Jake

I’m here to rebuild Iraq

[Scheplick @scheplick]

I don’t like sports betting at all, but this is actually quite interesting - especially if you trade public markets

[N. Bourbaki, Professor of Logic at Science U @d08890]

during roughly 536-8 AD, multiple historical sources in europe and east asia indicate that the the light of the sun was significantly dimmed, with some sources saying no shadows were cast at noon

according to some sources, this dimming lasted up to a year and a half

[In the Van 🚗 by Cosmic Tofu @Team_CosmicTofu]

What if Project Zomboid had the cozy pacing of Stardew Valley?
Here’s a look at In the Van, a cozy survival game being developed by our 2-person indie team!

A repost would mean the world to our little team if you like what you see!

[Jake @JWicks031]

https://t.co/cn4D49pfHX

[Scolcer @scolcer_]

Cuando VALVe estaba al borde de la quiebra y Gabe Newell fue a pedir ayuda para lanzar Steam, el 99% de la industria le dijo que no, que perdía el tiempo. No fueron una o dos empresas. Fueron todas. Lo cuenta el propio GabeN en el documental del 20º aniversario de Half-Life 2.

Ahora esa misma industria llora porque quieren parte del pastel que su propia incompetencia y arrogancia les impidi�� ver.

Excepto VALVe, nadie pensó a largo plazo. Nadie se jugó la empresa y el patrimonio personal contra una industria sin visión. Nadie apostó por tratar a sus clientes como personas.

Por eso CEOs como @TimSweeneyEpic y compañía se la pasan despidiendo gente en masa mientras buscan nuevas formas de exprimir y abusar de los jugadores, en vez de construir una comunidad de verdad.

Steam no es un monopolio. Es la recompensa por hacer las cosas bien cuando nadie más tuvo cojones.

[Kenshi @KenshiOfficial]

“Obscure RPG Kenshi.”

We’ll take it.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

There's an interesting story about how Victorian mansions, and particularly the Second Empire style, became synonymous with haunted houses.

They were extremely popular in the US from the 1870s through the 1890s, but were hard to maintain because of their large size and opulent style. Many of the families that constructed these homes lost much of their fortunes in the Panic of 1893 and the crash of 1929. Others remained wealthy but didn't have the means or desire to maintain large staffs of maids and servants to keep them running.

So, one by one, Second Empire homes across the US were sold off and continued to change hands rapidly until, by the time the 30s rolled around, thousands of them were left vacant because no one could afford to maintain them.

And not just maintain, but preserve them. The typical Second Empire house was around 50 or 60 years old by the 1930s. They needed upkeep just as much as a house built in 1970 would need repairs today if no one had lived in it for 10 years.

As a result, many of them were bulldozed or burned down to make way for newer homes in the 40s and 50s after World War II. And the entire point of Second Empire style was for them to be grouped together like a bunch of trophies, so tearing down a whole bunch of abandoned and decaying mansions but keeping the ones that were in relatively better condition only made them stand out more.

By the time the late 40s and early 50s rolled around, they had almost universally gone from being considered the crowning architectural achievement of the Gilded Age to being synonymous with urban decay.

The artists and writers of the 60s were growing up as kids in the 40s and 50s, thinking to themselves, "that old house down the lane that has been sitting empty since I was born." So when they got jobs in Hollywood writing scripts for TV shows, they carried those memories with them, and the Second Empire style entered the collective consciousness of pop culture as the default "haunted house" for the next 60 years.

The sad thing is, these homes are priceless. You can see it when you find a rare one that has been well-preserved or restored. But we've degraded ourselves so much that it would be nearly unthinkable to construct a home like this today.

[「Indigo」⚢ @FoolPlanet]

Might be time to start up that 2 week Minecraft phase again

[John Greenewald, Jr. @theblackvault]

Here is a thread of each of the UFO videos released today by the Department of War.

[wetto @SuicideChrist]

fuck your microwave 1:30 music. we bringing back real albums. 5:00 minute songs.

fuck your tik tok economy. fuck your social media attention span.

