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Mike Brownfield

@mikebrownfield

VP of Communications / Strategy at @GoldwaterInst. I hang my hat in Michigan but my office and favorite hiking trails are in Arizona.

Royal Oak, MI Katılım Aralık 2008
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Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful
Why is there suddenly such an aggressive push against American data centers and AI infrastructure? After seeing a major spike in coordinated opposition campaigns around our Utah projects, we conducted a digital audit and traced a large amount of the activity back to an organization called Alliance for a Better Utah, which has been pushing misinformation throughout Box Elder County about our data center developments. What’s even more concerning is where the funding appears to originate. After reviewing IRS Form 990 filings and tracing the network behind it, the money appears tied to Chinese linked funding channels connected through an organization called Arabella. Think about the incentive, if China is racing to dominate AI and compute capacity, why wouldn’t they want to slow American infrastructure down?
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Hambone's Word. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Norm Macdonald early stand up set 1989.🤣🤣🤣 Audio isn't great at first as they were kicking a guy out.
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Dave Bondy
Dave Bondy@DaveBondyTV·
Michigan State Rep. @matthewmaddock showed up to today’s consensus revenue estimating conference in Lansing wearing a @DOGE baseball cap. This is the meeting where officials decide how much tax money the state expects to bring in next year, which ultimately shapes Michigan’s budget.
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Mom@mom_agency_·
Claude's first day at Dunder Mifflin
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Craig Mauger
Craig Mauger@CraigDMauger·
Duck family crossing the road in downtown Lansing
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Mike Brownfield@mikebrownfield·
I don't trust the MPSC any more than I trust any other governmental body. But that's our system of governance. So yeah, let's fix the system. In the meantime, we still need to build things. Michigan should not stand still just because parts of our government might be incompetent. Elon Musk didn't close up shop because NASA sucks.
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Tom Leonard
Tom Leonard@TomLeonard28·
@mikebrownfield Doesn’t the MPSC approve the contracts? Again, do you trust the MPSC? I can’t find anyone winning to say that.
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Mike Brownfield
Mike Brownfield@mikebrownfield·
It’s not the MPSC alone. It’s Michigan law plus the actual contracts between data centers and utilities. Those contracts require long-term deals, minimum payments, and proof that data centers cover their own infrastructure costs. If we can’t trust contracts, their enforceability, and the rule of law, no business will ever get done in our state.
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Tom Leonard
Tom Leonard@TomLeonard28·
On MPSC oversight, I’ll ask you the same question I ask everyone that gives that answer. Given the MPSC’s track record, do you truly have faith they will adequately regulate data centers? I haven’t found one person willing to publicly say “yes.” Would be interested if you’re the first.
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Team McMorrow
Team McMorrow@TeamMcMorrow·
Turns out Abdul El-Sayed misrepresented, over and over, being a physician. He’s not. The truth? He’s never held a medical license, never did a residency, and never passed his boards.
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PJ Ace
PJ Ace@PJaccetturo·
This is one of the best short films I've seen in years. Very soon, we'll stop calling it "AI film" and just call it film.
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Mike Brownfield
Mike Brownfield@mikebrownfield·
“I just hope your opposition doesn’t turn into a blind hatred of the country, but remember this is a great country, with all of its faults. I said, If you have any doubt about it, go down to the passport office. You won’t see many people lining up to get out of the country. Abroad, you will see a number lining up to get in.”
Richard Nixon Foundation@nixonfoundation

Failed? Here's RN's recollections after his visit: "Manolo and I got out of the car at approximately 4:40 and walked up the steps to the Lincoln statue. . . . By this time a few small groups of students had begun to congregate in the rotunda of the Memorial. I walked over to a group of them . . . and shook hands. They were not unfriendly. As a matter of fact, they seemed somewhat overawed, and, of course, quite surprised. When I first started to speak to the group there were approximately eight in it. I asked each of them where they were from and found that over half were from upper New York State. At this point, all of them were men. There were no women. To get the conversation going I asked them how old they were, what they were studying, the usual questions. . . . Two or three of them volunteered that they had not been able to hear the press conference because they had been driving all night in order to get here. I said I was sorry they had missed it because I had tried to explain in the press conference that my goals in Vietnam were the same as theirs—to stop the killing and end the war—to bring peace. Our goal was not to get into Cambodia by what we were doing, but to get out of Vietnam. They did not respond, so I took it from there by saying that I realized that most of them would not agree with my position, but I hoped that they would not allow their disagreement on this issue to lead them to fail to give us a hearing on some other issues where we might agree. And also particularly I hoped that their hatred of the war, which I could well understand, would not turn into a bitter hatred of our whole system, our country, and everything that it stood for. I said, I know that probably most of you think I’m an SOB, but I want you to know that I understand just how you feel. I recall that when I was just a little older than you, right out of law school and ready to get married, how excited I was when Chamberlain came home from Munich and made his famous statement about peace in our time. I had heard it on the radio. I had so little in those days that the prospect of going into the service was almost unbearable and I felt that the United States staying out of any kind of conflict was worth paying any price whatever. I pointed out, too, the fact that I came from a Quaker background. I was as close to being a pacifist as anybody could be in those times. As a result I thought at that time, that Chamberlain was the greatest man alive, and when I read Churchill’s all-out criticism of Chamberlain I thought Churchill was a madman." (Continued)

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Mike Brownfield@mikebrownfield·
@Keithhambone Norm is a lot funnier when you don’t cut up the joke, speed it up, and ruin the timing.
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