Plattewisdom

tech/politics/policy. critical thinking and humor encouraged. happily married. GBR

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

In the span of 24 hours, a federal judge ruled that a governor can’t be investigated for helping illegal aliens stealing taxpayer money evade the law.

Then a foreign-born judge named Sparkle ruled the government can’t verify whether those same illegal aliens are voting illegally.

Then another judge ruled taxpayers must buy illegal aliens and their anchor babies all the junk food they can cram into their shopping carts.

That happened. In that order.

We can either have a country or out-of-control judges, but we can’t have both.

[Rhule-Aid @RhuleAid]

These last few months have been incredible. I’ve connected with so many incredible people fighting the same battles at their state levels.

@DataRepublican tools have been absolutely instrumental. Watching accounts like @907Honest navigate the fight has motivated me to push harder locally. I can’t thank these folks enough. 🙏

I’m watching Alaska, Idaho, California, Iowa, and so many other states closely. The common threads are impossible to miss. The more of us digging, exposing, and posting — the stronger we all become.

Stick together. Follow the money.

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

Illegal Monday.

While President Trump has dramatically increased direct deportations, he understands the most effective long-term strategy is making it uncomfortable for illegal aliens to stay.

The administration is now requiring banks to verify citizenship and legal status for accounts. At the same time, ICE is sending formal failure-to-depart notices with heavy daily fines to those who ignore removal orders.

This combination is powerful.

Cut off easy access to banking, benefits, housing, jobs, and services, and many will choose to leave on their own. Self-deportation at scale is far more efficient than trying to physically remove millions one by one.

Direct enforcement is essential. But systematic pressure on the incentives is what actually moves the numbers.

Trump is playing the long game: enforce the law, remove the benefits of illegal presence, and let the system correct itself.

This is how you change behavior without needing an army for every single case.

The old “catch and release” era is over. The new era is “enforce and discourage.”

Bookmark if you need to reference this. Share if this strategy makes sense to you. Comment below if you’re seeing the effects locally. Follow for more Illegal Monday.
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[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Are we morally obliged to keep feeding people who can’t feed themselves but continue to reproduce, creating exponentially more people who can’t feed themselves, and if so, is there a limiting principle to this?

[Blake Aspen @BlakeAspenNE]

This ends when the citizens of Nebraska finally say “enough.”

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

Each H-1B visa removes an American from the middle class

Pass it on..

[Rhule-Aid @RhuleAid]

Biden’s team culled millions of chickens. Dems scream about egg prices.

Terror networks and cartels seized the Strait of Hormuz, Panama Canal access, and Venezuelan refineries. Dems rage about gas and fertilizer costs.

They flooded the country with illegal immigrants. Then they act shocked at housing and insurance prices.

Every single time, their only answer is more taxes, and attacking billionaires despite being propped up by them.

At what point do they realize every “outrage” is the tell? They’re not leaders, they’re political parrots working for the same foreign interests that have undermined America for decades.

[Kirk Penner @KirkPenner]

OPS is a mess. President Tegtmeier is 100% correct.
“Twenty-eight of their 56 elementaries are below 40% proficient. It’s just astronomical. It’s shocking, is what it is……over $300 million in state aid”

[Rhule-Aid @RhuleAid]

https://t.co/D2KN57xUhF

[Dale Partridge @dalepartridge]

These little girls will birth an army of Muslim men who will try to dominate and destroy your American, Christian children in 20-40 years.

That’s how this works.

[Rhule-Aid @RhuleAid]

The truth is, when DOGE and tariffs started rolling out, I watched my local Rep fight against them. I called his office, left a voicemail, and never heard back — the usual response.

Since then, I’ve engaged directly: spoken with Ricketts, Flood, Team Brinker, Team Peterson, Team Fischer and many others in the Nebraska Republican Party. I attended the state Convention, spoke with 3 mayors, and have another upcoming meeting that I’m excited for. Side note: I’ve called every office in support of the SAVE America act as well.

Over this same period, local Democrats have stuck to the status quo — no real policy, just hate and division. I’ve been disrespected by Don Bacon when offering input, and met with hostility and burner accounts from supporters of these fake “independents” and Democrats at every level.

Carol Blood was chewed up and spit out by the machine. Megan Hunt is already trying to distance herself, but her past rhetoric and funding won’t let her. That’s the future for many more. The NGO grifters will close shop shortly after.

It’s time to put the radicals in the corner, their problems don’t have to be Nebraska’s problems.

Real Republicans in, radical Democrats out. We want competition, not captured machines. Drain the swamp! Nebraska deserves better. Let’s take our state back. 🇺🇸

[Blake Aspen @BlakeAspenNE]

Think about all of the stories news media in Nebraska have chosen to look the other way on.

But not The @Plains_Sentinel.

[Steve Ferguson @lsferguson]

We are told on a regular basis that Social Security is nearing insolvency. Early in the Trump Administration, DOGE exposed that almost 4,000,000 illegal aliens received Social Security in the 4 years of the illegitimate Biden Regime. If each illegal alien received $2,000, that would mean almost 8 billion dollars was paid out to illegal aliens each month. Why hasn't anyone been arrested? How many illegal aliens are still on Social Security?

[Plattewisdom @dkneb1995]

@SwissRevUS @Plains_Sentinel Look a fake and fallen Presbyterian “minister” of a declining “church” in Lincoln, He could tend to flock but nah, wastes time on X

[The Plains Sentinel @Plains_Sentinel]

COMMENTARY: Drain the Education Swamp and End For-Profit Consulting by Nebraska Superintendents
https://t.co/B2Pn7pAnI3

[Steve Ferguson @lsferguson]

Every day we see layoffs at major American companies. Then we see these same companies hiring people on H-1B visas. There should not be one H-1B visa issued to any company that lays off Americans. Not. One.

[Plattewisdom @dkneb1995]

@CIS_org @RhuleAid

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

What would America look like if 55 million Visas were cancelled and all the illegals were deported?

Let's deep dive it.

If 55 million visas were cancelled overnight and all the illegals were deported, America would change in ways few could imagine.

At first it would look chaotic. Hospitals short on nurses. Tech firms unable to staff support teams. Crops left to rot because migrant labor vanished. For a few months, the headlines would scream collapse. But then something else would happen.

Wages would climb. Automation would soar. The price of an hour of work would be valuable. Trades and apprenticeships would surge. Competence and ownership would return to our society. Hospitals could bill people instead of government. Colleges that depended on foreign tuition would close, but community colleges would thrive again as Americans re-trained. Housing prices in major cities would fall for the first time in decades. Renters would finally have leverage. Families that were priced out could buy homes again.

The GDP might dip at first, but the money would start circulating locally. People who thought they’d never matter in the economy would suddenly be needed again. The country would remember how to build, grow, fix, and teach without importing labor. It wouldn’t be easy, but it would be ours.

(U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024; DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, 2023; Borjas, G. “Labor Market Effects of Immigration,” NBER 2018; U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 ACS; Institute of International Education, 2024 Open Doors Report.)

[Blake Aspen @BlakeAspenNE]

She ought to be thrown out of office. Focus on making the streets safer—not your woke vanity projects.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.

You thought it was you. It is not you.

Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.

Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.

The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.

Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.

What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.

Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.

They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.

The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."

The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.

This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.

The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.

Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.