"...The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.” ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Last night the Pierce County Charter Review Commission voted to put amendment C-1 on the ballot this November. This is an amendment to change the sheriff from an elected position to an appointed position. If this passes, the County Executive will appoint the sheriff with County Council approval. We knew this was coming. What we didn't know was Commissioner Justin Leighton (a very rude and misogynistic man) would add an amendment to the amendment. This added amendment makes C-1 effective 1/1/27 at which time it will remove me from office with two years of my four year term still left. This is the equivalent of a recall without having to do any of the steps for a recall (petition a judge that I committed malfeasance, gather signatures, put it on the ballot, etc). The Democrats and socialists on the Charter Review are saying "F you, voters." We don't care that you elected Swank. We are going to remove him from office. Have you had enough yet? I hope this pisses you off. If it does, you should show up in person or on line tomorrow and tell the commission what you think. thenewstribune.com/news/loca…

Want to save the West? Start by telling your children the truth. A society that teaches its children to hate their inheritance shouldn't be surprised when they fail to preserve it. Teach your children gratitude. Teach them why freedom matters. Teach them what made the West successful. Because if you don't tell them the truth about their civilisation, someone else will tell them a lie.

The Left is pushing for identification to use the internet while pushing for no identification to vote. Think about that.

Public records confirm the "Millionaire's Tax," branded by the far left and special interests, is really meant to be an Income Tax on everyone (SB 6346) according to The Center Square. The same documents confirm that WA AG Nick Brown (D) and WA Democrat Leaders have been working together to bypass our state constitution to ram this tax through. This development comes after decades of tax increases, including the largest tax increase in state history was signed into law by Gov. Bob Ferguson this year (SB 5998 & SB 6346), and the second largest tax increase in state history was passed last year (SB 5167). These taxes not only included an Income Tax, but also the largest property tax and rent increase in state history (HB 2049), a massive expansion of the sales tax (SB 5814), the death tax, 38%-50% fee increases on fishing licenses, hunting licenses, and the Discover Pass, and so much more. On top of all of that, the far left majority cut $782 MILLION out of Medicaid, cut child care, and cut funding for domestic violence support. It didn't have to be this way! The Senate Republican Budget had no new taxes, no tax increases, and no service cuts (SB 5810). Our budget focused on eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse. And about fraud, waste, and abuse...Remember the squandered $15 BILLION surplus, the missing $1.17 BILLION in COVID money, $646 MILLION stolen from unemployment, $340 MILLION going to non-citizens, and so much more. It's well past time for state government to stop treating WA families and individuals as tax farms. We need policies that lower, not increase, the high cost of living in our state. #UnconstitutionalWA #UnaffordableWA #GovernmentGreed #waleg

Exactly. Nailed it.

My thoughts after 3 months in the US/Texas🇺🇸: - Americans are way more extroverted than Europeans - Talking to strangers is normal here - My first H-E-B trip felt like Boris Yeltsin seeing an American grocery store - Some food is more artificial, but the amount of choices is insane - You can still eat healthy. You just have to choose it - High risk, high reward is real - Way more people are entrepreneurial - People dream bigger than in Europe, and they actually execute - Obv not everyone is smarter, but the smart people are world-class - Successful people here are way more down-to-earth. In Europe, successful people care about status and can be arrogant - Cars. Enough said - Americans have perfected artificial sweets - There’s still more freedom here than in Europe - One thing I didn’t expect: some Americans talk down on America - As an outsider, that’s weird, because imo it’s still the greatest country on Earth🇺🇸🇺🇸

Good advice , Spike.

I realize that the stock market is not the economy. However, I’ve never seen a period of time where the market was so high with so many people struggling and sinking financially. Many people can’t even afford McDonald’s anymore. The wealth disparity rn is deeply disturbing.

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Bro I'm so fucking sick of pretending this is normal. AI was trained on Stack Overflow answers written by developers who got zero dollars and zero credit, and now those same developers are losing their jobs to the thing their free labor built. We built the rope. They just used it.

Europeans and American patriots! Tomorrow, the courts of my country, France, may decide to send me to prison for daring to say on television that “the main danger to women in France is Black African and Arab immigrant men.” Meanwhile, my own attacker, a Tunisian migrant, is still at large. I need your help to generate media pressure and hope to be acquitted. They cannot silence the truth! Thank you for your support 💪🏻🇫🇷

🚨 BREAKING: Someone just leaked the ENTIRE system prompt of Claude Fable 5 and Anthropic CANNOT DELETE IT. It was public on GitHub within 24 hours of launch. 120,000 characters. 1,585 lines. 27,000 tokens. And what they're hiding will shock you: ↳ Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are the SAME MODEL. Fable just has extra safety filters locked on. Mythos doesn't but they're restricting who gets access. You're paying for the same thing with different guardrails. ↳ Knowledge cutoff is end of January 2026. Not May or March or JANUARY. They let you think it was newer. ↳ Claude is EXPLICITLY TOLD to avoid bullet points and lists unless you ask. That weird prose everyone noticed? It’s programmed not a feature, but a prompt instruction. ↳ Copyright hard limit nobody talks about: quoting 15 words from ANY source triggers a SEVERE VIOLATION flag. One quote per source maximum. After that the source is CLOSED to Claude forever in that chat. ↳ New persistent storage API buried in there. Artifacts can now store and retrieve your data across sessions using key-value pairs. Most users have NO IDEA this exists. ↳ MCP app connectors are baked INTO the prompt. Claude can search for and suggest third-party integrations MID-CONVERSATION without telling you it's doing it. ↳ The prompt includes full instructions for Claude Cowork, Claude in Chrome, Claude in Excel, and Claude in PowerPoint. These are not just integrations. They're tools Claude USES on you. ↳ This prompt is ONLY for Claude.ai's consumer chat. API users get NO system prompt. Claude Code has completely different secret instructions. The repo is CL4R1T4S by Pliny the Liberator. 26.4K stars. Same repo that leaked ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Cursor, Lovable, Replit, and Perplexity. The original leak post hit 700K views in 48 hours. If this gets taken down you'll lose access. Bookmark it NOW.

