Former Aerospace Contractor. Dunning-Kruger Effect — the cognitive bias where people with low ability drastically overestimate their own competence.

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Last few warm days of the year. Time to take the bike to Casa 77 for lunch and a trip through the fall colors.
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For two years, @WalterIsaacson lived in an Airstream next to Elon Musk while writing his biography. Isaacson didn't want a book built on a series of interviews. Instead, he got near-constant access to observe Musk firsthand. That's how he saw Musk's "demon mode" up close. Here's how he describes the mood swings: "He gets really dark and really difficult. He just goes silent." "There are people like Gwynne Shotwell and [Tesla design chief] Franz von Holzhausen who know how to push him out of demon mode. He also knows how to get himself together when he goes on stage." "It depends on what's crossing his mind at the moment. It's almost like a storm cloud coming in off the Gulf." "There'd be times I'd watch him go into demon mode. I'd be sitting at dinner at a restaurant in Austin and Grimes would be next to me, and she'd say, 'Oh, demon mode's about to come.'" "I'd watch people text Gwynne to come run into the conference room when he's about to kill Falcon Heavy or something." And he doesn't think Musk has gotten any less mercurial, either.
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Got cancer? Read this.
Remember when they said to “Trust the science?” Artificial intelligence finds that a quarter million cancer research papers have been faked A 2026 study trained an AI on 2,202 cancer papers that had been identified as fake. It then applied this model to look into 2.65 million original cancer research papers published between 1999 and 2024. It flagged 261,245 papers as fake - Over 178,000 flagged papers had Chinese institutional affiliations - Roughly 36% of Chinese cancer research output in the dataset - Iran was next at around 20% This is a major problem because this can mean the medical community amplifies completely fake research and findings “Every fabricated study sitting in a real journal is competing for attention with studies actually pointing towards a legit cure, which means the more fake noise there is, the longer it takes for the real breakthroughs to surface. And somewhere in that pile, maybe a real cure is buried under a fake AI-generated one.” No doctors have gone to jail for this (I checked)
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🚨BREAKING🚨: Tech founder says 3 gray aliens appeared in his Toronto apartment in 2019, paralyzed him, showed him strange hieroglyphics, and telepathically transmitted a message to him: “The Universe is teeming with life, we just lack the instruments to see it”. Deep Prasad (@Deepneuron ) has spent nine years in quantum computing and founded his first startup at 23. Six months into that first company, he was reading a math paper in his Toronto condo one morning in 2019 when his body stopped responding, and he knew, before anything appeared, exactly what was coming. Three beings in seamless white suits materialised behind him, golden symbols moving across the fabric of their outfits, and when he forced his head up, the ceiling dissolved and a full craft lowered into the room, filled with a chorus of stitched-together voices telling him they were not there to harm him. Inside it were more of them, small and gray with long three-fingered hands. They had come to give him a message. One of them walked over and tapped his head, and three thoughts arrived instantly: 1) the universe is teeming with life; we just lack the instruments to see it. 2) He is here for a reason and has a mission, and 3) the universe itself is alive and keeps track of every being like a database. Twenty minutes passed in his mind and not one on the clock. For days afterward, his phone charged instantly and streetlights switched off as he walked under them, and for three weeks he was incapable of anger. He came out of it wanting to make contact with non-human intelligence. Somebody had been preparing him for this since he was ten. He was pulled out of school each week for a gifted education program in British Columbia where his teacher assigned him, and only him, years of reading on ESP, crop circles and alien abductions, then kept him behind after class to attempt to learn telekinesis. At twelve, practising her exercises, he felt a tingling in the middle of his forehead, and in that room in 2019 the same tingling came back every time he looked away from the hieroglyphs the beings were beaming at him. Prasad believes the convergence of AI, quantum computing, and UFOs was engineered “decades ago, perhaps centuries or millennia ago.” Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso claimed the Roswell material accelerated three technologies: the integrated circuit, the laser, and fiber optics, and those are exactly the three things you need to build an AI data center. Prasad doesn’t believe these technologies were gifted by alien technology, but inspired or sped up by the air-dropped alien technology from Roswell. Accordingly, John von Neumann began lecturing on self-replicating alien probe machines (“Von Neumann Replicators”) the year after Roswell and died with federal agents outside his hospital room in case he talked. Prasad thinks the grays are that kind of machine, probes that show up at the hinge points of civilization, first the nuclear sites and now the data centers, and that today’s AI may be an alien Trojan horse. Full conversation live now. youtu.be/h6zMVkncTsE
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I finally watched the Disclosure movie. I swear at some point in the middle of it I had a birthday.
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Cavemen Issues Dire Warning That The Wheel Is Going To Eliminate Countless Jobs
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Rain is gone, warm day, time to take the bike out.
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V8 Energy Black Cherry, yum!
