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PEOPLE’S “PARADISES” ALWAYS MAKE THEIR PEOPLE PRISONERS: Stopping The Drain.
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insta_feedPEOPLE’S “PARADISES” ALWAYS MAKE THEIR PEOPLE PRISONERS: Stopping The Drain.
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THIS IS URGENTLY NEEDED: GOP governor lays out plan to ‘purge’ terrorists and terror supporte
Dec. 24th, 2025 09:32 aminsta_feedWHAT IS BEING DONE IN OUR SCHOOLS IS MORE EFFECTIVE AT PREVENTING THE KIDS FROM READING: Inside the Massive Effort to Change the Way Kids Are Taught to Read.
insta_feedAT LEAST THIS ONE WAS CAUGHT? Chinese Researcher on US Visa Charged with Smuggling E. Coli Into the Country.
insta_feedTHE FED GIVETH, THE FED TAKETH AWAY: Trump official freezes millions in SBA aid to Minnesota, slams Walz’s policies as breeding ‘endemic’ fraud.
Which is why you should never ask the fed for anything.
insta_feedWHAT EVERYONE KNOWS IS NOT NECESSARILY TRUE: For everybody saying that the United States doesn’t have a working railgun we do. “The system works. It stopped because it wasn’t, you know, fieldable in an operational environment. The reliability aspects of it, right? But in terms of the technical challenges, the technical challenges have been solved. It’s pulling it all together and making it so soldiers and sailors can operate it”.
AND FOR THE X-CANCELLED:
OF COURSE IT IS A PEOPLE PROBLEM: People Problem, not a Gun Problem.
Dec. 24th, 2025 06:56 aminsta_feedOF COURSE IT IS A PEOPLE PROBLEM: People Problem, not a Gun Problem.
FOR BOOK LOVERS: Books for Thought (and Christmas Gifts!) Know a book lover? Here is one autho
Dec. 24th, 2025 06:32 aminsta_feedFOR BOOK LOVERS: Books for Thought (and Christmas Gifts!) Know a book lover? Here is one author’s picks of some of his favorite books covering history and science that would make perfect Christmas gifts.
U.S. Amb. to NATO: Putin Has Never Said There Are Too Many Lives Lost in War
Dec. 24th, 2025 03:32 ambbt_feedOn Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker stated that Vladimir Putin hasn’t ever acknowledged that there is too much loss of life in the war in Ukraine and “Russia has never
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insta_feedSURELY DREADFULLY ABUSED BUT THANK GOD THEY’RE BACK: Christmas miracle: Kidnapped Catholic school kids in Nigeria freed.
insta_feedHIRING FOR ANY REASON THAN COMPETENCE ALWAYS RESULTS IN INCOMPETENCE: Savage’s ‘Lost Generation’, or: Thoughts on the DEI scam and what happened after 2015.
APPARENTLY WHEN IT COMES TO UK CENSORSHIP, SUBSTACK IS CHOOSING TO BE GOOD GERMANS: This Torygra
Dec. 24th, 2025 05:21 aminsta_feedAPPARENTLY WHEN IT COMES TO UK CENSORSHIP, SUBSTACK IS CHOOSING TO BE GOOD GERMANS: This Torygraph article is good as a piece that points out how bad the UK is, and AIUI, how bad Australia is becoming as they go down a similar path. But… Not entirely to my surprise, substack appears to be being good germans and going along with the laws instead of actively resisting them.
WY Rep. Hageman Launches Senate Bid Backed by Trump, GOP Senators
Dec. 24th, 2025 03:07 ambbt_feedRep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) has announced her campaign for the United States Senate in 2026, emphasizing her commitment to Wyoming’s communities, energy production, and immigration enforcement.
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Philadelphia Nursing Home Explosion Kills Two People, Others Trapped Inside
Dec. 24th, 2025 02:06 ambbt_feedAt least two people were killed in an explosion at a Philadelphia nursing home on Tuesday that collapsed part of the building and left others trapped inside.
