David Gilson

Chatting about VR & @EliteDangerous with @katerussell at @HullComicCon. Great to meet you!

@julie_kelly2 @EndWokeness To be fair, the USA excells at over imprisoning it's people. It's the one thing it's a world leader at. Although in the Jan 9th case, they were trying to over throw your country.

@EndWokeness 1,300 Americans who protested Biden’s election investigated, arrested, charged, and put on trial in a city that voted 92 percent for Joe Biden. Then convicted and sentenced to harsh prison terms even for lowlevel misdemeanors.

Donald J. Trump- arrested (4x) Trump's lawyers- arrested Steve Bannon- arrested Peter Navarro- arrested Rudy Giuliani- arrested Roger Stone- arrested Mike Flynn- arrested Unfortunately, America has lost its moral standing to condemn foreign regimes

@TheBabylonBee Where's the journalist?

Journalists Confused By Journalist Doing Journalism buff.ly/4brMUoa

Here's the full video of the asteroid #Sar2736, a ~1 m object that broke up some 50 m west of #Belin, #Germany, and probably dropped some meteorites on the ground. Video credit: iplivecams.com/live-cams/augu…

BREAKING: A small asteroid is expected to impact Northeast Germany, near the capital Berlin, in just over half an hour [21 Jan 2024 0:32:33UTC]. It’ll create a brief fireball. Object size is around ~1 meter. Temporary designation of the object is Sar2736.

It’s open! It’s open! And ready for its closeup. After successfully removing two final fasteners on Jan. 10, members of the @astromaterials team photographed the #OSIRISREx asteroid sample with a special technique to achieve super high-res images. go.nasa.gov/3U2bCoU

@wilsonp195 #TwitterDrama 😅

@davidgilson I bet he's super upset you've blocked him 😋

Ah, that's better. I respect his engineering leadership with Tesla and SpaceX, but I've had enough of the political confirmation bias quoting from sources in his own political echo chamber.

Congratulations to @torybruno and ULA for the ideal maiden flight of Vulcan!

@leeharris @BBCNews Sigh ... bbc.com/news/world-eur…

Why am I not surprised that I can't find a single article on the @BBCNews website covering this utterly immense and hugely significant farmers protest in Germany. They clearly don't want us to see this.

@stevelitchfield @XtremeSkinsUK I'm firmly in the pixel world for the time being. I have Pixel Watch 1 and Pixel Buds Pro. Just about to move onto 7 Pro from the 6 Pro. I'd have considered the Fold but the price was obscene.

You can’t beat Silverblack Wood, I reckon. Here on my ongoing review Pixel Fold, courtesy of xtremeskins.co.uk/products/googl… PS. I still think pressing out the ‘G’ is fiddly. But persevered for the sake of the photo!! 🙂 @XtremeSkinsUK

@doreenvictoria @WallStreetApes @elonmusk Yeah Republicans aren't a great option either. The USA needs to stop being a political duopoly

@WallStreetApes @elonmusk Don’t ever vote democrat.

Thankfully @elonmusk Is Bringing A Lot Of Awareness To Illegals Being Imported To Vote Today. Don't Forget: Multiple States Have Already Voted To Allow Illegal Immigrants (Non-Citizens) To Vote & Many More States Currently In Process Of Passing Legislation To Allow Them To Vote This is ON THE RECORD: “Non-citizens have not been eligible to vote in New York or as far as I know in any other state since the 19th century.” That's not true. The New York City Council voted in December to allow this. It begins January 9, 2023. Cities in Vermont and Maryland already allow this, and similar measures are under consideration in Illinois, Maine, and Massachusetts right now. Mr. Gentleman, were you? Yes. I believe those are considerations of allowing votes in municipal elections only. Right, but thank you. That's the point. Everybody wants to know at home, why would they allow this? Guys, they're allowing it because they're gonna turn them into voters. They already are doing this in New York City, largest city in America, and this is the plan of our friends on this side to turn all the illegals into voters. That's it, folks. That's what's going on. That's the game. That's why the border's open. That's why they've dropped it. Look, I respect Ms. Loughran and all her work in this arena. Yes, I'll yield, Mr. Chairman. I'd love to hear what you have to say about this. As a New Yorker, I would love to think that New York is the entire country, but it is not. It is not, and consideration is being given to permitting non-citizens to vote in New York and I believe in the capital city of Vermont, I forget which that is, but it is much as I'd like to believe it, New York and Vermont are not the entire country. But Mr. Chairman, that's the whole point. This is what's going on, folks, at home. If you're trying to figure this out, if you're scratching your heads, you've seen the video, you see droves of people, 2.4 million people coming over the border illegally, the president allowing, the Democrats in charge of Congress are allowing it, the deal is they're going to turn them into voters. You just heard it. They don't have any problem with that. They celebrate it. Here's the deal. We have a problem with it. The Constitution has a problem with it. American elections should be decided by American citizens. That's it. That's what this is about. That's why we're jumping up and down and screaming, my friends on the video who are commenting about this. That's why we're so upset, because our constituents are frightened that we are losing our country. We're losing our security, we're losing our sovereignty, because we're going to allow people from 160 different countries around the world to come in here and decide our elections. That's it. Here it is on record. You all heard it.”

