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In October, 2012 - Michael Connell and I launched Native Numbers into the iPad app store. 10 years later - over 720,000 children have used the app to learn number sense. We sat down to talk about the journey and what's next - full episode here:
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Hmm - WTF… but true!
Okay I’ll say it: it’s shocking how little multiplayer AI exists right now.
Claude Tag, great.
Connecting Instincts, great.
But where is the model fusion. Where is the proxy meeting room. Where is the cross-team + AI workforce boardroom. How is this massive global earth-shattering business-changing revolution still so painfully individually oriented?
Jeff Durso retweeted
When the Soros heir celebrates an election, you can be sure there's more to the story.
Let's look at who Alex Soros actually is.
He chairs the Open Society Foundations, the largest private political-philanthropy machine on the planet. His father put over $32 billion into it. Over three decades it has handed out more than 50,000 grants, over $24 billion, to NGOs, activist groups, media outlets, legal networks and "civil society" organizations in scores of countries. Its annual budget is still well over a billion dollars.
He also chairs Democracy PAC, the family's political war chest. This cycle alone it has poured more than $100 million into Democratic campaigns, making the Soros family the single largest individual donor of the 2026 midterms. Alex himself said he's "more political" than his father. Shortly after taking over, he was meeting with Schumer, Trudeau, and yes, Lula.
So no, this isn't a random guy cheering for democracy. This is the man who funds the ecosystem, celebrating the result.
Now look at what that ecosystem pushes. No one has bankrolled the open-borders movement like Open Society: migrant advocacy groups, legal challenges to every enforcement measure, NGOs lobbying for asylum without limits. In 2015 George Soros wrote, in plain words, that Europe should take in at least a million asylum seekers a year, for the foreseeable future. That's not a theory about them. That's their published program.
And here's the core problem with the "open society." A society open to everything is closed to nothing, including the forces that will dissolve it. No borders, no shared culture, no common identity, no confidence in its own history. That isn't openness. It's a civilization being asked to stop defending itself. Popper's idea was a society open to criticism. What they built is a society forbidden from saying no.
The West wasn't built by people who were ashamed of it. It was built by people who believed it was worth something: its law, its faith, its science, its freedom. Take that away and you don't get a global utopia. You get a vacuum. And vacuums get filled.
That's the fight we're in. It isn't left versus right. It's whether the West still believes it has the right to exist.
Win it, and we get a renaissance. Lose it, and the dark ages won't be a metaphor.
Brilliant, "So who gets called "far right" in 2026? People who want safe cities. People who want to keep their culture. People who just want to live a peaceful life, raise their kids, and not have to board up their shop every weekend. People who want the law to apply to everyone."
My post about Hitler and the far right got millions of views. Clearly, it hit a nerve. So today I'm going to show you, step by step, why the notion of "far right" as it's used in France makes almost no sense. And why the people who wield it are usually the last ones who should be lecturing anyone.
Let's start with the only question that matters: what makes a political system work or fail? To a very large extent, it's the economy. A country that produces wealth, that lets its citizens create, trade and build, stays standing. A country that destroys that collapses, no matter how beautiful its slogans are.
And in economics, there are really only two worldviews.
The first is collectivism. The idea that the State knows better than you. That it must plan production, set prices, run companies, decide what you earn, what you buy, and eventually what you think. The individual is just a cog serving a grand collective project: the class, the nation, the race, the people.
The second is freedom. Capitalism, property, individual liberty, individual responsibility. The idea that millions of people creating value for one another produce infinitely more prosperity than an office of planners, however brilliant they may be.
Now look at the list of the great totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. Stalin: total planning, forced collectivization, millions dead. Mao: the Great Leap Forward and the deadliest famine in human history. Pol Pot: money abolished, cities emptied, nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population exterminated. Mussolini, the man who coined the word fascism: "Everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State." And Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, whose program proclaimed "the common good before individual good." He subjected the entire German economy to State plans: the Four-Year Plan, frozen prices and wages, unions dissolved into a single state labor front, industrialists producing whatever the regime decided.
Their flags were different. Their designated enemies were different. But the machinery was the same: the individual doesn't exist, only the collective matters, and the State decides everything.
Why does it always end in totalitarianism? Because collectivism doesn't work. And when a system doesn't work, it has only two options: admit failure or force people. They always choose force.
Ludwig von Mises proved it as early as 1920: without free prices, without a market, a planner simply cannot know what to produce, how much, or at what cost. He is flying blind. A planned economy isn't a less efficient version of the market. It's an impossibility.
