A fiction author and former tech professional who also writes political and cultural commentary. This profile focuses on the latter.
Joined October 2022
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Attn: @FBI @DOJ,
Sounds like some of the corrupt & compromised Maricopa County Board of Supervisors are nervous about elections workers who are blowing the whistle on what seems to be malfeasance in the upcoming election. Some members of the Board of Supervisors appear to be making veiled threats toward election workers. Also, former election officials appear to be making those same threats toward whistleblowers in the election offices.
All election workers should reach out to the FBI if they are witnessing or suspecting fraudulent or criminal behavior in the Maricopa County Election Offices or the AZ Secretary of State Office.
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Under President Trump, we razed the federal debanking apparatus and redirected regulators to protect Americans from financial “deplatforming.”
This OCC report is a great example. The OCC, a powerful banking regulator, was previously weaponized for Operation Choke Point. Now, it investigates and exposes similar misconduct.
Because a lot of banking is transnational, and because “reputation risk” and “ESG” policies get incubated in international working groups and economic fora, this directly ties into diplomacy. We obviously sanction terrorists and other bad actors — but when it comes to mundane political disagreements on topics like migration or climate policy, it’s ultimately not in anybody’s interest to live in a world where your debit card can be deactivated for dissent.
Major banks closed accounts of MAGA, pro-life and other conservative groups disfavored by Biden admin: bombshell report trib.al/Ttt6eY9
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WATCH: @SalemMediaGrp won't play along with CNN's media stunt.
"...our network will refuse to join this incredibly juvenile stunt, which is actually more like a RICO violation by mobsters than actions of legitimate American media."
That's right, baby. That's the media company I work for.
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where Trump was strong, and we left the blue counties untouched. We shaved off 10 percent in Douglas County (Colorado) and 10% in Mesa County (Colorado) and other red counties until Biden's count was over 50 percent statewide." - Page 185
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This is a big announcement. Leftists have had their own free legal representation for decades. Conservatives haven’t.
This is because traditionally, conservatives have thought of politics as winning the debate. It’s comfortable. It’s institutional. They don’t have to be “mean” to anyone.
Until, enter Oversight Project ( @ItsYourGov ). Think of them as an actiontank instead of thinktank. The first such organization for conservatives to meet leftists on their own terms.
Creating the first-ever home for conservatives affected by lawfare is just the start.
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Alert -- Critical announcement:
Under the banner of The Oversight Project, I am opening a new law firm that I will lead to combat government weaponization of all types, but especially abuses of congressional and state legislative branch oversight, perversion of bar discipline processes, and securing the dismissal of bogus criminal indictments.
We already have a small team of dedicated lawyers with Article I, Article II, and/or Article III branch experience at the federal level and state government experience as well. You would join them and me in this important effort to turn our country around.
We will be expanding our size and footprint significantly.
So, if you're a lawyer at any stage of your career, who is patriotically and publicly spirited and who is fed up with Lawfare, Barfare, Weaponization, and efforts to turn The Law into mechanized Marxism on the move, and who wants to see the legal system reformed to consign that nonsense as quickly as possible to the discarded refuse and circular files of courts, bar administrative apparatuses, and regulatory agencies, as appropriate, please review our announcement here:
itsyourgov.org/jobs/attorney
Please send your resume and a cover letter to:
[email protected]
It's time the conservative and populist movements had their own dedicated law firm instead of watching cancers on our dear Republic -- like the 65 Project and LDAD and anything within two concentric circles of Norm Eisen or Marc Elias -- grow and metastasize.
Join us!
@ItsYourGov @MHowellTweets
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OMG.
If frontier AI is built by governments, we are completely fucked.
Don't do that.
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The AI hysteria reminds me of how all the people squealing about climate change all bought beachfront property.
If you really think your product is going to end humanity in a few years, you’d pull the plug, not prep your IPO.
1) AI will not eradicate humanity. Humans survived an ice age, the Black Death, two world wars, and (so far) the advent of nuclear weapons. Anyone who is loudly warning of AI-caused human extinction should not be taken seriously.
2) If you worked in a company where you anticipated a 10% chance that your product would kill ten people, let alone all people, the correct response would be horror, ceasing all operations, and likely contacting the police or other criminal authorities. I am obviously no Coxon booster but at least his behavior is in line with his stated beliefs. Any current AI company employees saying "yes, me too, the thing we are building and about to IPO may kill all humans" should, again, not be taken seriously. Their actions betray their actual beliefs.
