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Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:15:00 +0000 Nvidia CEO Stuns Rogan With Jaw-Dropping AI Prediction
Nvidia CEO Stuns Rogan With Jaw-Dropping AI Prediction
Nvidia CEO Stuns Rogan With Jaw-Dropping AI Prediction
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang presented Joe Rogan’s audience with a vision of AI so dominant it could rewrite reality itself.
Huang layed out a future where human knowledge completely takes a backseat to silicon brains in the very near future.
“In the future… maybe two or three years, 90% of the world’s knowledge will likely be generated by AI,”
Rogan, no stranger to wild ideas, shot back: “That’s crazy.”
“I know, but it’s just fine,” Huang replied coolly.
“But it’s just fine?”
“Let me tell you why,” Huang offered, stating “It’s because, what difference does it make to me that I am learning from a textbook that was generated by a bunch of people I didn’t know, or… knowledge generated by AI computers that are assimilating all of these and resynthesizing things. To me, I don’t think there’s a whole lot of difference.”
Huang didn’t consider that when AI hallucinates facts or parrots woke nonsense from its training data cesspools, it becomes a tool ripe for manipulation by those who peddle stuff like climate hysteria or open borders.
Huang’s brushing aside AI safety fears isn’t bold; it’s blind to how this tech could supercharge ideological insanity if left unchecked.
However, in a rare show of spine from Big Tech, Huang declared President Trump “our president” and urged America to rally behind him, exposing the petty sabotage from those who can’t stomach success unless it’s their guy calling the shots.
He looked straight at Joe Rogan and said: “President Trump is my president. He is our president,” adding “Just because it’s President Trump, [many] want him to be wrong.”
“I think the United States, we all have to realise he is our president. We want him to succeed because… it helps everybody, all of us succeed,”
The remarks comes amid Huang’s whirlwind D.C. tour, where he huddled with Trump and Senate Republicans to slash export red tape on AI chips, warning that patchwork state regulations could cripple U.S. dominance.
Huang lobbied hard against bills like the GAIN AI Act that would kneecap U.S. chip sales abroad. It was a “wise” move by Congress to spike it, Huang said, equating it to other “detrimental” policies that’d hand the AI edge to Beijing.
China is already nipping at our heels on multiple fronts, Huang warned, with their Belt and Road Initiative funneling cash into tech that could eclipse American innovation overnight.
Trump’s energy push, defying the green zealots who’ve vilified fossil fuels, gets Huang’s nod as a game-changer, the kind of grit that’s “saving the AI industry” by powering data centers without apology.
Trump, ever the dealmaker, called Huang a “smart man” post-meeting, signaling the kind of pro-growth alliance that’s already turbocharging the economy.
Earlier this week, Elon Musk teased his “Galaxy Mind” venture, solar-powered AI satellites orbiting deep space, mashing SpaceX launches, Tesla batteries, and xAI brains into a cosmic supercomputer.
Musk sees it as humanity’s insurance policy, beaming our knowledge off-planet before some black-swan disaster wipes the slate.
Can an optimistic vision of AI overcome the darker side? There are currently frightening fakes flooding culture like digital termites. As we highlighted, the likes of “Solomon Ray,” a chart-topping “soul singer” unmasked as pure AI slop.
AI is not just mimicking hits, it’s spawning them, with one in three daily streams now machine-made. Platforms like Deezer admit 97% of people can’t spot the fraud, turning art into an algorithmic con.
Huang’s “no difference” line ignores how these ghosts erode soul, authenticity, and jobs—paving the way for a world scripted by code, not creators.
Huang’s vision thrills, but it demands guardrails. Truth over woke programming, and America over adversaries.
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Tyler Durden Thu, 12/04/2025 - 19:15 Close Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:25:00 +0000 Boston Judge (Again) Intervenes To Force Payments To Planned Parenthood
Boston Judge (Again) Intervenes To Force Payments To Planned Parenthood
Boston Judge (Again) Intervenes To Force Payments To Planned Parenthood
Authored by Jonathan Turley,
District Court Judge Indira Talwani in Boston has been one of the most active judges in the country in seeking to enjoin the orders of President Donald Trump, including her orders to prevent deportations under previously “paroled” immigrants under the Biden Administration. She previously sought to enjoin the denial of federal funds to Planned Parenthood, an order that the United States Court of Appeals lifted for the First Circuit pending appeal. Now, Judge Talwani is back with a new basis for forcing payments to Planned Parenthood despite Congress barring Medicaid funds under the Big Beautiful Bill.
