Jeff Whitlock

@Bubblebathgirl @VigilantFox You are not a cool person.

@VigilantFox In other words, Melinda Gates is rife with yuckies.

Melinda Gates responds after Epstein Files suggest Bill Gates got an STD from “Russian girls” and planned to secretly medicate her. NPR: “The emails in the files suggest that Bill Gates had additional affairs and that he tried to get medication to treat a sexually transmitted infection, and that he was going to give you the medicine without you knowing. His representative has said all of this is false… What is your dominant emotion when you read these news articles with these details?” MELINDA GATES: “Sad. Just unbelievable sadness. Unbelievable sadness… It’s just sadness. I left my marriage. I had to leave my marriage. I wanted to leave my marriage. I felt I needed to eventually leave the foundation. So it’s just sad. That’s the truth.”

@SenJohnCurtis I think you're right, but what's the constitutional limiting principle here? If Article II authorizes military force to protect personnel executing arrest warrants, what distinguishes this from using indictments as a predicate for military action against any foreign leader?

I’ve stood on the border between Venezuela and Colombia and witnessed the level of human suffering inflicted by the Maduro regime. I’ve seen the human cost of failed authoritarian socialism made even worse by the ties to drug cartels, terrorist groups, Russia, and Iran which threaten Americans in our own hemisphere.   As Chair of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, I expect a full and timely briefing on the nature, scope, and impact of these actions.

@BasedMikeLee @SecRubio @BasedMikeLee - Genuinely trying to understand. What's the constitutional limiting principle? If Article II authorizes military force to protect personnel executing arrest warrants, what distinguishes this from using indictments as a predicate for military action against anyone?

Just got off the phone with @SecRubio He informed me that Nicolás Maduro has been arrested by U.S. personnel to stand trial on criminal charges in the United States, and that the kinetic action we saw tonight was deployed to protect and defend those executing the arrest warrant This action likely falls within the president’s inherent authority under Article II of the Constitution to protect U.S. personnel from an actual or imminent attack Thank you, @SecRubio, for keeping me apprised

@BasedMikeLee I agree. Thank you for saying this.

I look forward to learning what, if anything, might constitutionally justify this action in the absence of a declaration of war or authorization for the use of military force

I've received two calls this morning from AI SDRs. Not excited about that future.

The big line from Powell today: "In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside and risks to employment to the downside—a challenging situation. There is no risk-free path."

@hnshah You're making me want to get off Amplitude...

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@SafeBoda Any risk of it disappearing?

Awwww ... our hearts are already melting, sunshine. 😍

High agency is often mistaken for speed. People assume it belongs to the ones who decide quickly and move without hesitation. That version looks impressive, but it is not what actually drives results. The real marker of high agency is quieter. It appears the moment someone stops protecting their assumptions and puts them in contact with something that can push back. Most people hesitate because they operate too far from the facts that matter. They think through scenarios, build arguments, weigh options, and wait for a feeling of certainty. They want clarity before they act. They want proof without the discomfort of exposing their thinking. They want to be right before the world has a chance to disagree. High-agency people do something different. They shorten the time between an idea and its first collision with the real world. They build the smallest version that can reveal a truth. They ask the customer before polishing the story. They test behavior before optimizing the process. They trade speculation for evidence, not because they enjoy being wrong, but because every collision with reality sharpens their understanding of what actually works. That shift changes their relationship with learning. Mistakes are not signs of incompetence. They are the natural cost of moving forward. The most valuable insights rarely come from perfect planning. They come from constraints, surprising reactions, unexpected metric shifts, and outcomes no one predicted. This behavior compounds. Every early interaction with reality creates a faster cycle of adjustment. Every adjustment increases clarity. Over time, decisions feel fast because dozens of small signals have already done the work. To an outsider it looks like intuition. In practice, it is earned through repeated exposure to the world. High agency is trained. It builds through the choices you make when uncertainty shows up. It strengthens every time you expose your thinking to something that can reshape it. Speed shows up because the environment favors teams that gather evidence quickly and adjust without ceremony. Their focus is on contact with reality. They waste less time debating ideas that have not been tested. They look for the next piece of information that moves the work forward. Founders who operate this way avoid the trap of endless planning. Product managers avoid the trap of presenting polished ideas that have never touched a user’s world. Engineers avoid the trap of optimizing solutions before validating the problem. Teams shaped by this habit reduce the distance between ideas and truth. You take an idea, remove the parts that do not matter, and place the remaining piece somewhere it can be disproven. You let the result inform the next version. You let the world reveal the gap between what you believe and what is true. The discomfort never disappears. It becomes familiar. You learn to recognize the moment when you are delaying the collision because the idea feels fragile. That moment is the signal. High-agency people move toward it. Everyone else moves away. If you want to raise the agency level of a team, focus on faster confrontations with reality. Encourage smaller tests. Encourage questions that can be answered in days instead of weeks. Encourage conversations with customers before the work becomes precious. Encourage an environment where truth carries more weight than confidence. You become high agency by removing the distance between what you believe and what the world is willing to teach you.

