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🇺🇸 US is a country, America is a people.
A People that believe in a set of ideas set forth by the Founders
Not everyone can be part of the US, but everyone can be part of America.
Let free cities grow. Let 1000s of independent Americas bloom across the world and experiment what kind of governance works. As @balajis puts it, America 3.0
Spread the culture of freedom. This is cheaper and better than doing it through military means. It helps illegal immigration by developing their home country so they don't leave. It can deter China swooping leftist dictators of impoverished countries to its side.
It will help both the US keep its resources and America grow its influence
And the US should support it
Very excited to see growing bipartisan support for Próspera, for 3 main reasons.
1/ Charter cities are a powerful tool for addressing economic inequality by providing in-country jobs that reduce the pressure to migrate (primarily driven by wanting better jobs), as well as improving regional security.
2/ Investment treaties are the foundation of all cross-border investment. Without developed countries investing in less-developed ones, the economic situation in the global south would be extremely grim and the migration crisis far worse.
Honduras’ attempt to renege on their 10-year ZEDE program in violation of their own Constitution is not only despicable but an attempt at a massive self-own which would impoverish them further.
3/ Under the leadership of literal Marxist @XiomaraCastroZ, Honduras is cozying up to China and attempting to re-align from the US, which is arguably a security threat, although hilariously China has told them that after leaving @icsid, Honduras must join another investor-state dispute resolution system to receive any Chinese investment.
IOW, mechanisms to protect investments from govts reneging are so fundamental that even their new commie friends insist on it 😂.
The US under @realDonaldTrump & @JDVance should cease all foreign aid to Honduras and other countries attempting to expropriate US investments and join the Sinosphere, as well as publicly announcing that we will fulfill our bilateral investment treaty obligations & those of @DRCAFTA, contra last year’s shameful letter from @SenWarren to @JoeBiden asking him to do the opposite.
(Article with more background on the shift to China which included ending recognition of Taiwan: csis.org/analysis/bad-worse-…)
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Nvidia is nothing without its people.
It now appears the national security allegations may be as fake as Russiagate. If so, Nvidia employees, shareholders, partners, and customers have immense leverage.
Whether publicly or privately, collectively or individually, they can approach the members of the board that precipitously pushed for Jensen’s resignation and instead demand that anti-Jensen board members resign.
Else mass employee resignations may follow, as may shareholder, partner, and customer suits against anti-Jensen board members for breaching their fiduciary duty. Because the value of Nvidia as an economic entity — for its employees, shareholders, partners, and customers — is obviously far higher if the founder and CEO of what was the most valuable company in world history is reinstated and this coup is defeated.
Trillions in capital, the fate of open weight AI, and the global economy itself all hang in the balance. So: if you are e/acc, if you are a techno-optimist, if you support open weight models, or if you just want to rectify a gross injustice — it is legitimate for you to politely press the Nvidia board with every tool at your disposal to reinstate Jensen Huang.
Remember how much capital is at stake. For many parties, it’d be worth it to spend millions — or even billions — on any legally permissible tactic that can get anti-Jensen board members to reverse their votes and then step down.
Remember also: the kind of spineless NPC board member that would vote against Jensen Huang due to a bad news cycle would likely buckle if subject to even 1/1000 of the scrutiny that poor Jensen has been subject to.
Mechanically: step one is to do citizen journalism to determine how each board member voted. Step two is to get the anti-Jensen board members to resign. And step three is the return of the king.
OpenAI shows it can be done. There are after all just a few human beings who need to change their anti-Jensen votes, or step down, or both. Their names and duties are public. And they’re meant to be accountable to the shareholders.
This analysis by @gemchange_ltd is as good a place as any to start.
Bombshell story. The spy narrative is collapsing already.
Is there clear & convincing evidence that Alice Huang was a Chinese spy?
- AG says no. (“no conclusions reached”).
- CIA says no. (“not yet convinced”).
- DNI says no (“not entirely accurate and over-torqued”).
- Ranking Democrat on House Intelligence (incoming Chairman) says no. (“today, at least, I don’t know”). This was immediately after he was briefed.
Who argues otherwise? Anonymous officials tell CNN “it strains credulity to believe that she was not acting as an agent of the Chinese government — simply by virtue of the fact that she is a successful Chinese businesswoman working with one of America’s most powerful companies.”
This is their proof after a year of investigating and surveillance? That she was a “successful Chinese businesswoman”?
At this point, the only crime that we know for sure happened is the leaking of the classified memo. Who did that and why?
An investigation should be opened.
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there is no replacing a founder like Jensen.
There never has been, and there can never be, a true succession for a founder like him. Nvidia ends today, and is replaced with a thing cosplaying nvidia. It will be run by custodians trying and failing to preserve the flame he ignited
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No. Bill Clinton did not resign.
Jensen Huang shouldn’t either.
And the Nvidia board shouldn’t fire him.
Particularly in the heat of the moment.
Ride it out and ignore the journos.
Clinton did. And then no one cared.
Jensen Huang must go
We argue in @TheEconomist that his position is untenable
"Like many powerful leaders, he came to believe that he was too important for the normal rules to apply to him."
But he is not the only one. Howard Lutnick has failed to stem the flow of chips to China. More heads should roll
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Nayib Bukele: “There is no State that cannot defeat criminals. If a State does not defeat criminality, it is because the State is complicit.” @nayibbukele
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Turns out this was an op spearheaded by the pro-China "Party for Socialism and Liberation," using Instagram Reels to convince residents the investment would harm the black community.
Bleak stuff.
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A random person can read garbage on Instagram reels block critical infrastructure for the masses and be made a hero.
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1) Jensen is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of this generation
2) he did something incredibly dumb
3) it was bad for America
4) but my guess is there was no bad intention
5) two mistakes don’t make a right, and I believe Jensen is irreplaceable for America’s AI leadership
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Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
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Everyone can express their own opinion in a free society, even an idiotic one. It helps us know how dumb someone is.
But calling for political violence against other Americans crosses a line that we shouldn't tolerate.
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Banco quebra no Paraguai: Presidente renuncia, todo mundo do banco preso, dinheiro é devolvido em 72h.
Banco quebra no Brasil: Presidente reeleito, envolvidos estão no STF julgando tudo, quem critica eles tem que ter medo de falar
Mensaje del Presidente de la República, Santiago Peña, al pueblo paraguayo.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
La renuncia de Peña antes de una condena en juicio político le permite acceder a la senaduría vitalicia (art. 189 de la Constitución). Esto le da fueros parlamentarios: para someterlo a un proceso penal se requeriría el desafuero aprobado por dos tercios del Senado (art. 191).
bacn.gov.py/leyesparaguaya…
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Once again...
@balajis was right. – at San Francisco, CA