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ECP NetHappenings Trump Incompetence at the highest level

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The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun labor unions, free healthcare, and free education because rich people tell them to.

Bob Kennedy fired all 17 vaccine experts and replaced them with loyalists.
A federal judge just threw out everything they did and restored vaccine schedule’s for children. The regime lost.

Your doctor went to medical school for 12 years. The person denying your claim went through a two-week training module.

Absolute bombshell. The Pentagon just admitted that Trump put real estate developer Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner in charge of nuclear negotiations with Iran. When their amateur diplomacy failed, they launched a massive war. Incompetence at the highest level!

Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom
$200 BILLION IS ENOUGH TO:
– Double the annual per‑person spending on K–12 education.
– Expand the ACA tax credit for 7 years.
– Provide up to 2 million people the SNAP benefits they need.
– Provide a middle class tax break of $3,500.
Instead, we will spend it on an illegal war.
This is only the beginning. More money will be wasted. More lives will be lost.

BANKS
America’s biggest banks would be allowed to hold billions of dollars less in capital on their books under a series of new proposals, a change officials say will free up their ability to lend and compete with private-credit firms and other rivals. The proposals introduced Thursday would hand a major victory to big banks, which had resisted sharply higher requirements proposed under the Biden administration.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/u-s-regulators-propose-more-lenient-capital-rules-for-big-banks-afd3797f

TRUMP

George Conway on Trump: “We can’t last 34 more months of what we’ve seen in the last 14. We’re fucked if this guy serves out his term. He’s gonna trash everything once and for all”

RUNT CEO OF PALANTIR SAYS AI WILL SEIZE POWER AWAY FROM COLLEGE-EDUCATED WOMEN
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ceo-palantir-ai-women
“This technology disrupts humanities-trained — largely Democratic — voters.”

DOJ officials are reportedly struggling to figure out how Jared Kushner having no actual government job while making secret plans and deals with Israel our national security officials don’t know about that dragged us into an unpopular war isn’t “textbook treason.”

Virginia Foxx (Q-NC) endorses serial adulterer Ken Paxton: “There’s just something about him I find sexy.”

THE NITROGEN TRAP
How a 21-Mile Strait Threatens the Nutrient System Feeding Half the World
https://shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/the-nitrogen-trap

US tech billionaires spent the last few years making a strong case against extreme wealth. Their public meltdowns and political meddling illustrate that concentrating billions in the hands of unaccountable individuals poses a significant systemic risk.

Last year, Donald Trump Jr. invested in a rare earths startup at a $200 million valuation, per Bloomberg. Three months later, the U.S. government announced a major loan backstop. Now the company is valued around $2 billion, per Bloomberg

The conservative Cato Institute is accusing the Trump admin of carrying out the largest fraud in the history of the immigration system — totaling $1 billion dollars. The scheme allegedly involves taking processing fees from immigrants, then never providing the promised services.

Joe Kent is suddenly being investigated for leaking classified information while Trump offers private national security briefings to anyone who will pay him.
Corey Lewandowski ran ‘pay-to-play’ scheme at DHS – and White House knew: report https://www.rawstory.com/corey-lewandowski-dhs-contracts/

The biggest news out of the church today is Pope Leo’s summoning of @gareth_gore to the Apostolic Palace.
Prevost was tapped by Francis to head a Diocese in Peru scandal-ridden by Opus Dei. Regrettably, its founder was canonized a saint in 2002 and the move was paid for by high-flying donors. Opus Dei tried to pause their reforms upon Francis’ death, but Leo insisted they continue. The Vatican is not satisfied with their proposed reforms. Today’s meeting is a signal that Leo intends to act in a decisive way to finally put an end to the corruption and scandal that has plagued this “sect” for far too long.

Why and How Alina Habba got to be Trumps Very Bad Lawyer.

