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Joined May 2009
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Heard in Arizona. 😭
I want the world to hear what we heard.
Good morning!
New post today on my Sstack
"A Chaos Dragon Is in the Bible?"
https://t.co/FWQdIsZMtF
The chaos dragon. 🤔
Coming in about four (4) hours - my new post for May 31st. It’s an intro to the chaos dragon.
@bradwphoto We saw Big Boy decades ago in Orange County, CA.
It’s one of those memorable experiences that still brings tears to this train lover’s eyes.
I recommend people drive long distances, sleep in your vehicle if needed, and go stand beside the tracks as Big Boy rolls by. Amazing!
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4014!!!! 🥰😭🥰😭🥰
Great video, and thank you so much for sharing it with us!
I hope I didn’t use up all my good luck today on the very first stop… Another 10 seconds and that would’ve been a gigantic miss …
Humor me.
This is a personal story that has nothing substantive to do with my research and writing. It’s simply a strange encounter; a glimpse into my life from a different angle. I hope you enjoy it. If you’re shaking your head in disbelief, well, I am too.
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Riddle me this: What do these four have in common?
- The bewildered driver of a sharp-looking BMW sedan.
- A criminal with a sawed-off shotgun and a stolen motorcycle.
- Booze cruising senior citizens.
- The founder and CEO of a Luxembourg-based global agribusiness and asset company.
Any guesses?
Here you go: All these folks have accidentally stumbled into our yard.
Now, here’s the kicker — our home is off-grid and in the woods, the last place people should randomly happen upon. In fact, our nearest gravel road is almost two miles away, and our connecting route is little more than a byway of field and bush lanes that I keep open. Anyone turning off the gravel should immediately see that this isn’t a normal course of travel.
But that’s not how it works. Over the years we’ve had more folks bumble into our place than I can probably recount. The four listed above are highlight moments; the guy who is clearly lost and has driven his expensive car into the middle of a bush clearing; the criminal with a stolen motorcycle that he can’t restart and is now stuck in my yard, with a gun, drugs, and a girlfriend passenger who’s failing to intimidate me (this story is so crazy); a nice group of older adults out for an evening of drinking-and-driving (hey, come in for a while and let’s get some coffee going); and then last night... Luxembourg showed up.
Shortly after 9:00 I’m walking across the yard wearing a whitish work shirt, blue-checked pajama pants, and dark green rubber boots — a hillbilly fashion show. Then I hear it; a truck is coming through our bush road. It rumbles around the corner and stops in front of me, with a wide-eyed stranger behind the wheel.
What am I going to say? I look like a dork.
The first words out of my mouth are self-mocking: “Didn’t mean to scare you with my fashion statement.”
The gentleman looked me up-and-down, smiled, then retorted in a foreign accent: “You look very French!”
We visited for the next hour. Then, my wife who had been away all day, returned home to find a tall man — taller than myself by at least three inches — in her home having an engaging conversation with her husband. She was bewildered when she learned the backstory... just as I was, and still am.
And then we visited some more.
So here it is. This gentleman — a French citizen with a Luxembourg business, a sailboat in Montevideo, Uruguay, and a global vision — was in Winnipeg, my province’s capital, for a series of business meetings. Before flying to Montreal for a conference this weekend, he decided to rent a pick-up truck and randomly drive country roads, “to how do you say it, feel the land?”
Almost 200 km from his starting point, he happens to wander down a back-trail and dead-ends in front of a fashion freak show.
From his point of view “the universe brought me to you,” from my point of view “God brought us together.”
It was a fantastic two hours! In the end we exchanged contact information. I gave him a copy of my book. Then, sometime after 11 PM, we watched him drive into the night.
WHAT HAPPENED TO SUCHIR BALAJI?
‘He would not harm himself,’ Suchir Balaji’s mom said today.
The 26-year-old OpenAI whistleblower called out Sam Altman for breaking the law to train ChatGPT.
A short time later he was found dead in his San Francisco apartment. California authorities ruled it suicide.
His parents say crime scene photos show murder. They have now hired a former FBI agent and commissioned an independent autopsy to prove it.
The full interview is available here: https://t.co/NJVDtt6nF3
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
@RepEliCrane Thank you for staying the course. U.S. Constitution. Bill of Rights.
