Robin Koerner - #Humilitarian

Scholar @braverangels. PhD Epistemology. Author @BrownstoneInst. Publisher

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Yann LeCun sat across from Lex Fridman and quietly proved that intelligence has nothing to do with thinking.

He did it with two sentences about a trophy.

“The trophy doesn’t fit in the suitcase because it’s too big.”

“The trophy doesn’t fit in the suitcase because it’s too small.”

Same words. One swap at the end.

In the first, “it” is the trophy.

In the second, “it” is the suitcase.

You solved both before you finished reading.

Nobody taught you that. There is no rule for it. No logic chain. No formula.

You knew because you’ve held things. Packed things. Felt the resistance of something too large for the space it was meant to fill.

LeCun calls this grounding.

“A big object doesn’t fit in a small object.”

The machine has read that line a billion times.

It has never once picked anything up.

It knows the word “big.” It has never been small enough to be lifted, or large enough to be the problem.

So when the sentence turns, it has nothing to turn on.

You didn’t solve that riddle by thinking.

You solved it by having lived.

Every object your hands ever closed around. Every door you misjudged. Every suitcase you overpacked and forced shut.

Decades of physics written into your nervous system so deep you can’t even find it.

That is what answered the question. Not your mind. Your life.

LeCun: “You have this knowledge of how the world works, of geometry, and things like that.”

Now point that at yourself.

Most of what you understand, you could never explain.

You cannot describe how you catch a ball. How you judge the weight of a bag before you lift it. How you know a staircase is wrong before your foot confirms it.

Your deepest intelligence has no language in it at all.

We spent centuries convinced that thinking was the highest act of the mind.

LeCun is pointing at something underneath it.

Something older. Something the body learned long before the mouth could speak.

Intelligence was never computation.

It was accumulation.

The slow, silent record of a life spent touching the world.

The machine holds every word ever written about it.

It has never once been in it.

We keep asking whether it thinks.

It cannot even tell us which “it” we mean.

[Robin Koerner - #Humilitarian @rkoerner]

@robertewright @ImtiazMadmood @Bretigne We have refunds just like that for train delays in Uk. Quarter of your ticket price for 15 to 30 mins, half for 30 to 60, and full for more than an hour. Or something close to that.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Fauci's right-hand man was just indicted for conspiracy and destruction of federal records. And now we learn Biden officials silenced their own FDA scientist who was finding serious vaccine safety issues, like heart attacks, strokes, and sudden cardiac death. This cover-up goes all the way to the top.

https://t.co/3FbcBGaAJz

[Children’s Health Defense @ChildrensHD]

🚨 Sonia Elijah: Government agencies REFUSED to release Covid data that exposed the truth.

“I submitted a Freedom of Information request to [the] Department of Science and Innovation and Technology in the U.K.”

“I asked them for all the meetings, all the notes, emails, communications with NATO in reference to disinformation policy around the Covid shots.”

“And they admitted that, yes, they do have all of that information.”

“But they're not going to give it.”

“[They said] it would threaten national security or would be used to further misinformation [and] be misinterpreted.”

“That reminded me exactly the same excuse… given by the UK HSA.”

“Key scientists took them to court to try and get them to release the data linking excess deaths to the Covid vaccines.”

“They refused to give the data.”

“This is anonymized data, so [there’d be] no one's names.”

“They refused to give it.”

“[They said] it would, again, fuel misinformation and relatives of the deceased would get very angry.”

“That was their excuse.”

@jeffreytucker @sonia_elijah @brownstoneinst

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

Bret Weinstein’s analysis of the 80 Ivermectin court cases reveals a mind blowing statistic.

In the 40 cases where Ivermectin was permitted, 38 survived.
In the 40 cases where it was not, 38 died.

Using a standard statistical formula, the chances that Ivermectin had no impact are roughly 1 in 20 quadrillion.

Yet, we were denied this treatment.

This is one of the biggest medical tragedies in modern history!

[Robin Koerner - #Humilitarian @rkoerner]

Most lives divide into two parts. First, one lives without any concern about one's mortality. In the second, one is aware of one's mortality everyday. A significant event (close shave with death, loss of a parent etc) separates them. The two parts are almost different lives.

[Robin Koerner - #Humilitarian @rkoerner]

Now, if we could just see the kind of Statesmanship and political skill from a Brit in Britain 🇬🇧 that we just saw from the "top Brit" 👑 in the USA 🇺🇸 ...