[Phillip C Parrish @phillipcparrish]

Fellow Minnesotans,

Just got the alert from @CrimeWatchMpls on another chapter in the endless Somali clan wars tearing up St. Paul and Minneapolis. Yesterday afternoon, May 5, right by RiverCentre and Rice Park during a graduation event: shots ring out, two young men hit (face and leg, non-life threatening thank God), three suspects proned out and hauled off. Chaos in the parking ramps, bullets flying near the Ordway and Grand Casino Arena. Video shows the crowd scattering like it’s Mogadishu, not Minnesota.

This isn’t “random gun violence.” This is imported clan beef playing out on our streets while the DFL machine and their nonprofit grift partners pretend it’s not happening. Same networks I’ve blown the whistle on for years: the daycare fraud rackets, the COVID relief scams, the welfare pipelines that funneled taxpayer dollars straight into these communities while some of it looped back to terror financing overseas. The DFL looked the other way because votes and federal grant dollars matter more to them than your safety.

You know the drill. The same players who turned child-care assistance into a billion-dollar fraud buffet are now watching their street-level cousins settle scores with guns in broad daylight. The refugee resettlement racket, the hawala money pipelines, the “diversity” nonprofits cashing checks while our kids dodge bullets on the way to a graduation photo – it’s all one syndicate. Street gangs, fraud gangs, political protection rackets. Organized crime wearing a “compassion” mask.

I’m not running to hand out more studies or “task forces.” I’m the retired Navy Lieutenant Commander who spent 21 years in intelligence. I’ve seen clan warfare up close. I know exactly how these networks operate – and how they get enabled by politicians who care more about keeping the grift alive than keeping Minnesotans alive.

Here’s what a Parrish administration does on Day One:

• Full forensic audit of every refugee resettlement dollar, every nonprofit contract, every welfare program that’s been a black hole for fraud. Follow the money, seize the assets, prosecute the enablers.

• Zero-tolerance deportation pipeline for criminal aliens and gang members. No more catch-and-release, no more “sanctuary” nonsense. You come here and bring clan wars? You’re going home.

• Restore real law enforcement – no more defund-the-police experiments that left cops demoralized while the streets turned into free-fire zones.

• End the nonprofit-industrial complex that profits off chaos while real Minnesota families – farmers, teachers, working people – pay the price in blood and taxes.

This is the constitutional republic our founders built: rule of law, secure borders, safe communities, accountable government. No more turning the North Star State into a failed-state franchise.

To every family in St. Paul, Minneapolis, Rochester, Duluth, out on the farms and up north: this stops when we stop pretending it’s someone else’s problem. Your kids deserve to walk to school, your wife to shop downtown, your neighbors to enjoy a graduation without gunfire.

We’re going to take Minnesota back – not with slogans, but with steel-spined enforcement, transparency, and the kind of common-sense justice that puts criminals on the run and law-abiding citizens at peace.

I’m in this fight because I love this state and I serve a Savior who demands truth and justice. The DFL syndicate and their grifter allies are sweating right now because they know I won’t play their game.

What about the other candidates? Ask them. I just told you my answer.

Press: [email protected] or [email protected] / [phone]

Let’s get this done, Minnesota.
Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Governor 2026
Retired U.S. Navy LCDR | Fraud Whistleblower | Lifelong Minnesotan
@phillipcparrish | https://t.co/ZiixHpHXI0
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[Marko Jukic @mmjukic]

Imagine being Chinese and seeing America's leading military drone industrialist spending his time having to gently and cheerfully explain to a key media ally of the ruling party that the Moon landings were not a hoax.

[Kelski @kelskiYT]

They just casually turned No Man’s Sky into intergalactic space Pokemon

What the fuck are they feeding the employees at Hello Games

[Colby Adcock @adcock_colby]

Today I am extremely proud to introduce the Fury Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator 🇺🇸

For the past 12 months, the Scout AI team has been building this quietly. Now we’re finally ready to unveil it to the world

Just like AI agents are transforming the digital world, Fury Orchestrator brings that same agentic intelligence into the physical world for the U.S. warfighter

It is the first agentic system that can take a commander’s high-level mission intent, spoken or typed in natural language, and turn it into coordinated autonomous action across a mixed fleet of unmanned assets

More in 🧵

[De Christian Life @DeChristianLife]

The energy a wife's words stir