Djay2001 retweeted
Sentient Plasma.
It's going to become a very mainstream discussion.
Mark my words.
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⚡️The most disturbing implication of those five silver quarters is that human labor and ownership operate under fundamentally different economic rules.
In 1964, a worker exchanged an hour of life for five quarters. That hour disappeared forever. The silver remained, capable of appreciating for another sixty years.
Labor gets compensated for the moment it is performed. Ownership retains a claim on the future.
A worker earns money, spends it on survival, and returns to sell another hour. An asset owner holds something that can appreciate, serve as collateral, and finance the acquisition of additional assets.
For generations, human labor possessed enormous bargaining power because capital needed workers to produce wealth.
Human labor was the recurring price capital had to pay to make itself productive.
Now AI and robotics are beginning to change that relationship.
Capital is acquiring the ability to perform work that previously required human beings. The owners retain the resulting economic output, while displaced workers lose the income that once gave them access to it.
Yet their financial obligations remain. Mortgages still mature. Interest still accrues. Rent still comes due.
We have constructed an entire financial system around the assumption that human beings will remain economically valuable enough to service decades of future obligations.
AI is beginning to challenge that assumption.
A civilization can experience extraordinary productivity growth while weakening the very mechanism through which ordinary people historically claimed their share of prosperity.
And that raises a question with enormous consequences:
If your labor is no longer required to produce civilization’s wealth, what gives you an economic claim on that wealth?
The most unsettling part of those five quarters is that the silver never had to prove its usefulness again to remain valuable.
The human being holding it would have to prove theirs every time they needed another paycheck.
Djay2001 retweeted
⚡️The most revealing word in Trump's entire statement is “BANNING.”
Because something much larger is happening here.
The American presidency is attempting to declare the arrival of superintelligence before the world has established that the threshold has been crossed.
That reveals a change in how political power is beginning to relate to machine intelligence.
Historically, governments derived authority from human institutions. Expertise, elections, laws, military command, bureaucracies. Machines supplied information that people interpreted.
Now consider what happens when the government formally describes a technology as possessing intelligence superior to humanity.
The burden of authority begins shifting toward whoever controls the supposedly superior intelligence.
And here is where the real mechanism appears.
The companies controlling these systems determine their training, objectives, access, deployment, and constraints. Yet the public increasingly encounters their outputs as judgments originating from something more intelligent than any individual human.
That produces an extraordinary asymmetry.
The machines acquire the reputation of superior judgment. Their owners retain the power to determine what that judgment serves.
Trump's proposed terminology accelerates that psychological transition. Once institutions begin calling something superintelligence, questioning its conclusions becomes socially and politically different from questioning ordinary software.
The word itself begins manufacturing deference.
The next phase is a competition over who gets to define, certify, and control superior intelligence. Governments will want strategic command. Corporations will want proprietary control. Both will want the legitimacy that comes from claiming access to capabilities beyond ordinary human reasoning.
Superintelligence is becoming a category of political power before it has become an agreed scientific measurement.
And the most consequential question is already taking shape.
When a government publicly declares that machines possess superior intelligence, what happens when their recommendations conflict with human authority?
Who gets overruled?
Who takes responsibility?
Who decides what the machine is allowed to optimize?
The real struggle ahead is over who gets to speak with the authority of an intelligence that society has been taught to regard as superior to its own.
That struggle has begun before the machines have even earned the title.
Djay2001 retweeted
how is this legal?!
If you've ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why.
@log4j rooted his Samsung and found an always-on hot mic, automatic content recognition, geolocation, network mapping, ad targeting and user profiling, shared with Samsung's "400 partners".
A lot of it can be blocked in <15 min, wrote a basic guide below.
What your TV is doing
The main culprit is ACR (automatic content recognition). Your TV screenshots what's on screen, fingerprints it, and sends it home to build your ad profile. Samsung does it every 500ms, LG every 10ms [1].
