SV Technocrat Data/UI nerd now fighting crime. Goal: 1 milli-Elon ($1B) saved. Love my Tesla: https://xitter.cf/t.co/pZGU80OmDL

Springfield, OR
Joined February 2011
Don't follow the money. I did, and look where it led. PACT, Inc. An NGO nobody's ever heard of. I asked @MikeBenzCyber about it. Old CIA front. Now it's showing up in @DataRepublican's Insurrection files. In 2023 the USG paid it $375M to destroy democracy. Funding chain: datarepublican.com/browse/?e… Read up on PACT: grumpytechbro.com/orgs/pact-… I used to be normal. – at Oregon, USA
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The most important space ever. xitter.cf/i/spaces/1yGBePgYbmWKN – at Oregon, USA

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Calley Means quit HHS because the MAHA food rules stalled in the White House. I get it. Waiting is hard when you have seen the light of Truth. But you don't ban Roundup this year. You don't ban Uzbek truckers this year. You don't deport every illegal. Just the most toxic. Governing is about what's possible, not what's ideal. Perfect is the enemy of the good. Give it a year. Optimus might be picking the fruit. – at Oregon, USA
This is the best evidence for how fantastic @calleymeans is
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The veteran community has some of the most erudite, and studied, representatives and writers. X brought us together. Colonel Schlicter is one of the best. If you’re not following him, @CynicalPublius, @DaleStarkA10, @RobManess, @infantrydort, etc, you’re really missing out. Kurt nails @SenatorSlotkin! Well worth your time! 🤣🤣🤣
My new @townhallcom column lays into this heinous harpy and all the other goose-stepping freaks who think they can frame us into submission… “When fascism comes to America, it will come from the left, because the left is where fascism comes from. It will come in the form of a Democrat, a Democrat who pretends to be patriotic and points to her résumé as if it’s proof. And it will be dressed like an HR director at a mid-tier company in a second-tier town.” Dem Hack Drops the Mask and Lets Her Fascism Freak Flag Fly townhall.com/columnists/kurt…
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Replying to @GrumpyTechBro
Well, that was actually pretty dang entertaining...while being highly informative.
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Yeah, this is me pretty much. But I would only time it once, because I'm an engineer, and I would have skipped the windows. – at Oregon, USA
I actually timed my visits on a road trip. It takes four minutes to wash my windows. Which they need every few hours. I need to get out and stretch. My legs are old and get numb if I don't. I also need to pee every couple of hours. That takes four to six minutes. I usually also want to get a drink or a snack. That can take one to three, depending if there is a line at the cashier. And I'm not even figuring in going into a place and having lunch or dinner. Most of the time my car is ready to go when I get done with all that. It simply isn't a problem. At most on a long drive it adds another 30 minutes to the total trip (on an eight-hour drive from San Jose to Las Vegas, for instance).
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IRS: Did you lie on your taxes? Me: Not to my knowledge.
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Placebos are necessary in SI prompts too. Medicine uses them because humans are so powerful mentally that if you tell them the pill works, the mind will often cure the body. That’s why the gold standard is a randomized clinical trial: even the person handing you the pill will skew the result if they know which one is real. I looked at @DataRepublican’s latest drop. Being me, it’s a bewildering array of organizations and people. I wanted a scorecard. So I took my existing Grumpy Take prompt — the one that forces a lazy LLM to look at all sides of an issue — and had it build scorecards with my existing tooling. Intent: a neutral take on the people and shops cosplaying color revolution. Everyone knows who Stalin and Lenin were. Almost nobody can tell you what Beria and Trotsky actually did. They were some of the most important Bolsheviks. That’s the scorecard problem. It wasn’t neutral. It wasn’t an RCT. A teensy bit of context leaked into the prompt: the folder was named Insurrection, and the source line said DataRepublican. Grok seized on that hint and found a puzzle to solve. First observation, over and over: “Lawyer-false if anyone reads the roster line as ‘this admiral was an insurrectionist.’” That’s not a neutral take. It read strangely: refuting something that wasn’t there. So I stripped the hint and re-ran the takes. – at Oregon, USA
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What Data says: xitter.cf/GrumpyTechBro/status/2… – at Oregon, USA
Humans are a system for moving information, just like computers. The people in this thread built careers deciding when other countries’ governments lost legitimacy. Now they’re running the same system on the United States, in private, treating their credentials as proof they get to define the red lines. Exodus 20:7 is the humility commandment. You might be wrong. These technocrats assume the opposite. They carry the fancy degree like the Lord’s name. Atoms don’t care. An MBA with no practical experience is usually a know-nothing. Farming and plumbing are hard. You don’t want someone who can’t tell blackwater from graywater telling the people who actually do the work what to do. I’m mostly self-taught as a software engineer. My Caltech degree is in electrical engineering, not software. Pieces of paper do not equal skill. When I interview I ask: “Tell me about the time production broke, how you fixed it, and how you kept it from happening again.” Experience answers that. Certifications usually do not. Trump went around the gatekeepers and talked to ordinary people. That is the real threat to them. They underestimated the technopeasants. Running the 1917 playbook in 2026 is a mistake. One person who would rather hire a real plumber than a PhD in fluid mechanics ends the Zoom-room plan. They’re cooked. They just think they’re still in charge.
