john barlow

20 years Navy, artist and seeker of knowledge. john.barlow.3726 on Instagram

[john barlow @johnbrlw3]

A little weldy weld from the back of the zoomy zoom

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

JUST IN: Tim Tebow shows senators a map of the United States showing every single location where someone is downloading, sharing, or distributing CSAM.

“We are losing the battle, and we are losing the war, and boys and girls are suffering for it…”

“Every red dot that is on there is someone that is downloading, sharing, or distributing [CSAM].”

“55% to 85% of them are also hands-on offenders, and we know that your average offender has thirteen victims in their lifetime.”

“The scale of harm right here in America is, to a certain extent, hard to comprehend, but that's why we're here.”

[john barlow @johnbrlw3]

@DoctorJack16 @Sajwani @cybertruck Was just saying that today, I wont let anything else drive me around ever again.

[Jeff Lutz 🔋 @thejefflutz]

If you’re in congress or the Senate & cannot negotiate a deal to keep the gov open, then I propose the following for all 535 members:

1. Your pay stops the day the gov is shut down & resumes when it opens. No back pay after.
2. You will take a permanent 1% reduction in salary for every day of the shutdown including weekends for the remainder of your term.
3. You are permanently ineligible for reelection and barred from lobbying for 20yrs once your term is over

[AmericanPapaBear™ @AmericaPapaBear]

Chris Pratt on AI:

“AI is man made so it cannot be God.”

“It’s inherently flawed and it always will be because it’s made by the brokenness of man.”

“It is not God and will not replace God.”

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

I couldn't make it to Davos this year, but I'm delighted to see that my message has. Here's an enlightening exchange between two of the most successful businessmen in the world, Jensen Huang and Larry Fink, regarding the impact of AI on skilled labor. I watched it lie this morning, as I waited for the coffee to kick in. https://t.co/vpxLETDQkK The entire clip is 30 minutes, but I've attached a short clip wherein Jensen, the CEO at NVDIA, talks about "the greatest infrastructure project in the history of mankind," and the opportunities for those entering the skilled trades today.

Obviously, our workforce is nowhere near ready for what's coming. In fact, we're not ready for what's already here. We're going to need to dramatically rethink the way we train the men and women who will build the infrastructure in question, and the speed with which we do so. I'm heartened and encouraged to see Silicon Valley at the table, along with the current administration, who seems determined to reinvigorate the skilled trades by whatever means necessary.

At this point, it's only a matter of national security...

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

Fed "independence" is a myth, a story.

It is the moral cover which justifies its grotesque state-sanctioned near-monopoly power over the most important market in the world: money.

The Fed is never "independent" of the banking establishment. It is of, by, and for the banks. The Fed is the banking establishment's greatest accomplishment.

And because modern banking is an appendage of the state, so too is the Fed its most potent tentacle.

Nobody should really care about how much the Fed spent on its building renovations. What a distraction!

The Fed's crime is not an embellished construction project, but the systematic coercive distortion of money rates across the global economy for the past century.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Talk Church @churchtalkative]

This visualization is going to blow you away | Josh Howerton

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Prosecute @GovTimWalz

[Rikki Doolan @realrikkidoolan]

Islam was prophesied in the Bible multiple times.

Watch this.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸NICK SHIRLEY'S FRAUD VIDEO HITS 75 MILLION VIEWS - FOX NEWS AIRS HIS FOOTAGE- THE INSTITUTIONAL MEDIA GATEKEEPERS JUST LOST

75 million views. Still climbing by the hour. 400,000 likes. 150,000 reposts. Fox News running his footage on national television.

Nick Shirley just proved the entire thesis: One guy with a camera documenting fraud beats every newsroom in America combined.

Here's what just changed permanently:

Traditional media ignored the Minnesota story for years. MSNBC, CNN, local stations- they all knew about welfare fraud allegations. Nobody investigated. Too politically sensitive. Too much work. Not worth the risk.

Then Nick Shirley walks to addresses, knocks on doors, films empty buildings billing millions, and gets 75 million people watching in days.

Fox News didn't break the story. They're airing footage from a YouTuber because he did the journalism they didn't.

That's the power shift documented in real-time.

Institutional media had monopoly on investigation and distribution. You needed newsroom resources, editorial approval, broadcast access. Now you need an iPhone and the ability to read public records.

Nick found $110 million in fraud on day one. Put it on YouTube. The algorithm did the rest.

The incentive structure just got established:

75 million views = significant ad revenue. More importantly = proof that fraud investigation content scales. Every creator just saw the formula work at massive scale.

Next week: hundreds of imitators descend on every major city looking for their viral fraud expose. Because Nick just showed them the map and the treasure's real.

That's the beginning of institutional media becoming aggregators of citizen journalism rather than primary sources.

The barrier to entry just collapsed:

You don't need:

- Journalism degree
- Newsroom budget
- Editorial approval
- Broadcast license
- Corporate backing

You need:

- Public records access (free)
- Camera phone ($1000)
- Ability to walk to addresses
- Willingness to knock on doors

Nick proved the economics work. Now watch what happens when a generation realizes fraud investigation pays better than content creation and requires less creativity.

This is the DOGE army that can't be stopped:

Centralized reform efforts get bogged down in bureaucracy. But 1,000 Nick Shirleys documenting fraud simultaneously? No institution's built to counter that.

Every empty building exposed forces response. Every viral video creates political pressure. Every imitator makes the fraud harder to hide.

The decentralized investigative swarm just proved it works at scale. 75 million views is the proof.

Welcome to the new media. Too big to ignore. Too distributed to stop. Too economically viable to quit.

Source: YouTube analytics, Fox News

[john barlow @johnbrlw3]

@hwfeinstein sorry, yes it is

[john barlow @johnbrlw3]

My first real mod to my Cybertruck, now I don't have to crawl in to get anything from the front. I still need to add a rail around the outside, that's what the tabs are for, and ill be covering it with a rubber mat.

[john barlow @johnbrlw3]

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Diver accidentally captured this breathtaking moment after dropping his camera underwater off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

[📹 Peter Mieras]

[john barlow @johnbrlw3]

@Teslarati Not a chance

[john barlow @johnbrlw3]

Pretty much done, being that it's for the shop... it's done and will in all likelihood not be worked on again. Unless something breaks
https://t.co/Nvy4i9pEMh

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This artist turns real objects into books

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[john barlow @johnbrlw3]

If the Gospel was a lie, at least one of these men would have recanted in light of their fate, none did