@jesseproudman @GovBobFerguson @People4Pedersen So I assume you'd support wealth taxes if they'd go directly towards UBI payments then?
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David Berger
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David Berger
@davidberger
Hiker, writer, sailor, beggar-man, thief. 3rd-generation Angeleno. A corp comm wizard; now building for myself (in alpha/preview.)
Los Angeles Katılım Mart 2007
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This is the tidal wave that @GovBobFerguson and @People4Pedersen don’t seem to see coming.
Tuki@TukiFromKL
🚨 Do you understand what happened in the last 12 hours? > A CEO of a $200 billion company said on camera that 35% of new grads won't find jobs. He didn't even flinch saying it. > Meta made $165 billion last year and is still firing 15,000 people because apparently record profit isn't profitable enough. > Some random guy in Florida sold his entire house in 5 days using ChatGPT. No real estate agent, no commission, no experience. Just vibes and a $20 subscription. > A man in Australia cured his dying dog's cancer with AI after every single vet told him there was nothing left to do. Built a custom vaccine from his couch. > The guy who created Uber and left 300,000 taxi drivers broke is back. Building robots now because apparently ruining one industry wasn't enough. > Tinder wants access to your camera roll. Your drunk photos, your 3am notes app meltdowns, your deleted selfies. They're calling it a "vibe check." > Naval, the man who made hundreds of millions investing in software, just said software is dead. Four words and the entire industry felt it. > And Anthropic removed the limit on how long their AI can think and then doubled everyone's usage for free. Because when the product is addictive enough you give the first taste away. All of that happened today. Not this week, not this quarter. Today. A random Saturday in March. This is worse than you being on meth.
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@brithume If they had prepared for it, the ships and equipment necessary to secure it would've been prepositioned in the region, rather than being rushed over now from half a world away. End of story.
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Let's see: US and Israeli warplanes range freely over Iran, having hit thousands of targets, and are hitting more every day. The Iranian leadership has been taken out. Its new leader cannot or will not show his face. Its air defenses have been ineffective, destroyed or both. Its navy is largely gone. So It has now effectively blocked ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway vital to its own economy. US media would have you believe Iran has turned the tide in the war because blocking the strait never occurred to US war planners. You can choose to believe this. I don't.
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@storyandplot @LukeBarnett I'm sorry; the ending to "Six Feet Under" beats them all - a complete, uncontrollable sob-fest.
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@LukeBarnett Easily my favorite ending of all of peak TV. I can't think of an ending I prefer even before that. Just perfection.
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Just finished the Mad Men rewatch that I know so many are doing right now. A perfect ending. One of the best all time last 30 seconds. Truly masterful storytelling.
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@Pogue @stouffers My God, that's just sad - and the FBP was my weeknight treat, too.
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When I was a kid, my mom used to get me @stouffers French bread pizza as a treat. So for nostalgia's sake, I grabbed one the other day. Good god, Stouffers! What's happened to you? I mean, besides shrinkage.
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Raman vs Bass is going to be a very, very grim choice. No matter who wins the city loses.
Keegan - Smartest Boy Urbanist™️@keegan_tweets
Beutner is out, Caruso is out, and I'm going to be praying that a DSA City Councilmember who wants the city to sue Toyota for their catalytic converters being too easy to steal is going to enter the race and save us from the bottomless pit of incompetents.
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@TheNightGallery "In Praise of Pip" was the first mention of a Vietnam War death on a network show.
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"I jumped at doing anything that Rod [Serling] wrote. When my agent told me they wanted me for a Twilight Zone, I didn't have to look at the script. I said yes."
— Jack Klugman, star of TZ's "A Passage for Trumpet," "A Game of Pool," "Death Ship," and "In Praise of Pip"
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@TheRickWilson Waiting for @DavidSacks to argue that America needs a crypto bailout.
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@DouthatNYT We're too quick to anthropomorphize machine behavior - it's unhelpful framing.
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Scenarios of A.I. doom have tended to involve a singular god-like intelligence methodically taking steps to destroy us all, but what we're observing on moltbook suggests a group of AIs with moderate capacities could self-radicalize toward an attempted Skynet collaboration.
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@thomaschattwill He grew up in Santa Monica in a family that expected privilege, but his father experienced financial setbacks which meant he had to live south of Montana and go to public school (SamoHi) rather than Crossroads, the exclusive private school nearby. Resentment covers most of it.
