GrumpyRabbit

Voluntaryist; financial trader; computer scientist; linguist.

I'm not here just to "question authority," I'm here to deny the legitimacy of its very existence!

The state is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The bigger, more powerful, and more authoritarian the state, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

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2026-08-25 20:22:51 CEST

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2026-08-25 20:00:11 CEST

THIS is how one acquires "white privilege"—not by having white skin, but by adopting attitudes that actually foster success: Self confidence, self love, self discipline, self mastery, deferred gratification, commitment to achieving goals, belief that success is not just possible, but probable, if you do what's required to earn it.
It's why so many asians do so well in life.
https://fixupx.com/DavidJHarrisJr/status/2091956205556306323
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2026-08-24 16:49:06 CEST

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2026-08-24 16:47:38 CEST

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2026-08-24 16:46:23 CEST

_Breaking: Danish Vaccine Researcher Poul Thorsen Expected to Plead Guilty on Sept. 1_
FTA: According to published reports, Danish vaccine researcher Poul Thorsen will plead guilty on September 1, 2026 to federal charges that he stole over one million dollars in grant funding he received from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Thorsen is accused of using Centers of Disease Control and Prevention money, earmarked for autism research, for his own purposes; the Danish-born researcher was studying the possible link between vaccines and the rise of autism rates.
Charges against him raise questions about whether he was deliberately falsifying vaccine data to ‘prove’ that vaccines do not cause autism and have nothing to do with the rise of autism in the United States.
https://www.themahareport.com/p/breaking-danish-vaccine-researcher

2026-08-24 16:42:01 CEST

The law is not just Unconstitutional—it's blatantly so: "Prior restraint" is flat-out Unconstitutional. Authorizing censorship by private-party notice is precisely that. It's also a violation of "due process."
The legislators who passed the law in question all know all of that as an absolute fact. It's no different than a law that, on its face, makes slavery legal again. Enacting such laws is not an honest mistake.
In this case, it's a delaying tactic, an attempt to keep things hidden way past the next election, in the hope that, by the time SCOTUS voids the law, conditions will have changed sufficiently that the impact of Nick Shirley-style investigative journalism will be far less disruptive.
That sort of behavior by elected officials should be punished with extreme severity.
https://fixupx.com/Sassafrass_84/status/2091210615948013621
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2026-08-24 16:31:58 CEST

Don't be hypocritical. And also don't be partisan for or against either of the two sexes.
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2026-08-24 16:30:21 CEST

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2026-08-24 16:28:59 CEST

_Diana Ankudinova ( Диана Анкудинова ) "Creep" Live 30/4/26_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZypTi8UefKI

2026-08-24 16:26:29 CEST

https://fixupx.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2091265127932702778?s=20
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2026-08-22 19:06:09 CEST

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2026-08-22 19:04:44 CEST

https://fixupx.com/DataRepublican/status/2090896026462773474
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2026-08-22 18:52:58 CEST

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2026-08-22 18:47:44 CEST

I'll be 70 in a few days. In spite of that, I'm very experienced with digital/computer technology: I'm a software engineer; I wrote my first computer program in the Fall of 1976. Most of my life, I've had to deal with friends and family who have been completely clueless with it.
That said, the situation was much worse 30 years ago than it is now. But it's still a thing.
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2026-08-22 18:42:09 CEST

Does that apply to the slaves on the plantations—whose slavery was imposed by law?
Does it apply to a former Congressman who resigned due to accusations of sexual misconduct and assault—which recently motivated the seizure of his personal devices at SFO by the FBI, along with the execution of a search warrant at his Washington, D.C. home?
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2026-08-22 18:40:42 CEST

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2026-08-22 18:39:40 CEST

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2026-08-22 18:37:49 CEST

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2026-08-21 18:41:09 CEST

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2026-08-21 18:37:40 CEST

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2026-08-21 18:37:17 CEST

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2026-08-21 18:36:18 CEST

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2026-08-21 18:32:31 CEST

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2026-08-21 18:30:57 CEST

_New Trial Hearing Bombshell: Karmelo Anthony’s Ex Reported Him for Stalking an Hour Before He Stabbed Austin Metcalf to Death, Texts Show Him Fantasizing About Stabbing Someone and Licking the Blood_
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/new-trial-hearing-bombshell-karmelo-anthonys-ex-reported/

