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Lisa Miller retweeted
Governor DeSantis Delivers Remarks at Notre Dame Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government nitter.gq/i/broadcasts/2XyEByXgW…
Best read this. The Larcenous Class is predictable and destructive.
Chamath explains how a data center slowdown turns the hyperscalers into kingmakers and squeezes the neoclouds and foundation models:
“Now, they’re doing smart deals because that’s what made sense. But I think what the incoming governors are going to say is these things are off the table. And instead, we want to have directly measurable economic impacts before we even entertain this.”
“I think what it means is we’re going to see a slowdown. And I think what that does is it benefits the hyperscalers because they have existing capacity. I think it’s very bad for the neoclouds because they’re renters. And it’s pretty bad for the foundational models because they are so short this capacity and they need it to grow. So to the extent that these frontier models are so much better than everybody else’s product, they are the ones that need this capacity. It sets the hyperscalers to be a kingmaker, and they have this interesting game theory now.”
[Jason: “Can you just say who the hyperscalers are, just so people understand the difference between them?”]
“Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, SpaceX. And what they’ll be able to do is make a decision. Path number one is continue to rent in the way that you’re doing it today. So the status quo, rent to some customers, large corporates, right? Rent to the neoclouds, rent to the foundational models. That’s what they’re doing today. Everybody does that.”
“But then there’s the path less traveled, which all of a sudden becomes really interesting. You could decide to take all of the incremental compute and advantage your own products. So Google has a ton of capacity coming online. They could say, I’m going to give it to Gemini. What does that do? It actually allows Gemini to catch up in quality relative to the foundational models.”
“Why? Because if you constrain the amount of assets that can actually generate compute, and a smaller surface area of it is available to the leading companies, those leading companies will have to pay more, the user experience will decay, and then other products can have time to catch up.”
“And now that is important, because Anthropic and OpenAI are in a very fast recursive loop. They’re on a 60 to 90 day loop in improving their models. So now all of a sudden, without an infinite amount of supply coming online, you can slow these folks down.”
Lisa Miller retweeted
David Sacks predicts Democrats will use AI legislation and frontier-model approvals to create a surveillance and censorship state 'turbocharged by superintelligence'
“It’s 100% that Democrats are going to make a major push for AI legislation in the next Congress. The question is what that looks like. And I don’t think you have to speculate too much to understand where it’s going.
“I believe that Democrats want to create a surveillance and censorship state that’s turbocharged by superintelligence. I mean, that’s ultimately the end state.
“How do you get there? You create a department, a federal department of AI. You require that all the so-called frontier models have to be reviewed and approved by that. The regulators give their notes on it. You can’t get a model released unless you address their concerns.
“And their harms will include all the things that the government is telling us that social media companies should be concerned about, like disinformation and misinformation and dissonant thought. All the things that the government was pressuring the social media companies to crack down on and censor during COVID. How quickly we forget all of this.
“They’re going to basically reenact that whole regime again using AI, and it’s going to be infinitely more powerful because we’re talking about superintelligence here. So I do believe that that is the regime that we’re headed towards.”
Chamath explains how a data center slowdown turns the hyperscalers into kingmakers and squeezes the neoclouds and foundation models:
“Now, they’re doing smart deals because that’s what made sense. But I think what the incoming governors are going to say is these things are off the table. And instead, we want to have directly measurable economic impacts before we even entertain this.”
“I think what it means is we’re going to see a slowdown. And I think what that does is it benefits the hyperscalers because they have existing capacity. I think it’s very bad for the neoclouds because they’re renters. And it’s pretty bad for the foundational models because they are so short this capacity and they need it to grow. So to the extent that these frontier models are so much better than everybody else’s product, they are the ones that need this capacity. It sets the hyperscalers to be a kingmaker, and they have this interesting game theory now.”
[Jason: “Can you just say who the hyperscalers are, just so people understand the difference between them?”]
“Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, SpaceX. And what they’ll be able to do is make a decision. Path number one is continue to rent in the way that you’re doing it today. So the status quo, rent to some customers, large corporates, right? Rent to the neoclouds, rent to the foundational models. That’s what they’re doing today. Everybody does that.”
“But then there’s the path less traveled, which all of a sudden becomes really interesting. You could decide to take all of the incremental compute and advantage your own products. So Google has a ton of capacity coming online. They could say, I’m going to give it to Gemini. What does that do? It actually allows Gemini to catch up in quality relative to the foundational models.”
“Why? Because if you constrain the amount of assets that can actually generate compute, and a smaller surface area of it is available to the leading companies, those leading companies will have to pay more, the user experience will decay, and then other products can have time to catch up.”