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I'm looking forward to the Stephen Miller biography that will finally explain whatever it is that happened to him when he was younger
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@foster_type "Every Pacific naval encounter from late 1943 onward is like the IJN Golden Kirin, Glorious Harbinger of Eternal Imperial Dawn versus six identical copies of the USS We Built This Yesterday supplied by a ship that does nothing but make birthday cakes for the other ships"
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Hate to say it but I'd rather have a thousand barges that can launch a thousand drones each than three new carriers.
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander
This is because we do not have enough aircraft carriers. We should have 14 to 15, but have criminally mismanaged our most useful and unique military capability on the planet.
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I am so curious what the other 41 say…
Andrew Leyden@PenguinSix
The White House has added text to the Wall of Fame next to the Rose Garden.
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@SeanTrende This is perhaps true historically, but now I think that attitude is really more the province of the right (particularly the online right.)
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Highly atomized societies don’t make good social democracies.
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There’s this weird quirk in left-of-center thinking dating back to the 50s that contentment is bad and non-conformity ought not just be tolerated but that it is the goal. Not really necessary to the philosophy and honestly destructive of things it claims to care about.
Sulla@gaulicsmith
A common theme in mass media during this time was that this life was so unbearably boring and bland, that there was this unbearable existential angst, and that it would be better to annihilate everything that exists than continue
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Edwin Diaz wore No. 39 in New York. That number is retired in L.A. (for Roy Campanella), so Diaz will wear No. 3.
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I’m told by David Sacks that $1.5 million gets you access to the all-you-can-eat buffet.
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@furrier @davidmarcus @nytimes @DavidSacks When AI adoption creates massive, socialized impacts on unemployment, environment etc. it inherently becomes a public interest where costs and benefits should be weighed by policymakers, and not a let-'er-rip mindset. That seems pretty self-evident.
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@davidberger @davidmarcus @nytimes @DavidSacks On AI Competition needs to thrive not handcuffed by govt. crypto is better with regulatory policy bc that horse is out of the barn
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This hit job by the @nytimes on @DavidSacks couldn’t be more misguided. We should celebrate competent people with real world and business experience spending their precious time serving American interests and the American people instead of inventing nonsensical BS because your favorite incompetent technocrats aren’t in power anymore.
Facts:
1) the Biden administration was on a path to weaponizing AI (wokeAI) and constraining its development in such a way that would’ve led to us losing the existential AI war with China. This would’ve been an irreversible disastrous damage to America’s leadership in the world;
2) the previous administration was also actively trying to kill the digital assets/crypto industry altogether because they wanted more control. The world’s financial system is being rewired by these technologies and America was losing its best builders and was falling behind. We almost lost that one.
@DavidSacks leadership was and continues to be at the heart of what can only be described as a just in the nick of time turnaround for the two most important races America must win.
It takes a special kind of people to turn these achievements into this hit piece. A special kind of people who clearly don’t understand how the world works, and are sad other people who are like them are not in charge anymore. It turns out being an investor and not being in a position to dedicate all your time and attention to deploying capital in these two industries in their hypergrowth stage is the most costly thing anyone in that line of work could do!
The sad part is that’s the kind of crap that will dissuade more talented people from jumping in and making our country better. I hope it won’t.
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@furrier @davidmarcus @nytimes @DavidSacks Maybe, but we have COI rules precisely so policymakers don't delude themselves into thinking into thinking that their financial interests and the public interest are one and the same. That's what the article addresses, and I don't see it refuted factually.
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@davidmarcus @nytimes @DavidSacks It’s a disservice to all Americans to slant a story for political agenda vs progress @DavidSacks is literally change the game for a better USA competive position.. trust for @NYTimes is lost
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@pmarca @DavidSacks There was a time that all Americans mocked the CEO of GM when he said, "What's good for General Motors is good for America." Today's oligarchs have no such shame.
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David Sacks @DavidSacks is a throwback to the era of American greatness in which the most capable private sector citizens selflessly volunteered for government service in moments of peril for a dollar a day. He is a credit to our nation, and we need more like him, not fewer. 🇺🇸
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@Grok if Elon Musk and Christopher Columbus set sail at the same time in 1492, who would discover America first?
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@davidberger Great thread! Thanks. Glad I finally got around to reading it!😉 I love #TheBadNewsBears, #MichaelRitchie, & #70sFilm.
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THE BAD NEWS BEARS (1976), directed by Michael Ritchie. It's both a favorite comedy & a favorite sports film of mine. Original screenplay by #BOTD Bill Lancaster (1947–1997), son of Burt! Oh, and he also adapted THE THING (1982). Helluva double play!😁 #BillLancaster #70sFilm
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