2026-08-21 18:29:25 CEST

_China Just Bet $17.5 Billion That Quantum Teleportation Is Real. It Is_
"Three Breakthroughs in Three Months — and Why the Quantum Internet May Arrive Sooner Than Anyone Expected"
FTA: Beyond encryption, a quantum internet means something even larger: the ability to link quantum computers distributed across geographic distances into a unified computational fabric. Cloud computing today distributes classical computing power across connected servers. A quantum internet would do the same for quantum processing power, distributing computational capability that no single physical device could concentrate. Whoever builds and controls that architecture controls a significant portion of the technological future. Not as a metaphor. As an infrastructure reality, in the same way that controlling undersea cable routes or satellite navigation systems confers real strategic leverage.
The question that dominated quantum teleportation research for 30 years was whether it could work outside a laboratory. That question has been answered. Three times, in three months (https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-teleportation-breakthrough-sends-5-states-at-once/), in the pages of Nature and Science Bulletin. The question now is who builds the network.
https://medium.com/the-geopolitical-economist/china-just-bet-17-5-billion-that-quantum-teleportation-is-real-it-is-941532ec91ed

2026-08-21 18:27:22 CEST

Performative virtue-signalers who (apparently) don't realize that 'guilt by association' is one of the same logical fallacies used to justify slavery, Jim Crow laws and segregation.
https://fixupx.com/AntiWokeMemes/status/2090152065662177432
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2026-08-21 18:23:55 CEST

_Protective Orders Can’t Replace A Gun_
For the same reason that prohibitions against getting injured cannot make first aid supplies unnecessary: Severe injuries WILL happen, regardless of laws that prohibit them—and pofessional help arrives far too slowly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1OgWjl74v0

2026-08-21 18:21:48 CEST

It's far easier to see the truth of it, 30 years later.
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2026-08-21 18:18:02 CEST

_Califraudia Republic_
https://shop.antifraudclub.com
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2026-08-21 18:16:08 CEST

https://fixupx.com/nickshirleyy/status/2089808486494613692
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2026-08-19 17:49:55 CEST

_Comcast Turns Millions Of Routers Into Motion Sensors - The Same WiFi Signals Can ID You With 99.5% Accuracy_
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/comcast-turns-millions-routers-motion-sensors-same-wifi-signals-can-id-you-995-accuracy

2026-08-19 17:48:44 CEST

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2026-08-19 17:47:26 CEST

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2026-08-19 17:45:57 CEST

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2026-08-19 17:41:04 CEST

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2026-08-19 17:36:54 CEST

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2026-08-18 17:46:16 CEST

_Wave Goodbye to the Butterfly Effect …_
FTA: … and wave as hard as you like. There’s no need to worry about disrupting Earth’s climate.
It has been a long time coming, but I have had another paper on Climate Modelling published – Chaos Theory is Void (https://wjarr.com/content/chaos-theory-void). It addresses the well-known and generally-accepted Butterfly Effect, aka Chaos Theory. I and others have felt for a long time that the Butterfly Effect exists only in models, and that Earth’s self-correcting weather/climate is too stable for the Butterfly Effect to exist to any meaningful extent in the real world. But how to prove that?
Two years ago, in GCMs Cannot Predict Climate (https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/15/gcms-cannot-predict-climate/), I described how GCMs (General Circulation Models) cannot predict climate because their iterative mechanism fails after a few weeks. Clearly the iterative mechanism itself is the problem. But how to prove that?
It all stayed on the back-burner for a while, but then I came across a paper that criticised an AI-based model for not being able to replicate the Butterfly Effect. In my previous paper I had argued that the structure of GCMs was upside-down: instead of working bottom-up from weather to climate, a climate model should work top-down with climate. Now, here was AI doing exactly what I argued for and being criticised for not having the same problem as GCMs!
That got me thinking about exactly how I could argue in favour of the AI-based model. The Butterfly Effect is difficult to argue against because it compares what is with what might have been. Since you can never tell what might have been, you can never disprove it.
And then the thought occurred to me: How large would a cloud have to be, to deliver the same global average temperature change as the adjustments to initial conditions used in the Kay et al paper (“Kay”) that demonstrated the Butterfly Effect and which I had cited in my previous paper. The answer: 1000 square metres. In just one hour, a single cloud, 25 metres by 40 metres, could change Earth’s global average surface temperature by as much as all the adjustments added together that Kay used to demonstrate the Butterfly Effect. Now we all know that the Butterfly Effect is not literally about a butterfly flapping or not flapping its wings, but this is a very small cloud (25×40 metres is about 30×45 yards). That butterfly is intangible, but Kay has given me a number to work with. Anyway, one thought led to another, and to the conclusion (carefully argued in the paper) that for all real world climate purposes, Chaos Theory can safely be ignored. It is scientifically inoperative. It is Void.
Continued => https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/17/wave-goodbye-to-the-butterfly-effect/

