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Aaron Day

Super Intelligence takes Human Intelligence

November 11, 2026

After watching this 48-second video, executives at Warner Bros. and Netflix immediately put a $100 million historical epic on hold. A 20-year-old independent creator, with a CGI budget of zero, generated a hyperrealistic scene: a time-traveling travel vlogger interviewing King Leonidas at Thermopylae in 480 BC. Total production cost: $25.Rendering time: 4 minutes.Film crew hired:

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Politics

With Love From El Salvador to Haiti

October 29, 2026

Haitian people, We have nearly finished deploying our soldiers and equipment on Haitian soil. This is not an operation against the Haitian people, nor an invasion of the country of Haiti. We are not a great power. We have no interest in coming to dominate the Haitian people, nor in laying hands on Haiti’s wealth.

Politics

Flávio Bolsonaro Releases Explosive Statement from the United States!

October 28, 2026

“I address the Brazilian people and the international community as the true elected president of Brazil.” Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to recognize Lula’s electoral victory, denounces what he calls massive electoral fraud, and confirms that he has left Brazil with his family. “There is no arrest warrant against me because I have committed no crime.” He

Agenda

Flavio Bolsonaro Won Brazil and the World

October 27, 2026

There are major questions about how Flavio Bolsonaro left Brazil this morning with his family for the US without detection by Brazil. All morning, Brazilian authorities were utterly confused and clueless. As rumors circulated that Bolsonaro had left Brazil, they had no idea if it was true. At one point, they thought they had located

News Media

Four Years Later: How Buying Twitter Saved Free Speech on the Internet

October 26, 2026

Four years ago this week, on October 27, 2022, Elon Musk walked into Twitter headquarters and changed the trajectory of the modern internet. At the time, the critics were loud. We were told the platform would crash within weeks, that open discourse was too dangerous to leave unpoliced, and that the digital town square needed

Technology and Innovation

No Wires, No Problem: How Finnish Researchers Are Sending Electricity Through Thin Air

October 25, 2026

For well over a century, the rules of the electrical grid haven’t changed much: if you want power somewhere, you have to run a wire to it. Now, researchers in Finland are showing what happens when you leave the cables behind altogether. Across a set of breakthroughs anchored at the University of Helsinki and the

Religion

Yitzhak Kaduri, the “Secret Note,” and the Claimed Name of the Messiah

October 24, 2026

Yitzhak Kaduri (c. 1898–January 28, 2006) was one of the most prominent Haredi rabbis and kabbalists of the modern era, particularly among Sephardi and Mizrahi communities. Born in Baghdad (then part of the Ottoman Empire), he studied Kabbalah from a young age, including under leading figures such as Rabbi Yosef Hayyim (the Ben Ish Chai).