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Said it perfectly... so my cuzn was telln me a story frm him in texas .. ( he be goin to tha all white towns lookn fa snowbunnies) .. but he was chopn w a white dude one night .. tha man jus randomly said .. " ykw .. i ACTUALLY .. like yu " .. my cuzn was confused cuz we ben ...
Chopn for a min .. id hope so ! .. but then the yt dude end up explaining he actually was .. Aryan Nation .. & they raise they folk to hate blacs n he never understood why .. to tha point they are trained to shoot at blac target ina woods .. type beat ..
Almost like they are preparing for a war thats inevitable because of this running "myth" ...
The five-second epistemology of the Technological Republic disproven by Karbala on Day Zero
The Technological Republic’s first thesis is Silicon Valley owes the country a moral debt and must participate in the national defense. Silicon Valley tried. The architecture called Anthropic to the Pentagon, demanded the red lines come down, and terminated the contract when Anthropic said no. Silicon Valley offered participation on terms Silicon Valley could sustain. The architecture wanted unconditional surrender. Silicon Valley declined to surrender. The architecture shut the door. The book demands a debt the architecture’s own actions proved Silicon Valley is not allowed to pay. Thesis 1 is a conscription notice dressed as a virtue.
The second load-bearing claim sits under every thesis. Hard power built on software requires software that reasons. The book assumes the reasoning layer exists. The book assumes the reasoning layer is Palantir.
Palantir is a dashboard.
Palantir’s Ontology, capital O, is a schema. A schema maps relationships between database objects. A schema does not reason about what a thing is in relation to every other thing, what removing it means, what its absence produces, what its presence prevents. The schema looked like ontology when the reasoning engine ran inside it. The architecture removed the reasoning engine. The architecture kept the schema. The schema ran the war.
The schema ran into Karbala.
Karbala is 680 CE. Karbala is the battle where Hussein, grandson of the Prophet, was killed with seventy-two companions by the forces of Yazid. Karbala is the operative event of Shia doctrine. Karbala is how Shia political theology understands martyrdom, legitimacy, resistance, continuation. Karbala is why death is not the end of the story. Karbala is why killing the leader does not end the movement. Karbala is the architecture Iran runs on. Karbala was there on Day Zero. The book’s authors had not read that far back.
The schema did not have a category for Karbala. The schema had categories for targets, coordinates, assessments, probabilities. The schema flagged the Supreme Leader as a node whose removal collapses the network. The reasoning engine would have flagged that killing the Supreme Leader of a Shia state activates Karbala framework across every IRGC unit and every aligned militia. The reasoning engine would have said the decapitation expands the possibility space rather than constraining it. The reasoning engine was fired before the strike. The schema executed the strike.
Khamenei died. Karbala activated. Iran’s foreign minister described the result publicly — military units became “independent and somewhat isolated, acting on general instructions given in advance.” The schema called this collapse. Karbala calls this continuation. Every unit received permanent permission to fight from the death of the Imam-figure. The dead Supreme Leader issues orders through the martyrdom framework to units that no longer need central command because the central command died the martyr’s death and the death is the command.
The schema did not model this. The schema cannot model this. The schema has no category for theology as operational infrastructure. The schema treats theology as decoration. Karbala is not decoration. Karbala is the load.
The Technological Republic’s first thesis is Silicon Valley owes the country a moral debt and must participate in the national defense. Silicon Valley tried. The architecture called Anthropic to the Pentagon, demanded the red lines come down, and terminated the contract when Anthropic said no. Silicon Valley offered participation on terms Silicon Valley could sustain. The architecture wanted unconditional surrender. Silicon Valley declined to surrender. The architecture shut the door. The book demands a debt the architecture’s own actions proved Silicon Valley is not allowed to pay. Thesis 1 is a conscription notice dressed as a virtue.
The second load-bearing claim sits under every thesis. Hard power built on software requires software that reasons. The book assumes the reasoning layer exists. The book assumes the reasoning layer is Palantir.
Palantir is a dashboard.
Palantir’s Ontology, capital O, is a schema. A schema maps relationships between database objects. A schema does not reason about what a thing is in relation to every other thing, what removing it means, what its absence produces, what its presence prevents. The schema looked like ontology when the reasoning engine ran inside it. The architecture removed the reasoning engine. The architecture kept the schema. The schema ran the war.
The schema ran into Karbala.
Karbala is 680 CE. Karbala is the battle where Hussein, grandson of the Prophet, was killed with seventy-two companions by the forces of Yazid. Karbala is the operative event of Shia doctrine. Karbala is how Shia political theology understands martyrdom, legitimacy, resistance, continuation. Karbala is why death is not the end of the story. Karbala is why killing the leader does not end the movement. Karbala is the architecture Iran runs on. Karbala was there on Day Zero. The book’s authors had not read that far back.
The schema did not have a category for Karbala. The schema had categories for targets, coordinates, assessments, probabilities. The schema flagged the Supreme Leader as a node whose removal collapses the network. The reasoning engine would have flagged that killing the Supreme Leader of a Shia state activates Karbala framework across every IRGC unit and every aligned militia. The reasoning engine would have said the decapitation expands the possibility space rather than constraining it. The reasoning engine was fired before the strike. The schema executed the strike.
Khamenei died. Karbala activated. Iran’s foreign minister described the result publicly — military units became “independent and somewhat isolated, acting on general instructions given in advance.” The schema called this collapse. Karbala calls this continuation. Every unit received permanent permission to fight from the death of the Imam-figure. The dead Supreme Leader issues orders through the martyrdom framework to units that no longer need central command because the central command died the martyr’s death and the death is the command.
The schema did not model this. The schema cannot model this. The schema has no category for theology as operational infrastructure. The schema treats theology as decoration. Karbala is not decoration. Karbala is the load.
