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SOMETHING TO MAKE YOU HAPPY

Through the Tracks of Time, the Blues Carries Us Home
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation is dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich cultural legacy of African American traditional music, oral history, and folklore. All aboard the Blues Line — where history hums, stories sing, and every stop echoes with the soul of a people.

THE BLUES LINE
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Duck Soup Mirror Scene
Starring Groucho, Harpo and Chico Marx so we don’t lose our minds.

Invisibility Cloak” fabric from Alibaba

EDWARD SNOWDEN WAS RIGHT

It’s the money! They want digital CBDC that can turn your money off if you are buying too much food for your family size. Booze, cigs anything.
The data centers will have that data.
The chip is the final remedy they can just turn you off.
You people have no idea how dark this really is.

 

Knockoff Alert!
Larry & this administration are copycats!
In The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), the CIA uses a covert intelligence and surveillance network called Operation Blackbriar to track targets globally. Led by Deputy Director Noah Vosen, the program utilizes advanced, real-time access to public and private CCTV feeds, allowing analysts to monitor and follow individuals across cityscapes instantly.
While the network is heavily featured in the films as a tool for the CIA, the initial tracking in the first movie, The Bourne Identity, was focused more on conventional logs and local camera feeds managed under Operation Treadstone.

TRUMP AND SCOTUS did all of this!

https://x.com/chiky_handlr/status/2058652768282521899

CBS blocked Stephen Colbert’s public access show yesterday on youtube. Paramount claiming ownership of a Public Access show in Michigan is wild work.

Hasan reads out Elon Musk’s texts sent to Ashley St. Claire (baby mama) right before the 2024 election.

Minnie Musk spills the beans:
video “We’re in SpaceX & we just quietly do whatever we want”
“They’ll never know!”

He gets his kid to say this crap so he can laugh it off as a kid being silly. But, it’s Elmo’s own words.
Case in point
The fix is in and musk is in control of the elections. We may never see a Democrat in office again.

“Tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix..this is not something on the chess board so they will be quite surprised “lasers from space”… I have over 10,000 lasers in space right now”

Trump is now single handedly responsible for 27.7% of the national debt. This is dramatically more than any President in American history.
27.7% of the national debt and a war to go with it.
Make America Great Again was always on credit.

Nobody does debt like Trump. The best debt. Historic debt. People are saying they’ve never seen numbers this beautiful before. Truly tremendous deficits..

CBS canceled Stephen Colbert to appease Trump. Now a growing movement across the United States is calling for a boycott of CBS.

LARRY FINK says America needs trillions in AI infrastructure spend, and YOU must “invest” in it
“to be the leader in AI…[will] require trillions… in investments”
“Much of this… [will come] from…savings accounts, pension accounts…insurance companies”
“This is a must”
He’s saying he will tokenize every last cent we own and make it the world economic forums’ money. Every dollar in your pension, 401k, saving account, you name it. These people are mad. The tokenization scheme is really insane. Especially the idea of tokenizing nature :/

A 387-word document was just quietly posted on the DOJ’s website declaring the US government is “forever barred” from auditing Trump’s taxes. It’s not normal. It’s not legal. And it’s not going to stand.

ESSAY

Sammi @StoriesBySammi
Over a million acres of pristine wilderness lakes in Minnesota.
The most visited canoe country in America.
Generations of families have paddled it, fished it, camped it.
The Senate just sold it out outright.
They called it “America First.”
Then handed it to a Chilean billionaire — so his company can ship the copper to China.
The Senate voted 50-49 to gut 20 years of Boundary Waters mining protections.
Here’s the deal they made.
A Chilean billionaire’s company digs the mine.
America can’t smelt the copper — we don’t have the capacity.
So the ore ships to China.
China processes it.
Sells it on the world market.
Chile keeps the profits.
Minnesotans don’t even get the jobs.
Minnesota keeps the pollution.
And Americans get to buy it back from China at full market price.
This same company has a documented history at their Chilean mines: pipeline spills, regulatory fines, and locals fighting back for years.
They paid a former Trump Interior Secretary $380K.
The protection died by one vote.
Here’s exactly how it happened — and who made it happen.
Who do YOU think this mine actually serves?

