Jonathan Schwartz 🦉

"Socialism" is a derogatory term used to describe any governmental program from which you do not personally benefit.

Greatly saddened to see such a wonderful, global platform, that's given so much to the world, so childishly torched. Please join me in leaving. You can find me at openjonathan.bsky.social

Driving my Tesla feels like driving a BMW in pre-war Germany.

@edburns You're looking well! I like the ordering of your vests.

It is a little chilly at the house where I live today so I put on two vests. Cc @OpenJonathan

Today was the first day I launched 🧵 before Twitter. I've been here a long time, very sad to see it being so childishly destroyed.

Worth reading. newsguardtech.com/misinformation…

Biden: Got Hamas to release the hostages Trump: Said Hezbollah was smart Vote for Joe Biden

Have I mentioned how much I'm enjoying 🧵🧵🧵

Reminder that Twitter (still can't call it X) has no corporate governance.

Most tech co's have policies that forbid employees from owning more than trivial amounts of competitors (or VC funds). If the original sin at OpenAI was failure to disclose competing interests, does Microsoft give Sam a hall pass?

More restaurants should do this.

Given all the activity in Congress today, it seeme like the men are too emotional to lead.

The Washington Post [2022]

My loftiest aspiration for AI is that we finally get dedup in Google Photos—thus far, a seemingly impossible task.

Dear GOP candidates: right now we tax the first $150k of everyone’s earnings which goes to SS. But we don’t tax what people make after that—that’s why a cop and a firefighter pay on every dollar and a hedge fund guy doesn’t. If you fix that it could extend solvency.

Please feel free to yawp.

"From the river to the sea" is aspirational, just like screaming "White power" is aspirational.

Events like the holocaust become possible when the idea that Jews shouldn’t defend themselves against terrorism becomes normalized. Nobody wants innocent people to be killed. If you’re calling for a ceasefire, ask yourself: why that instead of calling for hamas to surrender? Don’t you remember what they did less than a month ago?

Worth watching in entirety. Very well said.

“Shame on these university heads and leadership at these schools […] when it comes to the issue of antisemitism there’s always this veiled ‘well, it’s complicated’”every word from the brilliant @biannagolodryga on @CNN