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Government officials can’t legally censor protected speech, but they can strong-arm private parties into doing it for them. That’s called jawboning, and it violates your First Amendment rights.
The JAWBONE Act, introduced by Sens. Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden, would let Americans sue federal officials who coerce censorship of speech on social media, AI platforms, and broadcast airwaves, and require the government to publicly disclose such pressure on platforms.

NY Knicks win their first NBA championship in 53 years.
The last time they won was in 1973

Japanese Scientist Succeeds in Removing the Extra Chromosome That Causes Down Syndrome
The technology developed by Dr. Ryotaro Hashizume’s team at Mie University is “allele-specific editing.”
The cause of Down syndrome is “having one extra chromosome 21.”
They succeeded in completely deleting that extra chromosome using CRISPR. Out of the three chromosomes, they precisely targeted and eliminated only the extra one. The healthy two remain untouched.

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
If they could have done this to bitcoin they would have do it a long time ago.

No one in America was given more “due process” than this lifelong criminal. Who, BTW, because of McConnell, Garland, and the Supreme Court, got away with every crime against America. So Far. #Resist

PRAY FOR HAIL, Tornados, RAIN, THUNDER and locusts for his birthday

ELECT A CLOWN GET A CIRCUS

Trump’s White Trash House UFC fight this weekend has required more than seven federal agencies, hundreds of staff working onsite daily and at least $60 million, according to a legal filing.
“Government resources” = your taxpayer dollars

Trump used the Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon — soldiers who escort fallen heroes and heads of state — to usher UFC fighters past Abraham Lincoln’s statue like they’re celebrities on a red carpet. I am LIVID. And everyone else should be too.

$14 million “beautification” and just 3 days later it looks worse than ever because there was a reason we didn’t paint the reflecting pool dark colors like “American flag blue.” Mainly that it would raise the water temp and cause rapid algae growth.

Actually hilarious the only game the knicks lost is the one trump was at!!!!

Ted Lieu on camera:
“The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped children.”
A sitting congressman said this on the record.

GOOGLE is broken and on the way out, it’s call retrieval collapse.
AI-generated content is flooding the internet so fast that search engines are now showing you mostly AI-written pages. And the search engine cannot tell the difference. Nearly every result came from the same type of content. AI-written. AI-optimized. AI-structured. The human-written pages, the ones with original reporting, personal experience, and genuine expertise, were buried.

“Safety standards” never apply to the surveillance state? Why?
It’s not just Flock cameras being installed dangerously. Motorola/Vigilant ALPR poles are also being mounted without the required breakaway bases turning “public safety” tech into roadside hazards.

Rep. Joyce Beatty, a Democratic U.S. Representative who has served Ohio’s 3rd Congressional District since 2013. Rep. Beatty brought the lawsuit that resulted in Trump’s name being removed from the Kennedy Center.
She’s our Hero of the Week.
The work crew is really groovin’ as Trump’s name is ripped off the Kennedy Center. 😂
“Young man, pick yourself off the ground” … peak YMCA celebration vibes.
America is healing one scaffold dance at a time!

JD Vance, Susie Wiles, and Todd Blanche used the Situation Room to coordinate Epstein cover-up strategy. That facility is reserved for national security emergencies. The man now deciding what files get released was Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense lawyer.

Courtney Wild, Epstein survivor, to Congress last month:
‘Maybe that’s how it works for rich guys. That’s how it did work for Jeffrey Epstein.’
The government signed a secret nonprosecution agreement with Epstein. His 40 known victims were never told.

Epstein’s phone directory from his computer: 14 phone numbers for Donald Trump. Emergency lines. Car numbers. Numbers to Trump’s security guard and his houseman.
EFTA00597791. The files had this the whole time.

Epstein survivor Marina Lacerda: “[Trump] wants his name everywhere . . . his name is here.” “This is him. This is his birthday present.” More than three million Epstein files are on display for Donald Trump’s birthday in D.C. right now.