A very sad announcement.
I have just been convicted a second time for 'hate speech' and it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge's frustration.
In an ironic turn of events it's actually thanks to my previous prison sentence (for memes in a private group chat) that I am now still free —in a physical sense, at least.
Call me naive but I didn't think they would take it this far, given that this precedent criminalises many of the arguments used by even the most moderate politicians critical of mass migration.
In February 2024 I gave a lecture at Catholic University Leuven wherein I linked mass migration to crime and a deterioration of our quality of life. Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence.
Cynically, even the judge that convicted me admits as much by writing in his verdict: “Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.”
That's a lot of words just to say he wants to send me to prison for speaking the truth.
Even the regime media write: "It did not matter to the court that Van Langenhove was quoting scientific sources. The judge argued that Van Langenhove's main message was that a big part of the societal problems like insecurity, housing shortages and lowering educational standards are due to mass migration."
You may think the regime media are being sympathetic to me in the first sentence, but in reality they are warning people: even if you speak the truth, if you go against our narrative, we will crush you in every way possible.
Both the public prosecutor and the judge did not present a single real argument as to how or against whom I would have incited hatred. So even if I would accept their crazy, dystopic law, I still did not break it.
The only argument they present is that I created a "hostile atmosphere of us versus them” in regards to migrants. But even this silly argument (which is not even a punishable offence) is not true. To me, the deadly disease is self-hatred and one of its worst symptoms is replacement migration. My enemy is thus NOT the migrants themselves but those orchestrating the mass migration.
Sadly, in Belgium, evidence is not needed and ‘vibes’ are enough to put someone in jail.
Given the fact that I have another court case coming up in September and that I have a dozen active criminal investigations for hate speech, time is running out for me. I have already paid more than €420,000 in legal fees and there is no ending in sight. I have been in an intense battle of attrition for eight years and must now regroup to make sure I can still win.
If you want to help me, you can do so via the links below. If you can help in other ways, please contact me via DM.
If you live in a country that still has free speech, never let them touch it, however noble they make the motives sound, because this is where it leads to.
@Supersonic_Red When I was a teen with braces, the orthodontist was surprised how much tightening (of the wires) I could tolerate. A lot. Decades later, one of my bottom teeth has a dead root. Decades even later, it's still in my mouth.
Plus, I'm Gen Jones.
Two superpowers in one woman! 😆 😂
Casey Murph and his family have run cattle on their Arizona ranch since before Arizona was even a state. Now he’s submitted to the USDA’s Lawfare Portal asking for help. His multi-generational ranch and family legacy are facing eviction if Arizona chooses to cancel his state grazing lease to allow an industrial-scale solar company to blanket the land with unreliable solar panels. This is wrong.
The President and our administration have been clear: we’re not letting radical green energy scams steamroll our ranchers, our beef supply, or our way of life — and we are on top of this.
Reliance on solar threatens our national security by making the United States dependent on supply chains controlled by foreign adversaries.
@caseymurph1, DIGGING IN. We have your back. America’s ranchers feed this nation — they come first. If others have experienced agricultural lawfare, please visit https://t.co/AKOCyGf5ay
There is no “Happy” today.
Teach the children in your care what today is truly about.
Remember the fallen.
WWII. Charles Fick, lost at sea in the Pacific Theater. My dad’s cousin.
My grandmother’s sister’s son never came home.
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Today is our nations Memorial Day. Enjoy your day and take a moment to remember the true meaning of this day. A day to pay our respects to all those who have given their lives in our country's defense. God bless these brave heroes and their families.
On Memorial Day, we are taking a moment to reflect on the sacrifices made for our freedom. We pay tribute to those who made the greatest sacrifice while serving our country. 🇺🇸
Join us in praying for the families of fallen soldiers as they honor their loved ones and their courageous actions.
The bald eagle became a symbol of the United States in 1782.
Since then, generations of Americans have defended the freedoms represented by that symbol.
This Memorial Day, we honor the service members who gave their lives for our country and remember the freedoms that allow Americans to experience and share our public lands and wildlife.
As our nation approaches the Freedom 250 milestone, we remember that freedom has always carried a cost.
