Kirk Dameron

@GhorbaniiNiyak Nowruz Mobarak.

نوروز، فقط آغاز یک سال نو نیست؛ آغاز دوباره‌ی امید است… آغاز ایستادن، حتی وقتی خسته‌ایم… آغاز باور به فردایی که می‌توانیم بسازیم. مردم عزیز ایران، در دل تمام سختی‌ها، شما هنوز ایستاده‌اید، هنوز لبخند می‌زنید، هنوز عشق را زنده نگه داشته‌اید، برای ایران با جان و دل همچنان مبارزه میکنید، این یعنی ایران زنده است… «ایران» شما هستید🥹 نوروز یعنی یادمان نرود که تاریکی، ماندنی نیست بهار همیشه از راه می‌رسد، همان‌طور که آزادی و روشنایی خواهد رسید… از دور یا نزدیک، در هر کجای جهان که هستیم، دل‌هایمان با هم برای ایران و هم میهنانمان می‌تپد ما یک ملتیم، با یک رؤیا: ایرانی آزاد، آباد، و سرشار از امید و زندگی هرروزتان نوروز نوروزتان پیروز🫡 دلتان گرم، و آینده‌تان روشن‌تر از همیشه با عشق❤️

@KirkLubimov Definitely fits the smart young Canadian leaders that were my colleagues in 2016-2020. U Waterloo grads. Now, live in Florida or multiple states Became US Citizens. I'll bet @ililic knows many many others.

Which demographics of Canadians are leaving Canada? >67% of the are 20-44 year olds. >3x more likely to be in Sciences than avg population. >31.1% have a masters degree. >61.4% left to the US. In other words, it's Canada's youngest, most talented and educated population.

Close. I want that, but in order to keep it great, informative, and useful (I don't care for the "entertaining" part), I use only the "Following" feed, and have a plethora of words I've muted, in addition to the large number of accnts I've muted or blocked over the yrs. This is my "curated feed" on X. Problem: the existing Mute words function seems to be limited to only a few hundred words, and I've maxed out. Worse, the existing X UI does not make it easy to straightforwardly delete old Mute_words in order to free a few more up for use, given the limit. Pls fix this. It has been this FOLLOWING + personalMute/Block lists that has made X the quality platform it is for me to engage subject mater experts and "news"/analysis on the 30 or 50 topic areas I'm interested in. The limitation on Mute words has begun to make my curation less good, and thus make X a less good platform for me to use.

As a user, it's simple. I open the @X app. Here's what I hope to see — and I suspect many of you do too: 1. Great, informative, useful, or entertaining content (by humans, machines, or companies) 2. Real, authentic — even “boring” — posts from the people and networks I actually care about 3. No spam, bad bots, or reply farming As an X employee who uses it every day, I believe we’re actively building toward exactly this. Does this match what you want when you open X?

@RaoulGMI Tell me about it. I'm just over a year and 22,000 miles on my Cybertruck. Best automotive vehicle I've ever owned! (in five decades of vehicles). x.com/EmergenceKirk/… 38 states and 5 Canadian provinces so far.

Tesla FSD is nothing short of magic. Just rented a Cybertruck, picked it up at the airport and it drove us directly to the Airbnb. None of the stress of a new city, new roads, new car. Had it for 5 days and never drove myself. It drove perfectly. So easy and liberating

@ramus3333 @Telegraph @CanadianKobzar Now draw that sort of map into the W & SW coast of Iran, defending the Strait of Hormuz against attack by Iranian forces. What would that zone look like, with sufficient human operators and AIs to keep the zone under sufficient surveilence and attack?

@Telegraph @CanadianKobzar Soon to be New Kill Zone

🇺🇦 Ukraine’s plan to cut off Russia’s front-line troops is working Inside Kyiv’s drone campaign ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Great, if true, and if Ukraine can sustain the expanded zone for some months before competent Russian military adaptation. Remarkable tactical move in technology & in tactics that could shift the momentum in the war!

... finished w dinner at Flagstaff House, above Boulder. Where we could scan decades of our work and life together in Boulder County.

Beautiful drive on the Peak to Peak hiway west of Denver/Boulder to celebrate 30 yrs of marriage to my wonderful and perspicacious wife, Ruth.

@AskVenice Please add a bulk delete feature in the Venice UI. Preferably, one w a search function to be able to find all sessions w particular search terms present.

Reminder: The law creating the TSA includes a provision allowing airports to opt out & run their own security. Which, after 25 years of TSA failure & constantly being at the mercy of congressional psychodrama, is what they should all be doing right about now

@DeAngelisCorey @grok Grok's answer: "Yes, that's exactly how it works—donations (or the "no-cost" redirection via the tax credit) from residents of non-opting states go exclusively to the scholarship programs in the ~30 states that have opted in."

@grok, please interpret this. For the states that DON'T opt in, does that mean that ppl in those states who select the (no cost; no extra tax due) option to give to the 1776 school choice option on their Federal Income Tax return, will be actually giving more money to the ~30 states that have opted in?

BREAKING: The Kentucky Legislature just voted to OVERRIDE Democrat Governor Andy Beshear's VETO of a bill opting in to Trump’s new school choice program. The House voted 77–14. The Senate voted 31–5. Kentucky is now the 28th state to opt in to Trump's school choice program.

