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The year is 1873. Your wife tires easily and reads too much. The doctor prescribes the rest cure: six weeks flat in bed, no books, no visitors, fed on milk, forbidden to sit up without his permission. The man who devised it is the most famous nerve specialist in America, and the women come out of it quieter, which is taken as the cure.
The year is 1915. The hospital has a new way of delivering your child. Morphine, then scopolamine, and the mother wakes two days later with a baby she cannot remember having. They call it twilight sleep. The women are strapped into padded cots so they do not hurt themselves while they scream, and the straps are the modern part. The babies arrive blue and slow to breathe.
The year is 1945. The truck comes down your street fogging DDT, and the children run behind it in the white cloud because the man on the back says it is harmless. At the beach it is sprayed over the bathers on their towels. It goes on the cattle, over the barn, and across the kitchen table.
The year is 1948. Your son has trouble with his ears. The doctor slides a rod tipped with radium up each nostril and holds it there for the best part of ten minutes, and you bring him back three more times. Hundreds of thousands of American children get the same treatment. The cancers arrive in their fifties.
The year is 1962. The health visitor tells you breastfeeding is old-fashioned and the formula is scientific. By 1972 fewer than one American baby in four is breastfed at all. The formula is skimmed milk and sugar, with the milk fat taken out and vegetable oil put in.
The year is 1971. The family planning clinic fits a small plastic crab called the Dalkon Shield. Its tail is a bundle of fibres that wicks bacteria up into the womb. 2.8 million are fitted in America before it is withdrawn, and the company goes bankrupt under the claims. It had been sold as safe and superior.
The year is 1983. The doctor says your arteries are the butter's fault. The dripping tin goes in the bin, the yolks go to the dog, the margarine goes in the fridge, and you have the heart attack anyway, on skimmed milk, having done everything right.
The year is 2001. Your 15-year-old is low, and the doctor prescribes Paxil, because the trial in the journal says it is effective and well tolerated in adolescents. The raw data, reanalysed 14 years later, shows more suicidal thinking on the drug than on the sugar pill. The company pays $3 billion to settle. Nobody rings the house.
The year is 2009. The government has spent around £500 million stockpiling Tamiflu for the pandemic, on the strength of the manufacturer's trials. When the trials are finally prised loose five years later, the drug shortens flu by about half a day and nothing shows it keeps anyone out of hospital. The stockpile goes out of date in a warehouse.
The year is 2026. The doctor has ten minutes and a screen. The number is high, so the tablet is for life. The weight is high, so the injection is for life. The meat is bad for the planet and the oil is good for the heart, and the person in the chair is as certain as everyone who ever sat in it.
Every one of those was settled, by a committee, in a journal, with a doubter somewhere being laughed at. The rest cure, the straps, the fog, the rod, the formula, the crab, the margarine, the trial, the stockpile. All of it certain, all of it printed, all of it done to somebody who had asked for help.
You were never the one who was wrong. You were the one it was done to, and the only person in the story who did as they were told every single time.
The apology comes a generation late, in a footnote, addressed to nobody.
The next one is being drafted now.
Michael H retweeted
California Mandates Homeowners Install Wheelchair Ramps On Porches For Disabled Burglars buff.ly/Jv3jnJ6
Michael H retweeted
California politicians promised "fast permits" for wildfire survivors looking to rebuild their homes.
Really?
New homes must have wiring for electric cars, a manual describing state solar energy incentives, and more.
No wonder so few have rebuilt.
Michael H retweeted
We handed over the inbox for free email two decades ago and the bill is showing up now. What I care about is how long any of it is kept and who can search it later. Worth twenty minutes in your settings. cc @techimpactTV
Michael H retweeted
RFK Jr. reveals the single most disturbing thing he discovered in Anthony Fauci’s diaries.
This is peak hypocrisy. No other way to put it.
KENNEDY: “One of the things that was new to me in his diary was his admission that he got a pulmonary infarction in July of 2021 after receiving the vaccine.”
“So he took the Moderna vaccine on TV… to show people it was safe.”