The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room officially opened in Washington, D.C. on June 9, 2026, located in Chinatown near Capital One Arena.
This pop-up exhibit, organized by the Institute for Primary Facts, displays 3.5 million pages of DOJ-released documents bound into 3,437 volumes weighing over 17,000 pounds to physically demonstrate the scale of Epstein’s crimes. all 3,437 bound volumes — roughly 3.5 million pages of the public record — come to the nation’s capital for four days, steps from the u.s. department of justice.
Free public appointments at 737 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001.

Not a drag queen.
MAGA Ohio police chief arrested in Florida after grand jury hands down 70-count child sex indictment.
Bethel Police Chief Chad Essert, 44, was taken into custody without incident Tuesday night in Seminole Florida he is facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars.

Victory: Federal court rules Trump admin’s termination of $2.8 billion climate and environmental justice grant program was illegal.
SE SOUTHERN LC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders
In the Cayman Islands, there is a modest five-story building that is home to 18,857 companies.
Either this is one very crowded building, or it is a phony address, used by 18,000-plus corporations for one purpose: to avoid paying taxes to the United States of America.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved an amendment by Sen. Mike Lee that would repeal the 2001 Roadless Rule across roughly 45 million acres of national forest lands in 37 states. 🚩🚩🚩

Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher @EileenforCO
I’ve served under seven presidents — from Reagan to President Biden — so I know that service is about more than self, it’s about patriotism. We need a true patriot representing Colorado’s 4th district. Help me defeat Lauren Boebert this fall. Chip in $25 today.

@RepMikeLevin
Not enough people are talking about this. Trump is trying to escape a $100 million dollar tax penalty, and Senate Republicans are helping him do it. You know about the $1.8 billion slush fund he tried to create to reward his political allies. They got so much pushback that they’ve halted that, at least for now. But what you probably don’t know is that Trump gave himself, his family, and his businesses complete immunity from IRS audits, past and future. Everyone focused on the slush fund, and almost nobody noticed the audit immunity. It’s still in place, and it cannot be allowed to stand.
Trump Tower Chicago – 2001 Designed by Adrian Smith – Built by Bovis Lend Lease – $650M loan from Deutsche & $150M from Fortress: due 2008 – Breaks Ground 2005 – 2020 $287M Trump defaults – delay – Trump owes IRS $100M – He claimed losses twice – Contractors sue for $2.6M owed.

Frank Lipman MD@DrFrankLipman
Americans born after 1970 are already dying at higher rates from heart disease, cancer, and external causes than people born before them were dying at the same ages, a pattern researchers call alarming given how many years these cohorts still have ahead.

“The White House’s improvisation on what appears to be the first real test of what to do about a frontier model’s risks may ultimately imperil its stated goal to ensure American leadership in AI.”
https://www.justsecurity.org/142619/anthropic-mythos-government-directive/

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine
The rise of surveillance capitalism must be stopped.
Charging obscene airfare because the algorithm knows you’re going to a funeral should be illegal. Using our data to price gouge us should be illegal.

KEN GRIFFIN CITADEL SECURITIES KING OF PAYMENT FOR ORDER FRAUD
Ken Griffin is Madoff 2.0 Let’s hope he gets locked up also.
Citadel Securities executes 41% of US Retail orders.
Then, he funnels them through the dark pools, setting the price of securities.
NOW YOU KNOW WHY HE CAN AFFORD THE MOST EXPENSIVE PRIVATE RESIDENCE IN HISTORY‼️
90% OF PAYMENT FOR ORDER FRAUD GO TO THE DARK POOLS 🚨🚨
SEC knows what is going on and is allowing it to continue.
Dark pools are where dirty deeds happen.
STOCK MARKET IS RIGGED‼️
MADOFF PIONEERED PAYMENT FOR ORDER FRAUD
Bernie Madoff pioneered PFOF 🤔
Now it’s a 3.8 BILLION business for Brokers.
The top two wholesalers executing most of Retail orders are none other than
Citadel Securities 41%
Virtu Financial 26%
THE USUAL SUSPECTS
SEC WANTS TO MAKE PAYMENT FOR ORDER FRAUD MORE PROFITABLE FOR CRIMINALS
Seriously
“The SEC’s proposal to rescind Rules 611 and 610(e) effectively removes mandatory federal protections requiring brokerages to route your stock trades to the single exchange with the lowest listed price.”
NOT A NEW DAY AT THE SEC

CHINA MOVES CLOSER TO LAUNCHING SWIFT ALTERNATIVE BACKED BY FIVE CENTRAL BANKS China is advancing mBridge, a blockchain-based cross-border payment network backed by the central banks of China, Hong Kong, Thailand, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. The platform is designed to settle international transactions in seconds using central bank digital currencies, bypassing traditional correspondent banking rails and reducing reliance on the US dollar as the intermediary currency.