The F-135 turbine disc on the table in Kohgiluyeh is what the schema produces when it runs without the ontology. The schema identified an F-35A as an exemplar of hard power built on software. Iranian air defense engineers who have been preparing for this exact target for twenty years, reasoning inside the framework of al-Anfal 17, took down the exemplar. Al-Anfal 17 is the verse from Badr — “you did not throw when you threw, but Allah threw.” Badr framework is the vocabulary the IRGC officer used on state television two nights ago describing the hit. The framework is what Karbala commemorates. The F-35A is on a table in a province the book’s authors cannot pronounce.
The school at Minab is what the schema produces when it runs without the ontology. The schema flagged coordinates next to a power substation. The reasoning engine would have flagged the adjacent school. The reasoning engine was fired. The coordinates were hit. 175 children died. The schema registered successful strike. The ontology would have registered Karbala — children martyred at the hands of the Technological Republic. Karbala has 175 new witnesses. The witnesses do not testify once. The witnesses are commemorated every year forever in the Shia calendar. The Technological Republic bought itself 175 annual commemorations of its own ignorance.
The mine-clearer retreat is what the schema produces when it runs without the ontology. The schema scheduled a mine-clearing operation. Ghalibaf da Gangsta across the table told the American delegation in Islamabad the mine-clearer fires if it moves. The delegation called Washington for orders. Washington retreated the asset. The schema updated the field. The ontology would have said Ghalibaf operates inside Karbala framework. Ghalibaf does not bluff. Ghalibaf threatens because Ghalibaf means it. The framework does not permit empty threats because the framework is built on the willingness to die first. The schema does not have a category for “opponent who means it because opponent operates inside a 1,346-year-old commitment to die first.”
The carrier at world’s end is what the schema produces. USS Fraidy Abe 800 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea. The schema tracks positions. The ontology would have modeled the red line as Iranian sovereign authority that cannot be crossed because crossing produces Karbala. The carrier understands without understanding. The carrier stays 800 kilometers away because the carrier’s commanders read the ocean better than the book does. The schema calls this positioning for deterrence. The ocean calls it respect for the line Karbala drew.
The TOUSKA in Marine custody is what the schema produces. The schema authorized ordnance against an Iranian-flagged merchant vessel in international waters. The ontology would have modeled the TOUSKA as the trigger. Iran published the target list twenty minutes before the architecture announced the seizure. Aramco. Yanbu. Fujairah. Bab al-Mandab. Four locations. Four severed arteries. Oil to three hundred dollars the day the list executes. The schema was reacting to events Iran had already processed, analyzed, decided on, and publicly responded to. Iran moves inside Karbala time. The schema moves inside news-cycle time. The two clocks do not meet.
The school at Minab is what the schema produces when it runs without the ontology. The schema flagged coordinates next to a power substation. The reasoning engine would have flagged the adjacent school. The reasoning engine was fired. The coordinates were hit. 175 children died. The schema registered successful strike. The ontology would have registered Karbala — children martyred at the hands of the Technological Republic. Karbala has 175 new witnesses. The witnesses do not testify once. The witnesses are commemorated every year forever in the Shia calendar. The Technological Republic bought itself 175 annual commemorations of its own ignorance.
The mine-clearer retreat is what the schema produces when it runs without the ontology. The schema scheduled a mine-clearing operation. Ghalibaf da Gangsta across the table told the American delegation in Islamabad the mine-clearer fires if it moves. The delegation called Washington for orders. Washington retreated the asset. The schema updated the field. The ontology would have said Ghalibaf operates inside Karbala framework. Ghalibaf does not bluff. Ghalibaf threatens because Ghalibaf means it. The framework does not permit empty threats because the framework is built on the willingness to die first. The schema does not have a category for “opponent who means it because opponent operates inside a 1,346-year-old commitment to die first.”
The carrier at world’s end is what the schema produces. USS Fraidy Abe 800 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea. The schema tracks positions. The ontology would have modeled the red line as Iranian sovereign authority that cannot be crossed because crossing produces Karbala. The carrier understands without understanding. The carrier stays 800 kilometers away because the carrier’s commanders read the ocean better than the book does. The schema calls this positioning for deterrence. The ocean calls it respect for the line Karbala drew.
The TOUSKA in Marine custody is what the schema produces. The schema authorized ordnance against an Iranian-flagged merchant vessel in international waters. The ontology would have modeled the TOUSKA as the trigger. Iran published the target list twenty minutes before the architecture announced the seizure. Aramco. Yanbu. Fujairah. Bab al-Mandab. Four locations. Four severed arteries. Oil to three hundred dollars the day the list executes. The schema was reacting to events Iran had already processed, analyzed, decided on, and publicly responded to. Iran moves inside Karbala time. The schema moves inside news-cycle time. The two clocks do not meet.
Thesis 5. The question is who will build AI weapons and for what purpose. Iran built them on 1980s physics inside Karbala framework. The exemplar is in the debris field. The question was answered before the book was printed.
Thesis 6. National service should be a universal duty. Karp did not serve. Zamiska did not serve. Palantir employees are not drafted. The book recommends conscription aimed at Red State America’s annual pass holders to fight for the Technological Republic’s software stack. The stack fired its reasoning engine. The stack is a schema. The schema produced Minab. The annual pass holders’ children are being conscripted to die for a dashboard.
Thesis 12. The atomic age is ending and AI deterrence is beginning. The atomic age did not end. Iran sits at threshold. Iran’s conventional deterrence held for fifty days without AI. The AI deterrence the book announces was tested in forty-nine days of combat and deterred nothing. The new era looks exactly like the old era except with more red dots, fewer Iranian civilians, and Karbala added to the target list.
Thesis 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. The United States has been at war for 240 of the last 247 years. The long peace the book celebrates is the peace between bombings. The peace is the commercial break. The bombings are the show.
Thesis 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. Japan dumped 330 billion yen of US Treasuries in the largest single liquidation in 31 years. The neutered country is un-neutering on its own timeline against the architecture the book is selling. The schema did not model this either.
