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[Chris Jones @FishyPix]

Trying make the move (or at least one foot inside) @[email protected] but just can’t debirdify those I’m following across to the thing.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

4/ EROI - Energy Return on Investment - has been collapsing for decades. In 1960s, oil returned 44 units for every one spent. Today, per a Nature Energy study: as low as six to one. In just 4 years, the industry burns a quarter of everything it produces just to keep producing.

[Thomas Reis @peakaustria]

Today’s combination of CO₂ and temperature is unprecedented in 66 million years. That is the central finding of the diagram at the heart of this essay — and it is not a model result. It emerges from three completely independent climate records, each developed by different scientific communities using different methods to answer different questions, plotted together on a single set of axes.

Three independent climate records — a deep-time Cenozoic reconstruction, an 800,000-year ice-core archive, and the modern instrumental record — converge on the same CO₂–temperature relationship and meet at a single point in 1850, the moment the industrial era began. From that hinge, the modern trajectory departs in a direction with no precedent in 66 million years. This essay shows how that single diagram structurally defeats the most common climate myths, explains why current warming understates where the physics is pointing, and places the standard 2100 endpoint of climate projections in its proper paleoclimate context. The case does not rest on models, projections, or consensus. It is written in the paleoclimate record itself.
https://t.co/GHPKOrHn1M

Dean Rovang · https://t.co/IjEPmqMOl5 · ORCID: 0009-0006-1351-5320

[Chris Jones @FishyPix]

@peakaustria Soooo…where did it go?

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

People are undoubtedly a little alarmed at having unwittingly helped build a 3D map of the world for Niantic by contributing 30 billion crowdsourced images. I interviewed Niantic's CTO Brian McClendon about exactly this in a TED interview last year -- he's also the guy who co-created Google Earth.

But let's put it in perspective. Pokestop data isn't what you think it is. It's not a surveillance panopticon of your neighborhood. These are static captures of parks, statues, murals, landmarks -- the places people congregate. Brian described it as "building the map from the bottom up, from the locations where people spend time."

Think of these 20 million waypoints as basically the inverse of what Google mapped with Street View. Google mapped the drivable streets. Niantic mapped where people actually hang out. Cool data, genuinely useful for visual positioning -- but very different from what the headlines imply.

And lest we forget that Niantic is just one of many companies quietly building their own map of the world right now -- and they're all capturing different facets of reality:

>🚶 person-level: Axon body cams on hundreds of thousands of officers. Meta Ray-Ban glasses capturing first-person POV at scale -- overseas operators reviewing images every time someone says "Hey Meta."

> 🚗 vehicle-level: Tesla dashcams on every car in the fleet, massive onboard compute extracting and distilling data to the cloud. Waymo with cm-accurate 3D maps of every city they operate in. Fleet telematics cameras on delivery vehicles globally.

> 🏠 street & home-level: Flock Safety deploying CCTV across neighborhoods and cities. Amazon with Ring cameras on every doorstep and mailroom (recently got dragged over that Super Bowl commercial about fusing all these cams together to find your dog) plus dashcams on every Prime delivery van. Roomba mapping your floor plan every time it vacuums -- Amazon wanted that data badly enough to try acquiring iRobot for $1.7B before regulators shut it down.

> 🥽 headset-level: Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest build a 3D model of whatever room you're in every time you put them on. Between Ring, Roomba, and your headset, your entire home is being spatially understood by at least three different companies.

>📍platform-level: Google with Street View cars, aerial planes, satellite imagery, and live location from every Android phone in your pocket. Apple doing the same with mapping cars AND every LiDAR iPhone is quietly a 3D scanner. And yeah, despite the "Apple is too privacy-conscious" narrative, they're collecting location data too.

>🏃 trajectory-level: Strava mapped every running and cycling trail on Earth -- and accidentally exposed secret military bases in Afghanistan and Syria because soldiers logged their jogs. When you aggregate enough individual trajectories, patterns emerge that were never supposed to be visible.

> 🛰️ space-level: Planet Labs imaging the entire Earth's landmass every single day from orbit. Vantor capturing it in higher detail. Iceye doing it in 3D using SAR. If something changes anywhere on the planet -- a building goes up, a forest burns down, a military convoy moves -- before-and-after imagery within 24 hours.

