I am wondering. Will Trump’s State of the Union Address will be delivered in its native Russian?
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#science #skepticism #technology #futurism #fintech
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. 証拠なしに主張できることは、証拠なしに退けることができる。
Incredible claims require incredible evidence. 信じがたい主張には、信じがたい証拠が必要である。
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OH: A castle won’t turn a clown into a king.
A clown will turn a castle into a circus.
#WhiteHouse #USA
“It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.”
- Henry Kissinger
Elon Musk is vaccinated.
Donald Trump is vaccinated.
RFK Jr is vaccinated.
Ignore what they say and watch what they do. #vaccines
As the US unravels into #oligarchy, economic decline and political chaos, #ukraine and Zelenskyy are now the leaders of the free world.
Welcome to the end of Pax Americana.
It’s shocking how much the US has come to resemble book 3 of Atlas Shrugged. Eg. using political pull to reward allies and punish rivals. Actions that make no sense except as spectacle for the voters.
The #google monopoly has been the Internet’s greatest threat to #privacy and #security for two decades. I am sad it took a couple ill-advised map updates to make the at least one segment of the population to realize the threat. But at least they finally came around.
So TikTok will be banned in China by the CCP to prevent spying by the US government, and the value of the network will decline even faster than Xitter?
I cannot name a single ancestor, person, or cultural work that lived or was created in the year 1025.
I dare say in the year none will exist: the English language, the USA or any current nation state, the Internet, or knowledge of today’s most famous people outside a small group of historians.
We’re down there with the shitholes now.. #climatechange 
Better than anything I wrote:
“The operational status of our IT general controls reflects a robust and active framework, with significant improvements achieved in 2024 and strategic enhancements planned for 2025 to ensure continued alignment with organizational goals and security requirements.”
Rule of law fails because we don’t want to believe it can fail.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/opinion/trump-government-oppression-power-tyranny.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rE4.YZ45.GASliI9MvaIM&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv
I’m not a lawyer and confused. Wouldn’t Trump need a constitutional amendment to repeal birthright citizenship?
I already barely use Facebook for the last several years. I am pretty sure I can avoid using it altogether in 2025. #facebook #disinformation #misinformation #zuck
Reporting on the next fire, earthquake, tsunami, or flood will be drowned by “fake news” denials before people can have time to get out of harm’s way.
I don’t know what is the path off this slippery slope.
The time it takes reporting on local disasters to transition from news to political propaganda is now minutes, instead of hours or days.
Soon (if not already) that transition will be made in seconds.
A friendly reminder to ignore what #trump says (about #canada, #panama, #greenland, etc.) and watch only what he does. All the chatter is nonsense intended to distract.
Trump is not President yet, and his capacity for actions are limited, so we’re in a holding pattern.
In 2019 in Samoa thousands sickened and 89 dead, mostly children, due to vaccine hesitancy (free share). #vaccines #science
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/opinion/rfk-samoa-hawaii-governor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nU4.jzB0.7j5w7BssSVFs&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Significant chatter about a large AFU offensive in Kursk, Russia about 3-4 hours ago.
https://t.me/pilotblog/17943 
I don’t believe in conspiracy theories because there are simpler ways of explaining events that are more reliable. Conspiracists rarely make useful predictions.
#conspiracies #reality