Likely no one cares, but I've decided I'm done with Twitter. There was no particular precipitating event, I just feel like it's a net negative and I'm going to stop.
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Shawn Willden
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Shawn Willden
@shawnwillden
Tech Lead for Android hardware-backed security subsystems. Thoughts are my own, not Google's.
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@NBCPolitics This is a propaganda J6 hit piece written by partisan hack leftist activist disguised as a journalist Ryan J Reilly.
@ryanjreilly State controlled media needs to be eradicated. He and NBC are the voice of Communism.
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A Trump supporter who was among the first rioters to breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been convicted of plotting to kill FBI special agents who investigated him over his crimes at the Capitol. nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
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@JDHaltigan What downright false misinformation has Stelter trafficked in? (I don't know who he is; I don't watch CNN, or TV, really.)
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Imagine the levels of delusion you have to have to post this as a left wing journalist who has regularly trafficked in the most grotesque downright false misinformation for at least the last decade.
Brian Stelter@brianstelter
>> @drsanjaygupta: "There are these kernels of truth" in what RFK Jr. says, but they're "mixed in with stuff that is not just 'alternative' facts, they are downright false."
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@QTheLibertine1 @PhilipWegmann @elonmusk I sure hope you're right, but given that Trump has already taken a multi-billion dollar payoff to change his position on one minor issue (Tiktok), it's hard to believe there's not a lot more coming.
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@shawnwillden @PhilipWegmann @elonmusk Jesus, you people live in an alternate reality. It's exhausting.
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Trump says of @ElonMusk at Mar-a-Lago, “he likes this place—I can’t get him out of here!”
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@shteivred @krishnanrohit Nah, this is just acknowledging the reality of what AI can do *now*. Give it a few years and a few more leaps in capability and we'll be back to AI replacing people... because it will be happening.
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@krishnanrohit It’s not just political, of course.
It’s just more accurate. AI hype cycle is moving fast to people realizing it’s not the end all be all substitute for humans, but it’s a pretty good tool enhancer!
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Is it me or is there a big vibe shift to discussing AI agents as helpers and productivity enhancers rather than something that'll displace you in a couple years?
Tsarathustra@tsarnick
Jensen Huang says AI agents can't do 100% of any job, but they will do 50% of the work for 100% of people, and AI won't take your job; AI used by somebody else will take your job
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@SalomeSibonex @mmeJen The notion of making him president absolutely was a joke, a long-running one.
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@mmeJen @shawnwillden Yeah he was definitely not “a joke” in the sense of being a nonsensical figure of scorn. He was just another idiosyncratic celebrity personality. It wasn’t until he became a political challenge that he was demonized
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And here’s their latest.
It’s a full blown demonization campaign.
Every figure associated with Trump is a scary “supervillain,”—rhetoric that shuts off the rational brain, turns tribalism up to 100, and gives their echo chamber audience the unearned satisfaction of being heroes for going along with it.
I’ve come to believe that above all, the media is the cancer.
FischerKing@FischerKing64
Current cover of the New Yorker
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@shawnwillden @cmdicely @mattyglesias I think the better constitutional argument would be that since Trump won in 2020 but it was stolen, then he has the right to be in office for the whole 3 terms. I think you could argue that only 2 terms are allowed unless there is fraud or some other excusable circumstance.
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@GordMagill @scottlincicome @oren_cass When you say the roads are a mess, what are you referring to? I can think of several things you might mean, I'm just trying to understand which one(s) you do mean.
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@scottlincicome @oren_cass I’ll come and tell you how your advocacy for free trade in truck drivers has turned our roads into a mess and resulted in American drivers wages being at 50% of what they were in 1980, and what was supposedly a free trade arrangement has actually been propped up by the state.
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They realized they can't defend globalization at all so they're going with this instead.
Friends, let me tell you about Joe. He's just a guy who wants to make iPhones. For you. For cheap. And maybe you've got some soybeans that he wants too...
Scott Lincicome@scottlincicome
Globalization isn't a thing. It's billions of humans freely cooperating for mutual gain in billions of ways, without direction from any one person, company, or government. It’s around us all the time; its benefits far outweigh its costs; and it’s been going on forever:
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@centralvision1 @mattyglesias He does always seem to avoid most of the consequences.
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@shawnwillden @mattyglesias Outsmarting something is finding any way to get what you want without the consequences outweighing the benefits. I think Trump is very, very good at that.
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@jaustincarter @GunOwners I don't recall any serious attempt.
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We look forward to working with President Trump and Vice President Vance.
Congress must pass National Concealed Carry Reciprocity!
Fox News Politics@foxnewspolitics
Trump's victory over Harris proves 'Second Amendment won,' gun rights groups say trib.al/GqWqGNu
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@centralvision1 @mattyglesias I don't think Trump is good at outsmarting anything, but his willingness to ignore norms and the consequences of breaking them is exceptional, and his faction is large enough that someone is likely to find any loophole.
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@shawnwillden @mattyglesias Yeah… I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t slightly worried about that. Trumps ability to outsmart the legal system is unmatched.
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@Mitole2019 @cmdicely @mattyglesias Also, given that the Democrats impeached him twice, Trump is due a third term, amirite?
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@cmdicely @mattyglesias With all the unfair criticism already, they are entitled to do recess appointments. Senators should not publicly state whether they will confirm until after the hearings. Dems broke the norms.
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@centralvision1 @mattyglesias Assuming Thune doesn't let Trump do everything as recess appointments.
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@mattyglesias These confirmation hearings are about to be pure entertainment. X is so unprepared, it’s going to feel like watching a live comedy special 😂
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@shawnwillden @owenbroadcast Political appointees aren't usually technocrats. Like CEOs aren't usually programmers (with a few notable exceptions).
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love this cartoon because people post it as an argument against populism but its actually just an argument against choosing leaders by voting, i.e. democracy
S.V. Dáte@svdate
More true today than ever.
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@mmeJen @SalomeSibonex No, he was mostly a joke. That's why Doonesbury did all those "Trump as President" bits, because the thought was funny.
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@shawnwillden @SalomeSibonex He was a beloved superstar. Everyone who calls him Hitler today absolutely loved him.
Grant Cardone@GrantCardone
Remember Oprah Winfrey told Donald Trump: ‘We should run for office together ’ published in Letters to Trump
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@SalomeSibonex Trump went from superhero to supervillain as well.
Everyone who opposes the established orthodoxy is “evil”.
Strange coincidence.
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@PaulRoundy1 @owenbroadcast For the institutions they don't want they'll probably just fire the existing staff and refuse to replace them at all.
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@PaulRoundy1 @owenbroadcast True! Though I don't think they intend to limit it to the institutions they don't want. The others will also staffed with loyalists. I hope I'm wrong, but I think we're returning to the spoils system... but in a complex world that requires greater expertise.
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