Michael Ongstad

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Michael Ongstad

@MikeOngstad

Comms Professional. @UnivofStAndrews @StJohnsCollege. #Cyber, #Defense, #Democracy & #ForeignAffairs. Rage against the dying of the light.

Alexandria, VA Katılım Ağustos 2011
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Michael Ongstad
Michael Ongstad@MikeOngstad·
We need to stop looking at things like this as "blown opportunities" and call them what they are: proof of a fundamentally flawed electoral process. Why didn't Dems nominate a better candidate? For the same Reason Republicans didn't: partisan primaries.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur

Huge blown opportunity for Dems. Ron Johnson was deep underwater and going off about replacement theory, approval in the 30s, in a year that Ds grew their majority. But rallied around a flawed WI nom who left a paper trail of pro defund police and abolish ICE that Rs feasted on.

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Michael Ongstad
Michael Ongstad@MikeOngstad·
The @spurs worst enemy in the playoffs is always the NBA's unwritten "playoff basketball" rules, where fouling is basically legal until you foul back harder. "Physical basketball" always benefits the teams that play worse defense.
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Michael Ongstad
Michael Ongstad@MikeOngstad·
Honestly, I'd have painted the reflecting pool myself for $3 Million.
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Michael Ongstad
Michael Ongstad@MikeOngstad·
I'm just going to say it: Spirit is a trash airline that doesn't need to be saved. It only saves money for a small percent of flyers who are willing to travel by tiny backpack, which isn't enough to sustain a business. Let them go.
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Michael Ongstad
Michael Ongstad@MikeOngstad·
We desperately need a new privacy act. The existing laws are built around retrieving personal info by direct query, like searching SSNs or names. AI will get around that easily, or just do it anyways without audit logs. DOGE already showed some risks of unregulated govAI.
Erin Woo@erinkwoo

SCOOP: Google has signed a deal with the Pentagon to allow the use of its AI for "any lawful government purpose." Google’s agreement also requires it to assist in adjusting its AI safety settings and filters at the government’s request.

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Yashar Ali 🐘
Yashar Ali 🐘@yashar·
If you say that something is fake, a false flag, a setup, a hoax, a psyop, or staged before you have gathered any evidence and had a chance to analyze it, you’re radicalized, and that radicalization is impacting your ability to assess reality.
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Michael Ongstad
Michael Ongstad@MikeOngstad·
As a VA redistricting "no" voter, I have to say that the GOP did a piss poor job trying to win this vote. They had 2 messages: 1) Dems wanna take yer guns 2) Black people are getting disenfranchised. The 1st doesn't appeal to moderates & no one believes they care about the 2nd.
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Michael Ongstad
Michael Ongstad@MikeOngstad·
Spurs fiesta unis and stadium shirts are incredible. The crowd looks amazong! Eat your heart out other teams. Lets go Spurs!
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Michael Ongstad
Michael Ongstad@MikeOngstad·
You can argue that the founders, if they had the means, would've differentiated tactical bombing from "war" (they wouldn't have). But there is no doubt that a naval blockade, something they were intimately familiar with, would be an act of war requiring an act of Congress.
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Michael Ongstad
Michael Ongstad@MikeOngstad·
The Trump era is wild because youll be like "OMG a police state is trampling our rights and killing people, but woah we flew around the fucking moon, hell yeah! Oh but we're threatening genocide now and everything costs 8x as much."
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