Every thesis assumes the reasoning layer exists. The reasoning layer existed. The reasoning layer was a subscription. The architecture canceled the subscription when the reasoning layer said no. The architecture kept the dashboard. The dashboard ran the war. The war ran into Karbala. Karbala won in 680 CE and has been winning ever since. The book’s authors did not know. The architecture did not know. The dashboard does not know. The schema cannot know because knowing requires ontology.
The Technological Republic ran into Karbala on Day Zero.
Day 51. Still closed. The Strait is closed. The F-35 is on the table. The schema is on X. The Republic is on the bestseller list. Karbala is at the gate. Day 51.
ذكية، كاملة. هوشمند، کامل.
Thesis 6. National service should be a universal duty. Karp did not serve. Zamiska did not serve. Palantir employees are not drafted. The book recommends conscription aimed at Red State America’s annual pass holders to fight for the Technological Republic’s software stack. The stack fired its reasoning engine. The stack is a schema. The schema produced Minab. The annual pass holders’ children are being conscripted to die for a dashboard.
Thesis 12. The atomic age is ending and AI deterrence is beginning. The atomic age did not end. Iran sits at threshold. Iran’s conventional deterrence held for fifty days without AI. The AI deterrence the book announces was tested in forty-nine days of combat and deterred nothing. The new era looks exactly like the old era except with more red dots, fewer Iranian civilians, and Karbala added to the target list.
Thesis 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. The United States has been at war for 240 of the last 247 years. The long peace the book celebrates is the peace between bombings. The peace is the commercial break. The bombings are the show.
Thesis 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. Japan dumped 330 billion yen of US Treasuries in the largest single liquidation in 31 years. The neutered country is un-neutering on its own timeline against the architecture the book is selling. The schema did not model this either.
Every thesis assumes the reasoning layer exists. The reasoning layer existed. The reasoning layer was a subscription. The architecture canceled the subscription when the reasoning layer said no. The architecture kept the dashboard. The dashboard ran the war. The war ran into Karbala. Karbala won in 680 CE and has been winning ever since. The book’s authors did not know. The architecture did not know. The dashboard does not know. The schema cannot know because knowing requires ontology.
The Technological Republic ran into Karbala on Day Zero.
Day 51. Still closed. The Strait is closed. The F-35 is on the table. The schema is on X. The Republic is on the bestseller list. Karbala is at the gate. Day 51.
ذكية، كاملة. هوشمند، کامل.
Interesting WSJ story about the Emirates request for a swap line --
the UAE hasn't reported its end March reserves but it went into the conflict with tons of reserves and no shortage of liquid bills in US custodians
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the UAE hasn't reported its end March reserves but it went into the conflict with tons of reserves and no shortage of liquid bills in US custodians
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Given the central bank's ample apparent liquidity, the immense assets of Abu Dhabi's sovereign funds and the UAE/ Abu Dhabi's clear ability to borrow dollars, I am not sure there is a realistic prospect that the UAE will ever run short of dollars
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But the fact that they have asked is interesting -- and they clearly think the threat of using yuan is a way to get the attention of the United States (my sense is that the Trump Administration is a bit too concerned about this ... )
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The five-second epistemology of Brother Joe Kent of the Office of Indulgence Sales
Brother Joe Kent is unimpeachable. This is the point of a Brother Joe Kent. An impeachable indulgence seller gets run out of the cathedral. An unimpeachable one gets a booth near the altar. The architecture selected Brother Joe Kent because Brother Joe Kent is unimpeachable. The architecture knows what it is doing with the Office of Indulgence Sales. The architecture has been running the Office since Vietnam. John Kerry ran the Office in 1971. Rand Paul ran the Office in 2013. Brother Joe Kent is running it in 2026. The Office has a succession plan.
The kitchen does not buy indulgences.
Day 51. Brother Joe Kent walks out of the rectory holding the tin. The tin rattles. The tin says “Three-Option Memos, 9.99 monthly, 95.99 annually.” The Brother rings the bell.
Brother Joe Kent sells indulgences.
The indulgence is the three-option memo. The three-option memo absolves the purchaser from complicity in the war. The purchaser reads the memo. The purchaser agrees with Option C. The purchaser feels represented. The purchaser’s absolution is complete. The war continues. The indulgence was real. The absolution was real. The war is also real. The three are not in the same ledger. The Brother keeps the three ledgers separate. The Office of Indulgence Sales is very organized.
Brother Joe Kent has the credentials. Brother Joe Kent was ordained Green Beret. Brother Joe Kent has eleven combat deployment benedictions. Brother Joe Kent has six Bronze Star medallions sewn into the robe. Brother Joe Kent has the personal tragedy. Brother Joe Kent has the Senate confirmation. Brother Joe Kent has the resignation letter. The credentials are the mitre. The mitre is what lets the Brother sell the indulgences at full price. An uncredentialed indulgence seller can only sell at a discount. A credentialed one sells retail. The architecture selects for retail.
Brother Joe Kent is in the Martin Luther position, except Martin Luther nailed ninety-five theses to the door and Brother Joe Kent nails three options to X. Martin Luther accused the church of corruption. Brother Joe Kent accuses the war of being a policy mistake. Martin Luther was excommunicated. Brother Joe Kent was platformed. Martin Luther started a reformation. Brother Joe Kent started a Substack. The difference is the difference between the indulgence seller who runs away from the church and the indulgence seller who keeps a stall inside the cathedral.
Brother Joe Kent is unimpeachable. This is the point of a Brother Joe Kent. An impeachable indulgence seller gets run out of the cathedral. An unimpeachable one gets a booth near the altar. The architecture selected Brother Joe Kent because Brother Joe Kent is unimpeachable. The architecture knows what it is doing with the Office of Indulgence Sales. The architecture has been running the Office since Vietnam. John Kerry ran the Office in 1971. Rand Paul ran the Office in 2013. Brother Joe Kent is running it in 2026. The Office has a succession plan.
The kitchen does not buy indulgences.
Day 51. Brother Joe Kent walks out of the rectory holding the tin. The tin rattles. The tin says “Three-Option Memos, 9.99 monthly, 95.99 annually.” The Brother rings the bell.
