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ED RELIGHT ⚡ retweeted
After months of writing, 'How to Unclench' is finally live!
It's an interactive essay packed with stories, science & guided practices to help you unclench.
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I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances.
What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation.
Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture.
It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off.
Structural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic -- I call it the Anthropic Network -- to turn off its own AI doom cycle.
It starts with METR.
Dario Amodei proposes "third-party evaluators" to assess the risk of Anthropic's models.
He proposes METR for this purpose.
But METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic's success -- specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock.
Dustin Moskovitz invested this stock into Good Ventures Foundation, where it represents the majority of that organization's portfolio.
And GVF is the overwhelming funder of the entire Anthropic Network ecosystem.
This stock was worth $500 million early last year.
It is worth more than $7.7 billion just ~16 months later.
METR -- and all of those building a career its parent organizations -- cannot afford to disrupt that growth.
Because if Anthropic goes under, many of the organizations that fund METR go under as well.
But if Anthropic succeeds, METR and its parent organizations become more richly financed to regulate AI -- something those at METR want very much.
The "third-party evaluator" is not "third-party" at all.
The evaluator is on Anthropic's payroll.
If this were the end of it, that's bad.
But that isn't all.
The same organizations that fund METR also fund the many organizations, such as the Tarbell Center, that promote AI Doom.
The Tarbell Center publishes AI Doom articles in The Verge, Science, LA Times, The Dispatch, TIME, and others.
They are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's.
All of these organizations are financially dependent on the same exploding $7 billion money pile.
As Anthropic grows more and more powerful, its AI Doom Machine grows better and better financed -- louder and louder.
Meanwhile, the regulatory regime seeded in METR grows larger to solve the increasingly loud -- now hysterical -- problem of AI Doom that the Anthropic Network itself created.
From this standpoint, as Anthropic becomes more powerful, AI might be getting scarier, sure -- but the positive feedback loop also becomes more deafening -- independent of objective facts.
This itself is an objective fact.
The deafening AI Doom is part of an business model, that, as it expands, so too does the AI Doom messaging -- there is simply more money to do it.
But the problem also goes in the other direction:
If Anthropic dies, the Regulatory Regime and the AI Doom Machine are crippled or die.
Neither METR nor Tarbell nor the other organizations in the Anthropic Network can allow that to happen.
Hence, neither METR or the AI Doom Machine can be trusted to provide independent assessments of Anthropic's models or AI more broadly.
They simply are not organizations independent of Anthropic.
And Anthropic cannot detach itself from METR or Tarbell or countless other safety orgs (not shown here), either, because they drive hype for the models and the possibility of eventual regulatory capture, and Anthropic will not give that up willingly.
What's more, the people at all of these organizations are all the same ecosystem, the same community. They just shuffle between organizations.
The Anthropic Network is therefore, so long as it is successful, locked into a self-amplifying feedback loop inside an ideological monoculture.
And that feedback loop is winning.
That's what Jacob Coxon is.
China is keeping messaging tight. That is why optimism for AI is so high in China.
America has Anthropic: a massive company pushing anti-AI propaganda at a state level.
Anthropic will either create hysteria until American AI slows down and China wins, or it will create fractures throughout American society with severe political consequences.
Ironically, because of the structural financial incentives underpinning the Anthropic Network, it has become the same kind of self-amplifying virus that it fantasizes AI to become in the future -- while hiding its tracks just as carefully.
It is the mirror of the same AI virus that it hypothesizes to consume America.
Anthropic's business model, models itself after the very thing it claims to fear.
Except Anthropic's ideology infects humans, not computers.
Congress must investigate.
Evidence and Github in next post.
Then some supplementary figures.
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This continues to be the single best answer to any question ever asked about American history.
This are the real facts about the founding, all of which have been buried by people who want you to believe the American founding was evil and oppressive.
Never apologize for America. It is the beacon of light to the world.
ED RELIGHT ⚡ retweeted
Stop arguing with Leftists. Nothing good ever comes from it because these people aren’t interested in having a good faith conversation.
