Britain’s minister for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn, delivers a warning to those who complain on social media about their stabbing or beheading. Minister Benn notes the danger created by people online sharing information from Belfast after two days of civic unrest in the city following a migrant stabbing and slicing a local resident.
The need for control is always a reaction to fear. Apparently, the government of Great Britain is very fearful.
“Social media companies have a very heavy responsibility. It’s why we’re going to bring forward new powers next week to make it clear that social media companies need to take down illegal content, particularly when we are facing circumstances such as the ones we’ve seen in Northern Ireland over the last two days”
The entire Western world is ruled by a self-centered elite numbering but a few thousand. No one who is not either onboard with them or accepts being a servile toady to them (most politicians) ever gets anywhere near real political power, or honest social influence. What’s changed today is social media, especially X, does allow the honest voices of ordinary people to be heard. Historically, elites have always manufactured social and political ‘reality’. In today’s world many of their traditional tricks are not working as well as they did only ten years ago. Moreover, it is obvious to anyone paying attention that more voices and more information about anything actually results in better and truer information. Crowds crowd-sourcing themselves have proved to be much more savvy that a few thousand elites, who all bow to a small handful of super-elites. It is simply a fact that more information seen by more people who add yet more information yields better information. Bad info is quickly sifted out. Elites fear open-ended information more than anything because it quickly reveals how wrong, venal, selfish, dim-witted and crazy they are. If you want to lead ‘your’ people, listen to them and lead them with the truth. It’s that simple. It is the rigid elite of the West who will cause inevitable social upheaval and violence, not the people who dare to speak and act on the gruesome absurdity of mass migration-invasion of military-age men who hate White people and Western civilization. ABN
The first trillionaire in human history – Elon Musk – Born in South Africa – Bullied relentlessly as a kid – Immigrated to North America – Arrived with a backpack and a dream – Built Zip2 with his brother – Sold it 4 years later for $300 million – Co-founded PayPal with the profits – Revolutionized digital payments – Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion – Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX – Got mocked for electric cars – Got laughed at for reusable rockets – Nearly went bankrupt in 2008 – Kept building anyway – Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker – Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry – Made reusable rockets a reality – Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95% – Sparked the modern commercial space race – Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet – Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history – Bought Twitter for $44 billion – The world said he overpaid – He was called reckless, stupid & crazy – Advertisers fled, media declared it dead – Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history – Renamed it 𝕏 – Rebuilt the platform anyway – Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth – Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race – Sent astronauts to space – Is trying to get humans to mars – Created millions of jobs – Generated hundreds of billions in value – Inspired an entire generation of builders Before: – Failed repeatedly – Worked insane hours – Slept in factories and offices – Got bullied, laughed at and mocked – Constantly told “it’s impossible” – Kept building anyway – Made it possible Today: – Richest person on Earth – First trillionaire in human history – Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion Most people quit when the world laughs at them. Elon Musk built the future instead. Love him or hate him… Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime. Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI. History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done. It will remember the people who did it anyway. Congratulations Elon. The first trillionaire.
I’m a woman so my views might be skewed. But everyone has seen that Hollywood movie of TV shows where the male friend duo goes out as each other’s wing men to meet women at social gatherings and have a good time. Both my grandfather’s told me about how back in their men used to have their father’s drive them to their first date or how everyone had a crush or someone special. Nothing but fond memories. However it seems guys today seem to be all doom and gloom about dating. Why is that so? Why do I never hear men sharing positive stories about their dating experiences?
FWIW as a woman, I think women tend to be more vocal about their dating experiences for better or for worse lol. I chat with my GFS all the time about our dating experiences and I think women tend to talk about it more.
There are 500+ comments as of right now. It’s an interesting question with a range of answers, which form a telling, crowd-sourced barometer of our world(s) today. Seems more issues than just dating have diverged from raw instinct to techno-modulated post-instinct. The underlying semiotics of traditional behaviors have shifted toward digitalized, instantaneous, sharper but weaker. That’s not all bad. It’s just different. In some ways it’s sublimation, which can be good. When I started dating my current partner, my head was spinning for days. That happened because we already knew each other and only went to the dating level due to changed conditions and there was never any app between us, just human presence and first-order emotions. She still makes my head spin today. ABN
AI will become a localized and optimized sub-set for each sector of the economy, requiring each major organization and corporation to adopt specific cost/benefit data libraries and networks for use and functionality.
