Scott Ortkiese
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Scott Ortkiese, Author Matt Taibbi deserves unreserved credit for illuminating what he correctly identifies as "the worst-reported story of all time"—the Jeffrey Epstein case. In an era when investigative journalism routinely capitulates to sensationalism, Taibbi, alongside
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December 24, 2025 By Scott Ortkiese Executive Summary: Vindicating Taibbi's Investigative Courage Matt Taibbi deserves unreserved credit for illuminating what he correctly identifies as "the worst-...
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Here are plain‑English anchors, so a layperson can “feel” the scale. 1 MW of always‑on load 1 MW running 24/7 = 24 MWh/day. An average U.S. home uses about 10.5 MWh/year, or ~0.029 MWh/day, so 24 MWh/day is roughly the daily electricity use of ~800–850 homes. So “1 MW
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The brutal truth: We are not waiting for AI to become smart enough to replace us. We are making ourselves simple enough to be replaced, solving the alignment problem by removing the parts of ourselves that are hard to align. Please go to my article for a deeper dive:
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By Scott Ortkiese December 22, 2025 The evidence is no longer speculative. It is measurable, quantified, and accelerating.
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Check out my latest article: The Satisfied Pig: How Humanity Is Truncating Itself for the Machine https://t.co/LIsoKNK4Ka via @LinkedIn
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By Scott Ortkiese December 22, 2025 The evidence is no longer speculative. It is measurable, quantified, and accelerating.
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The prevailing anxiety about artificial intelligence centers on a specific, terrifying trajectory: that machines will eventually become so complex, capable, and alien that they will surpass human understanding. We worry about the "alignment problem"—the challenge of ensuring that
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Check out my latest article: Drill Baby, Drill: Why Geology and Physics Will Determine the AI Century https://t.co/8yh0Z7txYI via @LinkedIn
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December 21, 2025 By Scott Ortkiese The global energy transition narrative is colliding with a hard, unyielding reality: the laws of physics do not care about net-zero targets, and the coming...
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Check out my latest article: Merkel’s Betrayal: How Globalist Hubris Poked the Bear and Sacrificed Ukraine https://t.co/cPr0TakZrR via @LinkedIn
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December 21, 2025 By Scott Ortkiese While the Brussels bureaucracy and the editorial boards of The Financial Times and The Economist continue their orchestrated outrage campaign against Viktor Orbán,...
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Ursula von der Leyen, Victoria Nuland, Antony Blinken, Donald Tusk, and Jens Stoltenberg orchestrated NATO expansion, engineered Ukraine's 2014 regime change, sabotaged the Minsk peace agreements, and weaponized EU funds to coerce Hungary into submission—yet one just man, Viktor
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Most of Europe’s so‑called “Marxist” or left‑wing coalitions aren’t acting from any affection for Russia; they’re driven by moral posturing, reputation management, and local security politics, not class solidarity. They publicly cast Russia as a right‑authoritarian, oligarchic
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The Logic Of The “Tiny Elite” Across NATO and the EU, the policy class frames the conflict as a test of the post‑Cold War order and of alliance credibility, not simply as a tragic border war to be contained. Leaders fear that a compromise seen as “rewarding aggression” will
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Kerry Kennedy's involvement in the Chevron–Ecuador litigation reveals the commercial architecture beneath "advocacy." She was retained by plaintiffs' lawyers to conduct public relations and advocacy against Chevron, receiving $50,000 upfront, $10,000 monthly retainers, $40,000 in
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The recent spectacle of Joe Kennedy III and Jack Schlossberg rushing to social media to denounce the renaming of the Kennedy Center was not merely a defense of a building. It was a defense of a brand. When Schlossberg posted breathless screenshots of federal statutes and Kennedy
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Check out my latest article: Part II: The Kennedy Endorsement Was a Democratic Party Production: How Opposition Research Became Family Theater https://t.co/cUkPWO0VGx via @LinkedIn
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