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Michael H retweeted
California politicians promised "fast permits" for wildfire survivors looking to rebuild their homes.
Really?
New homes must have wiring for electric cars, a manual describing state solar energy incentives, and more.
No wonder so few have rebuilt.
Michael H retweeted
We handed over the inbox for free email two decades ago and the bill is showing up now. What I care about is how long any of it is kept and who can search it later. Worth twenty minutes in your settings. cc @techimpactTV
Michael H retweeted
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.”
Michael H retweeted
Jensen Huang just made the case that the smartest person in the room is now the most replaceable person on earth.
Huang: “The definition of smart is somebody who’s intelligent, solve problems, technical. But I find that that’s a commodity. And we’re about to prove that artificial intelligence is able to handle that part easiest.”
The skill you built your entire identity around was the first thing the machine replicated.
Not the hardest part. The easiest.
Huang: “People who are able to see around corners are truly, truly smart. And their value is incredible. To be able to preempt problems before they show up, just because you feel the vibe.”
Huang: “That vibe came from a combination of data, analysis, first principle, life experience, wisdom, sensing other people.”
The vibe is not intuition. It is decades of failed bets, human friction, and first-principles thinking compressed into a single read no model can replicate.
You cannot prompt your way to it. You earn it by surviving things that had no instructions.
Huang: “I think long term the definition of smart is someone who sits at that intersection of being technically astute, but human empathy and having the ability to infer the unspoken, around the corners, the unknowables.”
Every institution you ever passed through graded you on the one thing the machine now does for free.
The thing they never tested you on is the only thing that still matters.
Huang: “And that person might actually score horribly on the SAT.”
The SAT did not measure intelligence. It measured obedience to structure.
The future does not reward what you can solve inside a framework someone handed you. It rewards what you can see when no framework exists.
The machine did not replace human intelligence.
It revealed that what we spent a century calling intelligence was never intelligence at all.
The people who memorized the answers are about to work for the people who sensed the questions before anyone thought to ask.
Michael H retweeted
One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).
We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.
The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.
The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.
A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.
That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.
Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.
The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.
Michael H retweeted
The guy with the gun was also Muslim. Convenient fact to leave out. What a snake.
Michael H retweeted
Yes
So… we’re expected to believe that in California, out of three candidates, the third place candidate, who conceded her campaign because she was mathematically eliminated from the run-off, suddenly received tens of thousands of votes from mail-in votes which all came in *after* Election Day, while the other two candidates received no late mail-in votes, and the second place candidate (who was surging as a Republican candidate in the bluest state in the country) is now in third place and mathematically eliminated from the run-off.
… and we’re supposed to trust that this is an honest and true election.
If you’re not angry about this, you need to be.
Michael H retweeted
The best part of being an adult is realizing nobody can stop you from spending $1,000 on a lazy river for your backyard.
As kids we dreamed about this stuff.
As adults we call it “financial planning.”
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This image is AI-generated and does not depict a real product. Coleman and Costco do not sell a 200-foot lazy river pool system. The box art contains several humorous clues of its fabrication, such as being 'Compatible with beverage holder & bad decisions.' youtube.com/watch?v=fnDjqt…
Michael H retweeted
NEW: Spencer Pratt fires back at reporter after he was asked about his plan for the homeless, says they will all end up in Seattle.
Reporter: "What are your plans for the over 40,000 homeless in Los Angeles?"
Pratt: "Well, they're not homeless, they're drug addicts... These people have been bused in by scam rehabs, scam NGOs, scam homeless nonprofits."
"These people, when I unplug them ... they're all going to Seattle, where the mayor will welcome them."
Michael H retweeted
Hmmm. Elders have been complaining about the youth of today for ever and ever. Here is one quote dated from the 4th Century B.C.E.
“[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances.… They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.”
Rhetoric, Aristotle 4th Century BC
You can read a list of ancient complaints about the "current times" here. historyhustle.com/2500-years…
ALT Reputed to be a bust of Aristotle.
“We can’t patch our way out of this.”
Yesterday at @NatCyberInnoFor: one of the more substantive #cybersecurity gatherings I’ve attended in a while.
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🤖 Made with AI
Michael H retweeted
Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."
Farmer: "Where did they get it?"
Activist: "What?"
Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."
Activist: "From... eating?"
Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."
Activist: "The soil?"
Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."
Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."
Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."
Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."
Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."
Activist: "It's not that simple."
Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."
Michael H retweeted
Most Americans still think geopolitics is politicians giving speeches at podiums.
