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[cheeseboard4two @simondsjr]

Cleaning out 2,000 emails by texting a bot makes a great demo. The real test is day 30. Does it know which sender you never trash? Bulk cleanup is a feature. Judgment is the product. @Bot

[Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics]

Bro… after connecting all my Gmail accounts to Grok Bot, I don’t even need to open Gmail anymore. Today it cleaned up 2,000+ emails, and all I had to tell it was: “Mark these as read,” “Unsubscribe me from these mailing lists,” “Move these to trash,” or respond with whatever.

I’m literally managing my inbox by texting my bot… thousands of emails cleaned up with a few simple instructions. And unsubscribing means less junk coming in tomorrow, too. This might be my favorite email hack ever.

What a game changer.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

1470: “Either we root out printing, or printing will root out us.”
1675: “Coffee houses will defame the government & disturb the peace."
1797: “Novel reading is a cause of female depravity.”
1860: “Trains will drive men mad & shake the body to pieces.”
1889: “Electricity is an unrestrained demon.”
1894: “Bicycles cause lunacy & homicidal mania.”
1903: “A flying machine that really flies? In one million years.” - The New York Times
1920: “Radio will rot the mind.”
2026: “AI will destroy the human race.”

Same sermon. New pulpit.

[Aimen Dean @AimenDean]

This is the biggest news no one is talking about. The Iranian rial has just breached 2.5 million to the US dollar. Conflicted Podcast listeners will know I’ve long said: once we hit this level, the black market is pricing in renewed conflict, and the risk of regime’s implosion!

[cheeseboard4two @simondsjr]

That’s mint

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

So, after eighteen months of lying on the supermarket floor screaming at Denmark, Donald Trump has been handed the 1951 defence agreement, which already gave America bases and the run of Greenland for as long as NATO exists, and which it was using so enthusiastically that it closed sixteen of its seventeen installations there. The grown-ups have simply wrapped the toy he already owned in shiny new paper, told him it was the biggest present anyone has ever had, and he is now running round the garden showing it to everyone. He will certainly make the history books, although I fear not in the chapter he was hoping for.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇮🇹🇪🇺 Italy is FINALLY doing what the rest of Europe should have done YEARS ago...

Meloni announced that face coverings, including the burqa and niqab, will be BANNED in schools, and that foreign students will be capped per classroom.

Parents of children struggling to integrate will also be required to learn Italian.

Allowing large numbers of students who cannot speak the local language into the same class does not create integration; it creates parallel societies.

And integration isn't made easier with a face covering.

This should have been standard policy across Europe a DECADE ago...

Italy is simply enacting common sense.

Source: Reuters / Writer: Samuel

[kevin smith @kevin_smith45]

This might be the best political chart ever made…

[cheeseboard4two @simondsjr]

@rileybrown Can’t wait

[cheeseboard4two @simondsjr]

Oh oh now this is truly rich. I mean who did not see this coming.

A “…pre-existing condition…”, even health care insurers are chuckling at that excuse.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Pakistan has rejected Saudi Arabia's request to join the fight against Yemen's Houthis under the Mecca Defense Treaty, with Islamabad arguing the pact "doesn't cover a pre-existing condition" such as the Yemen war, applies only to wars that began after it was signed, and only to state actors.

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said "there is no such thing under discussion right now" when asked how Islamabad would meet its obligations under the accord signed with Turkey and Saudi Arabia, adding there are no plans to expand the alliance. Turkey, the third signatory, has not moved either.

Saudi Arabia has now been refused by Trump twice and by Pakistan under the pact it signed for exactly this, with the Houthis holding Bab el-Mandeb and the East-West pipeline shut.

[Sam @futurenomics]

This man in the Amex lounge is going places. Maybe good, maybe bad. Definitely places.

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

Do you know how you move an entire population to commit a holocaust?

You move them through a series of small compromises until they have done so many evil things that they feel they can no longer turn back.

What the liberal hive mind allows these days continues to get worse and worse.

[cheeseboard4two @simondsjr]

19/20

No on the got milk delivered to the house.

[G-MA @GmaIndiana]

Give yourself one point for each one you remember…19/20 for me 💛

[Siraj Hashmi @SirajAHashmi]

God grant me the strength of a lone male juror facing 11 retards

[cheeseboard4two @simondsjr]

#truth

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

From aborting them before birth to aborting them up until birth and now aborting them after birth.

The conversion from "mother" to "birthing person" has created a society that is losing the understanding of motherhood.

In a child's most panicked state they will turn to their mother for comfort. Now the most trusted person in a child's life has turned against them.

Why?

Because society has both permitted it and encouraged it.

Until we recover motherhood everything else is just smoke and mirrors.

"Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.”

- "Vanity Fair" (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray

[cheeseboard4two @simondsjr]

Never met @Natsecjeff. Don't know him. But I'm telling ya...his ability to just net-net something out in perfectly understandable words is unrivaled.

[FJ @Natsecjeff]

If you're wondering why Trump is striking Iranian cannon fodder instead of going for leadership decapitation, it's because his friends in Turkey, Qatar, Saudi, Pakistan have all told him not to. So now you know.

Always remember: Trump alone is responsible for screwing up this war. This was an easily winnable war. You just needed to kill through enough leadership, get your own agents in place and the regime would have eventually collapsed.

Even now he is deliberating whether he should announce a half-assed victory and go home. The only reason he hasn't done that is because Iranians are not willing to give him any face saving and he does care about his image. He doesn't wanna come off as 100% a wuss.

[cheeseboard4two @simondsjr]

The bank robber becomes a ‘specialist in unscheduled withdrawals’. 🎤⬇️

[Paulo Spitzbarth 🇧🇷🇩🇪🇮🇱 @PauloSpitzbarth]

🚨🇺🇸 CAR@LHO, QUE LAPADA! 🔥🔥🔥

CNN: “Este é um imigrante sem documentos...”

