Peter Thiel is making the rounds arguing that Silicon Valley's dangerous AI monopoly is preferable to Chinese Communist Party control, a framing I find worth examining carefully. The same broadcast covers an imminent UAP file release teased from inside what appears to be a skiff, Ford's biometric driver-monitoring patent set to roll out by 2027, and Wells Fargo's patent for airborne "smart dust" that harvests your biometrics without your knowledge. Reality has fully outpaced fiction, and I'm just trying to keep up.