JimmyCarter

Father, Husband, Son, Grandson, Head of IT @DiscoveryEd, ex Microsoftie, Racker
Tweeting my own opinions about IT, Science, Politics, Hokies

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Here’s Trump repeatedly lying to journalists on his way back from Turkey, falsely claiming there were no security concerns with his Qatar gifted plane

He’s desperately trying to bury the story because he doesn’t want people remembering that he accepted a luxury jet from Qatar, that it’ll end up at his presidential library after he leaves office, and that hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were spent upgrading it, yet it’s still not secure enough to carry the President of the United States.

No wonder they subpoenaed the New York Times journalists who reported on it. Sick!

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

“For years to come, there are many people on the right, in the media, and voters at large who are going to have to explain and justify how they fell into the trap of supporting Donald Trump.” — Marco Rubio, 2016

Courtesy of @RpsAgainstTrump

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

Obama has just dropped the biggest bombshell on Trump 🔥

🇺🇸Trump at 3:00 PM: “I'm bringing the United States back. Obama deal was BS."

🇺🇸Obama at 4:00 PM— "We had a deal to stop Iran’s nukes. Trump tore it up.
Iran sped up. He started a war. Wasted billions. Broke the military. People died. Inflation spiked.

And now we’re worse off than before. Wow what a back. Only a fool cheers this." 🔥

Absolute brutal by Obama 💪🔥

[Acyn @Acyn]

Nichols: It’s almost like we have a relative in the room, and there’s something deeply wrong with him. And we’ve all agreed not to talk about it. But there is something deeply wrong with him.

His friends know it, his critics know it. His staff, I’m sure, knows it. The world knows it. World leaders know it. And most importantly, our enemies know it, which is why they don’t take him seriously.

Nobody hangs on his words. They kind of do, but mostly out of freakish curiosity to see what kind of wild thing he’s going to say next, not because his words have any inherent meaning or reflect policy.

You know, I spent years teaching students that when the president speaks, it’s policy, and you must pay attention when the president speaks because nobody can contradict him.

Now, you know, are we really cutting off all trade with Spain? Who knows? Maybe. Maybe not. It might have just been a stray electron, you know, careening around inside his brainpan. Who knows?

But this is really dangerous because in the middle of all this stuff—and we can laugh about, you know, the Islamic Republic of Japan and all of that—but he made several statements about an ongoing war that the United States is losing. And no one’s even trying to pretend that they can make any sense of it.

And I’ll just add one last thing that you just brought up.

If this were any other president, this would be a national crisis. I mean, Joe Biden got somebody’s name wrong, and it was headlines. The president gets all kinds of things wrong, completely, you know, is out to lunch at an important NATO summit, and, you know, it’s Wednesday.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

This is communism by the way.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Bill Clinton has a random run-in with Loretta Lynch at an airport in 2016 - MASSIVE, WEEKS LONG SCANDAL
JD Vance attends a private dinner with Chief Justice Roberts while the Court considers multiple Trump Admin lawsuits - "social call" ... "friendly pop-by"

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Here’s what Trump did today instead of attending his son’s wedding:

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Not enough people are talking about this.

A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there.

But the story of how he got it is even worse.

County staff told commissioners that rejecting the name change would put state transportation funding at risk. DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who dared to cross him. That is the reality the Democratic commissioner who cast the deciding vote was living in when she made her choice: hand Donald Trump control of a public airport or watch Florida Republicans strip funding from the very people she was elected to represent.

That is absolutely insane.

Florida Republicans handed Trump a money machine and called it a naming rights deal, and the people of Palm Beach County never got a say in any of it.
https://t.co/M2nm9qFXc8

[Rahul @sairahul1]

Anthropic pays $750,000+ a year for engineers who know how to build LLMs from scratch.

Stanford just released the exact lecture that teaches it - 1 hour 44 minutes, free, straight from CS229.

Bookmark and watch it this weekend.

