Scott Hickey retweeted
Dunning was my professor at @Cornell during my PhD.
This paper answers why confident idiots run the world.
Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy.
It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.”
they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception.
And the results are wild.
participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile.
they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence.
the paper revealed a brutal paradox:
the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain.
if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing.
this creates a dangerous systemic loop.
the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions.
meanwhile, the actual experts suffer the exact inverse.
top performers in the study consistently underestimated their rank. because a task was easy for them, they falsely assumed it was easy for everyone else.
they hesitate. they obsess over nuance. they assume they have nothing unique to add.
we are biologically wired to confuse confidence with competence.
the loudest person in the room gets promoted, gets funded, and gets the microphone, not because they know what they are doing, but because they are physically incapable of seeing what they don't.
the only defense mechanism is building systems that stop rewarding absolute certainty and start demanding proof of work.
Scott Hickey retweeted
Cool
Everyone said "Hey Grok" was impossible on iPhone. Even Grok said Apple keeps wake words for Siri only. So I kept digging, and I found a way. Now I just say "Hey Grok" and Grok Bot voice chat opens. No extra apps, no cost, all built into iOS.
How to set it up:
1. Make sure your Grok Bot app is up to date
2. Shortcuts app → + → Add Action → search "Grok Bot" → pick "Start Voice Chat with Bot"
3. Settings → Accessibility → Vocal Shortcuts → Set Up → pick that shortcut → type "Hey Grok" and say it 3 times
4. In the shortcut's details, turn on "Allow Running When Locked"
If your phone is locked, iOS asks for one tap first. If Face ID already unlocked it, it's fully hands-free.
Scott Hickey retweeted
Mosques are chapters of a political organization called Islam. Don’t confuse them with churches. Their main function is advancing the political cause of Islam, not worship.
This is horrifying
Abdul El-Sayed is visiting mosques and rallying Muslims to vote for him during Midterms. This is the Islamic Takeover of America
“We have that opportunity, insha'Allah, on November 3rd — You can go in and vote tomorrow. Make sure you, your wife, your husband, if you're a sister in the back, your mother, your father, your children if they're voting age, your neighbors have made a plan to vote on or before November 3rd. I'm gonna say that date one more time. The 3rd day of November.
“We cannot miss the opportunity. Again, we have a responsibility to lift our voices, and we have that opportunity, insha'Allah, on November 3rd. I'm asking you to lift that voice of yours.
Fight for the kind of America you believe in, an America that provides all the basic needs of a dignified life to our own people and does not take it away from other people. JazakAllahu Khairan. Again, my name is Abdul El-Sayed and I'm grateful for your support.”
This should horrify every American. He’s using mosques for his political agenda
Politicians are not supposed to go into places of worship and ask for votes. If the place of workshop allows it, legally they should lose their tax exempt status
Where is the accountability!?
The rule is Internal Revenue Code §501(c)(3), specifically the political campaign prohibition known as the Johnson Amendment
Allowing a candidate to use the organization’s facilities or events to campaign without equal opportunity for other candidates and distributing or publishing materials that favor or oppose candidates results in loss of tax exempt status
Using organizational resources like money, property, staff, lists and more to support or oppose a candidate also results in loss of tax exempt status
Strip this mosque of tax exempt status
Scott Hickey retweeted
Brazil is a tragic case study.
Once you let communism in, it’s tough to vote it out.
They sink their claws into the Supreme Court and do everything possible legal or illegal to stay in power, even after Flávio destroyed Lula (a criminal) in the debate.
Stay alert 🇺🇸!
Scott Hickey retweeted
Speaking of bad opsec, @elonmusk is sneaky.
Brazil wanted 𝕏 to censor accounts criticizing the government.
"Emperor Lula has no clothes" kind of stuff.
In 2024 they shut 𝕏 off for over a month to make the point.
𝕏 said fine.
But you have to give us the list.
Then 𝕏 made the algorithm open source.
That's how I found it.
