Dave Sanders

@BowesChay Yeah, its so weird that a bunch of countries previously under Soviet rule suddenly want protection at the same time. I wonder why.

Never forget, it was NATO, the laughably named "Defensive Alliance" that expanded onto Russias borders after the disappearance of Communism, the reason NATO existed in the first place.

Yeah. I think I'm done here. Good luck Twitter, I mean X, I mean flaming pile of crazy conspiracy bullshit. At least the Weekly World News could line a bird cage, but Xwitter is just shit now. If you actually know me and want to stay in touch, DM me and we'll trade emails.

@Scobleizer @soi @elonmusk Just because something is hard to do, doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. And just because you do hard things doesn’t mean your ideas are good. X isn’t some second coming. It’s another tech company ran by a hot head impulsive founder. It’ll share the same fate as the others.

@soi @elonmusk But sets it apart.

If you took a first principles view of media, as I have, while visiting 12 of the United States this year alone, you might understand what @elonmusk is up to. X lets him re-contextualize Twitter for everyone. His haters. His lovers. His family. His friends. I notice that Instagram and TikTok have a lot more play inside my family than Facebook or Twitter have. Some refuse to sign up for Twitter. They have their list of in-detail complaints. None of which can be fixed. I spoke at Google's first advertising conference when I was a Microsoft employee. No one else from Microsoft was invited. So, that might tell you something. There I sat with the Kraft Food executives who taught me about advertising. $34 a 16-year-old. That's what they told me their advertising costs to convince a 16-year-old to try its cheese, or other products. They will spend that $34 wherever they think it will make most money per dollar spent. I also learned that conservatives monetize at a far higher rate than liberals do. That's why Rush Limbaugh was so profitable. And Elon will never be called a "woke CEO," because he invited them back and joined in their storytelling. Ford's executives told me that conservatives buy a lot more trucks, too, but that's a story for when the Cybertruck sales numbers come in. I think Elon can win a few sales away from Ford now. So, now we are faced with a new media landscape. Liberals have mostly left here, or, are now playing a new quiet game. Tribal social networks have arrived, with TruthSocial out on the right, along with others, leading the way. Will their audiences return? Certainly not to something named "Twitter," many told me. "X" lets Elon re-contextualize what it means to be social. If you free your mind from the past (I said goodbye last night to 16+ years on this website, and it was painful) then you'll see a new kind of media is coming, one that AI assists in, at minimum. But there is value in being human. Do you want to listen to someone's iPhone around a campfire when grandpa is telling a story? Or do you want grandpa to be there? Of course we want grandpa to be there, but there are plenty of times he (or grandma) can't be. There's a new media coming that lets us take them along. To anything that means something to them. "What's that smoke in the sky?" "When will Taylor Swift visit my city?" "Who has the best BBQ in Austin?" "Where can I take the best photo of Yosemite?" Turns out that the answers change depending on how you look at it. The locals, for instance, in Austin, don't go often to Terry Blacks because it is about twice the price of "decent BBQ" down the street. But when you have only one meal, they all recommend Terry Blacks. Unless they can get me in the back door of Franklins, since we don't usually have the three hours it takes in line sometimes. :-) Which gets me to something else, I keep hearing Twitter is toxic. I really don't see that side of this place, because I use all the features in settings to filter things out I don't really care about much, but it sorta does come from the idea we are birds chirping at each other. Isn't conversation supposed to be more like a love affair? No one sells their social network that way. Which shows there's still space for storytelling here. I can't do this length of a post on that new social network everyone over there thinks is better than here. Which also shows we are attracted by new ways to tell stories to each other. Even better photos get noticed. Why? Because it lets us tell each other stories better. With less friction between our brains. And video? Who has the best? YouTube. My 13- and 15-year old kids learned to read on it (true story). There the quality is starting to get pretty high. So, I doubt Elon can do much with video to win. But start showing how the future "X" would use Neural Radiance Fields, AKA "NeRFs," AKA "3D scenes," AKA "light fields." You have seen me share the innovation from the AI folks on just NeRFs alone. Soon we will be able to share 3D worlds (either real looking, or completely weird, or anything in between) with each other. Twitter just won't fit there anymore. X does. Soon seeing another NeRF of Yosemite will be boring. But seeing someone dance inside their NeRF of Yosemite? Now you have performance. I saw young people doing the performance to their cameras. Me also. Hah. But as I walked through Times Square how did my video start? Another @insta360 owner saw me recording with mine and started dancing with me while waving his at me. He knew how to make my video more interesting. He was making his more interesting too. Would Twitter be open to 360 videos? NeRFs? That sounds like a lot of meetings I went to at Microsoft where we found excuse after excuse not to do something interesting. X reboots all that. Now we aren't sure WHAT is next. Elon could announce any number of things and we'd all cheer. Why? Because our expectation level has been rebooted. It is what it is. He did just throw out the rule book, but then I remember asking executives at Microsoft why they don't get rid of the Windows brand. They looked at me like I was stupid, which I was, but reminded me of brand value and how much was built up into that brand. So it never got rid of the name, or the idea, even in the HoloLens. Which looks dead as a doornail right now. Which shows how things change. Ebb and flow. Sometimes things get torn down, like the Sahara in Las Vegas, to make room for the new. X is the new. The implosion is done. Now we see if Elon Musk is the genius I know he is, or the chump everyone on that other social network thinks he is. X gives him a blank canvas on which to paint. I probably will hate most of the ideas but if even one hits Elon is a far richer man than today. Tesla has the only real time digital twin of the real world at a resolution good enough an autonomous car could drive through it. Or a robot. Or someone wearing Spatial Computers. I bet Elon and @tim_cook were talking about all the fun things Tesla owners will do with them. Or at least the kids in the back seat on a road trip in a Cybertruck. Or while chilling at a Supercharger. Or, while the car drives. Which mine just did all through Yosemite. Both high elevation and low. During these drives, I noticed that I enjoyed the environment more. Noticing the flowers flowing by. Or that there was a lot more snow than last time I was there in July. I was also looking a lot at the screen, and what it is showing the driver, and when would I want to switch it to a "X Feed" or a "X Video?" On the freeway there? Certainly. But when we drove through Yellowstone we had an audio guide playing on the sound system in the car that was geofenced, so the scientist who recorded them came on at just the right time. Soon we will have Spatial Computers on our faces. When that happens? Twitter just doesn't fit well. X does. Elon has completely freed X from the past by his actions the past few months. Everyone who hates Elon is now somewhere else and Elon is free to paint. Can't wait to see what happens tomorrow.