“And then he got one of the primary most expected adverse events, which was potentially deadly blood clots in his lung, myocardial infarction.”
“He kept that secret from the American public, and we only learned about it because of the diary.”
“He was getting the best medical treatment that is available to anybody in the world at Walter Reed and all these other centers. There were doctors fawning over him.”
“Meanwhile, he was telling other people to take this product and concealing the fact that he himself, after announcing this press conference to show it was safe, had actually gotten very, very sick from an injury that was highly expected and highly likely to be caused by the vaccine.”
Michael H retweeted
Jensen Huang just made the case that the smartest person in the room is now the most replaceable person on earth.
Huang: “The definition of smart is somebody who’s intelligent, solve problems, technical. But I find that that’s a commodity. And we’re about to prove that artificial intelligence is able to handle that part easiest.”
The skill you built your entire identity around was the first thing the machine replicated.
Not the hardest part. The easiest.
Huang: “People who are able to see around corners are truly, truly smart. And their value is incredible. To be able to preempt problems before they show up, just because you feel the vibe.”
Huang: “That vibe came from a combination of data, analysis, first principle, life experience, wisdom, sensing other people.”
The vibe is not intuition. It is decades of failed bets, human friction, and first-principles thinking compressed into a single read no model can replicate.
You cannot prompt your way to it. You earn it by surviving things that had no instructions.
Huang: “I think long term the definition of smart is someone who sits at that intersection of being technically astute, but human empathy and having the ability to infer the unspoken, around the corners, the unknowables.”
Every institution you ever passed through graded you on the one thing the machine now does for free.
The thing they never tested you on is the only thing that still matters.
Huang: “And that person might actually score horribly on the SAT.”
The SAT did not measure intelligence. It measured obedience to structure.
The future does not reward what you can solve inside a framework someone handed you. It rewards what you can see when no framework exists.
The machine did not replace human intelligence.
It revealed that what we spent a century calling intelligence was never intelligence at all.
The people who memorized the answers are about to work for the people who sensed the questions before anyone thought to ask.
Michael H retweeted
One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).
We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.
The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.
The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.
A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.
That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.
Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.
The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.
Michael H retweeted
The guy with the gun was also Muslim. Convenient fact to leave out. What a snake.
Michael H retweeted
Yes
So… we’re expected to believe that in California, out of three candidates, the third place candidate, who conceded her campaign because she was mathematically eliminated from the run-off, suddenly received tens of thousands of votes from mail-in votes which all came in *after* Election Day, while the other two candidates received no late mail-in votes, and the second place candidate (who was surging as a Republican candidate in the bluest state in the country) is now in third place and mathematically eliminated from the run-off.
… and we’re supposed to trust that this is an honest and true election.
If you’re not angry about this, you need to be.
Michael H retweeted
The best part of being an adult is realizing nobody can stop you from spending $1,000 on a lazy river for your backyard.
As kids we dreamed about this stuff.
As adults we call it “financial planning.”
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Michael H retweeted
NEW: Spencer Pratt fires back at reporter after he was asked about his plan for the homeless, says they will all end up in Seattle.
Reporter: "What are your plans for the over 40,000 homeless in Los Angeles?"
Pratt: "Well, they're not homeless, they're drug addicts... These people have been bused in by scam rehabs, scam NGOs, scam homeless nonprofits."
"These people, when I unplug them ... they're all going to Seattle, where the mayor will welcome them."
Michael H retweeted
Hmmm. Elders have been complaining about the youth of today for ever and ever. Here is one quote dated from the 4th Century B.C.E.
“[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances.… They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.”
Rhetoric, Aristotle 4th Century BC
You can read a list of ancient complaints about the "current times" here. historyhustle.com/2500-years…
ALT Reputed to be a bust of Aristotle.
“We can’t patch our way out of this.”
Yesterday at @NatCyberInnoFor: one of the more substantive #cybersecurity gatherings I’ve attended in a while.
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Michael H retweeted
Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."
Farmer: "Where did they get it?"
Activist: "What?"
Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."
Activist: "From... eating?"
Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."
Activist: "The soil?"
Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."
Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."
Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."
Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."
Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."
Activist: "It's not that simple."
Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."
Michael H retweeted
Most Americans still think geopolitics is politicians giving speeches at podiums.
That’s the old world.
What President Trump is doing in Beijing right now is something entirely different:
Using CORPORATE POWER as a geopolitical weapon.
Look at the delegation he assembled for China:
• Elon Musk - Tesla / SpaceX
• Tim Cook - Apple
• Jensen Huang - Nvidia
• Larry Fink - BlackRock
• Stephen Schwarzman - Blackstone
• David Solomon - Goldman Sachs
• Jane Fraser - Citigroup
• Kelly Ortberg - Boeing
• H. Lawrence Culp Jr. - GE Aerospace
• Brian Sikes - Cargill
• Cristiano Amon - Qualcomm
• Sanjay Mehrotra - Micron Technology
• Ryan McInerney - Visa
• Michael Miebach - Mastercard
• Dina Powell McCormick - Meta
This is not diplomacy.
This is strategic market penetration.
Now look at HOW carefully this lineup was built:
🚨 AI & CHIP DOMINANCE
• Jensen Huang (Nvidia)
→ AI chips powering the global AI revolution
• Cristiano Amon (Qualcomm)
→ Mobile chips, telecommunications, next-gen connectivity
• Sanjay Mehrotra (Micron)
→ Memory chips critical for AI systems and data centers
• Jim Anderson (Coherent)
→ Semiconductor materials and industrial laser tech
• Jacob Thaysen (Illumina)
→ Biotechnology and genomic technology leadership
This category alone represents the future of AI, computing, biotech, and technological supremacy.
🚨 FINANCIAL POWER
• Larry Fink (BlackRock)
→ Controls over $10 TRILLION in assets
• Stephen Schwarzman (Blackstone)
→ One of the world’s largest private equity giants
• David Solomon (Goldman Sachs)
→ Elite Wall Street investment banking influence
• Jane Fraser (Citigroup)
→ Global banking and cross-border finance
• Ryan McInerney (Visa)
→ Global payment rails
• Michael Miebach (Mastercard)
→ International transaction infrastructure
These people don’t just move money.
They influence where capital flows across the planet.
🚨 CONSUMER TECH & SUPPLY CHAINS
• Tim Cook (Apple)
→ One of the largest and most sophisticated supply chains on Earth
• Elon Musk (Tesla / SpaceX)
→ EV manufacturing, batteries, AI robotics, satellites, launch systems
China knows these companies are deeply tied into global manufacturing ecosystems.
🚨 AEROSPACE & INDUSTRIAL POWER
• Kelly Ortberg (Boeing)
→ Potential aircraft deals worth tens of billions
• H. Lawrence Culp Jr. (GE Aerospace)
→ Aircraft engines and aerospace systems
This is industrial leverage at the highest level.
🚨 AGRICULTURE & REAL ECONOMY
• Brian Sikes (Cargill)
→ Agriculture, food supply chains, commodity trade
Food security and agricultural imports are massive leverage points in U.S.-China relations.
Now step back and look at the entire picture.
This delegation covers:
- AI
- Semiconductors
- Aerospace
- Finance
- Payments
- Agriculture
- Consumer technology
- Manufacturing
- Supply chains
- Investment capital
Every major economic battlefield between the United States and China is represented in one room.
That is not random.
That is coordinated strategic planning.
The media will frame this as “just another summit.”
It’s not.
This is a private-sector strike force built to secure:
- Market access
- Investment deals
- Supply-chain positioning
- Regulatory concessions
- Tech leverage
- Aircraft purchases
- Agricultural agreements
- Financial expansion
The politicians are mostly in the background because politicians talk.
These people actually control:
- factories
- chips
- satellites
- patents
- software
- logistics
- payment systems
- manufacturing
- capital flows
That is where real power lives in 2026.
Whether people love Trump or hate him, Americans need to understand the scale of what they’re looking at.
This is statecraft merged with corporate power.
And it’s being deployed with military-level coordination.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
God bless President Trump!
God bless America!