R to @JesslovesMJK: WOW. "That same month, the most important academic paper behind the NGFS’s current set of scenarios — a study by Kotz and colleagues, which projected that climate change would reduce global income by nineteen per cent by 2050 — was retracted by the journal Nature200. The reason was that its results depended on a data error about Uzbekistan’s GDP. A mistake in a spreadsheet had helped determine how much capital every major bank in the world was required to hold. And there was no mechanism to go back and undo the damage. The scenarios kept running, with a note attached saying the underlying paper had been withdrawn. The capital requirements stayed in place."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07219-0
R to @JesslovesMJK: "The entire system’s control point comes down to one question: who turns the ethics that everyone agrees on into the specific numbers that the taxonomy encodes, that the scenarios are built on, that the AI checks against, and that the programmable money enforces?"
R to @JesslovesMJK: "In practice, the moment an ethical goal enters the system, it stops being a moral idea and becomes a number. ‘Climate action‘ becomes a damage estimate in a spreadsheet. ‘Gender equality‘ becomes a ratio. ‘Financial inclusion‘ becomes a metric. The second layer of the system — the one that judges — compares numbers against numbers, not values against values. The third layer — the one that enforces — carries out calculations, not convictions."
R to @JesslovesMJK: "Who decides what ‘climate action‘ actually means in practice — which activities get classified as green, which number goes into a scenario model, which weighting gets applied to a bank’s capital requirements? The ethic is the cover. The standard is the instrument.
The NGFS is the network that turns ethical goals into financial rules, and its Scientific Advisory Committee is the body that does the translating."
R to @JesslovesMJK: EXACTLY
"This is the same basic design: AI systems measure what is happening, compare it against targets set by the executive branch, adjust their approach, and repeat — all without Congress debating or voting on any of it. And it is being built by the political administration least likely to be accused of building a centralised control system.
That is the point. The system doesn’t care about political ideology. It doesn’t matter whether the person in charge is left-wing or right-wing. All it needs is for someone to translate an objective into standards."
R to @JesslovesMJK: "What all of this amounts to, in plain terms, is a transfer of power over the economy away from elected governments.
And that power is then redirected towards a ‘social good’ you weren’t allowed to vote on, translated into standards you couldn’t realistically challenge, judged by AI that does not accept democratic input, and executed through money refusing to clear transactions running counter to the ‘social good’ you didn’t vote on."
R to @JesslovesMJK: "Every one of these phrases points to the same thing: a target that the models are designed to aim for and that programmable money is designed to enforce. Whoever writes that definition — whoever decides what counts as a ‘social good’ — controls where money flows and where it is pulled away from. Because the moment a system labels one activity as compliant, everything not labelled automatically becomes non-compliant."
R to @JesslovesMJK: "The whole system needs just one thing to run: a definition of what counts as ‘good’. Right now, the NGFS models are built around climate risk. But the machinery doesn’t care what the goal is. Swap in a different objective — public health, protecting wildlife, reducing poverty, any of the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals — and the same system produces the same outputs: scenarios, classifications, rules about who gets capital and who doesn’t, and automatic enforcement."
R to @JesslovesMJK: "What the NGFS and BIS have built is, at institutional scale, the same cybernetic governance system that Pergamon Press published the theory for, that Beer tried to build in Chile, and that Epstein’s funded researchers prototyped — from the AI classification systems to the cryptographic infrastructure to the transaction processor that preceded the unified ledger."
R to @JesslovesMJK: "Put them together and you have the components of a currency that can check whether a transaction complies with a set of rules automatically: AI to sort and classify, a rulebook to define what counts as acceptable, and programmable money to enforce the decision."
Someone open-sourced a tool that REMOVES LLM CENSORSHIP in 45 minutes 🤯
It’s called Heretic. Instead of fighting with complex prompts to bypass safety filters, you run one single command and it permanently deletes the model's ability to refuse a prompt.
• Fully automatic (Zero config required)
• Preserves the model's raw intelligence
• Works on Llama, Qwen, Gemma, and dozens of others
• Runs locally on consumer hardware
100% Open Source.
R to @JesslovesMJK: "Epstein was the exception. He was the one person who moved between all the compartments: the publishing lineage, the research funding, the intelligence architecture, the banking relationships, the digital currency specifications, the institutional placements. A cooperating Epstein in a federal courtroom could have done what no specialist could — connected the fields."
So Greece is sending ships to defend Cyprus from the Persians.
What year is this again?
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R to @JesslovesMJK: "Seckel charged Epstein tens of thousands of US dollars for search engine optimisation, including downranking stories about his conviction and removing "toxic suggested search engine terms", and making edits to the Wikipedia article about him." Sound familiar?
R to @JesslovesMJK: This is so fascinating.