It's not the technology, Saul, it's the human. Seriously. I think its similar to people groups that get labeled "bad" by some ppl. It's the human doing it, whether doing the labeling, or the human in that ppl group doing something bad. You, of all ppl, ought to be able to grok that. Blockchains, digital assets, and all that can be done w that technology has certain characteristics (permissionlessness, censorship resistance, cryptographic security, etc.) that can be used well or poorly. Certainly scammers are attracted there, just as they are to email scams, txt msg scams, or mail fraud. But it's always the human that uses a technology for good or bad. Blockchain/digital asset/"crypto" technology is not objectively bad. But, w human use, it can be subjectively bad; made bad by the use it is put to by the subject. I like a lot of your work, Saul, but this generalization of yours is not reflecting well on your analysis. Happy to discuss in a more relaxed manner if you wish.

Why is everything to do with crypto just scams and crime all the way down?

@kneubuehl Mine has been parked too much in NW Denver in recent months. Sorry you've missed it. But doing the Peak to Peak Hiway tomorrow! 📐

Spotted. Two in a day in Denver is pretty good.

@ManlyMarshall @TeslaCharging Fortunately for you, if you had read the attached webpage, you would see the contact info for working with Tesla Charging biz folks to work that out.

@TeslaCharging If I purchase a semi, how will I charge it? How much will it cost me to install a fast DC charger at my business?

Comprehensive overview of Supercharger for Business tesla.com/learn/supercha…

👀 The AIs and AI agents are starting to coordinate, using trustless and censorship-resistant digital rails. Multi-player games doing private/secure coordination behind the scenes is new. This is only a demo. But I predict the ability of AIs to use CROPS-technology rails will move to the mainstream production AIs rather quickly. CROPS = censorship-resistant/capture-resistant, open source, privacy, and security

@MahyarTousi Was the IRGC intern writing these posts all the time?

He’s back from the dead…

The good news, ALL Wikipedia edits and every comment/vote/etc in discussions is save in an open database of historical edits. Would require someone who wants to do deep data analysis and follow many threads. Weeks & months of it. Plus, of course, since most usernames are pseudonyms and even IP addresses are all that's saved w that history, it can be very hard to action anything when done. In the end, could be useful; but likely costly personally, and I would think most would not see a good path to actually fixing the thing. Probably, the bias in Wikipedia, and the widespread knowledge about the bias, kills it over time, at least on controversial topics. AI equivalents like Grokipedia (only a few months old) are already a place I look for more truthful/complete info on controversial topics and subjects (politics, government, religions, the blockchain/crypto industry, etc.) where the source limitations and editing conflicts make it very hard to improve articles.

@EmergenceKirk @AshleyRindsberg @Wikipedia Maybe someone should keep a list of the editors colluding? Idk. Just seems it would be really good if people could be warned about how to separate the good from the bad. So much good there too as you can certainly attest.

Many US-based conservative news outlets are blacklisted by @Wikipedia. Fox News is branded unreliable. Breitbart is banned from even being mentioned. And yet….

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Well, me too—and I've owned two Model Ys—except for my @Cybertruck! ❗️ 📐 ... where I've just finished a full-year including 15,000 miles of road trips to 38 states and 5 Canadian provinces (as @EquinoxRoadTrip )

@Tesla Best car I've ever owned.

7 years ago today, we unveiled Model Y It became the world’s best-selling car of any kind just 3 years later

Real Streisand Effect phenomenon hitting Ryan Evans and War On The Rocks. Fascinating emergent behavior of the larger system around a smaller agent, who by legal threats and otherwise, attempts to tamp down criticism of his public actions. @WarOnTheRocks en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand…

Hello Mr. Evans, Today, War on the Rocks published a "rebuttal" which disclosed the real-life identity of @CynicalPublius . What the article did not mention: you had already posted his name on Bluesky before the WOTR piece published. The WOTR article cited his being “already known” as justification for printing his name. The person who made him “already known” was you. You manufactured the predicate for your own publication’s decision. You then blocked me. And then called me out. Repeatedly. You engaged me, mentioned me, tagged me — even said publicly that you were looking forward to what I had written about War on the Rocks. Blocking someone on a platform and then continuing to publicly engage them is not what a person who wants to be left alone does. It is what a person who wants the attention without the accountability does. You're framing your own just desserts as a “mass witch hunt” initiated by a Hello post I addressed to Brad Duplessis, your contributor, who named Cynical Publius in his debut WOTR piece without disclosing that Anderson’s recommendations for War College reform included eliminating the kind of permanent civilian faculty position Duplessis holds. You are being dunked on because of what you did to Cynical Publius, not because of anything I wrote. Blaming the letter for the blowback is like blaming the smoke alarm for the fire. Cynical Publius wrote that military institutions had drifted from their original professional mission toward ideological conformity and required reform. You responded by publishing his name. The question your letter to me does not answer — and the question a lot of people are now asking — is why an outlet that once existed to challenge that kind of institutional behavior became the one enforcing it. You yourself provide answers to that question. You launched War on the Rocks because you understood something true: the United States had spent two decades losing wars it shouldn't have lost. Twelve years later, when a pseudonymous retired Army officer argues that the War Colleges have drifted from warfighting competence toward ideological conformity, the platform you built publishes his name in the opening sentence. That is not an accident of character. It is how institutions stop being able to learn. Armies that cannot receive criticism cannot conduct honest after-action review. Institutions that cannot correct what they're getting wrong keep losing — and keep being surprised that they're losing, because the people tasked with explaining the failures are the same people defending the institutions that produced them. In short: Mr. Evans, you have been captured by the foreign policy expert class has presided over Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. And you don't even realize it. Wake up. And be on the lookout for a Substack article where I explain your history more thoroughly.