This guy gives a good breakdown of DeepSeek, Silicon Valley's panic, and what all the hyper hysteria is about. You may find him a little biased in his reporting style but he makes several interesting points.

Chinese AI company DeepSeek shocked the West with a groundbreaking open-source artificial intelligence model that beats huge Silicon Valley Big Tech monopolies. The US government is already trying to ban it, like TikTok, using "national security" as an excuse. Ben Norton explains.



0:00 China's Sputnik moment
1:05 DeepSeek beats US Big Tech
2:20 Open source R1 model
3:18 US tech stocks crash
5:27 US stock market bubble
6:55 Magnificent 7
8:26 Billionaire oligarchs
10:48 USA bans Chinese competitors
13:34 Data privacy and spying?
15:35 Cyber attacks
16:33 US tech war on China
19:36 China "can't innovate"
22:02 China's rapid tech progress
24:49 Tech race in new cold war


Here's a little more down to Earth 10 minute overview, Deepseek R1 Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer:

Made back when the good guys won... worth a watch IMO

Synopsis: A vengeful barbarian warrior sets off to get his revenge on the evil warlord who attacked his village and murdered his father when he was a boy.

"Police: ‘Trans Vegan Cult’ Linked To Multiple Murders Across The U.S." from One America News

Quote:Friday, January 31, 2025
The murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent has unveiled a possible link between a “transgender vegan cult” and a string of murders across the U.S.
Buckle up—this one’s a doozy.
On January 20th, Inauguration Day, U.S. Border Patrol agent David Maland, 44, and other agents pulled over 21-year-old Teresa “Milo” Youngblut and German citizen Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt in northern Vermont, near the Canadian border.
Youngblut quickly opened fire on the agents, and they all engaged in a back-and-forth shootout.
Maland and Bauckholt were killed in the incident, and Youngblut was injured in the crossfire.

Quote:Both Youngblut and Bauckholt have ties to Jack LaSota, AKA Ziz, a California man who espouses a violent philosophy based on veganism, techno-rationality, artificial intelligence, and transgenderism, according to court filings and media reports. LaSota’s small group of followers, known in the San Francisco area as Zizians, are connected to the murder of an elderly rancher and the murders of a Pennsylvania couple, parents of another Zizian.

Quote:Law enforcement officials are investigating six deaths linked to associates of LaSota, the flagbearer of a small group of well-educated computer whizzes and devout vegans — referred to by some critics as the “Zizians” — who splintered away from the Berkeley circles of an intellectual movement and subculture called rationalism that seeks to understand human cognition and is concerned that artificial intelligence could destroy humanity.

Quote:Person Who Wanted to Kill GOP Leaders Inspired by CEO Murder
Friday, 31 January 2025 08:56 PM EST

A Massachusetts man who identifies as a woman told police that he went to the U.S. Capitol to kill members of President Donald Trump's cabinet . . .

English, 24, of South Deerfield, Massachusetts, told police that he felt like he was “on a mission” and “had been thinking about for this for a while because of Luigi Mangione,” prosecutors said. Mangione pleaded not guilty in December to state murder and terror charges in a Manhattan court.

When this movie first came out I enjoyed the movie greatly. It does have moments of pure joy and eternal laughter.

Quote:Sean Connery stars—and breaks free of Bond forever (well, Never Say Never…) as desert brigand chieftain Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli who kidnaps an American widow, Eden Pedecaris (Candice Bergen) in a bid to embarrass the Sultan of Morocco. In doing so, he arouses the ire and interest of an internationally ambitious Commander in Chief, Theodore Roosevelt (Brian Keith). John Milius both scripts and directs, bending true-life fact to serve his storytelling craft and shapes history into a spirited screen legend. Jerry Goldsmith’s lauded and lofty score adds to the film’s wonder.

Oki's Weird Stories: Did the FBI Plant a Bomb in an Environmentalist's Car? - An Unsolved Mystery




In 1990, Judi Bari, an activist with the radical environmentalist group Earth First!, was the victim of a car bombing. As she was being operated on in the hospital, the FBI arrested her for transporting the bomb that exploded beneath her car seat. Later, Judi blamed the FBI for planting the bomb in her car. Who was right?

This video is a concise retelling of the Judi Bari case. It goes over all of the details and theories about the bombing of Judi Bari.

00:00 Intro
0:30 Who Bombed Judi Bari?
6:31 The Arrest
7:37 Earth First!
12:30 Why the FBI Pinned the Blame on Judi and Darryl
19:11 The Media Reported What the Authorities Said
19:47 AD BREAK 
21:02 Judi and Darryl Were Released from Custody
21:51 The Lord’s Avenger Letter
25:15 Irv Sutley
26:28 The Argus Letter
28:13 Threats & Acts of Intimidation
31:37 Felllerbuncher Fires
32:43 Timeline: When Was the Bomb Planted?
34:45 The FBI Bomb School & Irv Sutley
36:48 The Case Against Mike Sweeney
46:14 Final Notes on the Three Letters
49:13 Aftermath

I have flown into Reagan National Airport many times and landing south is more of a challenge than landing to the North.

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Quote:The Disappearance of Peter Williamson | Lightning Pants from Another Dimension A summer barbecue transformed into a nightmare when lightning split the sky above Somerset, England. Peter Williamson dashed across his rain-soaked lawn to rescue his terrified dog, unaware that his next step would carry him beyond the boundaries of our world. His family watched in horror as a blinding flash illuminated his silhouette against the stormy sky. When their vision cleared, Peter had evaporated into thin air. The police launched a search, but found no footprints, no scorch marks, and no explanation for how a man could disappear from a walled garden. Sixteen witnesses swore they watched him vanish in plain sight. Three days passed before Peter materialized in his backyard, wearing unfamiliar clothes and carrying items that defied explanation. His memories painted a picture of a hospital that both existed and didn't exist, where reality shimmered like heat waves rising from summer pavement. The investigation into his disappearance uncovered something extraordinary: evidence suggesting Peter had slipped through a crack between parallel universes. His impossible story forces us to question everything we think we know about the nature of reality.

Maybe the condoms were to cut down on AIDS as many in that part of the world are a bunch of Butt F'ers....I am so glad the Biden crime family is gone and just hope there are 1000s more of the bureaucratic bastards which are shown the door...

Quote:White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt listed a few examples of pieces of government spending blocked by the administration's pause on almost all foreign aid