Planned Parenthood is facing a financial meltdown without the federal funding and is closing offices after the passage of the BBB.
Judge Talwani previously halted the cessation of federal funding on the basis that the action was an effort to punish Planned Parenthood for offering abortion services.
She wrote the law likely violates the Constitution’s “bill of attainder clause,” which prohibits Congress and state legislatures from imposing punishments on individuals or specific entities without trial. As lead counsel in the Foretich case (one of the few successful modern bill of attainder cases ), I was highly skeptical of the chances of Talwani’s earlier opinion being upheld.
In the new 45-page opinion, Judge Talwani now says that the ban contained in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act “does not furnish states with clear notice as to the meaning and application of [the provision’s] criteria” for denying funding.
However, the law applies to any health care provider providing abortions as of October 1 and receives more than $800,000 in Medicaid payments in a year. The Justice Department argued that “The elected Branches determined that taxpayer funds should not be used to subsidize certain entities that practice abortion – conduct that many Americans find morally abhorrent.”
The opinion, in my view, is flawed and (again) stretches existing precedent to the breaking point. Congress clearly has the power to place this condition on federal funding and was clear on the application of that condition.
Section 71113 was enacted on July 4, 2025, and provides that “[n]o Federal funds that are . . . provided to carry out a State [Medicaid plan] . . . shall be used to make payments to a prohibited entity for items and services furnished during the 1-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act[.]” Pub. L. No. 119-21, § 71113(a), 139 Stat. 72, 300-01 (July 4, 2025).
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) further provided the following notice and guidance:
States must ensure their managed care programs comply with section 71113 and applicable requirements under 42 CFR Part 438. States and their actuaries should evaluate whether implementation of section 71113 necessitates adjustments to Medicaid capitation rate development or constitutes a material adjustment requiring an amended rate certification. Additionally, states should review any [state directed payments (“SDPs”)] to determine whether revisions are required and how such SDPs are accounted for in capitation rate development and rate certifications.States must also ensure that all Medicaid managed care contracts comply with all applicable federal and state laws, including Section 71113 of WFTC legislation.[8] To ensure clarity, states should assess if their managed care contracts should be revised to detail the requirements of section 71113. For example, states may wish to specify in their managed care contracts that payments to prohibited entities are not allowable expenditures of Federal funds under section 71113(a), and that any expenditures to such entities made by [covered organizations] are not eligible for [federal financial participation].
The CMS told the states that if it “has already claimed or has drawn down FFP on or after July 4, 2025 for payments to entities identified as prohibited entities as of October 1, 2025, it should promptly withdraw or correct the claim, or return FFP, as required by applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.”
In my view, the court tries too hard (as it did on the attainder opinion) to protect this funding. We will have to see if the First Circuit and the Supreme Court agree with that assessment.
Here is the opinion: Planned Parenthood decision
Tyler Durden Thu, 12/04/2025 - 18:25 Close Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:00:00 +0000 Cue The Liberal Meltdown: State Dept. Renames Institute Of Peace
Cue The Liberal Meltdown: State Dept. Renames Institute Of Peace
The U.S. Institute of Peace - a federally funded think tank created by Congress in 1984 and temporarily dismantled by the Trump administration and DOGE after refusing
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Cue The Liberal Meltdown: State Dept. Renames Institute Of Peace
The U.S. Institute of Peace - a federally funded think tank created by Congress in 1984 and temporarily dismantled by the Trump administration and DOGE after refusing oversight, deleting financial records, and being indirectly linked to money flows reaching Taliban terror networks - has now been officially rebranded the "Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace," per a State Department post on X.
"This morning, the State Department renamed the former Institute of Peace to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation's history. Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace. The best is yet to come ," the State Department wrote on X.
Later today, President Trump is set to hold a peace-deal ceremony at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace with Presidents Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Paul Kagame of Rwanda. The two countries are expected to sign a peace agreement.
With the Institute of Peace largely wound down this year, the Trump administration has ended eight wars . Officials are now discussing a potential peace deal with Russia to end the nearly four-year meat grinder in Eastern Europe.
Was the Institute of Peace ever truly about "peace ," or did it function more as a cover for overseas diplomacy and shadow-network NGO influence operations ...