@MenInBlazers @FabrizioRomano MLS doesn't murder journalists so... they win.

RONALDO: 🗣️ "Saudi league is better than MLS." GFOPs, where you stand on this one? [Via @FabrizioRomano]

@Scobleizer You know, I'd wager that you getting that phone and the journalism you did about iPhone since then, probably paid more than the result of that auction. So, it was a good investment. :)

I have the first iPhone bought at Steve Jobs' store (he showed up within minutes of me buying it). Unfortunately I opened mine so it isn't worth this. Dang.

@BananaChiqa @amalranthony @StephenMCarter4 How does the water capacity look?

So if one were going to move OUT of Indiana (#7), hated the cold (Michigan is out), but didn't want to increase their cost of living (Sorry CA), where might one go? Asking for a friend... 😬

@Everett02_ Yeah... He was.

@espinchi @ShaanVP Its a silly line of thinking, imo, because its completely untestable and talks about wealth re-distribution without any discussion about the laws, rules, and history (often of oppression) that led to the wealth to begin with.

@ShaanVP I agree that probably, many rich people would get rich again. But an overwhelming number of currently poor people would be rich too. If you take percentages, the distribution would probably be vastly different

for the past 10 years, I've kept a scratchpad of notes called "money wisdom" anytime I read, heard, or learned something wise about wealth - I wrote it down... here they are:

@Arsenal I'm going to miss him so hard. The true redemption arc. So proud of our boy, and hope he continues to grow. Then he can come and manage us another day. ;)

297 appearances. 23 goals. 29 assists. Two FA Cups. And one inspirational story.​ Granit Xhaka: forever a part of the Arsenal family ❤️

@TCBookwalter @DougMasson The catch there is... we're not a Christian nation.

@DougMasson This is not true. Being a Christian nation, we can be tolerant of other religions by letting them live here freely while at the same time making it clear we are a Christian nation found on those principles and will not let anyone change that. For that is the reason they are here.

You let one religious group perform in a government space, and you’ll need a pretty good explanation if you’re going to exclude the next religious group from the same space. indianacapitalchronicle.com/2023/07/06/sat…

@_TechyBen @kvlly @DrKenLove “Let’s build a business on top of someone else’s API” said so many failed businesses. Anyone building on top of a large company’s system should know better. These are not “benevolent institutions.” They are for profit companies.

@kvlly @DrKenLove Reddit "Let's make a website on the universally accessible Internet." Also Reddit "Not like that!"

I hate it here.

Thank you #SCOTUS. Today I've learned that my religion doesn't allow me to pay student loans or <checks scripture>... taxes.

@USPatriot_2016 0. Make up shit about something you know nothing about and have no actual sources to tell you.

1. US decides to create coup 2. Finds 6.2B, bribes Wagner/Prigozhin 3. W/P "accept" 4. agencies brief congress of unrest 5. W/P loyal, double cross 6. forces withdraw, fake to Moscow then left turn to Belarus and new front on Kiev 7. US out 6.2B, Russia ids dissenters TOTAL FAIL

@vulgrin Solid advice but I’m not sure if that shows up in classical sources!

Machiavelli’s “the Prince” is a quick read & has all kinds of useful tips. “Don’t use mercenaries,” for example.

@RonFilipkowski Well, we do think they are a bunch of suckers, but not quite in the way she thinks...

I guess we should’ve abandoned Ukraine, let Russia take control of the country, install a puppet, destabilize Europe, embolden and strengthen Putin.

@SenatorBraun No new ideas. Just old tired arguments. Your GOP.

The White House is overdue to declassify this information based on our bill President Biden signed in March. The American people are tired of being lied to about COVID.

@Maks_NAFO_FELLA #RussianCivilWar Yikes.

⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡ "All patriots of Russia, true patriots of the country, go out into the streets, we will find weapons" - Prigozhin "This night we will solve the issue of traitors and criminals who disgraced Russia. Their names are Shoigu, Gerasimov."

@War_Mapper Sorry, can someone tell me what IS happening?