What is insane: it happens on connected devices too.
Plug in your laptop, your console, your work machine, and your TV can fingerprint that via HDMI [1].
He also found that if your Samsung doesn't have a mic, it'll look for one from a connected soundbar or bluetooth device.
nitter.gq/log4j/status/211376224…
It's on by default, and you likely agreed to it on the setup screen you clicked through in 10 seconds.
Step 1: Turn off ACR
Samsung: Terms & Privacy → Viewing Information Services
LG: Live Plus
Vizio: Viewing Data
Roku: "Use info from TV inputs"
Sony/Google TV: Samba Interactive TV
Menus vary by model, but those are the names to look for. While you're in there, opt out of interest-based ads, reset your advertising ID, decline every optional privacy agreement, turn off voice recognition, and delete apps you never open.
Step 2: Give smart devices their own network
Put the TV, cameras, speakers and vacuum on your router's guest/IoT network. The logic is simple: these devices rarely get patched. If one gets compromised (getting drastically more frequent with AI), it shouldn't be able to see your other devices or home network.
Step 3: Block trackers for the whole house with DNS-level filtering
NextDNS (cloud-based) is easy and has a solid free plan. Pi-hole is a little bit more work if you prefer self hosting. For simplicity we'll focus on the former.
1. Sign up at nextdns.io (free tier is plenty)
2. Privacy tab: add a blocklist (OISD is a good bet) and turn on Native Tracking Protection for Samsung, LG, Roku, Amazon (see attached image)
3. Setup tab: copy your endpoint
4. Paste it into your router's DNS settings as DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS (or use the IPs + "Link IP" if your router only does plain DNS)
5. Bonus: block outbound port 53 except to your router. Some devices hardcode their own DNS to get around you
Then open the NextDNS logs and watch how often your TV phones home. It's eye-opening. If an app or update breaks, find the domain in the logs and allowlist it.
Why they do this
TV prices are down 97% since 2000 [2]. Most of that is better manufacturing and brutal competition. But once margins on the hardware hit zero, the cost moved to you.
In Q3 2024, Vizio lost $6.7M selling TVs and made $115.8M in gross profit from ads and viewing data [3]. They've said on earnings calls that they keep TV prices low to grow the audience they sell to advertisers. Walmart bought them in 2024.
This isn't a conspiracy theory either. Vizio paid $2.2M to the FTC in 2017 for tracking 11 million TVs without consent. Last December, Texas sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over ACR. Samsung and LG have since agreed to stop collecting that data without explicit consent [4].
TL;DR
1. ACR off
2. Ads + voice off
3. Smart devices on their own network
4. NextDNS filtering on the router
Sources:
[1] ACR study: arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203
[2] Cost of US consumer goods: aei.org/economics/chart-of-t…
[3] Vizio Q3 2024: sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
[4] Texas v. Samsung: texasattorneygeneral.gov/new…
Djay2001 retweeted
This might be the wildest minimum wage statistic I've ever seen.
In 1971, the federal minimum wage was $1.60 per hour. Gold averaged $40.92 per ounce.
It took 26 hours of minimum-wage labor to earn an ounce of gold.
In 2025, the federal minimum wage was $7.25. Gold averaged $3,432 per ounce.
It took 473 hours of labor to earn that same ounce.
Your hourly wage increased 4.5× in dollars.
The amount of labor required to acquire gold increased 18.5×.
Measured in gold, the federal minimum wage lost approximately 95% of its value.
Fifty-four years of nominal wage increases, and one hour of work buys a fraction of the monetary asset it once did.
Djay2001 retweeted
Want to have your mind blown?
In 1971, the median household income was $9,030, or 220 ounces of gold.
In 2025, it was $87,460, or just 25 ounces of gold.
Your paycheck went up 10x.
Measured in gold, it fell 88%.
To earn what the median household earned in 1971, you’d need about $890,000 per year today.
That’s what fiat debasement looks like.