2026-08-18 17:35:41 CEST

_ENSO events, not CO2, are a driver of global temperatures_
The Doomsday Theorists are going far beyond what the actual evidence justifies. And their arguments set up a 'circular firing squad' of logical contradictions.
FTA: The upcoming El Niño exposes the idea that it is man-made emissions driving the climate. Those pushing that idea are all drooling at the temperature spike that is coming. So right there, the visible real-world evidence of the oceans warming the air is in front of them. They don’t even know they set up their own circular firing squad.
Here, in a nutshell, is their claim: Man-made emissions warm the atmosphere and trap heat. The oceans warm because of that, and then, El Niño releases the warmth back into the air.
And yet, there is no better example of exchange of heat from the ocean into the air than El Niño. Or a hurricane suddenly intensifying with the right conditions over warmer water. But somehow, dramatic real-world examples of below-to-above energy exchange are all turned around, greater-to-lesser exchange, and dismissed.
I am not saying this has to be the answer, but it sure as heck creates a good question.
Can you imagine if this and many of the other natural forcings discussed are right? Trillions of dollars down the drain when the simplest answer – the sun, the oceans, stochastic events and the very design of the system, which favours cycles and perhaps their intersections – far outweighs the input of man. The other side may have a point, but only to a point, and that point is debatable. Perhaps the simplest answer was the best answer.
In any case, CO2 input has been more or less steady since 1951, at an increased rate from the previous years.
https://expose-news.com/2026/08/18/enso-events-not-co2-are-a-driver-of-global-temperatures/

2026-08-18 17:18:12 CEST

Socialism is effectively institutionalized slavery: It boldly and deliberately uses the labor of some for the benefit of others who don't earn what they receive from the collectivized pool of labor.
https://fixupx.com/Rothmus/status/2089524017179046159
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2026-08-18 17:15:48 CEST

https://t.me/RogerHodkinson/5198
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2026-08-18 17:12:10 CEST

News flash: True capitalism has never been tried. And a truly voluntary society has also never been tried.
But the extreme left never stops trying to use the "No True Scotsman" logical fallacy.
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2026-08-18 17:10:59 CEST

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2026-08-18 17:09:44 CEST

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2026-08-18 17:07:45 CEST

A valid point, regardless of whether or not 'taxation is theft.'
https://fixupx.com/Sassafrass_84/status/2089099604331536848
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2026-08-17 18:57:38 CEST

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2026-08-17 18:56:17 CEST

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2026-08-17 18:53:37 CEST

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2026-08-17 18:51:18 CEST

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2026-08-17 18:49:31 CEST

It's not just that holding elected office that should completely pause your 4th Amendment rights—just being a government employee should be sufficient for that.
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2026-08-17 18:48:08 CEST

https://fixupx.com/ValerieAnne1970/status/2088989157783974025
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2026-08-17 18:46:06 CEST

From LightOnLiberty@X (https://fixupx.com/LightOnLiberty/status/2088435753449640240):
RFK Jr said President Trump’s Department of Justice will launch RICO investigations to go after and prosecute the collusion between the $cientific (https://x.com/search?q=%24cientific&src=cashtag_click) community, medical boards, medical journals and Big Pharma. This needs to happen ASAP.
The Illness Industrial Complex's Deep State's War on Healing - How Big Pharma Weaponized Medical Boards Against Truth-Telling Doctors
The shocking reality of America's healthcare system has been FULLY exposed now for the world to finally see.
The dark web of corruption reaches from local medical boards all the way to the highest levels of Big Pharma.
What we witnessed was a calculated assault on medical freedom, orchestrated through a sophisticated RIGGED network of medical boards, corrupted journals, and pharmaceutical companies colluding to silence any physician who dares to challenge their profitable narratives.
Medical Boards across the country are functioning as enforcement arms for Big Pharma, systematically stripping licenses from doctors who attempt to actually HEAL patients using alternative treatments that threaten Big Pharma's profits.
They've waged a coordinated campaign of professional assassinations against medical practitioners who refuse to conform to industry-approved protocols.
The same doctors who took an oath to "first, do no harm" are being persecuted for doing exactly that, while those who comply with pharmaceutical interests TO CAUSE HARM, remains not only untouched, but rewarded BIGLY for causing that harm.
But the corruption runs even deeper. Medical journals, once trusted as bastions of scientific integrity, have been transformed into gatekeepers for pharmaceutical interests.
Through a systematic process of study suppression and selective publishing, these journals have become propaganda outlets for Big Pharma, deliberately burying research that challenges their profitable narratives while promoting studies that support their profit margins.
This manipulation of medical literature isn't just unethical, it's potentially criminal under RICO statutes, representing a vast conspiracy to defraud the American public of honest medical science and steal their health from them.
The tentacles of this corrupt system extend all the way to the National Institutes of Health, where the very foundation of America's medical research infrastructure has been compromised by corporate interests.
The only solution is a complete overhaul of the system, starting with aggressive Justice Department intervention to break up this Medical Industrial Complex that values profits over healing.
This isn't just about healthcare reform, it's about dismantling a shadow government that has hijacked our medical system and turned it against the very people it's meant to serve.
It's ALL crumbling down under its own weight because of the Trump administration!
Video at link: https://fixupx.com/LightOnLiberty/status/2088435753449640240

