Polyphonic Hippo

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The American Empire and its Media

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@BleepinComputer https://t.co/oIOqE8DlZO

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@Gavin_McInnes Look at you with your little fancy pants box

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@MikeBenzCyber 😂

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@elonmusk @KatieMiller 100% accurate

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[Joe Oltmann @Joeoltmann]

"Absolutely not."… that is what Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson told KUTV when she was asked if she would ever hand the Justice Department the voter rolls, and now she is taking a victory lap because Judge David Barlow tossed the DOJ case Friday with prejudice so it cannot even be refiled.

Let me explain what this is actually about. The DOJ asked for the complete, unredacted voter registration list, the kind of data you need to match a name on the roll to a real driver's license number, a real Social Security number and a real date of birth, and the argument was simple… the Civil Rights Act of 1960 gives the attorney general the authority to inspect voter registration records to make sure states are actually maintaining their rolls. She offered the public list instead, the same list any campaign can get its hands on, and when they said that does not do the job she dug in and said absolutely not.

So ask yourself a simple question. If your rolls are clean, why fight this hard to make sure nobody outside your office can check them? Why is the chief election officer of one of the reddest states in the country celebrating the fact that nobody gets to verify the list her own office keeps? How is this even a thing?

I am all for privacy, and yet this is not some hacker or some marketing firm asking, it is the federal government asking whether the people on the rolls are real, alive and eligible, which is the entire point of having a roll in the first place. Privacy is the shield they always grab when someone wants to look under the hood, and it works every time because nobody wants to be the guy who argues against privacy.

And make no mistake, this is a Republican. Not Jena Griswold, not some blue state secretary of state, a Republican lieutenant governor in Utah doing the exact thing the left would do and calling it a win for fair and secure elections. Meanwhile the DOJ is sending about six lawyers and paralegals to watch Utah polling places in November, and Harmeet Dhillon says that has nothing to do with Henderson. Fine… watch closely anyway.

Deidre… if the rolls are clean, prove it and hand them over.

@realDonaldTrump take this one to the Tenth Circuit.

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@mugimachi Wow!

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@RubinReportShow @BarbaraMBoyd She's correct.
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@shellenberger @WSJ 😂

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Here's a selection of the key texts we are choosing from for the book club. Note: this includes the 15 we've already read together. The books in this image:

Homer — The Iliad
Homer — The Odyssey
Aeschylus — The Oresteia
Aeschylus — Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
Sophocles — The Three Theban Plays
Euripides — Electra and Other Plays
Aristophanes — The Complete Plays
Herodotus — The Histories
Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War
Plato — Complete Works
Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle — Politics
Aristotle — Metaphysics
Aristotle — Physics
Aristotle — De Anima
Aristotle — Rhetoric
Cicero — On Obligations
Cicero — The Republic and The Laws
Livy — The Early History of Rome
Virgil — The Aeneid
Ovid — Metamorphoses
Plutarch — Lives, Volume II
Marcus Aurelius — Meditations
Augustine — Confessions
Augustine — On Christian Teaching
Augustine — City of God
Boethius — The Consolation of Philosophy
Beowulf
The Song of Roland
Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica (Summary)
Dante — The Divine Comedy
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Chaucer — The Canterbury Tales
Malory — Le Morte d’Arthur
Machiavelli — The Prince
Shakespeare — Complete Works / Hamlet
Cervantes — Don Quixote
Milton — Paradise Lost
Bunyan — The Pilgrim’s Progress
The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
Austen — Pride and Prejudice
Tocqueville — Democracy in America
Dumas — The Count of Monte Cristo
Brontë — Wuthering Heights
Poe — The Complete Tales and Poems
Melville — Moby-Dick
Tolstoy — War and Peace
Tolstoy — The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Dostoevsky — Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky — The Idiot
Dostoevsky — Demons
Dostoevsky — The Brothers Karamazov
Melville — Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories
Wilde — The Picture of Dorian Gray
Chesterton — The Everlasting Man
Hemingway — The Sun Also Rises
Lewis — The Screwtape Letters
Lewis — The Abolition of Man
Tolkien — The Lord of the Rings
Solzhenitsyn — The Gulag Archipelago
McCarthy — Blood Meridian

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@historyrock_ Coolest band ever!

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@don_v_flynn @historyrock_ Lucky bastard!

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@elonmusk @JamesEsses Fully agree

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@remnantsofpast

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@elonmusk I do not trust the Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei or ChatGPT Sam Altman. I think they may be intentionally creating security issues and trying to scare the public into regulating AI so they can hamstring competitors

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

The Anthropic/OpenAI/Google scheme to have government regulate them follows a pattern. Every major new industry has done this: pharmaceuticals, meat, banking, finance, agriculture, software, social media, crypto. It's a conventional cartelization scheme and the dominant economic form of the last 150 years.

[Steve Milloy @JunkScience]

The AI Lie: Top AI leaders are not worried that AI is "advancing too fast." They are worried that AI is so wide-open that start-up AI firms will eat their lunch. Existing, large AI firms are trying to scare the public about an existential threat from AI so that they get regulation that suppresses start-ups. Monopoly guaranteed by law and regulation is a standard anti-competitive move by big business. You heard it here first.

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[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Former White House AI Czar David Sacks tells Anthropic & OpenAI to “stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission” to slow down AI development.

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

gee I wonder if this has anything to do with the $112 million Microsoft execs gave Obama's foundation

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

Government regulation that restricts AI via regulatory burden, to a few companies or just one - will basically create a monopolies for Google, Anthropic and OpenAI. Each owning their own lane.
The conflicts of interest here, by a company's CEO, which is about to go IPO to the tune of trillions of dollars is huge.