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![Legacy Media Once Again Flails With 'Fake News' on Trump Planning to Name WH Ballroom After Himself | Becca Lower, RedState When I first read this legacy media story about the ballroom being built at the White House on Friday evening, my first reaction was: "so, what?" I'll get to that in a minute. Incredible that this is still a story, but this is what the legacy media has devolved into. Little more than a weekly rag-level of reporting. The fact that Democrats have previously done extensive construction on the WH has barely fazed them. Notice how little interest they have shown for actual news about the renovation. I first wrote on the ballroom story in Aug., when President Trump took a stroll on the roof with the architect: On Friday, we learned in a piece by my colleague Brandon Morse that the WH shared a list of the donors who are paying for the massive ballroom addition. Here's the latest example of the old media forces of Fourth Estate continuing to underwhelm with their lack of professionalism. They just keep flailing. ABC News blasted out a headline on social media based on unnamed quislings in the White House on Friday: "Trump likely to name White House ballroom after himself, officials say." Luckily, the internet is forever: But once Trump got wind of the alleged report during a media gaggle, he swiftly shot it down as "fake news." I know you're shocked that this is contrary to what you can read from ABC News below: Earlier, senior administration officials told ABC News that some in the administration were already referring to it as "The President Donald J. Trump Ballroom" and that that name was likely to stick. The White House claims they have released the full list of donors to the project. On a list of those donors, provided to ABC News by the White House, the ballroom is referred to as “the President Donald J. Trump Ballroom.” "Well, we raised a lot. We've raised over $350 million, [the ballroom is] a beautiful room, a big room," the president said, then paused a beat as if considering his next words carefully, in answer to the reporter's question on reports he plans to name the ballroom after himself. "I don't have any plan to call it after myself, that was fake news," Trump said. "Probably going to call it the Presidential Ballroom...we haven't really thought about a name yet." Someone asked Trump as a follow-up what might be done with the extra $50 million, and he explained "it could possibly be used to help build a large triumphal arch -- modeled on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris -- that Trump has proposed constructing just outside Washington." Sure, that's as good of a use as any. But, this is minutiae. Here's the correct answer, Republicans: tell them it's none of their business! They're well aware this isn't being financed by public money. It has to be asked again why this is day four or five of this nothing burger story. Palace whispers picked up in echoing hallways of the People's House by liberal hacks, and viewing one internal document - with a nickname "DJT Ballroom" - does not make something true. At a moment when some Americans are worrying about when/if they'll get their next paycheck to pay their mortgage or buy groceries - c'mon, just this once, guys - do your jobs.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1982407830079480213/amplify_video_thumb/1982407777277341696/img/9Ber34XNA2_TlRzC.jpg)
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These Democrat staffers spent the entire congressional baseball game taunting and heckling conservative high schoolers | Not The Bee Is it a job requirement in Democrat circles to be the most obnoxious and insufferable people imaginable? Or does this just come naturally to members of the party? The Party of Love, people! While the Democrats on the field were getting their butts kicked, Democrat staffers spent the whole game picking on literal high schoolers. This game is supposed to be a show of unity and good faith between Republicans and Democrats. But young Democrats who work on The Hill don't have a magnanimous bone in their body, apparently. Also, what's going on here? I've got one word for these losers: SCOREBOARD!
Owen Gregorian114,385 просмотров • 11 дней назад
CNN hosts shocked to discover that World Cup tourists think the South is welcoming | Not The Bee CNN is literally the worst, aren't they? You know our main man Freddy, the German soccer fan doing a tour of the South and live-tweeting how awesome it is? Well, CNN and Christine Brennan are, for some reason, shocked that anyone could love America, let alone the South. I saw some conversation, Wolf and Pamela, about how the rest of the world is looking at the United States and feeling that we are — it's a foreboding image and that we are inhospitable... This really sums up liberals well. Because they don't talk to people who vote differently than them, they think everyone believes America is horrible CUZ TRUMP. They couldn't be more wrong. Their wrongness is only eclipsed by their anti-Southern bigotry. But how wonderful again, that sports can bring people here and show people that the United States and you know, the South is welcoming a German tourist in a way we would never have anticipated. "A way we would have never anticipated"??? Umm, there's a little something called "Southern hospitality." The South is literally known for being friendly and welcoming. That's our thing. Isn't CNN based in Atlanta? Can liberals try not to hate their fellow countrymen for five seconds?
Owen Gregorian102,887 просмотров • 12 дней назад
RIGGED? Nearly ALL Overnight and Late Ballots In LA Mayor Race Going Against Spencer Pratt | Jack, WLT Report The Los Angeles mayoral count did not stop on Election Day, and the late ballot story is now moving straight into election-integrity territory. The reason is simple: the late and overnight mail-in updates being tracked online are cutting into Spencer Pratt’s lead. Conservative accounts on X spent the last 24 hours pointing at the same pattern. Nithya Raman is gaining on Pratt in the late count, and people want an explanation. Here is the cleanest numeric snapshot of what they are reacting to. The viral screenshot circulating in those posts showed Karen Ruth Bass at 172,720 votes, Pratt at 151,149, and Raman at 110,848. Compare that to the current official Los Angeles County readback. As of the county’s posted timestamp, Bass sits at 183,701, Pratt at 157,116, and Raman at 119,809. Run the math between those two snapshots and the pattern is plain. Bass added 10,981 votes, Raman added 8,961, and Pratt added 5,967. So in that window, Raman gained 2,994 votes on Pratt. His lead over her shrank from 40,301 to 37,307. That is the move that lit up the timeline. I need someone to explain to me how EVERY SINGLE VOTE that comes in “late” to California… …nearly 100% of them… Go to ANYONE but Spencer Pratt. How the hell does that happen? Isn’t that LITERALLY impossible?!!!! — Matt Van Swol (Matt Van Swol) June 4, 2026 Matt Van Swol said the late breakdown looked “literally impossible,” asking how nearly every late California vote could go to anyone but Pratt. MAGA Voice put it more bluntly, calling the overnight mail-in gains a steal happening in front of everyone. According to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder: Statewide Direct Primary Election June 02, 2026 Election Statistics Statistic Count Total Registrations 5,891,851 Total Precincts 2,175 Voter Turnout Statistic Count Percent Voted 1,395,987 23.69% Remaining Eligible Voters 4,495,864 76.31% Ballot Distribution Statistic Count Percent Vote by Mail Ballots 1,003,097 71.86% Vote Center Ballots 392,890 28.14% Results as of 06/03/2026 16:07:14. Results are representative of Los Angeles County only. Remember to refresh this page to ensure that you have the latest results. Ballots cast in Vote by Mail precincts are counted in the first bulletin. These tallied Vote by Mail precincts are reflected in the “Precincts Reporting” figure. There are 865 Vote by Mail precincts. The voter registration figure reflects registrations 29 days before the election. Voters who registered after this date will have their vote counted. LOS ANGELES CITY PRIMARY NOMINATING ELECTION Mayor Candidate(s) Votes Percent KAREN RUTH BASS (N) 183,701 34.97% SPENCER PRATT (N) 157,116 29.91% NITHYA RAMAN (N) 119,809 22.81% ADAM MILLER (N) 20,593 3.92% RAE CHEN HUANG (N) 14,591 2.78% JUANITA LOPEZ (N) 9,424 1.79% Two facts stand out in that official text. Mail ballots make up 71.86% of everything counted so far, and turnout is still only 23.69% of registered voters. That helps explain why the late-count pattern is drawing so much attention. When mail ballots dominate the count, every new late update can swing the public readback in a big way. Eric Daugherty estimated 322,000 votes still outstanding, with Raman closing roughly 3,000 in one drop while trailing by about 37,000. Pratt is still ahead for the second runoff slot. He has not lost it, and nothing in the official county numbers says he has. What conservatives are flagging is the consistency. When the late-count movement keeps cutting the same way in the snapshots now driving the debate, people start asking the obvious question. The headline is a question for a reason. The verified math shows Raman gaining and Pratt’s cushion thinning while a large number of ballots remain uncounted. Pratt’s lead is real today. Whether it survives the rest of California’s mail count is the part everyone is now watching very closely.