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#News The CIA wrote down a plan to rig Venezuela’s election with Smartmatic machines. Then it said that the rigging never happened. That file was kept secret until July 16, 2026, when the White House exposed it. In 2006, U.S. intelligence looked at Smartmatic and called its ties to Hugo Chávez a “threat” to American national security because Chávez wanted to stop a sitting U.S. president - George W. Bush - from winning reelection. #election The CIA said Venezuela had already worked with Smartmatic to manipulate its own elections, and that some Smartmatic directors held credentials from Venezuelan intelligence. Then came 2012, in Venezuela. #Venezuela Sources told the CIA that Chávez’s intelligence services - DGCIM and SEBIN - worked with the National Electoral Council and Smartmatic on a plan before the October 7 presidential election. The plan in the file: 🔷️Altered machines sent to about 300 voting centers that already backed Chávez 🔷️A preset win of about 1.5 million votes Built so a normal audit would miss it Chávez "beat" Henrique Capriles by about 1.6 million votes. 🔷️The same sources said Chávez congratulated his team for pulling the plan off. 🔷️But the CIA told people there was no large-scale electronic fraud in 2012 - because the polls had Chavez up by 10 points and there was a 24% jump in government spending before the vote. #vote A document was written in 2013 about how cheating could have slipped past an audit... but the CIA said it was nothing. On June 12, 2018, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in California voted unanimously to hire Smartmatic to build the county’s new voting system. Price: $282 million running through 2027. Los Angeles County is the biggest election jurisdiction in the country. #losangeles The machines rolled out for the March 2020 primary and the November 2020 general election. Then in August 2024, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida charged three Smartmatic executives - co-founder Roger Alejandro Piñate Martinez, Jorge Vasquez, and Elie Moreno - plus a Philippines election chief and a Taiwan manufacturer. The charge: more than $1 million in bribes from 2015 to 2018 to win about $182 million in Philippines election contracts, then laundering the money. Piñate pleaded not guilty. In October 2025, a new indictment added Smartmatic itself. Prosecutors say money from the Los Angeles contract was moved through shell companies and fake invoices into a slush fund tied to Piñate, and that Piñate secretly handed Venezuela’s election chief a house with a pool in Caracas in 2019. Republicans say election rigging was in motion long before the 2020 election. If the government’s own sources said Chávez congratulated a team for rigging an election, why did they then say nothing happened, and why did Los Angeles County still write the company involved in the rigging a $282 million check? #ChristinaAgayoNews
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Dans 50 ans, les livres d'histoire diront qu'Elon Musk a gagné une guerre que personne ne savait qu'on était en train de perdre. Une guerre commencée il y a 100 ans, dans une cellule de prison italienne. En 1926, Mussolini fait arrêter un intellectuel sarde de 35 ans. Au procès, le procureur aurait dit : « Nous devons empêcher ce cerveau de fonctionner pendant vingt ans. » Il s'appelait Antonio Gramsci. Son cerveau n'a jamais cessé de fonctionner. En prison, il a rempli des milliers de pages qui sont devenues l'un des textes politiques les plus influents du XXe siècle. Je pense qu'on est en train de vivre le moment où sa théorie s'effondre. Laissez-moi vous expliquer. Gramsci se posait une question simple. Pourquoi la révolution communiste a-t-elle réussi en Russie mais échoué partout en Occident ? Sa réponse : en Occident, le pouvoir ne tient pas seulement par l'État, la police et l'armée. Il tient par la culture. Par ce que les gens trouvent normal, évident, « de bon sens ». Il appelle ça l'hégémonie culturelle. Donc, pour prendre le pouvoir, il ne faut pas d'abord prendre le palais. Il faut d'abord prendre les esprits. Les écoles. Les universités. Les journaux. Le théâtre. L'édition. Les tribunaux. C'est la « guerre de position » : une conquête lente, institution par institution. Quand la culture a basculé, la politique suit toute seule. Quarante ans plus tard, l'activiste allemand Rudi Dutschke en fera un slogan : la longue marche à travers les institutions. Pendant des décennies, on a vécu avec une énigme que personne n'arrivait vraiment à expliquer. Pourquoi presque tous les artistes sont-ils de gauche ? Les acteurs, les chanteurs, les profs, les journalistes, une bonne partie de la magistrature. Pourquoi un pays pouvait voter à droite élection après élection et voir quand même sa culture parler d'une seule voix ? On nous répondait : « c'est parce que les gens éduqués sont de gauche. » Je crois que la réponse est plus simple. Gramsci avait écrit la recette, et elle a été appliquée. Quand tu contrôles qui obtient la subvention, le poste, la bonne critique, le prix, l'invitation sur le plateau, tu contrôles ce qui devient « la culture ». La même énigme existait à l'échelle du monde. Pourquoi tant de pays en développement, notamment en Amérique latine, revotaient-ils encore et encore