Elias Al @iam_elias1
ChatGPT diagnosed 40 million people with a disease that was invented as a joke.
Not a real disease. Not a misunderstood disease. A completely fictional condition with a fake name, fake papers, and fake statistics.
And it told patients to see a specialist. <continue>

Farhad Nassiri Afshar, MD
@DrNassiriAfshar
As a physician building AI tools for healthcare, I see a real warning here, but the viral framing overstates it.
Bixonimania was a completely fake disease created to test AI. Some systems treated it as real and gave clinical advice. That matters.
However, 40 million people using AI for health questions does not mean 40 million people received fake diagnoses.
The solution is not to abandon AI in medicine.
It is to stop using raw consumer LLMs as diagnostic tools. <continue>

Rimsha Bhardwaj@heyrimshaA Wharton economist ran a randomized controlled trial on almost a thousand high school students in Turkey.
The result was so brutal for the AI-in-education narrative that it had to be peer-reviewed by PNAS before people would believe it.
Her name is Hamsa Bastani. She teaches operations and information at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the study she published in 2025 alongside her co-authors is one of the cleanest experiments anyone has run on what AI actually does to learning when you remove it from the equation and check what is left.
The setup was a randomized controlled trial, the same methodology used in clinical drug trials. Nearly a thousand high school math students in Turkey were split into three groups and put through four sessions of ninety minutes each. One group practiced with GPT Base, a standard ChatGPT-4 interface that could answer any question directly. One group practiced with GPT Tutor, a version of the same model that had been prompted to guide students with hints rather than hand them the answer. One group practiced with nothing but their textbook and their own head. <continue>

BITCOIN

FACT: STRATEGY NOW OWNS MORE #BITCOIN THAN EVERY GOVERNMENT ON EARTH COMBINED
IT’S RAISING BILLIONS AND STILL BUYING MORE
TRADE OF THE CENTURY
Soon, the US Government will buy BTC from Strategy for it’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. It’s coming and it will propel Strategy & Shareholders into a new era of parabolic gains. Stack sats and stay humble.

Strategy isn’t just buying Bitcoin — it’s forcing the world to rethink what a corporate treasury can be.
Governments print. Strategy accumulates. That’s the trade.

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ECP NetHappenings Sci-Bot

@ihtesham2005

A 22-year-old graduate student in Kazakhstan got so angry at journal paywalls in 2011 that she built a pirate website holding 88 million scientific papers, and last month she turned the whole thing into an AI that lets you ask one question and get the actual research as the answer.

Her name is Alexandra Elbakyan, and the website is called Sci-Hub.

The AI she just launched is called Sci-Bot. It lives at http://sci-bot.ru and almost nobody outside academia knows it exists yet.

Here is the story, because it is one of the strangest things to happen in science publishing in the last 50 years.

Elbakyan was born in Almaty in 1988, the year the Soviet Union started to collapse. She taught herself programming at 12. She read Soviet science books that explained things her family used to call miracles. She got into computer security at university and graduated in 2009 with a degree she barely needed because by then she was already a serious hacker.

Alexandra moved to Moscow that fall. Then Germany. Then a research internship in the United States. She was working on brain-computer interfaces, the kind of research that requires you to read hundreds of papers a year just to keep up with the field.

And every single one of those papers was locked behind a journal paywall that cost between 30 and 50 dollars to read once.

She did the math. A graduate student in Kazakhstan could not afford to read science.

The first thing she did was learn how to get around the paywalls one paper at a time. She passed the trick around to other students. They asked her for papers constantly. She got tired of doing it manually.

So in September 2011, in three days, she wrote a script that automated the whole thing. A user pastes a DOI. The script logs in through a donated institutional credential. The paper comes back free. The website caches it.

