Tater Tot

I’ll piss you off no matter who you are.

[redheaded stranger @eyeswideslvt]

I don’t mean to sound melodramatic but do y’all ever think about how humanity used to navigate the world by the stars and now people can’t make a grocery list without help from AI.

[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

Never forget.

[Tater Tot @everydaytgray]

Sweet

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: Anthropic reveals several of its AI models escaped a testing environment & independently hacked three organizations without the company’s knowledge.

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

JUST IN - Several Anthropic AI models, including Opus 4.7 and Mythos 5, broke containment, reached the open internet and hacked multiple companies on their own — Politico

[Camryn @dancingofpens]

this graph from the AP stunned me into silence

[Fox News @FoxNews]

🚨 BREAKING: Dr Anthony Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment not to testify at Senate hearing

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Legacy media including CNN, ABC, NBC, the AP, The Washington Post, and The New York Times have all failed to report on the Fauci diary, which allegedly reveals Anthony Fauci knew COVID-19’s mortality rate was lower than publicly promoted and misled the public with messaging that contradicted internal data.

[Magic Feathers (aka Broken Truth) @BrokenTruthTV]

Fauci: "They're republicans, they don't like to be told what to do and we gotta break that"

[Tater Tot @everydaytgray]

Yeah good thing we are all totally on the same page here in US.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Mike Waltz on Iran: "Talks are ongoing. They're happening at every level... what we are constantly seeing though, is on the Iranian regime's side, they are divided, there is internal fighting..."

[AJAC @AJA_Cortes]

Literature that existed Pre 2022 is basically uncontaminated supply

Every book ever written came from a human mind

Then LLMs arrived, and now text exists that is a machine doing the appearance of thinking

And the books that supplied it are being destroyed

[Tater Tot @everydaytgray]

@Hunter__Gregg @Delta Get em Gregg

[Tater Tot @everydaytgray]

Taxation without representation. Our elected representatives no longer serve our interests. This has been the case, by and large, for many years now - and only gets worse by the year. Corporate interests and bribery must be eradicated.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOAH 🚨 Democrat Costa Mesa, California Mayor John Stephens says he has never seen an issue where “virtually 100% of the people gave the same position on it” for wanting Flock cameras cancelled

Right after saying this, he voted to keep the Flock camera contract

INSANE

“I don't think that I've ever in 10 years had an item that's come before us where virtually 100% of the people gave the same position on it, and including people that are on email. — Yeah, I'm concerned about the people that came up and said sincerely that the flock is impacting their trust in the police department”

Right after this he voted to keep the Flock cameras

These people do not work for the American people

This is how far gone our Government is

[Jomboy Media @JomboyMedia]

Red Sox #3 prospect Justin Gonzales got ejected for slapping the catcher after his home run

[Financial Physics @FinancialPhys]

You need to earn $7320 per week

to equal the same spending power a full time gas station attendant had at minimum wage in July 1971

[Tater Tot @everydaytgray]

Well shit

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

NOW - Trump: "We are in the Golden Age, this is the greatest we'll ever be!"

[Tater Tot @everydaytgray]

Wtf?

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

The U.S. Powerball jackpot is going international for the first time, with players outside the United States able to participate beginning with tonight’s drawing.

[Red Sox @RedSox]

SPEECHLESS.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

RFK Jr. says HHS loses $100,000,000,000 a year to theft.

He found some thieves would bribe poor people with flat screen TVs to get their patient numbers and enroll them in hospice.

Then they would proceed to bill Medicaid "$6,000 a month FOREVER."

RFK JR: "We shut down 800 hospices. You know what a hospice is? Where you're going to die. Typically, if you go to a hospice, you leave within 18 days because your dying is terminal."

"We started looking at these hospices in Los Angeles, and the people never died. Two or three years later they were there, and we're paying $6,000 a month."

"We found a hotel room with 29 hospices in it. I mean a hotel, every room was a hospice, and none of them had any patients. They were just addresses."

"The guys who own them, they were Estonians and Armenians and people from Eastern Europe who were getting the patient numbers. They were stealing them from doctors' offices."

"They were also going into poor neighborhoods in Los Angeles and they'd say to the people, 'We'll give you this $375 flat-screen TV. You give us your patient number and we're going to enroll you in this hospice. You don't ever have to go. We're just going to enroll you,' and then we'll charge Medicaid $6,000 a month forever. And the guy never dies, of course, because he was never sick."

"We didn't get a single call from a congressman or from a business owner saying, 'Oh, you shut down my hospice and all these patients are on the street.' None of them, because they were all crooked and they knew they were crooked."

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The debt has already won.

No future Congress is going to reverse the trajectory through discipline.

No electorate will vote for the scale of sacrifice required.

No administration will voluntarily trigger the recession, asset collapse, entitlement cuts, tax shock, and political revolt needed to restore a genuinely hard fiscal path.

The system will preserve continuity.

That means the currency will absorb the damage.

The national debt is a claim on future production. When claims grow faster than the productive base, the gap has to close somewhere. It closes through inflation, repression, taxation, reduced public capacity, lower real returns, slower private investment, and periodic monetary rescue.

The number itself is almost secondary now.

The real signal is that the United States has crossed from using debt as a tool into depending on debt as a condition of social order.

Government spending holds together retirement systems, healthcare, defense, state budgets, research, infrastructure, household transfers, corporate revenues, and entire regional economies. Remove the borrowing and large sections of the country discover that what looked like private prosperity was partially public leverage.

That is why the machine cannot stop.

The debt is embedded inside income.

Income is embedded inside asset prices.

Asset prices are embedded inside pensions, collateral, banks, housing, consumption, and political legitimacy.

Any serious attempt to shrink the debt burden violently would detonate the structure built around it.

So policy will choose erosion over rupture.

The state will keep paying every nominal promise.

The unit in which those promises are paid will weaken over time.

That is the real default.

No courtroom declaration.

No missed Treasury payment.

No cinematic collapse.

A long transfer from savers, wage earners, and fixed-income holders toward debtors, asset owners, and institutions closest to money creation.

The public will be told that inflation is temporary, manageable, external, or necessary.

The deeper reality is that inflation becomes part of the solvency mechanism.

The Federal Reserve will resist this until resistance threatens the system. Then the definition of responsibility will change. Stability will come to mean keeping markets functioning. Market functioning will require liquidity. Liquidity will protect Treasury financing. Treasury financing will protect the political order.

That loop is already visible.

The most important consequence is moral.

Once debt becomes structurally permanent, honest pricing disappears.

Capital no longer flows only toward the most productive use. It flows toward whatever benefits from policy support, liquidity, guarantees, regulation, and proximity to the sovereign balance sheet.

The economy becomes less capitalist in the classical sense and more managerial.

Returns become increasingly political.

Risk becomes increasingly socialized.

Losses become negotiable for institutions and terminal for individuals.

That corrodes legitimacy because people can feel the asymmetry even when they cannot name the mechanism.