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Jordan Gunderson 🔥 retweeted
When we were at Divvy we were crushing it.
Every number up and to the right.
Best the business had ever felt.
Then Covid hit.
Overnight we didn’t know if we had a business anymore.
I have vivid memories of leaders hugging each other and crying saying “I’m doing everything I can to save this.”
Most of our investors left us for dead.
It was dark.
In the middle of it all Blake Murray got the team together and handed us a flag.
“No one is coming. It is up to us.”
And through about a million actions from hundreds of people we got through it.
Wasn’t that long after that Divvy had a $2.5B exit.
That flag hangs at Redo now.
We’ve rallied around it in our own moments of crisis.
In good times and bad.
A reminder.
It is up to us.
Jordan Gunderson 🔥 retweeted
🇮🇱🇺🇸 Netanyahu got caught on tape working to kill his own war crimes warrant
The New York Times reviewed recorded calls from October 2024 where Netanyahu and the late Senator Lindsey Graham cooked up a plan to stall the ICC arrest warrant closing in on him.
The move was to weaponize sexual misconduct allegations against ICC prosecutor Karim Khan. Netanyahu called it "the great cloud" that could justify pausing everything, telling Graham the stain "has to be removed" and pushing him to get senators to send a letter.
On a second call that day Graham said "we got them both," meaning Democrats Blumenthal and Cardin were on board, then joked, "pay me for all this."
The letter went out November 1. It didn't work, and the ICC issued the warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant three weeks later.
The twist is that Khan was actually forced out as prosecutor last week over those same allegations, so the cloud they wanted finally did the job, just a year too late.
Source: NYT / Daniyal
Jordan Gunderson 🔥 retweeted
Can the guy who owns the private grocery store down the block walk in and clean the canned goods off the shelf to resell at his place? That’s way cheaper than he gets them wholesale
Jordan Gunderson 🔥 retweeted
In 2015 Lenovo shipped laptops with software that broke HTTPS for every user.
Installed deliberately for ad revenue.
Lenovo pre-installed a piece of adware called Superfish on consumer laptops starting September 2014. Its purpose was to scan every image you view on the internet and inject ads for similar products.
To do that on HTTPS pages, it needed to intercept your encrypted traffic.
So it did something catastrophic.
it installed itself as a trusted root certificate authority on your laptop. Meaning your browser treated Superfish as a trusted source of certificates, the same level of trust as VeriSign, DigiCert, or your bank's own certificate authority.
Everything you did over HTTPS- banking, email. shopping. medical records was being decrypted by Superfish, analyzed for images, and re-encrypted before it reached you.
then it got worse.
Every Lenovo laptop shipped with the exact same certificate and the exact same private key.
The password protecting that private key was cracked in three hours by Security researcher, Rob Graham (Errata Security).
The password was "komodia."
The name of the Israeli company that made the code.
Once cracked, anyone with that private key could impersonate any website to any Lenovo user on earth. your bank. your email. any HTTPS site. a fake page would show a valid padlock and your browser would trust it completely.
Lenovo's initial response: "we have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns."
Then the password was posted publicly online.
Lenovo paid $7.3 million to settle the class action lawsuit.
The EFF called it "catastrophically irresponsible."
Crazy stuff.
Jordan Gunderson 🔥 retweeted
U.S. Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act. A federal judge ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to produce the unredacted documents. The DOJ has refused to hand over Epstein files after a judge's order. The deadline was July 2, 2026.
As someone works in human rights, I’ve never seen anything like the Epstein files in my 15-year career. There are 3 million files of documented evidence about powerful men who
Raped
Cannibalized
Trafficked
Filmed
Terrorized
Tortured
Murdered
13, 14, 15 year children!
Remember: this is a minority of the files. This's just what they were willing to release.
Not a single arrest or investigation. ZERO.
We called on the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over the full Epstein files to the UN Special Rapporteurs and UN independent committees for investigations, as this is an international case of crimes against humanity. But the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN's top human rights official didn't even care to open an investigation or listen to our call for the DoJ, nor utter a single word regarding the largest human trafficking network in modern history.
Epstein pedophiles are investigating Epstein files. We wonder why nobody arrested. Jeffery Epstein has every major politicians and billionaires on video doing something terrible to a child or to multiple people.
THOUSANDS have been arrested for criticizing Zionism. THOUSANDS have been arrested for social media posts. ZERO have been arrested for raping children.
The Epstein files is never really about just a "list." It is about children raped by powerful men, and a system that let them get away with it.
