19 Comments
User's avatar
Mark Archambault's avatar

It's not meant to make sense. I guess birds of a feather hang together, in this case Vultures.

Expand full comment
Mark Archambault's avatar

Jim, this article is a tour de force. It's good to see Ellison's role through Oracle spelled out so clearly. Oracle, Palantir and Co., the New Big Brother. In fact, Ellison looks like he could play that role.

Expand full comment
Ruthy Wexler's avatar

I find myself in a quandary. I absorb and (try to) understand all Jim says, here and other times--but especially today--and am filled with great anger, against these selfish stupid idiots who've grabbed power and great horror and sadness. I don't want to feel that way! Especially the anger (now I can understand why revolutionaries blow things up). But it is the only sane response, to people taking away all the good in our world. The people who truly love freedom are the ones who are left standing. Thanks, Jim.

Expand full comment
SusanB's avatar

Will it be easier to defeat one Big Brother than five Big Bro's?

Expand full comment
Ruthy Wexler's avatar

none of it will be easy. They really are attacking our ability to think.

Expand full comment
Sam Jannarone's avatar

These men are intent upon destroying modern civilization, such as it exists, in order to implement their adolescent fantasies of world domination after being stuffed into their lockers in high school and never being able to recover from that psychic injustice visited upon them.

(See Stephen Miller in the White House.).

The project will inevitably fail for a plethora of reasons , due to a number of factors: their hubris, their inability to see the populace gathering outside their gated communities, and the uprising and revolt they and their ill thought out project will foment in

Q-1 2026. Trump is right about one thing— the new year will usher in a golden age… the utter and total destruction of the tech bro’s fever dreams

Expand full comment
Mark Archambault's avatar

May you be correct!

Expand full comment
William Farrar's avatar

Strange bedfellows: Ellison, Zuckerberg, Altman, Jews, Jensen Huang, Chinese, Musk a racist and neo NAZI. Thiel a gay. Help me make sense.

Expand full comment
McLain's avatar

I consider myself very lucky that I have never used TikTok or X or even Instagram. Never watch network tv except for occasional sports. Never watch CNN.

Thanks for all your hard work, Jim. Yours is the newsletter I most look forward to.

May your holidays be peaceful.

Expand full comment
Ruthy Wexler's avatar

Echo: thanks for all your work, Jim. It is staggering, what you have taught yourself.

Expand full comment
Allan Crow's avatar

And us. :)

Expand full comment
Ruthy Wexler's avatar

OH, yeah

Expand full comment
William Farrar's avatar

I don't own a cell phone, got by 86 years without one, found no need to start, glad that I didn't as all electronic data, text and voice, are captured by the NSA data collection center at Bluffdale, UT and now they have AI to screen all traffic.

However the only way to source landline or home phone as the kids call it, is via anold fashion wire tap.. of course the other end of the conversation is probably a cell phone, but they can't identify the recipient landline user.

My only vulnerability is the internet, and there it is substack, and that is probably all it takes.

Expand full comment
McLain's avatar

I held out a long time on the cell phone. Now I am tempted daily to throw it in the lake.

Expand full comment
Allan Crow's avatar

Me too, I'm 63, I check my messages once a day and try not to carry it with me.

Expand full comment
Ruthy Wexler's avatar

I am totally hooked on my cell phone. I don't do any of these abstemious measures. And what good does it do me? Thanks guys for sharing.

Expand full comment
Ruthy Wexler's avatar

Oh yeah. wouldn't that b great. I mean, look at us. How much better we got along/ talked to each other/ were kinder ..... without these damn phones. We even managed to pick each other up at the airport, right? We did that. Without cell phones.

Expand full comment
William Farrar's avatar

I had a flip phone, but only used it while shopping to call my wife, and had to get someone to help me turn it on. I almost had an accident when I looked down to get the flip phone, and that did it. No more flip phone for me.

I could ram the back of a vehicle, because some jerk, who just got in to the car,instead of buckling up and backing out, grabs their cell phone to see what "important" stupid thing they missed.

My wife has one, but puts it in airplane mode while driving.

And then there are the number of people I almost hit, staring at their cell phone while crossing the street.

And hardly any of those messages are of any importance,not even vaguely.

Expand full comment
Ruthy Wexler's avatar

never important

Expand full comment