I don't care if I have followers, because I'm documenting this for my kids. I need them to believe it really all happened.

Twenty-five years ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology made a bold move that most universities would never dare. Instead of locking its world-class course materials behind campus walls, MIT decided to put nearly its entire curriculum online, completely free for anyone with an internet connection. That decision gave birth to MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW). What began as a bold experiment in 2001 has become one of the most significant educational initiatives in history. Today, OCW provides materials from more than 2,500 undergraduate and graduate courses across virtually every discipline: physics, engineering, artificial intelligence, economics, biology, mathematics, computer science, and many more. Anyone can access lecture notes, problem sets, exams, syllabi, and a growing library of video lectures, with no tuition, no application, and no account required. According to MIT, more than 500 million people worldwide have used these resources over the past 25 years. The impact has been profound. Students use it to ace exams, explore new fields, and launch careers. Educators around the globe integrate the materials into their own teaching. Many learners credit OCW with helping them pass professional certifications and unlock new opportunities. Beyond its direct benefits, OpenCourseWare helped spark the global open education movement, inspiring dozens of other universities to share their knowledge freely online. Even more impressive: the project was originally planned as a 10-year initiative. A quarter-century later, it's still expanding. MIT now aims to reach 1 billion learners in the coming decade, while enhancing the experience with powerful new AI-powered learning tools.

More Doctors Smoke Camels than any other cigarette. (‘40s)

Here's today's INTEL! topsecretumbra.substack.com/…

Has put more people to sleep than Ambien, NyQuil, and Xanax combined.

39 is the charm! topsecretumbra.substack.com/…

Here’s today’s SITREP — don’t miss your INTEL! topsecretumbra.substack.com/…

I published this 9 years ago on the 50th anniversary. Reupping today IHO of @RepThomasMassie beginning a national discussion today that was delayed 59 years. I've read all the classified NSA and Navy files here. Proud to stand with @usslibertyvets today. observer.com/2017/06/50-year…

It’s Monday again — don’t miss your INTEL! topsecretumbra.substack.com/…

There is no red in this picture. Your brain is filling in the red color. The picture is made entirely of light blue, black, and white. [🖼️ Akiyoshi Kitaoka]

Mainstream media's choice to focus on the "middle" rather than the "truth" is the main reason for its downfall. Appeasement and pandering ≠ Trust. Choosing truth over convenience does.

Bullshit. Cuba isn't a serious military threat to the US, it never has been (except for Soviet missiles), but in terms of espionage and political warfare, Cuba ALWAYS ranks in the Top 5 Counterintelligence threats to the USA, for decades. The DI has penetrated DC & USG very deeply. How do you not know this?

It’s Friday again — don’t face the weekend without your INTEL! topsecretumbra.substack.com/…

Hedy Lamarr was a famous Hollywood actress and a brilliant inventor who made significant contributions to the field of wireless communication. She co-invented a technique called frequency hopping, which is the basis of modern technologies such as WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS. Frequency hopping is a method of transmitting radio signals by rapidly switching among many frequency channels, using a pseudorandom sequence known to both transmitter and receiver. This makes the communication more secure and resistant to interference, jamming, and detection. Lamarr came up with the idea of frequency hopping during World War II, when she wanted to help the US Navy develop a radio-guided torpedo that could not be easily jammed by the enemy. She collaborated with composer George Antheil, who suggested using a piano roll to synchronize the frequency changes between the transmitter and the receiver. They patented their invention in 1942, but it was not adopted by the US military until the 1960s, when it was used in naval communication systems. Lamarr and Antheil did not receive any recognition or compensation for their work until 1997, when they were awarded the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award. Lamarr also became the first female recipient of the BULBIE™ Gnass Spirit of Achievement Award, which is considered the “Oscars” of inventing. Lamarr’s scientific contributions were largely overlooked during her lifetime, as she was more known for her beauty and acting career. She died in 2000 at the age of 85. Today, she is widely regarded as one of the most influential women in STEM history, and a role model for aspiring female inventors.

Congress starts moves to limit Don’s flailing Iran war — that and much more INTEL in today’s SITREP! topsecretumbra.substack.com/…

Here’s your INTEL — don’t miss your daily SITREP! topsecretumbra.substack.com/…

Pulte who? Rick Crawford should be Trump’s next Director of National Intelligence washingtonexaminer.com/op-ed…

I never thought anybody could make Tulsi look well-prepared to head the US IC, but here we are!

The Apollo Guidance Computer had: • 4 KB of RAM • 72 KB of storage • A clock speed of 1.024 MHz Your iPhone 16: • 8 GB RAM • 512 GB storage • up to 4.04 GHz. The iPhone is roughly 100,000,000x more powerful. And yet, the AGC landed humans on the Moon six times with zero crashes. Here's why: the software was written with constraints so tight that bugs had nowhere to hide. Margaret Hamilton's team coded in machine language, directly. No abstraction layers. No frameworks. No dependencies. Every byte was deliberate. We didn't go to the Moon despite having weak computers. We went because weak computers forced engineers to be extraordinary.

New week, new month, new threats — don’t miss your INTEL! topsecretumbra.substack.com/…