We had a guy who wanted to argue with Leftists. They murdered him in the midst of one such argument, then celebrated his death after the fact. Even other Leftists who knew him personally mocked his murder.
Debates are for friends, not enemies. Arguments only resolve conflict when there’s a shared moral worldview that governs the whole thing. It achieves nothing when one side intentionally lies or engages in a spell casting contest where they try to weaponize your empathy and your worldview against you.
All Leftist discourse consists of them either pretending like obvious things aren’t obvious, or trying to morally blackmail you into giving them what they want.
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You are standing in the ruins of an inheritance you were told you didn’t need.
Look around, White man.
The buildings remain, but fewer people know why they were built. The churches still stand, but their bells mean less to the people living beneath them. Languages that survived wars and empires are disappearing within a few generations. Folk songs become museum pieces. Traditions become costumes. History becomes something to apologize for—or something to forget.
And here’s the brutal truth:
Cultures do not have a guaranteed right to survive.
They disappear when people stop caring enough to practice them.
No army has to destroy a tradition. No conqueror has to burn every book. Sometimes all it takes is indifference.
One generation stops teaching the songs.
The next stops knowing the stories.
The next doesn’t even realize anything was lost.
And then someone finally asks where it all went.
That’s how civilizations die—not necessarily with fire and blood, but with silence.
So if White European heritage means something to you, stop pretending that remembering it is automatic.
Learn the languages.
Read the philosophers.
Walk through the cathedrals.
Study the wars without romanticizing them and study the achievements without being ashamed of them.
Learn the music. Preserve the architecture. Cook the recipes. Tell the stories. Keep the holidays. Teach the children where these things came from.
And understand something uncomfortable:
You are not entitled to an inheritance simply because your ancestors created it.
You are responsible for what you do with it.
You can let it disappear.
Or you can carry it forward.
Not because anyone else’s culture must be destroyed.
Not because your ancestry makes you infallible.
But because once something is genuinely forgotten, you cannot resurrect the exact thing that was lost.
The past doesn’t need your worship.
It needs your memory.
And memory requires someone willing to remember.
Maybe that’s you.
Maybe you’re the generation that decides the chain doesn’t break here.
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Institute for Remigration released a map, with each dot representing 100 illegal migrants who entered Europe.
This is an invasion and it must be stopped.
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Verifiably false things almost every progressive believes.
1. Thousands of unarmed black men are killed by the police every year.
2. There is a transgender genocide happening right now in the United States.
3. Most black people don’t know how to get an ID.
4. Real Socialism hasn’t been tried.
5. The top 1% don’t pay tax or pay very little.
6. The progressive movement was responsible for ending segregation.
7. Most of the Democrats down south changed parties in the 60s or 70s.
8. Al Gore requested/wanted a full statewide recount in Florida in 2000.
9. Trump is a convicted rapist.
10. Trump called white supremacists fine people in Charlottesville in 2017.
ED RELIGHT ⚡ retweeted
Nobody warns you. That's the sick part.
Nobody sits you down and says, hey, if you spend one weekend actually reading about money, you will lose the ability to enjoy anything for the rest of your life.
Your brother-in-law just mentions it at a barbecue. That's how it starts. Some guy holding a hot dog says "you should look into Bitcoin" and you laugh at him.
You laugh AT him.
You make the tulip joke. You feel superior for eleven more days.
Then it's 2:47 in the morning and you're on your fourth Saylor podcast and your wife thinks you're having an affair.
And in a way, you are.
You're cheating on your entire worldview.
ou came in to debunk it. That's the trap. Everyone comes in to debunk it. You wanted to find the flaw, dunk on your brother-in-law, and go back to your Vanguard target date fund like a respectable adult.
Instead you found out what happened in 1971 and now you can't make eye contact with your 401k.
Because here's what actually happens.
Bitcoin is cool and all, but you REALLY learn about the dollar. Bitcoin is fine, Bitcoin is twenty-one million and a schedule, you understand it in an afternoon. The dollar takes months, because every time you think you've hit the bottom of that thing there's a trapdoor.
The Fed just... prints it? And they gave how much to the banks in 2008? And the banks did WHAT with it?