Remember what DOGE uncovered.
Washington's bureaucratic class is about to have a full-blown "Trump Derangement Syndrome" panic attack over the rebranding.
Tyler Durden Thu, 12/04/2025 - 18:00 Close Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:40:00 +0000 The Problem With GDP
The Problem With GDP
The Problem With GDP
Authored by Alasdair Macleod via VonGreyerz.gold,
With signs of economic stagnation hard to ignore, politicians, economists, and even central bankers talk about the necessity for economic growth. Not only are they displaying economic ignorance, but by chasing something that is not a measure of production, they are bound to fail in their objectives.
The consequences for us all end in a crisis of reality. The errors of economic and monetary management by modern governments result in a credit crisis, which ultimately destroys their currencies. The signs that such a crisis is descending upon us are growing .
This article focuses on the delusions and destruction by macroeconomics: its principle objective is demonstrated to be an egregious error: to achieve economic growth. Being the sum of all recorded qualifying transactions over a period usually of a year, the measure of GDP is not of output, but of credit deployed in the economy. The error is to assume that all credit is deployed productively.
Credit recorded in GDP finances consumption, production (including investment), and government spending. Only credit for production and investment in it leads to price stability. But US industrial production is lower than in 2008, when on the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis’s total index, it was 102.38 compared with 101.27 last:
Separately, FRED shows that industrial investment increased by a paltry $100 billion since 2008.
Credit expansion to finance production, particularly of goods, is non-inflationary because it is employed to make goods better, cheaper and more relevant to evolving consumer desires. And if credit funding goods production and investment have gone nowhere in the last seventeen years, then the increase in GDP is misleading.
Since 2008, GDP has more than doubled to about $30,000 billion. With the exception of service industries, many of which add little value, the expansion of credit funds, excess consumption and government spending. Credit expansion to finance the credit bubble is excluded from GDP, which is a separate issue.
It should now be clear that economists and politicians trumpeting growth are being misled or misleading themselves into promoting inflationary policies. The only offset is savings. If consumers save instead of spending, then consumer prices will not be driven up so much by excess credit. But here the US’s record over time is dismal:
Other than the spikes during the COVID lockdowns, when no one could spend, the long-term savings trend is down. Not only are savings down, but consumer debt is up:
Using 2008 as our base, consumer debt has doubled, while production of goods has stagnated. So not only has the personal savings rate generally declined, but the expansion of consumer debt has been a driving factor behind growth in GDP.
That leaves government spending. Governments are notoriously bad distributors of economic resources, and nowhere is this more so than reflected in GDP. Total US Government spending is about 40% of GDP, with the federal government portion being 23%. At least state and local governments’ spending is more relevant to their communities, but federal government spending is not, and that is where trouble is mounting from wasteful spending, all of which is included in GDP.
The easiest way to grow GDP is for the federal government to increase its useless and economically destructive spending, which undoubtedly encourages the political class to do so.
The deflator myth
Starting with nominal GDP, econometricians point out that it should be deflated for inflation. If nominal GDP is shown to grow by 5%, than an inflation rate of 2% reduces that to real growth of 3%. The deflator usually used is the consumer price index.
The temptation to bolster real GDP growth by tinkering with the CPI is irresistible. Various methods are used to achieve this outcome. The result is that the current US inflation rate is calculated by the Bureau of Labour Statistics to be 3%, while John Williams of Shadowstats, who uses the original 1980 basis of calculation, computes it as 12%. Taking nominal GDP growth currently estimated by the Congressional Budget Office of 4.5%, this changes “real” GDP growth from 1.5% to minus 7.5%.
Imagine the furore if that was admitted! But we can’t even believe this more realistic presentation of the contraction of the value of total credit deployed in the economy (for that is what it is), because in theory there is a general level of prices, but in practice, no such thing exists. Its construction is therefore purely subjective and can say anything a government statistician wants. Hence, the difference between Shadowstats’ 1980 basis and subsequent revisions.
Consequently, the idea that GDP growth, nominal or real, represents the economic progress we all desire gets even further away from the truth. Instead, we can explain how the real economy is being suppressed by statistical misrepresentation, despite GDP headlines.
The debt trap
If there is one thing GDP is genuinely useful for, it gives a nation’s lenders a basis for judging its creditworthiness. Put simply, if national debt is growing faster than its tax base — roughly measured by the growth in GDP — then the economy is in a debt trap. However, if we are realistic about the distortions in the numbers, then many of the G7 nations are already there.