The bottom line here is the world system has become so corrupt that the time has come I think to clean the crap out of the stables and start over.
The Epstein files is about protecting children. There's no greater cause. If people can't unite over children being raped and abused there's no hope for humanity.
I don't understand how we're not having a global revolution right now.
Jordan Gunderson 🔥 retweeted
Cet automne, pour la première fois depuis 250 ans, ma famille ne récoltera pas d'olives au Liban.
Nos 600 oliviers ont été arrachés du sol par l'armée israélienne, racines comprises, et emportés. Les plus vieux avaient 500 ans !
Cette terre, mon grand-père la tenait de son arrière-grand-père. En deux siècles et demi, ma famille a acheté de la terre. Elle n'en a jamais vendu un mètre, pas un seul jour. Chez nous, on ne construit pas sur la terre. On y plante. Ces arbres ont survécu à plusieurs guerres. Ils ont survécu à tout.
Regardez les deux photos. À gauche, notre terre le 25 juin, la veille de la signature de l'accord entre le Liban et Israël. À droite, la même terre le 20 juillet.
Il ne reste rien. Et c’est justement ça, la preuve. Un incendie laisse des troncs noirs debout. Une frappe laisse des cratères. Ici, pas un tronc calciné, pas une souche, pas un débris. Une terre nue, raclée, griffée par les chenilles des engins. Déterrer un olivier de 500 ans sans le tuer demande des pelleteuses, un savoir-faire, des camions et une destination. Ce n’est pas un dégât de guerre. C’est une opération, sur une terre où il n’y avait ni armes, ni combattants, ni présence militaire. Ma famille n'a jamais été liée de près ou de loin au Hezbollah, et elle ne le sera jamais. Il n'y avait que des arbres, et des gens qui les taillent depuis huit générations.
D'après les témoignages qui nous parviennent, ces arbres auraient été emportés de l'autre côté de la frontière, vers Israël.
L'accord signé entre le Liban et Israël, censé préparer la paix, protège les biens des civils. Je demande simplement qu'il soit appliqué : que le sort des arbres déterrés soit établi, que ceux qui sont encore vivants soient rendus. Si nos arbres sont vivants quelque part, ils peuvent revenir. Je ne cherche pas une vengeance. Je cherche une adresse !
J'ai hésité à écrire ces lignes, pour ne pas provoquer des réactions d'un côté comme de l'autre. Mais je refuse de faire le deuil de ces oliviers. Dans ces arbres vit l'âme de mon grand-père, ancien général de la police libanaise, un homme qui a toujours cru dans la paix, dans les humains et dans la lumière. Il taillait ces arbres à mains nues. Il répétait : “on ne vend pas la terre, on la transmet”
Je lui dois de ne pas me taire.
Jordan Gunderson 🔥 retweeted
In the first case of its kind, the U.S. Department of Justice is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a duress passcode that wiped the contents of his @GrapheneOS phone when they seized it.
techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us…
Our military adventurism is like smoking in a match factory.
⭕️ REPORT | Iran and Ukraine trade accusations as the two wars converge in the Caspian
🔹Iran’s Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine on Sunday of attacking an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, saying an explosion killed one sailor and wounded another, according to a statement carried by Iranian state media.
🔹It called the strike a violation of the UN Charter and “an act of aggression,” and said responsibility for the consequences would lie with Ukraine “and its supporters and instigators.”
🔸The accusation followed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s announcement Saturday that Ukraine had struck Russian warships and cargo vessels in the Caspian that it said were transporting military cargo between Russia and Iran.
🔸Ukraine’s Security Service, quoted by RFE/RL and United24, named two ships, the Port Olya 2 and the Begey, both under Western sanctions, and said it also hit a Lukoil offshore oil platform and a Russian missile boat. Neither government’s account could be independently verified.
🔸Zelensky separately alleged, in comments on X that Russia has been passing satellite imagery of Gulf states and US military bases to Iran, claiming a correlation between Russian surveillance and Iranian strikes on four air bases in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait on July 19 and 20.
🔸The Caspian strikes were part of a wider wave of Ukrainian long-range attacks that Zelensky described as retaliation for a Russian missile strike near Kyiv that killed at least 10 people, RFE/RL reported.
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Jordan Gunderson 🔥 retweeted
Mom retired ~2 yrs ago and isn’t loving not being busy 😭
“Tell your people I’ll sell tamales, I want to stay busy”
If you’re in Lehi(ish), dm me how many dzn u want. Fri pickup.