And the guy who ran that got a MEDAL? You're up at 4am reading about the Cantillon effect like it's your kid's toxicology report.
Then comes the phase where you're insufferable.
Everyone goes through it, nobody admits it. You ruin Thanksgiving. You genuinely ruin it. Your aunt says turkey prices are crazy this year and you see your opening like a lion seeing a wounded gazelle.
Forty-five minutes later you're drawing the M2 money supply on a napkin and your mother is crying and your uncle is saying "it's not backed by anything" for the ninth time while his pension is backed by the promises of a government that's thirty-seven trillion in debt.
He's worried about YOUR risk profile.
He has unit bias so bad he'd rather own a whole Shiba Inu coin than a fraction of the hardest asset ever created, because his brain, poisoned by seventy years of fiat, thinks "whole thing cheap" beats "piece of thing good."
And the prices. God, the prices. You can't turn it off.
You're in the grocery store repricing eggs in sats. The eggs are getting cheaper in sats. Everything is getting cheaper in sats except your will to explain that to anyone.
You look at a house and you don't see a house, you see the number of Bitcoin it costs, and that number falling forever, and you realize the housing crisis is a measuring stick crisis, and you say this out loud at a dinner party, once, and now you're not invited to dinner parties.
Then the anger burns off and something worse arrives.
Clarity. You realize nobody is coming to fix this.
The people in charge KNOW. That's the part that breaks you. They're not stupid, they're incentivized.
The debt can't be paid, only inflated, and every serious person in a suit on television knows it, and their plan is to be dead before the invoice arrives.
So you buy. Coinbase, first time, hands shaking like you're doing something illegal, and the fee annoys you, and that annoyance is the last normal financial emotion you will ever feel.
You set up the DCA. You learn what a hardware wallet is. You write twelve words on steel like a doomsday prepper, because that's what you are now, except your bunker is math.
And then the loneliness. Nobody tells you about the loneliness. You've seen it. You can't unsee it.
And you're surrounded by people you love who are working forty years to fill a bathtub with the drain open, and when you point at the drain they get mad at YOU.
So you stop pointing. You just stack quietly, in the dark, waiting for the day one of them comes to you, at a barbecue, holding a hot dog, and says the words.
"Hey... you were into Bitcoin, right?"
And you smile. Because it's their turn in the barrel.
Welcome. Nobody warned me either.
ED RELIGHT ⚡ retweeted
Well, you ask why you should bet your future on Bitcoin.
And that’s a hell of a question, isn't it?
Because you have to bet your future on something.
You’re placing a wager with your life and your labor every single day, whether you realize it or not. And if you look at the macroeconomic landscape: the sheer, unadulterated incompetence of central planners inflating fiat currency to oblivion... you better find a bedrock of value, and you better do it fast.
People say, "Well, what about gold?" Gold has historical weight, sure. It has mythological significance. But we aren't living in the 19th century anymore, roughly speaking.
Let me lay out exactly why Bitcoin is the superior alternative.
Here are eight reasons you might seriously consider placing that wager:
1. Portability
Let’s start with portability. Try carrying a million dollars of gold across a border when the authoritarians are snapping at your heels. You can’t do it! It’s heavy, it's cumbersome, and some corrupt border guard is going to notice it and take a cut.. or take the whole bloody lot. But Bitcoin? You memorize a 12-word seed phrase, and you can carry your entire life’s savings right there in your head. You can walk naked across a border and have access to your capital on the other side. That is profoundly liberating. It’s the ultimate escape from tyranny.
2. Divisibility
Then you have the issue of divisibility. Gold is a clunky medium of exchange. You can’t sit there and shave off a microscopic fleck of a gold bar to buy a cup of coffee. It just doesn't work at that scale! But Bitcoin can be sliced down into a hundred million units called satoshis. Sounds like a Japanese fella, but it's a unit of measurement. It scales all the way down to the micro-transaction level, perfectly and seamlessly.
