Mike Breton

[Hank Lockwood @hen_ease]

Inject it into my veins

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Last year the same labs, politicians, NGOs, and media outlets now pushing the extinction hoax were running a full-scale campaign that AI would cause a jobs apocalypse.

We were told it would be a “white-collar bloodbath,” 10–20% unemployment, half of entry-level jobs gone. Obama amplified it.

Over a year later: unemployment at 4.1%. No economy-wide displacement. A million new jobs created by AI, says The Economist. Anthropic’s own chief economist says the data looks like skill augmentation, not job destruction.

So, any admission by the doomer labs, politicians, and NGOs that they were wrong? Any humility about scaring the public with wild extrapolations dressed up as forecasts? Nope.

They just move on to the next hoax, with the same false certitude and fake precision.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇩🇪🇺🇸 Peter Thiel just pointed out a pretty brutal difference between America’s young wealthy and Germany’s.

Looking at the 50 richest people in each country who are Gen X or younger, Thiel says 9 of 12 Americans made their own fortunes.

Germany? All 20 inherited theirs.

“Not a single person did something new, made some new money, built a large new scalable company.”

Germany isn’t running out of rich people. Thiel thinks it’s running out of people getting rich by building something new.

Writer: Lynn

[C3 @C_3C_3]

So…

Billionaires sitting at Trump’s head table for Xi visit: 5

Bernie Sanders outrage posts about it: 4

Billionaires sitting at Obama’s head table for Xi visit: 5

Bernie Sanders outrage posts about it: 0

Bernie Sanders is a grifting fraud.

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

Astonishing

[Markets & Mayhem @Mayhem4Markets]

They lie because they have an agenda.

There is no durable moat for either company.

Which means they must create one through regulatory capture.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 WTF?! ANOTHER Lindsay Clancy juror just came out declaring Clancy was an “AMAZING MOTHER by ALL accounts”

Probably because her CHILDREN aren’t here to give THEIR accounts.

These women are absolutely screwed in the head.

“Nobody could find one bad thing to say about this person.” REALLY?!

[Puru Saxena @saxena_puru]

When you're the top dog and worried about open source eating your lunch, the easiest way to kill competition is by introducing heavy regulation.

[Grant Hummer @gphummer]

Translation: our gross margins are getting competed down to 0 by open source models and our capex burn rate is too high.

Let’s maintain our margins with regulatory capture, ban open source models, and slow down the capex arms race. All with a virtue signaling cherry on top.

[Boston Globe Pitchbot @BostonSatire]

Attribution laundering weasel word master list:

“Raises questions”
“All the hallmarks of”
“People are saying”
“You do have to wonder”
“Some are asking”
“Critics say”
“Observers have noted”
“There are growing concerns”
“Concerns are mounting”
“Questions remain”
“It’s worth asking whether”
“It’s hard not to wonder”
“One has to ask”
“Could be seen as”
“May suggest”
“Appears to suggest”
“Seems to indicate”
“Potentially”
“Arguably”
“By some accounts”
“According to people familiar with the matter”
“People close to the situation say”
“There is speculation that”
“Fueling speculation”
“Adding to speculation”
“Has fueled concerns”
“Has prompted questions”
“Has sparked debate”
“Has drawn scrutiny”
“Has come under scrutiny”
“Has raised eyebrows”
“Has caused alarm”
“Has sounded alarm bells”
“Many fear”
“Some fear”
“There is a perception that”
“The optics are”
“At the very least”
“Whatever the truth”
“Whether or not”
“Even if unproven”
“There’s no evidence that X, but…”
“That’s not to say”
“No one is suggesting X, however…”
“The episode nevertheless raises the possibility”
“It cannot be ruled out”
“There is reason to believe”
“There are indications”
“The circumstances suggest”
“The timing has led to questions”
“The coincidence has not gone unnoticed”
“The broader pattern is difficult to ignore”
“Taken together”
“Viewed in context”
“Against that backdrop”
“At a minimum, it raises questions”
“The question now is…”
“The real question may be…”
“Perhaps more importantly…”
“That may be beside the point”
“The larger issue is…”
“The controversy speaks to…”
“The episode underscores…”
“The incident highlights broader concerns about…”
“For many, the episode is further evidence of…”
“It fits a pattern”
“It bears the signs of”
“Has echoes of”
“Is reminiscent of”
“Carries uncomfortable parallels to”
“Not unlike”
“One could be forgiven for thinking”
“It would be reasonable to ask”
“Reasonable people might conclude”
“It’s difficult to escape the conclusion”
“The implication is difficult to miss”

[Josiah Lippincott @jlippincott]

This is what "pacing the frontier" meant for nuclear energy in America vs. China.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

We’ve never seen anything like this before. A man was conscripted into jury duty by the government. He performed his civic duty and followed his conscience, refusing to acquit a woman who confessed to systematically executing her three children. The defense attorney immediately launched a public smear campaign against the juror. Soon several other jurors joined the campaign. Then the media. Even the defense attorney’s wife has joined. Now they’re doxxing the man, digging into his past, contacting his family, showing up at his house. All of this both to punish him for refusing to go with their program, and to pollute any future jury pool by making it clear that anyone who votes to convict Clancy will have their life destroyed. It’s truly one of the most outrageously evil things we’ve ever seen from the Left, and that’s saying something. A direct assault on the integrity of our justice system. They are burning down every boundary and standard in their path. And doing it all for the sake of a child murdering psychopath. Unfathomable.

[Parker Thayer @ParkerThayer]

This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.

2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.

According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.

The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.

Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.

And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.

What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?

3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.

It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.

4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

They've been running this story for 25 years straight.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

You are absolutely correct.

Right after Elon decided to buy Twitter, then President Biden publicly said that Elon needed to be investigated.

Biden on going after Elon: “There’s a lot of ways.”

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Jamie Raskin rails against conservative justices:

"There's definitely illegitimacy in terms of their ethics."

Raskin's ethics are so unassailable that he needed a preemptive pardon.

Rich. Very rich.

[Retard Finder @IfindRetards]

Think I called retard of the day a little early.

This is super retarded stuff.

[Emily Kopp @emilyakopp]

After a newborn died of a ruptured spleen during an at-home birth, Gov. Josh Shapiro said it was measles. The coroner says it wasn't.

Health officials scold that the infant was unvaccinated. Babies receive the MMR vaccine at 6 months to a year. The newborn presumably was only a few hours old.

Five days before the presser, a Democrat dark money group advised hitting Republicans on Trump's vaccine policy.

https://t.co/6dF8zueMJp

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Philly DA Larry Krasner says he wants the WH Ballroom blown up:

"I'm going to have a paperweight sitting on my desk. You know what that paperweight is going to be? It's going to be a piece of the ballroom after we all blow it up."

"In an official ceremony we're going to blow it up."

Soros-backed lunatic.

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Somalis are roughly 0.17% of Bostons population and started getting there in the 1970’s.

Boston was incorporated in 1822. She is lying through her teeth.