Djay2001 retweeted
Fusion research just gained new degrees of freedom.
We've constructed current-carrying plasma organizations with zero net mechanical angular momentum, developed ways to construct and engage physical states from phase, and demonstrated why preserving electromagnetic phase changes the calculated interaction with fusion products.
These aren't merely conceptual proposals.
We've published the mathematical constructions, executable demonstrations, numerical results, and supporting research so others can investigate and build from them.
The larger implication is profound: fusion research need not remain confined to the plasma configurations, measurement assumptions, and computational methods we've inherited.
We can expand what is physically designable, what can be calculated, and what can be deliberately prepared.
This is an invitation to fusion researchers, plasma physicists, engineers, and builders: the constructions are available. Let's put them to work.
The research is open. The next step is physical development.
zenodo.org/records/23523832
Djay2001 retweeted
WHEN YOU REALIZE THE BABY BOOM WASN'T JUST SOLDIERS COMING HOME HORNY.
It was soldiers coming home to the GI Bill, free college, 0% down home loans, and low interest business loans.
It was strong unions. Pensions. A house that cost 2 years of salary.
It was confidence that the future was actually going to be better than the present.
That's what produced a baby boom. Not romance. Security.
You want a higher birth rate now?
Give people a future where they know their kids will actually be okay.
That's the whole formula. It's not complicated. It's just expensive, and nobody in charge wants to pay for it twice.
Djay2001 retweeted
⚡️The AI boom is becoming a $10 trillion prisoner’s dilemma.
That is the pattern hiding beneath this chart.
Every major technology company faces the same calculation.
Spend hundreds of billions building AI infrastructure and risk destroying capital through overinvestment.
Refuse to spend, and risk losing the most important technological transition in modern history.
The cost of falling behind could exceed the cost of wasting billions.
So everyone builds.
Microsoft builds because Google builds. Google builds because OpenAI advances. Meta builds because intelligence could undermine its existing business. Amazon builds because cloud dominance may depend on having enough compute.
Every decision makes sense individually.
Collectively, they can create enormous excess capacity.
And here is where the economics turn against the builders.
The companies are spending trillions to eliminate the very scarcity that currently makes intelligence expensive.
Every successful improvement in model efficiency makes intelligence cheaper. Every new data center expands supply. Every competing provider puts pressure on pricing.
Yet the infrastructure still requires electricity, depreciation, maintenance, financing, and replacement hardware.
The better the technology becomes, the harder it may be to extract enough revenue per unit of intelligence to justify the investment.
And then comes the feedback loop.
Once the infrastructure is built, the owners must monetize it. That creates enormous pressure to automate more occupations, replace more software, and push AI into every available economic activity.
The capital already committed to AI becomes an incentive to accelerate the displacement of human labor.
That is the part worth watching.
The scale of AI investment may reveal how terrified the world’s largest companies are of being left behind, rather than how profitable the infrastructure will ultimately become.
And the ultimate winner may be the company that delivers the most intelligence while owning the least depreciating infrastructure.
The largest capital investment in history could end up transferring extraordinary economic value from the companies financing intelligence to everyone who learns to use it.
Djay2001 retweeted
Millions know now.
Share with everyone. This is happening.
IMO: This is how the game theory plays out
- US military engagement in the Middle East fails to achieve rapid decisive victory
- the Strait of Hormuz experiences extended operational disruption
- oil prices spike
- petrodollar recycling mechanism comes under stress
- foreign central banks reduce US Treasury holdings
- US borrowing costs rise
- Fed responds with significant balance sheet expansion
- global liquidity expands significantly
- Bitcoin as the most sensitive asset to liquidity with a finite supply absorbs a disproportionate share of that impulse
This is forced monetary expansion.