3. Verifiability
This one is crucial: Verifiability. If someone hands you a gold bar, how do you know it isn’t tungsten wrapped in a thin layer of gold? Well, you don't. You need an assay, an expert, some intermediary you have to put your faith in. And faith is at an all-time low, let me tell you! With Bitcoin, the blockchain is a public ledger of absolute truth. You don’t have to trust anybody. You run a node, and the mathematics of the cosmos verifies the authenticity of the transaction. Instantly. It’s mathematically enforced truth. You don't get much more solid than that.
4. Accessibility
Look, acquiring and vaulting physical gold is a game for people already comfortably sitting atop a functioning, privileged financial hierarchy. What about the guy in a developing nation whose local currency is hyper-inflating to zero? He can’t get a secure vault. He can’t buy bullion. But if he has a cheap smartphone and an internet connection? Boom. He is instantly plugged into the global economic network.
5. Liquidity
Then there's liquidity. The traditional markets shut down! They close for the weekend. They operate on bankers' hours. What kind of archaic, paternalistic system is that? We live in a world that doesn’t sleep. Bitcoin operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The market never closes. If you need access to your funds, the liquidity is there. It’s a relentless, continuous, decentralized flow of value assessment.
6. Censorship Resistance
Now, pay attention to this, because this might be the most terrifyingly important point. We are watching governments and banks actively weaponize the financial system against dissenting citizens. They will freeze your bank accounts if you step out of line and protest. They’ll just turn you off! Gold can be confiscated. Franklin Delano Roosevelt did exactly that in the 1930s. But Bitcoin? If you hold your own private keys, it is computationally impossible for them to stop your transaction. Your keys, your wealth.
7. Programmability
Gold just sits there. It’s a rock. A shiny, valuable rock, but it's completely inert. Bitcoin’s underlying architecture allows for programmability. We’re talking about conditional logic embedded directly into the money itself. You can automate complex financial agreements without relying on a parasitic army of rent-seeking middlemen. It opens up an entirely new dimension of financial innovation that we are only just beginning to conceptualize.
8. Decentralization
And finally, the apex of it all: Decentralization. Gold is mined by mega-corporations, vaulted by central banks, and manipulated by centralized, corruptible powers. Bitcoin is maintained by a distributed network of nodes all across the planet. There is no CEO to subpoena. There is no central point of failure. It removes the corruptible human element from monetary policy entirely. No single entity can control it, and that offers a level of political and economic independence that you simply cannot find anywhere else.
So, why bet your future on it? Because the alternative is to leave your destiny in the hands of the very central planners who are actively driving the macroeconomic bus right off a cliff! Do you think they care about your future? They don't! You either take absolute, uncompromising responsibility for your own financial sovereignty, or you become a willing victim of those who will gladly inflate your life's labor into nothingness.
You have to make your choice, and you will have to bear the consequences.
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Asked Claude to model what would happen if every single adult on Earth could freely vote in elections to a 10,000 seat Parliament.
The factions, largest to smallest:
Islamic democratic (1,806): Muslim-world voters supporting religiously-inflected electoral politics: AKP, PTI, PKB/NU, Ennahda, PJD. Socially conservative, economically interventionist, sovereigntist. Largest single bloc on Earth.
Hindutva/Indian nationalist (1,366): BJP voters and the broader Hindu-nationalist tradition. Religious-traditionalist, economically developmentalist, civilisational. One country produces the second-largest faction in the parliament.
Lulaist/social-democratic (1,220): Global South social democrats. PT, Morena, ANC centre, PDI-P, moderate Peronism. Redistributionist, anti-imperial in rhetoric, democratic, socially moderate.
CCP/Chinese-statist (1,025): Chinese voters who'd back a CCP-aligned faction in a free election. Statist, developmentalist, anti-liberal.
African Christian/Pentecostal (800): Africa's booming Christian majority. Socially very conservative, economically interventionist, pan-Africanist without being anti-colonial hardline. Nigerian, Kenyan, Ghanaian, Ugandan political mainstream.
Western left-liberal (664): The entire Democratic Party, European social democrats, UK Labour, Canadian Liberals, Australian Labor, Greens-adjacent progressives combined. 6.6% of a global parliament.
Catholic social-teaching/Christian Democrat (508): Latin American and Filipino Catholic voters. Socially conservative, economically left, pro-family, pro-labour. Distinct from both Pentecostalism and Lulaism. Bigger than the entire Western liberal-left.
