Welcome back to my blog. I’d like to be clear that my writing is completely unaffiliated with one Bari Weiss and CBS News, which is, according to the U.S. government, so “fake and gay” that I feel it is time at last to publicly distance myself to preserve my reputation. Mr. President, don’t worry, I would never associate with the likes of her. Thank you for understanding—and I’ll see you at the next meeting.
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→ There is no country but America: The new measure of industrialization is who uses the most artificial intelligence. Who has the largest AI capacity. The biggest, sexiest data centers. Since that’s going to determine power in this coming era. And the answer is clear, it’s robust, and it’s the US of A:
Look at those numbers. Sure, our sons used to storm beaches and build interstates and now it’s just men clicking mouses around a terminal and maxing out tokens, but we’re number one at it.
Which, most importantly, makes everyone else our pathetic vassal state subject to our whims. Everyone else is about to lose all autonomy. They already have. As Marc Andreessen said on a podcast: “Europe seems, I just take them at their word, they seem determined, they seem enthusiastic about being left behind. They seem to really badly want that.” And what of China? Weren’t they supposed to win? Now all they can do is try to send sexy spies to sleep with our American executives and get little tidbits of information (it’s okay, Nvidia CEO who “had a close relationship” with an alleged spy, no one’s mad at you, it happens to the best of us). But the important news of the week is that Anthropic, which runs Claude, is going public. They released their numbers. Remember all those people who said AI was a bubble? Wishful thinking from the bloggeratti. Anthropic’s revenue per employee over the past year was more than $6.6 million. A year ago it was $1.4 million per employee. Its revenue growth is a line going straight up. It rakes in gobs of cash, money, dollars, green, profit, baby. And now that it’s going public, now that they are all getting ridiculously rich, we are going to live in the AI-worker vision of the world whether we like it or not. What art do AI developers like?
Put it this way: Enjoy those shrimp cocktails while you can. Once these IPOs happen, if you don’t think these guys aren’t going to set up lobbying firms to make it illegal to eat meat, you have another thing coming. We’re about to take our children to their deranged museums and they will only have beanbags and anime. All I really know about their culture is they like polyamory, but does anyone know what else they are into? Do they have culinary trends? Do they write books? Drop your best guesses about AI worker culture and what they plan to do with their IPO monies into the comments and we will highlight them next week. If you know anyone at these companies, that’s cheating.
→ Dems absolutely recruited the fake Dan Sullivan to do election fraud: In Alaska, there’s a random guy named Dan Sullivan running for Senate against the incumbent Republican named Dan Sullivan. We’ve all safely assumed this was part of a trick by Democrat Mary Peltola to confuse voters and peel off the incumbent’s support, but she has totally denied it. Well, a great New York Times investigation reveals that’s completely what is going on. From the story:
In the summer of 2025, a staffer for Mary Peltola, the Alaska Democrat who was eyeing a run for Senate, received unusual instructions from top campaign aides: Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can. The staffer complied, combing through voter records to produce a list of Dan Sullivans from across the state. This was no random request. Dan S. Sullivan is the name of the state’s Republican senator.
They did a statewide Dan Sullivan recruitment drive! To confuse voters as much as possible! And it worked! They found some guy named Dan J. Sullivan who lives on a remote island—to be fair, this seems to be every resident of Alaska—and he agreed to run. Now I don’t know if that’s a crime in Alaska, since it doesn’t involve violating a moose, but it’s election fraud to me since it’s literally trying to just confuse voters. By the way, the NYT reporter behind that story, Kellen Browning, is excellent and is probably being pelted in the cafeteria today. Some other publication should steal him, like Peltola is stealing her election. Back to her: Peltola’s method is brilliant. Stealing elections works! It just does. Can’t argue with success. I can’t wait for Republicans to recruit every Gavin Newsom alive for 2028. There are gonna be babies running for president. The only way to steal-proof yourself is to have a weird name. Pete Buttigieg, Tulsi Gabbard, it’s your lucky day.
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