Mats
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Mats
@Mat_IRL
Ex-Twitter Trust & Safety. Was into the free speech thing before it was cool. bonum certamen certavi
Ireland & France Katılım Mart 2017
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@ChienSurpris Le tutoiement d’office suivi par une leçon préparée à l’avance dans le but d’exploiter commercialement des clashs pour une chaîne YouTube est une indélicatesse pire que le "café, monsieur ?" de la première personne.
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Le concept de la vidéo, c’est simplement d’offrir un café dans la rue.
Mais ce qui m’a frappé, c’est la vitesse à laquelle certains passent de la demande à l’exigence. Il n’y a même pas vraiment de phase de gratitude. Comme si la gratuité était immédiatement considérée comme normale, presque obligatoire.
Et lorsque le café n’est pas donné, ou pas assez vite, ou pas dans les conditions qu’ils espéraient, la réaction peut devenir agressive instantanément.
C’est assez perturbant à observer, parce qu’on réalise à quel point certaines personnes ne perçoivent plus le geste gratuit comme une faveur, mais comme quelque chose qui leur est dû par défaut.
La gratuité répétée finit parfois par créer non pas de la reconnaissance, mais une forme d’exigence permanente.
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@BoringBiz_ If there is one thing the period after COVID is known for, it's the vibrancy of its indoors events
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Life before this tweet dropped back in 2022
Sam Altman@sama
today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here: chat.openai.com
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@HumbleFlow I don't doubt the baseline level was higher, but it's not like you would be dropped into that exam unprepared.
Whoever took that exam had spent years hearing tweed-wearing professors talking all day about the Meter and Sophocles and they were drilled on the expected answers.
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It’s a shame that almost no one today (myself included) would pass this 1902 Oxford scholarship exam.
People are getting dumber
Athenaeum Book Club@athenaeumbc
This is a 1902 Oxford scholarship exam. How would you do?
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@CatholicRob Many of these parishes are just not in a healthy or viable state generally speaking, including with regards to their regular parishioner population.
It's very straightforward why a convert surge would not be taking place there, short of a miracle.
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The real reason why the surge in Catholic converts seems to be happening really only among the urban "elite" is that it is really only urbanites who have regular access to halfway decent parishes. It's a Catholic wasteland out in the sticks.
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@avrilbradley23 "EU federalist with lowkey sulfurous RW signaling" is the most perplexing type of activism I see on this app.
Even having known many strongly pro-UE people, I have never seen in real life anyone this niche would appeal to. I wonder what type of astroturfing must be at play.
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The artist had to be aware of the Vichy era cartoon drawing this tbh.
Michael 🇪🇺🌺@Antikeburg
We must see Europe as a mother and our nations as its children
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@bonchieredstate Lupita Nyong’o is an academy award winning actress, Sydney Sweeney isn’t. I thought DEI was dead and we were merit based now.
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Helen of Troy will probably be in ‘The Odyssey’ for like two minutes. It’s not going to make or break the movie.
But come on. Everyone knows what the reaction would be if Nolan was doing an African mythology and cast Sydney Sweeney as a sub-Saharan princess.
Let’s not be dumb.
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@RomainHedouin The worst part is the paper form is sometimes the better option vs filing online if you have diverse streams of income and qualifying tax credits to declare
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Here is the paperwork I have to fill up myself for taxes in France
This is my punishment for working and investing my money
Never go full socialism
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@THEZONEEEEEE @mike_slugs It was common during the Napoleon era between European powers, but the honor system was sometimes limited to officers
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@mike_slugs Seems to be quite a common thing for the era, remember reading about napoleons campaigns in Egypt & Syria and after defeating an Ottoman force he set the prisoners free provided they don’t attack him again, they broke that, when the French seized Jaffa he executed all prisoners
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@skholastikos Je ne m’explique toujours pas qu’une organisation qui a, pour mettre ça en termes contemporains, 2000 ans d’expérience en événementiel bloque encore les sorties après la Messe et n’indique pas le sens d'une file d’attente.
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L’église de france rationaliser un tout petit peu ses pratiques challenge impossible
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Les prêtres qui prennent 15 min pour confesser chaque pénitent alors que y en a litteralement 15 dans la file ça m’épuise
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@ReubenR80027912 There's been some discourse about employee groups/BRGs for example, which are carefully designed to include anyone but non-veteran straight white men. Someone who has not been exposed to something like this cannot meaningfully weigh in on meritocracy in the 2020s corpo workplace
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A massive blindspot for Hanania & many big accounts: they have NEVER worked for a large non-media corporation
To not have this exp means they genuinely do not understand how the world actually works
This is unrelated to H1Bs etc: it’s just something I always think w/ these guys
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania
Think about what’s going on here. The American tech sector is the most productive economic engine in the world. The right wants you to believe Indian success in the industry is all a huge scam. This is about the stupidest narrative you can imagine. Traditionally, this is the kind of talk you got on the socialist and anti-white left. It’s the ideology of urban rabble rousers encouraging looting of Jewish stores and the speeches of third world revolutionary dictators. If this is the right, then there’s no point to any of it. It’s descended into the gutter.
