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The CIA is Broken
A CIA official has reportedly been arrested after investigators found 303 GOLD BARS, $2 million in cash, and dozens of Rolex watches inside his Virginia home.
Not a cartel boss. Not an oligarch. Not a crypto scammer.
A CIA official.
According to reports, investigators say David Rush received massive amounts of foreign currency and gold tied to “work-related expenses” before the FBI raided the property.
Three hundred and three gold bars.
This is movie-villain level corruption.
And now Americans are watching former intelligence officials openly admit on CNN that:
• polygraphs can fail
• pathological liars can beat the system
• background checks allegedly failed
• and internal oversight may have completely collapsed
This story is becoming a nightmare for the intelligence community.
Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book (unredacted) :
Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
VIDEO Robert David Steele died not very long after this
Peter Thiel has relocated to Argentina due to concerns over the direction of the United States future and is already hosting dinners with local economists about the Antichrist. Thiel will live in Buenos Aires’ most exclusive neighborhoods where he could be offered permanent residence or even citizenship. Thiel may view Argentina as a testing ground for “Dark enlightenment” which says societies should be governed by corporations.
The Stack and the Shield: Palantir and the Political Theology of State-Adjacent AI
@cjdelgross The swamp is alive and well!
The Bureau of Prisons just handed a $106M federal contract to LEO Technologies to use AI to monitor inmate phone calls.
The twist? LEO’s CEO is Elliott Broidy, the disgraced GOP fundraiser who pleaded guilty to running an illegal, back-channel foreign lobbying campaign, only to be pardoned by Trump in 2021.
A man convicted of selling access to the highest levels of the US government is now being trusted with a massive federal surveillance contract. You can’t make this up.
This is what happens in your brain when you can’t recall a word – Cella Wright
Nvidia will pay you $1,000 a month to host a mini AI data center at your house.
It looks like a regular AC unit sitting in your yard. Nobody walking past would know what is inside.
Inside sits 16 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and Dell servers running at full capacity.
A startup called Span builds and installs them. They are backed by Nvidia directly. The whole unit bolts onto your home and you get paid for the power and Wi-Fi you supply.
Some estimates put the monthly payout around $1,000. That is rent money just for hosting a box you never touch.
Span says the units deploy significantly faster and cheaper than traditional data centers. That is exactly why Nvidia is backing the suburban rollout instead of waiting for more commercial land.
The AI boom needed more compute. It found it in the suburbs.
The grid is being rebuilt one backyard at a time.
The most interesting part isn’t the $1,000/month.
It’s the idea that AI compute could become a distributed asset class, where homeowners rent out power and space the same way people rent out spare rooms today. And your neighbors will love the equivalent of 16 hairdryers running 24/7/365 right next door!
ESSAY
ECP NetHappenings Tim Berners-Lee, and the invention was the World Wide Web
Ihtesham Ali
@ihtesham2005
A British scientist invented the single most valuable piece of technology in human history, then signed a document that legally guaranteed he would never make a cent from it, and he did it on purpose while every university around him was racing to patent everything they could.
His name is Tim Berners-Lee, and the invention was the World Wide Web (WWW).
Not the internet, which already existed as a way to connect computers, but the actual web of pages and links you are using to read this right now. HTML. HTTP. The URL. He built all three while working at CERN, a physics lab in Switzerland, between 1989 and 1991. He wrote the first browser on a NeXT computer and stuck a label on it that said “DO NOT POWER IT DOWN” because if anyone unplugged it, the entire web would vanish.
Here is the part that should stop you cold. CERN owned the invention.
Under the rules of the time, the lab could have licensed it, charged a fee for every installation, and collected a royalty on every server that ever came online.
His colleague Robert Cailliau confirmed they actively discussed exactly this, because in the early 1990s patenting university inventions and squeezing money out of them was the standard move.
They could have charged for every search. Every upload. Every page load on Earth, forever.
Berners-Lee fought to give it away instead. He pushed CERN to release the source code into the public domain with no patent and no fee of any kind.
On April 30, 1993, two CERN directors signed a half-page document that relinquished all intellectual property rights to the World Wide Web.
A few signatures on a single sheet of paper.
That was the moment nobody came to own the thing that now connects more than five billion people. His reasoning was not sentimental.
It was mechanical.
He understood something most inventors never grasp.
The value of the web was not in the code.
It was in the network.
And a network only grows if everyone can join without asking permission. The second you charge a toll, people route around you, and you end up with a hundred tiny incompatible webs instead of one universal one.
He said it plainly years later.
If he had demanded fees, there would be no World Wide Web.
There would be lots of small webs, and none of them would have mattered.
So the thing that made the web worth trillions is the exact same thing that guaranteed he would never personally capture any of it. Openness was not a sacrifice he made against the invention’s success.
Openness was the success.
The free part was the product.
People who made far less consequential things became billionaires off the platform he built. He watched it happen and kept running a nonprofit standards body out of an office at MIT, setting the rules that keep the web working for everyone, paid like a normal professor.
When an interviewer once asked him why he never cashed in, he refused the premise of the question.
He said that framing only makes sense if you measure a person’s worth by their net worth.
People are what they have done and what they stand for, not what sits in their bank account.
The man who could have owned a piece of every click ever made chose to own none of it, because he understood that the only way to give the world something this big was to make sure he could never take it back.
The most valuable thing ever built belongs to everyone, and that was the entire point.
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