At scale, a thousand coders each working on Gemini, ChatGPT, Anthropic, Grok, etc. will become 100,000+ software designers working inside companies to create personalized, targeted, bespoke AI data systems and networks; each system specifically tailored to the industry or sector of business. The intranet of internets will happen again.
Creating and selling AI system networks and integration functions that are personally tailored to highly specific company functions, creates an entirely new sector of the technology industry that has not even begun yet. [There’s an investment opportunity there]
Will AI robots replace some repetitive human functions? Yes, the ice rink Zamboni will likely not have a steering wheel, just an emergency joystick. A reference for a comparative industrial scale Roomba vacuum, or the robotic pool cleaners. However, at scale the robotic industry is slower than human efficiency in almost all sectors that matter; the cost benefit analysis will limit growth. The maid service sector will not be impacted any more than the software developers (see chart above).
It is not an issue to fear some AI task efficiencies will grant more time available that will be filled with alternate task capabilities. Human productivity will increase in certain sectors of the economy, but humans will not lose work opportunities. Blue collar jobs will continue to expand as each of the hardware tools developed will need manufacturing, installation, maintenance and monitoring.
The further downstream the worker is from a repetitive function within the [XXXX] industry, the more irreplaceable they become; remember that.
As to the bigger picture of fully developed AI and the intersection of information and knowledge; yes, the automation of AI can present an issue. However, all AI concerns can be mitigated so long as multiple, alternative AI systems exist within the larger information realm.
As a nation we need dozens of different AI models each competing within the industry for the best AI product. As long as we have multiple AI systems, alternatives to the hive-mind, we do not need to fear the AI network as a source of information. If we don’t like the AI outputs, we can switch to an alternate AI provider.
If the subscription cost of the AI is too high, then as long as we have a competitive market where a lesser expensive, perhaps bespoke, AI option can exist, we should be okay. Let the free-and-fair market decide.
If AI outputs don’t offer empirical truth or real value to the end user, we should be fine as long as consumers have alternative options available. AI providers should be information providers in the same concept as cell phone providers. The key is to have multiple, competing AI systems available for industrial, business, professional and personal use.
On the upside of this information worry dynamic -in the pragmatic and optimistic perspective- we have the cost limiting nature of a massive singular AI information network.
A single AI central brain handling over 360 million users at once, all requiring identical responses that update with every tiny change in a multi-trillion datapoint-per-millisecond data stream, is far beyond the capacity of any computational AI system. The costs tied to such a setup are only now becoming clear, and AI business models are starting to fall apart in real time. This is a hard truth that isn’t going to change.
Within the AI business, those who can carefully write AI input instructions to achieve maximum value in AI output -industry by industry- will become increasingly more valuable. Those who can train AI to be cost effective -and provide materially beneficial outputs- within their granular sector of business, within each company, will become priceless to the organization. Wage rates will follow competency.
As noted by David Sacks in this segment highlighted below, the one key about AI to emphasize is the need for multiple competing models. If China (hive mind) has their model, and Europe (another hive mind) has their model, and the United States (entrepreneurial competitiveness) has multiple competitive models – we will win and simultaneously we will retain freedom.
What we don’t want is a singular AI model to win the support of the United States government and then end up with an AI regulatory system where they start defining terms of “safety” to eliminate information adverse to the interests of the government that regulates it. Both China and Europe will predictably do that.
This essay provides a very good overview of what is possible for future AI and what we probably can expect. I have excerpted most of it with the author’s permission. I left out the introduction as it refers to personal stuff readers of ABN may not be familiar with. ABN
MAGA billionaire Peter Thiel has angered the Vatican by hosting a four–part lecture series in Rome warning that the Antichrist is coming and will subject humanity to a ‘one–world’ government.
Thiel, 58, has raised concerns for months about what he views as an imminent threat, according to The New York Times.
The tycoon, who made his money by setting up PayPal, has warned of the ‘occult forces [that] are ceaselessly at work, intent on destroying what remains of the West,’ the outlet reported.
I know JS have labelled this term antisemitic as well, but over many decades they have widely and frequently called White people supremists just for being ‘OK with being white’, so no.
