Say It Isn't So @siis

This is the real fight of our era. On one side: the people. Common sense. Merit. Order. Today it has a face: Elon Musk. That's exactly why they're trying so hard to destroy him. On the other side: chaos, collectivism, corruption, violence. That has a face too: Alex Soros, celebrating Lula's win as Brazil "standing up against authoritarianism." Let's talk about that victory over authoritarianism. Right as polls were closing at 5pm, a Supreme Court justice, Cristiano Zanin, Lula's former personal lawyer, ordered every polling station in the country to stay open two more hours. After a request from Lula's campaign. Going around the electoral court that normally handles this. Something no court in Brazil had ever done before. Lula had lost the first round. He won the runoff. If that's what fighting authoritarianism looks like, I'd hate to see the real thing. Here's the deeper point. Communism has never worked. Not once, anywhere. And globalism, progressivism, whatever they're calling it this decade, is the same project in a nicer suit: more central control, less individual freedom, a small unaccountable elite deciding for everyone else. A project that doesn't work can only end two ways. Either it collapses into chaos and drags the West into self-destruction with it. Or the West wakes up: a return to order, and a renaissance. Don't expect them to go quietly. For them this is existential. They'll bend every rule, cheat wherever they can, use every institution they still control. Because the day they truly lose, everything they've buried comes out. This is the fight. Pick your side.

Alex Soros @AlexanderSoros

13 hours ago

Lula Lula Lula! Congrats to Brazil for standing up against authoritarianism once again! 🇧🇷 ⚖️✌️

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This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Born After Midnight: bit.ly/4zlaVso

Funny how these polls drastically change a few days before the election. Every. Single. Time.

𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐒 𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐓 ™️🇺🇸 @Texpatriot26

2 days ago

🚨CNN Today 🔴 Republicans: 53 🔵 Democrats: 47 Michigan: 🔴 GOP Flip Maine: 🔴 GOP Hold Texas: 🔴 GOP Hold Alaska: 🔴 GOP Hold Ohio: 🔴 GOP Hold

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From “News Items” from @EllisItems (substack.news-items.com). This is only part of the entry. Go get the full edition for free on the trial to read this if you are not a subscriber to News Items: “4. John Milinovich, senior director of product management at Figma: For anyone who knows me even somewhat well, it's clear that I am a 99th percentile tech optimist. However, the vibes have shifted for me quite a bit in the last 18 hours, and I feel a moral imperative to share what I'm thinking and feeling with my circles so that everyone can understand, and hopefully take seriously, what's happening right now. I think October 2026 will have many chapters written about it in the history books.

You know those scenes in financial movies like Margin Call where someone realizes that they're all fucked, and no one else sees it yet? And that person feels like they're crazy, and then suddenly everyone is pulling an all-nighter in a boardroom and freaking out? Yeah, that's kind of how this is feeling right now in the SF/Bay Area/AI circles.

We're 48 hours into what is being called Black October. In the last 2 days there have been several dozen cyber attacks which, in isolation, would each have been the worst to happen in an entire calendar year. Every sector from government to education to big tech and banks is being massively affected, and people are starting to freak out.

In a nutshell, what's happened is that frontier AI models have gotten to a point where they are as advanced as the most sophisticated programmers, with one critical difference: they can work 24/7, and you can spin up 10,000 of them with a single command and they'll work together tirelessly until they accomplish their task. The most advanced models today are from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, whose current best technology is so good that they haven't been able to roll it out to everyone yet because of the national security risks it poses.

Meanwhile, the best open source models (where anyone can just download the model weights and do whatever they want with them, uncensored) are slightly behind the frontier but still 90-95% as capable. These models, developed primarily in China, are being used by black hat hackers to wreak havoc on the Western capitalist structure. Presumably, this has been part of China's plan the entire time, and we're seeing its implications fall out in real time…. Set up 2-factor authentication for everything. I use Duo. Use a password manager across your devices. I use 1Password. Get an identity protection app set up. I use Alta. Move your IoT devices to their own network. Claude helped me do this. And last, but certainly not least, if you've been avoiding leaning into AI, see this as a catalyst to wake up and start using it. Don't just use the chat mode version of ChatGPT/Claude; click that Code/Work button and see how easily you can have AI write code to help you with your job. One of the biggest vulnerabilities was in a massively popular programming language called PHP, and the prompt that set it off was literally, "Find vulnerabilities in php." (Source: X.com)

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

He Will Not Snuff Out a Smoldering Wick: bit.ly/4sr0LnM

When you think that Kristen Waggoner of Alliance Defending Freedom is one the bad guys, you have lost your dang mind. She accomplishes more for religious liberty in a week than these ridiculous larpers have in their entire lives.

There are a few things in life you should know with 100% certainty: • Your name. • Your birthday. • Whether you married your brother.

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

What Is The Question?: bit.ly/4jCJntQ

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Delayed Obedience Is Disobedience: bit.ly/4z7dWwy

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

The Intersection Of Time And Obedience: bit.ly/4zI7yvB

There are two ways of looking at the midterms, now less than three weeks away. One is as a simple referendum on the issues and politicians of the day. The other involves a far deeper conflict of visions (as Thomas Sowell puts it): socialism versus capitalism, intrusive versus limited government, and the destruction of time-honored institutions and traditions versus their preservation and renewal. Rarely in American history have the two parties been so far apart or the choice between them so stark. In brief, Islamist-sympathizing socialism is on the ballot against free-market capitalism and American exceptionalism. victorhanson.com/the-deep-midte…

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

The Restraint Of Desire: bit.ly/4icXvHS

Bill Gates spent his money on mosquito nets in Africa. The Rockefeller Foundation gave massive grants (with Gates) to increase farm yields in Africa, which largely didn’t work or backfired entirely. Mackenzie Scott spent $ billions on racial issues, LGBTQ causes, climate justice, immigration advocacy. George Soros gave $ billions to far-left causes and electing communist DAs who let criminals back on the street. Reid Hoffman funded E. Jean Carrol’s civil lawsuit against Trump. Carroll couldn’t remember the year she was allegedly abused and called rape sexy. Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective bought a far-left prestige magazine and advocates for immigration “justice.” Bezos funds climate and biodiversity research. And on and on it goes… Elon Musk bypasses the NGOs, the grifting consultant class, and the top-down ideological morass of the woke elite, and just pledged to put $10.5 billion directly into the accounts of America’s children. We will always have elites. We just need better elites. Elon is showing the way. God bless him. H/T to Michael Dell, also.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

a week ago

Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.

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I think the answer for France is a two-state solution.

Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow

7 days ago

And the Israel-hating scum in our country and Europe will learn that Israel has been fighting this enemy — the enemy of the civilized world — with its soldiers and resources for several decades, at enormous cost to its people, while most of the rest of the world watches, seeks to

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