3) Antitrust law does not prevent AI companies from coordinating to make sure AI does not hurt people. It does not prevent companies working together to make sure it doesn't hack people; the DOJ and FTC made this clear a decade ago when they issued a policy statement saying that the agencies "do not believe that antitrust is – or should be – a roadblock to legitimate cybersecurity information sharing." The same principles apply here. See: justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/…
4) Antitrust law does absolutely prevent AI companies from organizing to prevent the entry of cheaper, upstart rivals because the bigger companies are burning cash and failing to achieve sufficient profitability. The panic of individual employees may be sincere if misguided, but the moves by their CEOs to achieve some kind of broad "antitrust waiver" or "exemption" should be meet with deep skepticism in light of the economics of the industry and the threat they face from open models.
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Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
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Anthropic and OpenAI can slow down their AI research. They can pause it completely. They can even shut themselves down.
So what do they want from the rest of the world? That's simple: they want their emerging competition banned and crushed.
It has nothing to do with "safety".
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Let me translate what Dario and Sam are saying:
"WE CAN'T F*CKING IPO RIGHT NOW BECAUSE EVERYONE WILL SEE WE ARE BLEEDING MONEY TRAINING NEW MODELS. PLEASE STOP THE COMPETITION SO WE CAN F*CKING DO OUR IPO!"
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I will gladly take artificial intelligence over the intelligence of all the people freaking out about it.
The people building AI and making tons of money doing it suddenly need government to control them. Cuz you know, the government is so good at stuff like tech. I mean have you ever seen a government website? They’re the best!
Oh and yea, a law by Bernie Sanders, a man who obviously would’ve struggled to use a VCR in 1985, is gonna stop AI.
The kayfabe here is actually boring it’s so obvious. Glad to see so many sane people not taking the bait.
It’s a fear monger op. Don’t fall for it.
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I’ve had several United States Postal Service employees reach out to me about instances of mail-in ballots being mishandled.
Each one is submitting a report.
I promise anonymity.
Keep them coming.
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RFK Jr. reveals the single most disturbing thing he discovered in Anthony Fauci’s diaries.
This is peak hypocrisy. No other way to put it.
KENNEDY: “One of the things that was new to me in his diary was his admission that he got a pulmonary infarction in July of 2021 after receiving the vaccine.”
“So he took the Moderna vaccine on TV… to show people it was safe.”
“And then he got one of the primary most expected adverse events, which was potentially deadly blood clots in his lung, myocardial infarction.”
“He kept that secret from the American public, and we only learned about it because of the diary.”
“He was getting the best medical treatment that is available to anybody in the world at Walter Reed and all these other centers. There were doctors fawning over him.”
“Meanwhile, he was telling other people to take this product and concealing the fact that he himself, after announcing this press conference to show it was safe, had actually gotten very, very sick from an injury that was highly expected and highly likely to be caused by the vaccine.”
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The Senate is truly underestimating how angry the American people are that it refuses to pass the SAVE America Act.
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🚨 JUST NOW: President Trump EXPOSES Democrat NJ Gov. Mikie Sherrill for DRASTICALLY undercounting the foreigners on her voter rolls — says DHS has found 35,152 SO FAR
This is much, MUCH larger than the 6,600 Gov. Sherrill admitted to today.
And even the 35K CAUGHT is only a fraction, per Trump:
“These are just the ones that got caught. The real numbers will prove to be MANY TIMES this amount.”
“They are all Dumocrats! Republicans, GET SMART and straighten out our Crooked Elections! Pass The Save America Act!!!”
DO IT NOW, @LeaderJohnThune!
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I am once again, with 100% sincerity and meaning it as fully as it can be meant, telling whoever has the power in the United States of America to do it, bar holding public office or any office in the public trust, along with naturalization, for all members of ideologies, including the DSA's, that are openly stated to be in conflict with the oaths required to hold those positions or to have been granted that citizenship.
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American patriot @Asmongold read our entire Rape Gang Inquiry report to his millions of subscribers over seven hours.
He has already done more than the entire British media establishment.
An incredible effort.
youtube.com/watch?v=Q6xOU_EO…
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Not a single post about the grooming gangs from anybody who was yelling about the Epstein files being released.
That should tell you everything you need to know.
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This is not a political situation. This is a royal family of an area where a quarter of a million girls have been repeatedly and routinely sexually brutalized.
This isn’t political; this is unspeakably evil. @RoyalFamily
