Paul Reidy

Clinging to the wreckage...

[Dr Manhattva @Manhattva]

I just found the most brilliant bit by @JohnCleese

He explains Leftism better in 90 seconds, than you could learn from any academic in 20 years.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“It will happen to all of us, that at some point you get tapped on the shoulder and told, not just that the party is over, but slightly worse: the party’s going on and you have to leave.”

— Christopher Hitchens

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Kim Damti.

I wonder if the Irish football team and those trying to boycott the Israel/Ireland football team thought of her?

She was an Irish Citizen 🇮🇪 and murdered by Palestinian Terrorists on October 7th.

Here is her story and some words from the heart from her family:

She was at the Nova Festival.

Her mother said Kim called her at 6:30 a.m. as Hamas was attacking the party, and asked:

“Mummy, what should I do?” Her son took the phone and told her to seek shelter, and that was the last they heard from her.

Her body was discovered several days later, and she was buried in Gedera on October 12.

Damti is survived by her parents, Jennifer and Gidon, and four siblings. Her family owns the well-known Falafel Damti stand in Gedera, where Kim grew up.

Her cousin, Hadas Damti Padlon, described Kim as “beloved, beautiful and good, whose only sin was going to a party to dance and enjoy.”

“Kimmy was a source of pride and joy to her parents and siblings,” she wrote.

“Kim was a beautiful, gentle, light-filled girl, there was nobody who didn’t love her, she was a ray of sunshine in the world!”

Her relative, Nasrin Damti, described Kim as “my angel… I am broken and destroyed and cannot believe that I won’t get to see your beautiful smile anymore.

My Kimmy, you were the angel of the family and especially of me. Watch over us from above, and give us the strength to deal with the horrible pain.”

At her funeral, her brother Daniel Damti eulogized her and spoke of her final moments.

“Kimmy, our flower, my little sister… you were always full of generosity. You left for the party and I told you, ‘Go, have fun, this is your time.'” He said they last spoke at 7 a.m. and she told him she was hiding out in a shelter, “and I was relieved. I didn’t know that that’s where it would end.”

“You will always stay in my heart, smart and pure, I’ll never forget you. I promise you I’ll protect everyone, the whole family. Our angel, you will always stay beautiful in our memories,” he said.

At the ceremony, her sister, Emily Damti, lamented the loss of “Kimmy, my little sister, my sunshine, my flower girl, my successful, beautiful sister. I can’t get your smile out of my head. I can’t imagine summing up your life when you just started living.”

Emily said she “received a gift to spend 22 years by your side, I was privileged to be your sister.

You managed to do so much during that time, an excellent student, who also found time for fun… What a treasure was stolen from me. I wanted to do so many more things with you… I will always remember you dancing with a smile on your face. My angel.”

May her memory be a blessing 🕯️

[Paul Reidy @pareidy]

@wolfejosh Let’s hope.

[Jack @jackunheard]

This photo just lost AOC the 2028 election.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

I hate how pompous this sounds, but I seriously worry we won't survive the combination of how stupid we're becoming and how insanely high our expectations for our standard of living remain.

This is why populism is taking over politics. People desperately want to be told the system is fucking them, when the much harder truth is that a lot of us are idiots living better than 95% of the world.

We inherited an unbelievably complex system that gives us cheap food, clean water, electricity, medicine, technology and comforts that would have been unimaginable for almost all of human history.

Most of us have absolutely no idea how any of it works, couldn't rebuild any of it, and increasingly despise the institutions and people that keep it functioning. And a future of dominate cultures that don't value building or maintaining anything being in the vast majority could cause us to buckle.

We didn't build the machine or bother to understand it. We inherited it from generations that are long gone.

I'm just not sure we understand how easy it is to break something you have no idea how to build, and for it to come undone entirely. We have never had an incoming generation like this before.

I passionately hate that we are becoming anti social digital drug addicts, but in a way, I wonder if AGI in the right hands is the only hope.

I desperately want us to make it.

[Daniel S. Loeb @DanielSLoeb1]

I would expect New Yorkers who are not dumb and have a shared love for the city and respect for each other to start demanding that @NYCMayor resign.