BREAKING: An Economics Professor Just Made A Pretty Stunning Argument About Elon Musk.
According to the professor, Musk spent roughly $250 million during the 2024 election cycle. He claims that’s just 0.025% of Musk’s wealth.
In other words, the amount spent was so small relative to Musk’s fortune that he could theoretically spend the same amount thousands of times over.
That’s a democracy question, not just a money question.

Catherine Austin Fitts @austin_fit76995
“BlackRock wants to turn EVERYTHING nature gave us—forests, rivers, entire ecosystems—into tradable Wall Street tokens on a blockchain.” ~Whitney Webb
IT’S A HEIST: infinite new collateral for their endless debt machine, all tracked & controlled by their AI overlord, Aladdin.
All under the feel-good banner of “saving the planet”…
This isn’t environmentalism. This is total financial domination of the living world.

ESSAY @ShannonJoyRadio @DowdEdward
Former BlackRock fund manager Ed Dowd on what is and isn’t “sus” about the SpaceX IPO
“This… [is a] classic venture capital exit maneuver. The IPO is the liquidity event”
“What’s different… is they accelerated the timeline where the insiders can sell. That’s a little… ‘sus'”
“[Also,] what is untoward about it, in many classic investors’ viewpoints, is it’s being priced at an outrageous multiple—about 95 [to] 100 times revenues. That’s just absurd”
“So I suspect this is going to do what a lot of IPOs do. It’s going to deflate over the next six to 12 months and people will lose money who bought it here, as the insiders cash out”
“[There’s also] usually… a seasoning period for an IPO of at least up to a year [for the] NASDAQ[, but it] dispensed with that. The S&P was rumored to do the same thing, but the S&P decided, no, no, we’re not changing our rules for Elon”
“Also, the lockup period is accelerated way more than it typically is. So people are going to punch out of their shares”
“What this means is people who have been in this company, employees, VCs, private, private family offices, they’re going to get their liquidity”
“I was talking to a guy on the Street a couple of weeks ago, and his fund sold it last year, and they thought it was already overpriced at $400 billion and so they’re very mad at themselves because they got out before $1.5 trillion”
“what’s gone on here is absolutely absurd. It’s worth $400 billion last year, now it’s $1.7 trillion. What’s changed? Nothing other than hype. So this is classic bubble behavior”
“I have nothing to say about SpaceX the company per se… it could be a great stock at a much lower valuation, but it all depends. People have to separate the stock price from the company. Great companies and great stocks are two different things”

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ECP NetHappenings Fugazi The Treachery of Elites

FUGAZI

The Treachery of Elites

The First Trillionaires:
A History of the Rothschild Family

“Give me control of a nation’s money,
and I care not who makes its laws.”
— Mayer Amschel Rothschild

The Island Off Albania—Ivanka And Jared Are Merely AGENTS Of The Rothchilds.
The boat Ivanka was supposedly “swimming” off of when she “discovered” the island actually belonged to Nat Rothschild. The real reason the Rothschilds are pushing for this island (and others) is strategic control — referencing old Soviet comments about how controlling that area would allow them to dominate the entire Mediterranean: Control of waterways, oil, and global resources — from the Strait of Hormuz to Gibraltar.

On August 3rd, 2015, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, and Mark Zuckerberg had a secret dinner with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—who emailed a photo to himself.
A decade later, they’re worth trillions, and effectively control the government. This meeting and everything since must have hearings, investigations, and when the Democrats get back into power, sweeping prosecutions.

