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Kevin Wilson

@KevinWilsonROC

Host of A Free Solution podcast. Once got over 5K people to vote for me. Usually libertarian, optimist

Rochester, NY Katılım Ağustos 2012
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David J. Bier
David J. Bier@David_J_Bier·
Many conservatives are remembering how Paul Ehrlich was wrong about all his enviro-pessimism and supposed constraints on growth, but all those views are the same concerns that fuel the anti-immigrant movement. Zero sum. Fixed pie. Misanthropy. People as "takers," not makers.
Iain Murray@ismurray

Let us not forget that for years Paul Ehrlich was an adviser to the anti-immigrant group FAIR, and is therefore partly responsible for the current anti-immigrant hysteria. This also may be the first time I have ever cited SPLC... splcenter.org/resources/extr…

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Neil Chilson ⤴️⬆️🆙📈 🚀
Neil Chilson ⤴️⬆️🆙📈 🚀@neil_chilson·
People occasionally ask me, "What's the opposite of Abundance?" The answer is Paul Ehrlich. His grotesque ideas poisoned an entire generation. He saw his fellow humans as a out-of-control virus, rather than a rich tapestry of creative problems solvers. He unrepentedly advocated for inhumane polices such as cutting off food aid to India and mass sterilization. He was wrong, and not harmlessly. His policies killed people. Many people. He didn't care. May his name be forgotten but his life remain a warning to all of the danger of simplistically distilling policy from extrapolated trend lines with zero humility and no regard for the human lives involved.
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Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥@senatorshoshana·
"Let’s be clear about what this bill actually does. It doesn’t create a world where people with legal disputes get lawyers, or where people with confusing diagnoses get doctors. It doesn’t fund legal aid clinics or expand Medicaid. It doesn’t do anything to make professional care more accessible or affordable. What it does, with surgical precision, is eliminate one of the few tools that was democratizing access to professional services. One of the professional class’s castle walls was coming down."
Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸@GaryWinslett

Last week, this bill got introduced and, in a nutshell, it pretends to be about consumer protection but it's actually just rent-seeking. I've got a new article out today (link below) on why we shouldn't be doing this kind of anti-competitive gatekeeping around AI chatbots.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray·
I often see conservative content like this, and I wonder: do they not realize stuff like this still happens? Every city and suburb in the country hosts a procession of family-focused summer events. You can go to them!
Sassafrass84@Sassafrass_84

Me too.

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Greg Lukianoff
Greg Lukianoff@glukianoff·
Abolish the FCC and remember that this is why you do not want an FCC for AI (FAIC no!). Power wants control of information, and you have to keep a wall of separation between power and truth.
Brendan Carr@BrendanCarrFCC

Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters. The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news. When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong. It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media. And we can’t allow that to happen. Time for change!

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Kelsey Piper
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc·
My ancestors buried half their children. All mine are alive. My ancestors' house had a dirt floor. Mine is wood. I have indoor plumbing, I have hot water, I have never in my life hauled a full bucket half a mile and I probably never will. Do you know how rare it is, in human history, for small children to wear shoes? Mine have multiple pairs. I can speak to my relatives who live thousands of miles away, for free, at any time. Video, if we want video. With machine translation, if we speak different languages. The original Library of Congress had 740 books in it. I have more than that. If I run out of books in my home my local public library has 350,000. If I want to take a hundred books with me on vacation, they all fit on a device that fits in my purse. I have heat in the winter and AC in the summer and a washing machine and I have never, ever, ever had to scrub a dress clean by hand in the stream. I can look up recipes from more than a hundred different countries and I've tried dozens of them. I ride a clean and modern train across my city for $4, or take a robot taxi if I'm out too late for the train. I donate $40,000 every year to the cause of getting healthcare to the world's poorest people and even after the donations I never have to think about whether I can afford a book, or a pair of shoes, or a cup of coffee. There is a great deal more to fight for, of course. I hope that our descendants will look back on our lives and list a thousand ways they're richer. Maybe we ourselves will do that, if some of the crazier stuff comes true. But the abundance is all around you and to a significant degree you aren't feeling it only because fish don't notice water.
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Kevin Wilson@KevinWilsonROC·
They have the privilege to be chosen by voters to serve on City council. To squander that by not even doing the basics of showing up is a disgrace. Look at those absentee rates! Embarrassing. wxxinews.org/local-news/202…
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Kevin Wilson@KevinWilsonROC·
The way members of Rochester City council talk about legislation requiring them to show up to meetings is so ridiculous, I'd assume it was right-wing propaganda if it wasn't posted on @WXXINews (& true). It's "white privilege" to have consequences for being a no show is wild.
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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
That is correct, in response to the fake problem of PE firms "buying up so many houses" the slopulists have created a brand new real problem by reducing investors' ability to build new homes.
Ryan Grim@ryangrim

We spent the last few years being told by the Abundance types that the whole thing about PE buying up so many houses is a fake, made up panic. Now they’re saying the housing bill just passed is a big problem because it would crimp that build-to-rent market, which we were previously told is totally inconsequential.