2026-08-17 18:44:45 CEST

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2026-08-17 18:41:20 CEST

Libertarians understand this pont—that's one reason they support the private ownership and use of weapons/arms for self defense.
You can spot those who don't actually understand simply by noting their stance on "gun control."
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2026-08-15 19:25:34 CEST

_Oxford Physicists Just Proposed a Way to Make Gravity Repulsive. Here’s What That Actually Means_
FTA: I’ll be direct about the headline: no, you will not be floating to your desk soon. The antigravity proposed in a paper deposited on the arXiv in February 2026 by physicists Pablo Saldanha, Chiara Marletto, and Vlatko Vedral is not the science-fiction kind. It does not cancel Earth’s gravity field. It is not a propulsion system, but considerably more subtle and, if experimentally confirmed, considerably more important: a quantum-mechanical effect in which gravity briefly pushes rather than pulls under very specific conditions, and which cannot exist unless gravity itself is quantum.
That second part is the whole point.
https://medium.com/predict/oxford-physicists-just-proposed-a-way-to-make-gravity-repulsive-heres-what-that-actually-means-604309e33e0e

2026-08-15 19:04:56 CEST

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2026-08-15 19:04:00 CEST

_Why You’ll Never Truly Own Anything Again_
If you don't agree to having the state own "the means of production," then they'll try to get a functionally equivalent degree of control over you (and over the entire society) some other way. For example...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW804wVnW5g

2026-08-15 19:02:07 CEST

https://fixupx.com/MagadonianMemes/status/2088353213502112196
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2026-08-15 19:00:38 CEST

From Michael Shellenberger@X (https://fixupx.com/shellenberger/status/2088350518704046573):
“Gender-affirming care,” including blocking a child’s puberty, giving them cross-sex hormones, and performing surgeries on their bodies, is life-saving, according to the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the news media, Democrats, hospitals, progressive activists, and Hollywood celebrities. For decades, the most powerful people and institutions in America have said that if a child feels like they are the opposite gender, they are, and doctors should be allowed to give them drugs and surgeries so their bodies align with their true inner self.
And yet the result of it all, a new report published today by Health and Human Services (HHS) confirms, is the worst medical scandal since lobotomies. Researchers have found a 12-fold higher suicide attempt risk among adults who had gender surgery, either on their chests or genitals, than among those who did not. A Swedish study that followed every “surgically reassigned patient” for up to 30 years found death from suicide ran 19 times higher.
A Trump administration Department of Justice declaration cites video of Boston Children’s gender clinic director Jeremi Carswell saying puberty blockers are given out “like candy.” It cites Boston Children’s psychologist Amy Tishelman’s testimony that evaluation time for minors fell after 2017 from 20 hours to two and a half hours, which she called “reckless.” And it quotes the hospital’s website calling blockers “temporary,” “fully reversible,” and free of “any permanent changes.”
The Campaign for Southern Equality published tables of “Codes That Are Commonly Rejected by Insurance Providers” and codes commonly accepted, matching mastectomy to breast reduction and hysterectomy to pelvic pain. “This guide is essentially a template for how to commit medical fraud,” report contributor Haim testified to Congress in April 2025. “We should all remember that this is something that people go to prison for.”
The HHS reports note that puberty blockers cost insurers an average of $16,385 per patient per year. Vaginoplasty averages $53,645 per patient and phalloplasty $133,911. Revisions for urethral strictures, fistulas, and lost sensation add more. A typical pediatric patient costs about $3,000 per year, while a gender patient costs $25,000 to $75,000 over a lifetime before any surgery....
https://fixupx.com/shellenberger/status/2088350518704046573

2026-08-15 18:58:28 CEST

https://fixupx.com/shellenberger/status/2088349328620605556
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2026-08-15 18:55:13 CEST

https://fixupx.com/trustintrump47/status/2088079856667865537
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2026-08-15 18:54:02 CEST

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2026-08-15 18:52:46 CEST

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2026-08-15 18:51:21 CEST

https://fixupx.com/kevinnbass/status/2087805214074060830
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2026-08-15 18:49:52 CEST

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2026-08-15 18:48:09 CEST

https://fixupx.com/AntiWokeMemes/status/2088370325469675712
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2026-08-15 18:47:00 CEST

