@data_republican It will depend on how the early results are trending. If Pratt and Hilton are doing well, expect long delays to “reconcile” the votes. 🥲
And the deeper you read, the more you realize how temporary our “normal” is.
People once saw monarchy, famine, arranged marriages, tribal loyalty, and religious authority as unquestionable facts of life — just as many modern assumptions feel unquestionable to us now.
History doesn’t just teach the past. It exposes the invisible assumptions of the present.
Such a valid point. We are at a true turning point for civilization. We’ve been complacent for so long as bad actors have manipulated the system just by knowing how to. Dare we believe that integrity will triumph? 🤔
Elon Musk just admitted the most expensive mistake of his career.
It quietly dismantles the entire credentialing mythology.
Musk runs rockets. Neural implants. Autonomous fleets. Humanoid robots. The most complex engineering operation on earth.
You would assume he selects above all for one thing. Raw intellect.
Elon Musk: “I’ve made the mistake of thinking that sometimes it’s just about the brain. I think it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart.”
He didn’t learn this from a textbook.
He learned it by hiring the sharpest minds on the planet.
And watching the ones without character build things that were technically stunning and structurally corrosive.
The establishment sold the opposite story for a hundred years.
Get the degree. Get the credential. Get the paper.
That paper was supposed to prove you were exceptional.
It doesn’t.
A degree is proof of compliance.
It proves you showed up. Met deadlines. Followed a rubric.
Sat inside an institution for four years. Never once challenged the structure that held it together.
It does not prove you will speak when the room expects silence.
It does not prove you care about the thing you are building more than the title you hold while building it.
It does not prove you have a spine.
Raw intelligence without character is not an advantage.
It is a precision instrument aimed at your own foundation.
Now extend the lesson.
Intelligence itself is being demonetized.
An algorithm is about to solve in seconds what takes a PhD an entire career.
When cognitive power becomes unlimited and too cheap to meter, the premium on being smart collapses to zero.
The establishment spent a century grading you on the exact skill we just taught silicon to do better, faster, and for free.
But a machine cannot feel conviction.
A model cannot hold a moral line.
A server farm cannot refuse to cut a corner out of duty to another human being.
When intelligence becomes infinite, character becomes the only scarce resource left.
Integrity is not a soft skill anymore.
It is the last advantage that cannot be automated.
We spent a generation outsourcing our worth to our intelligence.
Intelligence is about to become the cheapest thing on earth.
Character will become the most expensive.
The mind was never the measure of a person.
The heart always was.
I’m not normally a fan of Cuban, but he’s got a powerful point here that explains the next wave of great job opportunities that AI will create, not destroy. It’s exciting stuff.
Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era.
Almost nobody understood what he said.
Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.”
Not tech startups.
The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees.
The businesses that actually run the physical economy.
They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it.
Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.”
Software is dead.
The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever.
AI ends the contract.
The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business.
But customized by whom.
The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is.
Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?”
That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves.
Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer.
Let them fight.
Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero.
Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built.
It collects where the brain meets the business.
Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic.
Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy.
Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates.
Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue.
That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born.
You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system.
The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in.
33 million companies are standing in the dark right now.
Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.
🚨 GOP SENATORS ARE PUSHING TO NUKE THE FILIBUSTER and use JD VANCE to pass legislation
To pass the SAVE America Act, Sen. Rick Scott just demanded the Senate GOP and Leader Thune get rid of the 60-vote filibuster and PASS IT 🔥
"We have to BLOW UP the filibuster! The filibuster was never supposed to stop a bill. It was supposed to stop debate."
"The Democrats are using it to stop this bill. We need to blow up the filibuster and pass this with 50 Republican votes!"
Think of it: only needing 50 votes and reliable JD.
That means we can lose 3 of: Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski
It never ceases to amaze me how the idea of setting realistic expectations just escapes so many otherwise intelligent people. I guess for some 🤔 it can be a negotiating tactic, but used way too often ..
I'm pleased that the evil actions of the bar association have been overturned.
Having said that, I have a hard time getting over all of those "kraken" promises from 2020 she made that never amounted to any actual victories.
It is not my job to vote to protect people who are breaking the law and are morally bankrupt. My statement has been very clear, and although the media has been persistently inquiring, I will reiterate it here:
I do NOT care about party affiliation. If someone is engaged in unethical and/or illegal behavior and there is evidence, I will vote to expel them.