Joe Thomsett

You look at the United States today and of course you don't believe they put a man on the moon in 1969 But go watch the Apollo 11 documentary on Amazon What you'll see is an entirely different country full of people that basically no longer exist today A serious, focused, rational, and united people with a common goal They had a pack of tin foil and less computing power than a microwave oven... But they understood physics They knew how to build things And most of all, they had belief Why wouldn't they? They were from the country that invented flight itself If two bike mechanics from the midwest could accomplish something that even the great da Vinci only dreamed of... Why couldn't a team of the brightest minds in the most powerful country in the world come together to put a man on the moon? As time goes on, fewer people believe that the scientists and engineers of the 60's actually put a man on the moon But that says more about our own time than theirs Go tour the Mont Saint-Michel in France and you'll realize that progress isn't always linear They built that place 500+ years ago, but no one could imagine us building it today Yet no one denies it's there. It sits there as a high watermark in architectural history, reminding us what we are no longer capable of. The moon landing is a lot easier to deny. You can't see it with your own eyes. And what you do see with your own eyes makes it hard to believe it was possible.

@pmddomingos You already did by causing this mess and walking away from it.

Europe needs to reopen the Strait of Hormuz way more than America does, but refuses to help America do it. And Europe is within range of Iran's missiles, unlike America, but refuses to help America get rid of them. Maybe it's time to abandon Europe to its fate.

your could ask AI to help you brainstorm ideas for novels or you could do it the old fashioned way: long walks, post it notes, dreams, daydreams, conversations with other writers, staring at the wall, free-writing, visual arts, meditating, lots of reading, & living a full life.

@ErrolTostigson Like me? 😂

@joethomsett I’d rather take over a government and have people like you enslaved

You can move mountains with a few good souls fighting for the same cause

@Bushra1Shaikh Hardly a surprise given the constant flip flopping and outbursts of the current leader

I've been informed - off the record - Europe planning for a future with reduced American security guarantees, driven by increased perceptions of the U.S. as an unreliable ally. Boom 💥

@karunpal Sounds like bliss. Do you ever feel compelled to do more than that? Ever?

I live a slow life. A life unbothered by anything. I wake up. Make a coffee. Listen to the birds. Go for a walk. Work at my desk for a few hours. Read Tolstoy (War & peace). Eat a simple lunch. Listen to some classical music. I'm at peace. I'm a simple man. That's all I want.

@ErrolTostigson You can move mountains with a few good souls fighting for the same cause

Cortez, with 500 men, subdued and destroyed an empire of millions. Pizarro had 168 men to conquer the Incas. A few good men with the will to act are worth more than entire races, cultures and religions of conservatives who believe nothing is or should be possible.

@mark_slapinski Absolutely. To my American friends, why?

I'm looking for a tidbit of clarity: Why is America at war with Iran?!

@sflorimm @lessdumb_dev This is not the burn you think it is

@lessdumb_dev Unmatched intellectual heritage, absolutely. But unfortunately, existentialism doesn't lower your cloud compute costs or train a 100B parameter model.

USA has ChatGPT USA has Grok USA has Claude USA has Gemini USA has Llama USA has Copilot China has DeepSeek China has Qwen China has Ernie China has GLM China has Kimi China has MiniMax Europe has?

@sflorimm @lessdumb_dev bro Europe literally formalized the math your 100B model runs on, Turing was British, the transformer architecture came out of Google Zürich, and DeepMind sits in London but sure existentialism is the takeaway here lmao

Class

@sflorimm Class

@krassenstein At the moment he's the boy who cried wolf and even his biggest fans are getting fed up with him. I liked some, not all, of what he has tried to do before this. But this is tedious and looks deranged and the delivery increasingly lacks class.

TRUMP: “The world respects us right now more than they have ever respected us before.” - France: closes airspace to our military - Italy: closes their airbase to our military - Spain: closes their bases to our military - Poland: refuses to provide missile batteries to us. Trump doesn’t understand what respect means.

If an ally pokes a bear and smashes infrastructure to your detriment, without briefing you, for their gain, are they an ally in that moment? Good faith question...

@DavidD_Chapman Europe has been around forever and will be around for years to come. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Withdraw from NATO and withdraw all US troops from US bases in Europe and see how many days it takes Russia to conquer Europe.

@0hour1 Lol, lmao even

Everyone in the UK would be speaking German if not for the United States.

@EdLatimore Digital removed friction But it was the friction that made a life We used to call them events 😂

The community of media events. -Folks went to movies and talked about them. -Albums were an event. -Playing video games with your friends was in an person social event. -We all watched something at the same time or just missed it/waited for reruns. Streaming everything is convenient, but it removed an automatic piece of social cohesion.

Digital removed friction But it was the friction that made a life We used to call them events 😂