Western strongman/nationalist-populist (488): Trump, Meloni, Le Pen, AfD, Reform, Orbán, PiS. The entire populist global right.
Anti-colonial/Pan-African (429): Burkinabé-style sovereigntists, Sankara tradition, radical pan-Africanism, third-worldism. Distinct from Lulaism in being anti-capitalist and rhetorically revolutionary.
Secular nationalist/developmentalist (371): Kemalists, Sisi-ism, Nasserism's heirs, Vietnamese state, pre-Erdoğan Turkey. Authoritarian-modernist tradition. Not religious, not communist, not liberal. Large in MENA and SE Asia.
Orthodox civilisational conservative (254): Putinism, Russian Orthodoxy, Serbia, Georgia, Greek conservative-Orthodox strand. Traditionalist anti-Western civilisational project. Distinct from both MAGA and fascism.
Green/climate justice (215): European Greens, Australian Greens, Latin American ecological movements.
Latin American/Caribbean populist-right (176): Bolsonaro, Milei's social-conservative flank, Bukele, Kast. Socially Catholic-traditionalist, economically mixed, anti-crime authoritarian.
Buddhist-nationalist (166): Thai, Sri Lankan, Myanmar, Bhutanese, Mongolian Buddhist traditionalism. Ethno-religious, exclusionary.
Feminist/gender-rights primary (156): Women's movements as primary political identity: Iranian women's movement, Ni Una Menos, Indian feminist currents. Transnational but diffuse.
Communist/hard-left (107): Actual communists, not social democrats: KKE, Indian CPI(M-L), various Latin American Marxist factions. The 20th century's dominant left tradition is a rump.
Apolitical/technocratic/localist (88): "None of the above" voters who'd pick a technocrat over any faction.
Libertarian/market radical (73): Mileism, Austrian-school globally, Hong Kong democrats, some Indian market liberals.
Chinese liberal/pro-democracy (49): Chinese voters who'd support a liberal-democratic alternative in a free election. Real, but structurally suppressed.
Indigenous/first-nations sovereignty (39): MAS base in Bolivia, CONAIE, Māori, Aboriginal, Sámi, Amerindian sovereignty movements.
The governing coalition this parliament produces is not liberal, communist, or fascist. It is religious-traditionalist plus Global South redistributionist. Socially conservative, economically left, sovereigntist, anti-Western-hegemonic.
Likeliest first measure: Super-majority passage of laws to ensure the wealthiest 20% of countries transfer 2% of GDP annually to the poorest 50%.
Possible Governing Coalitions:
Coalition I: The Devout-Development Pact (~5,400 seats). Islamic + Hindutva + African Christian + Catholic + Buddhist-nationalist + Lulaist on social-cover-for-redistribution terms. The bargain: socially conservative governance at home (religious liberty, traditional family, sovereignty over social policy) in exchange for redistribution, debt relief, and climate finance from rich countries. Modi's actual foreign policy is basically this coalition in miniature.
Coalition II: The Bandung Redistributionist Front (~5,500 seats). Lulaist + Islamic on material terms + anti-colonial + African Christian + Catholic + Communist + Indigenous + Green on climate-justice framing. Holds together on economics and foreign policy; fractures on social issues. Could govern if the agenda is restricted to material questions — UN Security Council reform, IMF/World Bank reform, climate finance, debt cancellation, reparations, Palestine, arms-export controls.
Coalition III: The Sovereign Authoritarians' Coalition (~4,200 seats). CCP + Secular nationalist + Orthodox + Hindutva + Western strongman + Latin American populist-right + Islamic on non-interference terms. A "Westphalian restoration" coalition built around sovereignty, non-interference, strong states, and rejection of universalist liberalism.
ED RELIGHT ⚡ retweeted
"Marriage was what you built your life on top of. You married young, figured it out together, grew into adulthood as a unit. It wasn't a reward you earned after getting your career right and your apartment right and your personal brand figured out or after having had enough experiences to fill your Instagram. It was the foundation. Everything else came after."