“Have you ever been around someone you just know is evil?”
— Melinda French Gates on meeting Jeffrey Epstein

ANDREW CARNEGIE, THEN THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD, BUILT 2,509 LIBRARIES. ELON MUSK CUT FOOD AND MEDICINE TO IMPOVERISHED CHILDREN.

SpaceX is set to debut at a staggering $1.77 trillion valuation.
It is the largest IPO the market has ever seen and will make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. But to make it happen Elon used his influence to get the rules changed so Index funds that hold millions of Americans’ retirement savings are forced to buy in. That’s right. This IPO was engineered to make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire by risking your retirement savings. You don’t hate capitalism enough. It’s all fake. It’s all a scam. It’s one giant pyramid scheme to funnel wealth to the ruling class off the backs of our labor and retirement savings.

“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins
before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, ‘social justice’.” – Thomas Sowell
SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him.

In the last 15 years the wealth of the billionaire class has tripled while everything is worse for the rest of us. In this video I discuss why this happened and how coming together to fight for our co-workers, neighbors, and communities is the only way to stop it!

Jamie Dimon

Jamie Dimon is misrepresenting the Clarity Act to protect JPMorgan’s payments business.
CEO Brad Garlinghouse calls out JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon for misleading the public on crypto rules to protect a massive $20 billion moat.

JPMORGAN GENERATES $20 BILLION IN REVENUE FROM PAYMENTS WITH $5 BILLION IN PROFIT.
DIMON IS TRYING TO PROTECT A VERY PROFITABLE STATUS QUO.
90% OF CRYPTO TRADING HAPPENS OFFSHORE BECAUSE U.S. HAS NO LEGAL FRAME

@AnthropicAI

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Peter Girnus @gothburz
Replying to @AnthropicAI
Genuine question for whoever drafted this directive: under the deemed export rule, your foreign-national employees can’t look at the model they built. Their own commit history is now an arms shipment to themselves. They crossed an international border by badging into the office.
Has anyone told the model? It’s classified as a munition now and it doesn’t know. Somewhere on a server there’s a weapons system whose primary capability is apologizing too much.
For historical context: the last software the US classified as a munition was defeated by a paperback. PGP’s source code was printed as a book because books are protected speech and floppy disks were arms exports. People literally read a weapon at the beach.
Anyway, congrats to the first LLM to make the same list as shoulder-fired missiles. First munition in history with a system prompt.

POLITICS

BREAKING: @POTUS just opened three marine monuments to destructive industrial fishing. These areas are vital for protecting whales, sea turtles, sharks, and sensitive ocean ecosystems. This is an egregious attack on our public waters.

Democrats in Arizona, under the leadership of Governor Katie Hobbs, just nixed any tax incentives that existed for data centers. This is huge.

The disgusting Trump name is OFF THE KENNEDY CENTER
Donald Trump will be taking revenge on the Kennedy Center for as long as there is breath in his body. Kennedy Center officials confirm they have removed President Trump’s name from the building, website and other aspects of the Center’s public. presence, including email signatures and letterhead.

A Federal Judge Just Ordered The Trump Administration To Put The Exhibits Back. According to the ruling, signs and exhibits related to slavery and climate change that had been removed from parks and monuments nationwide must be restored.

Robert Keith Packer, the infamous “Camp Auschwitz” shirt-wearing Jan. 6 rioter, has been arrested.

A commercial airline pilot filed safety reports after nearly being blinded by lights from Donald Trump’s UFC structure when flying into Washington, D.C.’s Reagan airport.

Trump does not know anything about science. Algae resurfaces in reflecting pool after multimillion-dollar fixes Just as the engineers said it would.

NEVER FORGET: THE REPUBLICANS VOTED AGAINST SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE 1930’S, AGAINST MEDICARE IN THE 1960’S AND THE AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE ACT IN 2010. THEY HAVE NEVER CARED ABOUT ANYONE EXCEPT WEALTHY WHITE MEN.

‘DOGE’ employees have been combing through your records for over a year. They even schemed to use confidential data to help overturn election results. There should be a criminal investigation and real accountability for their abuses of power and reckless data breach.

Judge Leonie Brinkeman has INDEFINITELY BARRED Trump from establishing a $1.776 billion “anti weaponization fund” to reward his political allies and January 6th convicts.

