Read the Stand with Jensen letter and consider adding your name. #standwithjensen #bringjensenback standwithjensen.com/
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Here's a joke about Islam:
When are Muslim women allowed to walk ahead of the men ?
In mine fields
Oh! There'a a knock at the door...
🚨 TODAY IS THE DAY!
Stephen Gray is in court today to appeal his conviction under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 for posting a joke about Islam on Facebook.
Stephen is an FSU member and a retired police officer who gave 27 years of service to his community.
The joke was an image of a rasher of bacon beside a man in a turban, with the caption: “Fun facts about bacon! People who eat bacon have a lower chance of marrying a 9-year-old!”
It referred to the Prophet Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha, who was six at the time, and the consummation of the marriage when she was nine.
Stephen told the court that the post was satirical, but that he also hoped it would prompt serious debate about whether the marriage had helped make child marriage acceptable in parts of the Muslim world.
He was ordered to pay more than £1,000 in fines and costs, and now has a criminal record.
This is astonishing in a country that abolished blasphemy laws in 2008 — 18 years ago.
The Free Speech Union is proud to support Stephen, and we hope he wins his appeal today.
Please donate to Stephen’s crowdfunder and help us stop an Islamic blasphemy law from taking root in Britain 👇
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NVIDIA letting Jensen go is a huge mistake, for America and for humanity. It's Apple firing Steve Jobs all over again, but much bigger, given the role of AI in defining the future of our world.
I've been keeping quiet on this out of respect for Jensen's family and team, who I've met and who are amazing humans, and because I personally hate infidelity. So my heart goes out to them in this difficult personal family moment.
But I can also say that Jensen is human, and makes mistakes like all of us do. Not that I matter at all, but I've known Jensen for a long time and have gotten the chance to spend a lot of time with him, behind the scenes, away from mics and cameras. I have seen him show kindness, humility, care to everyone around him, including strangers, including from the poorest most struggling parts of society, treating all the same with the same thoughtfulness and attention, because they are fellow humans and not because he has something to gain from them. That shows rare character, to maintain humility and humanity through all of it.
Another data point is what people who know him well have said privately to me about Jensen over the years. I've never had anyone tell me anything but how awesome he is or how much they love him. Probably over a thousand people at this point. This includes hundreds of engineers, CEOs, colleagues, friends, etc.
Also, since there was some spy talk. Jensen is as proud an American as it gets. I'm in shock frankly at all of this, including the mass hysteria around it. I love America, and I think NVIDIA letting Jensen go is terrible for America.
I stand with Jensen.
Love you all ❤️
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There is a second layer to all this that I have not seen anyone discussing.
His claim that the Rosenbergs were "lined up against the wall" is not actually true. They were executed by electric chair, a method associated exclusively with state-sanctioned formal executions.
"The Wall", OTOH, is a concept currently having a moment with the assassination-left. It is associated with lynching, struggle sessions, and rogue military action absent central authority or court proceedings. Countless election-era retweets of right-wing posts titled simply "wall" are just one example. I think the mistake (intentional?) is telling - accidentally or not, it is precisely worded for maximum amplification in the current moment by people who know exactly what is being said.
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Fireside Chat: Ron Baron and Elon Musk nitter.gq/i/broadcasts/2YRYWgMNj…
🤯 Mind-blowing AI moment of the day: I've been tripping over a recently introduced bug in Copilot CLI where typing ctrl-d to delete a character while editing a long prompt causes the CLI to shut down and lose the long prompt. The bug is that it's only supposed to trigger a shutdown on an empty prompt.
Not knowing it was a bug, I asked Opus 5.5 to fix or disable the ctrl-d binding. The response: "I disabled Ctrl+D shutdown. Copilot CLI has no setting for remapping keys, so I patched its installed code."
I would never even consider patching the CLI code and wouldn't have even thought it possible, but AI just did it and completed in ~1 minute. Amazing
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Elon buying Twitter and restoring free speech was unironically one of the most pivotal moments in the 21st century
Its effects will be studied for generations
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Wow. Got them dead to rights.
A main fundraising apparatus of the left was consistently and knowingly breaking the law, and hiding it.
If it was the right caught doing this, it would 100% be the top news story for WEEKS in the legacy media.