Fused together -- we have everything from body cam to dashcam to doorbell to phone to satellite -- every layer of physical reality is being mapped by somebody right now. Different sensors, different angles, different purposes. Same pattern.

The interesting part is how they incentivize it. Google spends billions. Mapillary tried altruism. Hivemapper grinds with crypto. Pokémon GO cracked something none of them could: a game mechanic that subsidizes the scanning behavior. You're not building a map. You're catching pokemon. The map is just a side effect.

3D scanning is still a niche hobby for reality capture nerds like me. The moment somebody gamifies dense 3D capture at scale -- not posed photos but actual geometry -- that's when this blows wide open.

Niantic sold the games for $3.5B but kept the spatial platform, with a data-sharing agreement in place. One team makes the game great, the other builds the spatial infrastructure underneath. Incentives finally aligned.

Gaming is becoming a way for humans to contribute real-world trajectories that help physical AI learn about the real world. Google does it with live traffic. Tesla does it with autopilot. The mechanic is different but the pattern is identical -- and most people are already part of at least one -- if not a majority -- of these datasets whether they realize it or not.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

If this weren’t so tragic, it would be hilarious. This regime just can’t help itself when it comes to blame shifting.

When the US was the manufacturing powerhouse of the world and was getting exponentially richer each year, providing Europe with the materials to rebuild after WWII, the greed of the rich dictated that they wanted yet more profit.

Human labour was their biggest cost and as such was inhibiting their bottom line. So under Reagan, they decided to throw American workers under the bus and ship jobs and in some cases whole manufacturing plants to China. That was a conscious and deliberate decision.

This accelerated under Clinton, as the sole focus of American corporations was on profit. They were happy to destroy US manufacturing to simply make more money.

China said ‘Thanks very much’ and used the American investment to lift 850 million Chinese out of absolute poverty and build the most advanced infrastructure in the world.

They did that with greedy American’s money because they don’t have a shareholder class. As a result, China now has the most advanced automated manufacturing systems and are now the manufacturing capital of the world.

The American response? Play the victim, impose tariffs and attempt to choke Chinese progress and innovation by taxing Americans to do it. The result? China has a $1.2 trillion trade surplus, as well as infrastructure across Africa, Europe and South America. It controls 80% of global rare earth processing and owns almost $700 billion of U.S. sovereign debt.

That’s before we talk about them seeking to dominate the global AI Tech Stack and robotics space, all while leading the world in nuclear technology and cheap renewable energy, outpacing US energy generation capacity.

Don’t blame China for the biggest economic fuck up in history. As a result of Trump’s short sighted imbecilic policies, is far from hot, it’s simply a legend it its own lunch break. His obsession with power and stuffing his own pockets with money is breaking America.

The American people deserve better and above all deserve to know the truth, that this corrupt regime is NOT winning on anything except economic and geopolitical incompetence at which they have become world champions.

Trump’s delusional belief that the U.S. is respected is embarrassing. The world is laughing, in the knowledge that it is rewiring trade and security ties quietly in the background. Inside a decade the U.S. is facing irrelevance in what will be a new world order in which they no longer call the shots.

Empires rise and fall as do reserve currencies. China can smell blood in the water and if it’s one thing China excels at, it’s playing the long game. It doesn’t have to worry about four year election cycles or a fickle voting public. It can wait as the economic lifeblood is drained from a nation eating itself alive.

They���re happy to wait, because they have global infrastructure in place, highly advanced manufacturing and AI capable economy with a pipeline of highly educated graduates. Their shift away from fossil fuel imports dependency with an objective to electrify the nation using low cost renewable and next generation nuclear energy, is all baked into their roadmap.

The days of America dictating the future are receding. The change will not happen overnight, and China is fine with that. They’re prepared to wait as long as it takes for the U.S. to slowly self suffocate.

The sad thing is, because of Trump, and his treatment of longstanding allies, nobody will lift a finger to help the U.S. without the kind of concessions that will further diminish American standing on the world stage.

If Democrats think it just needs a change of government to make things better, those days are long gone. It will take a generation to repair the damage done. People don’t easily forget extortion attempts and arrogant posturing.

We are at a true inflection point, sadly it’s not one recognised by the delusional convicted criminal in the White House.

[Risk Expert tells the Truth about Climate @MarkCranfield_]

The world has been relentlessly gaslit for decades. This should be expected when humanity is doomed. The show must go on.