“And now that is important, because Anthropic and OpenAI are in a very fast recursive loop. They’re on a 60 to 90 day loop in improving their models. So now all of a sudden, without an infinite amount of supply coming online, you can slow these folks down.”
Lisa Miller retweeted
History will remember two men as the ones who exposed the empire of lies: Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele.
For decades, the same class of experts, NGOs, think tanks and international institutions told us two things were impossible.
That you could kill inflation without destroying a country.
That you could kill violent crime without "addressing root causes" for another 30 years.
Milei took the first one.
Argentina, December 2023: inflation over 200% a year, 25% in a single month. A central bank printing money to fund a state that had become a vote-buying machine. Every economist on TV predicted a social explosion if anyone touched it.
He cut the number of ministries in half. He balanced the budget in his first year. Monthly inflation went from 25% to under 2%. Poverty, which peaked at 52.9% right after the devaluation, fell to 28%, the lowest since 2018. It's not a straight line, poverty ticked back up this year, and he says so himself. But the point is proven: the "impossible" was possible all along.
The lesson is brutal. Endless money printing was never a technocratic necessity. It was a hidden tax on the poor, quietly paying for the people who designed the system and lived off it.
Bukele took the second one.
El Salvador, 2015: 106 homicides per 100,000 people. The most violent country on earth outside a war zone. Gangs ran neighborhoods, taxed every bus driver and every street vendor, and decided who lived and who died.
El Salvador, 2025: 1.3 per 100,000. Lower than the United States.
Every international expert said it couldn't be done. The NGOs called it barbaric. Salvadorans re-elected him with over 80% of the vote, because they're the ones who used to bury their kids.
And now his helicopters are in Haiti, pulling his own soldiers out of gang territory, telling the gangs: we finished with ours, we can finish with you.
So ask yourself the real question. If it was this simple, why didn't anyone do it?
Because an entire ecosystem lived off the problem.
Inflation funded the state that funded the clients that funded the elections. Crime created fear, and fear created demand for programs, consultants, studies, panels, subsidies and "experts" who never had to deliver a result. In Latin America it was the gangs. In the West it's mass immigration with no integration and crime with no consequences. Different symptom, same business model: the problem is never solved because too many people are paid to manage it.
Milei and Bukele didn't just fix two countries. They published the proof. Every politician who still says "it's complicated" now has to explain why a guy with a chainsaw and a guy with a baseball cap did in two years what they couldn't do in forty.
Thank you Javier Milei. Thank you Nayib Bukele.
The world is going to heal with your solutions.
Europe is next. We're waiting.
Lisa Miller retweeted
Confirming Lee to the Court of Appeals is essential — will pay dividends for decades.
President Trump nominated U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas Lee Rudofsky to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
This appellate court covers Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
There is a very limited window to confirm Rudofsky--before Senate Democrats block him.
Arkansas' two Republican home-state senators--@JohnBoozman and @TomCottonAR--are blocking Rudofsky, as they wanted someone else.
(They have @JohnCornyn and @SenThomTillis doing their bidding for them.)
They need to change their minds--and fast--or Republicans will lose this key appellate court seat.
Cornyn and Tillis are leaving the Senate.
But this is an unforgivable sin for Boozman and Cotton.
Lisa Miller retweeted
Before Tuesday night, Democrats looked into the camera and promised one thing:
"Vote for us and we'll lower your grocery bills." 🛒
The morning AFTER Tuesday night, look at what those same Democrats are posting on X:
Zero plans for cheaper beef.
Zero plans for cheaper gas.
Just victory laps screaming "DEI is back!" and threats to impeach and subpoena Donald Trump. 🤡
Working families asked for bread.
Democrats handed them a woke circus.
Never forget this bait-and-switch in 2028! 🔥
Lisa Miller retweeted
Climate policies have consequences
EU households pay 1.9x US prices and 4x China
And Germany has the highest household electricity cost in the world
nitter.gq/BjornLomborg/status/21…
Climate policies have consequences
EU households pay 1.9x US prices and 4x China
And Germany has the highest household electricty cost in the world
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
Lisa Miller retweeted
You’re right about the political reality.
The brand is toxic, the map is brutal, the institutional GOP is a mix of cult and corporate capture, and the people who created this mess already have their next grift lined up. That’s not hyperbole.
Lisa Miller retweeted
The men who wrote the Constitution owned guns, distrusted bankers, and believed taxation without consent was worth dying over. They would not recognize the country operating under their name today.
Federal spending crossed $7 trillion per year. The income tax, which the founders explicitly rejected, now reaches into every paycheck you earn before you touch a dollar of it. The Federal Reserve, a central bank of the exact type Jefferson warned would strip citizens of property through inflation, has spent the last two decades aggressively expanding the money supply and handing you the bill through rising prices.