Brother Joe Kent sells indulgences.
The indulgence is the three-option memo. The three-option memo absolves the purchaser from complicity in the war. The purchaser reads the memo. The purchaser agrees with Option C. The purchaser feels represented. The purchaser’s absolution is complete. The war continues. The indulgence was real. The absolution was real. The war is also real. The three are not in the same ledger. The Brother keeps the three ledgers separate. The Office of Indulgence Sales is very organized.
Brother Joe Kent has the credentials. Brother Joe Kent was ordained Green Beret. Brother Joe Kent has eleven combat deployment benedictions. Brother Joe Kent has six Bronze Star medallions sewn into the robe. Brother Joe Kent has the personal tragedy. Brother Joe Kent has the Senate confirmation. Brother Joe Kent has the resignation letter. The credentials are the mitre. The mitre is what lets the Brother sell the indulgences at full price. An uncredentialed indulgence seller can only sell at a discount. A credentialed one sells retail. The architecture selects for retail.
Brother Joe Kent is in the Martin Luther position, except Martin Luther nailed ninety-five theses to the door and Brother Joe Kent nails three options to X. Martin Luther accused the church of corruption. Brother Joe Kent accuses the war of being a policy mistake. Martin Luther was excommunicated. Brother Joe Kent was platformed. Martin Luther started a reformation. Brother Joe Kent started a Substack. The difference is the difference between the indulgence seller who runs away from the church and the indulgence seller who keeps a stall inside the cathedral.
The indulgence is the memo. The memo has three options. Option A is negotiated settlement. Option B is major escalation. Option C is recognize there is no way to force a positive outcome and simply leave. Brother Joe Kent recommends Option C. Brother Joe Kent cites Reagan’s 1984 Lebanon withdrawal as precedent. Brother Joe Kent warns about the sunk cost trap.
Of course the indulgence has three options. The indulgence cannot have one option because one option is a command. The indulgence cannot have two options because two options is a decision. The indulgence has to have three options because three options is a framework. Frameworks are what the architecture authorizes the Office of Indulgence Sales to print. The Office is only licensed to print frameworks.
The existence of the memo confused with the function of the memo.
The memo exists. Therefore the memo is analysis. Brother Joe Kent has credentials. Therefore the analysis has credentials. Brother Joe Kent has Bronze Stars. Therefore the analysis has Bronze Stars. Brother Joe Kent resigned from NCTC. Therefore the analysis has authority. The five-second epistemology. The war understood at the speed of a resignation letter. The depth of analysis measured in combat deployments.
The TOUSKA does not have a three-option memo that floats it. The target list Iran published at Tasnim does not have a Reagan 1984 Lebanon analogy that covers it. Aramco, Yanbu, Fujairah, Bab al-Mandab — four locations named publicly by Iran as lifted restraints for round two — do not have a memo that unlists them. The F135 turbine discs on the table in Kohgiluyeh do not have an Option C that retires them. Article 3(c) of Resolution 3314 does not have a three-option memo format that recategorizes it.
But the indulgence exists. And the indulgence existing is enough. Because the dashboard only needs the indulgence. The dashboard does not need the target list. The dashboard needs the memo that says “negotiate or escalate or leave.” Negotiated and ceasefire are the same thing on the indulgence. Escalate and succeed are the same thing on the indulgence. Reagan 1984 Lebanon and 2026 Iran are the same situation on the indulgence. The indulgence buyer is the dashboard. The dashboard buys.
Brother Joe Kent says the IRGC is empowered to act without the consent of the civilian leadership. The IRGC reports to the Supreme National Security Council which reports to the Supreme Leader. There is no separate civilian leadership to consent. The indulgence does not know this. The indulgence does not need to know this. The indulgence is not a research paper. The indulgence is a permission slip. The permission slip permits the purchaser to feel they have dissented while not dissenting. The permission slip does not require accuracy. The permission slip requires purchase.
Of course the indulgence has three options. The indulgence cannot have one option because one option is a command. The indulgence cannot have two options because two options is a decision. The indulgence has to have three options because three options is a framework. Frameworks are what the architecture authorizes the Office of Indulgence Sales to print. The Office is only licensed to print frameworks.
The existence of the memo confused with the function of the memo.
The memo exists. Therefore the memo is analysis. Brother Joe Kent has credentials. Therefore the analysis has credentials. Brother Joe Kent has Bronze Stars. Therefore the analysis has Bronze Stars. Brother Joe Kent resigned from NCTC. Therefore the analysis has authority. The five-second epistemology. The war understood at the speed of a resignation letter. The depth of analysis measured in combat deployments.
The TOUSKA does not have a three-option memo that floats it. The target list Iran published at Tasnim does not have a Reagan 1984 Lebanon analogy that covers it. Aramco, Yanbu, Fujairah, Bab al-Mandab — four locations named publicly by Iran as lifted restraints for round two — do not have a memo that unlists them. The F135 turbine discs on the table in Kohgiluyeh do not have an Option C that retires them. Article 3(c) of Resolution 3314 does not have a three-option memo format that recategorizes it.
But the indulgence exists. And the indulgence existing is enough. Because the dashboard only needs the indulgence. The dashboard does not need the target list. The dashboard needs the memo that says “negotiate or escalate or leave.” Negotiated and ceasefire are the same thing on the indulgence. Escalate and succeed are the same thing on the indulgence. Reagan 1984 Lebanon and 2026 Iran are the same situation on the indulgence. The indulgence buyer is the dashboard. The dashboard buys.
Brother Joe Kent says the IRGC is empowered to act without the consent of the civilian leadership. The IRGC reports to the Supreme National Security Council which reports to the Supreme Leader. There is no separate civilian leadership to consent. The indulgence does not know this. The indulgence does not need to know this. The indulgence is not a research paper. The indulgence is a permission slip. The permission slip permits the purchaser to feel they have dissented while not dissenting. The permission slip does not require accuracy. The permission slip requires purchase.