@Meta - Opting into Meta Verified broke my ads at a critical time in the campaign, and your support has been unable to help. This is an extraordinary product oversight and highly frustrating.

@Altimor But everyone benefits from government, so where do you draw the line on "conflict of interest"? Welfare is just one way people benefit. What about families with five kids in public schools? Or people who live in the suburbs (suburban infrastructure and services are subsidized)?

Incredible that this even qualifies as a spicy view tbh, when it's just basic common sense. Already a universal practice in the private sector to recuse oneself from a vote if you have a conflict of interest.

@T_Potz They're back!

how bout these cardiac Cougs!

@hnshah Bold!

The application layer is grossly underfunded.

@lizgiorgi So dismissive too.

One of the most stupid things men do is tell women that "they don't make sense." That's not an argument. It's an opinion. Too often stated as a fact.

@mpatrickwalton Fair—I'm just self-conscious every time I do.

@JeffreyWhitlock Question is whether you use them like an LLM or with the taste of an intelligent human being.

As a true em dash user, I'm sad that LLMs have ruined them.

@Redistrict And yet we fought a revolution under the principle of "no taxation without representation."

NEW: as expected, TX Republicans unveil a 30R-8D gerrymander (up from 25R-13D today) that puts Reps. Henry Cuellar (D) and Vicente Gonzalez (D) in double-digit Trump districts and axes one Dem seat each in DFW, Houston & Austin/San Antonio.

@RealJasonNelson @dekdarion @nataliewhitlock Nope.

@dekdarion @nataliewhitlock Did you hear that Jeff Whitlock is running for Provo city council and wants men to be allowed in little girl’s bathrooms? The more you know, right?

How does a guy get to block the sun, cover your “organic” fruit in film, insert fake meat into the supply chain, and bioengineer mosquitos to release vaccines without anyone’s consent or approval and NOT be called a supervillain?

@mitchellvii There is a duopoly, though.

There is no uniparty. I mean, my God. The difference in just 5 months between the Trump administration and the Biden administration is mind-blowing. How can anyone say that the Democrat and Republican party are the same? I'm so sick of hearing this uniparty catchphrase.

@parkjunsoo01 I decided I couldn't support Trump years ago because of his character. The scriptures teach about supporting people with high character, and I couldn't bring myself to vote for him. I don't see how that disqualifies me from helping Provo be the best city it can be.

@JeffreyWhitlock We just don't want anymore Cox "Republicans" destroying our great state. Saw signs just today outside saying you're running for district 2 and read you're (or at least were) a "never Trumper". I just want to see the GOP united together for once. Tired of all the infighting.

Provo RINO running for mayor, do not let these Democrats ruin the great city of Provo, of the great state of Utah!