The Count

Today’s #SPACfacts throws shade at a popular #SPAC, $BTAQ. Amongst a host of red flags, is a founder famous for leading one of the worst acquisitions of all time, Autonomy. An $11b acquisition predicated on fraud. Whoops. And it gets worst. Scope it out and share your thoughts!

@defileo This just in: it’s easier to build tracking and detection algorithms that leverage the processing power of roof an entire computer and cameras with the fidelity of a computer mounted webcam. How surprising /s

Apple spent 7 years and $3,500 per unit building Vision Pro, this guy did something better with a webcam in his bedroom. And no, this isn't a render, it's running live on his laptop right now with a webcam pointed at his hands. The webcam tracks 21 points on each of his hands in real time, every fingertip, every knuckle, every joint, mapped to a 3D skeleton at 60 frames per second. A piece of digital silk is rigged to that skeleton, so when he opens his palm the fabric drapes across his fingers, when he closes his hand it crumples in his fist, when he tilts his wrist the cloth slides off and folds with real physics, light reflecting off it like actual material. He can grab it, stretch it, throw it, catch it, all with his bare hands and zero hardware on his body. No headset, no gloves, no $3,500 face computer, no 600 gram brick on his skull, no 2 hour battery, no Apple ID, no App Store. Just a webcam, TouchDesigner and a kid who saw the Vision Pro keynote and thought, I can do that for free. Apple has 3,000 engineers, $200 billion in cash and 7 years of development time, they built a face computer most people will never own. This guy has a laptop, a webcam and a weekend, he built a future most people can actually use. The mixed reality industry just got embarrassed by a guy in a white t-shirt.

@GerryGreenspoon @BillAckman I think Gerry you’d find that the biggest threats to actual democracy - dark money in politics and Gerry mandering - have had democrats attempt to address multiple times over the past decade. Every time republicans vote wholesale against it.

@BillAckman Should be illegal. And they have the audacity to blame red states when it all started and continues with the blue states. There’s no limit to their lies and deceit.

Redistricting is an affront to democracy whether done by Republicans or Democrats. It should be illegal.

@RealOriginalist @Cernovich They do, democrats are pursuing redistricting by letting their citizens vote on it. Republicans scream tyranny while literally having their governors enforce this redistricting unilaterally to avoid giving people a vote.

@Cernovich Republicans should do the same in every state that they control. Control the State legislature and Governorship, then you control the House delegation for your state. The Constitution left it up to each state to determine their own Federal Congressional Districts.

51% of voters can take away 100% of the rights of 49% of the voters. Democracy.

@real8BuckChuck @Cernovich Notice how when republicans push for redistricting they don’t risk it going to a vote and democracy occur, their governors just unilaterally declare it

@Cernovich Notice how everything that Democrats want passed only passes with less than 1% of the votes. That's how you can spot an illegitimate election result

@chamath Did you actually look at what the bill is instead of simply take the word of hyper partisan “pick me” journo?

The Undemocratic Party

@AidenReports @Megatron_ron Most other presidents would never have waltzed into this war so short sightedly. In fact, they didn’t. Only one was so stupid that not only did he most likely strengthen a terrorist state, but expected allies who he had been threatening for the past year to come bail him out.

If I had to take a guess, Trump is not serious with these threats. This is a bluff to force Iran to accept an end to the war And if it works, Trump deserves his flowers for accepting the war didn't go as planned and seeking an off-ramp. Most other Presidents may have doubled down, getting stuck in another forever war

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump: “If they don’t make a deal, we’re gonna blow everything up and take the oil”

@zonk195852202 @mrssmith2018 @Milajoy @Michael951413 lol where’s the lie? I just see some missed points - like under small government they missed that the Trump admin took explicit socialist action of the government taking interest in private companies and the president try to control boards and csuite at private companies

@mrssmith2018 @Milajoy @Michael951413 If you really believe all of this, then leave and go to your favorite bug government country and live the life!