The things that matter are honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.

@farzyness The other interpretation to this is that advertisers don't have a back bone.

X Has Already Won Elon Musk closed the acquisition of Twitter, now X, in October of 2022. Once that deal was closed, a bunch of advertisers left the platform out of fear of their brands being impacted by the new “Freedom of Speech” rules that X was looking to implement. The premise was that ads would be shown next to content that advertisers don’t want to be associated with, and because X would now allow more “improper” content, the chances of having a negative ad experience could increase. After leaving the platform for a few weeks, almost all advertisers have come back, albeit with lower ad spends. However, earlier this year, X gave guidance that the platform is near cash-flow neutral, minus debt obligations. This means that even though the platform has suffered losses in terms of ad revenue, the company is close to being self-sufficient. In other words, no outside cash has to be brought into the company to keep it alive, as long as the trend continues. Fast forward a few months, and after controversial comments made by Elon and an effort by Media Matters to encourage advertisers to boycott the platform, advertisers left again. However - just like the first time, after a few weeks, advertisers are beginning to come back. There’s confirmation that Netflix has started to spend ad money on the platform again, and per Elon at his recent conference in Italy, advertisers are beginning to come back to the platform en masse. I think all of this points to something quite clear - the Overton Window is beginning to shift, and with it, a massively profitable endeavor for advertisers. For those that are not familiar, the Overton Window is a term used to express what is “acceptable” to be discussed in a given time period. If you compare what is acceptable to be discussed on X today, vs what was acceptable on Twitter pre-acquisition, you can very clearly see that the “acceptable” topics are much more diverse and plentiful. This means that the Overton Window has shifted. Another example of this is also on YouTube. A few days ago, Mario hosted a space with Elon Musk, Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, and other folks discussing Alex’s reinstatement and a bunch of other topics. These topics pre-acquisition would not be admissible under Twitter’s former rules. What’s really interesting is that after making this edited content available on YouTube, YouTube has a) not taken down the content from the platform and b) allowed monetization on the content. This implies that advertisers are now becoming comfortable advertising on content that they weren’t comfortable with in the past. What does this mean for X? It’s quite simple - X’s willingness to stand for Free Speech, even when the CEO makes statements that cause the business to temporarily lose revenue, is creating a brand new market for advertisers that previously did not exist precisely due to an unwillingness to embrace Freedom of Speech. And because X’s entire approach has been to uphold Freedom of Speech and accept the repercussions that come with it, the platform has positioned itself as the premier place for content that will be generated on this principle. This same content is a market that advertisers have had 0 access to in the past because of the unwillingness of platforms to embrace Freedom of Speech, and the skittishness of ad agencies to sully their brands with controversial topics. On top of this, it’s a market that is untapped, which will generate billions of views, and billions of dollars, for creators and advertisers alike. I do not suspect we’ll see another advertisers boycott in the future because of this dynamic. There’s way too much money to be made, and now that the Overton Window has shifted to where the “public” is now “comfortable” with listening to dissenting and controversial opinions, advertisers will be tripping over themselves to advertise on X over the long term. In my opinion, people respect the notion of being allowed to think for themselves, and because this has been subdued for far too long, there will be an avalanche of interest for content that is specifically challenging and controversial. Ultimately, this will be massively profitable for advertisers due to the engagement and attention it’ll receive from the public. I posited when Elon bought the platform that X would win if they could make Freedom of Speech profitable, and I think we’re starting to see glimpses of this being the case.

@LMSpace @NASA_Orion @esa I didn't expect the heat shield to be so reflective. Is that just a thin layer that quickly burns away?

One year ago: the @NASA_Orion crew module separates from @esa's service module in preparation for its return to Earth.

Over four years since @google shut down @inboxbygmail , and I still miss it everyday. @gmail just isn't the same.

@stevelitchfield Toyota is most reliable brand imho.

If I WAS to buy a used hybrid (family car, 3 years old), here in the UK, which would you recommend?

@elonmusk It never actually says what he's claiming it said. Did anyone read the screenshot?

This is a major problem

@BBCNews Meaningless term.

Tennis great Serena Williams named 'fashion icon' bbc.in/465jhoX

@piersmorgan Because it's broadcast on non-internet channels?

How are they supposed to hear this msg if you’ve cut off their ability to communicate?

@ReginaDann50698 @elonmusk ... So in Musk's tweet. I'm not sure if he sees Starlink as ComStar (ComStar also saw itself as the saviour of mankind, but was also duplicitous and could not be trusted), or whether Israel is ComStar because they have used their power to cut off Gaza's communication

@ReginaDann50698 @elonmusk ... Are BattleMechs, large robots piloted by a "mechwarrior". Alas, I suspect all this is besides the point though, as I'm curious about Musk's tweet. ComStar, as you correctly quoted, is a quasi religious organisation that has a monopoly on interstellar communication...

ComStar Interdict