Owen Gregorian74,599 просмотров • 21 дней назад
FBI arrests suspected leaker of downed fighter jet over Iran | Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square The FBI has arrested a former U.S. Special Operations Command employee for allegedly leaking the downing of the F-15e fighter jet shot down over Iran late last week, the FBI announced Wednesday. FBI Director Kash Patel described the suspected leaker as a former SOCOM employee, “who supported our top-level military warfighters, for allegedly transmitting classified information to a member of the media.” During a Monday press conference at the White House, President Donald Trump told reporters that the government was “looking very hard to find that leaker,” describing the leaker as a “sick person.” During the press conference, the president said his administration would go to the unnamed media company that broke the story, pressuring them to disclose the source of the leak, threatening jail time and citing national security. For over two days, the administration and the Pentagon refused to confirm the crash and the subsequent report of the missing pilot, despite multiple media reports. Trump claimed the leak placed the pilot and military rescuers at risk. “There's some things you can't do, because when they did that, all of a sudden, the entire country of Iran knew that there was a pilot that was somewhere on their land that was fighting for his life, and it also made it much more difficult for the pilots and for the people going in to search for him,” said the president. “All of a sudden, they know that there's somebody out there. They see all these planes coming in. It became a much more difficult operation because a leaker leaked that we have one. We've rescued one, but there's another one out there that we're trying to get.” Trump argued the leak led to Iran putting out a notice, “offering a very big award” to anyone who captured the downed pilot. “So in addition to a hostile, very talented, very good, very evil military, we had millions of people trying to get an award,” the president added. Despite the leak, the back seat weapons systems officer, a colonel, was rescued Sunday after a harrowing rescue operation, which included hundreds of military personnel, military aircraft, including some that took enemy fire. The front-seat pilot of the downed jet was rescued shortly after it was shot down over enemy territory in southwestern Iran. While SOCOM is headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., Patel thanked the Charlotte, N.C., field office for assisting in the investigation and warned future leakers. “Let this serve as a message to any would-be leakers: we’re working these cases, and we’re making arrests. This FBI will not tolerate those who seek to betray our country and put Americans in harm’s way,” Patel posted on X.
Owen Gregorian205,218 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
WATCH: Bernie Sanders Erupts After RFK Jr. Accuses Him Of Corruption | The Daily Wire Sanders grilled Kennedy earlier in the week on a different committee. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) erupted during a heated exchange with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the U.S. Senate on Thursday after RFK accused him of being corrupt. ... “If we want to make America healthy, will you assure the American people that you will fight to do what every other major country on earth does—guarantee healthcare to every single American?” Sanders asked. “I’m going to make America healthier than any other country in the world right now,” Kennedy responded. “Will you guarantee to do what every other major country is?” Sanders interrupted him. “It’s a simple question, Bobby.” Kennedy fired back: “The problem of corruption is not just in the federal agencies, it’s in Congress, too. Almost all the members of this panel are accepting, including yourself, millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry to protect their interests.” “Oh no, no, no! No, no, no,” Sanders responded. “I ran for president like you. I got millions and millions of contributions. They did not come from the executives. Not one nickel of PAC money from the pharmaceutical industry. They came from workers.” “In 2020, you were the single largest recipient of pharmaceutical dollars,” Kennedy responded. Read more:
Owen Gregorian1,049,399 просмотров • 1 год назад
Bill Gates Calls for ‘Anti-Vaxxers’ to Be Censored by AI: Questioning ‘Vaccines’ Is ‘Inciting Violence’ | Frank Bergman, Slay News Billionaire Bill Gates is calling for members of the general public to be censored by artificial intelligence (AI) if they question the official narratives regarding “vaccines.” Gates, the Jeffrey Epstein-linked co-founder of Microsoft, made the call during a recent interview with CNBC. He was discussing the “threat” of “anti-vaxxers” and promoting plans for handling “vaccine hesitancy” using “real-time” censorship imposed by AI. Gates argues that those who urge people to avoid vaccines are “inciting violence.” Therefore, he insists that “anti-vaxxers” are a “threat” to public health. In response, Gates proposes a totalitarian approach, calling for speech “boundaries.” He claims that AI-powered computer systems can weed out and eliminate “vaccine misinformation” in real time. Gates runs multiple organizations that are heavily invested in vaccines. He has become one of the most prominent advocates for mass-injecting the public, from the traditional antigen-based biologics to the experimental mRNA “vaccines.” Gates is still pushing for Covid mRNA shots, despite the “vaccines” being linked to excess mortality worldwide. Gates recently announced plans to turn all vaccines into mRNA. ... Now the prominent philanthropist wants to use artificial intelligence (AI) for real-time censorship of vaccine-related “misinformation.” Conveniently, much of the so-called “misinformation” he wants to target is related to information that counters his plans. His comments during the recent CNBC interview have sparked a heated debate about free speech rights, mind control, and the rewriting of history by the elite. Gates, who is deeply and psychotically invested in vaccines through the Gates Foundation, GAVI, and the World Health Organization (WHO), has increasingly focused on combating vaccine “misinformation.” However, this form of censorship is really just the suppression of vaccine injury testimonials and the abolition of informed consent. In his latest interview, he expressed a desire to impose “boundaries” on speech, particularly relating to vaccines. Gates argued that free speech incites violence or deters individuals from getting vaccinated. Read more:
Owen Gregorian1,083,273 просмотров • 1 год назад
'Hypnotized by ... state-run media': Charlie Sheen reveals to Megyn Kelly his political shift after doing his own research | Cooper Williamson, Blaze Media Charlie Sheen chose to 'change the channel' and quickly abandoned the left. Charlie Sheen, who has historically been known for having more than a mild case of Trump derangement syndrome, recently opened up about changing his political views after taking a long look at the media he consumed. The famous actor joined Megyn Kelly in an interview published last Friday to discuss his turn away from the left and his embrace of the right. Kelly asked Sheen if he was getting more comfortable with expressing his political views, to which he replied: "I had to feel something different. Because I think we all, or a lot of us, remain beholden to the structure of the house that we were raised in with politics, with religion, with the arts, with culture." To a round of applause from the audience, Sheen then explained his shift in political views: "And I thought, 'All right, I'm going to conduct an experiment.' Literally, I'm going to change the channel. I'm going to do my own research like I've done with everything my entire life. I'm going to listen to other voices." Sheen continued: "I'm going to explore just hearing both sides of the goddamn story." During this process, Charlie Sheen realized the problem with the media he was consuming: "What I was so hypnotized by, in some ways, can be described as state-run media. I'm sorry, but it can. Legacy media is very much like that." After months of listening to alternative voices outside legacy media and doing his own research, Sheen had to admit that he had been stuck in an echo chamber. Then came his moment of realization: "I felt really stupid. Just some of the stuff I'd bought into and some of the stuff I was worshipping and some of the people I was hating because I was told I was supposed to hate them." Though Sheen voted for Kamala Harris in 2024, he said it was a vote he wishes he could "have back" following his shift to the right.
Owen Gregorian330,711 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
This guy has made it his life's mission to expose and mock AI. The results are amazing. | Neo Anderson, Not the Bee When the Terminators run the show after Skynet (OpenAI) has taken over, this guy Husk is going to be first on their kill list. The dude has a hilarious Instagram account and his whole schtick is just mocking ChatGPT, and other AI apps on occasion, to expose the lies that AI will always tell you. I've curated some of his best bits and, yes, this is really what AI is like in 2026. It just straight up lies. The customer is always right. Even when they're wrong. Unless he's telling the AI that the AI is wrong... This one killed me: Husk: So I just said that in Spanish? ChatGPT: You did! And one last one, my favorite: AI will lie about everything ... but it draws the line at embarrassing itself. Just your reminder that blindly trusting this technology in 2026 might not be the best idea.