The founders drew the federal government's powers in a short, specific list. Congress could coin money, raise an army, and regulate interstate trade. What it could not do is not in that list, because the founders assumed the limits were obvious. They were wrong to assume that.
Today the federal government licenses your profession, subsidizes your competitor, dictates your health plan, and surveils your financial transactions above $600. The administrative state, staffed by unelected bureaucrats at the FDA, SEC, EPA, and an estimated 430 other agencies, writes rules carrying the force of law without a single congressional vote. Madison called this precise arrangement tyranny in The Federalist Papers(No. 47).
The founders risked hanging to escape a government that taxed tea at 3%. You hand over 30 percent of your income and are supposed to thank the state for the privilege of keeping the rest.
Lisa Miller retweeted
The same artist who painted The Scream also painted this.
Edvard Munch's The Sun is almost its opposite: bright and full of life.
Munch painted darkness, but also light. Life always gives you a second chance.
Honestly, the joyous thing about @RonDesantis is his responses to rank ignorance of those who attack him. I learn something, rendering the attack impotent.
Thoughts @EdMorrissey
This is because of my revisit to Paradise Lost yesterday.
Adam and Eve blew it when they ate the forbidden apple and learned evil. Because of a tremendous night of lustful s#x they thought evil's pretty fun. Then things went very wrong.
The lesson for those of us trying to cleave to God, we are of this place, we have to deal with those who have embraced hell. We must know evil in order to defeat it, without allowing the chains to take route in our own souls.
This requires scrupulous attention to where we are speaking and acting from. It requires sobriety (temperance), fortitude, justice and prudence.
It's harder than we think and gets easier with repetition, and should be wed to a humility to remain dispassionate and detached in our assessment to allow correction.
Lisa Miller retweeted
Exactly. The left abandoned the traditional conception of environmental stewardship and natural resource protection in favor of climate ideology.
We have done the largest environmental restoration project — the Everglades — in US history. We are now doing some of the federal projects related to the effort on behalf of the Feds (we do it quicker in FL).
Huge accomplishment for our state and the nation!
The Larcenous Class's (both parties) motto from Paradise Lost:
Farewell happy fields
Where joy for ever dwells: Hail horrors, hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new possessor—one who brings
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n. …Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.
Lisa Miller retweeted
Ron DeSantis has been in the news lately.
So, I thought it'd be fun to pull this out of the archives.
In October 2024, shortly after Hurricane Milton struck Florida, DeSantis body bagged a news reporter who criticized his lack of climate change policy and tried to box him into a corner about the tornadoes (spawned in Milton's rainbands) and their supposed relation to global warming.
And unlike most politicians who dodge the questions they're asked, Governor DeSantis took it head-on and beat him like a drum, saying,
🗨️ “Tornadoes? I think you can go back and find tornadoes for all of human history for sure. How does this storm rate in the history of storms? I think it hit with a barometric pressure of about 950 millibars (my correction: it was 954). If you go back to 1851, there's probably been 27 hurricanes that have had lower—so the lower the barometric pressure—the stronger it is—I think there have been about 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did, and of those, 17 occurred prior to 1960.”
But DeSantis wasn't finished.
He continued bringing the data saying,
🗨️ “The most powerful hurricane on record since the 1950s in the state of Florida occurred in the 1930s—the Labor Day Hurricane. The barometric pressure on that was 892 millibars. It totally wiped out the Keys; we've never seen anything like it [since]. And that remains, heads and shoulders, above any powerful hurricane that we've ever had in the state of Florida. The most deadly hurricane we've ever had was in 1928—the Okeechobee Hurricane. It killed over 4,000 people. Fortunately, we aren't going to have anything close to that [with Milton].”
The best part about all of this?
This info he rattled off the top of his head came from a post of MINE on X.
Lisa Miller retweeted
Every single federal judicial vacancy needs to be filled in the lame duck session. The Senate should pull all-nighters for as long as it takes. Democrats wont confirm a single Trump judge once they take over.
Lisa Miller retweeted
This is why voters will support Ron DeSantis in 2028:
"When you stand up and you stand in that fire and you fight back for people, man, they will have your back. They will support you. That's what we've shown in the state of Florida."
Results!
Governor Ron Desantis cut taxes by almost $10 billion, cut spending year after year, maxed out the rainy day fund, paid off half the state’s historic debt, kept the budgets balanced with AAA ratings, pushed Amendment 3 to slash property taxes for homeowners, strengthened voter ID, banned ballot harvesting and Zuckerbucks, created an election crimes unit, signed the Florida SAVE Act to verify citizenship, wants a balanced budget amendment, wants to ban stock trading for Congress and the executive branch, backs term limits, and actually goes after special interests instead of kissing their ass.
Every state should be ran like Florida.