her on the little one first… 🫡🇺🇸

[Robert Blackburn, Jr @blackburnmanor]

@smcroasters Harbor. Black.

[Robert Blackburn, Jr @blackburnmanor]

@FenixAmmunition Missed you by one day!

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Posting for an associate of mine:

Madeline Avillion is the daughter of a close friend of mine Tony Avillion retired Chief Warrant Officer from the 160th. I’ve known him since we were 15 years old. He’s one of the good ones, and this is his daughter.

Madeline she is 30 years old. She was last seen Friday morning, July 31st around 6:00 a.m. in the 1800 block of Belmont Road NW in DC. She’s 5’2”, about 100 pounds, blonde hair, blue eyes. Last seen wearing a black bodysuit, black skirt, and white cowboy boots.

If you’ve seen her, or know anything at all, please contact:

Youth and Family Engagement Division: [phone]
Real Time Crime Center: [phone]
Anonymous tips: call [phone] or text 50411
This one hits close to home. Please share it far and wide. Let’s help get her home.

[Shawn Farash @Shawn_Farash]

GET OUT AND VOTE FOR ANDY OGLES TODAY!

[Robert Blackburn, Jr @blackburnmanor]

The Moon is a harsh mistress….

[SMX 🇺🇸 @iam_smx]

Elon Musk: “Path to Petawatts is Mass drivers on Moon”

SpaceX’s Lunar Mass Driver is a planned electromagnetic launch system on the Moon, similar to a giant coilgun-style catapult, designed to launch solar-powered AI compute satellites into orbit or deep space at extremely low cost