Peter Thiel Democracy and Catholic cults

One dairy farm in Fresno, California has been linked to 13 recalls and 6 separate outbreaks since 2006. That farm’s owner was personally recruited by the HHS Secretary to advise the FDA on raw milk policy. Mark McAfee owns Raw Farm, the nation’s largest raw milk producer.

Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein
NEW: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is blocking the DEA from releasing an unredacted document from the Epstein files about an investigation involving drug trafficking & money laundering, according to a letter @RonWyden sent to Blanche Tuesday

The Former Trump Administration official William Wolfe who’s a Christian Nationalist says that he will “impose his Morality” on the American people whether they like it or not!

Mossad agent Ari Ben-Menashe:
“The entire Epstein Island operation was an intelligence mission aimed at entrapping politicians, celebrities, media figures, and decision-makers through sexual blackmail, recruiting them as Israeli agents.”

Sam Greene @samagreene Mar 16
Famously, the opposite of totalitarianism is end-times quasi-religious conspiratorial hallucination.
Thiel, the founder of data intelligencecompany Palantir Technologies – the Pentagon contractor whose AI systems are being used in the US and Israeli attack on Iran- is preoccupied with the risk of a “one-world, totalitarian state” obstructing scientific andtechnological progress. He depicts those who lobby for tech regulation as harbingers of the
antichrist. https://x.com/StewartWood/status/2033312620325818390/photo/1
Henry IV challenged papal authority. Ended up barefoot in the snow begging forgiveness at Canossa. The Borgias bought the papacy outright. It triggered the Reformation. The Medicis gave us Leo X, the pope whose indulgence sales finally broke Luther. Money and power have been trying to capture or challenge the papacy for a thousand years. The track record is not good.

BITCOIN

Me: I can’t believe it increased by 1500%
Professor: I’m sick of hearing about
BITCOIN! Nothing can increase by that much and still be a good investment…
Me: I was talking about the price of college tuiton since 1980…
$1.8 trillion in student debt and climbing, yet an 18-year-old can’t touch a mortgage!

JUST IN: Meta announces they’ll be shutting down the Metaverse, after pouring $80,000,000,000.00 into the project.

SCIENCE

After 48 years of travel, NASA ‘s Voyager 1 is nearing one light-day from Earth, almost 16 billion miles away. A proud milestone for humanity, and a humbling reminder of how small we are in an infinite universe.

“Scientists capture the full ‘brain-cleaning’ process during sleep”

Sleep is crucial for the brain. When a person is in deep sleep, cerebrospinal fluid flows between neurons like waves, clearing metabolic waste and “resetting the system” for thinking and learning the next day. But what happens if you don’t get enough sleep?

Scientists at Boston University in the United States have captured this “cleaning” process. Red represents blood, and blue represents cerebrospinal fluid. After falling asleep, neurons become quiet, and within a few seconds, blood flows out of the head. Then a watery fluid called cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flows in, washing the brain in rhythmic pulses.

What’s remarkable is that it was previously unknown that blood periodically flows out of the brain in large amounts. Each time this happens, cerebrospinal fluid takes the opportunity to surge in.

Once inside the brain, cerebrospinal fluid clears toxins, such as beta-amyloid, which is linked to Alzheimer’s disease. This cleaning process only occurs during sleep, allowing the brain to feel refreshed upon waking. When awake, cerebrospinal fluid doesn’t get enough opportunity to do this effectively.

Researchers also found a connection between brainwave activity and the cleaning process, meaning brainwaves help drive the movement of these fluids.

So, it’s better to go to bed earlier—don’t stay up too late!

