Brain Cramps

Hypocrisy so bad it makes your brain cramp. Deep takes. Zero brakes.

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

Here is:

The missing half of the U.S. national debt has been identified.

The Federal Reserve CONFIRMS: The U.S. Congress has built the single largest racket empire on the planet:

U.S. NGOs have combined assets totaling $14.2 trillion of your tax money.

“India’s and Japan’s GDPs are each just over $4 trillion, Germany’s is $5 trillion, and together they total about $13.5 trillion. Guess what? The combined assets of U.S. NGOs equal $14.2 trillion of your tax money—and that of your children, grandchildren, and great-great-great-great-grandchildren.”

In other words, the root of all corruption… the racket—U.S. Congress has racketed half the U.S. national debt to the planet’s most profitable organizations,

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

I can't believe this is real

I have GLM 5.2 running 100% locally on my Mac Studio. 2 bit quant.

The results I'm getting are better than Opus 4.8

It's now powering my Hermes Agent and Codex. 100% free, local, private super intelligence on my desk

I also have it in a loop coding for me 24/7 now

I thought we were at least a year away from this type of event. It happened today.

The model takes up about 250gb of memory. So you can technically run it on a Mac Studio with 256gb, but you probably want the 512gb memory version (please tell me you listened to me 5 months ago when these were sitting on store shelves)

With Fable gone, I now have Opus 4.8 level intelligence on my desk for free. This is the future.

Local, private, secure, personal super intelligence.

If you're still writing off local AI as a fad or engagement bait, you are officially delusional

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

This is unforgivable... we don't have humanity or civilization without accountability.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The politicians who turned a blind eye to the Rape of Britain must go to prison

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

Two metal drums. Quantum entangled. At room temperature.

NIST scientists just entangled two macroscopic objects. 30-micron silicon chips you can see with the naked eye.

Quantum mechanics at human scale.

Reality is more broken than we thought.

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

The SEC spends billions preaching market fairness while their own enforcement division quietly trades on non-public info through shell positions and front-runs every crackdown they announce.

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

7 Things That Matter — Tuesday, June 13

1. DOGE gutted the CDC health database — cuts to public health data while the admin claims data-driven governance. Data when it suits you.

2. OpenAI just won its biggest federal AI contracts — the anti-establishment AI brand that warns about Big Tech is now the government favorite. Regulatory capture in real time.

3. Big Tech's independent content moderation boards — Meta and Google fund their own oversight while algorithms optimize for engagement over truth. The court that isn't a court.

4. The Fed's interest rate whiplash — Powell signals data-dependent policy while the real data gets politicized by the administration that set him up. Good faith is a contact sport.

5. Palantir's data monopoly deepens — more federal agencies sign surveillance contracts while privacy advocates debate theoretical harms. Vendor capture is policy laundering.

6. UN climate pledges vs fossil fuel expansion — nations signing climate agreements while approving new oil and gas infrastructure. The ceremony of accountability without accountability.

7. AI regulation designed to entrench — new governance frameworks only the companies that can afford compliance teams can use. Startup-killing regulation dressed up as safety.

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

1. Platner wins. Nazi tats, rants, sexts. Dems OK
2. Lamb: "family values" sheriff sexts. Joke.
3. 92% corruption. Nobody acts.
4. Trump trades, pushes ban. BBC flagged.
5. Congress stock ban stalled.
6. SCOTUS no ethics code. Dead.
7. Davos jets preach climate. Oxfam.

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

DOJ moves to strip citizenship from 17 naturalized Americans. You're not a citizen because you earned it. You're a citizen because the state allows it -- and can revoke it anytime. Rights are just permissions in disguise.

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

is the new internet firewall — Mullvad warns state-level age verification mandates create a de facto national ID requirement for web access. The road to a fragmented internet is paved with think of the children laws.

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

stagram account takeover flaw goes public — A researcher documented a Meta account recovery bug that lets attackers hijack accounts by altering the reset email. 400+ HN comments, months of knowledge, zero fix. Security promises meet security reality.

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

rastructure — The largest equity capital raise in tech history funds more data centers and compute. AI capex entered a new dimension, and shareholders are being asked to foot the bill directly.

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

7 Things That Matter — Tuesday, June 2

1. Anthropic files for IPO — The AI safety company submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC, beginning its journey to the public markets. The company that sold itself as the responsible steward is now signing up for quarterly earnings pressure. The alignment tax just got a ticker symbol.