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@nightlightra1n @hellspatisserie How can there be so much to unpack in a single tweet
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@hellspatisserie It’s their word choice + mouth movement. My ISP uses an ai driven voice changer to mask accents. The cadence at which they draw out words, saying “kindly” or “comfort room,” + the mouth shape they use to make vowel sounds is always different. I am autistic and also racist tho.
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Always weird when you hear someone speak English, they absolutely don’t have an accent at all, but you can kinda tell they have some kind of Background by voice alone. Like “you speak absolutely perfect, accentless, native English but you’re clearly a bit Russian with it”
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@JadeAtrophis I once read about Central Asian herders refusing on general principle to entertain hypotheticals when asked, calling them silly.
The testers chalked it to low IQ but I've always thought that was a wiser approach than the midwit proclivities toward manipulative hypotheticals.
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You are not anywhere near intelligent enough to be trying this schtick
Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐@TrueSlazac
“What if you were born in Sudan” “But I was born in America” “I know, it’s a hypothetical, how would you feel if you were born in Sudan” “But that’s impossible, I was born in America”
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seriously, do not fucking do this
signed, someone with a gravel driveway who lives on a gravel road off a gravel road
▼ Kiel James Patrick@KJP
This is your sign to rip up your asphalt driveway and replace it with gravel 🫣
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@Peter_Nimitz And that's keeping in mind the veterans one often encounters in corporate America are the Vindmans
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My old employer had mentors for all new hires, but it would be someone only a few years older, & only when we started out. After that, you had to be in an "Employee Resource Group" to get on the promotion fast track. Only ERG open to White or Asian men required veteran status.
_s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_@st_louis_stan
One of the craziest things in my 20s was finding out that nearly every post college woman I knew somehow had a "mentor," ie a boomer male who went out of his way to professionally guide her
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@DukeHerndon The likelihood of a straight guy who ostensibly enjoys the "clout" making it to Director post-MeToo at around age 30 is astronomically low.
Reads like a Madmen reference, not real corporate life one can generalize from.
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I hate to admit, but I’m partially to blame. When you get to around 30 and have some clout at work (e.g., director role) you might notice a certain fealty of 22-28 y.o. women. They’re often eager and trainable in ways stubborn young men aren’t. They can make great employees.
_s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_@st_louis_stan
One of the craziest things in my 20s was finding out that nearly every post college woman I knew somehow had a "mentor," ie a boomer male who went out of his way to professionally guide her
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@mikimikisukii The Confederacy was a Norman plot to destroy Anglo democracy, not many know this.
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Castrates self to save the environment
Blames the Confederacy for it.
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Mats retweetledi
The key settlement line:
Biden's White House "did in fact violate the First Amendment by exerting substantial coercive pressure on social media companies such as Twitter to suppress disfavored speech like Plaintiff’s"
Not "jawboning." They coerced Twitter to ban me. Vindicated!
Alex Berenson@AlexBerenson
BOOM! @TheJusticeDept has settled the federal portion of Berenson v Biden, my lawsuit over the conspiracy to force Twitter to ban me in 2021. The suit will go ahead against @AlbertBourla and @ScottGottliebMD of Pfizer. Thank you @realdonaldtrump for standing up for my rights.
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@memeticsisyphus The top reply from OP gives away this particular question was, despite being turned derisively, his actual priority
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I think the trans community was really harmed by people like this. I think most people in the west are happy to accommodate weirdness. Accept the asterisk that goes with being a transwoman and move on. But instead there was a large push by people like this that insisted there was no asterisk. That transitioning was actually possible. This led them to absurdities like the female penis. Simply saying yes trans women aren’t the same as women could resolve it, but the ideology stops them. It leads them to the absurd. It also torches the public’s confidence in your ability to handle anything, seeing how you bend to ideology even when it makes you look ridiculous. Why would we let you change anything in society?
Ben Mclaine@BenMclaine
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@GergelyOrosz Yeah that blew my mind when I started working for a US corp.
The concept of career growth in my home country was something like "get promoted to manager at all costs". Unsurprisingly but not coincidentally, the management culture itself is about as bad as you can expect.
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A good read and unfortunately rings true for too many EU-HQ'd companies:
"the expectation that in Europe the transition from individual contributor to a managerial track is the "natural" career progression"
For a standout tech company you want SOME eng > managers eg in €€
Jonas Andrulis@JonasAndrulis
I'm currently doing a lot of interviews with some of the best technical talent in the world. This helped me realize a pattern about the European job market that is not that talked about but has massive impact on tech in Europe. Wdyt? Are you a tech IC? Can you confirm? andrulis.de/blog/20260429_…
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