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ALL THE IPO’S ARE A SCAM

FUCK Surveillance Centers they are OBSOLETE!

Jimmy interviews privacy and technology advocate Hakeem Anwar about the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super, a small AI computer capable of running advanced open-source language models locally at low cost and power consumption. The discussion explores whether increasingly powerful local AI hardware could reduce dependence on massive AI data centers, while questioning why major technology companies continue investing billions in new AI infrastructure.

FYI WE CAN GET RID OF DATA SURVEILLANCE CENTERS IN THE SOUTH WEST – NO WATER

The conversation also examines concerns about surveillance, data collection, smartphone tracking, water consumption by data centers, and the environmental impact of large-scale AI deployments. Anwar argues that privacy-focused devices and local AI can give users greater control over their data, while both guests debate the future balance between decentralized AI and cloud-based services.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXpr7VqkVSE

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ECP NetHappenings The Missing 21 Trillion Americans have lost.

The Pentagon has never been able to pass an audit.

“[DOD] is the only one of the government’s 24 major agencies never to pass”

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/12/19/pentagon-fails-financial-audit-for-8th-year-in-a-row/

Catherine Austin Fitts

(born December 24, 1950) is an American investment banker and former public official who served as managing director of Dillon, Read & Co. and, during the Presidency of George H. W. Bush, as United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing. She has widely written and commented on the subject of public spending and has alleged several large-scale instances of government fraud.

Catherine says It’s a financial Coup d’etat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZQRMJUzH4k

“So having some background in looking at local government and finances and state level, it’s like there’s no way that these accounting discrepancies should be multiples of the entire budget.

“If you had say a 500 billion dollar budget from the Army or a 200 billion dollar budget, it’d only be a small fraction. How could it be multiples? So I just, I, at first I thought she had made a mistake. It couldn’t be, you know, $6.2 trillion, maybe $6.2 billion. And even then that would be a huge sum to lose track of.

“And so I found the report myself and I just started looking at it. Just all kinds of strange examples of transactions that couldn’t be accounted for. And so I just started asking questions, and then Catherine and I were in touch with one another and we said, let’s try to systematically look over the years for all of these reports that exist and just sum them up and tally them and see what we can learn.

“And you know, so they don’t, they typically don’t produce a report like this every year for the Army or every year for the Navy, etc. They only do them every once in a while. So we tallied them all up for the DOD as well as Housing and Urban Development. And we found, from official government sources, $21 trillion in transactions for which there were no clear explanation

“And so we just asked the question and it, it happened at that time, back in 2016, ’17, ’18, it, it, the, the total debt was about $21 trillion. So it just got a lot of exposure in the media, like, wow

“So in that sense I think people started to ask questions and it got a little bit of attention, which I think is good. But the challenge was is that the federal government, rather than addressing it, on the one side they said they were going to address the challenge and they said, we’re going to conduct our first official external audit of the DOD ever. And after it completed that, it did not pass the audit and has not since. So it’s been about eight years.”

Former Assistant Secretary of HUD says the federal gov’t—namely DOD—has stolen $55 TRILLION of taxpayer funds.

This clip of Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, investment banker, and founder of the Solari Report (@solari_the), is taken from an interview with Anthony Fatseas (@AnthonyFatseas) posted to the WTFinance YouTube channel on April 10, 2026.

—————Partial transcription of clip—————

Fitts:

“So what happened was, I was part of a group of people in the first Bush administration who got financial management laws passed that required audited financial statements and a certain standard of disclosure. And those rules went into place in the mid-90s and since then. And it’s because of those rules that we’ve seen disclosure that indicates that, one, they’ve never obeyed the financial management laws.

“But also, they have, you know, they have had undocumentable adjustments between 1998 and 2015 of $21 trillion. Now, when you add that to $29 trillion of bailouts during the financial crisis, you know, that’s $50 trillion. And then you add $5 trillion injected directly into the economy during the Going Direct, that’s $55 trillion. Then you can even add more for the quantitative easing.