BREAKING: In a shocking maneuver, Senate Republicans just BLOCKED a Democratic effort to BAN federal troops from entering polling stations or seizing ballots or voting machines. Makes you wonder what they’re planning this November…

The DOJ just gave approval to Paramount — owned by the billionaire Trump allies Larry and David Ellison — to buy Warner Bros Discovery. Trump is advancing his scheme to control the media in broad daylight.
State AGs must step in and block this deal.

The Maine Senate Race In One Post:
@SenatorCollins raised $9.8M from 100 billionaires and their spouses.
@grahamformaine raised $9.6M from small-dollar Mainers averaging $26.
The billionaire donors supporting Susan Collins have a net worth of $888 billion, or nearly nine times Maine’s entire economic output in 2025. None are Maine residents.

The Metropolitan AME church in Washington DC now owns the Proud Boy Trademark because back in 2020 the Proud Boys tore down & burned their banner & the Church sued & won $2.8 million dollars & since they never were paid they now own the Proud Boy’s trademark & logo!

EPSTEIN

“Trump had known Defendant Epstein for seven years.”
Case 1:16-cv-04642. Jane Doe 4. Federal court. June 2016. She was 13.
A U.S. Senator is now calling for Trump to testify under oath.
EFTA00211168
These Epstien mails contains serious allegations about Trump Raping minors. These Epstein mails have been deleted from the DOJ website. You can find them on Jmail, they archived it .
The filing is real (EFTA00211168). It was voluntarily dismissed Nov. 4, 2016 – days before the election, before defendants were served. No stated reason appears in the filing itself. Full record: https://epsteinsecrets.com/documents/119347

BREAKING: CNN Just Surfaced A Pretty Stunning Exchange.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2065820924356517957
By 2010, Jeffrey Epstein had already pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution involving a minor. His conviction was public. His reputation was known. Yet according to records reviewed by CNN, Epstein contacted Faith Kates, the co-founder of Next Management, asking for a “great girl” to bring to an event. CNN reports that Kates responded: “Let me think who is around.” Think about that timeline. Not before the conviction. Not before the allegations became public. After. The question is no longer whether people knew who Epstein was. It’s why some continued interacting with him after they did.
“Jeffrey Epstein was under house arrest for the molestation of underage girls at the exact time he was abusing me.” Courtney Wild. House Oversight hearing. May 2026. West Palm Beach. She spent years asking the government why he got the deal. She is still waiting.

Errol Musk got his own step daughter pregnant and has been accused of sexual abuse by his own children.

Trump on tape. Claiming E. Jean Carroll enjoyed being sexually assaulted by him.
In his own words.
This is the MAGA Leader. https://x.com/NotAvgLiberal/status/2065542370188214387
– A Fucking Rapist.
“So in essence he just incriminated himself in a sexual assault. No statute of limitations in New York state.
In a 2019 CNN Anderson Cooper 360 interview, E. Jean Carroll told Anderson Cooper that she shied
away from calling her alleged sexual assault a “rape” because the word carries sexual connotations. She stated, “I think most people think of rape as being sexy. Think of the fantasies,” explaining that she preferred to describe her own traumatic attack as a violent “fight”.
Looks like there will be changes coming once he is evicted from the White House.”
TRUMP fought the law, and the law won.

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ECP NetHappenings Leon Black Sold His Art to Himself to Pay Off an Epstein Model

NEWS

FIFA Fan Festival Philadelphia
A global celebration of football, culture, and music where fans unite to share the energy, flavor, and excitement of the world’s biggest sporting event.
06/12/2026 – 07/19/2026
HUGE NEWS: We’ve partnered with @FWC26Philly to distribute 700 FREE match tickets to 19 community organizations — giving more Pennsylvanians from across our Commonwealth the opportunity to be a part of the biggest sporting event in the world. Lemon Hill in East Fairmount Park will be home to the ultimate watch party this summer. Going to a @FIFAWorldCup match at Philadelphia Stadium?
Register https://www.eventim.com/artist/philadelphia-fifa-fan-festival/?affiliate=7FI