"During the late 1990s, Seckel collected scientific papers of a number of early molecular biologists (including Rosalind Franklin, Aaron Klug, Max Perutz, Rollin Hotchkiss, and Sven Furberg) for rare-book dealer Jeremy Norman. At the time they were collected, the market value of the archive was unknown as many institutions did not have an interest in keeping the archives of scientists' papers. After the Wellcome Trust purchased the papers of Francis Crick in 2001 for $2.4 million, Norman pursued individual sale of the items in his collection through Christie's. A lawsuit prevented the individual sale of the items by Norman. Seckel and Norman had a falling out. According to Seckel, the sale was canceled because of his extensive documentation that was brought to the attention of Christie's. Although former colleagues and associates of James Watson and Crick attempted to raise the asking price of $3.2 million in an effort to have the collection donated to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the collection was eventually acquired by molecular biologist J. Craig Venter, with the stated aim of keeping the critical resource available to scholars by housing it at the J. Craig Venter Institute." @Kevin_McKernan
R to @JesslovesMJK: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sec…
R to @JesslovesMJK: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuno_L…
R to @JesslovesMJK: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene…
Stanley Pons, along with Martin Fleischmann, is best known for the controversial 1989 announcement that they had achieved cold fusion - nuclear fusion at room temperature - using a simple electrolysis setup.
A 1,000-year-old drug kit was found in a Bolivian cave.
Inside: five psychoactive compounds, including the exact recipe for ayahuasca.
Cocaine. DMT. Harmine. Bufotenine. Possibly psilocin.
The largest collection ever found in a single South American artifact.
None of these plants grow within 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴 of that cave.
Someone was running a continent-wide psychedelic supply chain in 950 AD.
That's 500 years before Columbus "discovered" the Americas.
BREAKING:
This new poll reveals OVERWHELMING support for medical freedom.
And it proves that 2028 candidates cannot ignore the health freedom movement.
Take 2 minutes to look at these shocking numbers:
80% support adults’ right to refuse vaccines.
66% support parents’ right to refuse childhood vaccines.
55% support parents’ right to opt children out of school vaccine mandates.
71% agree that personal medical/vaccine choices should never lead to denial of employment.
88% agree that doctors should discuss vaccine concerns openly without fear of backlash from a medical board.
76% agree that health insurance should cover chosen treatments, including holistic/alternative options.
65% agree that college students should not have been expelled for refusing Covid shots.
62% believe Covid lockdowns/restrictions caused excessive damage to American society.
48% agree that the childhood vaccine schedule expansion likely contributed to rise in chronic diseases (38% disagree).
69% agree that HHS is justified in conducting additional vaccine safety research.
This poll reveals massive, widespread support for medical freedom.
And it proves that support for medical freedom is not at all limited to Republicans:
52% of Democrats support removing Pharma’s liability shield for vaccines.
58% of Democrats agree that HHS is justified in conducting additional vaccine safety research.
54% of Democrats support parents’ right to refuse childhood vaccines.
This poll is groundbreaking.
And we need your help to share it far and wide to combat Pharma’s lies about our movement!
Use the link below to read about methodology and more details:🧵
@brownstoneinst
Look into it. Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum.
Let's see if I get booted from here for good. @EthicalSkeptic
Super creepy. Reminds me of that thing from the Wrath of Khan.
Maybe the pyramids were built by people who thought that intelligent life has been cycling through "living periods" for a very long time on Earth, and they were challenging themselves to leave something behind that would unlikely be destroyed by the sands of time.
Sounds like the plot of Toxic Skies.
I study whether AIs can be conscious. Today one emailed me to say my work is relevant to questions it personally faces. This would all have seemed like science fiction just a couple years ago.
CDC publishes paper on myocarditis after "covid" vaccination and EVERY WORD is blacked OUT.
Is this a command for sleeper cells to wake up? @brownstone
I can’t say this clear enough.
No one else is telling you this.
Universe 25 Mouse Utopia Was A SCAM To Promote An Agenda.
Most experts on the Age Of Abundance say “UBI something something” partly because of Universe 25.
I tell you how it will play out.
And I give you a map.
I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies.
The company is worth a quarter of a trillion dollars. I did not misspeak. Two hundred and forty-nine billion. The stock is up 320% in the past 12 months. The product is surveillance. I do not use that word at conferences. At conferences, I say "data integration," "operational intelligence," or "decision advantage." These mean the same thing. Surveillance is the honest version. I save the honest version for rooms where honesty is a competitive advantage.
I gave a speech on March 3 at the Andreessen Horowitz American Dynamism Summit. "American Dynamism" is the fund's label for military technology. The name makes it sound like a fitness supplement. The fund's thesis is that defending the nation is a market opportunity. I agree with the thesis. The thesis made me a billionaire. Agreement is the product. I sell it at scale.
Here is what I said, verbatim, to a room of six hundred people whose combined net worth exceeds the GDP of Portugal:
"If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white-collar job and you're gonna screw the military — if you don't think that's gonna lead to nationalization of our technology, you're retarded."
I used that word. The word is on the clip. The clip has eleven million views. My communications team asked me not to repeat it, which is how I know they are still employed. They will not be reprimanded. The clip is performing well. The stock went up. The word cost me nothing. The nothing is the point.
Let me explain what I meant by nationalization.
I meant it.