Friedrich Hayek drew the political conclusion in 1944 in The Road to Serfdom, a book he dedicated "to the socialists of all parties." One chapter is titled "The Socialist Roots of Naziism." Another, "Why the Worst Get on Top." For Hayek, controlling the economy isn't controlling one sector among others. It is "the control of the means for all our ends." Whoever controls your bread controls your life. Then your speech. Then your thoughts.
Milton Friedman put it his own way: a society that puts equality before freedom ends up with neither.
So we know exactly what works. It's not an opinion. It's a century of real-world experiments. Listen to the Austrian school, Mises and Hayek, with Friedman from Chicago alongside them: economic freedom, limited government, individual responsibility.
And this is where we get to the great accusatory inversion. Part of the left-wing press spends its time screaming fascism. Why? Because the fascism fantasy is the best way to never talk about the track record of their own ideas. Deep down, they know: if their collectivist program were applied all the way, it wouldn't work, because a collective economy cannot work. And an economy that doesn't work always ends up having to coerce, surveil and ban. In other words, it becomes exactly what they claim to be fighting. The real heirs of totalitarian logic are not the ones being pointed at.
So who gets called "far right" in 2026? People who want safe cities. People who want to keep their culture. People who just want to live a peaceful life, raise their kids, and not have to board up their shop every weekend. People who want the law to apply to everyone.
If that's the far right, then the word no longer means anything. And maybe that was the point.
Elon is the GOAT.
I don't think you realize how lucky we are to have an Elon Musk at this level, actually fighting this thing.
Because let's be clear about the sides.
On one side, the people. The vast majority. Common sense, hard work, family, and one simple wish: to live in peace.
On the other, an illegitimate elite. Mostly globalist, which at its core is a communist project: managing humanity from the top, like a system. And since that project doesn't work (it has never worked anywhere), they survive in only one way: lies.
To hold on, this elite built systems of coercion and corruption. Ukraine is one of them. They've also captured and corrupted a huge share of the institutions that were supposed to protect us.
Take Bill Gates. On this line for years. It's no accident he ended up at the heart of Covid policy. Just ask yourself: why is a software billionaire talking directly to Fauci before the vaccine rollout even starts, as if he were part of the operation?
These people see humanity as a herd to be administered. But they're terrible at economics. They don't understand their model can't work. So instead of saying "we were wrong, let's change," they lie. They double down. And that's exactly what makes them dangerous.
Honestly, this system was almost impossible to break.
And then, by the most improbable of chances, there's one man. The richest man in the world. Who chose the side of the people against these illegitimate, mostly left-wing elites. And who's throwing all his power into this fight.
The system is dying. And he's the one pushing.
Think for two seconds. If Elon wanted to enslave humanity, he could have done it long ago. All he had to do was make a deal with the globalists. He'd have everything he wants, right now.
He did the opposite.
That should tell you whose side he's on.
Jeff Durso retweeted
This is the best thing I’ve seen all day. Well, the best within the last few hours because I just scrolled through my own posts.
But I digress. Comedian Ami Kozak did an excellent impression of Abdul El-Sayed and I had to share it. It’s perfection.
Brilliant analysis.
On my way to the office this morning, I passed a group of young people protesting, a Palestinian flag draped over their shoulders.
And I asked myself a question I can't shake: why does this generation always fall into the same trap? No matter the history. No matter the context. Even the ones from wealthy families, who went to the best schools, who were dealt every good card. Always the same trap.
I don't think it's stupidity. I think it's a mechanism. And a mechanism can be taken apart, piece by piece.
A. The observation: everything the state touches becomes unaffordable.
Look at economist Mark Perry's famous chart, the one people call "the chart of the century." It tracks US prices since 2000.
At the top, what explodes: hospital services, college tuition, textbooks, childcare, housing. Increases of +100%, +150%, up to +250%, far above general inflation.
At the bottom, what collapses: TVs, software, phones, toys, clothing. A TV today costs a fraction of what it did in 2000, for an infinitely better product.
Look at what separates the two groups. It isn't technology. It isn't complexity. It's one variable: how much the state is involved.
At the top, sectors that are subsidized, regulated, shielded from competition, where the state funds demand and blocks supply. At the bottom, sectors where companies fight every single morning to serve you better and cheaper.
B. The mechanism: why it's systematic.
When the state subsidizes demand without freeing supply, prices rise. Every time. Guaranteed student loans, and universities raise tuition. Housing aid plus blocked building permits, and rents skyrocket. Administered healthcare, and bureaucracy eats the budget before it ever reaches the patient.