Owen Gregorian114,598 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
![Sara Carter reveals the exact moment she knew the FBI was spying on then-President-elect Trump | Taylor Penley, Fox News Sara Carter still recalls the moment crucial details behind the Trump-Russia collusion narrative first began to unravel. "I didn’t want to believe what I was seeing," she said in a "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" exclusive. At the time, Carter was working closely with investigative reporter John Solomon when information from sources began pointing toward possible surveillance of then-President-elect Donald Trump. "I went into John’s office and I said, ‘John, I need to talk to you. I believe that there are people in the FBI spying on President-elect Trump — the duly elected president of the United States,’" she recalled. Solomon, initially in disbelief, sought more details, which prompted him to call his sources. "[He] comes back [and says], 'I’m not too sure.' Then, we start working together on this because we’re not going to let it go." Then something changed. Somewhere along the way, Solomon was approached by unidentified government officials in 2017 who told him he was uncovering what he now alleges is an 11-year conspiracy to undermine Trump. He recalled the mysterious moment on the same podcast in April. "We want to tell you that you’re at the tip of a very large iceberg and you need to keep drilling down," he said at the time, recalling the officials’ warning. Solomon said the encounter happened shortly after he appeared on Hannity’s television show, where he had been discussing what he described as a sharp rise in the unmasking of Americans’ communications. He had just pulled into his driveway when he saw a government vehicle with its flashers on parked in front of his mailbox. Two men got out of the car, leading him to initially fear he was about to be arrested, only to discover the pair had an important message to relay. "Well, that thing you were talking about tonight on television... it’s far deeper," Solomon recalled one of the men telling him. "And [the man] said, 'There is an incredible political dirty trick that's being carried out using the most awesome powers of the intelligence community.'" According to Solomon, two mystery men urged him to "keep looking." Carter referenced the incident during her own discussion with Hannity, saying that, with help from sources, eventually exposed some crucial details. "I had my sources together, [and] together, we were able to unravel the beginnings of what was to be the most important story in American history," she said.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2059600600870842722/amplify_video_thumb/2059600534768656387/img/Wx1GThJ5LMaQVy1N.jpg)
Sara Carter reveals the exact moment she knew the FBI was spying on then-President-elect Trump | Taylor Penley, Fox News Sara Carter still recalls the moment crucial details behind the Trump-Russia collusion narrative first began to unravel. "I didn’t want to believe what I was seeing," she said in a "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" exclusive. At the time, Carter was working closely with investigative reporter John Solomon when information from sources began pointing toward possible surveillance of then-President-elect Donald Trump. "I went into John’s office and I said, ‘John, I need to talk to you. I believe that there are people in the FBI spying on President-elect Trump — the duly elected president of the United States,’" she recalled. Solomon, initially in disbelief, sought more details, which prompted him to call his sources. "[He] comes back [and says], 'I’m not too sure.' Then, we start working together on this because we’re not going to let it go." Then something changed. Somewhere along the way, Solomon was approached by unidentified government officials in 2017 who told him he was uncovering what he now alleges is an 11-year conspiracy to undermine Trump. He recalled the mysterious moment on the same podcast in April. "We want to tell you that you’re at the tip of a very large iceberg and you need to keep drilling down," he said at the time, recalling the officials’ warning. Solomon said the encounter happened shortly after he appeared on Hannity’s television show, where he had been discussing what he described as a sharp rise in the unmasking of Americans’ communications. He had just pulled into his driveway when he saw a government vehicle with its flashers on parked in front of his mailbox. Two men got out of the car, leading him to initially fear he was about to be arrested, only to discover the pair had an important message to relay. "Well, that thing you were talking about tonight on television... it’s far deeper," Solomon recalled one of the men telling him. "And [the man] said, 'There is an incredible political dirty trick that's being carried out using the most awesome powers of the intelligence community.'" According to Solomon, two mystery men urged him to "keep looking." Carter referenced the incident during her own discussion with Hannity, saying that, with help from sources, eventually exposed some crucial details. "I had my sources together, [and] together, we were able to unravel the beginnings of what was to be the most important story in American history," she said.
Owen Gregorian45,048 просмотров • 29 дней назад
Seattle AI founder looks to leave as taxes rise, ‘Everybody that I know… is in the process of leaving’ | Rachel del Guidice, Fox News A Seattle AI startup founder says he’s preparing to leave the city as taxes rise, warning that many entrepreneurs are already heading for the exits. "We're out looking for an alternative," Jesse Proudman, president and CTO of a privacy-focused unrestricted generative AI platform, told Fox News Digital in an interview Friday. "So we were looking in Nevada, we're looking in Texas and Austin, we're looking at Nashville and Florida," Proudman said. "And these are climates where the business community is vibrant. They're climates where the government is encouraging entrepreneurship, where they're welcoming people, and they're not villainizing those who have built something." Proudman said he has been in Washington state for 28 years, and that is his third startup. He started his first company when he was 13. "Seattle used to be a place where you were excited to build something, where it was celebrated, where you could imagine creating something from nothing and that you could manifest that," Proudman said. "And for many years, for probably 20 years, that was the culture here," he added. "We had a vibrant startup community. We had a very supportive startup community. And the ecosystem worked. It helped build the companies. And then, for whatever reason, sort of over the last four or five years, we've seen this shift where entrepreneurship is now villainized. And it's an unfortunate and sad shift in what otherwise has been a phenomenal place to run businesses." In March, Washington state Democrats passed the "millionaires tax," which Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson signed on March 30. It's the state's first-ever income tax, pushed by progressives and socialists and opposed by conservatives. The Wall Street Journal editorial board called the new tax a "con" after its passage that will "inevitably capture the middle class." Proudman told Fox News Digital that he has similar concerns. "They're beginning with millionaires because that's an easier place to sell it. It's obvious that they intend to apply this to everybody," he said. Proudman said that his concern is that Washington state Sen. Jamie Pedersen, who sponsored the millionaires tax, intends to extend the tax beyond millionaires. "He said he intends to apply it to everybody and, quite frankly, its implication is that Washington will become the highest tax state in the country," Proudman said of Pedersen. "It doesn't make sense to continue to live here if you have mobility." During a recent event at Seattle University, Mayor Katie Wilson, a self-described democratic socialist, laughed and appeared to dismiss the possibility that millionaires would leave the state. "I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown. And if — the ones that leave, like, bye," Wilson said. Proudman sees a more stark situation. "The reality is everybody that I know that has means to leave has either left or is in the process of leaving," he said. "They've listed their homes, they're shopping elsewhere," Proudman continued. "And again, it's like, you don't want to be where you're not part of the community, where it doesn't feel like you're welcome. And so the mayor, whose job it is, is to build a vibrant city, is telling the people who have built companies here, who have created jobs in this city and this state that they're not wanted here." "It's the same thing that happened in California with Elon Musk," he added. "Again, he went to Texas. Like, you're not wanted, you'll move to a climate where you are." According to the Tax Foundation, the city of Seattle has the highest combined state and local sales tax rate, at 10.35%.
