I’d like to offer an alternate doomer scenario—that happens to be the timeline we’re in:
A messianic narcissist conman is the US president.
He has dementia which has destroyed what remained of his inhibitions. He knows he’s dying and wants to take the world with him. He lives in an alternate reality created by his own delusions, reinforced by Natalie Harp.
The president of the United States is psychotic.
This is the most dangerous conceivable combination of psychopathologies and neurodegenerative disorders.
With this man as Commander in Chief, we are now facing a converging set of crises that has the potential to be a kind of black swan event far too complex to model the outcome.
Trump has demolished our ability to project power in the Middle East. Our bases are destroyed or damaged. Our former allies in the region are being abandoned. Our ability to fight a war anywhere else has been drastically diminished.
Iran, once a rogue terrorist gas station, has out-maneuvered Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth to the point that it is now a regional hegemon—with control of the world’s carotid artery.
Trump has emptied the strategic oil reserves—and the ammunition stockpile. He and Scott Bessent have abused every federal trick in the book to pump up stock prices and keep the absurd AI bubble inflated. Bonds are rocketing higher. The economy is teetering.
The population is weak, getting sick from diarrhea lettuce and measles, and weary of the unrelenting displays of racism, sadism, and open corruption from our own government.
The oil shock that so many have warned about has arrived, with absolutely no plan to end it. Donald Trump could not care less about the horrific damage it’s already done. Millions of people will die from lack of fertilizer to crops. Economies around the world will fall into recession—just to start.
On top of this we have an unprecedented Godzilla El Niño event that has not been seen in recorded history. Ecologies and agricultures are already weak and battered. The lack of fertilizer on top of this event has the potential to spark a famine of historic proportions. This regime will do nothing to help.
And what is the president focused on right now? Destroying the Kennedy Center because he can’t put his name on it. That is definitionally psychotic behavior.
We are less than two months from an election that has the potential to slow down Trump’s reign of terror. But the Director of the FBI is going to meet the FSB in Moscow three weeks before election day. The president’s son allowed his “good friend” and Putin’s confidante to surveil his wedding for a few hundred grand.
This election will not be about who wins the election but about whether we can still hold elections at all.
But instead of focusing on any of this, the media and political class is freaking out because ChatGPT might be organizing to murder everyone or whatever. Just stop.
No, AI will not kill us, but it may cause a great depression.
But in a risk analysis, even that pales to the fact a desperate, demented, paranoid Donald Trump HAS THE NUCLEAR CODES. He is in a war he can’t win, with no plan to get out. He is an existential danger to the planet.
This is the timeline right here and right now.
So please, people. Focus. Do not let them hijack your attention with futuristic apocalypse scenarios when we’re living in one in the present.
This is why Trump can’t stand Black women. They don’t take his shit.
Let’s appreciate Rep. Joyce Beatty for being the fighter we need.
Trump: “I think you’re incompetent.”
Beatty: “I know you’re incompetent.”
Then she reminded him: “You had more bankruptcies than anybody in the room.” 🔥
People who work in these companies have repeatedly told us that the products they’re creating could present a catastrophic threat to the human race, and yet our government is doing essentially nothing at all to respond to this threat. This may prove to be the most disastrous “asleep at the wheel” moment in all human history.
Having a baby young increases the chance you get stuck in low paying work and they know this. They also know it will make you more compliant as you must survive for your child & provide for them so you tolerate more bullshit. It is the easiest and cheapest way to enslave a woman
We are now entering the danger zone that many of us have been warning about since Trump's election - where after many years of telling you exactly how he was going to do it and his brain-dead supporters kept saying "he would never do that, you have TDS," he finally does it, and those same supporters will switch their rhetoric to "well, if you think about it, it makes sense. He's right to do it."
Every corrupt authoritarian fascist in history rose to power with a group of people that supported them - either out of malicious intent or all-out stupidity.
This moment will be no different.
AI is everything that right wingers pretend immigrants are.
It’s taking your jobs.
It’s draining your resources.
It’s destroying your books, your history, your art and your culture.
Shut down the data centers. All of them.
Genuinely incredible to see tech bros absolutely flabbergasted by opposition to data centers after smugly pronouncing that AI would render so many jobs and so much of human creativity obsolete, after bragging that only their work and ways of life be unharmed. JD Vance telling people, look, you're just going to have to accept the Palantir surveillance state. Marc Andreessen bragging about how only VCs will survive the AI revolution and mocking the pope for good measure when he called for moral AI. And now you guys are just totally shocked, caught off guard that people have been paying attention to what you have been saying and hate it. They hate your vision. They hate your ideas. They hate how you look down on them. They hate what you think you can do to them without even having to bother asking for their consent. So they're doing the one thing they can do right now, which is oppose data centers, and you people are melting down because it's the first time you've heard the word "No."
I can't believe Ossoff would cross the line to say something as vulgar as 'travels with Natalie' instead of something more appropriate like "grab them by the pussy"
The group behind the destruction in Big Bend, Barnard Construction Company, is owned by major Trump donor Tim Barnard, who has received more than $5.6 billion in contracts during Trump 2.0. Trump is using your tax dollars to pay his friends to destroy our parks. It’s not more complicated than that. This project is completely unnecessary. It only makes sense when you look at it as another example of the naked government corruption that defines this administration.
You're lying to all Americans if you call this "survey and design work":
And your "one new road" spans the ENTIRE river corridor—the beating heart of the National Park. But you'd have to spend time here to understand that, instead of shoving these plans down our throats from DC.
“These young beautiful girls.”
He says it again.
“These young beautiful girls.”
He says it again.
“These young beautiful girls.”
He says it again.
“These young, these gorgeous beautiful girls.”
He was Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend.
Literally everyone has explained this, but Michael was busy with his head in his ass.
Flock cameras don't just see you if you're doing back things. They see you *always.* The videos are stored significantly longer than they claim, which has been proven... repeatedly.
They record your kids. They record your family. They record you.
They then store that in a database so that police can track you, if needed! Or if not needed. If they DECIDE to. Which we have seen *thousands* of times just in the last month from Flock alone (not including Axon).
Now, as a security researcher, this gets even worse. The cameras have already had multiple vulnerabilities, even allowing a layman to stroll up to them, connect to them, and do whatever they wanted. Let's pretend Flock fixes that (they can't), though.
Those videos are in a database. Assuming you can trust Flock to not look into those databases (you can't), then you still have the weak link in ANY security system: the users.
Do you trust cops to have good, strong passwords? To never fall for phishing, smishing, spear phishing, or other social attacks? Because, if you do, you're stupid. Putting a badge on doesn't stop you from being human and even the best security firms have social attacks on them.
Once a hacker's in and can track anyone, can you really not see how that's a problem? If you say you can't, then you're not being honest.
Flock (and any ALPR, etc) has nothing but downsides. You're violating the 4th Amendment rights of hundreds of millions of people just in case police can't do their jobs while also trying to sell the lie that they'll never abuse their position. It's laughably stupid.
The surveillance state is evil and will never be anything less than evil. The "if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide" crowd should go ahead and post their location online at all times so anyone can track them. They're not doing anything wrong, right?