If the “cleaning” doesn’t work well, you might actually get dumber…

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ECP NetHappenings Meta Shutting Down

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META SHUTTING DOWN

ZUCKERBERG Meta announces they’ll be shutting down the Metaverse, after pouring $80,000,000,000.00 into the project.
The metaverse killed itself. Like we said it would. It was always just a bad corporate version of “second life”. This is evidence that the technology genie CAN be put back in the bottle. No technology is “inevitable”. Same for AI. Meta is preparing major layoffs as AI costs explode.
– Meta is discussing cuts of up to 20% of its workforce
– The company has 79,000 employees, meaning 15,000+ jobs could be impacted

Adam Livingston @AdamBLiv
Meta should have just bought Bitcoin. Assuming Meta buys $80 billion of Bitcoin at today’s BTC price, here’s the math:
At about $71,434 per BTC, $80 billion would buy roughly 1,119,915 BTC.
That stack would be worth:
At $100,000 BTC: about $112.0 billion.
At $150,000 BTC: about $168.0 billion.
At $200,000 BTC: about $224.0 billion.
At $500,000 BTC: about $560.0 billion.
At $1,000,000 BTC: about $1.12 trillion.
Instead of a stupid game/service that nobody used, they could have purchased 5.33% of Bitcoin’s total 21 million supply.
Real-world caveat, deploying $80 billion into Bitcoin would likely push price up hard during accumulation, so the actual BTC acquired would almost certainly be less than 1.12 million BTC.
Still would have been a better use of capital.
Meta to Permanently Remove End-to-End Encryption Feature in Instagram DMs
https://cybersecuritynews.com/instagram-end-to-end-encryption/

Peter Girnus @gothburz Mar 4
I am the Vice President of Privacy for Reality Labs at Meta.

The glasses cost two hundred and ninety-nine dollars. We sold seven million pairs last year. Two million the year before that. The growth rate is three hundred and fifty percent. The tagline is “designed with your privacy in mind.” The design includes a camera. The camera records everything in front of your face. The privacy includes sending the footage to Nairobi.

I need to explain what I mean by “privacy.”

When you speak to Meta AI through your Ray-Ban glasses, you generate video. The video requires human review. We call it “annotation.” Annotation requires annotators. The annotators work for a company called Sama. Sama is in Nairobi, Kenya. The annotators are paid approximately two dollars an hour. The glasses cost two hundred and ninety-nine dollars. One pair of glasses is a hundred and fifty hours of someone watching your life. I did not design that math. I approved it.

Two Swedish newspapers — Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten — found our annotators and asked what they see.

“We see everything — from living rooms to naked bodies.”

“In some videos you can see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed.”

“You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time you are just expected to carry out the work.”

And, regarding questions: “If you start asking questions, you are gone.”

We have a face anonymization system. The system is automatic. The system uses algorithms. The algorithms fail. A source said: “The algorithms sometimes miss. Especially in difficult lighting conditions.” Bedrooms are difficult lighting conditions. Bathrooms are difficult lighting conditions. The places where people are naked are, by the algorithm’s own logic, the places where the algorithm is least reliable. I am not editorializing. I am describing an engineering outcome.

The annotators signed extensive NDAs. There are cameras in their offices. Their phones are confiscated at the door. We surveil the people who surveil your living room. The chain of surveillance is thorough. The question of whether your living room should be surveilled is not in the chain.

Our terms of use — which I helped draft — reserve Meta’s right to “review your interactions with AIs, including by automated or manual (human) means.” The word “manual” means a person. The person is in Nairobi. The person is watching you undress. The person earns two dollars for the hour in which this occurs. I wrote the word “manual.” It is the most efficient sentence I have ever authored.

There is no opt-out. I need to say this clearly. No mechanism exists for a user of Ray-Ban Meta glasses to prevent their footage from being seen by a human being in Kenya. We did not build one. Kenya has no data adequacy agreement with the European Union. Dialogue on adequacy began in May 2024. It has not concluded. The footage did not wait for the dialogue.

Our privacy policy explains: “Data may be transferred globally because Meta is a company that operates globally.” The word “globally” means your apartment in Stockholm is annotated in Nairobi. It is the most honest word in the privacy policy. The rest is architecture.