“So, you know, it’s, it’s— I always say to everybody in America, it’s remarkable we’re still standing because you’re talking about, you know, it’s like a body with a tapeworm. And the tapeworm is, if you look at what’s being drained out is unbelievable. I mean, the numbers are just, you know, hard for most people to fathom. It’s not hard for me to fathom. That’s my business. But it’s really hard to fathom that, that, that muc

“And we’re not talking about money so that some people can have billions and Ferraris and fancy houses in the Caribbean. We’re talking about the kind of money that builds a whole new civilization.

“Where is this money gone? Or it’s impossible to track?”
“Give me access to the New York Fed and DoD’s accounts. You know, so we don’t know where I went. And I think, you know, conceptually there are many possibilities, but there is, a belief that there is such a thing as a breakaway civilization.

“And literally what we’re watching is, you know, if, if you have a company and you, you want to bring in a new system, what you do is you bring up the new system, you keep the old system operating, you operate them in parallel until you’re confident in the new one, and then you switch over, right?

“So I think what they’re— Part of what they’re doing is they’re literally building a new governance, management, financial structure for Earth, moving the money out of the old and into the new. And, and when they’re ready, you know, they’ll, they’ll shift everybody over into the new one. And that’s what’s happening now. That’s what I think the reset is.”

https://x.com/SenseReceptor/status/2042726377267564942

VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaAd4DscZ6s

Sense Receptor

https://x.com/SenseReceptor/status/2064860605958455457

Full source of the video

Tenured Professor at Michigan State University Mark Skidmore on the $21 TRILLION missing from the DOD’s balance sheet:

Summary Report
https://missingmoney.solari.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Unsupported_Adjustments_Report_Final_4.pdf

“in a single year, the Army had acknowledged… it could not account for $6.2 trillion in transactions”

“we found, from official government sources, $21 trillion in transactions for which there was no clear explanation”

“[This] happened… back in 2016, ’17, ’18, [when] the total debt was about $21 trillion”

“[the federal government] said they were going to address the challenge, and they said, We’re going to conduct our first official external audit of the DOD ever”

“[But] after it completed [the audit], [DOD] did not pass the audit and has not since. So it’s been about eight years”

This clip of Skidmore, a tenured Professor and Morris Chair in State and Local Government Finance and Policy, who also serves as a resident fellow with the MSU Extension Center for Local Government Finance and Policy, is taken from a discussion with Alexander Sachon.

@SixDaysWork
posted to YouTube on January 10, 2026.
https://x.com/SenseReceptor/status/2064860605958455457

“That’s when I ran into some of Catherine Austin Fitts’ work. And I was just listening to an interview and she, she made a statement that in fiscal year 2015, the report came out in 2016, for the DOD, specifically the Army, in which, in a single year, the Army had acknowledged, through an OIG report, the Office of Inspector General, that it could not account for $6.2 trillion in transactions.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jhfKCdY0tv4

Gaudi the legendary architect’s most famous quotes:

“To do things right, first you need love,
then technique.”

People always asked Gaudí when the works would be finished, and he always replied that his client was in no hurry.

For Antoni Gaudí, who died on this very day 100 years ago, admitted to a hospice because he was mistaken for a beggar after being run over by a tram, it would have been a dream to know that the Pope, the King and Queen of Spain, the president of the Government and of the Generalitat, the mayor of Barcelona, and a long list of authorities would be, a century later, paying him homage and looking up at the sky to see how the tower of the world’s tallest church was being illuminated.

The epic of the Sagrada Família, 144 years under construction and still not finished, has had one of its historic days with the solemn religious ceremony that culminated in the Pope’s blessing of the Tower of Jesus Christ.

Another moment that will make Barcelona’s image go around the world, with 9,000 people inside the temple and 130,000 outside.

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ECP NetHappenings What One Engineer Has Built

ESSAY
Spencer Baggins
@bigaiguy

A teenager in the United States started publishing software at 14 in 1998, built the entire online infrastructure for the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, joined Google as a software engineer, quit in 2018, and then spent five years writing a C library that does something the entire industry said was impossible.

Then she combined it with llama.cpp and shipped the easiest way on the planet to run a large language model on any computer.

Her name is Justine Tunney.

Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the low level systems world knows what one engineer has built.

