Adam Goldstein

I tried feeding Midjourney (and sometimes DALL-E) lines from country songs with no context to see what I'd get. No context was provided, only the lyric.

These two can be married in 1.7

@JBoisen @glukianoff "People who eat ramen are healthier, according to the World Ramen Index." *mic drop*

@JBoisen @glukianoff One of the factors the index takes into account is whether journalists face psychological harm based on exposure to hate speech... so pointing to an index rewards hate speech bans as evidence of the value of hate speech bans feels pretty circular. rsf.org/en/methodology…

I don't know if this is a bot or not, but it does perfectly encapsulate many Europeans' attitudes towards their increasingly authoritarian speech regime. Not just denial, but a sense of superiority about it.

BREAKING: The Department of Justice is reportedly investigating elected officials for criticizing the administration’s immigration enforcement operations. If this is the basis for the investigation, it is blatantly unconstitutional and intolerable in a free society. The right to condemn government action without fear of government punishment is the foundation of the First Amendment. This would not be the first time the administration has used boundless, imaginary definitions of “obstruction” or “incitement” that have no basis in the law and run headlong into constitutional limits. The few exceptions to the First Amendment are defined by narrow, exacting standards for a reason: to prevent the government from wielding its power to squash dissent. If criticism of government policy can be rebranded as a crime, then constitutional protections become meaningless and the government becomes unaccountable. That is precisely the danger the First Amendment is meant to prevent, and it is a line no administration may cross.

"Mr. Bushart, a 61-year-old retired police officer living in Lexington, Tenn., had posted a meme on Facebook... bail was set at $2 million. Unable to pay, he spent 37 days in jail before prosecutors dropped the charge."

"...if I were speaking there myself, I would have felt safe. I would never have guessed I was in mortal danger. That disconnect is part of the point. When we blur the line between words and blows, we give fear power over public life." @glukianoff

@_kjavelino @TeamYouTube Me three

@TeamYouTube Been doing these but still checking on progress. And my other friend tried it too and encountering the same problem. Please check with your Engineering team. Thanks

@YouTube I’m experiencing an issue when uploading a video to YouTube Studio. My video has been stuck on checks still running for over 2hrs now.

@dylanhenrich @glukianoff "State-related"... Pennsylvania's own unique iteration of public support for schools, where the institutions are independently operated but give the state minority roles in governance... kind of its own thing

@glukianoff University of Pittsburgh is a private institution. If you oppose its values, you can petition the legislature to stop giving it money. But at the end of the day, private institutions should have the freedom to maintain their own values.

In other words “no dissenters need apply”

Pentagon’s press badge policy unites journalists by offending the Constitution thefire.org/news/pentagons… via @TheFIREorg by @AdGo

By @SamuelAbramsAEI, @AdGo, & me! Is Higher Education even interested in reform? eternallyradicalidea.com/p/is-higher-ed…

Free speech advocates expect hypocrisy. But right now it's happening at an industrial scale. My @TheFIREorg colleague @glukianoff is in today's @nytimes on the sad state of affairs.

THIS a thousand times from @TheFIREorg's @AdGo via my colleague @mkeierleber's piece about Charlie Kirk’s killing ... and the possible chill to campus speech @The74 the74million.org/article/charli… #1A

I believe in a culture of free speech, one where our first instinct in response to speech we dislike isn’t to find a way to censor it — or “cancel” the speaker — but to meet it with more speech. I believe we should defeat bad ideas with better ideas. I believe in the power of grace and forgiveness. I believe we can change people's minds. Cancel culture is the opposite of a culture of free speech. It doesn't win arguments. It doesn't change minds. It breeds silence and conformity. It ruins lives. It's a fundamentally nihilistic culture. That's why I dread this part of the tragedy cycle: When people whose hearts are broken seek retribution against those whose hearts are not, who may even welcome the tragedy. I understand the instinct to cancel. Trust me, I do. But it doesn't create the culture I want for myself and my family. That's why I'll continue to advocate for a culture of free speech even in difficult times like these. I will continue to ascribe to the belief, perhaps misplaced, that every idea is provisional. That every person is a work in progress. That people can change their minds. And that through the power of words — not coercion or violence — I can help them.

@aeschulman I am nothing if not old-timey

Nice piece @AdGo. Feels like the date is June 3, 2020

@rshibley @TheFIREorg @Kasparov63 @whignewtons @DavidAFrench @sarahemclaugh @AdGo @DavidAFrench

It’s great to see us acknowledged for our dogged commitment to nonpartisan free speech defense, but this is who we’ve always been. And you won't find a group of more principled & talented people than what we have at @theFIREorg. I could not be prouder of them.