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A fully and rapidly reusable rocket will fundamentally change how humanity accesses outer space. “The Holy Grail of Rocketry” continues the ongoing Starship series with a look back at the scrappy days of SpaceX engineers proving reuse was possible and takes you onboard a high-seas race to recover a floating Starship
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The White Box Project is live.
We hand-reviewed over 10,000 police booking records from Florida’s five largest counties with readily available booking information. What we found was harrowing.
In the sample we analyzed, nearly 40 percent of records marked “White” were of criminals who were actually Black, Brown, Muslim, Hispanic, or Asian.
Every case published on the site can be examined individually, alongside the original public record and our classification.
Remember, this is Florida, the same state where tonight voters will hawkishly watch the results of the Republican primary for governor because the election in November is a foregone conclusion.
Imagine the error rate for blue states.
I hope you will look through the website and see the same ugliness we’ve seen while making it—a prime example of the collapse of the American justice system and its ability to bring justice to you: Americans.
whiteboxproject.org/
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Extracts from article in Spectator 16th August by Brendan O’Neill:
Behold the human wreckage of the cult of diversity. The tragedy of Jason Arday is that he was both built up and destroyed by the ruthless machinery of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). The academy made him into the golden boy of its philistine project of ‘decolonisation’ and gave not one thought to what the consequences might be if his thin story unravelled, as it inevitably would. No one can deny it now: wokeness makes false gods and real tragedies. . .
This is the poison chalice of the state religion of diversity. It lays traps for the very people it celebrates. It handpicks members of ‘the oppressed’ for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. That’s the toxic bargain of identity politics: it builds teetering pedestals for ethnic-minority thinkers, meaning their fall from grace is often twice as fatal.
And what a pedestal they made for Arday. They worshipped him as ‘the best in the world’. They beatified him as a black wunderkind whose very presence in a place like Cambridge might help to wash away its sins of whiteness. They canonised him as a living monument to ‘decolonisation’. It was precisely this, their giddy, narcissistic desire to manufacture a kind of black saviour, that made them turn a blind eye to the questionable elements of Arday’s CV and life story. They sacrificed their due diligence to the god of decolonisation.
And Arday suffered. He was both poster boy and sacrificial lamb of the diversity crusade. Even as he gained from it – reaching the dizzying heights of a Cambridge professorship – he was being damned by it. The foundation of myth and sand his starry career was built on was untenable. Its collapse was a given. It is a testament to the ideological blindness of the inhabitants of our ivory towers that none of them foresaw it. . . .
The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
. . . The media is the only institution in this entire tragic scandal that did its job properly. Journalists found a story and they told it. It was the academy and Arday’s colleagues who failed to do their jobs. Who failed to prize merit over identity, and failed to foresee the public embarrassment that would befall their falsely promoted friend. They ignored the truth – the media found it.
I and others have been arguing for years that the politics of identity is a disaster for all, black and white alike. White kids are overlooked, black kids are patronised. Whites are branded ‘privileged’, blacks ‘oppressed’. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who must atone for past sins, blacks as history’s perma-victims who require the gracious helping hand of the state. We are demonised or infantilised according to the accident of our race.
Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true ideal of equality. We couldn’t save Jason but we can save merit from the monstrous jaws of identity.
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"Woke 1 sought a world where ppl could work, move and live without molestation by the powerful who want to subjugate us.
Nope. No way. Do not let them do this. "Woke" was a complex phenomenon with different ways to model it. But the best way to conceptualize it was as an attempt to destroy the natural Social Value system based on character and replace it with an unnatural Identity based one. Ill explain:
It used to be that the "Social Value" of a person in their community was, in large part, determined by things that mattered. Things like their ethics, their behavior, their honor, their trustworthiness etc etc. All of this would be summed up by the word "character". We valued ppl of high character and devalued ppl of low
"Woke" is an attempt to destroy that system and create one where the primary social value of a person is their identity. Their behavior is irrelevent. Their character is irrelevent. All that matters is their identity: their race,sex, ethnicity, religion or sexual preference. THATS how social value is determined. If someones identity sits high enough on the "Hierarcy of Oppression" then they have social value, and are given social virtue that they did not earn and many times do not deserve. If their identity that sits low on the Hierarchy of Oppression, they do not. In neither case does their character matter. We see this all the time. Every person is rightfully wary of men hanging around womens bathrooms. But put that man in a dress, call him "Trans", and by dint of the trans identity being high on the Hierarchy of Oppression, the Woke retards will now pretend like this man couldnt possibly be a threat. He is given social value and implied virtue through nothing he did, no trust that he earned, simply by his identity. This kind of Social Value system is of course a magnet for predators.
