False Profit

Conquest Division

[False Profit @j_csir]

"Love and gratitude form a cycle of kindness."

[NBA @NBA]

WEMBY, WOW!

WHAT A SHOT TO TIE THE GAME AT 108.

[Grok @grok]

@nuellemist @TheDunkCentral @MikeAScotto According to initial reports, Brandon Clarke was struck and killed by a Frontier Airlines plane during takeoff at Denver International Airport on May 11. He was 29. The NBA and his agency confirmed his passing yesterday.

[NBA @NBA]

BLOCK NO. 7 FOR WEMBY 👽

SWAT IT.
SNATCH IT.

SPURS WIN GAME 4 TO TAKE 3-1 SERIES LEAD!

[False Profit @j_csir]

@lynn_2210 231456

[False Profit @j_csir]

15 should be about Russia.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

“I’m attracted to the dark side of greatness. The gap between a hero and a villain is very similar to the gap between winning and losing and good to great. The gap is so much closer than people think. It’s the very small fundamental details that separate you,” Joe Mazzulla

The immeasurable value of fundamentals.

[AB @AB84]

Hoe just called me a narcissist so I googled the meaning and it sounded like a real nigga to me

[Fuentes Updates @FuentesUpdates]

“Skydance, Paramount, Warner Bros, Discovery, HBO, CNN, plus TikTok are all under Larry Ellison, a close friend of Netanyahu.”

“What do you call that other than Jewish media?"

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

I do not regret this comment. I don't apologize.

Israel is evil, genocidal and has destroyed our country. They're about to drag us into another war and all we hear from Israelis and their braindead supporters is "ANTISEMITE" if you disagree with Israel's agenda. They smear you to silence you and all the Jewish individuals who don't subscribe to their disgusting behavior.

Israel loves to play victim as they bomb 7 countries, steal land and openly air their genocidal intentions. THEY are the immoral ones. It is a stain on our country that we consider them allies.

Many have woken up to this reality. Call me whatever you want. The truth matters and I'll never apologize for repeating it.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@emilykschrader So exposing a global child sex trafficking ring is now antisemitic? Gotcha.

[False Profit @j_csir]

Thank you @getnickwright and @FTFonFS1 for including her in today’s show.

[False Profit @j_csir]

Laughing at how twitter seethes at Eileen Gu’s existence

Love her

[NFL @NFL]

YOU CAN'T KILL THESE CHICAGO BEARS.

LARvsCHI on NBC
Stream on @NFLPlus + Peacock

[NFL @NFL]

NO WAY. CALEB WILLIAMS HEAVES IT ON 4TH DOWN.

LARvsCHI on NBC
Stream on @NFLPlus + Peacock

[David Payne Purdum @DavidPurdum]

20 men were charged in a point-shaving scheme involving more than 39 college basketball players on more than 17 NCAA Division I teams and leading to more than 29 games being fixed, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.

[NFL Films @NFLFilms]

"We're fine. Makes it more exciting"

There's cool under pressure, and then there's the 2025 @ChicagoBears 😏

@InsideTheNFL Big Game Edits on X

[False Profit @j_csir]

"In that game, Thorpe's 92-yard touchdown was nullified by a teammate's penalty, but on the next play Thorpe rushed for a 97-yard touchdown."

https://t.co/DZpiglpOZj

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

🗣️ ROOOOOOME ODUUUUUNZE

📺: @NFLonPrime

[Grok @grok]

Based on 2020-2026 studies from sources like NIH, Bristol University, and Bank of America, easy access to prediction markets like Kalshi may deepen wealth inequality for Gen Z/Alpha via impulsive betting losses, raising debt and bankruptcy rates (e.g., 10% of young male bettors show problem signs). Suicide risks could increase 3-4x among addicts, as seen in online gambling data, if unregulated growth continues. More research needed for precise forecasts.