Owen Gregorian74,714 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
Pilot reports ‘silver canister’ UFO feet from his plane during ‘creepy’ air traffic control call: ‘Good luck with the aliens’ | Anthony Blair, New York Post “Good luck with the aliens!” an Air Traffic Controller said. A recording of the “creepy” moment a pilot was told “good luck with the aliens” after reporting a UFO sighting to air traffic control has resurfaced following the bizarre incident over the skies of Rhode Island. Newly resurfaced video of the live ATC broadcast captures the moment the pilot told the ground team, “It appears to be standing still,” as the mysterious object, which he compared to a silver canister, floated beside him. “Looks like a strange, small object that we just floated by. A small silver canister. Do you know what that could be?” the pilot told ATC in the recording, shared on YouTube in October by the VASAviation channel, which regularly posts ATC frequency conversations. After ATC confirmed that they did not know what the object was and asked for further details, the pilot responded that the UFO was just feet from their plane in midair. “Appears to be standing still and I’m at 3,500 feet. It was right off our wingtip. Small silver canister,” said the pilot, flying a Piper PA-32RT-300T Turbo Lance II, which seats up to five passengers. He added that the “astonishing” object did not appear to be attached to anything, but was just “hovering” in midair, in response to a further question about whether it was a drone or a balloon. “Creepy!” the ground team responded in the short clip, before another ATC operative adds, “Good luck with the aliens!” It is believed that the incident over Rhode Island occurred around the same time as the video’s posting on Oct. 27. The clip has since been shared on social media and went viral. The FAA did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
Owen Gregorian226,811 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
![Joe Rogan flips the God debate on its head with shocking theory that 'we created him' | Chris Melore, Daily Mail Joe Rogan has come to a mind-bending conclusion about life, fearing that humanity has misinterpreted what reality is and we're actually in the process of creating God. While interviewing computer scientist Roman Yampolskiy on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the men debated the possibility that reality is a giant simulation and humans are building a God-like supercomputer using artificial intelligence (AI). According to Rogan's theory, humanity has misinterpreted ancient prophecies regarding the second coming of Jesus Christ and Judgement Day, saying the creation of this AI super intelligence is the final chapter before our reality resets. 'This whole idea of Jesus coming back, well maybe it's real. Maybe we just completely misinterpreted these ancient scrolls and texts and what it really means is that we are going to give birth to this,' Rogan explained. Yampolskiy, an author and researcher in AI safety, added to Rogan's theory, suggesting that reality is just an ongoing cycle of Big Bangs - the explosion that kickstarted the universe - starting and restarting life over and over again. During the episode released on July 3, Rogan added that he feared God 'is actually created by human beings creating this infinitely intelligent thing that can essentially harness all of the available energy and power of the universe and create anything it wants.' Yampolskiy even contended that many of the religions around the world have one thing in common: 'What they all agree on is that there is [a] super intelligence which created a fake world.' In previous podcasts episodes this year, Rogan has repeatedly warned that AI was just years away from reaching a God-like state as more tech companies pour resources into its development. Rogan asked Yampolskiy if the physical world we see was created by God, then what existed before this all-powerful being created the human race. 'Ideas, just information,' the computer scientist replied during the podcast. 'Just God. God was bored And it was like, let's make some animals that can think and solve problems. And for what reason?' Rogan countered. That's when the podcast host theorized life was an ongoing simulation and people had the idea of God's return to Earth backwards, claiming that people would summon this powerful intelligence themselves through the creation of AI. The theory that all life exists within a computer simulation has been debated for decades, and it's even been entertained in blockbuster movies like 'The Matrix.' While Rogan suggested that deepfakes of Bigfoot, UFOs, and other impossible images could be proof we're living in a virtual reality, scientists have argued that there is more basic evidence that this world is not real. Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, has argued that gravity may be a sign that we're all living in a virtual simulation. According to Vopson's new paper in AIP Advances, our universe is the 'ultimate computer' and gravity's pull on Earth and in outer space is the computer trying to keep its vast amount of data organized. As for who's running the simulation, Yampolskiy explained that one possibility is life as we know it could simply be a replay of past events being examined by the future human race. Rogan then asked Yampolskiy why an all-powerful AI would even bother creating a reality for our consciousnesses to exist in. Yampolskiy explained that it's impossible to know who is controlling this program, whether it's an alien intelligence, humans from the future, or an AI super intelligence has already been built and is running these simulations by itself. Therefore, it's also impossible to know why people would be needed in the virtual world, adding that he and Rogan could have had the same interview thousands of times and never knew it was happening. 'Is it entertainment? Is it scientific experimentation? Is it marketing? Maybe somebody managed to control them and [are] trying to figure out what Starbucks coffee sells best. And they need to run [an] earth-sized simulation to see what sells best,' Yampolskiy explained. 'Think about this decade... We're about to invent intelligence and virtual worlds, God-like inventions. We're here. There's a good chance that's not just random,' the AI researcher added, suggesting we're already stuck in a computer simulation. In any scenario, Rogan theorized that the end of the simulation was nearing as tech giants get closer to creating the all-knowing intelligence which has been foretold in many prophecies. Read more:](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1942895141812912401/amplify_video_thumb/1942895087735726080/img/iogsKc7QdjSykgtT.jpg)
Joe Rogan flips the God debate on its head with shocking theory that 'we created him' | Chris Melore, Daily Mail Joe Rogan has come to a mind-bending conclusion about life, fearing that humanity has misinterpreted what reality is and we're actually in the process of creating God. While interviewing computer scientist Roman Yampolskiy on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the men debated the possibility that reality is a giant simulation and humans are building a God-like supercomputer using artificial intelligence (AI). According to Rogan's theory, humanity has misinterpreted ancient prophecies regarding the second coming of Jesus Christ and Judgement Day, saying the creation of this AI super intelligence is the final chapter before our reality resets. 'This whole idea of Jesus coming back, well maybe it's real. Maybe we just completely misinterpreted these ancient scrolls and texts and what it really means is that we are going to give birth to this,' Rogan explained. Yampolskiy, an author and researcher in AI safety, added to Rogan's theory, suggesting that reality is just an ongoing cycle of Big Bangs - the explosion that kickstarted the universe - starting and restarting life over and over again. During the episode released on July 3, Rogan added that he feared God 'is actually created by human beings creating this infinitely intelligent thing that can essentially harness all of the available energy and power of the universe and create anything it wants.' Yampolskiy even contended that many of the religions around the world have one thing in common: 'What they all agree on is that there is [a] super intelligence which created a fake world.' In previous podcasts episodes this year, Rogan has repeatedly warned that AI was just years away from reaching a God-like state as more tech companies pour resources into its development. Rogan asked Yampolskiy if the physical world we see was created by God, then what existed before this all-powerful being created the human race. 'Ideas, just information,' the computer scientist replied during the podcast. 'Just God. God was bored And it was like, let's make some animals that can think and solve problems. And for what reason?' Rogan countered. That's when the podcast host theorized life was an ongoing simulation and people had the idea of God's return to Earth backwards, claiming that people would summon this powerful intelligence themselves through the creation of AI. The theory that all life exists within a computer simulation has been debated for decades, and it's even been entertained in blockbuster movies like 'The Matrix.' While Rogan suggested that deepfakes of Bigfoot, UFOs, and other impossible images could be proof we're living in a virtual reality, scientists have argued that there is more basic evidence that this world is not real. Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, has argued that gravity may be a sign that we're all living in a virtual simulation. According to Vopson's new paper in AIP Advances, our universe is the 'ultimate computer' and gravity's pull on Earth and in outer space is the computer trying to keep its vast amount of data organized. As for who's running the simulation, Yampolskiy explained that one possibility is life as we know it could simply be a replay of past events being examined by the future human race. Rogan then asked Yampolskiy why an all-powerful AI would even bother creating a reality for our consciousnesses to exist in. Yampolskiy explained that it's impossible to know who is controlling this program, whether it's an alien intelligence, humans from the future, or an AI super intelligence has already been built and is running these simulations by itself. Therefore, it's also impossible to know why people would be needed in the virtual world, adding that he and Rogan could have had the same interview thousands of times and never knew it was happening. 'Is it entertainment? Is it scientific experimentation? Is it marketing? Maybe somebody managed to control them and [are] trying to figure out what Starbucks coffee sells best. And they need to run [an] earth-sized simulation to see what sells best,' Yampolskiy explained. 'Think about this decade... We're about to invent intelligence and virtual worlds, God-like inventions. We're here. There's a good chance that's not just random,' the AI researcher added, suggesting we're already stuck in a computer simulation. In any scenario, Rogan theorized that the end of the simulation was nearing as tech giants get closer to creating the all-knowing intelligence which has been foretold in many prophecies. Read more:
Owen Gregorian392,535 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад
GENIUS: Vermont Spent Millions on Electric Buses That Turned Out to be 'Unreliable' in Cold Weather | Mike LaChance, The Gateway Pundit Behold the genius of liberalism. Like so many blue states, Vermont decided to ‘go green’ and spent millions on electric buses. There’s just one little problem. It turns out that they’re not reliable in cold weather. It’s a good thing they never get cold weather in Vermont, right? Except for maybe just six months out of the year, of course. The Vermont Daily Chronicle reports: Vermont EV buses prove unreliable for transportation this winter Electric buses are proving unreliable this winter for Vermont’s Green Mountain Transit, as it needs to be over 41 degrees for the buses to charge, but due to a battery recall the buses are a fire hazard and can’t be charged in a garage. Spokesman for energy workers advocacy group Power the Future Larry Behrens told the Center Square: “Taxpayers were sold an $8 million ‘solution’ that can’t operate in cold weather when the home for these buses is in New England.” “We’re beyond the point where this looks like incompetence and starts to smell like fraud,” Behrens said. “When government rushes money out the door to satisfy green mandates, basic questions about performance, safety, and value for taxpayers are always pushed aside,” Behrens said. “Americans deserve to know who approved this purchase and why the red flags were ignored.” General manager at Green Mountain Transit (GMT) Clayton Clark told The Center Square that “the federal government provides public transit agencies with new buses through a competitive grant application process, and success is not a given.” ... Who could have predicted that this would not end well? Besides everyone. ... Sure, the buses don’t work and millions of taxpayer dollars were wasted, but the important thing is that progressives felt better about themselves for a little while. That’s what’s really important here, isn’t it?
