“Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans”
May 30th, 2025Via: New York Times:
In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile a master list of personal information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power.
Mr. Trump has not publicly talked about the effort since. But behind the scenes, officials have quietly put technological building blocks into place to enable his plan. In particular, they have turned to one company: Palantir, the data analysis and technology firm.
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work across the federal government in recent months. The company has received more than $113 million in federal government spending since Mr. Trump took office, according to public records, including additional funds from existing contracts as well as new contracts with the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon. (This does not include a $795 million contract that the Department of Defense awarded the company last week, which has not been spent.)
Flashback: Vance is Thiel’s creature… That means, of course, that Vance is Palantir’s creature.
And Now… Bongino Vows Jail Video Release Showing “No One Was There But” Epstein, “We Are Working On Cleaning It Up”
May 30th, 2025“There’s video clear as day,” says Bongino.
Mmm hmm.
Via: The Hill:
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino vowed to release a video showing that no one was around disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein when he died by suicide in a prison cell in 2019.
“I just want to be crystal clear on this. I am not asking anyone to believe me. I’m telling you what’s there and what isn’t, right,” Bongino told Fox News on Thursday morning. “There is nothing in the file at this point on the Epstein case, and there is going to be a disclosure on this coming shortly.”
The agency is reviewing the footage that will be released to the public, he added.
“Fox & Friends” co-host Lawrence Jones then asked, “There’s video of [Epstein] killing himself?”
“No, no, not the actual act, but the entire MCC [Metropolitan Correctional Center] bay. It was only one camera. There’s video that, when you look at the video — and we will release, that’s what’s taken a while on this,” Bongino explained. “We are working on cleaning it up to make sure you have an enhanced, and we’re going to give the original so you don’t think there were any shenanigans.”
“You’re going to see there’s no one there but him,” the deputy FBI director added.
His remarks come less than two weeks after he and FBI Director Kash Patel dismissed long-held conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s death, bluntly telling Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo that “he killed himself.”
Appeals Court Allows Tariffs to Stay in Effect After Trade Court Rebuke
May 29th, 2025Via: YahooFinance:
A federal appeals court allowed President Trump’s sweeping tariffs to temporarily stay in effect, a day after the US Court of International Trade blocked their implementation after deeming the method used to enact them “unlawful.”
That means Trump’s tariff agenda remains intact, if in flux, in the latest twist in the unfolding legal saga.
Late Wednesday, the trade court voted to block many of Trump’s tariffs, including the flat-rate “reciprocal” tariffs aimed at US trade partners, as well as key China-focused duties. The decision left some levies intact, specifically those covering steel, aluminum, and certain Chinese goods.
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which oversees the International Trade Court, granted the Trump administration’s request for a temporary administrative stay. This gives the court time to review legal arguments and filings. The administration must submit its briefings by June 9, after which the court will determine the next steps.
The White House had vowed Thursday to take its appeal to the Supreme Court if necessary.
“Anduril and Meta Team Up to Transform XR for the American Military”
May 29th, 2025Oh my…
— Anduril Industries (@anduriltech) May 29, 2025
Via: Anduril:
Anduril and Meta are partnering to design, build, and field a range of integrated XR products that provide warfighters with enhanced perception and enable intuitive control of autonomous platforms on the battlefield. The capabilities enabled by the partnership will draw on more than a decade of investment by both companies in advanced hardware, software, and artificial intelligence. The effort has been funded through private capital, without taxpayer support, and is designed to save the U.S. military billions of dollars by utilizing high-performance components and technology originally built for commercial use.
“Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College”
May 29th, 2025These videos from Truthstream Media could have gotten the point across much more effectively if they were about 90% shorter. However, if you want a sort of hysterical, cathartic release, that goes on and on, they have you covered.
In summary: AI is going to rot the brains of young people who use it before they develop critical thinking skills and other cognitive abilities, or atrophy these abilities in older people. AI can then be used to fill these smooth brained meat sacks with whatever nonsense the corporate overlords desire.
So it goes…
Via: New York Magazine:
Whenever Wendy uses AI to write an essay (which is to say, whenever she writes an essay), she follows three steps. Step one: “I say, ‘I’m a first-year college student. I’m taking this English class.’” Otherwise, Wendy said, “it will give you a very advanced, very complicated writing style, and you don’t want that.” Step two: Wendy provides some background on the class she’s taking before copy-and-pasting her professor’s instructions into the chatbot. Step three: “Then I ask, ‘According to the prompt, can you please provide me an outline or an organization to give me a structure so that I can follow and write my essay?’ It then gives me an outline, introduction, topic sentences, paragraph one, paragraph two, paragraph three.” Sometimes, Wendy asks for a bullet list of ideas to support or refute a given argument: “I have difficulty with organization, and this makes it really easy for me to follow.”
Once the chatbot had outlined Wendy’s essay, providing her with a list of topic sentences and bullet points of ideas, all she had to do was fill it in. Wendy delivered a tidy five-page paper at an acceptably tardy 10:17 a.m. When I asked her how she did on the assignment, she said she got a good grade. “I really like writing,” she said, sounding strangely nostalgic for her high-school English class — the last time she wrote an essay unassisted. “Honestly,” she continued, “I think there is beauty in trying to plan your essay. You learn a lot. You have to think, Oh, what can I write in this paragraph? Or What should my thesis be??” But she’d rather get good grades. “An essay with ChatGPT, it’s like it just gives you straight up what you have to follow. You just don’t really have to think that much.”