The gaslighting is that the point of no return is always in the future. The situation is always recoverable.

But that's just made-up nonsense, total BS. The truth is that climate change is characterised by very long delays between cause and effect in the climate system with feedbacks that, over time, amplify the direct warming effect of greenhouse gases by a factor of 10.

The greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere, which cannot be removed, cause 10 degrees Celsius of global warming. One billion tonnes of CO2 = 3,000 Empire State Buildings.

Not 2C or 4C or 7C.

10 DEGREES.

Not only can't the existing gases be removed, the warming of the planet will cause the release of vast amounts of additional GHGs. The CO2 land and ocean sinks will continue to degrade and at some point there will be a net outgassing of CO2 from the global ocean.

Why aren't we being told the truth? Because the status quo and investor confidence must be safeguarded.

Humans won't be able to physiologically withstand the conditions at 2100 and possibly 2060. Humanity is wasting time on "solutions" that don't exist, that never existed. We need to prepare for the asteroid during this vanishingly small window. This is basic survival, nothing more or less.

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say https://t.co/Ji2AlzMkvh

[Risk Expert tells the Truth about Climate @MarkCranfield_]

All we hear about is how uncertain the science is but 36 years ago Shell scientists knew that we were headed to 2C by 2040. Scientific uncertainty is greatly exaggerated. If I can work out what will happen, anyone can.

[Thomas Reis @peakaustria]

Why are many still pretending that the situation can be saved by some net-zero voodoo spreadsheets? We need Plan B now, and Plan B should not be more soldiers and more war. This is just stupid.

January 2026: 428.62 ppm
January 2025: 426.65 ppm

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

One of the biggest doomer blackpills of my life.

I met someone the other day who put together a group of three Australian families and together they bought a literal French castle as a timeshare holiday home.

And the literal FRENCH CASTLE costs less than the median house price in Brisbane.

Every single shitbox house in my suburban street 45 minutes drive from the city costs more than a literal FRENCH CASTLE.

I don’t think young Australians have internalised this fact yet.

For example, this random French castle I found online sells for about $1.4 million AUD. Meanwhile literal collapsing shitboxes in Bankstown Sydney sell for $2 million AUD.

People will reply: “Just build more houses!”

We have the second highest house construction rate in the developed world yet it’s STILL NOT ENOUGH.

If you’re a young Australian, please don’t tie yourself down to 30 years of mortgage slavery for a literal shitbox when you could buy a FRENCH CASTLE for less.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Imagine living on a planet at its hottest in 125,000 years, where CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years & where you have to work your whole life in a system that’s decimating what little is left of nature just to enrich the most depraved psychopaths who’ve ever lived.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

CO₂ levels are so high that we are now relying on scientists to be able to artificially cool the Earth for the survival of our civilisation.
Mass protest by tens of millions might have changed this course, but the public does not understand the gravity of climate change due to the media’s failure to report it adequately.

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

U.S. military interventions in South America

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

DIFFERENT WARS, SAME PROPAGANDA

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

Welcome to the American petrostate
by Michael E. Mann | Nov 7, 2024
@BulletinAtomic
The U.S. is now a failed Democratic state. With the reelection of Donald Trump...the U.S. is now poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats & fossil fuel interests.
https://t.co/DJxwnP4OYo

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

In 1989, former CIA officer John Stockwell ripped the mask off the empire. He exposed covert wars, assassinations, exploitation, and destruction carried out in silence across the globe. This isn’t a conspiracy — it’s a confession.

This is the real, unfiltered face of the U.S.
Not democracy. Not freedom.
Covert chaos, blood, and control.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Lots of people including on the left calling out RFK’s science denial but don’t have a thing to say about climate change because they’ve believed the lies too.
We are in so much trouble.

[Prof. Ryan Katz-Rosene @ryankatzrosene]

Humanity emitted more Greenhouse Gases in 2025 than any year ever

[Joel M. Curzon @JoelMCurzon]

No country can or should have a population that grows forever. The entire growth-based economic system is a Ponzi scheme. Eventually, population growth has to stop, and it will. The bigger the population is when that eventually happens, the bigger the problems will be.

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

🔥 Hot take 🔥
Some stubborn old men, who find it impossible to acknowledge that they got basic numbers describing reality wrong, pose a danger to humanity.