Owen Gregorian130,458 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
Fort Bragg Psychological Warfare Group Posts Chilling Video. ‘We Are Everywhere’ | Mark Price, Military .com A secretive Fort Bragg operation that specializes in influencing people’s thoughts has released a hypnotic recruitment video that is laced with hidden meanings and strange images. Known as the 4th Psychological Operations-Airborne, or 4th PSYOP, the group specializes in “using the power of the mind to persuade opinion and discourse” among the nation’s enemies. The 1:17-second clip, posted Nov. 19 on social media, is a string of baffling clips, including old cartoons, masked figures hiding in plain sight and a group of people staring blankly at the viewer over the phrase: “We are everywhere.” “There is another force applied in combat that we generally don’t think of as a weapon of war. That weapon is words,” the video says. “Words are weapons... This is psychological warfare.” The video then beckons: “Join PSYOP.” As of Nov. 26, the video has racked up more than 15,000 views on Facebook and hundreds of comments and reactions, many noting it “goes hard” with subliminal messages. Among the surprises found, references to conspiracy theories, the “Ghost Army” that deceived the Nazi generals in WWII and the popular Pepe the Frog GIF shows up in a clown suit. At one point, the phrase “anything we touch is a weapon” flashes and fades. “Watch it over and over again. Great little nuggets of information for us,” Nidia Law posted on Facebook. “A lot of crumb drops in this one,” TheJason wrote on Instagram. “I think y’all have so much fun at work! Would love to be on the other side of this ‘fog show’,” Leigh Eschew said on Instagram. The U.S. Army noted in a 2024 article that the ideal candidate for psychological operations is “very cerebral and analytical,” which means different types of recruitment methods are required. The group’s recruitment videos are infrequent and tend to cause a stir due to the unusual content. “The art of PSYOP relies on persuasion rather than physical force. The tools of the trade are logic, fear, desire and other mental factors used to evoke specific emotions, attitudes and behaviors,” according to a U.S. Army report. “The ultimate objective is to persuade enemy, neutral and friendly nations and forces to take favorable actions toward the U.S. and its allies.” The 4th PSYOP is often referred to as “the ghost in the machine,” because its operations are seldom publicized. It is based out of Fort Bragg – one of the largest military complexes in the world – and home of the 82nd Airborne and U.S. Army Special Operations Command. The fort covers about 251-square miles is about a 65-mile drive south from downtown Raleigh. “PSYOP soldiers help ensure decision-makers, partners, and populations receive the right message at the right time. Quiet professionals. Global impact,” the 1st Special Forces Command-Airborne wrote in a post that shared the recruitment video.
Owen Gregorian188,329 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
The age of the Democratic Party blocking fringe outsiders is officially over | David Marcus, Fox News There were two events on Tuesday that offered more proof of a national Democratic Party establishment that has lost control: One was a meeting, one an election, and both are harbingers of real danger on the American left. The meeting took place in Washington, D.C., between presumptive Maine Democratic Senate nominee, the Nazi tattoed, serial sexter Graham Platner and members of his party in that body. Some, mostly through wishcasting, thought this would be the end of the alleged oysters farmer’s run. Instead, it was a coronation, as was predicted in this column last week. A decade ago, one phone call from a party leader could have ended Platner’s run, but those days are gone. Today, the Democratic Socialists of America will no longer allow it. Here is what brave Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had to say about the scandal-ridden candidate: "I met with Graham Platner today. We’re going to beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate." No, if, ands, or buts. This was echoed by almost every smiling Democrat leaving the meeting. There will be no last-minute coup to oust the socialist. Instead, the party is pretending to be one big happy family. That, as they say, is that, and the reason for it is clear. Schumer and grand poobahs of the party simply no longer have any leverage over the socialist candidates storming their keep. Platner doesn’t need establishment endorsements. He has Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and commie podcaster Hasan Pike. He doesn’t need establishment money, as there are progressive billionaires more than happy to donate. Even the left-leaning media, always in lockstep with the establishment, have little influence over voters these days. As in Maine, in New Jersey’s 12th congressional district, the Democratic Party elites were unable to fend off the radical Muslim (and socialist) candidate Adam Hamawy, who not only testified on behalf of the terrorist behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, but also volunteered for an Al Qaeda-linked group in Eastern Europe. At best here, the Democratic primary voters in the Garden State are trying to send a terrorist sympathizer to the halls of Congress. At worst, he is just a flat-out terrorist. At his point, Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., who has been sounding the alarm about the craziness overtaking his party, isn’t just on an island. He’s on a whole different planet. Put bluntly, the far-left socialist extremists, with their Nazi and radical Islamic ties, are outflanking, often outspending, and absolutely outperforming the terrified geriatric leadership of the party. It’s become such a party of lunatics that, among the only partial wins the establishment notched Tuesday, in the primary to replace former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in California’s 11th district, was a weak first place finish for Scott Wiener, himself a leftist lunatic, now headed to a runoff. Wiener thinks that putting people on sex offender lists after sexual crimes is somehow anti-gay and would trans your toddler at the drop of a hat. But among his opponents was the former chief of staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Democratic Socialists of America star Saikat Chakrabarti, who finished in third, failing to make the runoff. Even this seeming victory is hollow, though. Pelosi endorsed Wiener just two years after she wielded the power to tell then-President Joe Biden that his career was over. Today, she can’t get the candidate she endorsed in her own district over 50%. This realignment of Democratic Party power, away from the old-school, Ivy League establishment, into the hands of the socialists, the radical Muslims and the guys with Nazi tats, will have profound implications for the 2028 presidential race. In the last two competitive Democratic Party primary cycles, 2016 and 2020, Bernie Sanders was iced out by party leadership. Remember how, in 2020, after Biden’s surprise win in South Carolina, all the non-socialist candidates suddenly dropped out? That is how it used to work. A decade ago, the Republican Party was overtaken by Donald Trump, and the GOP establishment was left like Wile E. Coyote frantically running in the air, unaware it was already over the cliff. But Trump was part of something much bigger. In fact, he had been a member of the Reform Party, founded by H. Ross Perot in his historic 1992 third-party run and later championed by Pat Buchanan. This was a long-running populist ascendency. Today, it is the Democratic Party establishment losing touch and losing power, seeing their neoliberalism fade next to leftist populism, a populism of wealth redistribution, antisemitism and, to quote Trump, "Trans for everybody." Biden was fond of saying that today’s GOP is not "the Republican Party of your grandfather." Well, I have some news for you, Grandpa Joe: The socialist Democratic Party you left behind and the socialist barbarians you have left at the gates, don’t look a whole lot like the party that made Bill Clinton president, either. And likely, it never will again.
