DAVID FRIEDMAN: Stargate and the AI Industrial Revolution. “The conventional narrative about artificial intelligence is deeply flawed. For years, we’ve been told that AI is ‘just software’—a clever layer atop the internet stack, maybe a productivity multiplier for office workers, maybe a toy for app developers. But that view is dying in the red clay of Abilene, Texas. AI is not software. AI is the foundation of a new Industrial Revolution. . . . OpenAI’s bet isn’t just on model quality. It’s on controlling the entire AI supply chain: land, energy, chips, training loops, distribution channels. Just as Standard Oil controlled drilling, refining, and transport, OpenAI is building an industrial stack. . . . This is what makes Stargate revolutionary: AI is becoming its own industrial base.”
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
May 22, 2025
THE ENEMY WITHIN:
A host society that grants entry to such an individual and then permits her to serve in the highest echelons of power is not keen on protecting its civilization. The West truly needs to wake up and implement cataclysmic auto-corrective policies. https://t.co/EsCVHqIQsY
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) May 22, 2025
MORE “GLOBALIZING THE INTIFADA?”
🚨BREAKING: CIA guards shoot a driver who tried to ram the security gate at CIA headquarters in Virginia just hours after two Israeli diplomats were shot in D.C. pic.twitter.com/RagZRsVtdF
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 22, 2025
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IS HARD TO ERADICATE: UCLA medical school still discriminates against white, Asian students, lawsuit alleges.
Related:
I had a strong suspicion that medical schools wouldn't become race blind after SCOTUS ruled against affirmative action. Old habits die hard. But I am surprised how obvious some of the schools are being in their efforts to discriminate. https://t.co/4tgDYMcaBj pic.twitter.com/GefbcIXaf2
— Ian Kingsbury (@PeerReReview) May 14, 2025
Also related:
Doctor Quality and Patient Outcomes
"A one standard deviation increase in doctor quality is associated with a 12.2- percentage point decline in a patient’s two-year mortality risk." https://t.co/K2aXps6NY8
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) May 22, 2025
TREAT THEM LIKE THE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS THEY ARE:
Elias Rodriguez, the Chicago far-left activist accused of shooting dead two Israelis outside the Capital Jewish Museum, has a long history of support for BLM, Palestine, communist and anti-white causes.
Those groups have been trying to scrub his associations with them by… https://t.co/DvtdsH23ie pic.twitter.com/34QRe5Yogo
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 22, 2025
Maybe if the FBI had been working on these people instead of traditional Catholics and parents who spoke up at school board meetings . . .
UPDATE (from Steve): Commies and murderous antisemite terrorists go way back.
PROGRESS:
The Big Beautiful @realDonaldTrump Bill passed Largest mandatory spending cuts in history. Cameo by @ByronDonalds @RepDonaldsPress @VoteAPL @realannapaulina @CoryMillsFL @laurenboebert @RepBoebert pic.twitter.com/2DUNyxDmYC
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) May 22, 2025
I’d like to move ahead with a lit of single-subject bills now. But a win is a win.
SOUNDS LIKE A VIOLATION OF 18 USC 241. Students reportedly pelted with feces during Riley Gaines event at University of Washington: Demonstrators dressed in all black yelled insults and expletives at attendees walking back to their cars. Several protesters believe the expletives are necessary to combat ‘hate speech.’
In the old days, this kind of behavior could get you on the wrong side of an axe handle.
IF THERE’S A WAR ON CIVILIZATION, MAYBE CIVILIZATION SHOULD START FIGHTING BACK?
The violent war on western civilization emanates from the radical left. Make no mistake – it is here right now and we cannot look the other way. https://t.co/cCUUatCtx8
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) May 22, 2025
It is not just antisemitism. It is anti-Americanism and a danger to us all. https://t.co/XaNsMwlmTG
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) May 22, 2025
Just laying down the facts of this shooting. Someone from Illinois went to DC to shoot Jewish people and say Free Palestine.
Welcome to the red/green alliance.
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) May 22, 2025
In 2017, someone from Illinois traveled to DC to shoot at Republicans in the Congressional baseball game, nearly killing Steve Scalise.
This is what they want. It’s why our legacy media barely even gives lip service to toning down the rhetoric.
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) May 22, 2025
As leftist street assassinations now make their way to DC, remember that CNN has promoted Luigi Mangione fandom, Kaitlan Collins shared his crowdfund link, AOC and Liz Warren called it a warning to others, and Taylor Lorenz said it the killing her feel joy
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May 22, 2025
TRUTH IS NOT THEIR PROFESSION: NIH Employees Protest Dr. Bhattacharya Telling Them the Truth.
#JOURNALISM:
Sure, the race communists in South Africa are murdering white people and stealing their property but the real problem is Donald Trump pointing it out. https://t.co/sVTRXPqEaw
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 21, 2025
Here is President Ramaphosa saying he wants to seize land from people he doesn’t consider “our people” and give them zero compensation.