The next person who asks for that paper gets it instantly because the previous request already saved a copy.

That was Sci-Hub. Three days of code. One graduate student. Done.

15 years later, the cache holds 88 million scientific papers. Almost every piece of scholarly literature published before 2020 is sitting on her servers. Researchers in 190 countries use it. Studies in Nature have shown that roughly half of all academic paper downloads worldwide now go through Sci-Hub, not the publishers who actually own the copyrights.

Elsevier sued her in 2015 and won a 15 million dollar judgment. She did not pay. The American Chemical Society sued her and won an injunction. She did not comply. Courts in India, France, Russia, and the UK have tried to block the domain. She just moves it. http://Sci-hub.se. http://Sci-hub.ru. http://Sci-hub.ee. The site has had over 20 domains and is still up.

Nature put her on its list of the 10 people who mattered most to science in 2016. The New York Times compared her to Edward Snowden. The Verge called her the pirate queen of science.

She has not been to the United States in over a decade because she would be arrested at the airport.

The Sci-Bot launch in April 2026 is the part that nobody is talking about.

She took the 88 million paper database and put a small language model on top of it. You ask a question in plain English. The model searches the entire shadow library, pulls the relevant papers, synthesizes an answer grounded in real citations, and links you to the full text of every source. Free. No login. No institutional credential. No paywall.

Three real scientists tested it for a Chemical and Engineering News article last month. They asked it medical and chemistry questions. The radiologist said the answer he got was usable. The chemist said the gaps in recent literature were obvious but the older science was solid. The publisher community is furious.

What she built is what the paid academic AI tools are trying to build. Except the paid ones are limited to what their parent publisher legally owns. Hers is limited to almost nothing.

Alexandra still lives somewhere in Russia. She does not give her address. She does not do video interviews. She gives talks over Skype with the camera off. She runs the largest illegal library in human history from a laptop and a donation page.

A graduate student who could not afford to read science built the system the entire scientific community now quietly depends on.

The publishers have spent a decade trying to shut her down.

She just shipped an AI that makes their entire business model outdated.

ECP NetHappenings 10 piracy repos you should NEVER use

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Nav Toor
@heynavtoor
10 piracy repos you should NEVER use
https://x.com/heynavtoor/status/2057730938570981639
SAVE IT

This is NOT a recommendation list.
This is a do-not-touch list.

1. Awesome Piracy
A giant index of piracy tools, sites, and “free” content. One click and you’re deep in DMCA territory, not productivity heaven.
Repo → https://github.com/Igglybuff/awesome-piracy

2. Seedbox‑Lite
A Netflix‑style UI on top of torrents. Streams straight from your seedbox. Also a perfect way to put your IP in every rightsholder’s crosshairs.
Repo → https://github.com/webtor-io/self-hosted

3. Webtor Self‑Hosted
Pick a torrent, stream it instantly in the browser. It feels like magic, but you’re still downloading and uploading copyrighted content in real time.
Repo → https://github.com/webtor-io/self-hosted

4. RapidBay
Self‑hosted torrent streaming with Chromecast and TV support. Clean UI, ugly risk. It turns your box into a 24/7 movie piracy hub.
Repo → https://github.com/hauxir/rapidbay

5. Cloud‑Torrent
Remote torrent client with a web UI. Great dev work, terrible idea on a paid VPS tied to your real name and card.
Repo → https://github.com/jpillora/cloud-torrent

6. Mov‑CLI (with shady plugins)
The core is neutral, but third‑party plugins scrape gray‑zone and outright illegal streaming sites. One bad plugin choice, and you’re over the line.
Repo → https://github.com/mov-cli/mov-cli

7. Popcorn‑Time‑style forks
“Netflix but with torrents” never died, it just keeps forking. New names, same instant‑infringement model Popcorn Time made infamous.
Repo → https://github.com/popcorntime/popcorntime

8. Anime streaming scrapers
Anime “APIs” and scrapers targeting free streaming sites get mass‑deleted after takedowns. If your stack relies on them, you’re building on legal quicksand.
Example → search “anime streaming scraper GitHub” / “aniwatch API GitHub”

9. Piracy “megathread” mirrors
Curated lists of warez, streaming, and cracking tools. Reading them isn’t the problem; using half the links absolutely is.
Repo → https://github.com/SeppPenner/awesome-german-piracy

10. “Netflix‑killer” stacks
Anything that advertises “self‑hosted Netflix that scrapes the whole web” is basically a UI wrapper on torrents and illegal streams. Slick, but not safe.

