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Hi everyone. Is anyone else having problems with X/Twitter? I cannot seem to log in on either computer. It just keeps telling me that "something went wrong." My account does that periodically. I'm thinking of deactivating it.

At this point you have to wonder if some in Europe want the Ukraine war just to continue when they keep spitting in the eye of the United States' efforts to bring a diplomatic end to the war. Elon Musk responded on X to someone suggesting he wasn't criticizing Vladimir Putin enough and that he was only criticizing Ukraine. Musk just squashed that thought with a little bit of history about how he challenged Putin and how vital his Starlink was to the Ukrainian army. I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat over Ukraine and my Starlink...

The rapid-fire news cycle hurts pretty much everyone. It makes it hard to focus, hard to learn, and ultimately distorts the importance of events.So today I’m traveling back in time one whole month for a reality check on DeepSeek R1, the impressive large language model released by a Chinese hedge fund in December.On Monday, January 27, the debut of the DeepSeek iOS app ​caused Nvidia’s stock to crater​ 16% in a day.Want to guess what has happened in the 24 days since then?The stock is exactly where it was a month ago, before the DeepSeek “crisis.”And if you look at...

Just watch the television Yeah, you'll see there's something going on Got no love for politicians Or that crazy scene in D.C. It's just a power mad town But the time is ripe for changes There's a growing feeling That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due I used to trust the media To tell me the truth, tell us the truth But now I've seen the payoffs Everywhere I look Who do you trust when everyone's a crook? I'm tired of all this bullshit They keep selling me on T.V. About the communist plan And...

They must be sweating bullets in the Washington Swamp. Kash Patel was just confirmed by a 51-49 Senate vote as FBI director, and that means there is going to be a caravan of DOGE trucks hauling out the dead bodies right soon. Especially after the FBI went all-in on the Deep State campaign to defenestrate Donald Trump in 2016 and after, the level of lawlessness and blatant attacks on constitutional processes emanating from the J. Edgar Hoover Building literally knew no bounds. Soon we will have black and white documentation that the FBI not only knew all along that the...

The mainstream media is in the habit of labeling something a “conspiracy theory” whenever they are attempting to discredit a particular point of view. Of course such “conspiracy theories” have been proven to actually be true time after time. Meanwhile, the mainstream media has been caught in lie after lie in recent years. As a result, trust in the media is the lowest that it has ever been in the entire history of our country. At this point, most people realize that our largest media outlets are going to push the agenda of the globalists that own them, and they...

Elon Musk posted a very concerning revelation on X. It depicts the Department of Defense, through DARPA, paying Thomson Reuters Special Services for “Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED) Large Scale Social Deception (LSD).” Sounds ominous. What makes it worse is that this was established in 2018… for Covid. Wait, what? Here’s Musk’s post: Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for “large scale social deception”. That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They’re a total scam. Just wow. Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for “large scale social deception”. That...

Windows 7, I know, that "risky-obsolete-not-up-to-date OS from MS" of 18 years ago. In any case guys, a simple question for you: does any one on FR know which VPN will work with Win 7? I know, I know...I don't want to get into a debate regarding "You really should consider updating to the latest system." At this stage in our lives our choices are: 1) staying with Win 7 or 2) getting completely off the grid. What would be a VPN for Win 7? Many thanks in advance!

Several Meta employees who said they received positive performance ratings in their mid-year reviews last year had their jobs cut Monday, as the company let go of nearly 4,000 workers in its latest round of job reductions. Business Insider spoke to eight terminated employees, who said they received “At or Above Expectations” ratings — the middle tier in Meta’s three-level mid-year review system — in their 2024 assessments. These employees said they were surprised to learn their ratings had been downgraded to “Meets Most,” one of the lower tiers in Meta’s year-end performance system that refers to meeting most, but...

One recipient, CONSORTIUM FOR ELECTIONS & POLITICAL PROCESS STRENGTHENING, is the recipient of 48 active grants worth $528 million, all awarded from USAID and going to various nations.