The reason that debt traps are yet to be properly recognised by markets is that they have been captured by governments themselves. The entire macroeconomic myth, coupled with regulatory oversight, have engendered complacency, which eventually will be shattered.
It happened in Britain the last time it had a far-left government. In 1976, sterling began to fall, and the IMF were called in to stabilise government finances. Inflation the previous year had hit 25% and bond yields had soared to over 16%. The problem was that without the IMF forcing the UK government to cut spending and raise taxes to generate a budget surplus, the dynamics of the debt trap would have driven gilt yields higher still.
An understanding that GDP represents credit and not economic progress, and that most of its deployment is inflationary, tells us that the dollar and other major currencies already face debt traps. That is why central bankers in the know are selling currencies and buying gold.
Conclusion
Investors should be aware that the government statistics upon which they rely for guidance are thoroughly misleading. Nowhere is this truer than in GDP, the quicksand upon which macroeconomics is built. Distortion of the facts compounds distortions of the past. This is why the entire basis of economic analysis is misleading and is bound to end up in a general economic and credit crisis when reality returns.
For this reason, individuals should follow the actions of central banks and protect themselves from a looming credit crisis. That can only be done by getting out of credit and into real money without counterparty risk, which is only physical gold.
Tyler Durden Thu, 12/04/2025 - 17:40 Close Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000 A Newsom Nihilist Nomination?
A Newsom Nihilist Nomination?
A Newsom Nihilist Nomination?
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,
As California Governor Gavin Newsom gears up to run for president, what in the world will he run on?
Californians know that Newsom will not boast, “I will do for America what I have done to California!”
Why not?
Count the reasons.
California’s astronomical gas prices and taxes remain the highest in the continental U.S.
Ditto the state’s trifecta of the highest electricity rates, the costliest home prices, and the fourth-highest home insurance costs.
California has the largest unfunded liability debt in the nation, approaching $270 billion.
The budget deficit each year usually ranges from $15 to $70 billion.
Such profligate spending and deficits explain why the state also has the highest income taxes and state sales tax rates in the nation.
Just 1% of California households pay 50% of the state income tax. And the fleeced are leaving in droves.
Newsom recently boasted that he extended Medi-Cal health insurance to thousands more illegal aliens.
So, no wonder Newsom next begged for a nearly $3 billion Medi-Cal federal bailout.
Half of the state’s 41 million residents are now on Medi-Cal. Some 50 percent of all births are Medi-Cal-provided—and growing.
California has a lot of other firsts among the 50 states:
The largest population of illegal aliens.
The largest number of homeless people.
The largest number of people fleeing a state.
The largest number (11 million) and percentage (27%) of foreign-born residents.
The largest number of people living in poverty.
The highest food prices in the continental U.S.
The state’s infrastructure is usually rated near the bottom.
California ranks among the five worst states in per capita violent crime.
Here are a few other observations about the current disaster that is Newsom’s California.
One, California is a naturally wealthy state. It is the third largest by area. It ranks seventh in the nation in oil reserves. No nation has more agricultural production or forested land acreage. So it’s hard to bankrupt California, but Newsom has managed.
Two, under prior governors Pat Brown, Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian, and Pete Wilson, California used to be the best-run state in the country.
California once produced more oil than any other state except Texas.
Its now-moribund timber industry once used to be the third largest in the nation.
And its currently ossified mining and mineral industries were once among the top ten producers in the country.
Three, no state politician over the last three decades has been more responsible for California’s decline than Gavin Newsom: six years as governor, eight years as lieutenant governor, seven years as mayor of San Francisco, and seven years on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Four, California chose decline. In the last thirty years, it drove out somewhere between 18 and 20 million affluent and middle-class state residents, the largest state exodus in U.S. history.
Its open border welcomed in an influx of over 10 million illegal aliens.
Meanwhile, Silicon Valley’s $11 trillion in market capitalization created the wealthiest and the most left-wing out-of-touch elite in the United States.
The result was a medieval state of a few million elites, a mass of poor people, and a vanishing middle class.
Five, such influxes and exoduses, along with gerrymandering, have ensured a one-party state. There are no Republican statewide officeholders.
Democrats control all branches of government. Only 17% of its congressional delegation is Republican. So the Left proudly owns what California has become.