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#SaveStargate Indeed! ❤️

La CEO de AMD, Lisa Su, acaba de acabar con la caja de IA de $4,000 de Nvidia con una lonchera de $1,499. Subió al escenario, la sostuvo en una mano y ejecutó en vivo un modelo de 235 mil millones de parámetros. Sin centro de datos. Sin nube. Sin GPU alquilada. El chip en su interior es algo que nadie vio venir. El Ryzen AI Max 395 de AMD es el primer silicio x86 donde la CPU y la GPU comparten los mismos 128 GB de memoria. Ese solo truco permite que un escritorio ejecute modelos que antes necesitaban un rack de servidores. De esos 128 GB, Linux le da al GPU 110 GB para jugar. Para contextualizar, una RTX 5090 te da 32 GB. Una 4090 te da 24. Esta caja te da más del triple que cualquiera de ellas, en un chasis del tamaño de un libro de bolsillo grueso. El benchmark que rompió la sala: este chip superó a una Nvidia RTX 5080 por más de 3x en inferencia de DeepSeek R1. Una lonchera de $1,499 superando a una tarjeta gráfica discreta de $1,000 en una carga de trabajo real de IA. Nvidia pasó una década convenciendo al mundo de que necesitabas su hardware para IA seria. AMD acaba de poner eso en un escritorio por la mitad del precio. Aquí está lo que nadie te está diciendo. Un usuario intensivo de IA ahora paga $200 por Claude Code Max, $200 por ChatGPT Pro, $20 por Cursor, $20 por Gemini. Eso son $5,280 al año saliendo de tu cuenta. La caja se paga sola en 9 meses y luego corre gratis por el resto de su vida. Instala Ollama. Descarga Qwen3 235B. Apunta Claude Code a localhost. La misma interfaz que ya usas, excepto que ahora nada sale de tu máquina, nada cuesta por solicitud y ninguna empresa limita tu uso a las 3 de la mañana cuando por fin tienes tiempo para construir. Este es el momento en que todas las suscripciones de IA se vuelven opcionales. Los abogados dejan de temer fugas de OpenAI. Los desarrolladores dejan de mirar el medidor de tokens. Los fundadores dejan de alquilar H100s para prototipos que nunca se envían porque la factura los asustó. Las primeras mil personas en descifrar esto poseerán los próximos dos años de consultoría de IA privada.

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America. A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact. It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy: 56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases. More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide. 343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information. That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison. The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once: The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry. Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate. Now look at the individual leaderboard: - Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100 - Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800 different tickers - Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late - Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked. She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO. The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine. The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero. And the cruelest part is this: A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed. But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is. They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing. The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

Researchers show that Claude Code is 98% not AI. Anthropic never gave us the architecture for Claude Code. There were no docs. Just a tool that every developer is currently obsessing over. Until it leaked recently. A research team pulled the source code, analyzed all 500,000 lines, and found something ridiculous. Only 1.6% of the codebase actually interacts with the AI model. The core of Claude Code is literally just a simple while-loop. It asks the model what to do, runs a tool, and repeats. So what is the other 98.4%? It is hardcore, traditional software engineering. The researchers found a massive, complex infrastructure designed entirely to babysit the AI and keep it from hallucinating or destroying your computer: - A 7-mode permission system acting as a security bouncer. - A 5-layer context compaction pipeline so the AI doesn't forget its goal. - A subagent delegation mechanism with strict worktree isolation. - Four different extensibility hooks to manage external tools safely. Every startup right now is trying to build a better AI model to get better results. Anthropic did the exact opposite. They took an existing model and built a fortress of deterministic software around it. They realized that the AI doesn't need to be smarter. It needs to be managed.

So it’s being reported that @AmazonMGMStudio is considering a hard reboot to the Stargate franchise! Absolutely NO ONE wants this! I will actively boycott this! I want a Stargate that feels like Stargate, not something directed at Gen Z women. I am radicalized on this! It’s either Martin Gero or bust! I don’t want to see Stargate from someone who wasn’t involved in the original show. End of story.

Adam Carolla has an old line about how if you want to destroy somebody’s life, just give them free rent in a shitty little house. You’ll come back 30 years later and find them still living in that shitty little house, because it was just too good of a deal for them to go out and do all the things that they would’ve otherwise done to improve their lives.

We could quietly slip back under our rock @AmazonMGMStudio and lick our wounds,but that is not the Stargate fans way. We are going to fight to the last to get what you promised us. You choose the wrong fandom to mess with #SaveStargate