Djay2001 retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: In a MAJOR mask-off moment, Senate Democrats just REJECTED legislation that would've required photo voter ID and banned stock trading for members of Congress, 53-47
100% OF DEMOCRATS VOTED "NAY"
LET THAT SINK IN. Democrats just voted for VOTER FRAUD and INSIDER TRADING 🤯
Same bill passed the House. In the Senate, it needed 60 votes to advance — but couldn't get there because of Dems
These people do not want what's best for America. VOTE RED IN NOVEMBER 🇺🇸
Djay2001 retweeted
Power selects for a specific personality type, and it is not yours.
F.A. Hayek spelled this out in 1944. In a centrally planned system, the people who rise are not the most competent or the most honest. They are the most willing to exercise force against strangers, the most comfortable with contradiction, and the most skilled at coalition-building through favors rather than merit. Government filters for the bad ones from the start.
The mechanism is straightforward. Political power means controlling resources you did not earn. Capturing that control requires outcompeting rivals who have no ethical constraints. A principled candidate refuses to promise contradictory things to different voter blocs. An unprincipled one does it without blinking. The unprincipled one wins. Repeat this selection pressure across hundreds of electoral cycles and you get the U.S. Congress in 2026: a body where the average member has held office for over a decade, raised millions from interested parties, and delivered almost nothing measurable to the people who voted for them.
Bureaucracy compounds the problem. Once entrenched, state agencies attract people who want authority without accountability. You cannot fire most of them. The FDA, the TSA, the Federal Reserve all function this way, staffed by individuals whose career advancement depends on expanding the agency's reach, never on serving you efficiently.
Djay2001 retweeted
⚡️America is losing the small rituals that taught people how to live with other people.
Hosting friends. Playing cards. Dinner parties. Church. Finishing books.
Those look unrelated on the surface.
They share one underlying structure:
sustained attention, low stimulation, physical presence, repetition, and reciprocal obligation.
That is the missing variable.
Those activities trained people to tolerate boredom, disagreement, awkwardness, waiting, listening, hospitality, turn-taking, memory, patience, and the fact that other human beings do not arrive optimized for you.
They were tiny schools for civilization.
And they are disappearing together.
The home used to be a social node.
People entered it.
Meals stretched.
Children overheard adults talking.
Neighbors knew one another.
Friendships accumulated history through repetition.
Church placed people beside others they did not choose.
Cards forced attention into a shared rhythm.
Books trained the mind to stay with something longer than immediate reward.
These activities were building social endurance.
Now much of life is increasingly engineered around the opposite principle:
instant stimulation, personalization, convenience, asynchronous contact, algorithmic filtering, delivery, private entertainment, remote work, individual preference.
The friction disappeared.
But a lot of the friction was secretly carrying the civilization.
That is the part people miss.
Convenience removes the need to negotiate with reality and with one another.
You no longer need to invite someone over.
No need to tolerate the awkward hour before dinner gets good.
No need to sit beside the strange person at church.
No need to finish the chapter.
No need to play the hand you were dealt.
No need to endure much of anything.
And when enough of those repetitions disappear, people become less practiced at relationship itself.
Then loneliness rises.
Trust falls.
Friendships become thinner.
Marriage becomes harder.
Community weakens.
Politics becomes more abstract and hostile because people increasingly encounter opponents as avatars rather than neighbors.
The individual becomes more autonomous while becoming less socially embedded.
That is the contradiction.
The modern world optimized away dependence and accidentally optimized away belonging.
New newsletter: THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN HOST
The share of Americans who say they host friends or family at their home at least monthly has declined by 70 percent in the last 50 years.
derekthompson.org/p/the-deat…
Djay2001 retweeted
Me watching the memecoin, leverage, Bitcoin-loan and fiat truck leave nitter.gq/Hejarek0123/status/209…
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🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: By the stroke of pen and flanked by RFK Jr., President Trump establishes a new US vaccine schedule that decreases the number of jabs from 72 to 11 — and spreads them out over multiple visits, rather than pumping the child all at once
"That's a big one in my book!"
MAHA is alive and well! 🇺🇸