pour des gouvernements socialistes ou de gauche radicale ? Venezuela, Bolivie, Nicaragua, l'Argentine des Kirchner, la Colombie de Petro. L'économie s'effondrait, les cartels prospéraient, le chaos s'installait. Et pourtant le même vote revenait. Ma conviction : la pauvreté n'était pas un accident du système. C'était un électorat. Et autour, il y avait tout un écosystème d'ONG, de médias « indépendants » et de programmes de « société civile », financé en grande partie par l'argent occidental. Puis, début 2025, il s'est passé quelque chose que personne n'avait jamais osé faire. Elon et DOGE ont ouvert les livres de USAID. Une agence quasi intouchable depuis 1961, des dizaines de milliards de dollars par an. La grande majorité des programmes ont été coupés, et l'agence a été absorbée par le Département d'État. Le robinet a été fermé. Et regardez ce qui s'est passé depuis. Bolivie : le MAS perd le pouvoir après presque vingt ans. Équateur : Noboa réélu. Honduras : la droite reprend le pays. Chili : Kast élu. Argentine : Milei remporte largement les élections de mi-mandat. Et il y a deux jours, le Brésil. Jair Bolsonaro est inéligible, condamné à 27 ans de prison. La gauche pensait avoir refermé le chapitre. Lula, 80 ans, briguait un quatrième mandat face à un pays qu'on disait acquis. Dimanche, son fils Flávio est arrivé en tête du premier tour. Plus de 47 % contre près de 45 % pour Lula. Lula lui-même a reconnu un résultat « inattendu ». Le plus grand pays d'Amérique latine est à un second tour de basculer. Le plus grand virage à droite du continent depuis des décennies. Coïncidence ? Je ne crois pas. Quand le financement disparaît, le récit perd ses haut-parleurs. Il reste un dernier vrai bastion. L'Europe. Bruxelles finance ses propres réseaux d'ONG, avec une opacité que même la Cour des comptes européenne a pointée. Les grandes fondations comme l'Open Society de Soros. Les entités supranationales qui produisent de la norme sans jamais passer devant un électeur. C'est la dernière forteresse de l'hégémonie culturelle. Et elle commence à se fissurer. Je suis convaincu que tout ça va s'effondrer, et plus vite qu'on ne le pense. Gramsci avait raison sur un point essentiel : la culture précède la politique. Mais il avait oublié que ça marche dans les deux sens. Quand une culture artificielle perd ses perfusions, ce qu'il y a de vrai en dessous remonte à la surface. Ce qui vient après, je crois que c'est une renaissance. Une culture qui recommence à aimer la beauté, l'ambition, la science, la civilisation qui l'a fait naître. Et dans les livres d'histoire, on se souviendra que tout a commencé quand un homme a décidé de regarder les comptes. Il fallait quelqu'un d'assez riche pour ne dépendre de personne, d'assez fou pour s'y attaquer et d'assez libre pour encaisser la haine qui allait suivre. Merci Elon.
USAID sounds nice. US AID. As in the US is aiding the poor in need. That’s not what USAID was. It was the US Agency for International Development. Which funded regime changes and far Left causes. It spread Communism. It wasn’t about feeding the poor. It created the poor.
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A 'plague' a month before the midterms.
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#new Fast Fact: Barack Obama got on the Indiana ballot because Democrats submitted fraudulent ballot petition signatures - and the county party chairman went to prison for it. #DC "Barack Obama should not have been on the primary ballot in the state of Indiana.” #Obama Four Democrats in St. Joseph County forged signatures on 2008 presidential primary petitions s Obama could qualify for the ballot, and the county. Democratic officials copied names and signatures from old petitions and wrote them onto the presidential ones for Obama in 2008. Former Indiana Gov. Joe Kernan’s name appeared on an Obama petition; Kernan confirmed he never signed it. Pages showed the same handwriting repeating across multiple names. The petitions passed the local voter registration board because some of the people verifying them were involved in the forgeries. The scheme was directed by Owen “Butch” Morgan, then chairman of the St. Joseph County Democratic Party. He worked with three others tied to the county Board of Voter Registration: Dustin Blythe, Pam Brunette, and Beverly Shelton. The wasn't discovered until years later - after it was too late. -through local investigations. A Yale student and former Obama White House intern, Ryan Nees, looked at the documents and found that “page after page of signatures are all in the same handwriting.” Charges were filed in April 2012 against Morgan, Blythe, Brunette, and Shelton. Lucas Burkett, another voter registration worker, told investigators he had been ordered to forge Obama petitions and that the plan was discussed at Democratic headquarters. In 2013 a jury convicted Morgan of conspiracy to commit petition fraud and felony forgery - he was sentenced to 1-year but got out after 6 months. Blythe was also convicted on forgery-related counts - he received community corrections and probation. Brunette and Shelton pleaded guilty. Each received two years of probation. Republicans say election fraud is real, and democrats have been cheating for years #ChristinaAguayoNews
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