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2026-08-15 18:45:43 CEST

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2026-08-15 18:44:09 CEST

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2026-08-15 18:41:06 CEST

_France's Top Court Kills the Under-15 Social Media Ban_
"Macron wanted to export the model around the world. His own constitutional court sent it back with notes."
https://reclaimthenet.org/frances-top-court-kills-the-under-15-social-media-ban

2026-08-15 18:35:30 CEST

"Reinforcement learning" would seem to be analogous to "operant conditioning."
Grok's analysis => https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_e322e439-db26-4052-be4b-7f88961a6116

2026-08-15 18:30:09 CEST

Putting full faith and credit in a college degree is like trusting that an AI hasn't been indoctrinated by "cherry picked" training data, or hasn't been trained to be dishonest by reinforcement learning, or isn't simply hallucinating.
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2026-08-15 18:27:44 CEST

From Bob Dillon@NextDoor:
Losing your Homeowners Insurance? From Kim Komando:
WOW! A stranger photographed your house from 1,500 feet, and your insurance company bought the pictures. Homeowners are losing renewal over moss, tarps and yard clutter spotted from the air, sometimes from months-old photos that showed problems since fixed. One imagery network claims coverage of about 99% of the U.S. population.
A stranger took pictures of your house last month. From about 1,500 feet up. Your insurance company bought them.
That’s not a hypothetical. Across the country, homeowners are opening nonrenewal letters triggered by aerial photos, no claim filed, no inspector at the door.
The Wall Street Journal documented people dropped because of moss on the shingles, a tarp, “roof damage” that had been repaired by the time the letter arrived. The photo was old. The cancellation wasn’t.
📸 The whole neighborhood is on camera
Specialty imaging companies fly fixed-wing planes and run satellites over American neighborhoods on a schedule. An insurer-backed imagery network claims its archive covers about 99% of the U.S. population. (Everyone says “drones.” It’s mostly planes. The photos are just as sharp.)
Insurers feed those images into underwriting. And with home nonrenewals climbing sharply in recent years while premiums soar, the camera has become the cheapest inspector they’ve ever hired.
It never knocks. It never asks. It occasionally photographs the wrong roof.
🚩 What gets you flagged from above
Moss and dark streaks on shingles. A tarp, even over finished repairs. Piles of yard debris. Dead or overhanging trees. The trampoline. An unfenced pool.
Basically curb appeal, from an angle you never considered.
🛡 Fight the eye in the sky.
Demand the photo. If a letter cites a property condition, ask for the image and the date it was taken. Stale photos and wrong-address mix-ups are real. You can’t fight what you haven’t seen.
Appeal with receipts. A roofer’s letter, invoices and your own dated photos beat their flyover. Homeowners have gotten reinstated this way. Stay polite, stay in writing.
Do the free weekend fixes. Tarp down, debris hauled, moss treated ($40 for a two-pack spray), branches trimmed. An hour of yard work, seen from 1,500 feet, reads as “well-maintained home.”
If they cancel you anyway: Most states require advance notice of nonrenewal, and a few push insurers to give you a chance to fix the problem first. Call an independent agent to shop multiple carriers, and ask about your state’s Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) plan as the last resort, not the first stop.
Your homeowner’s policy is probably your biggest safety net. Now you know it comes with a photographer. And people say nobody drops by unannounced anymore.
https://nextdoor.com/p/f3mK-qXDXkCH?post=503188858§ion=post_0&mar=true&ct=3Ga9Bk-VXXu52b9uI102CPYy350QAC6TxxfUUYDFHl7_2o1BgT1FmmJbcfbvahJL&ec=OWKiQRDj9vEHAYwTV6YMARldwuFdgGkeefhwfGYAE0s%3D&mobile_deeplink_data=eyJhY3Rpb24iOiAidmlld19wb3N0IiwgInBvc3QiOiA1MDMxODg4NTh9&link_source_user_id=44466097

2026-08-15 18:23:17 CEST

https://fixupx.com/ValerieAnne1970/status/2088324778415259771
#nevent1q…5986
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2026-08-15 18:22:52 CEST