[Paul Reidy @pareidy]

@Chris_arnade Exactly

[Charles Gasparino @CGasparino]

Living in Manhattan, I know a lot of old-school NY Dems and not a day goes by that they express how theyre horrified by what is happening to their party. My advice: Look inward. It began with you and people you love and elected like Chuck Schumer, Andrew Cuomo, etc., the so-called moderate party leadership that for years appeased the leftist loons who occupied Zuccotti Park, or unqualified clowns like AOC, or de Blasio. You and your "leaders" never really tried to hold the line against the leftists in the state legislature. And now the lunatics are controlling the proverbial insane asylum. We have increasing fiscal and social chaos. Mamdani's budget is not balanced and will never be. It will require more tax increases. He's never going to stop demonizing Israel, or come to appreciate free markets as Jamie Dimon hopes, because he is who he is. With that, homelessness and urinating on the street has become a right, along with rioting after basketball games. It's not just Mamdani. You have Brad Lander touting Marxism; a comptroller, the so-called fiscal watchdog named Mark Levine who is placating the left and not signaling the disaster that brewing on the city's books. Remember that when you piss and moan about Trump; your lives are being destroyed not by his mean tweets but right here in NY by politicians you empowered. You have become piggy banks for an expanded welfare state and useful idiots to promote cultural Marxism at the private schools you think will help your kids get into Columbia to further their indoctrination. Good job

[david friedberg @friedberg]

I would like to see you make a voluntary contribution of 5% of your family’s $200M net worth to the government for important healthcare, childcare, and jobs. Don’t worry, it’s just one-time. Your $10M contribution will provide free childcare for over 1,000 California kids for a year! Once you’ve made your personal contribution to a more just and equitable society, I’ll support all your other asset seizure ideas. But you gotta go first…

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

Like and RT this status if you would genuinely like to see President @realDonaldTrump and VP @JDVance award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dr. Thomas Sowell.

[Mann Made Cinema @Hotshot_Movie]

This is a Pratt ad. CNN spent the entire primary shitting on the ONE candidate trying to fix all this, then…after they successfully merked him out of the general election, they run this searing indictment of the 2 candidates they just shilled for. 🤡 🤡

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

While I’m no fan of socialism or arbitrary confiscations of wealth, I can see why Bernie Sanders’ proposal (for the government to take a 50% stake in AI companies) resonates, including with many on the right.

The CEOs of the leading AI labs have told us repeatedly that they will cause massive job loss. This is not a story that I believe, nor does the data bear it out, but this is what they have told us. Similarly, they have hyped the risks of AI without putting an equal or greater emphasis on the benefits or readily available mitigations.

Conservatives have another fear. The employees of the leading labs claim to be philanthropic, but what we’ve seen is massive enrichment of NGOs advancing an agenda at odds with traditional values, fueling a revolution against our cities and communities. Soros-maxxing is not charity in our book.

Anthropic and OpenAI have established themselves as Public Benefit Corporations. What could be more in the public benefit than using half the wealth generated by these companies (which trained for free on the collective knowledge of humanity) to pay down the national debt? There is no ideological bias in that philanthropy.

Dario and Sam have begun to walk back their claims of massive job loss, but the damage to public trust is done, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. I could almost support the Sanders proposal as a stupidity tax.

There’s just one problem. Nationalization of AI will accelerate the corporate-government fusion we’re already sliding toward. Conservatives rightly fear a Central Bank Digital Currency. They ought to be even more concerned about Central Government AI — a system with even more totalistic power over information, decision-making, and human behavior.

We saw how social media was weaponized to censor conservatives (including President Trump) in the last Democrat administration. The definition of “trust & safety” expanded to mean protecting the public from supposed psychological harms, micro-aggressions, and disinformation (you know, like hearing conservative ideas or true facts about Covid).

That “safety” agenda as applied to AI will be vastly more powerful and Orwellian. AI won’t just moderate posts; it will curate reality — with the ability to rewrite history, enforce ideological conformity, influence policy at scale, mass surveil Americans, and condition the benefits of the many systems it controls on approved behavior.

America won’t win the AI race if we beat China but end up with a CCP-style social credit system in the U.S. — and that is the danger as the government becomes more deeply involved in AI development and assumes direct ownership and control.

Conservatives are right to fear where this is all headed but ought to think more carefully about how regulations they are flirting with now (that are widely celebrated among those with a long history of lust for Big Government) will be used against them the next time a Democrat administration is in power.

[Joel Pollak @joelpollak]

New York City, San Diego both were improved by Republican governance and are declining after Democrats took power again.

[Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein]

Was at the WH Correspondents dinner last night, a rare DC trip for me without a subpoena. On the positive side—was exciting, no one was killed, and ended early. I noted a new litmus for status among the gov’t elite—whether you were whisked away by secret service, or left to fend.

[Paul Reidy @pareidy]

@lloydblankfein That’s funny

[Paul Reidy @pareidy]

9.45am this morning.
2 train between Borough Hall and 14th st.

The mask is the icing on the cake.

@NYCMayor @nypost @NYCMayorsOffice @Crime_In_NYC @ViralNewsNYC @nypmetro @NYPDnews