David Carpenter

Husband, Father, Brother, Christian, Marketer, Digital Strategist, Entrepreneur, Hikes and Bikes. Views expressed here are purely my own. #SpeakFreely

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

They want you to believe this happened in the LA Mayors race…

3rd place jumps to 1st in *every* ballot drop *after* Election Day

Defies all mathematical probability, the law of averages and has never happened in US election history

No one with a functional brain believes this

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Once voting is this fraudulent, they can get whatever outcome they want, making a sham of democracy

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

The Tesla Cybercab is ~3.4 times more efficient than a Waymo I-PACE.

The Cybercab is built from the ground up as a Robotaxi. The Waymo is a retrofitted platform with a sensor suite that adds excess weight, drag, and constant compute/sensor power draw.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🤔

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

10 years. 10 years. I’ve listened to every Dem & never Trump pundit call Trump, Elon and anyone else who voted Republican a Nazi. And now they line up behind Platner, with an actual Nazi tattoo. Unbelievable.

[David Carpenter @davidcarpenter]

@denohawari LLM

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

Bob Ferguson Chess Moves

Move 1: Sign the largest tax increase in Washington state history
Move 2: Watch the deficit persist anyway
Move 3: Announce the "shortfall will be significant" — but promise, promise, no more taxes
Move 4: Wait for December revenue forecasts to “force your hand” and come up with yet another economically devastating tax….because you “had to”….for the children

Governor, you are no Bobby Fischer…Bobby Brady maybe…

[David Carpenter @davidcarpenter]

AI Transparency: How To Build Trust in an AI-Driven Marketing World
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[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

82 years ago today, eight American sailors jumped onto a sinking Nazi submarine in the middle of the Atlantic.

What they pulled out of it changed the war. And the Navy buried the whole story for years.

First, you need to know that U-505 was already cursed. German sailors called her the unluckiest boat in the fleet. In October 1943, during a brutal British depth-charge attack, her own captain shot himself in the head in the control room, in front of his crew. He remains the only submarine commander in history known to have killed himself underwater in combat. His second-in-command calmly took over, rode out the attack, and sailed her home.

Eight months later, her luck ran out completely.

June 4, 1944. Two days before D-Day. Captain Daniel Gallery's hunter-killer group, built around the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal, had been stalking U-boats off West Africa. Gallery had an idea his superiors considered borderline insane: don't sink the next one. Capture it. No US Navy crew had boarded and taken an enemy warship on the high seas since 1815.

The destroyer escort USS Chatelain caught U-505 on sonar and fired a salvo of hedgehog bombs. The U-boat broke the surface 700 yards away. Gunfire raked the conning tower, wounding her captain. He gave the order to abandon ship.

The Germans rushed out so fast they botched the scuttling. The sub was flooding, but her engines were still running. She was circling the battle at six knots, empty, sinking, and very possibly rigged with demolition charges.

So Lt. Albert David and eight men from USS Pillsbury chased her down in a whaleboat, leaped aboard, and climbed down the hatch into a dark, flooding submarine that could explode or go under at any second. They shut the scuttling valves, disarmed the charges, and stopped the flooding.

Down there they found the prize: Enigma cipher machines and roughly 900 pounds of codebooks and charts. Current settings. The keys to the German navy's secret communications.

But here's the catch. The treasure was only valuable if Germany never found out. One leak and Berlin changes every code overnight.

So the Navy ran one of the great cover-ups of the war. The sub was towed 1,700 miles to Bermuda and given a fake American name: USS Nemo. Around 3,000 sailors were sworn to total silence. The 58 captured German crewmen vanished into a POW camp in rural Louisiana, hidden even from the Red Cross. Germany declared U-505 lost with all hands and notified the families. The dead men were alive in Louisiana, and their boat was working for the US Navy.

The secret held until the war ended.

Lt. David received the Medal of Honor, the only one awarded in the Atlantic Fleet in all of WWII.

And the submarine? In 1954, Chicagoans raised $250,000 to bring her home. She was towed across Lake Michigan and dragged through the streets of Chicago to the Museum of Science and Industry.

She's still sitting there right now. You can walk through her.

[Jesse Proudman @jesseproudman]

They sold you a "millionaire's tax."

What they didn't mention: it's unconstitutional, it’ll eventually hit everyone, and they passed it without letting you have a say.

Class dismissed.

Vote YES on IP26-645 to stop the tax.

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

RIP THE SCRIPT @Nike

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Southern Poverty Law Center is a criminal organization

[David Carpenter @davidcarpenter]

@Ric_RTP @grok fact check

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX IPO info

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

dang it, we only have the 3rd highest average sales tax in the nation, I am sure Olympia will fix this within the next session..

[Brodie Clark @brodieseo]

Massive SEO News: Google is launching the most requested report in Google Search Console ever. A new AI performance report!

Here's what we know so far:

• It will include dedicated reports for both Search and Discover

• The data will be reflected within Search for AI Overviews and AI Mode, alongside AI features in Discover

• The report will only be focused on impressions within generative AI features, not clicks

• The rollout will start with a subset of websites, allowing thorough testing (so keep an eye out!)

There are some major limitations to this initial testing phase, where the actual queries that users are searching won't show in the report, with only impressions for pages, countries, devices, and dates.

Though the dataset will be limited, this is certainly a step in the right direction!

I will be covering this rollout within my newsletter, so make sure to subscribe if you aren't already: https://t.co/J6GbI1tB27

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

When Blackstone takes a major financial loss in Seattle, it’s a sign more pain is on the way.