David Kent

Technology architect & entrepreneur chasing enlightenment. Proud dad, husband, traveler. Devoted to faith, family and country.

[David Kent @dkent2000]

@elonmusk Which is better? Night or day launch?

[David Kent @dkent2000]

@elonmusk How does the government increase their revenue to write the checks when the AI and corresponding productivity is privately owned? What does the math look like?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is great.

At least those judges who release violent criminals who go on to hurt more people will be publicly shamed!

[David Kent @dkent2000]

@tedcruz Has to be AI generated. There is no way that’s real.

[David Kent @dkent2000]

@CorellianGroup So much good content coming from Marc lately. Either he’s been putting himself out there a lot more or my algorithm has morphed to highlight his content. He and I actually studied CompSci at U of I at the same time in the early 90’s.

[Corellian Consulting Group @CorellianGroup]

Great post by Marc! AI making lot of things obsolete. Don't usually see Security Obscurity on the hit list but should be. AI needs to be the verifiable control plane in a redesigned stack. What security obscurity crutches are still in your environment today?

[Maria Davidson @MariaDavidson]

State with the worst gap between population growth and spending in the last decade?

Illinois.

Population shrunk by 1%.

State spending grew 72%, inflation adjusted.

I'll continue asking - where did all the money go?

[Maria Davidson @MariaDavidson]

US population grew 6% in the last decade.

Federal spending grew 40%, inflation adjusted.

Not as bad as California, but you have to ask - where did all the money go?

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Yes, that is basically the liberal logic on this subject.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: The dictator of Cuba, Miguel Díaz Canel, announces to the nation that they have given in to the pressure and are officially in negotiations with the United States

The Cuban regime is about to fall!

[David Kent @dkent2000]

@FirstSquawk @grok, how much impact does 1 million tons of fertilizer have on the global food supply?

[David Kent @dkent2000]

@nextnews Just to be clear… those B-1B’s belong to us, the tax payers, and not Trump.

[David Kent @dkent2000]

@elonmusk Ok, now we know what Elon is doing in his spare time 👊😂

[David Kent @dkent2000]

@atensnut Why is there still a farmer driving a tractor?

[Sharestep @SharestepAI]

@felixprehn Nice share.

But their opinion is discredited by pumping $ORCL.

I know they're good friends with the people at Oracle, but they should have kept their integrity and been objective.

$ORCL is a garbage front company that behaves more like a 1990s Russian miner than a tech stock.

[David Kent @dkent2000]

@IlliniJen Buy a Tesla

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1866: Cotton seeds are agricultural waste. After extracting cotton fiber, farmers are left with millions of tons of seeds containing oil that's toxic to humans. Gossypol, a natural pesticide in cotton, makes the oil inedible. The seeds are fed to cattle in small amounts or simply discarded.

1900: Procter & Gamble is making candles and soap. They need cheap fats. Animal fats work but they're expensive. Cotton seed oil is abundant and nearly worthless. If they could somehow make it edible, they'd have unlimited cheap raw material.

The process they develop is brutal. Extract the oil using chemical solvents. Heat to extreme temperatures to neutralise gossypol. Hydrogenate with pressurised hydrogen gas to make it solid at room temperature. Deodorise chemically to remove the rancid smell. Bleach to remove the grey color.

The result: Crisco. Crystallised cottonseed oil. Industrial textile waste transformed through chemical processing into something white and solid that looks like lard. They patent it in 1907, launch commercially in 1911.

Now they have a problem. Nobody wants to eat industrial waste that's been chemically treated. Your grandmother cooks with lard and butter like humans have for thousands of years. Crisco needs to convince her that her traditional fats are deadly and this hydrogenated cotton-seed paste is better.

The marketing campaign is genius. They distribute free cookbooks with recipes specifically designed for Crisco. They sponsor cooking demonstrations. They target Jewish communities advertising Crisco as kosher: neither meat nor dairy. They run magazine adverts suggesting that modern, scientific families use Crisco while backwards rural people use lard.

But the real coup happens in 1948. The American Heart Association has $1,700 in their budget. They're a tiny organisation. Procter & Gamble donates $1.7 million. Suddenly the AHA has funding, influence, and a major corporate sponsor who manufactures vegetable oil.

1961: The AHA issues their first dietary guidelines. Avoid saturated fat from animals. Replace it with vegetable oils. Recommended oils: Crisco, Wesson, and other seed oils. The conflict is blatant. The organization issuing health advice is funded by the company that profits when people follow that advice.

Nobody seems troubled by this. Newspapers report the guidelines as objective science. Doctors repeat them to patients. Government agencies adopt them into policy. Industrial cotton-seed oil, chemically extracted and hydrogenated, becomes "heart-healthy" while butter becomes "artery-clogging poison."

1980s: Researchers discover that trans fats, created by hydrogenation, directly cause heart disease. They raise LDL, lower HDL, promote inflammation, and increase heart attack risk more than any other dietary fat. Crisco, as originally formulated, is catastrophically unhealthy. This takes 70 years to officially acknowledge.

Procter & Gamble's response: Quietly reformulate without admission of error. Remove hydrogenation, keep selling seed oils, never acknowledge that their "heart-healthy" product spent seven decades actively causing the disease it claimed to prevent.

Modern seed oils remain. Soybean, canola, corn, safflower oils everywhere. Same chemical extraction process. Same high-temperature refining. Same oxidation problems. Just without hydrogenation so trans fats stay below regulatory thresholds.

These oils oxidise rapidly when heated. They integrate into cell membranes where they create inflammatory signalling for months or years. They're rich in omega-6 fatty acids that promote inflammation. They've never existed in human diets at current consumption levels.

But they're cheap. Profitable. And the food industry has spent a century convincing everyone they're healthy. The alternative, admitting that industrial textile waste shouldn't have been turned into food, would require acknowledging the last 110 years of dietary advice was fundamentally corrupted from the start.

Your great-grandmother cooked with lard because that's what humans used for millennia. Then Procter & Gamble needed to sell soap alternatives and accidentally created the largest dietary change in human history.

We traded animal fats that built civilisations for factory waste that causes disease.

The soap company won. Your health lost.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Speaker Johnson responds to the Pope opposing Trump's deportations,

"Sovereign borders are Biblical and right and just. It's not because we hate the people on the outside. It's because we love the people on the inside."