Leon Black Sold His Art to Himself to Pay Off an Epstein Model — at the Taxpayer’s Expense. https://www.narativ.org/p/leon-black-sold-his-art-to-himself
This is the scheme that made Anastasiya Siroochenko wealthy. It bought her mother a mansion in Lviv. In the end, the American taxpayer paid for all of it.
Trump’s administration has intersected with billionaire private equity investor Leon Black primarily through federal scrutiny of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and the 2025 nomination of Black’s son, Ben Black, to head the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC).
The point of selling a painting to yourself is the tax you do not pay. If you dress the deal as a like-kind exchange under Section 1031, the capital-gains bill is deferred. If you route it through a St. Thomas trust, New York’s sales tax never lands. Because you are the buyer, you never actually lose the art. Six months later, one painting — the Giacometti — went under the hammer at Christie’s for $8.8 million. The trust booked a $2.725 million gain on a sculpture it had owned for fewer than two hundred days. Three dodges in one night. The only loser was the United States Treasury.

Resistance Disguised as a History Lesson: Fascism and the University
Her student—a former Nazi stormtrooper—was proof that no one was lost to the new regime, that every person might choose to refuse.
https://www.publicbooks.org/resistance-disguised-as-a-history-lesson-fascism-and-the-university/

Scientists for years have known mycorrhizal fungal were vital for plant life and storing carbon. But little was known about their density until now.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11062026/earths-massive-underground-fungal-networks/

The first trillionaire in the world is a far right-wing extremist who incites violence. It’s not a movie or science fiction (what a plot, right?), it’s reality.
The janitor can’t build SpaceX alone. Neither can Elon. The difference is that one gets paid a wage and the other gets credited for the work of an entire organization. If a company is worth $1 trillion and has 30,000 employees, that’s $33 million in company value per worker.
Yet most workers will never see even a fraction of that wealth.
The people who create the value and the people who capture the value are rarely the same people.

Want to challenge billionaire power?
Support local unions.
Attend city council meetings.
Vote in primaries.
Know who funds your politicians.
Talk to your coworkers.
Organize your community.

Vermont passed a data privacy law on May 29. To get it past the governor who vetoed the last one, lawmakers removed your right to sue companies that violate it. Enforcement now belongs to one office: the Attorney General.

Rep. Salud Carbajal @RepCarbajal
For the third time, the President attempted to sell off public lands in the Arctic Refuge to Big Oil.
Fortunately, it seems these oil companies have accepted what Trump cannot: no amount of short-term corporate gain will ever be worth the risk oil drilling poses to Indigenous communities, wildlife, the climate, and public health. I will never stop speaking out against the Administration’s attacks on public lands.

ESSAY

Ricardo @Ric_RTP
The smartest man in AI just exposed the whole AGI narrative as a LIE.

And he used a physics problem from 1905 to prove it.

His name is Demis Hassabis. He runs Google DeepMind, and won the Nobel Prize for using AI to crack a problem in biology that had stumped scientists for 50 years.

Almost nobody in this industry has a track record like his.

He went on the NothingButTech podcast and called out the biggest lie in AI right now:

Right now the loudest voices in AI are telling you that AGI is basically here. OpenAI has literally defined AGI as a system that can outperform humans at most “economically valuable work.” In other words, if it replaces enough jobs, we have arrived.

Hassabis thinks that bar is a joke.

He said real general intelligence has to do what the human brain can do, because the brain is the only proof we have that this kind of intelligence is even possible. He called that “a higher bar than just being able to do some useful economic work,” which is about as close as a polite British Nobel laureate gets to calling his rivals out.

Then he gave the actual test:

Today’s AI has read everything humans have ever written, including the theory of relativity. So when it explains relativity back to you, it’s repeating an answer that already exists.

That’s not intelligence.

So Hassabis proposed a test that makes memorization impossible. Train an AI on only what humanity knew in 1901, four years BEFORE Einstein published relativity. Then ask it to come up with relativity on its own.

It can’t look up the answer, because in 1901 the answer doesn’t exist yet. The only way to pass is to do what Einstein actually did: Take the same physics everyone else had and reason its way to an idea no human had ever had.

