They are grabbing at power because they can. I'm afraid that when donnie little dick leaves that they, the tech bros, have infiltrated government so completely that they cannot be out voted like their leader. Their core programs implanted cannot be taken out even by experts. This was the plan. People have to be aware of what they are doing and how it may seem innocent at first but the underlying objective is still ultimate control. This is the SOFT facist takeover. You don't know what you're missing until it's gone.
Just curious, does anyone really think AI will find a cure for cancer? Keep in mind, there will likely not be “a” cure because there are so many variables , eg, tumor type, subtype, mutations, location, etc.. Trump doubled funds for AI research for pediatric cancer, but axed the paltry budget of $4M for clinical trials(the gold standard) conducted by The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium. How many of his AI cronies/donor’s pockets will be lined while pediatric cancer patients wait in vain?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I grew up when human contact was tactile, face to face, we learned to read facial expressions and body language. Relationships were real, there were con men then but they were so rare, that a musical was made about them (The Music man)
Today the con reaches in your privacy daily, many times, it is no further away then your telephone or TV set
People form relationships with imaginary friends and even lovers
When I was a kid, I lived near a creek, that was actually a park, and it ran for miles, I lived there in spring and summer, me and my friends, we swam in in summer, raced sled across it in winter.
I own substantial property it has a wooded area and a creek runs through it, I can't explore it because I am too old and with deficits, but I had a tenant with a 12 year old son, I offered him the opportunity to explore, he wasn't interested he had his X Box or what ever computer toy.
Kids go to school, mingle, then go home and separate themselves from the real world for the imaginary. If they don't get enough likes, they are led to feel unworthy and some even commit suicide.
When I was a kid and somebody tried to bully me, I would punch them in the face, how do you punch an avatar a screen name.
If our founders were to be suddenly transported through time, first they would be objects of derision, curiosity, derided, analyzed. eventually be scorned and even institutionalized, but they they themselves would be so confounded and confused that they would lose it.
Christians would scorn and deride Jesus. Muslims would do the same to Muhammad.
I never thought I would say this, but I am thankful to be an octogenarian. the wrorld ahead does not look inviting for man or beast.
I'm right behind you, William, and I'm 64. I've had an awesome life of adventure and exploration....being a commercial fisherman my entire adult life on the west coast of Vancouver Island. I feel the same dread about the future, and I, too, grew up playing in creeks. Take care, my friend. :)
They are grabbing at power because they can. I'm afraid that when donnie little dick leaves that they, the tech bros, have infiltrated government so completely that they cannot be out voted like their leader. Their core programs implanted cannot be taken out even by experts. This was the plan. People have to be aware of what they are doing and how it may seem innocent at first but the underlying objective is still ultimate control. This is the SOFT facist takeover. You don't know what you're missing until it's gone.
Just curious, does anyone really think AI will find a cure for cancer? Keep in mind, there will likely not be “a” cure because there are so many variables , eg, tumor type, subtype, mutations, location, etc.. Trump doubled funds for AI research for pediatric cancer, but axed the paltry budget of $4M for clinical trials(the gold standard) conducted by The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium. How many of his AI cronies/donor’s pockets will be lined while pediatric cancer patients wait in vain?
It's not meant to make sense. I guess birds of a feather hang together, in this case Vultures.
Yes, except vultures live useful lives.
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.
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.
Will it be easier to defeat one Big Brother than five Big Bro's?
none of it will be easy. They really are attacking our ability to think.
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
May you be correct!
Strange bedfellows: Ellison, Zuckerberg, Altman, Jews, Jensen Huang, Chinese, Musk a racist and neo NAZI. Thiel a gay. Help me make sense.
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.
Echo: thanks for all your work, Jim. It is staggering, what you have taught yourself.
And us. :)
OH, yeah
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.
I held out a long time on the cell phone. Now I am tempted daily to throw it in the lake.
Me too, I'm 63, I check my messages once a day and try not to carry it with me.
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.
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.
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.
never important
I grew up when human contact was tactile, face to face, we learned to read facial expressions and body language. Relationships were real, there were con men then but they were so rare, that a musical was made about them (The Music man)
Today the con reaches in your privacy daily, many times, it is no further away then your telephone or TV set
People form relationships with imaginary friends and even lovers
When I was a kid, I lived near a creek, that was actually a park, and it ran for miles, I lived there in spring and summer, me and my friends, we swam in in summer, raced sled across it in winter.
I own substantial property it has a wooded area and a creek runs through it, I can't explore it because I am too old and with deficits, but I had a tenant with a 12 year old son, I offered him the opportunity to explore, he wasn't interested he had his X Box or what ever computer toy.
Kids go to school, mingle, then go home and separate themselves from the real world for the imaginary. If they don't get enough likes, they are led to feel unworthy and some even commit suicide.
When I was a kid and somebody tried to bully me, I would punch them in the face, how do you punch an avatar a screen name.
If our founders were to be suddenly transported through time, first they would be objects of derision, curiosity, derided, analyzed. eventually be scorned and even institutionalized, but they they themselves would be so confounded and confused that they would lose it.
Christians would scorn and deride Jesus. Muslims would do the same to Muhammad.
I never thought I would say this, but I am thankful to be an octogenarian. the wrorld ahead does not look inviting for man or beast.
I'm right behind you, William, and I'm 64. I've had an awesome life of adventure and exploration....being a commercial fisherman my entire adult life on the west coast of Vancouver Island. I feel the same dread about the future, and I, too, grew up playing in creeks. Take care, my friend. :)