Justine was born in 1984. She started writing and publishing software at 14, back when distribution meant uploading binaries to BBS systems and chat networks. She picked up the handle jart, which she still uses on GitHub today. She did the work most teenagers her age were not doing. She read the systems programming literature. She studied compilers. She fell in love with C.

In July 2011 she registered the @occupywallst Twitter handle and the occupywallst dot org domain. Within weeks the protest movement that began in Zuccotti Park in New York had become a global phenomenon, and her infrastructure was the digital backbone of the entire thing. She handled the social media, the website, the donations, the coordination. She built the platform that pushed the movement to reach millions.

After Occupy she joined Google as a software engineer. She worked on TensorBoard, the visualization tool for TensorFlow, and on site reliability for Google infrastructure. She stayed for years. Then in 2018 she left Google Brain to work on a personal project.

The project was called Cosmopolitan Libc.

Cosmopolitan does something most C programmers would tell you is mathematically impossible. It lets you compile a C program once and have the resulting binary run natively on Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD with no modification. One file. Six operating systems. No virtual machines. No interpreters. No recompilation. The technique she invented is called Actually Portable Executable.

The implications are wild. Cosmopolitan binaries violate every assumption about how operating systems load programs. They are at once a Windows PE file, a Linux ELF binary, a macOS Mach-O binary, and a shell script. The same bytes run on every platform.

For five years she worked on it mostly alone. She funded the development partly through Mozilla’s MIECO program, which sponsored her work on Cosmopolitan 3.0, released on October 31, 2023.

A month later she shipped llamafile.

llamafile is what happens when you combine Cosmopolitan with llama.cpp. You take any LLM weights file in the standard GGUF format, you wrap it in Justine’s binary, and you get a single file that runs on six operating systems without installation. No Python. No CUDA setup. No dependency hell. Just one file that you double click and it works.

Mozilla launched it as an official project of their innovation group on November 29, 2023. It went viral immediately. The repository, hosted at github .com/mozilla-ai/llamafile, now has 24,600 stars. The license is Apache 2.0.

Justine kept shipping. She added GPU support to Cosmopolitan, a task systems engineers thought would require rewriting the whole thing. She added dlopen support, another thing nobody else had figured out. She wrote whisperfile, a single file version of OpenAI’s Whisper speech-to-text model based on the same architecture.

Her GitHub profile lists projects most engineers would consider impossible. sectorlisp, a Lisp interpreter that fits in a boot sector. blink, the tiniest x86-64-linux emulator on Earth. bestline, a teletypewriter command session library. redbean, a complete web server inside a single zip file.

A teenager who shipped software in 1998 grew up to write the C library that the entire local AI movement now runs on top of.

She did most of it alone, and most people scrolling AI Twitter cannot name her.

ESSAY Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005

Dennis Ritchie invented C in 1972, co-built Unix in 1969, and his code is running inside every device you are reading this on right now and the colleague who announced his death had to do it through a Google+ post because no journalist thought to check.

He worked at Bell Labs in New Jersey for 44 years. He never gave a keynote. He never ran a company. He never appeared on a magazine cover. He just wrote code that became the invisible foundation everything else is built on.

Here is what he actually built, and why it matters more than almost anything that happened in tech.

In 1969, Bell Labs had just walked away from one of the most ambitious computing projects in history. The Multics project, a joint effort between MIT, Bell Labs, and General Electric, had collapsed under its own weight. Too complex. Too expensive. Too slow. Bell Labs pulled out.

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie refused to let the ideas die.

Working in a small office in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Thompson wrote the first version of Unix in three weeks during the summer of 1969. One week for the file system. One week for the process management. One week for the command shell. Ritchie was working alongside him, and when the system needed a language that could express what they were building, he built one.

In 1972 he completed C.

C was not just another programming language. It was a different philosophy about what a programming language should be. Before C, most systems code was written in assembly, which meant every program was tied to the specific hardware it ran on. You could not move code between machines. You rewrote it from scratch every time.

C changed that. It sat close enough to the hardware to be fast, but abstract enough to run on anything. When Thompson rewrote the Unix kernel in C in 1973, it became the first operating system that could be picked up and moved to a completely different machine without starting over. Portability was a new idea. Ritchie made it real.