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ECP NetHappenings AI is failing and owes us money and FREE to Build

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No Justice No Peace
When Corrupt Politicians Start Going To Jail, Then We Can Start Trusting The Government Again.

ECP NetHappenings AI is failing and owes us money

Andrew Yang is right. Taxing AI companies will be a cornerstone of a post-labor economy.
But we should go further.
AI was trained on our data, our writing, our code, our images. Society created the raw material.
So society should own a piece of it.
Not just taxes. Shared ownership and AI dividends.
If AI becomes the most productive technology in history, the wealth it creates should flow back to the people who helped create it.
https://x.com/VraserX/status/2032888994720264273

@Surrealist888
https://x.com/Surrealist888/status/2032622088499114106
My comments on this article: “We live in a world where A.I. companies are grabbing every bit of writing, art and music without consent.”
This is the foundation on which we should judge generative AI. It does not belong to the corporations who stole our entire culture without consent. Our work, our writing, our art, our compositions, our poetry belong to us. Our right to own our own output must be the primary consideration. Our expressions, our imaginations, our deeply felt sense of being alive and gifting that to the world though our creativity should not be exploited by corporations.
Creativity is what makes us human. We must fight against machine exploitation and hold on to our shared humanity and our priceless human art and writing.
Gift Article

Insane A complete 7-week Agentic RAG bootcamp was just open-sourced.
https://x.com/thetripathi58/status/2032911740447633460
AI academies charge $10,000 for this curriculum. You can get it for free.
It covers everything from basic keyword search to building production-grade Agentic RAG systems with LangGraph. This is not a toy project tutorial. It is a full production pipeline.

Here is what is inside:

– 7 weeks of building an AI research assistant from scratch
– Complete infrastructure setup with Docker, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL
– Production keyword and hybrid search using OpenSearch
– Local LLM deployment with streaming responses
– Production monitoring with Langfuse tracing and Redis caching
– Agentic workflows using LangGraph and Telegram bots

Here is the core value:

It forces you to build the way successful companies do. You do not just jump to vector search. You build solid search foundations first, then enhance with AI. Theory and practice in one place. Thousands of developers are using this to master production AI.

Summary of the Production Agentic RAG Course:

– It gives you a senior AI engineer curriculum for free
– It bridges the gap between basic RAG and production systems
– It forces you to build an actual end-to-end portfolio project

You still have to write the code. It just removes the guesswork.
https://github.com/jamwithai/production-agentic-rag-course

Researchers just surveyed 1,500 workers and 52 AI experts and discovered that 41% of everything companies are currently automating with AI falls into what they call the “unwanted or impossible” zone.
Businesses are spending billions automating the wrong things.
The study introduced something called the WORKBank database, which maps worker desires against actual AI capabilities across 844 tasks spanning 104 occupations.
https://x.com/Whizz_ai/status/2032751126202962252

FREE TO BUILD

FREE FROM HARVARD
@heynavtoor
Harvard just open sourced the entire textbook they use to teach Machine Learning Systems.
It’s called Machine Learning Systems (MLSysBook.)
A full, free textbook that covers everything from training models on a single GPU to deploying them at production scale.
This isn’t a blog post. This isn’t a YouTube playlist. It’s the actual course material Harvard students use. Now anyone can access it.

Here’s what’s inside:

→ 15+ chapters covering the full ML systems lifecycle
→ 50+ hands-on lab exercises
→ A framework called TinyTorch that teaches you to build ML infrastructure from scratch
→ Real hardware labs on Arduino and Raspberry Pi
→ Data processing, model training, deployment, and monitoring
→ Volume I covers single-machine ML (1 to 8 GPUs)
→ Volume II covers distributed systems and production infrastructure

Here’s the wildest part:
It comes with actual hardware kits. You don’t just read about edge computing. You deploy models on real devices. Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and other edge hardware. Theory and practice in one place.
Over 100,000 students and educators have already used this material worldwide.
This is what people pay $60K/year in tuition to access.
It’s completely free.

