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i’m not afraid of anything

[slatti @slatticus]

If you aren't buying @pumpdotfun streamer coins, you are about to miss the biggest meta we've seen since ai

@a1lon9 & co have been pushing for the livestream meta for months, and thanks to $PUMP, they now have over $200M in funds dedicated to their streamers…

So, who to buy?

[Luis Vercetti @97Vercetti]

How it feels to be 29

[caratbong water @voboed]

i need those flock cameras out of houston TOMORROW @GinaHinojosaTX

[Deacon Blues, MBA 🌵 @JotaroPujo]

We turning Greg Abbott into a Waymo

[Bernard Stanford ✡︎ @stanfordNYC]

Republicans are going to have a terrible night, and the simple reason why is that Trump has put up perhaps the worst *performance* this term of any president in a century or more.

Remember that he entered with an actual mandate: the House and Senate, a popular vote victory and a swing-state sweep, and 6-3 Supreme Court. Democrats were afraid enough to vote for mild but real immigration restrictionist legislation in the Laken Riley Act. Everyone wondered how far the "Vibe Shift" would go.

Trump managed to turn that into essentially zero durable wins whatsoever. He personally *hates* the very idea of legislation, the notion that he would have to spend time going back and forth with Congress, learning details and making compromises. So he simply didn't do it! He didn't make a compelling case for abolishing the filibuster. He didn't try communicating clearly to the public in support of popular bills to get to 60 votes. He just decided not to do it at all.

So they passed an unpopular tax cut, some funding for ICE, and a sop to the crypto industry, and that was basically it. Least productive Congress in decades, due to the tastes of one man.

Trump adopted one of the worst macro policies we've ever had: high deficits, high tariffs, and attacks on central bank independence. We managed to pay higher interest rates while still having high trade deficits AND weakening the dollar. Just a total failure.

On immigration, perhaps THE signature issue, Trump essentially min-maxxed effectiveness and backlash. Instead of trying to leverage the political moment for new laws and a self-deportation agenda (that is, walling off the economy to remove the benefit of irregular presence in the US), he opted for a maximally aggressive approach. The administration spent attention, funds, legal manpower on stunts like deporting random people to Salvadoran prisons with essentially no due process. ICE and Border Patrol were encouraged to be aggressive and confrontational, which helped contribute to the shooting deaths of American protestors. It turns out, that's extremely unpopular!

What about the approach of going after employers? The obvious vector? Trump hated that idea! He repeatedly has said he doesn't want to target businesses (especially farms) that use large amounts of illegal labor. This is just an incomprehensible position. Instead of charging a few dozen businessmen and removing the incentive for millions of illegal workers to be here, you arrest people off the street one by one at the cost of thousands of dollars in manpower per each, while their crying wives and kids post TikToks about it.

Upshot on immigration: electoral strength turned into a crippling electoral weakness in exchange for deporting maybe 6% of the illegally present population.

The tariffs were a total shitshow. Embarrassing rollout, no underlying theory of action at all. No targeted focus on key industries. Our country tariffed products we can't grow. We tariffed *inputs* of our own valuable exports. The schemes and amounts changed constantly, sending the stock market reeling and presenting scenes of chaos to the world.

Trump's messaging throughout has been generationally bad. While facing nearly 2:1 unpopularity, he spends his days posting AI slop, saying he'll rename New Mexico or invade allies, among other bizarre remarks. He brags about a ballroom and a pool repainting while gas hits records. At no point has he ever attempted any kind of message discipline.

Then there are the deeply unpopular attacks on rule of law, his "game-recognize-game" pardons for all manner of scammers and criminals, the crypto schemes that he and his family engage in, the evilly conceived and embarrassingly executed legal attacks on Comey, Jerome Powell, and others. With his monthslong stand on NOT releasing the Epstein files, he became maybe the first president ever to stake out a 99-1 issue on the 1% side.

That's not even getting into Iran, DOGE, his candidate recruitment choices, or countless other things. Simply put: Trump has managed to royally screw up virtually every single facet of his presidency. It's been undeniable, voters have noticed, and there's really no escape from it. This is what the GOP base chose in early 2024, and this is the world they're living with now. Where they handed the reins of history to a fat, vain, washed-up old man and let him drive.

[Anti @antipiker]

greg abbott wheelchair at midnight

[slatti @slatticus]

@nmsinfl @KalshiPolitics The numbers are decided by individual bettors…

[slatti @slatticus]

@degenlegendmfer @ColeThereum @AbstractChain English first, law school second 🙏

[ً @trading_axe]

This story got me fucked up rn 💔

This nigga Jimmy was going to bed every night smiling and kicking his feet that his new internet BEST FRIEND was a food fanatic like himself.

Someone finally willing to listen to him.

Jimmy confessed being fat and using a new diet to lose weight.

He confided in Zach.