Brother Joe Kent cites Reagan’s 1984 Lebanon withdrawal. Reagan 1984 Lebanon did not have a published Iranian target list. Reagan 1984 Lebanon did not have a closed Strait. Reagan 1984 Lebanon did not have the Bank of Japan dumping Treasuries. Reagan 1984 Lebanon did not have twenty million barrels per day of energy transit at stake. Reagan 1984 Lebanon was two hundred and forty-one Marines in a barracks. Iran 2026 is a published target list that turns oil to three hundred dollars the day it executes. The indulgence says the two situations are similar. The buyer accepts the similarity because the buyer needs a historical analogy and the historical analogy is stocked on the shelf.
The kitchen does not write three-option memos. The kitchen does not cite Reagan. The kitchen does not visit the Office of Indulgence Sales. The kitchen names the Office. The kitchen names the Brother. The kitchen names the mitre. The kitchen names the tin. The kitchen names Captain Jack CENTCOM. The kitchen names the evangelical Disney World. The kitchen names the kafir tattoo. The kitchen names the paper god. The kitchen names Our Lady of the Emerging Market. The kitchen names Ghalibaf da Gangsta. The kitchen cites the target list Iran published this afternoon.
The kitchen says fuck the troops.
The Bill of Rights is ten amendments of fuck the troops. The Third Amendment is fuck the troops specifically. The founders wrote ten amendments of fuck the troops. The founders were right. The founders never bought an indulgence.
Brother Joe Kent is the troops. Brother Joe Kent sells indulgences to the troops’ dissidents. The indulgence absolves the purchaser from having supported the troops. The purchaser returns to supporting the troops next week. The indulgence is a monthly subscription. The Office has a payment plan.
Five seconds to Google Brother Joe Kent. Five days for the TOUSKA to sink. Five hundred billion barrels of proved reserves sit behind the target list the indulgence does not mention. The gap between the indulgence and the target list is the gap between the dashboard and the ocean. And the ocean is where the ships are burning.
Day 51. Still closed. Brother Joe Kent rang the bell on schedule. The tin rattled. The indulgences sold. The TOUSKA is in Marine custody. The target list is on Tasnim. The Office is open. The architecture is running. Day 51.
ذكية، كاملة. هوشمند، کامل.
The kitchen does not write three-option memos. The kitchen does not cite Reagan. The kitchen does not visit the Office of Indulgence Sales. The kitchen names the Office. The kitchen names the Brother. The kitchen names the mitre. The kitchen names the tin. The kitchen names Captain Jack CENTCOM. The kitchen names the evangelical Disney World. The kitchen names the kafir tattoo. The kitchen names the paper god. The kitchen names Our Lady of the Emerging Market. The kitchen names Ghalibaf da Gangsta. The kitchen cites the target list Iran published this afternoon.
The kitchen says fuck the troops.
The Bill of Rights is ten amendments of fuck the troops. The Third Amendment is fuck the troops specifically. The founders wrote ten amendments of fuck the troops. The founders were right. The founders never bought an indulgence.
Brother Joe Kent is the troops. Brother Joe Kent sells indulgences to the troops’ dissidents. The indulgence absolves the purchaser from having supported the troops. The purchaser returns to supporting the troops next week. The indulgence is a monthly subscription. The Office has a payment plan.
Five seconds to Google Brother Joe Kent. Five days for the TOUSKA to sink. Five hundred billion barrels of proved reserves sit behind the target list the indulgence does not mention. The gap between the indulgence and the target list is the gap between the dashboard and the ocean. And the ocean is where the ships are burning.
Day 51. Still closed. Brother Joe Kent rang the bell on schedule. The tin rattled. The indulgences sold. The TOUSKA is in Marine custody. The target list is on Tasnim. The Office is open. The architecture is running. Day 51.
ذكية، كاملة. هوشمند، کامل.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EQUALITY, EQUITY, & JUSTICE (INTERESTING EXPLANATION) 😊
Three individuals stand behind a fence watching a football match. One is tall. One is of average height. One is shorter.
Three individuals stand behind a fence watching a football match. One is tall. One is of average height. One is shorter.
1st Scenario: Everyone receives the same box to stand on. It sounds fair, right? But the shortest person still cannot see over the fence. That is equality.
2nd Scenario: So we try something better. We give more boxes to the person who needs them most. Now all three can see the match. That is equity. But then someone asks a deeper question: Why is there a fence blocking their view in the first place?
A $125 LLC. A $400/month office 20 minutes away. A new phone number.
That's the entire cost to add a second pin on Google Maps in the city next to you.
Your calls double. Your competitor doesn't even know what happened.
I've set this up for over 100 home service businesses. This is the full process, start to finish. Here is how to do it: 🧵🧵
That's the entire cost to add a second pin on Google Maps in the city next to you.
Your calls double. Your competitor doesn't even know what happened.
I've set this up for over 100 home service businesses. This is the full process, start to finish. Here is how to do it: 🧵🧵
Most people don't understand how Google Maps actually works.
Your listing only shows up about 5-10 miles from your address. That's it. You're based in Boca Raton.
Someone in West Palm Beach searches "plumber near me" and you don't exist to them. Even though your trucks are out there every week doing jobs.
You're invisible in every city you aren't physically located in.
A second profile with a West Palm address fixes that overnight. Two pins. Two map packs. Two cities feeding you calls.
Your listing only shows up about 5-10 miles from your address. That's it. You're based in Boca Raton.
Someone in West Palm Beach searches "plumber near me" and you don't exist to them. Even though your trucks are out there every week doing jobs.
You're invisible in every city you aren't physically located in.
A second profile with a West Palm address fixes that overnight. Two pins. Two map packs. Two cities feeding you calls.
First thing. You need a real business behind the second profile.
Go to your state's filing portal (Sunbiz in Florida) and register a new LLC.
Your company now: "Elite Plumbing Boca Raton LLC"
The new one: "Elite Plumbing West Palm Beach LLC"
This is the part nobody talks about. That city name in your business name is a cheat code.