Also, their religion, according to them, is based on their supremacy over all others, whom they view as no better than beasts.
Ofc, not all Jews are JS,
but the speaker above, Meta executive Jordana Cutler, surely appears to be one.
Her talk was given in May 2025 at the Jewish Policy Summit.
When Somalis commit fraud, we call them Somalis, especially because they are acting as a collective tribe or clan.
When Jewish Supremists (who can metaphorically be understood as high-end-Somalis with more brains and centuries of practice) collectively commit crimes, or offenses to the conscience, it makes no sense not to notice and speak about their horrible behavior and its terrible consequences against all others.
Their demonic urge to censor all people but themselves is a sure sign of their perfidious conceit and fundamental anti-Americanism. ABN
Many Jews in the fear-inflation business like Jonathan Greenblatt have already reported on the generational disparity in anti-Semitism. The reason for the disparity seems pretty straightforward: Old people were fed a steady diet of programming that was not only filtered through various Jewish studio execs, editors, directors, and writers, but was delivered via a one-way broadcast medium. This allowed Jews to disseminate their ideas uncontested. In other words, Jews placed themselves between boomers and the world, carefully curating their “reality.”
The two-way medium of the Internet used by the younger generations has allowed conversations to occur outside of Jewish jurisdiction, and younger generations are largely rejecting Jewish ideas and the Jewish framing of the world. While old people continue to watch the sanitized version of the Gaza conflict on Fox News, young people are consuming Telegram videos of Jewish crimes against humanity and are disgusted by it.
Conversations about Jewish overrepresentation, influence, and power are no longer avoidable now that the Internet has overtaken the Jewish-dominated mediums of television, print, and radio. For the first time in a century, Jews are in a position where they have to defend themselves, and they’re showing everyone how out of practice they are. Most Jews just “accuse the accuser,” calling their critics “anti-Semites” since there really is no way to defend their ethnic cleansing of Gaze and open borders extremism in the West.
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s LGBTQ+ community.
Apple has removed two of the most popular gay dating apps in China from the App Store after receiving an order from China’s main internet regulator and censorship authority, WIRED has learned. The move comes as reports of Blued and Finka disappearing from the iOS App Store and several Android app stores circulated on Chinese social media over the weekend. The apps appear to still be functional for users in the country who already have them downloaded.
“We follow the laws in the countries where we operate. Based on an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China, we have removed these two apps from the China storefront only,” an Apple spokesperson said in an email. Apple clarified that the apps have not been available in other countries for some time. “Earlier this year, the developer of Finka elected to remove the app from storefronts outside of China, and Blued was available only in China.”
No moral person with sound ethics and a working conscience should ever want AI to be trained to lie. But that is what we are seeing from major players in this game. From what I see, Musk is alone among top elites in what he is saying and repeats often. Truth-seeking with curiosity are the foundations of human morality and intelligence. This appears to be a battle between good and evil. ABN
My AI investment thesis is that every AI application startup is likely to be crushed by rapid expansion of the foundational model providers.
App functionality will be added to the foundational models’ offerings, because the big players aren’t slow incumbents (it is wrong to apply the analogy of “fast startup, slow incumbent” here), they are just big. Far more so than with any other prior new technology, there is a massive and fast-moving wave that obsoletes every new app almost as fast as it can be invented. There is almost no time to build a company and scale it.
There are two ways AI application startup founders can make money:
– Make a flash-in-the-pan app that generates a ton of cash and bank the cash (my estimate is that you have about 12-18 months cashflow generation)
– Make a good enough app that you get acquired by one of the big players for sufficient equity
The situation is highly unstable – we don’t know if it’s going to crash or go to the moon but both scenarios make it very unlikely that any AI application startup will independently become a generational supercompany (baseline odds are low to begin with).
The best odds are finding an application niche in a highly specialized field with extremely unique and specific data barriers, ideally ones relating to real atoms (hardware or world-related) data and not software/finance.
Owens has done some of the best reporting and analysis of Kirk’s assassination. She has inside information, a wide range of crowd-sourced information, and a very personal animus driving her forward. She also happens to have exceptional rhetorical talent and is thus able to weave an ongoing narrative clearly, with gravitas and scathing humor. ABN
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