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

It was the fall of 2021 when I first started hearing of Covid shot injury. I did not want to believe it. I wondered if all these reports were just biased exaggerations. Not a fan of the shots, I mostly thought they were useless but never imagined that they were actually dangerous too.

So I was in denial for about six months until I was hit with a flurry of data and stark judgements from people I trust. I would certainly out of my element in judging that data but so many people were sounding alarms.

Now the truth is incontrovertible and I embarked on a bit of research into the larger story of why shot injury has always been a taboo subject. The industry has constructed it to be this way. My incredulity is exactly what the industry has counted on to be the general attitude.

Surely this would not have been approved if it actually hurt people, right? This strong bias against looking at vaccine injury squarely and telling the truth has been a persistent feature of industry propaganda for as far back as we look. Indeed, the bias is a built in feature of the entire commercial enterprise. To keep all this under wraps has required the creation of a massive funding network that has compromised government, academia, professional societies, retail distributors, media, and whole professions. It's absolutely amazing.

My initial unwillingness to believe there were profound problems turns out to be a programmed response, a result of cultural planning. It remains so to this day.

[Robin Koerner - #Humilitarian @rkoerner]

@RelearningEcon @ProfSteveKeen "If economists were laid end to end, that might be a very good idea." - Unknown

[MAZE @mazemoore]

If there's one short video that encapsulates the insanity of the pandemic, this is it.

"Trust the science" and "listen to the experts" and then the science experts deny their own actions.

[University of Austin (UATX) @uaustinorg]

To: Admitted Students on Ivy Decision Day
From: UATX

Congratulations. Getting in was hard and you should be proud. Now here’s some unsolicited advice so you don’t waste the next four years.

Go to class. We know this sounds obvious. But as the New York Times reported recently, Harvard students routinely skip class, rarely speak up when they're there, and focus on their devices instead of the discussion. Faculty say few students do enough preparation to contribute meaningfully. The average college student spends about 20 hours a week on class and studying combined. At UATX, we aim for 50. That’s the difference between a part-time commitment and a full-time job. You (or your parents) are about to spend upwards of $90K a year. If you don't show up, you're paying roughly $250 per skipped lecture for the privilege of sleeping in.

Read the books yourself. Your generation is the first to arrive at college post-literate — raised on short-form video, dependent on algorithms, and increasingly incapable of sitting with a difficult text long enough to let it change your mind. Ninety percent of college students use AI academically. This makes you more reliant on the authority of others. Most professors will also stand between you and the text. They’ll tell you what Marx “really meant,” what Aristotle “failed to see,” as though an academic in 2026 has outsmarted minds that shaped civilizations. The good professors do the opposite: they put you in front of the book and they work with you to find what a great mind has to teach us directly. Find those professors, and read everything yourself.

Say what you actually think. Seventy-three percent of conservative students report withholding their political views in class out of fear their grades will suffer. Our advice isn't political; it's intellectual. If you spend four years learning to say what's expected instead of what's true, you’ll graduate roughly where you started — just older, more credentialed, and more practiced at self-censorship. One study finds that nearly half of students show no measurable gains in “critical thinking” after two years in college. Keep this in mind as you make decisions about which professors to take and how to do your assignments. Taking a small hit on your paper to gain integrity and wisdom is usually worth it.

Ask for real grades. Sixty percent of Harvard undergraduate grades are now A’s. Twenty-five years ago, it was 20%. It got so bad that the legendary Harvard professor, Harvey Mansfield, started giving students two grades: the official one for their transcript, and a private one reflecting what they actually earned. He called the official grades “ironic.” So here's a suggestion: Take your A, but also ask your professors for a “Mansfield grade” so that you know where you stand. And don’t avoid difficult courses to keep your transcript clean for law school.

Get work experience before you graduate. Forty-two percent of recent college graduates are working jobs that don't require a degree. Many employers are projecting the next few years to be the worst college grad job market in years. A degree alone — even from an Ivy — is not a job guarantee. Seek out apprenticeships, internships, and real work starting freshman year. The students at UATX are connected with entrepreneurs and business leaders from day one. Many will graduate with four years of work experience alongside their degree. You can build something similar at your school, but you'll have to do it yourself.

Understand how debt shapes your life. If you're paying full freight or even half, do the math with your eyes open. Your decision to take on debt will quietly reshape the trajectory of your adult life through countless small surrenders: the job you take because it’s safe instead of starting the company. The city you choose to live in. The relationship you delay and the kids you don’t have. For women, a $1,000 increase in student loan debt lowers the odds of marriage by 2% per month in the first four years after graduation. None of that shows up in the college brochure. If you're going to take on debt, treat it like the constraint it is from day one: save aggressively and make sure every dollar is buying something that will actually compound in your favor.