What, then, will Newsom run on?
Certainly not high-speed rail—17 years, $15 billion, and not a foot of track laid.
Certainly not a $500-million exploding solar battery plant.
Certainly not illegally issuing 17,000 commercial truck driver’s licenses to non-resident illegal aliens with little or no English competency.
Certainly not the horrific but preventable Pacific Palisades fire.
And certainly not a now-closed $2-billion desert solar plant boondoggle.
Instead, Newsom will continue his he-man threats to Trump, like, “We’re going to punch this bully in the mouth.”
But will such bluster lower the state’s gas and power prices or reduce its sky-high taxes?
On social media and in podcasts, Newsom will continue his adolescent threats to federal officials like Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem while serving up his adolescent potty-mouth smears (e.g., “son of a b***h,” “god-d**n,” “f**k,” etc.).
But that profanity will not lower crime or house prices.
In other words, in the Democrat primaries, Newsom will try to out-crazy the violence, profanity, and extremism of the now-crazy Democrat socialists.
Newsom will rant nonstop about the evil Trump, but neither offer a word nor do a thing about his own responsibility for the collapse of a once great state.
Newsom will lecture on “affordability” without mentioning that he has created the most unaffordable state in the nation.
Will all this gobbledygook work?
It did in New York.
So, who knows?
Tyler Durden Thu, 12/04/2025 - 17:00 Close Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:40:00 +0000 Connecticut Orders Robinhood, Crypto.com, & Kalshi To Stop Prediction Markets
Connecticut Orders Robinhood, Crypto.com, & Kalshi To Stop Prediction Markets
Connecticut’s Department of Consumer Protection issued cease-and-desist orders to Kalshi, Robinhood and Crypto.com, alleging that the platforms ar
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Connecticut Orders Robinhood, Crypto.com, & Kalshi To Stop Prediction Markets
Connecticut’s Department of Consumer Protection issued cease-and-desist orders to Kalshi, Robinhood and Crypto.com, alleging that the platforms are conducting unlicensed online gambling there.
“Only licensed entities may offer sports wagering in the state of Connecticut,” DCP commissioner Bryan T. Cafferelli said in a statement on Wednesday.
“None of these entities possess a license to offer wagering in our state, and even if they did, their contacts violate numerous other state laws and policies, including offering wagers to individuals under the age of 21.”
DCP Gaming Director Kris Gilman accused the platforms of “deceptively advertising that their services are legal,” adding that they operate outside of the state’s regulatory environment, “posing a serious risk to consumers who may not realize that wagers placed on these illegal platforms offer no protections for their money or information.”
As CoinTelegraph's Martin Young details below, prediction markets have come under legal scrutiny in several US states, as the use of these platforms has skyrocketed this year and attracted billions of dollars in investment for allowing users to bet on the outcome of a variety of events.
Prediction markets saw huge volumes in November. Source: Token Terminal
Kalshi fires back in court
A Kalshi spokesperson told Cointelegraph that it is “a regulated, nationwide exchange for real-world events, and it is subject to exclusive federal jurisdiction.
“It’s very different from what state-regulated sportsbooks and casinos offer their customers. We are confident in our legal arguments and have filed suit in federal court,”
In a complaint filed on Wednesday against the DCP, Kalshi claimed that “Connecticut’s attempt to regulate Kalshi intrudes upon the federal regulatory framework that Congress established for regulating derivatives on designated exchanges.”
[ZH: Kalshi is perhaps the most exposed in this suit given their massive push into sports predictions...]
It added that its platform was subject to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s “exclusive jurisdiction” and its sports event contracts “are lawful under federal law.”
“As we’ve previously shared, Robinhood’s event contracts are federally regulated by the CFTC and offered through Robinhood Derivatives, LLC, a CFTC-registered entity, allowing retail customers to access prediction markets in a safe, compliant, and regulated manner,”
Crypto.com did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
In its statement, Connecticut’s DCP said that prediction market platforms pose serious risks to consumers because they lack the required technical standards and security protections for financial and personal data.
Source: Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection
The agency claimed that such platforms also lack integrity controls to prevent insider betting or manipulation, operate without regulatory oversight of their payout rules, advertise to self-excluded gamblers and on college campuses, and permit betting on events with known outcomes, thereby giving insiders unfair advantages.