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Christian Britschgi
Christian Britschgi@christianbrits·
It's wild to watch the federal push for more housing collapse in real time b/c of baseless panic about large investors owning homes. Senate just voted 89-9 to advance an effective ban on build-to-rent homes, which would reduce new supply by an est. 50k a year.
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Ken Girardin
Ken Girardin@PolicyEngineer·
Good morning! Today could go down in history as the most expensive day ever for NY taxpayers. Public employee unions are right now headed to Albany to pressure Gov. Hochul into retroactively sweetening their pensions and slashing their retirement age to 55. Some background...🧵
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Mike Young
Mike Young@micyoung75·
When Idaho pushes back and brings red states along with it this stops being a partisan story. That is the tell. The Justice Department is not asking for audit samples or targeted compliance checks. It wants full unredacted files on every registered voter in the country. Names, addresses, birth dates, party, history. Personal data that belongs under state protection sitting in a federal pipeline with no clear statutory guardrail on what happens next. Marc Elias is right to name the pattern. Twelve states have handed it over. The rest have looked at the same request and seen the precedent underneath it. Any future administration, whatever stripe, inherits that pipeline fully built and ready to use for purposes nobody is advertising right now. Decentralized election administration was not an accident. It was the specific design choice made to prevent this kind of consolidation. States holding that line is not obstruction. It is the republic functioning as intended. Good on Idaho. Good on every state clerk who read this request and said not yet... not without something a lot clearer than this.
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Marc E. Elias@marceelias

Earlier this week, Idaho became the latest state to push back against the U.S. Department of Justice’s campaign to seize the private voter data of every state. democracydocket.com/analysis/even-…

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Pessimists Archive
Pessimists Archive@PessimistsArc·
1936: A New York bill would ban Radio from answering questions related to licensed professions like law. (via our substack newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/nyc-once-ban…)
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More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS

A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more. The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.

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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
This is incumbent protection dressed up as safety. New York Senate Bill S7263 covers 14 licensed professions and makes chatbot operators liable for any "substantive response" in those fields. The bill never defines "substantive response." Telling someone "ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory" and "take 400mg for your headache" trigger the same liability. Here's who actually gets hurt: 92% of civil legal problems faced by low-income Americans go without any legal help. Over 100 million Americans can't afford a lawyer for basic needs like eviction, custody, or debt collection. Lawyers charge $211-$424/hour. The U.S. ranks 107th out of 142 countries on accessibility of civil justice. AI was the first tool in history that could meaningfully close that gap. A tenant getting evicted at 11 PM could ask a chatbot "can my landlord do this?" and get a real answer. Under S7263, that interaction makes the operator liable for practicing law without a license. The bill also creates a private right of action with fee-shifting, meaning winning plaintiffs collect legal costs. This is the exact mechanism that generated 5,100+ ADA web accessibility lawsuits in 2025, where 31 plaintiffs and 16 law firms filed over half the cases. Serial litigation as a business model, handed a new industry. If this sounds familiar: NYC de facto banned Airbnb to protect hotels. Listings dropped 90%, hotel prices jumped 7%, rents kept rising. Different level of government, same instinct. Protect the incumbent, call it consumer safety. The sponsors say "people deserve real care from real people." The 100 million Americans who can't afford real people already know that line doesn't pay for a lawyer. The bill passed committee 6-0. Operators will preemptively restrict AI outputs for New York users before any court weighs in on First Amendment challenges. The people who lose access first are the ones who needed it most.
Polymarket@Polymarket

BREAKING: New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, & more.

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Kevin Wilson@KevinWilsonROC·
Absolutely awful policy. Hope the NY leg thinks through the implications of this. Probably good to have disclaimers but this robs a lot of people of good general direction advice on topics that are normally expensive to access only through a professional. Hurts low income people
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS

A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more. The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.

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