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Another day, another journo. Today it’s a guy named Ali Breland. He’s been spamming our members for months, because the oligarch Laurene Powell Jobs is paying him to write a hit piece on our startup society. Let’s talk about the specific angle he was tasked with writing about, and how our hard numbers completely disprove his journo rumors. Then let’s go through the general context of why he was assigned to write this fake piece in the first place. We'll end with the obvious observation that an Atlantic that abolished the police and bombed the Middle East actually has no moral standing whatsoever — and certainly cannot stop the free people of the world from pursuing our God-given right to self-determination by peacefully building new societies. HARD NUMBERS > JOURNO RUMORS First, the specifics. Ali was assigned to harass us using a common journo tactic one might call “Trouble in Paradise.” That’s when the journo finds a few people you had to let go, puts their worst-sounding complaints under a magnifying glass, and then uses those distorted outliers to tar the entire organization. Now, for years, the way journos did this was to baselessly accuse people of rayyycism. They could usually find some party claiming you had secret bigotry, and failing that they’d just manufacture an accusation themselves. And indeed that’s exactly the line Ali pursued on a different company, as you can see from his past unsolicited DM to me in 2023: Of course, it wasn’t just this DM. Given that he’s a journo, Ali has falsely accused many things of being rayyyycist over the years. A partial list of things he’s tarred as Nazi-adjacent include NFTs, e/acc, Telegram, Gamestop, AMC, DeSantis, Elon, Reddit, and even Silicon Valley itself. But calling everything rayyyycist isn’t as effective anymore, and it’s particularly ineffective on another brown guy like me, so Ali had to come up with a new angle: rather than secret bigotry, he’d accuse us of being secretly unhealthy! Behold the message he’s been spamming to our community members since at least Jan 2025: Note the part about “mold”. That’s meant to sound bad. Except it’s completely misleading. Because mildew in Southeast Asia is as common as sand in the Sahara or frost in Canada. It’s just a common building maintenance issue in Singapore’s humid climate, and present even in beautiful new places like Nanyang Technological University: With that context, you can understand what actually happened: we rented several buildings in late September, we heard about spots of mildew a few weeks later in October, and we hired a top Singapore firm to remediate it out of an abundance of caution. Their professional opinion was that it was just cosmetic with zero health implications. I’ve attached their letter below: In addition to this expert opinion stating no health issue, we looked at the instrumental record of air quality measurements across the facility from our dehumidifiers and air purifiers. The absolute worst reading we got was well within the normal range of Los Angeles air, and of course the average air quality was much better than LA on average. So: that’s a fatality for Ali’s fake story. Because when journos accuse you of racism, there isn’t a geiger counter for bigotry. There’s no numerical way to prove yourself innocent of their false accusations. But because there is a geiger counter for air quality, we can prove ourselves innocent of the charge that there was any health issue. Essentially: against mere journo rumors, we have hard numbers. So Ali will have to give up his attempted cosplay as a molecular epidemiologist, and return to his original job of accusing people of rayyycism in his capacity as a fake news journalist. By the way, this is exactly how Elon knocked down a fake NYT story that claimed Tesla cars ran out of charge on the side of the road. He proved the NYT journo was faking the story, because he had the instrumental record. Similarly, we too have the instrumental record of air quality measurements from all our IoT devices. And now that they’ve been informed that both expert opinion and on-the-ground quantitative measurement detected no health issues whatsoever, any attempt by Ali and his oligarchic bosses at the Atlantic to defame our startup society could be considered actual malice…with all the consequences that entails for their media corporation. But why do these oligarchs want to defame us in the first place? For that let's go to tweet #2: More important than any story is the story behind the story. So: why? Why would the Atlantic pay a guy for literally months to spam our members about a year-old maintenance non-issue on a building ten thousand kilometers away from their HQ in DC? I mean, there are more important things happening in the world. And it is puzzling at first. But then it isn’t once you realize that the life’s work of Atlantic owner Laurene Powell Jobs is destroying American cities, while the life’s work of Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg is destroying foreign cities — and so they absolutely hate anyone building up new cities outside their control. After all, remember that Laurene Powell Jobs helped abolish the police, and thereby turned Blue America into a place where you can be stabbed on the street, shot in the back, set on fire, and pushed in front of a train. Further recall that the air in Los Angeles, the water of Detroit, and the very ground of San Francisco has become hazardous to human health thanks to the rampant wildfires, arsons, drug addicts, syringes, and feces caused by the comprehensive failures of progressive governance — by the failures that Powell Jobs strongly lobbied for, while remaining personally insulated from the disastrous consequences: Moreover, remember that Jeffrey Goldberg helped mislead America into Iraq, and pushed for every forever war since then, thereby turning much of the Middle East into a place where you can be blown up by shrapnel, vaporized by drones, sold into slavery, or beheaded by ISIS. Further recall that the air in Iraq, the water in Yemen, and the very ground of Libya has become hazardous to human health thanks to saturation bombing, improvised explosive devices, and civil wars caused by the comprehensive catastrophe that is neocon ideology — a catastrophe that Jeffrey Goldberg vociferously advocated for, while remaining personally insulated from the murderous consequences: So now it becomes more clear. This is their life’s work! Literally the life’s work of the woke nepotist Laurene Powell Jobs and the neocon warmonger Jeffrey Goldberg is creating deadly hazards to human health. Because they spent their lives ruining both American cities and foreign cities. Whether it’s the Middle East or the West Coast, they initiated pointless invasions and imported arsonist illegal aliens, until the skies of both Syria and Southern California were filled with poisonous soot as the buildings caught aflame. That is the Atlantic’s ideology: abolish the police, and destroy the Middle East. Obviously, we stand against that. We stand against the Atlantic because we can stand up to media corporations. I mean, Ali writes constantly about white power, but the proles he piles on are the white powerless. Actual white power is Laurene Powell Jobs, and actual white power is Jeffrey Goldberg. They have power over a slave like Ali, but no power over BTC. They hate us because they ain’t controlling us. We stand against the Atlantic because we have built a truly global movement. Our community includes people from dozens of US cities and 100+ nations — including the cities which Laurene Powell Jobs flooded with aliens, and the nations where Jeffrey Goldberg pushed for invasions. And we stand against the Atlantic because we stand for something stronger than an irredeemably corrupt US establishment of oligarchs and neocons. We stand instead for the ancient principle of self-determination, the idea that anyone should be able to found new communities without interference from the likes of Goldberg and Powell. Perhaps you will stand with us. If so, you should come to Network School. From Michael, currently on campus. https://t.co/Z8F05YQq4o From Rohan, currently on campus. https://t.co/lkEbUmjjz9 From Waris, currently on campus. https://t.co/g0kOf7beaQ