Alex Turner

@ycombinator @amiklas Hey @ycombinator & @amiklas… we heard you’re looking for us 👀 We’d be happy to show you what we’ve built so far, and we may even have a little room left in the round. 😉 DM and check out trydotted.com

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org

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@KirillOsenkov @migueldeicaza @terrajobst @ckindel @BDisp @jaredpar Hah - awesome! Yea, I built QuickVB as a proof of concept back in 2014 to learn the Roslyn API! Had semantic colorization, completion lists and diagnostics! I can still remember that crazy LINQ query by heart! Someone archived CodePlex here: archive.org/details/quickvb

@migueldeicaza @terrajobst @ckindel @BDisp @jaredpar paging @TheTuvix for VBBasic

Do you like terminal UIs, fixed-pitch fonts, and TurboPascal? I just dropped v1.6.0 of Terminal.Gui, the easiest way to build modern cross-platform terminal apps using .NET. Now includes a color picker control. #gui.cs @migueldeicaza @BDisp github.com/migueldeicaza/…

My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol.

The future of mixed reality is #open! Open stores, open browsers and, of course, open developer platforms, powered by OpenXR! techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/mixed-reali…

We’re excited to share our plans for OpenXR. Read on to learn more👇 on.unity.com/2G0Fn5P

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Multiple conformant implementations from @Microsoft and @oculus have shipped; New advanced cross-vendor hand and eye tracking extensions; Minecraft, Blender, Chromium, and Firefox Reality embracing OpenXR! khr.io/ua

📣 Calling all Unreal developers! Support for Windows Mixed Reality (VR) and HoloLens 2 (AR) is now included in Unreal Engine's newest release! Check out our latest docs on getting started with Unreal development: msft.it/6019TWE4H #HoloLens #UE5

YES, police are more likely to use excessive force against African Americans: ***post-Eric Garner (2014): 33% of Americans, 26% of whites ***post-George Floyd (2020): 57% of Americans, 49% of whites This is the ground shifting beneath us in real time. politico.com/news/magazine/…

This is @evanyou's answer to those who demanded to remove the #BlackLivesMatter banner from vuejs.org saying it's "racist against non-black people." 👏👏👏

I’d like to tell you a story about Bruce Springsteen and the New York City Police Department.

I’ll say this once. My wife had cancer. If I’m having a Cancer fundraiser, I don’t need you or anyone else running in yelling “All Diseases Matter.” Right now, #BlackLivesMatter  and it’s OK for you to say that. Say it. You don’t need to qualify it any more. No “but”

At this time, we will be using our platform to amplify voices from the Black and African American community at Microsoft. And we’re starting with Megan Carpenter: msft.it/6003TcJ0V.

#CalAndersonPark is where we eat Molly Moon’s salted caramel ice-cream cones every June 1st while watching bicycle polo tournaments. Not get tear-gassed in our own neighborhood by our own police.

Trump's forces shot tear gas at a priest outside St. John's so he could pose for a photo op with a bible and pretend to be Christian. Is America great yet?