David Lukas

I'm deleting Twitter. I'll be over at @davidlukas.bsky.social. It seems a bit saner over there, for now.

@binarybits ~All human-involved accidents are human-caused, because materially all drivers are humans, so "mi/fatality" is equivalent to "mi/human-caused fatality". Since NOT all AV-involved accidents are AV-caused, the same equivalence does not apply to extrapolate "mi/AV-caused fatality".

I keep seeing people citing a David Zipper Bloomberg article from January with this wrong claim in it. Once you adjust for the fact that most crashes have multiple vehicles, the right human benchmark is around 56 million miles per fatality, not 80. Waymo was (slightly) safer.

An appointment was scheduled for a time I explicitly said I was not available. I've already placed my Xfinity order. I will cancel it if a Quantum Fiber tech is at my house before noon today. Otherwise I'm gone.

I've spent hours trying to get help, and the contractor tech who showed up yesterday and swapped out all my equipment to no avail just shrugged and left, telling me to call back in.

@quantumfiber I'm on day 3 of a home internet outage and am getting an unacceptable level of engagement from tech support.

@creepydotorg Ok my heart jumped in my chest for a second

19. Samara Morgan Halloween costume

The most creative Halloween costumes ever 🧵 1. 'Carrie Halloween costume

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

Cancelling my @washingtonpost subscription today was one of the easiest media consumption decisions I've ever made.

@sabaton thank you for an awesome concert tonight! My 11yo son Judah has loved you guys for years, and through him I've learned a ton of history from your music. He was so stoked to see you guys live, as was I! 🤘🪖

@sabaton 10/10. The Last Battle / Battle of Castle Itter is without a doing the most bizarre war story I know of, and I had not heard of it until hearing your song.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how much history have you learned with us, and which is your favourite story? Let us know. We’re curious! 🧐 #sabaton #25yearsofsabaton #history #historybuff #metal #rock #metalheads #historydose

At some point Hezbollah's chain of leadership succession is going to reach the Israeli mole, and boy if they think things are going poorly for them now, just wait until Mossad is in charge of Hezbollah.

Weird that there were no ceasefire calls the last 353 days that Hezbollah has been raining rockets in northern Israel timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…

@felkerm11 @AndreiCherny Thanks but I don't read Murdoch-owned publications. Why don't you summarize it for me.

@davidalukas @AndreiCherny There's my answer. Why I asked.... read the article.

@felkerm11 @AndreiCherny I don't know what the article said. I don't know what it said "last time" either. But I'm extremely confident, based on nothing more than these two tweets of yours, that you have never taken a macroecon class.

@davidalukas @AndreiCherny What does the article actually say about inflation? Not the headline... The last time, it was another deceiving article... it said the time it took to get from say 9% to 10% had slowed and not the actual inflation numbers dropping from 9% to 8%. If you read it helps.....

@felkerm11 @AndreiCherny Inflation *is* a rate. You might need to brush up on a few basics for this congressional run of yours...

@AndreiCherny Are we mixing words again, WP? Is it inflation or the rate of inflation at its lowest since 2021? The last time when you actually read the article it noted the rate of inflation. I'm not a drone... I ask questions and don't like half-truths.

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@AndreiCherny Simultaneously very sad and very proud. We need people like you in Congress so badly. Wishing you and your family the best; can't wait to hear what's next!

While its hard to come so close and fall short, win or lose, there are dreams worth chasing and things worth fighting for – and democracy, freedom, and America's future couldn’t be higher on that list. Thank you all for being part of this amazing adventure. Lets go win, #AZ01!

@JamesLucasIT I was incredibly fortunate to see a meteor about the same intensity as this one (10 years ago in Whistler). I'm pretty sure the dumbstruck look on my face was about the same too.

Thread of the most surreal sky phenomena ever caught on camera 🧵 1. The coolest meteor video ever

It is incomprehensible that this person was president, let alone might be president again.