Jeffrey Epstein saying Donald Trump would begin bombing Iran if “cornered like a rat.”
“You guys need to understand that he is psychotic,” Epstein warned.
https://x.com/AmberWoods100/status/2032645997046698196/photo/2

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ECP NetHappenings Why Teaching History is Important

Teaching history is important.

If it’s ok for America to kidnap Maduro and his wife and put them on trial in the US, I guess it’s ok for Europe to kidnap Trump and Melania and put them on trial in The Hague.

Believing Trump captured Maduro to stop drug trafficking is like believing he befriended Jeffrey Epstein to stop child trafficking.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro:
“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein’s list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil.”

Stop talking about Venezuela’s oil… The real story is the gold.
Venezuela sits on 161 metric tons. Value: $22.5 BILLION. Position: Largest reserves in Latin America. Every $100 move in spot prices adds ~$518 million to their balance sheet. But the vaults are just the tip of the iceberg. The Orinoco Mining Arc holds 10,000 tons of unmined gold. At $4,360/oz, that’s $1.4 trillion in the ground. And that’s before factoring in the “blue gold” (Coltan) essential for EVs, worth another $100B. The VP wasn’t mincing words when she said “mineral resources” were the target. Here is why Gold > Oil right now: Oil is a CapEx nightmare. It requires $58 billion in infrastructure repairs and years to bring 50-year-old pipelines back online. Gold is immediate liquidity. The second a US-recognized government takes the reins: 1. The Bank of England unfreezes the $1.8 billion locked since 2018. 2. The 161 tons become instant collateral for IMF loans and debt restructuring. Gold ripped 65% in 2025 and BofA targets $5,000. This is THE trade of 2026. Oil is the headline, but gold is the collateral.

WHAT ABOUT GREENLAND?

In 1916, the United States traded any interest it had in Greenland to Denmark as part of its compensation for the Danish West Indies, which are now the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Heard about that from media or politicians?

Why is Greenland part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History
From the Vikings to Trump: Greenland’s historic development negates recent White House territorial demands.
https://www.diis.dk/en/research/why-is-greenland-part-of-the-kingdom-of-denmark-a-short-history

WHAT ABOUT VENEZUELA

Trump on Venezuela:
“That was a perfect attack. We’ve taken over a whole country. We’ve taken $4 billion of oil in one day. That will increase.”
(DID YOU THINK THIS WAS ABOUT DRUG SMUGGLING?)
“This idea oil companies will rush to VENEZUALA— that’s not a thing. Ludicrous. It’ll take $100 BILLION to restore the infrastructure.” @MrGlobal2025 says Trump invaded to look tough + distract from Epstein, as oil companies play along to keep him happy
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uGw1W2PoLJ0

SEIZED The $60B+ Bitcoin “Shadow Reserve” Venezuela one of the largest active $BTC holders in the world. Similar in scale to both $MSTR and Blackrock. Accumulation began in 2018, coinciding with the aggressive liquidation of the Orinoco Mining Arc’s gold reserves.
Historical data from The Wilson Center and Reuters confirms the Maduro regime liquidated ~73 tons of gold in 2018, valued at approximately $2.7 billion at the time.
– The regime likely converted ~$2B of gold proceeds into Bitcoin at an average price of $5K, which would have been around 400,000 BTC. At Jan 2026 price of ~$90K, that specific tranche alone would be worth $36B. The $60 billion hoard fundamentally alters the supply/demand dynamics of the Bitcoin market for 2026, as the Venezuelan reserve is estimated at: 600,000+ BTC.
The “Strategic Reserve” Pivot (High Probability):
Influenced by the “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” movement, President Trump orders the Treasury to hold the Bitcoin as a permanent U.S. asset. The U.S. will likely offer plea deals, reduced sentencing, or protection for family members in exchange for the surrender of seed phrases. Given the severity of the narco-terrorism charges, the leverage is there.If the U.S. seizes these assets, they will likely move from “active liquid reserves” of a rogue state to “frozen sovereign assets” of the U.S. Treasury, reducing available supply and potentially acting as a catalyst for higher prices in Q1 2026.