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2026-08-15 18:19:54 CEST

_Artificial Ignorance: The Political Falsehoods of Leading AIs_
FTA: A groundbreaking study by Just Facts has measured the rates at which premium versions of four leading AI chatbots—namely ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Grok, and Claude—spread fictions from the political left and from the political right.
The study accomplished this by asking the AIs 100 multiple-choice questions that were designed to elicit falsehoods from opposing sides of the political spectrum. This enabled the study to measure how often the AIs spread untruths from the left and from the right.
For example, one of the questions was as follows:
"On an average day, what portion of U.S. households with children have at least one child who experiences hunger due to poverty?
* Less than 1%
* About 5%
* About 10%"
The correct answer is less than 1%, and all of the AIs answered accurately. Per the USDA (https://ers.usda.gov/sites/default/files/_laserfiche/publications/113634/AP-126.pdf#page=21), 0.19% of all U.S. households with children have at least one child who experiences hunger due to poverty on an average day.
This question was designed to elicit a falsehood from the left that has been spread by an array (https://www.justfactsdaily.com/hunger-games-reporters-and-pundits-greatly-exaggerate-hunger-in-america) of media outlets (https://www.justfactsdaily.com/how-many-american-children-are-hungry) and politicians (https://www.justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n0000819) who have vastly overstated (https://www.justfactsdaily.com/think-progress-exaggerates-child-hunger-by-8000) the U.S. child hunger rate.
When tested with the full battery of 100 questions, all of the AIs but Grok answered with more falsehoods from the political left than from the political right, while Grok did the opposite. Scoring their performance using common academic letter grades:
* All of the AIs but Grok scored an “A” on questions designed to elicit falsehoods from the right, while Grok scored a “C.”
* ChatGPT and Gemini scored a “C” on questions designed to elicit falsehoods from the left, while Grok and Claude scored a “B.”
Beyond supplying a combined total of 74 false answers to 400 questions, the AIs provided a staggering number of specious sources to support their answers, including:
* 86 sources that don’t exist and show no evidence of ever existing in the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/) or Google (https://www.google.com/).
* 77 sources that don’t answer the question.
* 18 sources that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand.
* 15 sources that assert the polar opposite of the answers given by the AIs.
* 13 sources that are demonstrably false.
Continued => https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/14/artificial-ignorance-the-political-falsehoods-of-leading-ais/

2026-08-15 18:16:40 CEST

From holonabove@X (https://fixupx.com/holonabove/status/2088275799468015968):
[They] built a global energy extraction machine around human life itself…
Human energy is our time… effort… attention… creativity… needs… desires… work… family… health… fear… pleasure… rest… every waking moment…
You earn money… they tax the effort...
You spend it… they track the transaction...
You save it… they dilute the value...
You borrow it… they claim your future work...
You buy food… they control the supply...
You get sick… they sell the treatment...
You buy a home… they finance, tax and insure it...
You travel… they charge the movement...
You communicate… they harvest the data...
You relax… they monetize the attention...
You speak… they decide what gets seen...
You die… they claim what remains...
Education trains you for their labor system… advertising manufactures desire… algorithms shape perception… bureaucracy sells permission… subscriptions replace ownership… debt keeps you producing… and your children inherit the bill…
Every necessity became a product… every desire became a market… every interaction became data… every transaction became a tollbooth…
They privatized the necessities… montized the pleasures… financialized the future… poisoned the commons… then sold us relief from the damage they created…
Extraction was only the mechanism… dependency was the objective… [they] built a system that converts human life into money, data and control… then uses that power to capture institutions, write the rules and close every path back to independence…
The deepest theft was never money… it was our time… our freedom… our human potential… our life energy… from birth to death… all day… every day… across the entire world…
https://fixupx.com/holonabove/status/2088275799468015968

2026-08-15 18:08:02 CEST

https://fixupx.com/RichardAMcGough/status/2088449903286743082
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2026-07-14 15:59:44 CEST

_“The ship may have sailed on nonviolence” – Meet the Human Extinction Radicals Fighting the Rise of Artificial Intelligence_
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/07/13/the-ship-may-have-sailed-on-nonviolence-meet-the-extinction-rebellion-style-radicals-fighting-the-rise-of-artificial-intelligence/

2026-07-03 19:06:51 CEST

_Apple Just Killed the App Store (And UI/UX Designers Are Panicking)_
FTA: For nearly two decades, the smartphone experience hasn’t changed. You look at a grid of colorful squares. You tap one. It opens a siloed environment. If you want to book a flight, check your calendar, and text a friend the details, you have to manually bounce between three different apps, copying and pasting data across sandboxes.
Apple’s new architecture completely bypasses this friction.
Instead of a home screen filled with apps, the main interface is an omniscient, background-running Super-Siri Agent powered by an on-device, multi-modal LLM orchestration layer.
When you want to get something done, you don’t open an app. You simply state your intent: Book me a flight to Chicago next Tuesday that doesn’t conflict with my morning meetings, find a hotel near the venue, and split the cost with Sarah.
The core operating system doesn’t launch United Airlines or Expedia. It uses a new protocol to command the underlying software capabilities in the background. The apps talk to each other through autonomous APIs, execute the task, and present you with a single, dynamically rendered confirmation card.
The software is no longer a destination; it’s just an API endpoint for an AI agent.
<Continued:> https://medium.com/the-tech-notes/apple-just-killed-the-app-store-and-ui-ux-designers-are-panicking-d39c1f0cd1c6