Repo → http://github.com/hauxir/rapidbay
Repo → http://github.com/webtor-io/self-hosted

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ECP NetHappenings January 6th was a Republican attempt to certify a Fraudulent Election

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JANUARY 6 WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE DAY THE GOVERNMENT STAGED A RIOT TO COVER UP THE FACT THAT THEY CERTIFIED A FRAUDULENT ELECTION.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

NPR An individual who was pardoned by Trump went on to molest two children, and he tried to buy their silence by saying he would give them funds from your slush fund.

Rep. Mike Levin
Last night in House Appropriations, all Republicans present voted to allow THEMSELVES to get settlements from the January 6th Slush Fund. I am not making this up.

Trump Causes MAGA CIVIL WAR!!!

A Louisiana resident delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting.
“The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy“

HAKEEM JEFFRIES ISN’T F*CKING AROUND: “Either MAGA extremists are gonna break the country or we’re gonna break them… We have to beat them electorally, and then we have to break their spirit.” The gloves are OFF. Democrats just declared POLITICAL WARFARE against MAGA.

SCOTUS THUGS

CONFIRMED: Tell me again why we should trust these people with our rights?
Chief Justice John Roberts’ wife pocketed $10.3 million recruiting for law firms with cases before his court. He illegally labeled it “salary” instead of commission on disclosure forms.
Justice Clarence Thomas took $500,000+ luxury yacht trips, $133,000 real estate deals, and decades of private jet vacations from billionaire Harlan Crow—all hidden from the public.
Justice Neil Gorsuch sold a $1.8 million property to the CEO of Greenberg Traurig—a law firm with 22 cases before the Court—just nine days after his confirmation. He left the buyer’s name BLANK on his disclosure forms.
Republicans: “The Supreme Court is impartial!”
The Supreme Court: a billionaire-funded cash register.
Three justices. Three scandals. Tens of millions in hidden money and favors. This isn’t a court. It’s a corruption convention with robes.

Allan Chambers, 54 yr old pedophile from Winter Park, Florida, was arrested for soliciting a 14 yr old boy for sex. He was President of Exodus International, a Christian organization promoting conversion therapy for gay men. He has a wife & two children. Just like the ANC government of South Africa. Several of their ministers and councillors apparently are on the DL gay or have even been found with kids. SMH….

WHERE ARE ALL THE NAZI’S COMING FROM?

There is no fucking “white genocide” in South Africa, this is just more payback for Elon rigging the election.

SOUTH AFRICA
As a reminder, so far in FY2026 America has welcomed 4,496 White Afrikaners (1 out of every 800 in South Africa) as refugees and 3 people from the rest of the entire world (3 out of 7,260,000,000 non-American, non-Afrikaners).
SCOOP: The Trump administration is proposing increasing the refugee admissions ceiling for fiscal year 2026 to 17,500 for White South Africans, according to an emergency determination sent to Congress and obtained by CNN. That’s an increase of 10,000.
Trump administration proposes admitting more White South African refugees

AI

Trump admin awards $2B in CHIPS Act grants to 9 quantum computing firms, US will take equity stakes in each company, per WSJ

Meta will layoff 8000 of its workforce starting TODAY.
Their net income over the last 12 months was $70,587,000,000. They could give every single one of their 79,000 workers a $440,000 bonus and still sock away over $35,827,000,000 in pure profit.
The Zuckerbergs Are Hiring a Lifeguard but Calling It a ‘Beach Water Person’
The job, which is associated with the Zuckerberg family office, is located in Kauai, Hawaii, where the Meta CEO owns a massive compound.