Only three platforms are legally licensed for sports wagering in Connecticut: DraftKings, FanDuel and Fanatics, all of which require users to be at least 21 years old.
Kalshi under fire in at least 10 US states
Connecticut is not the only state to take a hard stance on prediction platforms; regulators in two neighboring states have previously taken action.
New York sent a cease and desist to Kalshi in late October, and the company responded on Oct. 27 by suing the state . Meanwhile, the Massachusetts state attorney general sued Kalshi in the state court in September.
Kalshi also previously received cease and desist orders from Arizona, Illinois, Montana and Ohio this year, and it remains embroiled in ongoing litigation in New Jersey, Maryland and Nevada, reported Bookies.
Kalshi announced this week that it has closed a $1 billion funding round at a valuation of $11 billion, after seeing its best-ever monthly volume in November.
Tyler Durden Thu, 12/04/2025 - 16:40 Close Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:20:00 +0000 "Rage Bait" May Be The Word Of The Year, But Free Speech Remains The Target
"Rage Bait" May Be The Word Of The Year, But Free Speech Remains The Target
"Rage Bait" May Be The Word Of The Year, But Free Speech Remains The Target
Authored by Jonathan Turley,
George Bernard Shaw famously observed that “England and America are two countries separated by the same language.” It appears, however, that this chasm has finally been overcome by the common dialect of rage. The new word of the year was announced this week by the Oxford University Press and it is tragically apt: “rage bait .”
First used in 2002, the new word is defined as “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media content.”
The choice is certainly apropos of what I called in my recent book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage. ”
Rage, however, can also be a license not just to rave but to regulate.
The key to rage is that it is entirely subjective and relative. If you agree with a speaker, it is righteous. If you disagree, it is dangerous.
That relativism was evident in Oxford’s own press release on the selection of the word.
Casper Grathwohl, President of Oxford Languages, associated the term with “manipulation tactics we can be drawn into online.”
He slammed “internet culture” for “hijacking and influencing our emotions.”
Grathwohl warned that it is an extension of what is called “rage-farming… to manipulate reactions and to build anger and engagement over time by seeding content with rage bait, particularly in the form of deliberate misinformation of conspiracy theory-based material.”
If you listen carefully, you can almost hear the “here, here” grunts of the British censors.
Great Britain and other European countries have eviscerated free speech through criminalization and regulation for decades. The Internet is a particular obsession of the anti-free speech movement. The greatest single invention since the printing press, the Internet is a threat to countries and groups that want to control speech.
The new scourge is hidden “algorithms” that elevate certain postings. While liberals like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) have called for social media companies to use algorithms to encourage people to choose better books, the left accuses these companies of fueling divisions but creating forums for views that it considers “disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation.”
The difficulty is distinguishing content-based bias in algorithms (which is rightfully condemned) from systems that simply elevate more popular posts. If social media is merely favoring more popular speech, the problem with critics is not with the bait but their own failure to attract nibbles from those surfing the web.
The fact is that these companies profit from traffic and favor posts that customers are most interested in reading. That drives activists to distraction because they believe their views are healthier and superior for citizens to discuss.
These are really calls for “enlightened algorithms ” to favor truth, as defined by governments and supporting experts. That is not “hijacking” but liberating; it is not “rage bait” but reasoned debate. It is that easy.
Any disliked image or view can be deemed rage bait. The same week that Oxford was choosing rage bait, there was another story of how free speech is in a free fall in the United Kingdom.
Jon Richelieu-Booth told the Yorkshire Post that he was arrested for posting a picture on the networking site LinkedIn of himself holding a shotgun at a friend’s homestead in Florida. West Yorkshire Police allegedly warned him about the post and told him to be “careful” about what he says online and “how it makes people feel.” He was later arrested and spent months in the criminal justice system before the case was dropped.
It is an all-too-familiar story for those of us who have documented the decline of free speech in the UK.
The British police have arrested people for silently praying in public and a man was convicted for “toxic ideologies ,” literal thought crimes.
The Times of London reported that police are making around 12,000 arrests per year over online posts.
Rage rhetoric has been with us since humans first learned to speak. The danger of rage rhetoric is rarely the rhetoric itself. It is the use of rage rhetoric by the government and others to silence citizens.
It is easy to say that certain postings are “bait” for rage. It is more difficult to agree on what rage is. While the left will denounce statements of Donald Trump as rage bait, they rarely object to such rhetoric from Hillary Clinton or Jasmine Crockett. The same is often true on the right. Each side views its own postings as reasoned debate and the other side’s as rage bait.
