The trick to futureproofing yourself against AI obsolescence is building a rolodex full of people who can give you information more valuable than anything publicly available for scraping.

Lmao

The John Birch Society was once ostracized in conservative circles for its conspiratorial lunacy. But now it’s back. This JBS post, a version of the white nationalist great replacement theory,was shared by Elon Musk with his more than 230 million followers on X. White nationalism.

And couldn’t even spell premiere correctly

All is not bad in the world. We have new Peter Gabriel music. stereogum.com/2484100/pete...

At one meeting, Musk held a meeting with xAI staffers from various teams where he “was really unhappy” over restrictions on Grok’s Imagine image and video generator, the first source with knowledge of the situation at xAI said. www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/t...

It’s legit hilarious how Trump is tripping over himself to secure Western hemisphere oil production and China one day is just gonna say haha you can keep it. 🤡

Every DHS press release now www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTrM...

"The consortium must first carry out a geological survey to determine the field’s true subsoil value and then finance the equipment and infrastructure needed for extraction." LOL. Not only crooked, but at least a decade from production *under the right conditions.* www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/w...

Back in Cartagena

Whoa

Barry Zuckercorn-ass defense

There’s a decent chance the US and Israel so thoroughly weakened the Iranian regime that it’s now genuinely vulnerable to collapse from within. If it does, we’ll cheer, but will be very unclear that regime change now is preferable to the mullahs. Certainly a civil war is worse for US interests.

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

I f***ing called it.

Been thinking a lot about Alexios IV this week. It’s unwise to strike one-sided bargains on behalf of your country with powers driven by riches and not coherent strategy. Especially when you can’t deliver the goods and they’re too venal and stupid to recognize it.

When Pope Urban IV called what would become the 4th Crusade, he recognized failures of the previous campaign were rooted in petty squabbles amongst kings he could not control. Instead he sought to recreate the 1st Crusade’s success, built around princes and under the control of his Papal Legate.

"All of that means the new Leaf is a thoroughly compelling EV. It may have taken 15 years to get here, but Nissan's small electric car finally makes good on its promise. Redemption secured." 🔌💡🔌🚗 www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a660...

15-0 Vanderbilt men’s bball and 15-0 Vanderbilt women’s bball

First good thing she’s done for the party since 2020.

I wasn’t the first DOE staffer to resign on principle since January 2025, but this should be a red line for a lot of my former colleagues across the agency.

Okay I guess we’ll colonize Belgorod then

Thinking of Neda today for no particular reason whatsoever

Impeachment is a dead letter and I find the obsession with pursuing it unconstructive. Better to use Congressional control as a weapon against members of the administration and external collaborators. Run the investigations a next Dem administration can use to execute justice against villains.

Someone's been reading my skeets

Setting up a dramatic moment where he barges in anyways and…oh wait, we’ve seen that story before.

There’s nothing senators can do to stop Trump’s destruction of our alliances should he choose to, but they can deter him by saying they will refuse to annex Greenland, and sanction any American business doing business there following hostile action. Undermine his “negotiating” position.

I nominate clicktatorship as an early contender for the 2026 word of the year

He’s right about at least one thing. It’s our job to stop this.

Despite their hatred of Charles Stuart, Parliamentary leaders very much went out of their way to avoid executing him after his defeat and capture. It was only because he continued to instigate insurrection that they felt they had no choice. The case for 2029 de-Stalinization grows every day.

Tom Brady

let us all thank Trump for restoring democracy to Venezuela

“Donald Trump has been quietly plotting the seizure of Greenland in some way, shape, or form for nearly eight years. We listened to his private rants about it in the first term, but we weren’t willing to carry out a takeover of an allied nation on his behalf.” www.defiance.news/p/why-i-warn...

It's happened again. European electric vehicle sales set a new monthly record, breaking 30% of total sales for the first time. German and French growth is steady, while a sharp jump in Italy coincides with new incentivi statali

If the man can develop a little onstage charisma, admittedly no easy task, he’s the 2028 nominee.

It’s not just DOD. We should be putting public pressure on our financing agencies (DFC/EXIM) to not indulge this madness. Greenland rare earths should be treated like blood diamonds. Ds should make it clear that anyone who stands to profit from expropriation will face sanctions and/or restitution.

I regret that only the next entry in my new Substack series Tailings will be written with this view.

GM’s battery biz (incl. Honda Prologue + Acura ZDX) delivered 220k EVs in 2025. A great year, but one I expect we won’t see repeated until at least 2027. The Ultium brand is dead & Honda has gone its separate way. A good 2026 for GM would be repeating 2025 (170k EVs) w/o tax credits. 🔌💡🔌🚗

Turns out oil companies have little interest in investing in Venezuela given that Maduro's entire political apparatus is still in charge of the country. Oops. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

I’m pleased to share a new project I’ve been cooking up these past couple of months. Welcome to "Tailings: Lessons from the frontlines of America’s quest for critical minerals security". 🔌💡🔌🚗 tailings.substack.com/p/introduction

a social network for Toto obsessives, I’ll call it Rosannagram

Now all the oil experts know my pain watching the rare-earths discourse this year...with a parade of moronic claims from finance bros and other grifters about HUGE UNTAPPED resource value in places like Greenland, Ukraine, and Pakistan that haven’t been vetted or scoped remotely adequately.

This guy can’t even make a profit when he’s stealing stuff.

Can think of at least a handful of counter-examples to this (Bauxite - Guinea and Jamaica, Phosphates - Morocco, REEs - Myanmar), but the reason for this dynamic has as much to do with whether there’s a historic third-party presence or the size that would justify a large mining SOE.

Walking the beach on Isla de Tierra Bomba while listening to @niedermeyer.online make some bad 2026 predictions on the latest episode of the Autonocast. Cartagena’s Bocagrande skyline in the distance.

This is so much stupider than I imagined. The oil guys they’re talking to are clearly grifters and PE shops