Another good example of this is in the way the Wokes treated George Floyd vs Daniel Penny.
They made a Saint out of George Floyd - with statues, memorials, vigils - despite him being a genuinely garbage person with long history of criminality.
Daniel Penny, on the other hand, was demonized - with character assasination by the media and criminal prosecution by NYC - despite him being a genuine hero who showed courage, strong character and a sense of duty.
Why would they do this? Because the lifelong criminal Floyd had the "right" identity, and the Hero Penny had the "wrong" one. They had to destroy Penny BECAUSE he showed strong character and heroic behavior. Thats the worst kind of crime in a Woke-dominant culture (such as NYC politics), is to do something heroic and honorable. Meanwhile actual criminals get statues and murals, because the best way the revolutionaries can highlight the new primacy of "identity" over "character" as the ultimate indicators of social value is to make heros out of criminals with the right identity and criminals out of heros with the wrong one.
So when ppl trying to whitewash Woke as "just some overzealous do-gooders trying to make the world a better plave and going too far" dont allow it. Unless there is a broad understanding about how deeply sinister Woke really is/was, we will be doomed to repeat it.
No society could exist as Free and Just if existed in the image of the Woke ideal.
This is the best description of the meaning of "woke" I've ever seen. Well said
"Woke 1 sought a world where ppl could work, move and live without molestation by the powerful who want to subjugate us.
Nope. No way. Do not let them do this. "Woke" was a complex phenomenon with different ways to model it. But the best way to conceptualize it was as an attempt to destroy the natural Social Value system based on character and replace it with an unnatural Identity based one. Ill explain:
It used to be that the "Social Value" of a person in their community was, in large part, determined by things that mattered. Things like their ethics, their behavior, their honor, their trustworthiness etc etc. All of this would be summed up by the word "character". We valued ppl of high character and devalued ppl of low
"Woke" is an attempt to destroy that system and create one where the primary social value of a person is their identity. Their behavior is irrelevent. Their character is irrelevent. All that matters is their identity: their race,sex, ethnicity, religion or sexual preference. THATS how social value is determined. If someones identity sits high enough on the "Hierarcy of Oppression" then they have social value, and are given social virtue that they did not earn and many times do not deserve. If their identity that sits low on the Hierarchy of Oppression, they do not. In neither case does their character matter. We see this all the time. Every person is rightfully wary of men hanging around womens bathrooms. But put that man in a dress, call him "Trans", and by dint of the trans identity being high on the Hierarchy of Oppression, the Woke retards will now pretend like this man couldnt possibly be a threat. He is given social value and implied virtue through nothing he did, no trust that he earned, simply by his identity. This kind of Social Value system is of course a magnet for predators.
Another good example of this is in the way the Wokes treated George Floyd vs Daniel Penny.
They made a Saint out of George Floyd - with statues, memorials, vigils - despite him being a genuinely garbage person with long history of criminality.
Daniel Penny, on the other hand, was demonized - with character assasination by the media and criminal prosecution by NYC - despite him being a genuine hero who showed courage, strong character and a sense of duty.
Why would they do this? Because the lifelong criminal Floyd had the "right" identity, and the Hero Penny had the "wrong" one. They had to destroy Penny BECAUSE he showed strong character and heroic behavior. Thats the worst kind of crime in a Woke-dominant culture (such as NYC politics), is to do something heroic and honorable. Meanwhile actual criminals get statues and murals, because the best way the revolutionaries can highlight the new primacy of "identity" over "character" as the ultimate indicators of social value is to make heros out of criminals with the right identity and criminals out of heros with the wrong one.
So when ppl trying to whitewash Woke as "just some overzealous do-gooders trying to make the world a better plave and going too far" dont allow it. Unless there is a broad understanding about how deeply sinister Woke really is/was, we will be doomed to repeat it.
No society could exist as Free and Just if existed in the image of the Woke ideal.
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