No one is being “hijacked” on the Internet. They are choosing their sources, and many create siloes or echo chambers. It is a common feature of “an age of rage.”
Oxford is clearly correct in the selection of a word that captures the age. However, it also captures the use of rage to rationalize censorship by treating viewpoints as harmful lures for the unsuspecting, unwashed masses. That desire to regulate speech is also often driven by rage, but it is embraced as reason.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of the best-selling book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage. ”
Tyler Durden Thu, 12/04/2025 - 16:20 Close Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:45:00 +0000 State Department To Require Social Media Review For H-1B Visa Applicants
State Department To Require Social Media Review For H-1B Visa Applicants
State Department To Require Social Media Review For H-1B Visa Applicants
Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,
The U.S. State Department announced on Dec. 3 that it will add an online presence review to the vetting requirements for all H-1B visa applicants and their dependents starting Dec. 15.
H-1B visa applicants and their dependents will have to make their social media profiles public as of Dec. 15, according to the department. Student visa and exchange visitor applicants are already subject to this review.
The screening requirement, the department said, is part of an effort to safeguard Americans and national interests while ensuring that “all applicants credibly establish their eligibility for the visa sought.”
“Every visa adjudication is a national security decision,” the department stated in its announcement . “A U.S. visa is a privilege, not a right.”
The department did not specify what criteria will be used to screen the online activity of H-1B visa applicants and their dependents. The Epoch Times reached out to the department for further details, but the request was not immediately returned.
The H-1B visa program allows U.S. companies to temporarily employ foreign workers for jobs that require “the theoretical and practical application of a body of specialized knowledge and a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in the specific specialty.”
On Sept. 19, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation introducing a one-time $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications in a bid to curb the abuse of the visa program, saying it has been exploited by companies to replace American workers “with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor.”
Trump told Fox News on Nov. 11 that his administration aims to strike a balance between stricter immigration controls and maintaining employers’ access to the labor they need, particularly in high-skill industries facing shortages of qualified candidates.
He cited a recent immigration enforcement operation at a South Korean-owned battery plant in Georgia to illustrate his point that some industries require highly specialized expertise.
“In Georgia, they raided because they wanted illegal immigrants out,” Trump said. “They had people from South Korea that make batteries all their lives. You know, making batteries [is] very complicated. It’s not an easy thing, and very dangerous. A lot of explosions, a lot of problems.”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Sept. 24 proposed further changes to the H-1B visa selection process to prioritize higher-skilled and higher-paid foreign workers.
The proposed policy seeks to replace the current random selection process for allocating H-1B visa registrations with a weighted system when annual demands for the visas exceed the 85,000 statutory limit.
DHS said the change would “better serve the Congressional intent” for the H-1B program while still allowing employers to hire H-1B workers at all wage levels.
Tyler Durden Thu, 12/04/2025 - 15:45 Close Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:25:00 +0000 Dumb AI, Golden Yuan, & Q-Day Comes Early: Here Are Saxo's Outrageous Prediction For 2026
Dumb AI, Golden Yuan, & Q-Day Comes Early: Here Are Saxo's Outrageous Prediction For 2026
The future almost never arrives in straight lines. Whether its’ technology, culture, or politics, changes and evolution often
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Dumb AI, Golden Yuan, & Q-Day Comes Early: Here Are Saxo's Outrageous Prediction For 2026
The future almost never arrives in straight lines. Whether its’ technology, culture, or politics, changes and evolution often come slowly from year to year. But then, suddenly, there is a lurch.
Saxo’s Outrageous Predictions live in those lurches. They are not a house view or a forecast; they are low-probability, high-impact thought experiments designed to stretch the imagination and sharpen debate about what could happen if things leap forward in unexpected ways.
Simply put, they're an out-of-the-box brainstorming on the kinds of crazy things that might just come true .
Let’s take a wandering tour of the eight outrageous developments that just could await in 2025.
First, in tech, take cryptography and imagine what happens if Q-Day suddenly arrives in 2026 , the day that quantum machines can crack yesterday’s digital locks effortlessly.
Crypto collapses; gold screams to five figures; every bank and government scrambles to rebuild trust in a post-quantum security stack.
Second, in the same year, markets discover that sudden culture shifts can move macro .