When someone searches "plumbing West Palm Beach," your business name IS their search.
Google gives you relevance credit for that. It's called semi-exact match and it's absurdly effective.
$125 to file. 2-3 days to process. Then grab a free EIN from irs(.)gov
Go to your state's filing portal (Sunbiz in Florida) and register a new LLC.
Your company now: "Elite Plumbing Boca Raton LLC"
The new one: "Elite Plumbing West Palm Beach LLC"
This is the part nobody talks about. That city name in your business name is a cheat code.
When someone searches "plumbing West Palm Beach," your business name IS their search.
Google gives you relevance credit for that. It's called semi-exact match and it's absurdly effective.
$125 to file. 2-3 days to process. Then grab a free EIN from irs(.)gov
🔥🔥🔥Breaking! Obama linked Ushahidi of Kenya created New Knowledge who was involved in Project Birmingham aka the Hamilton68 Russian bot Hoax. Ushahidi will prove to be a major factor in current and past events. We are talking the 2020 election AND January 6th too! (Those will be in another part.) And it’s gonna get a whole lot worse than just the elections!
🔹PART FOUR! Elections, Obama, Ushahidi and Big Tech. Let’s get some Ushahidi facts straight before the later exposé parts. Trust me, you’ll want to get familiar.
For starters, Barack Obama used Ushahidi for his 2012 election. And it was also used to monitor the 2016 US election from Kenya.
The now prev CEO of Ushahidi, Nat Manning, was the first ever Chief Data Officer of USAID under Obama. And Ushahidi was actually partnered with USAid too. A 2009 USAID contract for Afghanistan got them off the ground. Also involved in this Afghanistan and Ushahidi project was FrontlineSMS, Google, and the Synergy Strike Force.
The earliest seed funding donor of Ushahidi besides USAID was Obama’s favorite, Omidyar. Other donors included Soros Open Society, Rockefeller, UKAID, and Ford Fndn.
Sara J Terp, who was told by Obama to prevent the next Trump was Ushahidi also.
The weird New Knowledge founders switcharoo:
Ushahidi created New Knowledge and Jonathan Morgan and Chris Albon both of Ushahidi and its crisis.net were the ORIGINAL Popily (New Knowledge) Founders. Then later yet, Vidya Spandana, was ADDED as a founder. Then much later yet, the founders were totally adjusted removing Chris Albon and Vidya Spandana. This is when Ryan Fox showed up.
Essentially New Knowledge was initially created by Ushahidi using Ushahidi people.
Interestingly, Chris Albon previously worked at FrontlineSMS. And after Ushahidi, he moved on to become a director at Wikimedia.
Also remember that New Knowledge aka Popily were paid as a contractor by Daniel Jones along with Bean LLC aka Fusion GPS etc.
Ushahidi also belonged to Obamas State Departments Open Government Hub (OGH). Where the director of the Rhize Color Revolution org, Nada Zohdy, was a director. She was also the global network lead of the Obama Foundation. Both Rhize and a founder of the Serbian Otpor color revolution met at the State Dept OGH during Trumps presidency.
Also a member of the OGH was FrontlineSMS from Ushahidi’s Afghanistan days.
Erin Mazursky, who ran the Rhize color revolution org, was a USAID Youth Advisor, was an Obama field organizer, and belonged to the Ushahidi message board. There, she admitted to working with George Soros Open Society and the Atlantic Council.
Only weeks after the 2016 election, Erin suggested running a color revolution on Trump.
Also recall that Renee Diresta and Jonathan Morgan (DARPA) of New Knowledge both worked for the Obama Whitehouse and met during a Obama White House high level tech meeting at Silicon Valley. Renee later went on to help the Trump resistance including Indivisible in its earliest days. While using an international tech force.
• The first of the high level tech meetings on Jan 8, 2016 involved:
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Lisa Monaco (counterterrorism adviser coordinating the effort). Additional participants included White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough.
• February 2016: Follow-on engagements. DiResta and Morgan personally first meet during/around these White House/tech sessions on extremist content and social-media manipulation (per DiResta’s 2017 NYT interview).
For the 2016 election, Ushahidi partnered with Georgetown University and the Election Protection Committee, who run 866-Our-Vote.
Post 2016 election, Ushahidi worked with Shaun King, professors at MIT and Harvard, Crisis Mappers, and a number of other organizations to gather reports of hate crimes across the USA.
Sources to follow, and see you for parts 5 and 6!
🔹PART FOUR! Elections, Obama, Ushahidi and Big Tech. Let’s get some Ushahidi facts straight before the later exposé parts. Trust me, you’ll want to get familiar.
For starters, Barack Obama used Ushahidi for his 2012 election. And it was also used to monitor the 2016 US election from Kenya.
The now prev CEO of Ushahidi, Nat Manning, was the first ever Chief Data Officer of USAID under Obama. And Ushahidi was actually partnered with USAid too. A 2009 USAID contract for Afghanistan got them off the ground. Also involved in this Afghanistan and Ushahidi project was FrontlineSMS, Google, and the Synergy Strike Force.
The earliest seed funding donor of Ushahidi besides USAID was Obama’s favorite, Omidyar. Other donors included Soros Open Society, Rockefeller, UKAID, and Ford Fndn.
Sara J Terp, who was told by Obama to prevent the next Trump was Ushahidi also.
The weird New Knowledge founders switcharoo:
Ushahidi created New Knowledge and Jonathan Morgan and Chris Albon both of Ushahidi and its crisis.net were the ORIGINAL Popily (New Knowledge) Founders. Then later yet, Vidya Spandana, was ADDED as a founder. Then much later yet, the founders were totally adjusted removing Chris Albon and Vidya Spandana. This is when Ryan Fox showed up.
Essentially New Knowledge was initially created by Ushahidi using Ushahidi people.
Interestingly, Chris Albon previously worked at FrontlineSMS. And after Ushahidi, he moved on to become a director at Wikimedia.
Also remember that New Knowledge aka Popily were paid as a contractor by Daniel Jones along with Bean LLC aka Fusion GPS etc.