So now there's a list.
Of everyone the government doesn't want you to read.
I sorted it so you can.
grumpytechbro.com/brazil.htm…
Censorship bugs me.
Sometimes lawfare works for the good guys. – at Oregon, USA
Scott Hickey retweeted
🚨🚨THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 9: THE BIG PICTURE 🚨
Sunday is a day of rest. Today I took a step back and asked, "where is all this money coming from?"
I'm too tired to type an actual summary. TL;DR: billions have been invested in restructuring American governance since Trump was elected. Many have warned of a color revolution because they saw the civil society apparatus (aka, having millions of people on standby to break stuff) being built in real time.
What makes 2026 different is that it's the first time we know of that we found an operational, short-term plan to actually do a coup.
Everything we've covered has been from the R2T NGO, which serves as a recording/coordinating platform of sorts for several key NGOs including the one consisting of 300 ex-USAID employees, RAD.
It's well documented in several previous drops that RAD has a tight relationship with the "Blocking" lane, now unified under the United Democracy Alliance (UDA) umbrella led by Horizons Project.
I researched the "big picture" of how UDA relates to bigger players, so to speak. This sets up the stage for later, much more consequential drops.
I think the video covers it pretty well...
Scott Hickey retweeted
🚨 BOOM! An American tells Nick Shirley exactly why he bought a pig in Texas to oppose the Islamic takeover of his home
“I’m here because this is my home. These people just recently came here and they want to take over.”
“They’ve already built a Muslim only town. Now they want to expand it into a Muslim only city and take over big parts of Texas.”
“I’m not okay with that. They lie to our faces.”
“There’s a reason they change the laws, change the street names, and push you out. It’s because they’re trying to take over. They’re literally commanded to take over.”
Say it louder. Americans are DONE being displaced in their own country.
Scott Hickey retweeted
Yep.
“In the Middle East every single society that had existed prior to Islam has been eradicated”—professor @GadSaad 😢
Scott Hickey retweeted
A Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan just argued that Americans should have the right to own muskets.
Because that's what the Founders had.
And the audience laughed.
But here's what makes this interesting.
The Supreme Court already rejected that argument in 2008.
In District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court said the Second Amendment isn't limited to weapons that existed in the 18th century.
And here's the irony.
He made this argument into a wireless microphone.
While being recorded on a smartphone.
For people to watch on the internet.
None of which existed in 1791.
Yet nobody thinks the First Amendment only protects speech written with a quill pen.
So why would the Second Amendment stop at muskets?
Here's my question:
If constitutional rights only protected technology available when they were written, would that logic apply to free speech and privacy too?
Or should the Second Amendment be treated differently?
Tell me why.
Scott Hickey retweeted
I've read many things about Venezuela.
As an Iranian, we share a similar fate. A formerly wealthy and wonderful place, rich with oil and resources, and a bright, skilled population.
Ripped apart by a demonic regime willing to make the people suffer mass murder, torture, starvation and crippling poverty to keep their rule. Massive diasporas living in exile for decades, separated from our families.
Pure despair and hopelessness.
Few understand this suffering more than those of us who live it. Even fewer understand the feeling of watching these dictatorships finally fall.
And today, I see Venezuela's exiled opposition leader return to massive crowds, completely unopposed, zero communist thugs out to stop her. It's like a miracle happening.
It brings tears to my eyes watching oppressed people about to be liberated. It finally looks as if all of you in Venezuela will regain your freedom, your dignity, and your lost generations. Truly heartwarming and incredible.
It also makes me realise just how cursed Iran is to be trapped with an even more evil dictatorship. A regime who to this day refuses to give up even if it means the land turns to ashes and 90 million people lie killed in the ground. Venezuela's regime apparently now has the common sense to tell what time it is. Sadly, Iran is ruled by a whole other scale of barbarians.
May we one day soon witness our Shah return to a free Iran, just as you are lining the streets right now for your own leader across the ocean. May our countries prosper once more. May our diasporas finally reunite with our loved ones.