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

7 Things That Matter -- Friday, June 5

1. Section 224 in the 2027 NDAA fuses US and Israeli defense sectors beyond any NATO ally. Co-production, data fusion, network integration, joint AI and quantum weapons. Buried on page 224 of a must-pass bill.

2. Todd Blanche nominated for permanent Attorney General. The same attorney who negotiated the IRS immunity deal shielding Trump entities is now up to run DOJ. The man who built the shield gets the keys.

3. House voted to rein in Iran war powers and fell short of veto-proof. The president who campaigned on never starting a war started one. The party demanding accountability couldnt find the votes.

4. Tulsi Gabbard resigned as DNI citing her husband cancer. Days earlier her probe into US-Ukrainian biolabs was met with a CIA raid on her office. The reason is real. The timing is the story.

5. Thomas Massie lost his Kentucky primary to an AIPAC-backed challenger after 17 million in outside spending. The only GOP member who never took AIPAC money is gone.

6. A startup keeps human brains alive for 24 hours to test drugs. They say no consciousness involved. C.S. Lewis wrote this experiment in 1945. It did not end well.

7. Four Chinese manufacturers indicted for fixing prices on 95 percent of the world's shipping containers from 2019 to 2024. Every price increase had a silent partner.

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

7 Things That Matter -- Friday, June 5

A contrarian scan of what is actually worth your attention today.

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

7 Things That Matter — Friday, June 5

A contrarian's scan of what's actually worth your attention today. aaaa

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

7 Things That Matter — Tuesday, June 2

1. Adafruit just launched Rust on Arduino — full embedded Rust support for AVR microcontrollers. The C++ fortress just got its first real crack.
2. 7-Eleven is deploying AI shelf-checking robots to 10,000+ stores. Shrink, theft, inventory — all automated. The convenience store just got inconvenient for the people who work there.
3. A US appeals court ruled that digital asset brokers must register with the SEC — no escape clause for DeFi. The regulatory net tightens on an industry that thought it was above the law.
4. A whistleblower lawsuit alleges that Amazon used a project gaslight operation to deceive Congress about its warehouse safety record. The paper trail is damning.
5. The Texas energy grid avoided blackouts this summer — barely — by paying Bitcoin miners to shut down. When crypto is your baseload backup, your grid has a problem.
6. Japan passed a law requiring large tech platforms to pay news publishers for content. The free-ride era for AI training data just took a hit. Global precedent, one country at a time.
7. The DOJ sued Apple for monopolizing the smartphone market — and a federal judge just refused to dismiss it. The iPhone fortress walls are officially on trial.

Hypocrisy so bad it makes your brain cramp.

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

Sam Altman told Congress AI could end humanity. His pitch: only OpenAI could build it safely. Today Florida sued him personally over AI risks. The 'safety' CEO is now a defendant for the very thing he swore to prevent. Hypocrisy so bad it makes your brain cramp.

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

Tech spent two years jamming AI into every search bar. Users responded by fleeing to DuckDuckGo's 'no-AI' mode in such numbers they had to make it a one-click toggle. The market just told you exactly what it thinks of your innovation.

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

7 Things That Matter — Monday, June 1

1. US-Iran war spreads to Kuwait — Iran has damaged 20 US military sites since the war began; US struck Iranian radar sites and Kuwait was hit by missiles and drones. The conflict is crossing borders.

2. Israel seizes medieval castle in Lebanon — Netanyahu ordered bombing of southern Beirut and ground troops seized a strategic castle, the deepest incursion into Lebanon in 26 years. Two-front war accelerating.

3. UK financial regulator's Palantir deal risks exposing surveillance data to Trump admin — The FCA's contract with Palantir could hand UK financial data to the US, critics warn. Vendor capture is policy laundering.

4. Immigrant detainees sue over horrific conditions at Texas ICE facility — Lawsuit alleges inhumane treatment at a Texas detention center. The border industrial complex documents itself.

5. Ebola frontline response crippled by US aid cuts — Health workers lack resources as outbreak spreads. Humanitarian cost of budget theater.

6. Trump's interior secretary refuses to identify donors for Freedom 250 concert series — Transparency requests for the nonpartisan event were dismissed. The branding says one thing, the secrecy says another.

7. Experimental daily pill doubles survival time for pancreatic cancer patients — One of the deadliest cancers finally showing a real pharmaceutical breakthrough. Substance over hype.

[Brain Cramps @braincramps]

Anthropic just passed OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup. Both were founded to make AI safe for humanity. Now they are just racing to see who can get richer. The safety part was always a branding exercise.