A single wedding – Swift and Kelce – tips a generation out of doomscrolling and into backyards, marriages, and baby carriages. Fertility and household formation booms. Economists coin a new phrase with a smile: the Swiftie Put.
Third, in politics, the aggravated partisanship of recent years is suddenly upended after the ugly partisan shenanigans in the U.S. midterm elections shock the silent majority of independents into demanding reform and a strengthening of democratic institutions.
Trump stays Trump, but America begins to move on.
Fourth, in medicine, GLP-1 obesity drugs in pill-form transform human and even pet health .
Waistlines shrink, lifespans stretch, and all food companies race to reinvent themselves for a lighter world.
Fifth, above the atmosphere, capital market discovers their next frontier. A SpaceX IPO valuation clears a trillion dollars and turns “space economy” from slogan to spreadsheet.
Orbital manufacturing and lunar projects migrate from science fiction to investment committee.
Sixth, back on Earth, an AI model becomes a Fortune 500 CEO ...
...executing without ego and forcing boards to consider the unthinkable: a human-machine partnership at the top.
Seventh, geopolitics, never far from the tape in recent years, tests the monetary order as Beijing rolls out a gold-linked offshore yuan for redenomination of its trade .
The dollar remains a king, but not the king.
Finally, eighth, while carefully constructed and prompted AI may help run a company, beneath the buzzwords, a humbling reckoning unfolds: dumb AI, or poorly governed agents and “agentic” automations, misfire en masse...
... generating a trillion-dollar cleanup and a new profession of “AI janitors” to disinfect the codebase of modern life.
Sure, the next shocks may come from where we are staring the hardest, like in AI or in geopolitics. But the direction things might take in these areas, not to mention the fallout, are certainly not in the price. Elsewhere, quantum may remain pie-in-the-sky, or it could disrupt profoundly. And geopolitics and cultural revolutions can prove the most jarring of all, especially when our societies suffer from dire inequality.
Again, Saxo’s aim with its yearly set of Outrageous Predictions is not to predict the year ahead, but to widen the aperture : to ask what breaks, what booms, and what blindsides when the world lurches. If these scenarios make you argue, it’s all better. The debate will help prepare you for these and any other surprises that might lie ahead.
Read the full detailed breakdown of all eight 'outrageous predictions' here...
Tyler Durden Thu, 12/04/2025 - 15:25 Close Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:05:00 +0000 Pentagon Deploys Its First Kamikaze Drone Squadron In The Middle East
Pentagon Deploys Its First Kamikaze Drone Squadron In The Middle East
Pentagon Deploys Its First Kamikaze Drone Squadron In The Middle East
Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,
US Central Command announced on Wednesday that it was launching the US military's "first one-way-attack drone squadron based in the Middle East" as President Trump’s Department of War continues to get further entrenched in the region.
"CENTCOM launched Task Force Scorpion Strike (TFSS) four months after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth directed acceleration of the acquisition and fielding of affordable drone technology ," CENTCOM said.
Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones are positioned on the tarmac at a base in CENTCOM area of operations. Hegseth has announced a program known as "Drone Dominance" that will involve spending $1 billion to acquire about 300,000 units over the next three years .
"Drone dominance is a billion-dollar program funded by President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill ," the US War Chief said on Tuesday.
CENTCOM said that it has already "formed a squadron of Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones" and released photos of drones in its press release.
"LUCAS drones deployed by CENTCOM have an extensive range and are designed to operate autonomously. They can be launched with different mechanisms to include catapults, rocket-assisted takeoff, and mobile ground and vehicle systems," the command said.
On Monday, CENTCOM announced that it had opened a new bilateral command post in Bahrain, the headquarters of the US Navy’s 5th Fleet.
"The new facility will be staffed by forces from the United States and Bahrain and serve as a hub for integrated air defense planning, coordination, and operations. This is CENTCOM’s second bilateral air defense command post in the region," CENTCOM said.
LUCAS drones are manufactured by Arizona based SpektreWorks. Source: SpektreWorks The Trump administration recently approved a $445 million weapons deal for Bahrain to sustain its fleet of F-16 fighter jets. The administration has been working to build its military alliances with Gulf Arab states and has also approved $1 billion in arms deals for Saudi Arabia to support Riyadh’s US-made helicopters and provide aviation training for Saudi pilots, a step seen as a precursor to an F-35 sale.
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