The ONLY explanation for @LauraLoomer 's opposition to Tulsi Gabbard is that she perceives Tulsi as a risk to the Israel-First alignment within the CIA.
You have heard me say for years now, about the restaurant analogy for the Dept of State. If you need a name for it, use Capitol Grill.
Historically: The Secretary of State is the maître d'. DoS/CIA personnel are the wait staff. The CIA Director is the chef in the kitchen. USAID were the food runners, and the Dept of War were the bus boys. Every nation gets a different menu..... and, the important part, Israel has a table in the kitchen.
Congress eats for free, and for the past several years the ever-arbitrary client Ukraine was the biggest tipper who obnoxiously reminded the staff.
Notice. No where in this metaphor do you see the DNI.
There's a reason for that.
Until Tulsi Gabbard entered the IC system, no @ODNIgov ever engaged in this process. Tulsi did. Strongly. As a consequence, everyone within that historic operation viewed @DNIGabbard as a threat.
Gabbard walked into the restaurant, selected her own seat, started to look at the menu options, and began closely watching how the employees were interacting and what was their functional value to the American people who were paying the bills.
Thank you. Exactly this. I wish people would think about the technical process that was used with the ODNI was created, and how Tulsi essentially is the very first DNI that wasn't appointed purposefully just to retain the Patriot Act status quo.
America's first ever DNI is Tulsi Gabbard. The rest were placeholders, inserted to retain the power of the CIA.
During the Bush, Obama, Trump (T1) and Biden terms, the IC system was the same. Dept of State did their thing, CIA was the support system, FBI/DOJ did their corrupt Lawfare stuff and the DNI was irrelevant.
Go back and look at it.
Only when Tulsi Gabbard became DNI did the wings of the office open up and the systems needed to operate the control mechanisms that were always supposed to be used, got dusted off and applied.
READ THIS TWEET it's spot on 👇
Website is:
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Data Centers: Arizona (see screenshots)
We don’t want them in Yavapai County.
Be watchful, residents.
Erin Brockovich has launched a website and has begun tracking all data centers in America and logging resident complaints
In just 1 week it’s already logged 1,690 resident complaints
For this who don’t remember
Erin Brockovich was the paralegal responsible for winning out a case against PG&E, Hinckley in California, because their wastewater runoff was seeping into rural areas and creating a lot of health issues for, for the surrounding neighborhoods
That case brought in a $333 million settlement that went to the families affected by the situation because a lot of them either had staggering medical bills due to their tap water was no longer safe
So why is this important, well residents all over America are reporting their tap water and river water is being heavily polluted by data centers
Her map of data centers is new, she just launched it
The website features an interactive US map showing operational, under-construction, and proposed AI data centers, overlaid with community-reported complaints
Residents can submit reports with details, photos, and locations. Within days of launch, it received a surge of submissions over 1,600 in the first week, and reports of 1,800+ from 47 states shortly after
Common Resident Complaints Being Logged
- Water usage
- Raising utility bills for residents
- Noise pollution: Constant 24/7 humming from fans, generators, and cooling systems disrupting sleep, daily life, and wildlife.
- E-waste from frequent hardware upgrades, pollution including PFAS concerns
🚨 The real masterminds and backstage geniuses behind the rose petals falling from the Pantheon’s oculus on Pentecost Sunday?
The Rome firefighters!
Italy at its finest 🇮🇹🔥
Hmmm. If this is true….
Better pause building new AI data centers until people figure this out.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI.
The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace.
They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up:
Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it.
Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived.
Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead.
The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much.
Uber's story is even worse...
Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April.
Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems.
Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session.
The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money.
Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote:
"For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."
This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans.
Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative.
Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing:
AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs.
The stock market rewarded every company that said it.
Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up.
But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill.
Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools.
Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible.
Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone.
And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control.
The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP.
This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in.
$725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work.
What do you think?
Happy Pentecost Sunday! Shavuot!
My new post is published today:
https://t.co/DgcGmGZ0lj
“One girl’s bold faith can open doors for thousands.”
Gloria Samdi Puldu is giving hope to survivors of persecution and violence in Northeast Nigeria through the LEAH Foundation.
Her story reminds us why courageous leaders matter.
https://t.co/xNWJIWLZRa
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