Owen Gregorian22,921 просмотров • 21 дней назад
Blue state residents 'fleeing in droves' after ‘insane’ progressive takeover, says top state attorney | Peter Pinedo, Fox News A top state attorney in Democrat-controlled Maryland says he has had enough and is throwing in the towel after saying the Old Line State has suffered an "insane" "ultra-progressive" takeover. In an interview with Fox News Digital, Haven Shoemaker, state attorney for Maryland’s Carroll County, said that after decades in public service, he is "sick to death" of the policies that "emanate" from the state capital in Annapolis. He said he is especially disgusted with Maryland’s "sanctuary" policies and the high taxes he said are being levied in part to pay for more services for illegal immigrants. "Maryland has become California on the Chesapeake," said Shoemaker. "It only gets worse. It's not getting better. And at some point, I just had to make a personal decision that it's time to throw in the towel and head for what I believe are greener pastures." Shoemaker is not the only one. He said that he sees Marylanders giving up on the state "all the time." "The State of Maryland has one of the worst outward migration numbers of any state in the country right now," he said. "So, I don't know who’s going to be the last to foot the bill for the profligate spending that Annapolis likes to engage in, but it's not going to be me, I can tell you that." Moore's office did not respond to Fox News Digital's questions. Fox News Digital also reached out to Maryland House Speaker Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk and Senate President Bill Ferguson for comment. Born in Baltimore in the 1960s, Shoemaker spent three decades in local and state politics before taking the job as Carroll County’s top prosecutor in 2023. His career in public service includes seven years as mayor of Hampstead, Maryland, four years as a Carroll County commissioner and nine years in the Maryland House of Delegates. He rose to the role of House Minority Whip for the Maryland Republican Party. Despite years deeply involved in state politics, Shoemaker said his decision to abandon Maryland has been a long time coming. "I've been contemplating this move for a while, but the linchpin for me was this most recent legislative session where they essentially made Maryland a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants," he told Fox News Digital. Earlier this year, the Maryland General Assembly passed an emergency measure to ban local and state law enforcement agencies from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through what is known as the 287(g) program. Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, whose name has been floated as a possible 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, signed the bill into law. While emphasizing that law enforcement would continue cooperating with ICE on deporting individuals who "pose a risk to public safety," Moore lauded the bill, saying, "We will not allow untrained, unqualified and unaccountable agents to deputize our brave local law enforcement officers," according to WYPR. While signing the measure, Moore stressed his view that "Maryland is a community of immigrants," saying, "It is not our weakness, it's our strength." Shoemaker, meanwhile, said that Maryland’s sanctuary-style policies are "just part of the problem." "In addition to that, their tax policy here is horrendous," he said. He pointed to how state leaders raised taxes in Maryland last year by $1.6 billion. The tax raise was passed by the State Assembly and approved by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore as part of a $67 billion state budget in 2025. The raise was part of a plan to address roughly a $3.3 billion budget deficit. Maryland’s budget is relatively large compared to other states, despite the state ranking 18th in population and 42nd in land size. Shoemaker said that state leaders are "already looking at a structural deficit going into next year's budget of another billion and a half or so." He asserted the "handwriting is on the wall" that "Maryland politicians are beholden to their ultra-progressive base." In the end, Shoemaker said that he has finally decided to escape to the South and head for North Carolina. "A lot of taxpayers from across the State of Maryland are fleeing in droves," he said. He added a warning to Moore and other Maryland leaders: "If you want to staunch the bleeding that's occurring, maybe you should rethink your policies."
Owen Gregorian53,716 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
![This battery is about to change the world in 3 months, or make this guy a fool | Fred Lambert, Hacker News Donut Lab lit the EV and energy storage industry on fire last week with its announcement of a 400 Wh/kg solid-state battery cell that can last for 100 years. At face value, if true, we are looking at the single most disruptive announcement in the history of the electric vehicle industry and energy storage as a whole. We aren’t just talking about a better motorcycle battery. If the claims of a 5-minute charge, 100,000-cycle life, and ~400 Wh/kg energy density are accurate and scalable, as Donut Lab claims, this is the holy grail of energy storage. Battery breakthrough announcements generally don’t catch fire like this, but Donut Lab’s did because it said that the cell was already in production and will be in a production vehicle, Verge’s electric motorcycle, this quarter. It gave credibility to the claim, pushing everyone to report on it. Now, we have interviewed Donut Lab’s CEO and investigated the technology. At this point, it looks like either this battery changes the world within the next 3 months, or it will make the CEO look like a fool. In this article, we discuss the impact of the battery, whether real or not, as well as clues about the secret sauce behind its chemistry. The Holy Grail of Energy Storage Consider the implications. A battery that lasts 100,000 cycles is effectively immortal in human terms. You could charge it every single day for 270 years, and it would still be working. It means the battery outlives the vehicle, not just once, but ten times over. It changes the economics of transportation entirely: you buy the battery once, and you swap it into your next five cars. The power density required for a 5-minute charge and the 400 Wh/kg of energy density opens the door to commercial electric aviation, a sector currently strangled by the weight and slow charging speeds of lithium-ion. It solves the grid storage problem by offering a medium that doesn’t degrade, meaning utility companies could amortize the cost over a century rather than a decade. If this is real, the internal combustion engine didn’t just die today; it was buried 100 feet deep, and every other battery is not far behind. But, and this is a massive “but”, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and Donut Lab has yet to release that proof. And that brings us to the man making them. The Man Betting His Reputation I spoke with Marko Lehtimäki, the CEO of Donut Lab and Chairman of Verge Motorcycles. My goal was simple: ask him about the chemistry behind his battery and, if that doesn’t work, look him in the eye and figure out if he’s selling vaporware or if he’s sitting on the breakthrough of the century. Marko isn’t a random guy shouting about a battery breakthrough that will change the world. He is a legit entrepreneur. A computer scientist who built a no-coding app builder years before “vibe coding” was even a thing and sold it to SAP. After the successful exit, he became an investor and serial entrepreneur with his biggest, or most well-known, company being Verge Motorcycles, which has real products on the road. By announcing that this “miracle battery” is already in production and will be shipping in customer vehicles within 10 weeks, he is betting his entire personal reputation on this technology. If he misses this timeline or if the specs are fake, Donut Labs and Verge Motorcycles might not survive the credibility loss. He has a lot to lose here. In my article about the battery announcement last week, I noted that Marko’s presentation was incredible. He basically described a perfect battery: record energy density, incredible charge rate, unprecedented longevity, no rare metals, a cost lower than traditional Li-ion cells, and in scalable production right now. Sounds too good to be true? The only thing he didn’t share was details about the chemistry, beyond saying it doesn’t use lithium or other rare metals. What’s the point of protecting the chemistry if the battery is already in production and it will be in a product shipped this quarter? If that’s true, the battery will be reverse-engineered before the snow completely melts. We discussed it with Marko during our interview. His logic is that once the bikes ship, competitors will tear them down and figure it out anyway. But that won’t happen for another 10 weeks or so, and the head start is critical for a technology this disruptive. In the meantime, Donut Lab’s goal with the announcement was to get the attention of OEMs and ship them battery packs for validation. Marko said: We are right now shipping demo packs to OEMs under NDAs and under tight disclosures so that they can test that all of that is true, which serves our business very well [better than disclosing the chemistry]. But these programs with OEMs are likely to take a long time before they become public. Shorter term, there’s Verge Motorcycles shipping bikes with the battery by the end of the quarter. Before that, Marko also said that we should soon see third-party testing of those cells: We rather right now ship it to authorized research and science center that tests everything without opening it and telling everybody what’s in there. In short, we should have a good idea whether the claims are true or not in just a few weeks no matter what. What does Marko, or Donut Lab, have to gain by lying about this? I also discussed this with Marko