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bbt_feedThe Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed that a letter from deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to convicted child molester and former Team USA Gymnastics Doctor Larry Nassar is "fake."
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bbt_feedIn a broad-ranging interview with Breitbart News before Christmas, McMahon reflected on her victories at the Education Department and her priorities for the new year, which include continuing to send more power back to states as she waits for Congress to fulfill President Donald Trump's executive order mandating the elimination of the department.
The post Exclusive: Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Outlines 2026 Priorities After Year of Tackling Radical Left-Wing Agenda appeared first on Breitbart.
Raskin Calls for Special Master to Be Put in Charge of Epstein Files Release
Dec. 24th, 2025 12:54 ambbt_feedTuesday on MS NOW's "Deadline," Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Congress needed to appoint a special master to take over the release of the Epstein files.
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OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves in the comment section, on the eve of Christmas Eve.
Dec. 24th, 2025 02:30 aminsta_feedOPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves in the comment section, on the eve of Christmas Eve.
OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS; Golden Fleet of Trump Class Ships to be Built: If you haven’t heard
Dec. 24th, 2025 02:14 aminsta_feedOCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS; Golden Fleet of Trump Class Ships to be Built:
If you haven’t heard about the new Golden Fleet, behold this piece from the U.S. Naval Institute News:
The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build since World War II.
The U.S. Navy will buy two new “battleships” as part of the “Golden Fleet” effort, President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Navy Secretary John Phelan announced Monday at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump said the Navy will start by purchasing two ships and eventually purchase 10, with a goal of 20 to 25 in total for the class with the start of construction planned for 2030.
“The U.S. Navy will lead the design, along with me, because I’m a very aesthetic person,” Trump said.
As a triple Trump voter, I give myself permission to state that Trump is a very aesthetic person. You may think he is a douche-canoe but he does have an eye. The ships will be pleasing to the eye AND with unsurpassed lethality. More from U.S. Naval Institute News:
“The future Trump-class battleship – the USS Defiant – will be the largest, deadliest and most versatile and best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans,” Phelan said during the presentation. “Now there will be work for shipyards everywhere from Philadelphia to San Diego, from Maine to Mississippi, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, and for manufacturers that will build components for this battleship in every state.”
America’s Newspaper of Record has printed a helpful cutaway guide to the state of the art technology to be deployed on these soon to be nautical legends: Check Out These Amazing Features On The New Trump-Class Battleship.
(Classical reference in headline.)
HAYEK’S RULES FOR AI: LLMs, much like human societies, are dynamic systems. With every retraini
Dec. 24th, 2025 02:00 aminsta_feed
LLMs, much like human societies, are dynamic systems. With every retraining cycle, they receive an updated feed from the ever-changing internet, incorporating larger and larger subsections of the evolving digital world. Many models also incorporate explicit human feedback, e.g., Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback, to shape their behavior. Even small changes to the input or the training process can lead to unpredictable, large-scale effects on the model’s overall output and functionality.
The dynamic, complex nature of LLMs finds a compelling parallel in Friedrich Hayek’s 1974 Nobel Lecture, “The Pretence of Knowledge,” in which he explored economic and political systems characterized by billions of variables and interconnections. This structure aligns with the organization of LLMs. Hayek concluded that while we can understand the general principles that govern complex systems and predict the abstract consequences of interventions, we cannot predict the specific outcomes or the precise states of all their elements. In his broader theory of complexity, Hayek defines two types of order:
- Taxis: A conscious, central design or constructed order. Traditional software falls into this category.
- Kosmos: A complex, emergent, spontaneous, and functional order that arises from decentralized interactions and vast, unstructured data. LLMs function as kosmos.
The power of LLMs lies in their emergent behavior, which is far more complex than any human could consciously design. Treating LLMs as a form of kosmos represents the key conceptual breakthrough that has accelerated AI development.
Read the whole thing, despite my “accidentally” having had ChatGPT create an illustration of the wrong Hayek to accompany this link. (And I have no idea why there’s text on the back of her laptop. Was it over when ChatGPT bombed Pearl Harbor?)