In France it's even more vicious, because the price doesn't disappear: it hides. You never see the hospital bill, you pay it through payroll contributions. You never see the cost of school, you pay it through taxes. Public spending at 57% of GDP, one of the heaviest tax burdens in the world, more than €3.4 trillion in debt. And the result? Overflowing ERs, falling PISA scores, young people who can't afford to live in the city where they work.
The market didn't fail in these sectors. It was never allowed in.
C. Suffering demands a culprit.
A 22-year-old lives all of this in their bones. They can't find a place to live. Their degree either buries them in debt or opens no doors. The future feels blocked. That suffering is real, and I don't deny it for a second.
But human beings can't stand suffering without a culprit. They need a face. A scapegoat.
And this is where everything is decided: who taught them how to read the world?
D. Whoever tells the story picks the villain.
Schools are public. Universities are public. Culture runs on grants. Film goes through funding committees. Public broadcasting shapes the narratives. The people handing down the interpretive framework are, overwhelmingly, paid by the very system that creates the problem.
Do you really think that system is going to name itself as the culprit?
No. It names the capitalist. The boss. The landlord. "The rich." The multinational. The commercial West. Same role, same casting, every time.
E. One lens, a thousand causes.
And this brings me back to that flag. A generation taught to read every situation through a single lens, oppressor on one side, rich, Western, capitalist, oppressed on the other, will apply that lens everywhere. To housing. To climate. To conflicts on the other side of the world. The cause changes, the lens stays. That's why the trap is always the same: it's not the cause that draws them in, it's the way of thinking that was installed in them.
F. The perfect inversion.
Here's the irony. Capitalism is the force that drove down the price of almost everything it touched. The state is the force that blew up the price of almost everything it captured. And young people blame the first for the crimes of the second.
It's like blaming the firefighter for the fire because you saw him at the scene.
G. The ballot box confirms it.
In the US, a few weeks out from the midterms, a large share of urban young voters is getting ready to vote Democrat for more state, more spending, more regulation. New York elected a self-described socialist mayor, carried by young voters, on promises of rent freezes and city-run grocery stores. Rent freezes, the policy that has made housing scarcer everywhere it's been tried. The cure that worsens the disease.
In France, it's the same play in two acts. Part of the youth votes for the radical left, which promises more state. Another part votes for the center, which promises to "manage" the state well, and has dug the debt deeper than ever. Two different ballots, one shared assumption: the problem is the market, the solution is the state.
H. The way out.
These young people aren't stupid. They're right to be angry. They're just aiming at the wrong target.
The day they understand that their rent, their tuition and their hospital are expensive precisely because the state runs them, their anger will change direction. They'll stop protesting against those who create. They'll start protesting against those who capture.
That day, the greatest intellectual scam of our time will be over.
Jeff Durso retweeted
To every American, and to everyone watching France burn from abroad:
Do not blame the French people for this.
We never asked for it. We never voted for it. And the one time we were clearly asked, we said no.
Here are the numbers your media won't show you.
70% of the French say there are too many immigrants in France today.
79% want a tougher immigration policy.
77% disapprove of the government's record on immigration.
83% want foreign criminals and long-term unemployed foreigners sent home.
And no, it's not just the old. 69% of French 18 to 24 year olds support suspending legal immigration for three years.
This is not a fringe. This is the French people.
In 2005, we were asked if we wanted the European Constitution. 55% voted no. Three years later, our politicians passed the same text under another name, through parliament, without ever asking us again.
That is modern France in one sentence. The people say no. The elites do it anyway.
So who is responsible? The politicians who lied to us. A class of leaders formed in the same schools, the same forums, the same networks, loyal to each other before they are loyal to their nations.
In 2017, at Harvard, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, bragged about his Young Global Leaders program in four words: "We penetrate the cabinets." He added that it was true in France. Emmanuel Macron was one of his Young Global Leaders.
It's the same project in Brussels with Ursula von der Leyen and in Paris with Macron. Borders treated as an obstacle. Nations treated as relics. The people treated as a problem to be managed.
What you are watching in France is not the French people failing. It is the end of the globalist project, an abject, quasi-communist dream of a world run by unelected planners. It is collapsing everywhere in Europe at once, and the West has to cut this cancer out before it takes the rest of the body with it.
The peoples of Europe don't want this. They never did.
So when you see our town halls burning, don't say "the French chose this."
The French never chose this.
They were forced into it.
If you're French and you agree, repost this so the world hears it from us.
