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Fringey Mini: So… The U.S. Can Manipulate Time and Space Now? · Journey to the Fringe

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  This one I think goes nicely with, it'll probably
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  be a couple of weeks ago that this came out now,
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  but I'm still feeling inspired by it a little
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  bit. I don't know. We'll have to read the article
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  and see if there's any overlap. This is from
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  Newsweek .com. I don't know anything about Newsweek.
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  It's not the Epoch Times. Yeah, that's all we
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  know at this point. We don't know which cult
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  owns this one. This one is at least from 2025,
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  April 17th. The title of this article is, oh,
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  it was updated. April 18th. Published April 17th.
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  White House says it has tech that can manipulate
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  time and space. Hmm. This is by Joe Edwards.
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  A comment by White House science advisor Michael
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  Kratzios has gone viral after a speech in which
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  he claimed U .S. technology can quote manipulate
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  time and space and quote prompting online speculation.
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  Why it matters. The viral interpretation of Kratzios
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  comment reflects the growing impact of social
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  media and framing public understanding of government
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  messaging. Wouldn't the ability to manipulate
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  time and space be why it's mattering? Not just
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  the social media aspect of it. To be fair, it
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  doesn't take much to manipulate time and space
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  other than go really fast. Oh, I was thinking
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  project looking glass. Okay, technically like
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  just moving at a different speed or elevation
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  manipulates time and space. That's true. And
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  technically like us just existing through time
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  is manipulating time and space. space, depending
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  on your thoughts of free will versus, like, everything
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  happens with cause. That's deep. That's more
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  than I was ready for on this little minute. You
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  think they just cut a philosopher in the army
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  who's saying, like, doing nothing is the best
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  approach? Because we are manipulating time and
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  space at all times anyways. While the White House
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  has not issued a formal clarification, I wonder
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  if they have by this point. Maybe we're still
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  waiting. I don't know. No, we're not, because
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  at this point... this is a different um white
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  house at this point because this is from april
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  2025 so this is the yeah this is the biden no
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  wait sorry you're right no it's been a year jesus
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  already what a year hold on no kidding it feels
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  like it's been 11 years yeah The speech's wording
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  suggests the phrase was metaphorical, intended
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  to refer to the transformative nature of modern
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  innovation, not literal manipulation of space
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  -time or the invention of time travel. What to
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  know? Kratzios, director of the White House Office
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  of Science, made the remark during a policy address
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  at the Endless Frontiers retreat in Austin, Texas
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  on April 14th. Quote, our technologies permit
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  us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance
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  annihilated, cause things to grow and improve
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  productivity. End quote. Kratzio said. That just
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  sounds like a really stupid jargon statement.
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  Yeah, it does. That doesn't even sound that weird.
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  Who even knows what he's trying to say? You have
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  to preface this with like RFK juniors in this
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  presidential cabinet. Just compare that to anything
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  that guy says. He can look at a kid and tell
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  that his pores are congested with, like, oil
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  genitals or something like that. I don't fully
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  understand the words he uses. They're so raspy.
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  Yeah, I mean, but look at everything else they
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  got going for them right now. It's not just our
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  future. To be fair, the guy could not get through
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  school without heroin, keeping him not distracted.
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  I didn't know that. He used heroin to focus in
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  law school. Super weird guy. Wow, no kidding.
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  Kratzios said during prepared remarks published
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  on the official White House website. While the
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  statement was likely intended as aspirational
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  language about technological progress, it has
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  since circulated wildly online with some interpreting
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  the comment literally. In the speech, Kratzios
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  emphasized the importance of American leadership
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  in emerging technologies and criticized regulatory
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  burdens that, in his view, had slowed progress.
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  Quote, we have weighed down our builders and
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  innovators, And quote, he said, re -quote again,
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  but how do you read this like a nice sentence?
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  You don't. But we are capable of so much more.
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  End quote. I'll just go with how I feel like
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  it. Yeah, I'll read this next one. That's always
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  how they want you to interpret everything they
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  do is how it makes you best feel. I like that.
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  I don't mind that. Crazio's remarks were made
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  just weeks after his confirmation as the administration's
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  chief science official. Speaking in Texas, he
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  described the Trump administration's tech technology
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  agenda as one focused on reducing bureaucratic
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  constraints constraints constraints Boosting
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  research and development and enabling American
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  companies to lead Globally the quote about manipulating
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  is gonna be China now soon the quote about manipulating
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  time and space appeared alongside references
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  to artificial intelligence aerospace and productivity
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  tools in context Kratzios evoked quote the choice
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  of individuals to craft new technologies and
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  give themselves to scientific discoveries that
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  will bend time and space and quote and quote
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  again make more with less end of quotes what
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  people are saying what happens next i'm just
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  make more with less yes i'm just gonna end the
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  article there okay And that's good. That just
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  sounds like I mean, Elon Musk has probably said
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  that they have that technology in the next two
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  years, five years ago. So what was just kind
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  of what any of it? It sounds like CEO speak for
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  things that you want to accomplish. Like, yeah,
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  words. Yeah, I don't even know what they're trying
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  to say. It does sound like word salad. And on
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  that note, he said AI and I can't wait to start
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  kicking robots. because it sounds like they're
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  gonna remember they're training the robots to
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  kick us back. Yeah, which I really wish they
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  wouldn't teach them that unless it's just strictly
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  to CEOs. Yeah, it can stop their talk like this.
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  If they program them like the orcas. Yeah, they'd
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  never do that. But the lesson is that's why you
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  have to kick the robots because they're gonna
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  kick you anyway. So yeah, you might as well get
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  it in while you can say that you got to put in
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  on the oppressor. at some point early on. Anyhow,
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  you guys got 48 hours. Find your nearest robot
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  place and kick him. Okay, bye.