It'll teach you more about how ChatGPT & Claude actually work than most people at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

why the actual fuck is a Fox News guest wearing a sophisticated full head mask

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Anthony Scaramucci: “If Barack Obama acted in the way Donald Trump is acting, the Fox News hosts would be asking for his impeachment. This guy’s falling asleep in the Oval Office. He spent $8.2T in the first term, he’s gonna rack up $9-10T at the pace he’s on now”

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute comedy gold. Donald Trump accidentally exposes his own massive lie about Project 2025. He bizarrely admits he purposely avoided reading the mandate just to deny knowing about it!

He then completely contradicts himself, confessing he knows what is inside it.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Source after source told 60 Minutes they fear today’s insider trading scandal about military secrets is tomorrow’s national security scandal. If market-watchers can spot irregular trades, surely enemies can, too. And they’ll make their war plans accordingly. https://t.co/EwO84oHzs8

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

The most openly corrupt president in American history.

Bar none.

[JimmyCarter @vtcarter]

@Icelandair flight to and from KEF to IAD are like living inside ONE OF Iceland's amazing geothermal vents. Probably 30C inside the plane

[Richard Stengel @stengel]

George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. https://t.co/yDqVXWfDgc

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is horrifying and every American needs to hear this

California resident exposes what’s really going on with Flock Cameras in America

“I want to be clear what these cameras actually are, and I say that with somebody with 20 years of experience in IT. I've served as the chief network architect for Fortune 500 companies, I've designed data centers, and today I work on cloud infrastructure for one of the largest loan origination companies in the country. I'm not speculating on how this technology works. I've read their patents and I know how it works.

Flock advertises these cameras as simple license plate readers. But their own patents tell a different story.

They're AI-powered surveillance machines that capture every passing vehicle and person and transmit that data to a private corporate cloud, making it queryable by a multitude of state and federal agencies. The city of Corona does not control that database, and Corona residents have no public record rights against a private company's servers. Our daily movements are being harvested by a $7.5 billion corporation, that only answers to venture capital investors, not to us. Flock did not reach that valuation on their per-camera subscription fees. That math doesn't add up

The city council should also understand who they're doing business with. Flock CEO was asked whether the company had any federal contracts. He said no. That was a lie.

Public records revealed that Flock had been secretly running a pilot program giving the US Border Patrol access to local police camera data without the knowledge of the cities that paid for the cameras.

Now consider who's behind the company and where your data flows. Flock integrates directly with Palantir, a data fusion platform, with a $30 million contract with ICE. Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, is also one of Flock's primary investors. These are not separate companies with separate agendas. They are connected actors that are building a connected infrastructure.

Palantir's own CEO stated publicly just this month that his technology is being used as a political instrument, designed to reduce the political power of certain voters. And that's the ecosystem that our Corona cameras are feeding into.

We're not anti-police at all. We're against mass surveillance of innocent residents by a company with a documented record of deception, built by investors with a stated political agenda. We're asking the City Council to start auditing the queries made against Flock's database, to disclose any data sharing agreements, and to take a vote to cancel the Flock safety contract”

I looked more into this and he is 100% right

Patents describe broader object detection, including tracking people and pedestrians, patents like US11416545B1. The system uses a centralized cloud database for nationwide queries

Data goes to Flock’s private cloud, AWS-based, encrypted. Nationwide lookup is common, 75%+ of customers are enrolled enabling cross-jurisdictional searches. Residents have no direct public records access to the corporate servers.

This creates a mass surveillance network feeding a private company’s infrastructure

If you ask me this is laying the infrastructure for a mass surveillance network in America. We are being lied to. Cancel all contracts nationwide

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

MIN: Do you know how much new energy China put online last year?

BURGUM: Intermittent or base load?

MIN: All energy. 543 GW. How much was renewable? 434 GW.

BURGUM: But only when the wind is blowing and sun is shining

MIN: Meanwhile, the US put up 53 GW of new energy last year -- less than 10% of China. You're clear bias against renewables is harming our national security.

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN split screen of Trump saying he doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation and Vance claiming that Trump didn’t say that.