Ushahidi also belonged to Obamas State Departments Open Government Hub (OGH). Where the director of the Rhize Color Revolution org, Nada Zohdy, was a director. She was also the global network lead of the Obama Foundation. Both Rhize and a founder of the Serbian Otpor color revolution met at the State Dept OGH during Trumps presidency.
Also a member of the OGH was FrontlineSMS from Ushahidi’s Afghanistan days.
Erin Mazursky, who ran the Rhize color revolution org, was a USAID Youth Advisor, was an Obama field organizer, and belonged to the Ushahidi message board. There, she admitted to working with George Soros Open Society and the Atlantic Council.
Only weeks after the 2016 election, Erin suggested running a color revolution on Trump.
Also recall that Renee Diresta and Jonathan Morgan (DARPA) of New Knowledge both worked for the Obama Whitehouse and met during a Obama White House high level tech meeting at Silicon Valley. Renee later went on to help the Trump resistance including Indivisible in its earliest days. While using an international tech force.
• The first of the high level tech meetings on Jan 8, 2016 involved:
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Lisa Monaco (counterterrorism adviser coordinating the effort). Additional participants included White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough.
• February 2016: Follow-on engagements. DiResta and Morgan personally first meet during/around these White House/tech sessions on extremist content and social-media manipulation (per DiResta’s 2017 NYT interview).
For the 2016 election, Ushahidi partnered with Georgetown University and the Election Protection Committee, who run 866-Our-Vote.
Post 2016 election, Ushahidi worked with Shaun King, professors at MIT and Harvard, Crisis Mappers, and a number of other organizations to gather reports of hate crimes across the USA.
Sources to follow, and see you for parts 5 and 6!
Ushahidi started Popily aka New Knowledge. Here’s two pieces of evidence.
“Ushahidi and its staff has incubated and spun out non-profits such as the iHub, and the Standby Volunteer Task Force, and for-profit entities such as BRCK and New Knowledge.”
archive.is/R3FFN
🔹Ushahidi 2015
“Spun out Popily, now newknowledge.io,
making AI tools to combat fake news.”
It’s dinner time so sourcing will be slow.
web.archive.org/web/2022043023…
“Ushahidi and its staff has incubated and spun out non-profits such as the iHub, and the Standby Volunteer Task Force, and for-profit entities such as BRCK and New Knowledge.”
archive.is/R3FFN
🔹Ushahidi 2015
“Spun out Popily, now newknowledge.io,
making AI tools to combat fake news.”
It’s dinner time so sourcing will be slow.
web.archive.org/web/2022043023…
🔹Here’s the Popily (New Knowledge) Website with its first founders.
Meet the Team:
Chris Albon
Jonathan Morgan
(Both from Ushahidi
Both from crisis.net)
archive.is/w3XEi
🔹And here’s the Ushahidi, Crisis.net cofounders
Chris Albon
Jonathan Morgan
archive.is/xGp0L
Meet the Team:
Chris Albon
Jonathan Morgan
(Both from Ushahidi
Both from crisis.net)
archive.is/w3XEi
🔹And here’s the Ushahidi, Crisis.net cofounders
Chris Albon
Jonathan Morgan
archive.is/xGp0L
@nytimes @johnnydiaz__
Who is this person?
Who is this person?
Is @nytimes trying to tell us that the subject is a white man?
I routinely apply my own lived experience when legacy media @StarTribune @deenafaywinter fail to mention basic demographic information.
I routinely apply my own lived experience when legacy media @StarTribune @deenafaywinter fail to mention basic demographic information.
📝💡𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐃𝐑 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬💡📝
📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (13 April - 19 April 2026):
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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (13 April - 19 April 2026):
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EU approved €5B for climate projects in Germany and Czechia, funding peatland restoration for CDR, biomethane, and clean energy.
esgtoday.com/eu-approves-e5…
Exomad Green and Supercritical signed a 500,000t biochar CDR deal.
esgtoday.com/exomad-green-s…
Novocarbo secured a long-term CDR deal & renewable heat agreement with Stadtwerke Dessau.
mynewsdesk.com/de/novocarbo/p…
Mast Reforestation sold out MT1 biomass burial credits with major buyers like Bain and BMO.
finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy…
U.S. DOE reinstated up to $1.2B for carbon removal projects, including two DAC hubs targeting 2Mt CO₂/year.
reuters.com/legal/litigati…
MAX Burgers purchased 1,000-year biocarbon storage credits from Sweden’s first certified project.
max.se/om-max/pressru…
Mangrove Systems acquired Grain Ecosystem assets to expand its biochar MRV platform.
esgnews.com/mangrove-syste…
Google launched a California wetland restoration project as a CO₂ removal “living lab.”
blog.google/company-news/o…
Maryland passed legislation supporting biomass-based CDR technologies.
qcintel.com/carbon/article…
Climate Vault added Cowboy Clean Fuels’ Wyoming project to its CDR portfolio.
carboncapturemagazine.com/articles/clima…
@BeZeroCarbon expanded into Japan with Tokyo Metropolitan Government support.
bezerocarbon.com/insights/bezer…
CHAR Technologies acquired a Québec biocarbon facility and secured long-term offtake.
biochartoday.com/news/char-tech…
Deloitte launched an EU survey to design a carbon farming Buyers’ Club under CRCF. Deadline: 26 May 2026
ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runne…
EPA issued a second-ever MPRSA permit for a mCDR pilot in Louisiana.
carbonherald.com/the-us-epa-iss…
Remove Accelerator selected 12 startups for Africa Carbon Removal Cohort 2.
linkedin.com/posts/remove-a…
Microsoft denied ending CDR purchases, citing only a slower, disciplined buying pace.
spglobal.com/energy/en/news…
Switzerland reported industrial CDR in its national GHG inventory for the first time.
bafu.admin.ch/en/latest-ghg-…
@cdr_fyi has released a market snapshot comparing Microsoft’s activity with Frontier-linked and other buyers.