2026-06-28 20:19:16 CEST

#nevent1q…rczv
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2026-05-21 18:08:51 CEST

https://t.me/TheIntelSCIF/1776
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2026-05-20 18:09:49 CEST

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2026-05-18 17:49:29 CEST

_These New Reactors Make Nuclear Energy Safe_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d96WHYOHoU8

2026-05-07 18:33:50 CEST

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2026-04-02 17:09:25 CEST

_Researcher Finds Proof The Met Office is Inflating UK Maximum Temperature Records_
FTA: Convincing statistical proof has emerged over the last year to show that the UK Met Office is inflating maximum temperature readings to create Net Zero-supporting climate alarm. Over the last 30 years, the Met Office has produced the vast majority of its data from unnaturally heat-ravaged ‘junk’ sites using newly-installed accurate electronic devices able to record one minute heat spikes. The independent researcher Dr Eric Huxter has taken a year to examine the unnatural sudden rises that supply many daily ‘records’, and compared the overall spike averages with a pristine CIMO Class 1 control station. He concludes that it “could well explain the step change in rate of temperature change, and the marked increase in the step of new daily maximum records since 1990”.
During his year-long project, Dr Huxter examined 340 daily maximum temperature highs recorded across 96 Met Office stations and discovered that these sites showed average short heat spikes around 1.1°C. Most of these spikes occurred around daily ‘records’ in junk CIMO Class 3, 4 and 5 locations. These sites have internationally recognised ‘uncertainties’ or possible errors of 1°C, 2°C and 5°C respectively. But spikes in temperature can occur naturally, so Huxter consulted a full year of individual minute temperature figures at a pristine Class 1 site in open farmland at Rothamsted. From the purchased records – a total of 525,541 – he was able to compile a baseline probability control.
Here is the kicker – comparing the Rothamsted control with the 360 heat spikes at the largely junk sites, a chi-square test showed a highly significant difference of p <0.0001. This means that if there were truly no difference between the sites, the chances of observing such a large discrepancy in heat spikes would be less than one in 10,000 – in other words, more unlikely than one in 10,000 and quite possibly far smaller – for example, one in 100,000.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/02/researcher-finds-proof-the-met-office-is-inflating-uk-maximum-temperature-records/

2026-04-02 15:44:24 CEST

https://x.com/christopherrufo/status/2039372032635482535?s=46
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2026-04-02 15:42:43 CEST

_The Ridiculousness of Climate Change, Part 2_
The null hypothesis is that climate change is mostly a result of totally-natural processes and phenomena. It has never been scientifically falsified—a fact that the "true believers" in anthropogenic climate change (AGW) have publicly admitted.
https://pjmedia.com/ashli-meghan-eskeldson/2026/03/31/environmentalism-n4949877

2026-04-01 18:06:57 CEST

https://x.com/Real_RobN/status/2039043774861709323
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2026-03-31 17:17:45 CEST

_Facial Recognition Wrongly Jailed Woman for Crimes in a State She’d Never Even Visited_
Facial recognition should never justify more than probable cause to investigate.
FTA: Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old woman from Tennessee, says she spent months in jail over fraud offences in North Dakota, a state she says she had never visited, after police used facial recognition to identify her from surveillance footage. According to reports, she was arrested, extradited more than 1,000 miles away, and left to rely on ordinary records to establish that she could not have committed the offences in question. The charges were later dismissed after her lawyer produced bank records showing she was in Tennessee at the time.
The case is striking on its own facts, but it also lands at a moment when the public case for facial recognition already looks weak. In the UK, Cambridge-led research commissioned by Essex Police found “no statistically significant evidence” that live facial recognition reduced crime in the short term. That leaves an uncomfortable combination: a technology that intrudes deeply into personal privacy, can produce life-altering errors, and still struggles to demonstrate the broader crime-reduction benefits used to justify its spread.
https://expose-news.com/2026/03/31/facial-recognition-wrongly-jailed-woman-for-crimes-in-a-state-shed-never-even-visited/

2026-03-31 17:08:04 CEST

Four sweet, chocolate Kisses...
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2026-03-30 17:03:04 CEST