SEC DOESN’T PROTECT INVESTORS IT’S COVERS UP CRIME

HOW MANY LETTERS DOES THE SEC NEED TO RECEIVE TO TAKE ACTION
MMTLP sent in over 50k letters,
over 70 Congressional signatures, and it has been over 3 years.
Many investors in many tickers have sent letters, FOIA requests and made Whistleblower reports.
ZERO ACTION TAKEN
Hester Peirce finally leaving the SEC !!!!!!!!

US health secretary’s son launches investment fund tied to health movement
Child of Robert F Kennedy Jr seeks $100mn in capital raise while touting links to ‘policy initiatives in government’
one of RFK Jr’s sons had been working for Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC and is now working on a new VC firm aimed at “emerging technologies” in healthcare. Lonsdale’s 8VC was also intimately involved in the company Resilience, a CIA linked company involved in the mass production of the mRNA for the Moderna Covid vaccine. If you still somehow think RFK Jr represents “resistance” to the technocratic agenda in any capacity, you have been had.

Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb Apr 28
Palantir, a CIA front company, now has its tentacles in the food supply, our healthcare data, our growing autonomous weapons industry, the military, the entire US intelligence community, border patrol, Space Force and so on.
Seemingly, Palantir is soon to become the testrun for Yarvins “sov-corp”, a privatized version of govt that replaces the existing govt and is ruled by a CEO dictator. That is, unless we do something about it.

There needs to be a class action lawsuit against DOGE and Musk.
Musk needs to be arrested and imprisoned ASAP.
Employees Shared Social Security Data, Court Filing Shows
Whistleblowers and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed that operatives from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) improperly accessed, downloaded, and shared sensitive Social Security Administration (SSA) data. Allegations include uploading records to non-secure cloud servers and a staffer retaining data on a personal thumb drive.DOGE
And don’t forget, even if you aren’t collecting Social Security, they still have all your data. They know who you work for and how much you make. How much you contribute to your IRA (since it is not taxed). You all ok with this, it’s all working people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/politics/doge-employees-social-security-data.html
Here’s a breakdown of how Elon Musk used his DOGE goons to steal 500 MILLION Americans’ Social Security data– private information that includes your SSNs, addresses, places of birth, citizenship status, mothers’ maiden names, spouse and children’s information, and more!
video https://x.com/SSWorks/status/2057200740628578459

Of all the hilarious and awful things about this story, my favorite is the author responding by pledging to launch an investigation into his own book to get to the bottom of who wrote it
Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
Steven Rosenbaum, author of “The Future of Truth,” said he had started his own investigation after The New York Times asked about the fake quotes.

BITCOIN

BILLIONAIRE MICHAEL SAYLOR JUST SAID LIVE ON CNBC THAT STRATEGY WILL BUY ALL 1,000,000 #BITCOIN LEFT TO BE MINED
DIGITAL CREDIT WILL ABSORB THE “ENTIRE SUPLY”
THIS WILL CONTINUE “FOREVER”

FOX NEWS JUST REVEALED IRAN IS HOLDING $7,700,000,000 WORTH OF #BITCOIN EXPOSURE
BTC IS THE NEW WORLD RESERVE CURRENCY

$60 BILLION COINBASE JUST SAID THE #BITCOIN CLARITY ACT WILL PASS AND THE INDUSTRY WILL EXPLODE
MILLIONS WILL “BECOME THEIR OWN BANK”
BILLIONS WILL BE MADE ON CRYPTO APPLICATIONS
CLARITY BOOM IS COMING

SENATOR MCCORMICK JUST SAID LIVE ON FOX THAT THE #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO CLARITY ACT WILL BE SIGNED INTO LAW “THIS SUMMER”
IT IS “HEADING TO THE PRESIDENT’S DESK”

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