• Chile Colorado 🐖
• Chile Verde 🐓
• Rajas con Queso 🌶️
cc: @LukeGundy @gabegundy
Interesting indeed... I love happy coincidences! 👀
GPT-5.6 Sol has claimed to resolved one of the five major problems in quantum information theory announced by KCIK (which carries a cash prize).
We (@Quantum_Kishor @TobiasHaug_Q ) sat down to verify its claimed proof and surprisingly, we found another paper published the very next day, with NO AI acknowledgment, containing a proof and phrasing similar to what we got when we prompted it ourselves before the result was announced. An interesting coincidence!
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Jordan Gunderson 🔥 retweeted
To get macro productivity gains, managers and CEOs have to greenlight radically different staffing and workflow plans
To date I don’t think they’ve done it
Be prepared for this to take 10 years not 2
This week I wrote about why intelligence isn't the only bottleneck to real-world progress & why overlooking the others leads many "AGI-pilled" people to mistaken conclusions about the future.
New research from the @stripe Economics team shows how this looks in practice. TLDR is that so far, the "micro-productivity" gains (so increase in productivity on specific tasks) that we see due to AI are not causing the macro-productivity gains one would expect.
Of course, this is just the beginning and it is likely that as time passes, organizations will learn how to convert the micro-productivity gains into macro ones. What's more, models are likely to continue improving.
Nonetheless, I think this is an important result that proves my point. Models are already absolutely impressive on a whole range of tasks. Yet real world diffusion is just incredibly hard. I also really do not think we understand the nature of the intelligence of these models. Such findings should update some priors imo in terms of how the world will change in the coming years and decades and the importance of real-world friction.
Jordan Gunderson 🔥 retweeted
I solved 6 open Erdős problems in 5 days, using @OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol.
I have a math background, but the Codex workflow I used does not require deep mathematical knowledge.
Here’s exactly how I approached it, including my prompts 🧵
Jordan Gunderson 🔥 retweeted
Israel is publicly distancing themselves from what they’re calling our “contained campaign”. Notice the language their cabinet officials are using and what it implies.
This is Israel publicly signaling that they want to expand the war, and that when they do they won’t be coordinating that escalation with the U.S. It’s worth noting that the phrasing of these public statements affords President Trump plausible deniability if/when Israel escalates.
One might be wondering, how can Israel escalate without us when the catalyst for this disaster was that Israel needed U.S. military support? Remember—just last week Netanyahu was hinting, again publicly, about Israel’s nuclear capability, which has never officially been confirmed.
At the same time, in the last 24hrs reports from Israeli intelligence claim that the Iranians have moved their enriched uranium to the heavily fortified “Pickaxe” Mountain—providing Israel with a justification for potentially using a nuclear weapon.
Israel must be meaningfully restrained. Failing to do so means we are likely comfortable with allowing Israel to use a nuclear weapon so long as we can claim we had nothing to do with it.
If you think the potential for a nuclear weapon seems far-fetched, play out the options for a military solution in Iran: we don’t have enough troops to invade Iran, so using nuclear weapon becomes the next logical step. This would be catastrophic.
This is why we must immediately restrain Israel, pull out of the region, & use economic diplomacy to reopen the SOH.
Jordan Gunderson 🔥 retweeted
The House is scheduled to vote this week on a National Defense Authorization that would integrate our military tech & supply chains with Israel’s.
Today, the Rules Committee will decide whether my amendment to strip section 219 will get a vote.
RT to support the Massie amdt.!
Jordan Gunderson 🔥 retweeted
FINANCIAL GRAVITY:
If we divide the S&P 500 by the fed’s balance sheet, the line is basically flat since 2008.
The correlation coefficient between central bank quantitative easing and the price of stock indexes is nearly 1.
The money printed by the Fed, because of the structure of the Open Market Operations, is plugged directly into the Treasury markets, and from there, flows into equities and derivatives.
This has served to primarily enrich the asset owners, financial institutions, and wealthy elites who own the majority of the stock market anyways.
The entire rally has been an illusion, financed by the Fed and maintained through QE.
Dude just got tired of people pointing out that he'd never met with a single victim.
EXCLUSIVE: MeidasTouch has learned new details of what really happened inside Todd Blanche's meeting with Epstein survivors today. One survivor noted Blanche was "abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal." Here are the full details. meidasnews.com/news/inside-t…
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