Brett DeBolt

[Brian Kimmel @IAmTheKimmel]

My dad used to completely lose interest in a movie if something stupidly unbelievable happened in it. But understand, this meant that if he was watching a werewolf movie and a character went to the post office on Sunday when they’re closed, he’s stop watching.

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

We have pivoted from "Non citizens aren't voting!"

To "Well. Actually, it's illegal for you to stop nonvitizens from voting."

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Only a two-state solution can bring peace and prosperity to France 🙏

[Jared Kushner @jaredkushner]

For the last 10 years, I have ignored false and misleading stories about me and focused on the work.

But the cycle has gotten out of control where old lies get repeated as fact, new ones get added, and the record becomes increasingly distorted.

So from time to time, I’m going to respond, not to every allegation. But when the truth matters, I’ll put the facts and supporting information out publicly, and people can judge for themselves.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Young second and third-generation migrants film a French firefighter after setting him on fire during the school protests in Bordeaux

🇫🇷

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

If I was Trump going into a big midterm loss, I would just go out with a bang:

Cut entitlements & close the budget deficit

It will crash the economy and he’ll be hated for 2 years—but history will remember him for saving the country.

[Dr. Richard Harambe @Richard_Harambe]

Tennessee, it’s time to call in a professional

[Ryne McCallum @skibolightning]

Everyone in Mississippi rn seeing Freddy go for a stroll in Jackson at night

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

How important is AI to Meta? Here’s one easy tell:

One of the launch features of the Muse app was auto-negotiating for stuff on Facebook Marketplace.

The poor product manager who owns Marketplace knows that millions of bots lowballing sellers will eventually kill the product.

But this was escalated to Zuck by the Muse team and he said: “OK, we’ll poison Marketplace…but just a little.”

[Naval @naval]

People who want to appear moral are attracted to the left.

People who want to appear rational are attracted to the right.

Effective Altruism lets you appear rational and moral - the ultimate ego trip.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

What Is To Be Done?

I propose a simple plan:

Big AI companies should be allowed to build AI as fast and aggressively as they can – but not allowed to achieve regulatory capture, not allowed to establish a government-protect cartel that is insulated from market competition due to incorrect claims of AI risk. This will maximize the technological and societal payoff from the amazing capabilities of these companies, which are jewels of modern capitalism.

Startup AI companies should be allowed to build AI as fast and aggressively as they can. They should neither confront government-granted protection of big companies, nor should they receive government assistance. They should simply be allowed to compete. If and as startups don’t succeed, their presence in the market will also continuously motivate big companies to be their best – our economies and societies win either way.

Open source AI should be allowed to freely proliferate and compete with both big AI companies and startups. There should be no regulatory barriers to open source whatsoever. Even when open source does not beat companies, its widespread availability is a boon to students all over the world who want to learn how to build and use AI to become part of the technological future, and will ensure that AI is available to everyone who can benefit from it no matter who they are or how much money they have.

To offset the risk of bad people doing bad things with AI, governments working in partnership with the private sector should vigorously engage in each area of potential risk to use AI to maximize society’s defensive capabilities. This shouldn’t be limited to AI-enabled risks but also more general problems such as malnutrition, disease, and climate. AI can be an incredibly powerful tool for solving problems, and we should embrace it as such.

To prevent the risk of China achieving global AI dominance, we should use the full power of our private sector, our scientific establishment, and our governments in concert to drive American and Western AI to absolute global dominance, including ultimately inside China itself. We win, they lose.

And that is how we use AI to save the world.

It’s time to build.

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

The law is whatever those in power decide it is, at any given moment. Nothing more and nothing less

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Mamdani Lays Wreath At Tomb Of The Unknown Hijacker https://t.co/uDqbIs7Xs6

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

I am convinced most of the $40 trillion of National Debt is due to fraud.

From scams for foreign aid, fraudulent wars, fake climate schemes, illegal aliens getting benefits, Somalis faking their kids have autism for more money ... it never stops.

Our country was looted.

[Naval @naval]

AI isn’t going away. Barring unprecedented global government coordination, it isn’t even slowing down.

The only real decision is whether to centralize power, or disperse it.

Do you fear the technology? Or a small number of people controlling the technology?

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

The lone black male holdout on the Lindsay Clancy jury

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The other jurors have spent all week calling the lone male holdout an arrogant, uncooperative dummy who didn’t understand the law or follow the rules. Now we come to find out that they were talking about the only black guy in the room this whole time. Leftists have accidentally sided with 11 white bullies against a black man who stood up to them. Just an absolutely amazing twist. You couldn’t script it any better.

[STRIKE @Strike]

The U.S. government explaining how inflation is only 3%