Sharing my list of OSINT, reporters and analysts that I use to follow the war. x.com/i/lists/15049369254881…

Journalist spends her whole life told she's gifted, but knowing in her bones she isn't. Is it any wonder she now believes 'no one' is really gifted? Could her ego have it any other way?

Today’s SpaceX IPO and the immediate attacks by leftists on @elonmusk should make one thing crystal clear to everyone watching: Leftism is the enemy of humanity. It’s an extinctionist movement that hates excellence and, when carried to its inevitable conclusion, would kill off our species. Watch the ragtag socialist/commie crew of AOC, Bernie Sanders, Platner, Mamdani, Elizabeth Warren, etc. long enough and you’ll see it clearly. They resent excellence. They’re suspicious of ambition. They demonize our best builders and capital allocators. If you’re somehow on the fence because you’ve been led to believe that it’s immoral for someone to have a trillion dollars, consider this: They create precisely nothing of value themselves. They’re the professional version of the worthless critic we all know in our own lives. No innovations. No companies. No major breakthroughs. No employees, aside from staff we’re forced to fund with our tax dollars. On the other hand, Elon has created over 150,000 high-paying jobs at his companies. That doesn’t count contractors, suppliers or their employees. When you add those in, you’re likely talking about millions of jobs affected by him. He’s created tens of thousands of millionaires. His companies changed the car game forever, revolutionized internet access, gave us true free speech online again, helped the blind see, gave autonomy back to disabled people, changed the financial world and will make humanity a spacefaring civilization, which could ultimately save humanity if Earth faces an extinction-level event. The question they want you asking is whether he has too much money. The question I want you asking is this: What kind of society do you want to live in? One that celebrates excellence, advances humanity and makes the impossible possible? Or one laden with resentment, where we all need Daddy Government to provide the same shitty but equal standard of barely living for everyone, while choking innovation to death until there are no more rich people left to fund the welfare they promise? Elon doesn’t use his wealth to shower himself in abundance. He invests it in advancing humanity. If we gave the same amount of money to the government, they wouldn’t accomplish half as much as he has. How do I know? Because we’ve already given them trillions for decades. What did we get? Bloated agencies. Failed programs. Generational fraud. Wars. Armies of consultants. DEI. Perpetual wokeness. A society worth a damn celebrates its best capital allocators. Elon is the best in the business at turning dollars into more dollars by putting them to work in the right places and driving innovation. This uplifts humanity both now and later. If you need someone to demonize as a way to make yourself feel better, then demonize the leftist politicians who do nothing but criticize the most productive, exceptional people in society. These people don’t want you to be successful. They want you to be the cattle they herd. They want you dependent. They want you weak. They want your livelihood dependent on their hand filling your hand with scraps after they’ve robbed someone else’s. The sooner everyone understands that, the better. Eventually, you’ll be the one they rob. Or they’ll simply run out of people to rob. And worse, humanity will stop advancing. Eventually, we won’t even merely survive. Why? Because a cataclysm on Earth isn’t a matter of if. It’s a matter of when. We’re in an invisible race against time to push humanity into becoming a spacefaring civilization that can save itself before that day comes. Leftism would guarantee our deaths. The only path for humanity to survive and thrive is to innovate and for us to celebrate and support the creators, builders and innovators who make that possible. Anyone selling you the lie that those people are the enemy, IS YOUR ACTUAL MORTAL ENEMY. That’s why leftism must be defeated and the woke mind virus must die. I want humanity to survive. I hope you do too.

Please keep her, Mr. Putin.

"Everybody wanna think critically and creatively, but don't nobody wanna build no big-ass knowledge base!" -- Ronnie Coleman, had he become a teacher Critical/creative thinking involves combining elements of a knowledge base, and you can't cook with ingredients you don't have.

It was not deregulation or lack of regulation that caused the situation. The regulatory regime itself created the crisis. Private sector banks were responding to political pressure to provide more credit to low income urban minorities, hence a need to reduce credit standards, and to the financial logic of passing mortgages on to the GSEs, who enjoyed the competitive advantage of lower capital requirements and implicit govt backstop

The first step is admitting you have a problem. The second is firing everyone responsible for creating this totally predictable mess in the first place. Never gonna happen.

This is a great point but unfortunately the only place left to retreat, assuming we let it go this far, will be Luna and Mars.

Sweet, two instances of this in one day! x.com/i/status/2058198078146…

The pattern across all of these: - Modest statute creates a right to sue - Courts expand what compliance requires - New plaintiffs use the expanded precedent to extract more - Agencies over-comply defensively - No one has standing to sue for "too much process"

CEQA suits filed in 2020 alone targeted ~48,000 housing units, nearly half of California's annual production. 87% target infill, not sprawl. Only 13% of plaintiffs are recognized environmental groups. The rest are NIMBYs, unions extracting labor concessions, and competitors.

And nobody cares because it's not their problem. This is the dysfunction (and ultimately the death) of every overly democratized system.

I get the distinct sense that this person would really be sour if, say, the Trump admin took this approach to judge's decisions.

What's the mood on Blooski?

I'm genX, just like this lady. We were absolutely not brainwashed. She just bought the story and now she regrets it. There's a difference.

I tried to listen to @nytimes Daily podcast on the VRA and it was so, so bad. Not even the glimmer of an attempt to steelman the counter- argument. Folks in this country are watching two entirely separate movies.

I love how we gently troll the Brits. Can't do this with any other nation.

The utter lack of humility in this statement - from the party that brought you "paper masks save lives" and "Butler was staged" - is really breathtaking to read first thing in the morning.