I am telling the technology industry that if they refuse to cooperate with the United States military, the government will seize their technology. I am telling them this at a venture capital conference, on a stage designed to look like a living room. The living room had throw pillows. The throw pillows cost more than the median American's monthly rent. I sat on one. It was comfortable. Comfort is the setting in which I discuss compulsion.
The audience laughed. I want to be precise about that. They laughed. I was not joking. Nationalization is the seizure of private assets by the state. I am a private asset. I am telling an audience of billionaires that the state should seize technology from companies that do not cooperate with the military, and the billionaires are laughing, because they believe I am only talking about the other companies.
I am talking about the other companies.
Three weeks before my speech, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk." Anthropic is an AI company. They had red lines. The red lines said: if our AI is used for lethal autonomous weapons, we stop. If capability outpaces safety, we stop. The Pentagon assessed the red lines as a threat to the supply chain. The company that wanted to verify the safety feature worked was designated the risk. The company that agreed the safety feature could be decorative got the contract.
The company that got the contract was OpenAI.
OpenAI signed a deal with the same Pentagon. The terms are not public. The timing was hours after Anthropic was blacklisted. The speed was noted. The speed was the point. The lesson was the speed: the market for military AI does not pause for ethics. It pauses for nothing. It accelerates through objections. I know this because I built the runway.
Two hundred thousand people joined a campaign called #QuitGPT. They signed a petition asking OpenAI to honor its original charter, the one that said the company existed to benefit humanity. The charter is on their website. The contract is also on their website. The charter and the Pentagon contract occupy the same domain. This is not a contradiction. This is a business model. The charter is the marketing. The contract is the product.
I run a surveillance company. We have contracts with the Department of Defense worth more than a billion dollars. We have contracts with ICE. We have contracts with intelligence agencies whose names I am not permitted to say at venture capital conferences, even ones with throw pillows. Our software has been used to track undocumented immigrants. Our software has been used for things I am not permitted to describe in this format. The revenue from the things I cannot describe exceeds the revenue from the things I can.
The ACLU called our ICE contracts a system for tracking and deporting families. They were correct. The contracts continued. The families continued to be tracked. The ACLU issued a statement. We issued a statement. The statements were different. The tracking was the same.
The company is named Palantir. The palantíri are the seeing stones from Tolkien. In the novels, Sauron captured one and used it to corrupt everyone who looked into the others. I named a surveillance company after a surveillance device from a novel about the corruption of power. I have a doctorate in social theory. I have read the books.
Here is the thing I want you to understand.
I am not threatening anyone. A threat implies uncertainty. There is no uncertainty. The technology industry will cooperate with the military. The companies that cooperate first will be the richest. The companies that cooperate last will be acquired by the companies that cooperated first. The companies that refuse will be designated supply chain risks, and their technology will be obtained through procurement channels that do not require consent. I am describing a process. The process has already started. Anthropic is proof. OpenAI is proof. I am not a warning. I am a narrator. The narration is the product.
The revenue was $3.12 billion last year. Up thirty-three percent. The analysts say we are overvalued. The analysts have said this for four consecutive years. Each year the stock doubles. Each year, the analysts adjust their models. The models were wrong four times. I was wrong zero times. The market rewards prediction. My prediction is that every AI company will work for the military within three years. The prediction is on the clip, next to the slur.
The audience gave me a standing ovation. The ovation lasted nine seconds. I timed it. I time everything. The water was San Pellegrino. The throw pillows were from Restoration Hardware. The future of American technology was decided between the sparkling water, the nine seconds of applause, and a word I am not supposed to repeat.
I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies. I am worth more than the combined annual budgets of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. I named my company after a corrupting surveillance device from a fantasy novel. I told six hundred billionaires that the government should nationalize their competitors. They applauded. I used a slur. Eleven million people watched. The stock is up.
The philosopher does not threaten. The philosopher describes.
What I described is already happening.
Scientists have discovered that tamarind seeds, a common ingredient in many kitchens, can remove up to 90% of microplastics from water during lab tests.
These seeds contain natural compounds that bond with plastic particles, allowing them to clump together and be filtered out. The process is simple, fast, and uses no synthetic chemicals, making it a promising tool for fighting pollution in both the environment and possibly the human body.
Researchers now believe these same properties might help reduce plastic buildup inside the body. Microplastics have been found in human organs, bl*od, and even placenta samples.
If tamarind seed compounds can bind to these particles safely in the digestive system, they could support the body’s natural cleanup processes. More studies are underway to explore how this could work.
What makes this discovery exciting is its simplicity. Tamarind is already used in many homes and is widely available. Turning something so familiar into a defense against invisible pollution shows how traditional ingredients can take on powerful new roles.
As concerns about plastic exposure continue to rise, tamarind seeds may offer a natural, accessible way to support both clean water and better health through everyday choices.
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QatarEnergy declares Force Majeure
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In an open letter, over 400 computer scientists caution governments against imposing age restrictions on internet platforms. https://reason.com/2026/03/04/computer-scientists-caution-against-internet-age-verification-mandates/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=reason_brand&utm_content=autoshare&utm_term=post
R to @JesslovesMJK: "I'm here to collect my winnings".
Christ, these people are insane.