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Scott Young retweeted
"small potatoes"
JUST IN: President Trump agrees with VP JD Vance in refusing to call the months-long U.S. military action in Iran a war, instead calling it a "military conflict" and describing the whole thing as "small potatoes" to the United States.
"Well, I'll tell you what. A lot of people don't call it a war. I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us. It's not a big thing."
Scott Young retweeted
In order to get out us of this war before it gets even worse, Trump has to focus on the two main things:
1) Restraining Israel: tell Bibi “no”. Ignore the Pickaxe Mountain bait—stop chasing the nuclear dust, that’s a perpetual trap. Demand that Israel withdraw from Lebanon, otherwise we will cut off all U.S. military aid.
Remember—Israel got us into this mess, that has been confirmed. Don’t keep falling for their ploys to escalate.
2) Opening the straits: SOH & BAM. First, get our troops out of the region. Then use diplomacy & economic incentives to get the oil flowing again.
Ignore the hype that our sanctions are going to bring down the regime—Iran is not going to crumble from economic suffering. The pain they can inflict by weaponizing the SOH is far greater than the pain we can by imposing more sanctions.
Trump needs to take advantage of this rapidly-closing window of opportunity and leave now, while he still can. In doing so, he’ll have pulled us out of the region and redirected all focus back on issues affecting Americans here at home. That is a win.
If we resume strikes, we’ll end up escalating into an all-out war with boots on the ground, resulting in catastrophic losses to American lives and resources, and crippling the economy—Trump won’t be able to come back from that.
POTUS has a very small window of opportunity to act in the best interest of our country and still retain public support: pull our troops out of the region, walk away now, control the messaging like only he can and declare victory.
This opportunity is fleeting—if he escalates or even stagnates as things stand now, we risk a mass casualty event, the Iranians & Houthis causing a major economic crisis, or worse: both.
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Now that the US is knocked out, I am formally extending an invitation to the American people to support Norway.
Why?
1: The Vikings discovered America before Columbus.
2: There are more ethnic Norwegians in the US than in Norway.
3: Next weekend we can pillage the English peasants together.
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This French girl is my personal favorite World Cup tourist because she keeps upping the ante on my own point:
Americans, anywhere in the world, are capable of making the good life for themselves and others by being expansive, weird, and self-possessed.
Scott Young retweeted
holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer
- polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded
- the guy bought the long-shot outcome (like "22°C" when everyone expected 18°C) for pennies, since nobody thought it'd hit
- then he walked up to the probe and briefly heated the air around it with a portable heat source, spiking the reading just long enough to register as the daily max
- temperature snapped back to normal in minutes, the market resolved in his favor, and he cashed out - twice, on April 6 and April 15, before Météo France caught on and filed charges
hyperstitions.
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The day Top Gun launched at Great America. Santa Clara, 1993.
Top Gun opened at Great America on March 20, 1993, and the event was a big deal. Both local and national media were invited, and everyone who attended received commemorative dog tags. – at Santa Clara, CA
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The amount of self-hate Americans have towards their own history is truly unreal.
They defeated slavery by fighting against their own family.
They shut Europe out of the western hemisphere so that nations wouldn't live under colonization forever.
They had the ability to stay out of world war 1 but they went and died to help Europeans.
They had the ultimate power in the nuclear bomb. They also had access to all of Europe's colonies that were in shambles. But instead they promoted freedom. They rebuilt Japan and Germany after defeating them in war. They stood down the Soviet Union, even as the world jeered them.
They sent soldiers to places like Vietnam and Afghanistan that died TRYING to create a better world (even if you disagree with those wars, the intentions were fairly good)
And they sent more missionaries to the world than maybe any other country in history. Translated more Bibles into indigenous languages than any other country in history. Ran bigger charities than any other country in history. Created more Christian resources than any other country in history.
Whether it was stopping the Dutch from reconquering Indonesia to the Berlin Airlift to giving Cuba its freedom in the Spanish-American war to saving China from the Japanese America has at least ATTEMPTED to do good with its power.
Yes yes, America has problems. People are imperfect. But goodness gracious does the world have a lot to be grateful for in America. And when we could have taken SO much from the world we have often chosen not to. Rome, Britain, Mongols, Assyrians, Soviets, Chinese, no other group has ever shown the restraint America has consistently shown with such vast power at its fingertips.
We didn't even get into the GIGANTIC technological advances, consumer advances, convenient lifestyle changes America has pioneered. From electricity to space to the light bulb to the smart phone to many cures in medicine and agriculture to the airplane the world has been enormously blessed by America.
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The GWOT isn’t even cold and we already have this post-Venezuela “desert storm syndrome” of how easy things will be, because we did/have X. This isn’t only dangerous it’s absolutely stupid and bereft of nuance.
