Joaquin Celdran

Fraud Investigator. AI Adaptor. Geopolitics Nerd. Martial Arts Enthusiast. e/acc.

[Joaquin Celdran @jvceldran]

@TalktoBPI This is happening way too often. @TalktoBPI you've been so unreliable lately. And on a payday weekend too! It's time to move my banking elsewhere...

[Joaquin Celdran @jvceldran]

Christ is King!

[Joaquin Celdran @jvceldran]

Thanks to The US and Israel's war on Iran, which jacked up the price of fuel to record highs, the demand for EVs here in Asia are now through the roof!

[Joaquin Celdran @jvceldran]

The more I learn about how politics works around the world, the less invested I am in politicians.

That does not make me a-political, I have my own beliefs and they do not conform to any one "side" of the whatever aisle there is, left or right, opposition or administration.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇮🇷 47 years ago, a revolution built on the promise of Islamic justice took power in Tehran.

Today its Supreme Leader died in rubble while his own people danced in the streets.

The people celebrating tonight, the same people the regime shot in the streets in 2019, in 2022, last December, they've been ready for this moment for years.

History will argue about whether this was legal. Whether it was wise. Whether what comes next is better or worse.

But nobody will argue about what happened.

The most powerful theocratic regime on earth was decapitated in a single Saturday morning.

And when the news broke, Iranians didn't mourn. They cheered and they danced.

[Joaquin Celdran @jvceldran]

🇵🇭 So now the censorship overlords at the DICT are now looking into banning Telegram. Banning platforms is not a solution.

I’ve been critical of Telegram in the past, and for good reasons, it does get abused. But pretending that banning an app fixes crime, disinformation, or bad actors is lazy policy.

Telegram is a real work tool for a lot of Filipinos.

Filipino VAs use it to talk to foreign clients.

Devs and API coders use it for alerts, automations, and community support.

Freelancers, Expats, and remote workers use it because it’s lightweight, fast, and doesn’t get blocked in half the countries their clients are in.

A ban wouldn’t hurt criminals. They’ll just move to another platform.

What it will hurt are regular Filipinos trying to earn, coordinate work, and stay connected to global clients.

This is the same old failed playbook:

Government can’t or won’t properly investigate cybercrime, scams, or online abuse, so they go after the tool instead of the behavior.

That’s not governance, that’s optics.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

It’s so over.

[Joaquin Celdran @jvceldran]

No one wants full disclosure about aliens, UAPs, and UFOs more than I do.

But with everything happening in the world right now, I can’t help but wonder if this is being used as a distraction from other things.

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

Palantir CTO @ssankar’s on Europe’s lack of tech startups:

“Europe is the worst of both worlds— they neither spend a lot of money nor move quickly.”

“The sad truth of human nature is, clarity only seems to come when the barrel of the gun is in your face.”

[Joaquin Celdran @jvceldran]

#based

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Never mock someone who is in the process of self-improvement.

[Joaquin Celdran @jvceldran]

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation." - Henry David Thoreau

[Joaquin Celdran @jvceldran]

Why are cowards like you afraid to ask questions?

You hide behind buzzwords like “pseudoarchaeology” and “grift” because they save you from actually engaging with evidence or arguments just because new ideas don't fit your prefab worldview.

And let’s be clear, your appeal to authority is intellectually lazy and flat out wrong. If authority were the arbiter of truth, science would have died centuries ago.

Calling Jimmy “human garbage” isn’t skepticism, it’s intellectual bankruptcy. When you can’t refute a claim, you smear the person. When you can’t debate, you moralize. When curiosity threatens your sense of certainty, you label it conspiracy and retreat behind credential worship.

[Joaquin Celdran @jvceldran]

@DarrigoMelanie The financially uneducated see net worth and assume a checking account.
Musk’s wealth is tied up in companies, not cash.
Selling it to fund public programs would crash the asset and raise far less than imagined.

[Joaquin Celdran @jvceldran]

The sad thing is that for some people, politics stops being a belief and becomes an identity. It consumes who they are.

Disagreeing with them feels like a personal attack, because to them, it is.

Opposing views to these people become existential threats.

Debate becomes an act of violence and those who do not pass their political "purity tests" become the enemy.

In those cases, politics has become an all consuming mind parasite, infecting the mind and slowly replacing personality, curiosity, and humanity with permanent outrage.

[Joaquin Celdran @jvceldran]

How is it that the Number 1 Podcast on @Spotify and @YouTube and the Number 2 podcast on @AppleMusic isn't even considered for the Best Podcast Category at The Golden Globes?

Let me tell you why...It's because the Golden Globes has always been a Hollywood sheep show. And any one who is controversial, and does not pass their liberal purity test will get snubbed.

The JRE podcast stands for truth and curiosity. He's interviewed controversial figures that make all these so-called "elites" squirm with discomfort and existential dread.

He interviewed and supported the current sitting President of the USA, who all these people hate.

And has over the years has become a way more successful show than anyone else.

Words talk, numbers scream. And @joerogan has the numbers to prove that he has the number one show in the world much to the chagrin and jealousy of the fake Hollywood elites.

Who cares about fake awards anyway?

Keep doing what you do Joe.

#JRE
#JoeRogan
#GoldenGlobes

[Joaquin Celdran @jvceldran]

This.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 PEOPLE CAN’T GRASP HOW FAR AHEAD ELON REALLY IS

Sequoia Capital's Shaun Maguire said most people are blind to exponential change and that’s why they consistently underestimate Elon and The Boring Company:

“I think people are really bad at thinking about non-linear things.

Most humans just think in linear terms, and a lot of Elon’s companies are very non-linear.

People don’t understand at all where The Boring Company is.

They think boring machines are easy because they’ve been around a long time and because there are a bunch of subway tunnels dug by municipalities.

I asked Steve, an early SpaceX engineer, a genius who helped build the first Dragon vehicles, to stack rank Falcon 1, Falcon 9, Falcon 9 reusable, and Starship by difficulty, and then place where the current vision of the boring machine is.

What they’re working toward is zero people in tunnel, Z-pit continuous mining.

And he said it’s a little harder than Falcon 9, easier than Falcon 9 reusable.

So think about that, a tunneling machine that’s harder to engineer than a rocket that reaches orbit and lands itself.

But people don’t understand that because they can’t.

They compare one boring machine to another and miss the scale of what’s coming.

Once The Boring Company achieves reliable, zero-people continuous mining, everything changes, fast.”

Source: Relentless Podcast @elonmusk @shaunmmaguire

[Joaquin Celdran @jvceldran]

If someone is already carrying five untruths in their head and you come in with something that clashes with that worldview, they’ll reject you instantly.

But if you stay vague, if you give them just enough to let them fill in the blanks, suddenly you’re “right.”

That is the Barnum Effect in action, and a lot of influencers across the political and cultural spectrum use it.

They speak in broad, empty statements that feel specific only because the audience supplies the meaning.

They never say anything concrete, yet they’re treated like oracles because people project their own beliefs onto the ambiguity.

It’s one of the oldest social engineering tricks in the book, and it still works.