and the only thing I could come up with is if he happens to be raising capital right now, but he shut that down: There are a million investors chasing us right now, but we are literally not talking to anybody. We tell investors that we can discuss terms after we have done all our disclosures. Marko insisted that Donut Lab is not taking any investment until they have proven their cells work. In short, it’s hard to find an upside for Donut Lab in making this announcement if the claims are not true. It doesn’t mean that they are, but it makes you think. The Investigation: What Is the “Donut Battery”? So, what is the secret sauce? Marko wouldn’t say, but after digging into public records, supply chains, and research papers, I believe we have a pretty good idea. Let me preface this by saying that I’m not a chemist or physicist, but I’ve been a journalist covering electric vehicles for more than a decade, and I’m pretty good at connecting the dots, and in this case, I’ve had the help of a couple of great sources, too. I’m not saying that this is the Donut Lab battery, but since they are not sharing much, we have to speculate, and all evidence points to a Finnish nanotechnology startup called Nordic Nano and its Chief Scientist, Dr. Bela Bhuskute. Donut Lab invested in Nordic Nano in October 2025, just months before this announcement. At the time of writing this, the press release has fewer than 200 views. The announcement went under the radar, and while Marko said that Nordic Nano is more of a “solar company” during our interview, the announcement mentions both solar and energy storage. Dr. Bhuskute’s research at Tampere University focuses on amorphous Titanium Dioxide nanostructures, which could benefit many different technologies, including batteries. It fits the “miracle” specs perfectly: - 100,000 Cycles: Traditional solid-state batteries are crystalline (like a brick wall) and crack when ions rush in. Dr. Bhuskute’s amorphous Titanium Dioxide is disordered (like a sponge) and “breathes,” allowing it to expand and contract without breaking. - 5-Minute Charge: This chemistry stores energy via “pseudocapacitance,” which is basically like Velcro. Ions stick to the surface almost instantly rather than having to burrow deep inside the material. - The Manufacturing: Nordic Nano uses a “nanofluid” printing process for its solar product using the technology. This aligns with Donut Lab’s description of a “clay-like” material that enables an easier manufacturing process. Some call this “battery printing”, which could explain Donut Lab’s ability to bring this to production in record time. When I asked Marko for the volumetric energy density (Wh/L), he claimed he “couldn’t remember”. Volumetric energy density is one of the few specs that Donut Lab hasn’t released. This battery is lighter than lithium-ion, but it could be bigger due to the amorphous nature of the titanium dioxide. However, the CEO claimed it has a higher volumetric density than traditional Li-ion batteries, without providing a specific number. If that’s true, not only could electric vehicles and energy storage switch to this new chemistry, but even personal electronics, such as smartphones. In 2025, Nordic Nano has been making moves, including securing a former large retail location in Imatra, Finland, near the Russian border: It could be where the company has set up production. Following investment from the Finnish government, Nordic Nano had to elaborate a bit on its products and confirmed that it is working on “solar energy systems and energy storage solutions”: The company’s range of products includes two product families: solar energy systems and energy storage solutions: The ultra-thin and flexible solar film collects twice the amount of energy compared to traditional silicon-based solar panels. Solid-state salt batteries are manufactured by printing from nanofluid, which enables the efficient use of space and the production of batteries in varying shapes. Furthermore, the company confirmed that it is using a “screenprinting” manufacturing method. This is not new. Other companies have produced battery cells with this technology with varying degrees of success. It appears that the bet is that the amorphous rather than crystalized titanium dioxide nanostructure could be more easily adapted and scaled with this manufacturing technology. Electrek’s Take I’m naturally skeptical, and this screams “too good to be true”, but I can’t find anything that categorically rejects the claims. I get battery breakthrough announcements in my inbox every week, and most of the time they never amount to anything. If I decide to spend some time researching them and talking to experts, I generally quickly hit a problem or two that make them commercially unviable. This announcement is different. We can’t really investigate the actual breakthrough; we can only speculate about it, since it is guarded. Marko’s logic for guarding the chemistry is sound, and the incentives to lie about what they have aren’t clear if he is not currently raising money. Then, because they claim this is already in production and will be in a deliverable product within weeks, we will know whether the claims are true in short order, and their reputations, especially Marko’s, are on the line. During my interview, Marko didn’t seem too worried about it. It doesn’t sound like someone who needs to quickly figure out how to deliver this, but rather someone who has a couple of aces in their hand and is looking to maximize them. It’s also strange that this innovation and then production quickly comes from a relatively small company. I thought researching Donut Lab would make me more skeptical about the claims, but it’s the contrary. It confirms that their technology stems from years of research, backed by university and government funding for its commercialization. Could it be that this critical research went under the radar and a small electric motorcycle startup in need of a significant bump in energy density stumbled upon it? Then, a savvy entrepreneur quickly found a way to optimize the impact of this potentially groundbreaking tech by spinning out a startup from the motorcycle company to market the battery to a broader market. Maybe? This could be real, or it could be hype. Again, I’m still skeptical, but I can’t point to anything specific that would disprove any claim made about this miracle battery. Again, if this is true, we are talking about a complete reset of the entire energy and transportation sectors. Donut Lab would become one of the biggest companies in the world. A Nobel Prize would be coming to Dr. Bhuskute and her colleagues in the near future. If it’s not, Marko and Donut Lab’s reputation would be destroyed. There might also be a middle conclusion where the battery is nearly as good as they claim, but when you ramp up production, other problems arise, such as scrap, which has been the undoing of another company that recently tried screenprinting batteries. Who knows? But it sounds like we should find out soon. Within weeks, we should get independent verifications of the specs. Then the bikes get delivered within months. You can fake a presentation, but there are things you can’t fake.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2012141965471522941/amplify_video_thumb/2012141829290905600/img/DKuKZ0Te4x4eMdfe.jpg)
This battery is about to change the world in 3 months, or make this guy a fool | Fred Lambert, Hacker News Donut Lab lit the EV and energy storage industry on fire last week with its announcement of a 400 Wh/kg solid-state battery cell that can last for 100 years. At face value, if true, we are looking at the single most disruptive announcement in the history of the electric vehicle industry and energy storage as a whole. We aren’t just talking about a better motorcycle battery. If the claims of a 5-minute charge, 100,000-cycle life, and ~400 Wh/kg energy density are accurate and scalable, as Donut Lab claims, this is the holy grail of energy storage. Battery breakthrough announcements generally don’t catch fire like this, but Donut Lab’s did because it said that the cell was already in production and will be in a production vehicle, Verge’s electric motorcycle, this quarter. It gave credibility to the claim, pushing everyone to report on it. Now, we have interviewed Donut Lab’s CEO and investigated the technology. At this point, it looks like either this battery changes the world within the next 3 months, or it will make the CEO look like a fool. In this article, we discuss the impact of the battery, whether real or not, as well as clues about the secret sauce behind its chemistry. The Holy Grail of Energy Storage Consider the implications. A battery that lasts 100,000 cycles is effectively immortal in human terms. You could charge it every single day for 270 years, and it would still be working. It means the battery outlives the vehicle, not just once, but ten times over. It changes the economics of transportation entirely: you buy the battery once, and you swap it into your next five cars. The power density required for a 5-minute charge and the 400 Wh/kg of energy density opens the door to commercial electric aviation, a sector currently strangled by the weight and slow charging speeds of lithium-ion. It solves the grid storage problem by offering a medium that doesn’t degrade, meaning utility companies could amortize the cost over a century rather than a decade. If this is real, the internal combustion engine didn’t just die today; it was buried 100 feet deep, and every other battery is not far behind. But, and this is a massive “but”, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and Donut Lab has yet to release that proof. And that brings us to the man making them. The Man Betting His Reputation I spoke with Marko Lehtimäki, the CEO of Donut Lab and Chairman of Verge Motorcycles. My goal was simple: ask him about the chemistry behind his battery and, if that doesn’t work, look him in the eye and figure out if he’s selling