Find the people who take school seriously. The best thing about a great school isn't the lectures or the library. It's the handful of professors and students who are genuinely there to learn — who read ahead, argue in good faith, and push you to be sharper. Find them. UATX is a small community of those who seek a serious education. At a larger university, you have to build this community yourself.
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The most dangerous thing about an elite university is that it is very easy to do nothing for four years and still come out looking successful. The transcript will say you excelled. The diploma with the fancy crest will open certain doors. Your parents will be proud. And yet you will have coasted — through inflated grades, unread books, and borrowed opinions.

Getting in is an accomplishment. Making the next four years worth it will be harder, and the right decisions will change everything.

We wish you luck.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

This article both leaks and summarizes an explosive ACIP report on vaccine injury and what to do about it. https://t.co/ABAqGD0dob

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

Why I've lost trust in most all intellectuals and the institutions that purport to represent them: they have had almost nothing to say (except by way of support) of the entire Covid response.

I just cannot take these people seriously now or ever. This goes for many supposedly great minds I once respected.

It should be obvious by now that this was and is probably the most important shift in the historical narrative In decades if not hundreds of years.

Why the silence about the following?

* A entire generation was denied actual eduction
* The response showed public would mostly believe any absurdity, even that masks were protective against microbial infection and that standing far apart from people was the key to health
* Governments canceled religious holidays with two thousands years of tradition and got away with it
* A grass-roots movement would rise up among us to defend and enforce preposterous claims including that hiding under the sofa would cause a respiratory infection to go away
* Governments the world over learned that they could perhaps spend without limit, run up debt, and inflate away the obligations
* Industry realized there were far more profits in panic and mandates than in normal marketing
* The ruling class discerned that they could get away with endless abuse of the people provided it was pushed as public health
* The vaccine industry realized that no lie was beyond plausibility even when they were caught and even when their product caused vast injury and death
* Media was revealed to be nothing other than a deep-state megaphone
* Academia proved itself to be mostly useless

Any actual intellectual worth his salt would have been sounding alarms throughout this amazing fiasco. Some have. Very few, mostly associated with new institutions that are displacing the old failed establishment. Legacy thinkers have generally pretended that none of this happened.

Remember these days: an entire generation of vaunted intellectuals is hereby discredited, revealed as sycophants, and otherwise exposed as having chosen the comforts of social position and financial stability over truth.

[dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ @DahliaKurtz]

This is one of the most beautiful moments you will ever witness.

Sir Nicholas Winton helped 669 children — most of them Jewish — escape the Holocaust.

His humanitarian accomplishments would remain unknown and unnoticed by the world for nearly 50 years.

Then in 1988 he was invited to the BBC TV show That's Life!.

There he sat — unknowingly — as part of the studio audience, surrounded by the children he had rescued. They were now adults.

Then they surprised him with one of the greatest gifts of all time. Their presence.

They were there, all alive — because of him.

Not only was he reunited with dozens of children he had saved, but he was also introduced to many of their children and grandchildren.

Please remember Sir Nicholas Winton, for his humanitarian operation known as the Czech Kindertransport.

Sir Nicholas George Winton, a British stockbroker, and a gift to this planet, left us on July 1, 2015, at the age of 106.

May his memory forever be a blessing and inspiration to all.

Please share. International Holocaust Day cannot be forgotten. But many are working to make that happen.🕯️♥️

[Robin Koerner - #Humilitarian @rkoerner]

@DrGerryParker @DrJBhattacharya https://t.co/KZn6GWN6ov

[Robin Koerner - #Humilitarian @rkoerner]

@RealKahall Great to hear from you. It really has been way too long! I'm doing well. How and what are you doing?!

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 NEW: Fmr. CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield Now Says the COVID Jab Should Not Have Been Called a Vaccine

“It was never meant to prevent transmission … It probably was a misnomer to call it a vaccine. It's really more like a medicine. It doesn't stop infection.”

[The DarkHorse Podcast @thedarkhorsepod]

Are you still getting COVID boosters?

Why do you think the information landscape changed?

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

One of the billionaires supporting my primary opponent was asked on stage this week how she buys and influences American politicians. Here’s the video:

[Paul Graham @paulg]

92% of grades in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies classes at Yale are A or A-, vs 55% in Mathematics. The math majors must just not be as smart. (Table via @sfmcguire79.)