The branching that followed is almost impossible to overstate.

Unix spread from Bell Labs to universities. At Berkeley, it became BSD. BSD became the foundation of macOS and iOS. Unix influenced Linus Torvalds, who built Linux in 1991. Linux now runs every Android phone, every major web server, every supercomputer on the Top500 list, and the overwhelming majority of cloud infrastructure at AWS, Google, and Microsoft.

C became the parent language of C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Objective-C. Rob Pike, who worked across the hall from Ritchie at Bell Labs for 20 years, said it plainly: “The browsers are written in C. The Unix kernel that the entire internet runs on is written in C. Web servers are written in C, and if they’re not, they’re written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C.”

Ritchie won the Turing Award in 1983. He won the National Medal of Technology in 1998, presented by President Clinton. He was head of System Software Research at Bell Labs for decades.

He answered emails from strangers with technical questions until the end of his life. His home address stayed listed in the phone book. His colleague Brian Kernighan, who co-authored the definitive C textbook with him, said Ritchie was a private person who did no self-salesmanship. That was not false modesty. It was just who he was.

He died on October 12, 2011, at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He was 70. He had been ill for some time. The world did not notice until Rob Pike posted a quiet announcement on Google+, and the news spread through the programming community in hushed tones.

No front pages. No tributes from heads of state. No candlelight vigils outside corporate campuses.

The device you are reading this on runs code that traces directly back to what he built. So does the server that delivered it to you. So does the browser or app you opened to get here.

Most people will never know his name.

The ones who built everything you use every day do.

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ECP NetHappenings Prof. Yaghi’s Atoco MOF water harvester pulling 1,000L/day from desert air

Outstanding Prof. Yaghi’s Atoco MOF water harvester pulling 1,000L/day from desert air using only ambient heat/sunlight. Super modular and perfect for off-grid villages, disasters, or remote sites. Real scalability depends on cheap mass production of the MOFs? Very promising!

Professor Omar Yaghi, a chemist at the University of California, Berkeley and winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has developed an innovative atmospheric water generator capable of producing up to 1,000 liters of clean drinking water per day directly from dry air.

Using reticular chemistry and advanced metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), the system efficiently captures moisture even in arid desert conditions with very low humidity. The compact, shipping-container-sized units developed by Yaghi’s company, Atoco, operate entirely off-grid using only ultra-low-grade ambient thermal energy or sunlight, requiring no electricity from the grid.

This sustainable technology offers a promising alternative to energy-intensive desalination plants, which often harm marine ecosystems through brine discharge. It is particularly valuable for remote communities, drought-prone regions, and areas affected by natural disasters such as hurricanes in the Caribbean, where centralized water infrastructure may fail.

Yaghi’s personal experience growing up with water scarcity in a refugee community in Jordan has deeply influenced his work. He advocates for scaling decentralized, resilient solutions to address the global water crisis through scientific innovation.

[Atoco official website and related coverage in Interesting Engineering, Food & Wine, and Nobel Prize announcements (2025–2026)]

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ALL THE IPO’S ARE A SCAM

FUCK Surveillance Centers they are OBSOLETE!

FYI WE CAN GET RID OF DATA SURVEILLANCE CENTERS IN THE SOUTH WEST – NO WATER

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ECP NetHappenings The Missing 21 Trillion Americans have lost.

The Pentagon has never been able to pass an audit.

“[DOD] is the only one of the government’s 24 major agencies never to pass”

Catherine Austin Fitts

Former Assistant Secretary of HUD says the federal gov’t—namely DOD—has stolen $55 TRILLION of taxpayer funds.

Tenured Professor at Michigan State University Mark Skidmore on the $21 TRILLION missing from the DOD’s balance sheet:

Gaudi the legendary architect’s most famous quotes:

“To do things right, first you need love, then technique.”

Outstanding Prof. Yaghi’s Atoco MOF water harvester pulling 1,000L/day from desert air using only ambient heat/sunlight. Super modular and perfect for off-grid villages, disasters, or remote sites. Real scalability depends on cheap mass production of the MOFs? Very promising!

“To do things right, first you need love,
then technique.”