Miller: “Eles estavam aqui ILEGALMENTE?”

CNN: “Quero que esta seja uma discussão de boa-fé...”

Miller: “Quando você usa uma linguagem feita para ocultar a verdade, isso NÃO é boa-fé. Um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL é um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL. Eles não são ‘imigrantes sem documentos’.”

CNN: “Stephen, estamos tentando humanizar o debate...”

Miller: “Humanizar? Então vamos humanizar o Código Penal também. O assaltante de banco passa a ser ‘especialista em retirada sem agendamento prévio’. O estelionatário vira ‘empreendedor de narrativas financeiras alternativas’. O cara que entra na sua casa sem convite é só um ‘visitante com documentação pendente’. Que tal?”

CNN: “Isso é uma analogia grosseira.”

Miller: “Grosseira é fingir que a lei federal some porque a redação da CNN inventou um eufemismo mais fofo. ‘Sem documentos’ soa como alguém que esqueceu a carteira no Uber. Não. É alguém que cruzou a fronteira sem autorização, ficou, e agora a imprensa trata o estatuto jurídico como se fosse uma questão de estilo de escrita.”

CNN: “Mas muitos contribuem para a economia...”

Miller: “Ah, o argumento clássico: o crime deixa de ser crime se a pessoa lava prato ou constrói telhado. Pelo mesmo critério, o contrabandista de cigarro também ‘contribui’, gera emprego no transporte. Quer que a gente chame ele de ‘empreendedor logístico informal’? A CNN topa?”

CNN: “Você está polarizando.”

Miller: “Não. Eu estou recusando o dicionário de marketing. Vocês mudam a palavra, depois acusam quem usa o termo legal de ser ‘desumano’. É o truque mais velho do livro: primeiro suaviza o vocabulário, depois declara vitória moral. Os Estados Unidos já cansaram desse teatro. Chamem o que é. Ou admitam que o objetivo nunca foi clareza — foi controle da narrativa.”

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

Regret the tone of my post on data centers yesterday.

What I should have said:

There were reasonable concerns about data centers 18ish months ago: water, taxes, jobs, electricity prices, the environment and what they would do to small towns. Well-structured data center projects have largely addressed these concerns today and we should be celebrating this.

On balance, data centers are awesome for America in every way.

On water: U.S. data centers use a fraction of what golf courses use. A lot of the numbers from 18 months ago were off by over 1000x. Newer data centers use closed-loop systems or recycled water. Should be required by every town approving a data center project.

On taxes: looking only at sales-tax exemptions, as Ronan Farrow did, is the wrong way to evaluate this. Data centers pay significant property taxes. Loudoun County, which is the wealthiest county in America, now collects on the order of $1 billion a year from data centers. In Quincy, WA, data centers are more than half the property-tax roll. Over time, property taxes can go to zero while government spending increases in these towns.

On jobs: this has been unambiguously awesome for blue collar Americans. Demand for electricians, plumbers, welders, HVAC techs, and contractors has gone vertical, and it is not a one-time construction job. These buildings get upgraded and expanded over time. That is why the building trades are fighting for them, and why some unions are now treating opposition to data centers as a reason not to endorse politicians.

On power: the original fear was that households would pay for the incremental electricity demand in the form of higher prices. That is why the ratepayer-protection deals and the new large-load tariffs exist. The right structure is: the data center brings or pays for new generation and signs a contract long enough that existing customers are protected. Where that is happening, utilities are cutting or freezing residential rates and saying so on the record. Where it is not, people are right to object. Electricity prices are going down *today* in a number of large states because of data centers.

On the environment: data centers overwhelming use natural gas today, which is the cleanest power source outside of nuclear, solar and wind. And the companies that are building the data centers are committed to carbon neutrality such that an equivalent amount of solar will likely be built. Maybe more importantly, the data centers need batteries to function effectively and these batteries can also sell energy back into the grid (which recently prevented blackouts in Texas). Over time, data centers will run on solar plus batteries.

On the towns: Poverty in Quincy, WA fell from 29% to 6%. Data center taxes paid for a new high school, a hospital, a library, police and fire stations. This is happening in many left for dead former mill and farm towns that had no other bidder for the land.

Data centers are actually reindustrializing parts of America and creating the kind of working-class jobs both parties have spent decades claiming to support. That should not be a partisan issue. Data centers can and should be awesome for America and they increasingly, overwhelmingly are. Supporting the outsourcing of data centers to China will likely age just as well as support for the outsourcing of high quality, blue collar manufacturing jobs to China has aged.

When the facts change, I change my mind. I hope that reasonable people who had good faith reasons to oppose data centers at least consider updating their beliefs given the change in the facts over the last 18 months. This really matters for America.

I will say I also think the idea of making data centers beautiful is a good one that has yet to be implemented. Data centers should be just as beautiful as Grand Central Station. We can learn a lot from the railroad buildout. Neoclassical revival ftw.

Might write up open-weight AI tomorrow as this is equally essential to America.

[cheeseboard4two @simondsjr]

Truly one of the greatest commercials ever.

[Finn Turner @FiinnTurner]

One week since Good Good died… let’s look back at golf’s greatest commercial:

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

How will we ever survive?

[Global Government Affairs @GlobalAffairs]

The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations:

We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.

These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense.

We remain committed to maintaining an open and authentic platform where people debate topics of public interest. We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy.

[cheeseboard4two @simondsjr]

And that is how it's done

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

Remembering the late, great Dolly, who brought joy, comfort and inspiration to so many - including the millions of children given free books through her Imagination Library. We will always ❤️ you.