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Scenes from Palo Alto in 1989.
This footage captures Palo Alto during a time of transition. The city was already starting to change, but not at the scale or pace seen today. Tech companies were present, and venture capital was part of the picture, but the footprint was smaller, and the transformation was not yet complete.
Some of the places shown are still recognizable. A few streets, storefronts, and buildings remain much the same. Others have been replaced, rebuilt, or removed entirely. It’s a mix of the familiar and the forgotten.
What comes through is a version of Palo Alto that feels more grounded in everyday life. Before it became a global center for innovation, it was still just a town, with all the ordinary details that come with that.
The song is by a now-defunct Redwood City band called Nord Mariner. It felt like a fitting soundtrack. Its lyrics about change, memory, and the things we take for granted echo the feeling of watching a place change so much that it becomes something else entirely.
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North Korean intelligence agents built an entire fake company to compromise one JavaScript developer. And it worked.
UNC1069 didn't hack Axios. They befriended its maintainer. They cloned a real company founder's identity, built a branded Slack workspace with fake employee profiles and LinkedIn post channels, then scheduled a Microsoft Teams call with what appeared to be a full team. During the call, a fake error message said his system needed an update. He installed it. That update was the RAT.
From one developer's laptop, they had everything: npm credentials, publishing access, the keys to a package installed in 80% of cloud environments. Axios gets 100 million downloads per week. The attackers published two poisoned versions at 12:21 AM UTC on a Sunday night, tagging both the latest and legacy branches within 39 minutes. The malicious dependency had been pre-staged 18 hours earlier with a clean decoy version to build registry history. Three separate RAT payloads were pre-built for macOS, Windows, and Linux. The malware self-deleted after execution to erase forensic evidence.
The poisoned versions were live for about three hours before npm pulled them. Huntress observed 135 endpoints across all operating systems calling the attacker's command-and-control server during that window. Wiz found the malicious versions in roughly 3% of environments scanned. Every affected machine needs full credential rotation: npm tokens, AWS keys, SSH keys, CI/CD secrets, everything in .env files.
The part that keeps getting worse: this isn't isolated. The same threat cluster compromised Trivy (a security scanner), KICS, LiteLLM, and multiple GitHub Actions in the two weeks before Axios. Google estimates hundreds of thousands of stolen secrets are now circulating from these combined attacks. The maintainer had 2FA enabled. He said himself: "I have 2FA/MFA on practically everything." The exact method of token compromise is still undetermined.
One person. One fake Teams call. 100 million weekly downloads weaponized in under three hours. The npm ecosystem runs on mass trust in individual maintainers who volunteer their time, and North Korean intelligence now has a repeatable playbook for turning that trust into a delivery mechanism.
Scott Young retweeted
Honestly, this is the most accurate diagram I've seen.
Waterfall: You plan for 18 months and deliver exactly what nobody needs anymore.
Agile: You deliver something usable at every step, but the CEO keeps asking, "Where's the car?"
AI: You get the car on day one. It has six wheels, the doors are on backwards, and it has a rocket launcher. You spend more time making it yours than actually "building"; it's shaping. owning. verifying. That's what the best AI developers do now. They don't build. They shape and own.
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The West has two kinds of elites. Those who earn their money from suspiciously skyrocketing asset prices. And those who earn it from fraudulent nonprofits with government contracts. The former wants to audit the government. The latter wants a tax on unrealized capital gains.
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Legendary actor James Stewart pictured before taking part in a B 52 bombing mission over Vietnam in 1966...
James Stewart is remembered by most as one of Hollywood’s greatest actors, but his military career was just as serious as his film legacy. Unlike many celebrities who served in name only, Stewart was a career military officer who flew combat missions across two wars.
He first enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1941, before America entered World War II, and quickly became a bomber pilot. Stewart flew numerous combat missions over Nazi occupied Europe, eventually rising to the rank of colonel. By the end of the war, he had earned multiple decorations for bravery and leadership.
After returning to acting, Stewart remained in the Air Force Reserve. As jet aircraft replaced prop driven bombers, he continued to train and advance, eventually reaching the rank of brigadier general. In 1966, during the Vietnam War, Stewart flew aboard a B 52 Stratofortress on a bombing mission, not as a publicity stunt but as an active senior officer observing operations.
By this point, Stewart was in his late 50s, an age when most pilots had long since retired. His presence reflected both his commitment to the military and the continuity between generations of airmen. The image captures a rare overlap of Hollywood fame and real combat service, grounded in decades of discipline rather than symbolism.
James Stewart is the only major Hollywood star to have risen to the rank of general through active military service rather than honorary promotion.
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