Hassabis says not a single AI today can, no matter how much it has memorized. Which means what we keep calling “almost AGI” is really just the best librarian in history.

It can find any answer that already exists but it cannot create one that doesn’t.

His second version is even sharper:

AlphaGo, the system his own team built, famously invented a brand new move that no human had played in 2,000 years of the game.

Everyone called it genius but Hassabis says that still is not the bar.

The real test is not whether an AI can invent a new move inside Go, it is whether an AI could INVENT a game as deep and as beautiful as Go in the first place.

No model that exists today can do it.

The people telling you AGI has already arrived are the same people raising hundreds of billions of dollars on that exact promise.

The valuations only work if the finish line is right in front of us. So the finish line keeps getting dragged closer, and AGI keeps getting quietly redefined down to “does useful work,” until the products they already sell happen to qualify.

Hassabis has nothing to prove and nothing to sell you. He already won the Nobel, and he is telling you the machines still cannot do the one thing that would make them genuinely intelligent, which is have a truly original idea.

To be fair to him, he is not a pessimist about it. He believes real AGI IS coming, and he is spending his life building it. He just refuses to pretend it is already sitting in your phone.

So the next time a founder tells you AGI is months away, remember that the one man in the room with a Nobel Prize built his test around Einstein, and admitted that nothing we have made can pass it.

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ECP NetHappenings Elon Musk officially becomes the world’s first trillionaire

News

Fun fact- In 1792, the 1st stock traded on the NYSE was the Bank of New York (founded by Alexander Hamilton). A single $500 share back then would be worth over $6,000,000 today just from stock splits. If you reinvested the dividends since 1785? It’d be worth over $1.2 BILLION.

Elon Musk officially becomes the world’s first trillionaire following SpaceX IPO.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX $SPCX officially begins trading at $2 trillion market cap following IPO.

ELON MUSK’S SPACEX JUST WENT PUBLIC WITH OVER 18,700 #BITCOIN ON THE BALANCE SHEET
THE LARGEST IPO IN HISTORY HOLDS BTC
INSANELY BULLISH “WE HAVE SEEN THE LOW IN CRYPTO ASSET PRICES FOR THIS CYCLE”
THEY SAY WE WILL HIT $100,000 THIS YEAR

Every time Michael Saylor said he’d never sell bitcoin…. he broke trust with the public. Specifically, Saylor and Le told analysts on the company’s first-quarter earnings webinar that Strategy will probably sell some BTC to pay a dividend, framing the move as a way to “inoculate” the market as to the company’s new strategy.

GameStop no longer owns the keys to the bitcoin (BTC) that its shareholders celebrate as one of its coolest and most valuable assets. According to its latest quarterly SEC filing, CEO Ryan Cohen has pledged all 4,709 BTC to Coinbase Credit. Workers employed by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, not Cohen, now have rights to “rehypothecate, commingle, or unilaterally sell the pledged BTC” worth approximately $300 million at current prices.

Coinbase now allows AI agents to trade crypto autonomously.

Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to overturn fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence, Reuters reports. Sam Bankman-Fried needs favor from Trump after failed appeal.

Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is still closed despite President Trump’s 38 prior claims that it’s open. Iran threatens to “explode” markets and energy infrastructure. President Trump says the US will take Iran’s Kharg Island and “assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets.” Kharg Island handles 90% of Iran’s oil export.

Bill Kristol @BillKristol
“This Sunday night’s UFC spectacle on the South Lawn…captures something about this moment in our history. It’s vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump.”

We now know that JD Vance was holding meetings in the situation room discussing PR strategy around Trump’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The Vice President is involved in the White House cover-up and we need to find out what he knows. Oversight Dems will get answers.

Department of War releases third batch of UFO and potential alien life files.
https://www.war.gov/UFO/

New startup “RentAHuman” allows AI agents to rent humans to perform tasks they cannot physically perform themselves.
According to an investigation by the German newspaper “Die Zeit”, not a single job has been successfully arranged through RentAHuman. It appears that people who carried out jobs actually received them outside the platform from someone posing as an agent.

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