Listing Jones and His Organization InfoWars As A “National Security Terror Threat” To Be “Investigated”, “Targeted”, And “Dismantled” Trump releases the documents proving the federal government targeted Infowars. VIDEO AT LINK..................... On the Sunday show Alex Jones detailed a deep state operation stemming in 2013 to shut Infowars down, revealed by the Trump administration.

No joke: Wired wants you to believe this is a bad thing. The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure. WWW.WIRED.COM https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/ "Elon Musk's Government Takeover" Gotta love the pea-sized brains over at Wired. Elon Musk's takeover of federal government infrastructure is ongoing, and at the center of things is a coterie of engineers who are barely out of — and in at least one case, purportedly still in — college. Elon isn't taking over anything. He's...

As universities across the U.S. seek to deal with protests, polarization, and the presidential election, many have focused on how to foster civil-discourse skills in students. As this tweet (below) from Professor Robert “Robby” George illustrates, civil-discourse programs are popping up across the nation. Of course, UNC has its own version with its School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL). What Is Civil Discourse? Since this is an essay about AI, I’ll use an AI-generated answer from Google Search for the definition (Google Search AI collects data from websites on a topic, in this case “civil discourse,” and summarizes the...

The more we learn about John Brennan and the other swamp creatures, aka the 50 intelligence agents who signed off on the Hunter Biden laptop letter, the more we understand why and support Trump removing their security clearance. For years, we felt as if we were the crazies talking about the deep state and how they were working to control our elections but now that everything is out in the open, we're finding that perhaps we weren't so crazy after all. Especially when you see leaked emails like this one where Brennan admits everything they were doing was to help...

On Saturday the US Army released the name of the pilot of the US Army Blackhawk helicopter that flew into a passenger jet landing at Reagan National Airport. The crash was on Wednesday. The third pilot’s name, Rebecca Lobach, was finally released on Saturday, three days later. All 64 passengers in the jet were killed. The three pilots in the Blackhawk helicopter also died in the explosive crash. Kristinn Taylor at The Gateway Pundit reported: After withholding at the request of the family the name of the female pilot killed in the mid-air collision Wednesday night between an Army Black...

This video contains excerpts of Sam Altman's 9/15/16 interview with Elon Musk. They were the original Co-Chairs of OpenAI. Here, they openly promote the connection of AI and transhumanism (the merging of the human brain/mind with technology, as is being developed by Musk's Neuralink company). Elon Musk himself said that there's a "ten to twenty percent chance AI goes BAD." We are gambling with the future of every man, woman, and child on earth. At the very least, we should ensure that those who are involved in the Stargate Project are ethical and sensible human beings. There is a serious...

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This week France's Minister of Labor Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet drew fire from all sides of the political spectrum with a proposal to tax 'wealthy' pensioners in France. The idea being that the taxation would fund services for the elderly... The game in Ukraine is perhaps less clear even though new US President Donald Trump expressed his desire to see the fighting there ending. For Russia the ultimate solution is a long-term agreement that keeps Ukraine neutral. That doesn't seem to be close. Stories were published last year suggesting some French military commitment to Ukraine... France's Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau issuing new...

In an interview on CBS's "Sixty Minutes," outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted that "China has penetrated America's water treatment plants, electric grid, and other critical civilian infrastructure, and is lying 'in wait' for an opportunity to cyberattack at a time and place of its choosing." Most Americans have been led to believe that the FBI is a crackerjack outfit that is protecting the country against subversion. At least, that is the story promulgated by the mainstream media, TV shows, and movies. If the Chinese have subverted America during his watch why does Wray seem so relaxed now that he...

VIDEOIt was a ban that lasted only a few hours but, HOO-BOY, did it ever inspire mass panic among the TikTokers in the brief time TikTok was offline. Here we see the TikTokers trying to cope with life WITHOUT TikTok. Oh, and fortunately one savvy TikToker was able to give credit for the return of TikTok where credit was due... President Donald Trump.