That’s the old world.
What President Trump is doing in Beijing right now is something entirely different:
Using CORPORATE POWER as a geopolitical weapon.
Look at the delegation he assembled for China:
• Elon Musk - Tesla / SpaceX
• Tim Cook - Apple
• Jensen Huang - Nvidia
• Larry Fink - BlackRock
• Stephen Schwarzman - Blackstone
• David Solomon - Goldman Sachs
• Jane Fraser - Citigroup
• Kelly Ortberg - Boeing
• H. Lawrence Culp Jr. - GE Aerospace
• Brian Sikes - Cargill
• Cristiano Amon - Qualcomm
• Sanjay Mehrotra - Micron Technology
• Ryan McInerney - Visa
• Michael Miebach - Mastercard
• Dina Powell McCormick - Meta
This is not diplomacy.
This is strategic market penetration.
Now look at HOW carefully this lineup was built:
🚨 AI & CHIP DOMINANCE
• Jensen Huang (Nvidia)
→ AI chips powering the global AI revolution
• Cristiano Amon (Qualcomm)
→ Mobile chips, telecommunications, next-gen connectivity
• Sanjay Mehrotra (Micron)
→ Memory chips critical for AI systems and data centers
• Jim Anderson (Coherent)
→ Semiconductor materials and industrial laser tech
• Jacob Thaysen (Illumina)
→ Biotechnology and genomic technology leadership
This category alone represents the future of AI, computing, biotech, and technological supremacy.
🚨 FINANCIAL POWER
• Larry Fink (BlackRock)
→ Controls over $10 TRILLION in assets
• Stephen Schwarzman (Blackstone)
→ One of the world’s largest private equity giants
• David Solomon (Goldman Sachs)
→ Elite Wall Street investment banking influence
• Jane Fraser (Citigroup)
→ Global banking and cross-border finance
• Ryan McInerney (Visa)
→ Global payment rails
• Michael Miebach (Mastercard)
→ International transaction infrastructure
These people don’t just move money.
They influence where capital flows across the planet.
🚨 CONSUMER TECH & SUPPLY CHAINS
• Tim Cook (Apple)
→ One of the largest and most sophisticated supply chains on Earth
• Elon Musk (Tesla / SpaceX)
→ EV manufacturing, batteries, AI robotics, satellites, launch systems
China knows these companies are deeply tied into global manufacturing ecosystems.
🚨 AEROSPACE & INDUSTRIAL POWER
• Kelly Ortberg (Boeing)
→ Potential aircraft deals worth tens of billions
• H. Lawrence Culp Jr. (GE Aerospace)
→ Aircraft engines and aerospace systems
This is industrial leverage at the highest level.
🚨 AGRICULTURE & REAL ECONOMY
• Brian Sikes (Cargill)
→ Agriculture, food supply chains, commodity trade
Food security and agricultural imports are massive leverage points in U.S.-China relations.
Now step back and look at the entire picture.
This delegation covers:
- AI
- Semiconductors
- Aerospace
- Finance
- Payments
- Agriculture
- Consumer technology
- Manufacturing
- Supply chains
- Investment capital
Every major economic battlefield between the United States and China is represented in one room.
That is not random.
That is coordinated strategic planning.
The media will frame this as “just another summit.”
It’s not.
This is a private-sector strike force built to secure:
- Market access
- Investment deals
- Supply-chain positioning
- Regulatory concessions
- Tech leverage
- Aircraft purchases
- Agricultural agreements
- Financial expansion
The politicians are mostly in the background because politicians talk.
These people actually control:
- factories
- chips
- satellites
- patents
- software
- logistics
- payment systems
- manufacturing
- capital flows
That is where real power lives in 2026.
Whether people love Trump or hate him, Americans need to understand the scale of what they’re looking at.
This is statecraft merged with corporate power.
And it’s being deployed with military-level coordination.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
God bless President Trump!
God bless America!
Michael H retweeted
Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.
Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”
One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.
Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.
Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.
Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.
They conquered until they collapsed.
America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.
And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.
Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”
Almost unprecedented?
It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.
The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.
It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.
America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.
Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.
Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.
Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.
A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.
That’s not policy.
That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.
You’re being told a story right now.
That America is the villain of history.
You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.
Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”
Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.
The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.
And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.
Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”
Probably right.
China has historically built walls, not fleets.
But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.
We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.
AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.
If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?
The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?
Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.
Billions lifted out of poverty.
All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.
And carries no guarantee of being repeated.
The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.
It was what it didn’t do after.