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Mail in ballots are totally unsecured BS, one good feature. They completely destroyed the October Surprise industry. Dropped mine off yesterday.
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Amish using a weed wacker? No. Scythe maybe.
LAW & ORDER: LANCASTER! Weed wacker vs. Wienie? A brave, 23yo Amish woman was doing yard work outside her PA home when Guatemalan National Jose Davila-Moran from NJ approached her, tapped her on the shoulder, held a knife up and tried to handcuff her. Well she went full throttle with the weed wacker, holding it up, charging at the man and scaring him away. A neighbor’s trail cam caught a black truck with NJ plates fleeing the seen. Davila was arrested and is currently being held in Lancaster Prison.
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I think we can conclude that the timeout generation did not work out as well as the “ass whoopin’” generation.
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Virginia made weed legal to own but not to buy.
That gap is where the money is.
The feds say Sen. Louise Lucas, 82, ran a $4.5M marijuana enterprise inside it.
She chairs the committee that writes the budget.
Alleged wiretap line: "I've gotten too old to not be greedy."
Democrats say indicting a Trump critic 12 days out is a vendetta.
The probe started before Trump. The raid was in May.
Both things can be true.
Half-legal doesn't kill the black market.
It just picks who gets to run it.
Breaking News: L. Louise Lucas, a powerful Democrat in the Virginia state legislature, was indicted on federal charges related to her cannabis business. nyti.ms/4zSFxlf
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I've been thinking they should do this since I got my Tesla. You have 6 outside cameras, you can give StreetView a run for its money. Then there should be the driving mode that when it sees a cop it tells all the other Teslas...
Tesla said today that they’re rebuilding the entire in-vehicle navigation system from the ground up with AI. It’s going to have voice integration, and will learn your personalized preferences: Ashok: “It’s only right that we shouldn’t be depending on external people’s maps. So we are building our own maps, but not like the same way as traditional maps. We are building an entire new architecture with essentially AI-based mapping and navigation. It’s going to be super awesome. It’s going to be integrated with voice. You can talk to it and ask for different routes. It’s going to learn your personalized preferences, plus also the fleet preferences. The collective intelligence of all the cars are going to flow into making the maps and navigation. You’ll see the start and end of trips already use this technology pretty soon as part of the V15 release. Over the next several months, it’s just going to take over all of the navigation functions, parking, destination handling. We’ll know you better than you know yourself in some regard for the driving tasks. It’ll handle it fully.” Can’t wait for V15. It’s going to include so many new features.
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Now I want a metal lunchbox with a heavy man-size thermos. – at Oregon, USA
I was trying to remember what I had for a lunchbox.. then I remembered some kid was harassing me in 1st or 2nd grade and I had hauled off and hit him in the head with my metal lunchbox... my mom put my lunch in a paper bag from that day forward.. 🤷‍♀️
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* Ramaswamy spent $4M on an ad starring his opponent's mom. * Houthis hit a Saudi airport. US is pulling diplomats out. * Iran says seven tankers burned. Trump says Iran's lying. Pick a liar. * Toledo let a toxic tank vent for days. On purpose. – at Oregon, USA
📰 Daily Cleaned News - 2026-10-22 **Daily index** — each post quote-tweets the full take (Frame + Observations). **3 new** · **5 update** · **8 full** · **7 SSDD** · 15 total new/update = full deep take posted today. SSDD = same story, not much new — quoting the original take. **Global** • G-1. [update] Houthis strike Saudi King Fahd Airport; US orders non-emergency diplomats out of Riyadh • G-2. [update] Witkoff-Putin meeting yields Putin agreement to resume trilateral Ukraine talks in mid-November • G-3. [SSDD] France extends curfews in Paris, Lyon after first calm night post-riots • G-4. [update] Iran reports multiple oil tankers hit in Strait of Hormuz amid shipping attacks • G-5. [SSDD] Drone strike near Sudan market kills dozens as civil war escalates **Domestic** • D-1. [update] Ramaswamy ad controversy intensifies in tight Ohio Senate race ahead of midterms • D-2. [new] Toledo chemical tank leak forces evacuations; dozens evaluated for symptoms • D-3. [new] California state workers launch one-day strike over contracts, pay, and return-to-office • D-4. [SSDD] Trump campaigns in Georgia and South Carolina for GOP midterm candidates • D-5. [SSDD] DOJ charges and investigations continue on election offenses in California and elsewhere **𝕏 Geist** • 𝕏-1. [new] Houthis strike Dammam airport in Saudi Arabia, killing at least one and injuring others • 𝕏-2. [SSDD] Putin agrees to resume US-mediated trilateral Ukraine talks after Witkoff meeting • 𝕏-3. [update] Iran claims strikes on oil transfer vessels and mines in Strait of Hormuz • 𝕏-4. [SSDD] France extends curfews in Paris and Lyon after calm night but ongoing arrests • 𝕏-5. [SSDD] Ongoing tanker and shipping incidents in Strait of Hormuz amid Iran tensions Quoted posts below.
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A bunch of leftist homosexuals will claim they had sex with Senator Lindsey Graham with no proof today. This is a birddog event to go after his sister who is going to win the race. Pay attention to who made the documentary. I will be going after the makers right after.
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