James

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[James @timeimp]

Happy New Year!

Here’s a video of the fireworks going over Sydney Harbour Bridge

[James @timeimp]

Patriot 🫡

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

Today I walked into the White House. 🇺🇸

My mission to end child transition worldwide has the backing of the most powerful government on earth.

6 years ago this was a solo fight. Hour upon hour spent on the streets of Canada, next to no support, not knowing a soul in this fight, but never discouraged!

I have always known the victories that await.

I have always had faith that others would join the cause and in time we would stop this madness, everywhere.

Well, we are! 👉🏼 https://t.co/qvcjnjBoNt

Much work to be done, but today I'm meeting with leaders at the highest levels of the U.S. government. I've also spoken up for kids at the EU Parliament (twice), the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, and the UN in New York, and been featured (by critics) on the main stage at the World Economic Forum.

I've met with members of Congress, testified before the Florida State legislature, helped ban this in Oklahoma, and sat down with lawmakers in the Canadian Parliament and in legislatures from B.C. to Washington, California, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Scotland, England, Israel, and Australia. In Brussels I met elected representatives from a dozen more European countries.

I've also been to jail 3 times, been arrested 5 times in 4 countries, had more than 300 visits from police, but never been charged with anything. All arrests were either after I was assaulted, or because I simply refused to yield to an angry mob and police who insisted I leave.

The answer to "Will you relinquish your rights to satisfy this violent mob?" will always be NO.

I've been assaulted dozens of times, had my arm broken, been mobbed by hundreds, painted on, spat on, car keyed, tires destroyed, and even had a catalytic converter stolen in Oakland. Note to self: don't stay in a cheap hotel in Oakland.

Hundreds of houses in my neighborhood have received mail from Antifa, trying to destroy my reputation, but all that did was bring in more support. Normal people don't like when kids are being harmed.

I even sued the Australian government when they tried to censor me on X, and won!

Mostly, I've spoken with thousands upon thousands of people on the street, in 14 countries, helping parents protect their kids, and reached millions more online.

We are winning because we tell the truth: that children are beautiful just as they are, no drugs or scalpels needed!

And we are going to stop child transition everywhere, no matter how long it takes.

If you wish to support me in this fight, I greatly appreciate your help. Thank you!

https://t.co/DN4D6NAfTe

[James @timeimp]

Engineer discovers normal people and network effects 😂

And most gamers being on the spectrum (somewhere) means that you have a limited time window to make your store their and their friends “shop of choice”

[Kiaran Ritchie @kiaran_ritchie]

I'm gonna spell this out because this issue is deceptively subtle:

1. The Steam client and infrastructure is somewhere between "not that hard" and "trivial". It's a download service attached to a payment processor with a smattering of services on the side. Cloud providers handle all the infrastructure these days.

2. Steam takes 30% of gross revenue; ostensibly for the privilege of using these services, but in reality it is purely to get access to the massive Steam userbase.

3. Steam users love Steam and having their whole library in one place. It works. It's dependable. It has sales and cards and achievements, oh my!

4. PC developers have no option but to distribute through Steam or lose the vast majority of sales. Not releasing on Steam destroys the business model.

5. Therefore, no amount of competition will ever unseat Steam. People post-hoc rationalize this with memes about how gracious Gabe is. And how brilliant their services are. But realistically, no avid Steam user wants other stores to succeed.

The mere existence of other stores risks splintering their precious collection. They are "all in" on Steam. Invested.

Even if an alternative were objectively better, by whatever metric you care about, it would still be of no interest to Steam users. They would in fact find it to be a problem and a threat to their investment.

Competition in this space is not only uninteresting to most Steam users, it's actively denigrated!

The CONSEQUENCE of this situation, is that 30% of all gross revenue is siphoned out of the PC games industry into a black hole.

It doesn't recirculate into studios.

It doesn't pay any bonuses.

It doesn't fund any sequels or DLC.

This is a particularly insidious tax because it's well hidden. It's a second order effect. Most Steams users don't know, and the few that do never consider the aggregate effect this has on their favorite hobby.

It's undeniable that, at this point in history, Valve could EASILY lower the distribution fee while maintaining healthy margins. But they don't have to.

Users are locked into Steam and therefore developers are stuck paying 30% of gross revenue to Valve.

The irony is that Steam users, the very ones maintaining this unbreakable stalemate, would benefit the most from a better financed game development ecosystem.

I don't think this is fixable. It's just sad.

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

Seeing Anthropic’s net loss exceed the entire GDP of Slovenia

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Happy birthday to this future president.

[James @timeimp]

@Sal_Predebut @grok make a video with the script from this image using cave Johnson’s photo and voice. Be sure to capture the booming voice of cave’s character

[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement @ICEgov]

Fake & Gay!

Moussa Diawara, the Malian national featured in this shockingly poorly researched @60Minutes report, now faces allegations of immigration FRAUD after his asylum application surfaced, revealing that he claimed to be a HOMOSEXUAL man who feared persecution in Mali.

Read more ⬇️

[James @timeimp]

Rest in Peace, Walter.

[Variety @Variety]

Walter Koenig, who played Chekov in the original “Star Trek” series and seven “Star Trek” feature films, has died at 90.

https://t.co/qwySBj1Xy9

[Praveen Kumar Verma @Alacritic_Super]

Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.

By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.

Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.

[James @timeimp]

@john_macgowan The real question

[SpookleyGareth @Googleygareth]

"What was your biggest impact on the internet?"

Ribs.

[Dmitriy Kovalenko @neogoose_btw]

A video about the state of cybersecurity as of October 2026

[MaceAhWindu @MaceAhWindu]

WAIT I DIDNT WATCH THE WHOLE THING I DIDNT KNOW THEY WERE GONNA END IT LIKE THAT LMFAOOOOOOO

[LeeKuanYewRespecter @LeeRespecter]

Federal Senators should fly business class. The whole point of business class is to provide the space to work and travel comfortably, so you arrive well rested for, well, business.

That is, of course, beside the point. The $150,000 in expenses in a single quarter cannot be explained by flying business class between Canberra and Adelaide.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Your country might be great but does it follow Australia’s lead by colour-coordinating its currency with the nation’s favourite snack foods?

[James @timeimp]

Thank you Tones!! 🫡

[Tony Abbott @HonTonyAbbott]

Great that the Western Sydney airport is now open. Thank God for the government decision made in 2014 after 40 years of procrastination. And good to be with a proud local member to mark this win for Australia

[Analytic Flying @analyticflying]

Happy IATA NW26/27 (SC/158) to those who celebrate!

One of the most significant in Australia for some time with WSI opening to passenger flights today!

A lot happening for Melbourne incl Finnair's new direct flights, Qantas's direct London returning & BA returning in Jan!

[Possy @TURBOPOSSUM]

Counterpoint: "International Law" is just how we explain the United States Navy to children and invalids, and the Navy ain't gonna do anything to stop him.

[James @timeimp]

@Oilfield_Rando Welcome!