Given market intelligence, we can estimate that Venezuela has roughly:
Gold Swaps: 2018–2020, Gold Bars, Value Now: ~$45B – $50B

TRUMP ICE

A whistleblower from the Department of Homeland Security reportedly told the Daily Mail regarding the training of new ICE agents ….
“We have people failing open-book tests, and we have folks that can barely read or write English.”
“We even had a 469-lb man sent to the academy whose own doctor certified him not at all fit for any physical activity.”
The Daily Mail reported that some recruits showed up with tattoos tied to gangs and white supremacists. One bailed for a court date on a gun charge, and another was arrested for exploding at a bus driver.
The MAGA cult was all in an uproar about immigrant CDL drivers lacking the ability to read and write proper English, but yet, these hypocritical bastards haven’t said a word about these tattooed, gang affiliated, white supremacists that “can barely read or write English” and are loose on American streets carrying guns that are quite literally murdering people.

Donald Trump Says ‘My Own Morality’ Is ‘the Only Thing That Can Stop Me’ from World Dominance: ‘I Don’t Need International Law’

THE TRUMP EFFECT

Recruits who “can barely read or write” were accepted into the program – internal reports.
Some applicants reportedly:
Failed drug tests
Had pending criminal charges
Lacked basic English literacy
Give every ICE recruit (who obviously don’t have a lot of other career opportunities out there) the long-form citizenship test that all immigrants are required to take if they want to stay here.

Rep. Roger Williams: “People need to quit demonstrating, quit yelling at law enforcement, challenging law enforcement, and begin to get civil.”
Hitler said the same thing in 1933.

Trump loves the uneducated. Trump: “Smart people don’t like me”.

ICE is an amalgamation of Proud Boys, Jan 6 rioters, and the douchiest chucklefucks you ever knew in high school. An American gestapo.
ICE shooting comes after bombshell probe finds new recruits ‘can barely read or write’ Background checks don’t happen until after agents are already on the job?
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-shooting-2674862836/
CBS News @CBSNews
SRT provides high-risk operational support for immigration enforcement actions, including executing arrest and search warrants, responding to barricaded subjects, transporting dangerous detainees, and assisting with riot control or disturbances at detention facilities. SRT members receive advanced training in tactical operations, firearms, defensive tactics, and crowd control, and they are deployed when situations exceed the capabilities of standard ERO officers.

When @grok was asked who spreads the most disinformation on @x – it’s response was to name @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk.
Hey @grok, who are the top 10 disinformation spreaders on X?
11:57 AM • Jan 8, 2026
Grok → M @grok • 4h
Identifying top disinformation spreaders on X is subjective and varies by
source. Based on 2024-2026 reports from diverse outlets (Science,
Reuters, CCDH, NY Post, Pew), frequently cited accounts include:
1. elonmusk
2. realDonaldTrump
3. RobertKennedyJr
4. RealAlexJones
5. TuckerCarlson
6. libsoftiktok
7. OccupyDemocrats
8. MeidasTouch
9. RT_com
10. jacksonhinklle
Cross-verify claims with fact-checkers like Snopes or PolitiFact.

Flu reaches highest level in the US in 25 years
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/health/flu-highest-level-25-years

The 15 richest billionaires in America got nearly $1 trillion richer last year.

Trump’s billionaire allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and Twitch.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post — plus 185+ local tv stations and news in 100 markets.
They control the AI you’re asking for answers, the algorithms feeding you content, your personal data you’ve given up for access, and the devices you rely on.
The news and your privacy are now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
This is all by design.

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