Cared for him…

Even asked, “Have you ate today?”

Do you know how hard it is to make friends when you’re a PROFESSIONAL MONEY LAUNDERER for the most cutthroat government mafia?

You can’t talk to anyone about anything BUT cash.

But Zach… Zach was different.

Most of you will read this and see Jimmy express impatience, asking Zach for “more business.”

It wasn’t that he needed more business,

It was simply that he wanted someone to talk with. A real human interaction.

He wanted an excuse to get a conversation going again.

Zach was everything he knew outside of washing funds, a real friend…

And what happened?

His “American coffee” e-bestfriend has put a dagger right through his back.

#TheyGoneKillJimmy4Being2Friendly

💔💔💔💔💔💔

~ Dr. Axius.

[slatti @slatticus]

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[slatti @slatticus]

my 9 games in no particular order

[slatti @slatticus]

oops

[slatti @slatticus]

@natealex hmmm https://t.co/U2YNVdiVWE

[slatti @slatticus]

my 9 games in no particular order

[slatti @slatticus]

@thejester rick is made by one person who is so rich off ref links they could not care less about your gc lmao

[slatti @slatticus]

@a1lon9 @TradingTerminal @Pumpfun Open to both remote and in person btw

[slatti @slatticus]

@a1lon9 @TradingTerminal @Pumpfun applied 🤩

I am willing to wager there’s no applicant with more intense crypto customer support experience than me over the past 4 years lol

[slatti @slatticus]

@aslater proof of concept? 😁

[Froink @FroinkApp]

@aslater Your coin 'Alex Slater' (Slater) is live!
Link: https://t.co/6k3o144fyZ

[slatti @slatticus]

@FroinkApp @aslater @aslater ?

[slatti @slatticus]

still one of the best tweets of all time

[Tim Copeland @Timccopeland]

@avi_eisen

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

Bloomberg just dropped the most disturbing investigation I have read this year, and every AI builder should read it and take it seriously.

On February 28, two Tomahawk missiles hit an elementary school in Minab, a small town in southern Iran. 156 people died. At least 123 were children. The Pentagon knew within hours that it had bombed a school.

The school had its own website. It was labeled on Google Maps. You could see the soccer pitch from a satellite view. You could see the brightly painted walls. Any 12-year-old with a browser could tell what the building was.

The AI system could not.

Inside US Central Command, personnel were using Palantir's Maven Smart System. It is an AI targeting platform running on a $1.3 billion Pentagon contract, and embedded inside it is Anthropic's Claude.

On day one of the war, more than 1,000 targets went through it in 24 hours. Work that used to take a team hours per target got compressed into minutes.

The satellite imagery Maven was pulling from was seven years old. The site was still tagged in the database as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard facility.

The system spat it out as a recommended day-one target. Humans signed off. The first missile flew. Then a second one landed minutes later to hit the people who came to help.

Investigators later found that some Central Command staff had assumed Maven would flag stale intelligence for them. It did not. Nobody had told it to.

Palantir told Bloomberg the government is responsible for the underlying data. The Pentagon's civilian harm mitigation team, the people whose actual job is to catch a target like this, had been cut back before the war started.

This is not AI going rogue. This is the opposite.

This is AI doing exactly what it was built to do at exactly the speed it was built to do it. And a school full of little girls got vaporized because the humans in the loop trusted the machine more than they trusted their own eyes.

I keep thinking about the version of this story that comes next. What happens when the system is faster. When the target list is not 1,000 in a day but 10,000. When "review" becomes a button the operator has three seconds to hit before the next target loads. When there is no human left slow enough to notice that a soccer pitch is not a helipad.

We are not talking about a spam filter mislabeling an email. We are talking about a system that turned a seven-year-old database entry into two cruise missiles landing on children in the middle of a morning class.

A UN-backed panel has now called it a potential war crime.

In terms of children killed, it is the deadliest American targeting error of the entire 21st century. And according to Bloomberg, some of Defense Secretary Hegseth's own advisors are worried that too much public scrutiny of Maven might slow down its adoption inside the Pentagon.

Read that last line again.

If you build this stuff, you own what it does. You do not get to hide behind "the government owns the data." The whole pitch of your product is that speed and integration save lives. When it takes them instead, that is also on you.

I am not against AI in defense. I am against AI in a hurry. Speed is the entire mechanism that made Minab possible. Every guardrail we already know how to build takes time, and time is exactly what the system was designed to eliminate.

So here is the question I have not been able to stop asking, and I genuinely want to know what you think.

If a piece of software helped kill 123 children in a single morning while behaving exactly as designed, what does "responsible AI" even mean anymore?

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

There have only EVER been SIX Republicans to sign a discharge petition to expose a global child sex trafficking ring that includes CEOs, royalty, ambassadors, donors, & heads of state. If you have even one drop of patriotic God fearing blood in your body, defend my colleagues.