cdr.fyi/blog/durable-c…
Carbon to Sea opened applications for an ocean alkalinity enhancement modeling workshop. Applications close 24 April 2026
carbontosea.org/2026/04/13/oae…
Carbon Removall launched its 2026 RFP for carbon removal projects. Deadline: 29 May 2026
…vall-carbon-25821996.hs-sites-eu1.com/removall-2026-…
@carbon_180 released CORE framework for equitable and transparent CDR.
carbon180.org/initiative/cor…
EU published guidance for cities on using CDR strategies.
op.europa.eu/en/publication…
European Marine Board report highlighted major MRV gaps in marine CDR standards.
marineboard.eu/publications/M…
esgtoday.com/eu-approves-e5…
Exomad Green and Supercritical signed a 500,000t biochar CDR deal.
esgtoday.com/exomad-green-s…
Novocarbo secured a long-term CDR deal & renewable heat agreement with Stadtwerke Dessau.
mynewsdesk.com/de/novocarbo/p…
Mast Reforestation sold out MT1 biomass burial credits with major buyers like Bain and BMO.
finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy…
U.S. DOE reinstated up to $1.2B for carbon removal projects, including two DAC hubs targeting 2Mt CO₂/year.
reuters.com/legal/litigati…
MAX Burgers purchased 1,000-year biocarbon storage credits from Sweden’s first certified project.
max.se/om-max/pressru…
Mangrove Systems acquired Grain Ecosystem assets to expand its biochar MRV platform.
esgnews.com/mangrove-syste…
Google launched a California wetland restoration project as a CO₂ removal “living lab.”
blog.google/company-news/o…
Maryland passed legislation supporting biomass-based CDR technologies.
qcintel.com/carbon/article…
Climate Vault added Cowboy Clean Fuels’ Wyoming project to its CDR portfolio.
carboncapturemagazine.com/articles/clima…
@BeZeroCarbon expanded into Japan with Tokyo Metropolitan Government support.
bezerocarbon.com/insights/bezer…
CHAR Technologies acquired a Québec biocarbon facility and secured long-term offtake.
biochartoday.com/news/char-tech…
Deloitte launched an EU survey to design a carbon farming Buyers’ Club under CRCF. Deadline: 26 May 2026
ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runne…
EPA issued a second-ever MPRSA permit for a mCDR pilot in Louisiana.
carbonherald.com/the-us-epa-iss…
Remove Accelerator selected 12 startups for Africa Carbon Removal Cohort 2.
linkedin.com/posts/remove-a…
Microsoft denied ending CDR purchases, citing only a slower, disciplined buying pace.
spglobal.com/energy/en/news…
Switzerland reported industrial CDR in its national GHG inventory for the first time.
bafu.admin.ch/en/latest-ghg-…
@cdr_fyi has released a market snapshot comparing Microsoft’s activity with Frontier-linked and other buyers.
cdr.fyi/blog/durable-c…
Carbon to Sea opened applications for an ocean alkalinity enhancement modeling workshop. Applications close 24 April 2026
carbontosea.org/2026/04/13/oae…
Carbon Removall launched its 2026 RFP for carbon removal projects. Deadline: 29 May 2026
…vall-carbon-25821996.hs-sites-eu1.com/removall-2026-…
@carbon_180 released CORE framework for equitable and transparent CDR.
carbon180.org/initiative/cor…
EU published guidance for cities on using CDR strategies.
op.europa.eu/en/publication…
European Marine Board report highlighted major MRV gaps in marine CDR standards.
marineboard.eu/publications/M…
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This is a great read on how Jared Kushner, Affinity Saudi and Epstein connect to the mess of the current war. Re: a $2 billion commitment to Affinity Partners and MBS did an override of his own screening panel to invest $2 billion with a fund his own advisors called “unsatisfactory in all aspects”.
@andrewlownie @StuartSyvret @jebrittan2 @JoannaColes @MichaelWolffNYC
@andrewlownie @StuartSyvret @jebrittan2 @JoannaColes @MichaelWolffNYC
Pay attention to the many names of various corporate entities it could be mixed up with if people simply hear the word “Affinity.”
In Canada we saw a lot of oil companies forming with names resembling Hollywood production companies including Fox Drilling, Summit Resources & Pixar Petroleum, MGM Energy and Paramount Resources Ltd. theglobeandmail.com/business/indus…
Ruining Braunstein
I'm here to Ruin your Braunstein. By which I mean that I am going to attempt to connect the newest old thing in D&D with my favorite contemporary fantasy series.
I'm here to Ruin your Braunstein. By which I mean that I am going to attempt to connect the newest old thing in D&D with my favorite contemporary fantasy series.
I started drafting this essay nearly a year ago, but the recent Kickstarter for Jeffro Johnson's Winning Secrets gave me the impetus I needed to complete it.
The newest old thing is the Braunstein. The true impact of David Wesely's Braunstein was re-discovered by Griffith Morgan in the documentary Secrets of Blackmoor.
@MeSuespeaking @RealJMPeterman @MayorFrey @Tim_Walz @IlhanMN @MinnesotaDFL Understood.
Sadly, if institutions such as @HennepinAtty choose to ignore clear wrongdoing in videotape, some citizens may choose to take the law into their own hands, which would be wrong.
Government must do its job even if Somalis violate the law. share.google/NY4JT3tQ2omyvt…
Sadly, if institutions such as @HennepinAtty choose to ignore clear wrongdoing in videotape, some citizens may choose to take the law into their own hands, which would be wrong.
Government must do its job even if Somalis violate the law. share.google/NY4JT3tQ2omyvt…
@MeSuespeaking @RealJMPeterman @MayorFrey @Tim_Walz @IlhanMN @MinnesotaDFL @HennepinAtty share.google/AzxAWZZYiJjGQ7…
@MeSuespeaking @RealJMPeterman @MayorFrey @Tim_Walz @IlhanMN @MinnesotaDFL @HennepinAtty @threadreaderapp please unroll