vaporware or if he’s sitting on the breakthrough of the century. Marko isn’t a random guy shouting about a battery breakthrough that will change the world. He is a legit entrepreneur. A computer scientist who built a no-coding app builder years before “vibe coding” was even a thing and sold it to SAP. After the successful exit, he became an investor and serial entrepreneur with his biggest, or most well-known, company being Verge Motorcycles, which has real products on the road. By announcing that this “miracle battery” is already in production and will be shipping in customer vehicles within 10 weeks, he is betting his entire personal reputation on this technology. If he misses this timeline or if the specs are fake, Donut Labs and Verge Motorcycles might not survive the credibility loss. He has a lot to lose here. In my article about the battery announcement last week, I noted that Marko’s presentation was incredible. He basically described a perfect battery: record energy density, incredible charge rate, unprecedented longevity, no rare metals, a cost lower than traditional Li-ion cells, and in scalable production right now. Sounds too good to be true? The only thing he didn’t share was details about the chemistry, beyond saying it doesn’t use lithium or other rare metals. What’s the point of protecting the chemistry if the battery is already in production and it will be in a product shipped this quarter? If that’s true, the battery will be reverse-engineered before the snow completely melts. We discussed it with Marko during our interview. His logic is that once the bikes ship, competitors will tear them down and figure it out anyway. But that won’t happen for another 10 weeks or so, and the head start is critical for a technology this disruptive. In the meantime, Donut Lab’s goal with the announcement was to get the attention of OEMs and ship them battery packs for validation. Marko said: We are right now shipping demo packs to OEMs under NDAs and under tight disclosures so that they can test that all of that is true, which serves our business very well [better than disclosing the chemistry]. But these programs with OEMs are likely to take a long time before they become public. Shorter term, there’s Verge Motorcycles shipping bikes with the battery by the end of the quarter. Before that, Marko also said that we should soon see third-party testing of those cells: We rather right now ship it to authorized research and science center that tests everything without opening it and telling everybody what’s in there. In short, we should have a good idea whether the claims are true or not in just a few weeks no matter what. What does Marko, or Donut Lab, have to gain by lying about this? I also discussed this with Marko and the only thing I could come up with is if he happens to be raising capital right now, but he shut that down: There are a million investors chasing us right now, but we are literally not talking to anybody. We tell investors that we can discuss terms after we have done all our disclosures. Marko insisted that Donut Lab is not taking any investment until they have proven their cells work. In short, it’s hard to find an upside for Donut Lab in making this announcement if the claims are not true. It doesn’t mean that they are, but it makes you think. The Investigation: What Is the “Donut Battery”? So, what is the secret sauce? Marko wouldn’t say, but after digging into public records, supply chains, and research papers, I believe we have a pretty good idea. Let me preface this by saying that I’m not a chemist or physicist, but I’ve been a journalist covering electric vehicles for more than a decade, and I’m pretty good at connecting the dots, and in this case, I’ve had the help of a couple of great sources, too. I’m not saying that this is the Donut Lab battery, but since they are not sharing much, we have to speculate, and all evidence points to a Finnish nanotechnology startup called Nordic Nano and its Chief Scientist, Dr. Bela Bhuskute. Donut Lab invested in Nordic Nano in October 2025, just months before this announcement. At the time of writing this, the press release has fewer than 200 views. The announcement went under the radar, and while Marko said that Nordic Nano is more of a “solar company” during our interview, the announcement mentions both solar and energy storage. Dr. Bhuskute’s research at Tampere University focuses on amorphous Titanium Dioxide nanostructures, which could benefit many different technologies, including batteries. It fits the “miracle” specs perfectly: - 100,000 Cycles: Traditional solid-state batteries are crystalline (like a brick wall) and crack when ions rush in. Dr. Bhuskute’s amorphous Titanium Dioxide is disordered (like a sponge) and “breathes,” allowing it to expand and contract without breaking. - 5-Minute Charge: This chemistry stores energy via “pseudocapacitance,” which is basically like Velcro. Ions stick to the surface almost instantly rather than having to burrow deep inside the material. - The Manufacturing: Nordic Nano uses a “nanofluid” printing process for its solar product using the technology. This aligns with Donut Lab’s description of a “clay-like” material that enables an easier manufacturing process. Some call this “battery printing”, which could explain Donut Lab’s ability to bring this to production in record time. When I asked Marko for the volumetric energy density (Wh/L), he claimed he “couldn’t remember”. Volumetric energy density is one of the few specs that Donut Lab hasn’t released. This battery is lighter than lithium-ion, but it could be bigger due to the amorphous nature of the titanium dioxide. However, the CEO claimed it has a higher volumetric density than traditional Li-ion batteries, without providing a specific number. If that’s true, not only could electric vehicles and energy storage switch to this new chemistry, but even personal electronics, such as smartphones. In 2025, Nordic Nano has been making moves, including securing a former large retail location in Imatra, Finland, near the Russian border: It could be where the company has set up production. Following investment from the Finnish government, Nordic Nano had to elaborate a bit on its products and confirmed that it is working on “solar energy systems and energy storage solutions”: The company’s range of products includes two product families: solar energy systems and energy storage solutions: The ultra-thin and flexible solar film collects twice the amount of energy compared to traditional silicon-based solar panels. Solid-state salt batteries are manufactured by printing from nanofluid, which enables the efficient use of space and the production of batteries in varying shapes. Furthermore, the company confirmed that it is using a “screenprinting” manufacturing method. This is not new. Other companies have produced battery cells with this technology with varying degrees of success. It appears that the bet is that the amorphous rather than crystalized titanium dioxide nanostructure could be more easily adapted and scaled with this manufacturing technology. Electrek’s Take I’m naturally skeptical, and this screams “too good to be true”, but I can’t find anything that categorically rejects the claims. I get battery breakthrough announcements in my inbox every week, and most of the time they never amount to anything. If I decide to spend some time researching them and talking to experts, I generally quickly hit a problem or two that make them commercially unviable. This announcement is different. We can’t really investigate the actual breakthrough; we can only speculate about it, since it is guarded. Marko’s logic for guarding the chemistry is sound, and the incentives to lie about what they have aren’t clear if he is not currently raising money. Then, because they claim this is already in production and will be in a deliverable product within weeks, we will know whether the claims are true in short order, and their reputations, especially Marko’s, are on the line. During my interview, Marko didn’t seem too worried about it. It doesn’t sound like someone who needs to quickly figure out how to deliver this, but rather someone who has a couple of aces in their hand and is looking to maximize them. It’s also strange that this innovation and then production quickly comes from a relatively small company. I thought researching Donut Lab would make me more skeptical about the claims, but it’s the contrary. It confirms that their technology stems from years of research, backed by university and government funding for its commercialization. Could it be that this critical research went under the radar and a small electric motorcycle startup in need of a significant bump in energy density stumbled upon it? Then, a savvy entrepreneur quickly found a way to optimize the impact of this potentially groundbreaking tech by spinning out a startup from the motorcycle company to market the battery to a broader market. Maybe? This could be real, or it could be hype. Again, I’m still skeptical, but I can’t point to anything specific that would disprove any claim made about this miracle battery. Again, if this is true, we are talking about a complete reset of the entire energy and transportation sectors. Donut Lab would become one of the biggest companies in the world. A Nobel Prize would be coming to Dr. Bhuskute and her colleagues in the near future. If it’s not, Marko and Donut Lab’s reputation would be destroyed. There might also be a middle conclusion where the battery is nearly as good as they claim, but when you ramp up production, other problems arise, such as scrap, which has been the undoing of another company that recently tried screenprinting batteries. Who knows? But it sounds like we should find out soon. Within weeks, we should get independent verifications of the specs. Then the bikes get delivered within months. You can fake a presentation, but there are things you can’t fake.
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