If Trump’s claim is so baseless, then why not just ask him what land he’s referring to? pic.twitter.com/KE4HcjUqpx
— Jacktron (@jacktronprime) May 21, 2025
Every mainstream media outlet is claiming Trump’s claim of a white genocide in South Africa is baseless
Here’s a clip of Julius Malema, a member of the South African government, saying “k*ll the boer” aka white people
You don’t hate the media enough pic.twitter.com/mwmLB8vQEN
— Jacktron (@jacktronprime) May 21, 2025
NBC is as honest about the South African white genocide as it was about Joe Biden’s health https://t.co/3tDHfeTs02
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 22, 2025
Plus:
The Trump team excels at getting people to tell on themselves.
Through this South Africa saga, they’ve gotten the global left to reveal that one of their primary motivations is punishing white people. It’s that simple.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) May 21, 2025
DON SURBER: Media Sides with Genocide. The DNC password of the day is AMBUSHES. “President Trump had South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in for a little chat on Wednesday. Once everyone was seated in the room, Trump dimmed the lights and played videos of the genocide of whites by black goons backed by a government that sings Kill the Boer while confiscating the land of white farmers. The American media—which had promoted isolating South Africa over apartheid 40 years ago—refused to accept the reality that the black people in charge are killing white people, necessitating give white South Africans refuge. We shall see if any of the holier-than-thou sanctuary cities take them in. . . . Baseless? Trump showed the evidence—unlike every liberal who claims there is a genocide in Gaza.”
TO BE FAIR, THAT’S BECAUSE THEY SIDED WITH THE ANTI-SEMITES: Biden Education Dept Ignored Hundreds of Anti-Semitism Complaints, Official Says: Trump has cracked down on campus anti-Semitism, which surged nationwide under Biden.
PERSONALLY, I HAVE MORE THAN ONE, BUT OKAY: Robin Hanson: My Complaint Re Academia.
However, as the book is published there is little chance of a reprieve for those accused of covering up, or wilfully ignoring, Biden’s decline. “I don’t think there is a way to make it stop,” one Democrat sighs. “Every Democrat is going to need to have an answer on Biden and why we let him stay for so long.”
The blame game is moving to a cabal of advisers, dubbed the “politburo” by colleagues in a nod to the highest decision-making body of the Soviet Union, a group said to have enjoyed unprecedented power.
“Five people were running the country, and Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board,” one cabinet member claims. “I’ve never seen a situation like this before, with so few people having so much power. They would make huge economic decisions without calling [Treasury] secretary Yellen.”
It was a coup, and they were usurpers. And every Democrat should have to answer for it.
ANOTHER WIN FOR THE INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE AND SMALL BUSINESS: “Town officials in Conway, New Hampshire, tried to force a local bakery to paint over a mural made by local school students. . . . But no good deed goes unpunished. Two months later, town officials decided that they would treat the students’ mural as a ‘sign’ subject to strict size and location restrictions.”
They lost, thanks to IJ.
May 21, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: ‘We don’t know how bad it could get’: Are we ready for the worst space weather? Spoiler: No, we are not.
#JOURNALISM:
Lying on behalf of genocidal racists is pretty on brand for the WashPost.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 21, 2025
– there are no farmer murders in SA, that’s a myth.
– Okay there are, but it’s not racial <- you are here.
– okay it is racial, but that’s a good thing.The eternal msm news arc advanced one step today.
— Grummz (@Grummz) May 21, 2025
Again! Now ABC doing it despite the South African Minister of Agriculture confirming in the Oval Office, while everyone was watching, that white farmers are being killed and it’s a serious problem https://t.co/Sdr1p77kN2
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) May 21, 2025
So you're saying they get murdered at an astronomically higher rate than the rest of the population.
And you don't see the problem there? Really? https://t.co/hGypu2gzqe
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 21, 2025
This seems inconvenient for the President of South Africa https://t.co/x7J9zbW3N9
— Jim Verdi (@jjverdi) May 21, 2025
As with everything else, the Washington Post is lying about the White genocide in South Africa.
But remember, denying it is only the first step. The next step is, they’ll admit it’s happening, but it’s not that bad. Then it will be a good thing, and then the real problem will be… https://t.co/pqwUcC8TaY
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 21, 2025
UPDATE (From Ed):
The talking points went out to the fake news…
Trump “ambushed” the president of South Africa by playing a video montage of South African leaders calling for White genocide.
The media is complicit. pic.twitter.com/zTNqAE0OIf
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 21, 2025
I’m so old, I can remember when the entire left, including former President Obama, still believed in “speaking truth to power.”
MORE (From Ed):
Old and busted: "Poucing."
New and bold: "Ambushing"— Steven F. Hayward (@stevenfhayward) May 22, 2025
ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
The Trump team excels at getting people to tell on themselves.
Through this South Africa saga, they’ve gotten the global left to reveal that one of their primary motivations is punishing white people. It’s that simple.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) May 21, 2025
THE DEEP ROOTS OF MS-13: Unusual Face Tatts Discovered on Mysterious South American Mummy.
BEING TREATED AS THE SOURCE OF ALL SOCIETY’S ILLS CAN DO THAT: Report: U.S. young men feel lonelier than other age groups.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: New Rifles for 2025.