We survived this. And now Democrats are complaining about 2.4% inflation. Child, be serious.

@DiscoverCrypto1 @TheHoffFromTx @chamath Just like when Banon did his non-committal one at CPAC to applause c-span.org/clip/public-af… Say what you will but the right has a major issue with white supremacist narratives and empathizers. Always have.

@DiscoverCrypto1 @TheHoffFromTx @chamath … propagated the great replacement theory, and more. But ultimately it’s most likely cuz the dude is neurodivergent and a former 4chan edgelord who likes pushing the buttons of ‘normies.’ I can’t tell you why he would do it, but I can tell you it served as a dog whistle.

This is, by far, the best car I’ve ever owned.

@DiscoverCrypto1 @TheHoffFromTx @chamath Nothing you’ve said comes off as an attack on my intelligence except when you tried to pass a bunch of stills off as evidence that this is a dem issue too… but that seemed like more of a self-own. So don’t sweat it.

@CtSPACula @TheHoffFromTx @chamath I’m not trying to attack your intelligence or anything. I just can’t wrap my head around how one could possibly think he would support a movement so grotesque in front of the entire world and expect continued support for his businesses. No one likes Nazis from either party.

@DiscoverCrypto1 @TheHoffFromTx @chamath I’m hoping this means you’ve come to terms with the fact that this looks basically identical to a sig heil, and the stills of Dems are in bad faith. In fact, I found a composition of them for you: reddit.com/r/behindthebas…

@DiscoverCrypto1 @TheHoffFromTx @chamath After watching that GIF I linked to, answer honestly - do you think he could have done a salute that was MORE of an sig heil than what he did? Would the differentiator for you be if he held it up for another 5 seconds?

@CtSPACula @TheHoffFromTx @chamath That’s a fake principal, that means anyone who buys a Tesla in the future, according to you, is a Nazi sympathizer or supporter. That’s insane. Do you not hear yourself? And no, whenever you watch them in the old videos, they stay there with their arms sticking out

@DiscoverCrypto1 @TheHoffFromTx @chamath Rich you use the term critical thinker but are either incapable of very basic critical thought or argue in bad faith. Ask yourself why are all of these stills and not videos?

@CtSPACula @TheHoffFromTx @chamath “Ask yourself if you were a n!zi and you saw this, would you think it’s a wave?” You cannot be for real bro. I always thought silly ppl were being accusing Elon in a tongue&cheek way. As if, no intellectual critical thinker could ever actually believe that. I’m wrong I guess.

@DiscoverCrypto1 @TheHoffFromTx @chamath I got news for you re: they keep their arm out reddit.com/r/gifs/s/oFTiz…

@DiscoverCrypto1 @TheHoffFromTx Fair counter, but I would say the majority of people just dont have firm enough principles to make real sacrifices. Look at all the folks who put “I bought this before we knew he was a Nazi” stickers on their cars but still drive them. People are soft, or dont care, or dont know.

@DiscoverCrypto1 @TheHoffFromTx @chamath Disagree again. If you have the means and aren’t willing to make sacrifices for your principles, then you didn’t have principles to begin with. As for it being simply a wave, ask yourself if you were a Nazi and saw that gesture, would you think it was a wave, or a Sig Heil?

@CtSPACula @TheHoffFromTx @chamath Good point about secondary value. You’re still silly for making purchasing decisions based on a wave. Especially purchasing decisions of an incredible piece of technology.

@flewe100 @rightcentrism It’s like saying, “I don’t support Nazis, but if you associate with them cuz it serves your purpose, it doesn’t reflect on u… as long as you’re not a Nazi.” Which coincidentally is exactly the flavor of belief that I’m arguing Trump and these guys with fluid principals adhere to

@flewe100 @rightcentrism @chamath @grok I actually will concede that Trump may not have the capacity to process that a white supremacist movement orchestrated by white supremacists to preserve statues of folks who fought to keep black people enslaved probably didn’t have a lot of active, non-white supremacist attendees