If you're American, look at us carefully. Then choose differently on November 3rd.
Jeff Durso retweeted
Imagine living in the wealthiest, most technologically advanced civilization in human history, enjoying modern medicine, electricity, air travel, smartphones, and freedoms your ancestors could only dream about, then having the fucking audacity to lecture everyone about how shameful Western civilization is.
Welcome to the modern cultural elite, where breathtaking hypocrisy passes for intellectual brilliance and shitting on your own civilization apparently qualifies as a goddamn profession.
These arrogant assholes inhabit buildings designed by engineers, communicate through technologies created by generations of inventors, enjoy unprecedented comforts, and exercise freedoms secured through centuries of sacrifice. Then they retreat into their comfortable universities and cultural institutions to explain why the civilization responsible for everything surrounding them deserves another round of humiliation.
The Greeks celebrated excellence. Scientists unlocked the secrets of nature. Explorers crossed oceans. Inventors conquered the impossible. Americans split the atom and walked on the fucking moon.
And what did their descendants' enlightened intellectual establishment contribute?
Participation trophies. Historical self-loathing. Lowered standards. Endless lectures about privilege. A generation increasingly encouraged to see its inheritance as a collection of sins requiring perpetual apologies.
What an absolutely magnificent fucking achievement.
These sanctimonious frauds enjoy the prosperity produced by courage, ambition, competition, and relentless achievement while treating those very qualities as embarrassing relics of an unenlightened past.
And this poisonous mentality has consequences. National pride becomes shameful. Factories disappear overseas. Sovereignty gets handed to international bureaucracies. Military strength deteriorates. Excellence becomes something institutions feel obligated to restrain so nobody's precious feelings get hurt.
Marco Rubio stood before the Parthenon and reminded the world that Western civilization was built by people who possessed the guts to pursue greatness. People who risked failure, challenged limits, and refused to apologize for succeeding.
Meanwhile, our modern cultural aristocracy has perfected the art of enjoying civilization's rewards while sneering at the values that produced them.
The sheer fucking arrogance is almost impressive.
They inherited the accomplishments of giants, contributed a mountain of grievances and sanctimonious bullshit, and somehow convinced themselves they were morally superior to the people who built their world.
They're standing on the shoulders of giants, spitting in their faces, and congratulating themselves for being so fucking tall.
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Disgraceful. WTAF were New Yorkers thinking when the elected this miscreant?
Here is @NYCMayor Mamdani 13 days after October 7th accusing Israel of genocide. Yet, Israel didn’t launch its counterattack on Hamas until October 27th.
How is it possible for Israel to commit genocide a week before it launched its response to the massacre of 1,200 citizens and the kidnapping of 251 of its people?
Mamdani’s genocide talking point was part of his hateful rhetoric even before Israel had a chance to defend itself.
It has as much credibility now as it did then.
Jeff Durso retweeted
As a Muslim Arab, I am disgusted and heartbroken by what I saw across Western cities on October 7, 2026: people celebrating the October 7, 2023 massacre. Glorifying the murder, rape, and kidnapping of civilians is morally bankrupt, inhumane, and a disgrace to humanity. This wasn’t an ISIS or Al-Qaeda camp. This was in Western cities: people openly celebrating a massacre carried out by the filthy Muslim Brotherhood terrorists of Hamas against Jewish children, women, and civilians from all around the world in Israel. Utterly shameful.
How did we reach a point where this needs to be explained? An eight-month-old baby was kidnapped. Women were raped. Children were murdered. Families were slaughtered. Human beings were dragged from their homes.
No cause justifies this.
No country justifies this.
No grievance justifies this.
Nothing justifies raping a woman. Nothing justifies kidnapping a baby. Nothing justifies murdering innocent people.
And to see people in Western cities celebrating, glorifying, excusing, romanticising, or sanitising this horror in the name of “democracy” and “freedom of speech” is beyond disgusting.
It is morally bankrupt. Shameful. Depraved. Inhumane. Heartless. Indefensible.
What breaks my heart most is that we are even having this conversation.
When did rape require a political explanation?
When did kidnapping babies become something to celebrate?
When did massacring Jews become something people could cheer for in the streets and still pretend they were standing for humanity?
There is nothing progressive about celebrating barbarity. There is nothing courageous about glorifying terrorism. There is nothing democratic about cheering a massacre.
This is not humanity. This is a moral disgrace.
And the fact that anyone can celebrate such suffering should make every decent human being, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, or otherwise, feel both heartbroken and furious.