May we all breathe free air again.
Scott Hickey retweeted
🚨 WOW. The father of fallen 9/11 hero Todd Beamer — the "LET'S ROLL" patriot who stormed the terrorists on Flight 93 — just WALKED OUT ON STAGE after President Trump exposed Abdul El Sayed's ties to Hasan Piker
DAVID BEAMER: "The enemy is RIGHT HERE AMONG US. Local terrorists...They call themselves Democratic Socialists of America." 🎯
"Todd and others didn't come home — but they won the counterattack...9/11 was a surprise. What's going on in Michigan IS NOT A SURPRISE. WE CAN SEE THE ATTACK COMING. IT CULIMATES ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD."
"They want to tear down this America that is ours...have you read their platform? It reads like the terrorist platform of 9/11 on STEROIDS."
Todd Beamer, a Flint, Michigan man, led his fellow passengers against the Islamist hijackers on 9/11, saving the U.S. Capitol at the cost of his own life 🙏🏻
This is an UNFORGETTABLE moment.
Scott Hickey retweeted
🛑 Ingram, Texas Police Officer Partners With ICE, Turns Over 194 Illegal Aliens in Under a Year 🛑
In the small Hill Country town of Ingram, Texas, one police officer decided to stop looking the other way and became a hero to patriots across the nation.
Officer Jaron Alexander went to Chief Dustin Breshears and proposed joining ICE's 287(g) program, which lets trained local officers identify illegal aliens and hand them over to federal immigration authorities. The chief agreed, and Ingram signed its agreement with ICE on October 17, 2025.
Since then, Ingram police have logged 194 immigration-related incidents, most of them coming out of routine traffic stops on Junction Highway. In a town this size, that is a huge share of the population.
The left is now crying that it "tore the town apart." What tore the town apart was years of federal immigration law going unenforced. One cop doing his job is not the problem, he's the solution.
This is exactly what 287(g) was built for. Local police and ICE working together, removing people who broke the law to get here. Every town in America should be doing what Ingram is doing.
Scott Hickey retweeted
Don't blame this on the Taliban alone.
Why exactly do you think Taliban was able to walk into Kabul the second America left, with zero significant resistance?
Because the average Afghan man is tragically just like them.
Go across the border and you will find Iranian women, the strongest and most independently minded in the region, in spite of the islamic regime's worst attempts to restrict us.
This is a very uniquely CULTURAL problem.
Taliban is a symptom, not a cause.
This is the most sickening thing I've seen in a while.
YouTuber Small Brained American visits an Afghan village, and their local doctor has LOCKED his female staff in a room from the outside. He is completely casual about holding them prisoners.
During the whole trip they've repeatedly told him to not film women, and pretend like they don't exist.
I don't think Westerners understand what true misogyny and gender apartheid looks like - let alone what happens if you mass import hundreds of thousands of fighting age men from this culture.
They quite literally do not consider their own women human at all.
Imagine how they feel about your daughters.
Scott Hickey retweeted
Ilhan Omar, just like the majority of those shaped by Islam, does not see fraud or the exploitation of “the other” as a bad thing.
It is not immoral because, as a Muslim, you are superior, and if you are currently not experiencing that superiority over the other, then it becomes morally acceptable to take advantage of whatever means are necessary to correct that wrong.
This is a natural feature of being shaped by Islam called “taaliya.” Muslims do not necessarily know this term or act this way because it was specifically taught to them; it is simply the automatic result of a belief system that makes God complicit in your schemes against the other.
Scott Hickey retweeted
I've been asked about early voting analysis.
The dilemma I have is that my platform is big enough such that being too blunt can have an effect on morale. I'll push out new states and tools out to my website soon, but won't announce them here on 𝕏.
I will be giving @realJeremyCarl my predictions a week in advance so he can hold me accountable after Election Day.
You MUST turn out and bring their friends, and brace yourself on election night. Even TX is going to be a fight.