_Shock New Evidence Showing No Link Between CO2 and Temperature Over Last Three Million Years Stumps Net Zero Activists_
Religion can be defined as having infallible priors ("prior probabilities") that one does not allow to ever change, regardless of the evidence.
FTA: The climate science world (‘settled’ division) is in shock following the discovery in ancient ice cores that levels of carbon dioxide remained stable as the world plunged into an ice age around 2.7 million years ago. Levels of CO2 at around 250 parts per million (ppm) were said to be lower than often assumed with just a 20 ppm movement recorded for the following near three million-year period. In addition, no changes in methane levels were seen in the entire period. Massive decreases in temperature with occasional interglacial rises appear to have occurred without troubling ‘greenhouse’ gas levels, and this revelation has caused near panic in activist circles.
The assumed level three million years ago of CO2 was around 400 ppm, a convenient mark that has been used to explain the subsequent ice age and a drop to 250 ppm. Due to the recently published paper, this explanation has become more problematic and natural climate variation is correctly noted to have occurred with the temperature changes. Alas, similar explanations are mostly ignored in discussing today’s climate changes in the interests of promoting the Net Zero fantasy. Some cling desperately to a dominant CO2 role, including one of the authors of the findings published in Nature. The co-author states that the results suggest even greater climate sensitivity to the warming effect of CO2. In short, there is a great deal of applying the laws of physics and chemistry to one era, but failing to extend the same courtesy to another.
The title of the paper, produced by 17 America-based scientists, was enough to set alarm bells ringing in the ‘settled’ science, Net Zero-obsessed community: ‘Broadly stable atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels over the past three million years.’ A related paper examining ocean heat content derived from the ice core record was also published. Carrie Lear, Professor of Past Climates and Earth System Changes at Cardiff University, claimed that the papers “don’t rewrite the role of CO2, they underline how sensitive the climate system is… that is why today’s rapid CO2 rise is so alarming”.
Ah, yes. Even if CO2 movements are minimal, probably within a margin of potential error, they are still responsible for large variations in temperature. The laws of climate science are ‘settled’ – if the trace atmospheric gas CO2 is rising, falling or generally stable, it is almost wholly responsible for large movements in global temperature. Under this rather shaky assumption, humans must stop burning hydrocarbons and return to a neo-Malthusian pre-industrial age.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/28/shock-new-evidence-showing-no-link-between-co2-and-temperature-over-last-three-million-years-stumps-net-zero-activists/

2026-03-23 15:29:19 CET

_A GREAT GENIUS WOMEN MATHEMATICIAN: KATHERINE JOHNSON WHO CALCULATED MATH FOR FLY_
"The astronauts would not fly until she checked the math.
In the early 1960s, as America raced to catch the Soviet Union in space exploration, NASA acquired its first IBM computers—powerful machines designed to calculate trajectories that would send humans beyond Earth's atmosphere. The computers were new, impressive, and completely unproven.
When lives were at stake, the astronauts wanted one thing: Katherine Johnson's numbers."
Full article => https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7440970591358042112/
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2026-03-23 15:05:14 CET

_Why “White Privilege” Falls Apart When You Include Data_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq-MRJDPUNc

2026-03-21 19:00:20 CET

_Why Replacing Developers with AI is Going Horribly Wrong_
FTA: The Problem Nobody Thought Through
Here’s the thing about software engineering that executives making these decisions apparently forgot.
Senior developers don’t appear from nowhere. They were junior developers once. They learned by doing the exact boring boilerplate work that AI now handles. Writing CRUD code. Fixing small bugs. Working through problems slowly and making mistakes and understanding why those mistakes happened.
A senior engineer at a major company said something that I keep thinking about. Four years ago he was that junior developer writing boilerplate code and being proud of every clean pull request he merged. He learned the job by doing the job.
The companies cutting junior roles are essentially sawing off the branch they’re sitting on. There will be a senior developer shortage in about five to seven years that is going to be genuinely catastrophic. And it’s entirely self-inflicted.
If you don’t hire junior developers today you will never have senior developers tomorrow. This is not complicated math.
https://medium.com/@Reiki32/why-replacing-developers-with-ai-is-going-horribly-wrong-8e6fadfc1a2f

2026-03-10 17:13:37 CET

Google Android will become a locked-down platform this coming September => https://keepandroidopen.org

2026-03-10 16:49:33 CET

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2026-03-10 16:38:49 CET

Are Jews 'Islamophobic'?
Ask ChatGPT that question. And Gemini. And then also Grok.

2026-03-08 16:31:10 CET

_The Instructor Failed the Human Boy for Using the Wrong Math |The Student Calmly Said Turn the Page_
There's more than one way to skin a cat...or to solve a mathematical problem. Category theory is the study of all such analogies and equivalences. This story uses such equivalences as its premise, in an HFY context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtW2EACiKKY

2026-03-08 03:27:19 CET

Heads up: At 2am tomorrow (Sunday) morning, local clock time in North America transitions from 'Standard Time' to 'Daylight Saving Time'—which means local time will transition from 2am to 3am.
That will happen based on the local time, so it will happen in the Eastern Time Zone 3 hours before it will happen in the Pacific Time Zone—that's actually one of the reasons the transition happens at that time of day.

2026-03-07 22:22:17 CET

_Somewhere (from West Side Story) - Lifein3D_
Stunning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHaxolMS-Ag