Related: “I’m Getting a Bit Worried About AI”
Excess Deaths 2025
May 29th, 2025Via: Dr. John Campbell:
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Covid Vaccines Do Not Contain Bluetooth Devices
May 28th, 2025“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.” —Richard Feynman
For years, people have been submitting articles and videos to me alleging that covid vaccines somehow install Bluetooth radios in people who have taken the shots.
And now, there’s a documentary film coming out about it.
I have decades of experience in the IT industry; system administration, network design and network security. I have red teamed networks for companies.
Even though I was sure this Bluetooth-vax thing was nonsense, I tried to find evidence that it was happening. After all, experimentation trumps theory every time.
I attended family gatherings full of people who have been covid vaccinated to (literally) the point of death.
Do you know how many times I found any Bluetooth anomalies after several scans around these people? Zero.
My guess is that this story originated as some sort of professional PSYOP to discredit people mentioning the very real and serious concerns with the covid mRNA vaccines. Most people, lacking even the most basic technical knowledge, are easily mislead and could be used to spread this Bluetooth-vax disinformation payload far and wide.
The next thing you know, the likes of MSNBC and CNN will be talking about how conspiracy theorists are causing vaccine hesitancy by spreading nonsense about Bluetooth radios in vaccines.
I am, of course, happy to be proven wrong. I would like to hear from anyone with any tier of Cisco certification (or any other relevant technical certification) who has personally found evidence that this Bluetooth-vax thing is happening and can describe the exact protocol (Wireshark settings, etc) I can use to see it for myself. (I’m not holding my breath, waiting for this to happen.)
Tell me the protocol you followed to monitor the alleged signals so I can do it myself. That’s it. If this is real, it should be a simple thing to verify.
If you’re holding your head in your hands at how dumb this is, I apologize, but this is an example of how mass PSYOP works. If I didn’t write this, to get ahead of it, I’d be deluged by well meaning people sending this to me.
And to these filmmakers, I’d like to add: If you don’t include multiple wireless networking professionals (stating names and credentials), to present proof, you will be outing yourselves as disinformation peddlers.
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What is bigger than Snowden, larger than Wikileaks, scarier than Epstein?
Have we become the machine?
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— Died Suddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) May 28, 2025
Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs, “Ruling the Levies Exceed the President’s Legal Authority”
May 28th, 2025Update: Trump’s Tariffs to Remain in Effect After Appeals Court Grants Stay
Via: YahooFinance:
A federal appeals court allowed President Trump’s sweeping tariffs to temporarily stay in effect, a day after the US Court of International Trade blocked their implementation after deeming the method used to enact them “unlawful.”
That means Trump’s tariff agenda remains intact, if in flux, in the latest twist in the unfolding legal saga.
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Maybe I need a new category: Chaos.
What’s next? More months of uncertainty and flip flopping as the Trump administration goes through appeals?
Via: CBS:
A federal court on Wednesday froze many of the large-scale tariffs imposed by President Trump on virtually every foreign nation, ruling the levies exceed the president’s legal authority.
The ruling — issued by a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of International Trade — halted the sweeping 10% tariffs Mr. Trump assessed on virtually every U.S. trading partner on “Liberation Day” last month, with higher tariffs threatened for dozens of countries. The court also blocked a separate set of tariffs imposed on China, Mexico and Canada by the Trump administration, which has cited drug trafficking and illegal immigration as its reasoning for the hikes.
The Trump administration has justified the tariffs by citing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, or IEEPA, which gives the president the power to regulate imports during certain emergency situations. But the court on Wednesday rejected the government’s interpretation of the law, and said it would be unconstitutional for any law passed by Congress to give the president blanket authority to set tariffs.
“The court does not read IEEPA to confer such unbounded authority and sets aside the challenged tariffs imposed thereunder,” the judges wrote Wednesday.
The court said Mr. Trump’s global 10% tariffs aren’t authorized by IEEPA because they’re designed to deal with trade imbalances between the U.S. and the rest of the world, which the judges said should fall under non-emergency legislation.
And the China, Canada and Mexico tariffs aren’t legal because they “do not deal with the threats set forth in those orders,” the court also found.
The three judges who wrote Wednesday’s ruling were nominated to the bench by former President Ronald Reagan, former President Barack Obama and Mr. Trump in his first term.
The Trump administration signaled in court papers it will appeal the ruling to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
Boston Dynamics: Perception and Adaptability
May 28th, 2025Classical robotic systems involve machines carrying out very specific, repeatable tasks with high precision. Automobile manufacturers have been using these types of robots in their factories for several decades.
What you’re looking at below is the beginning on the end of the those manufacturing jobs that were either impossible, or too expensive, to automate.
To avoid U.S. tariffs, foreign companies have to make products in the U.S. Nobody said anything about having to use human labor in the process.
Boston Dynamics is owned by Hyundai Motor Group. Here’s what Hyundai has planned in the U.S.:
Hyundai Motor Group will automate 40% of assembly at Metaplant America in Savannah using its humanoid robot, Atlas. The move seeks to boost local output, uphold price competitiveness, and expand its North American market share.
Hyundai plans to deploy Atlas, its self-developed humanoid robot, to handle tasks like lifting parts and attaching vehicle doors. Additional specialized robots will support parts assembly, transport, line monitoring, and body inspection to boost manufacturing efficiency.
Hyundai expects to automate nearly half of its assembly processes, including stamping and welding, which will cut costs and enhance quality.
Via: Boston Dynamics:
COVID Vaccine for Healthy Children and Healthy Pregnant Women Removed from CDC Recommended Immunization Schedule
May 27th, 2025Today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from @CDCgov recommended immunization schedule. Bottom line: it’s common sense and it’s good science. We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS’s promise to Make America Healthy Again. pic.twitter.com/Ytch2afCLP
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) May 27, 2025
