Trump is delaying the TikTok ban to enable Musk to buy it cheap, right?

Bluesky starting the year strong

Tate tweeting his internal monologue

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One thing we could try to learn from this Luigi Mangione thing is that most people’s views don’t neatly fit into distinct political buckets and we should stop trying to make them

Does the NYPD put this amount of effort into finding the perpetrator of every public murder in the city, or is the search for the UHC assassin unique for a civilian victim?

We need the obsessive de-aging guy on here. We need that square-headed poindexter natalist on here. It’s important that everyone you find annoying be on every website you go to,

ACAB includes firemen.

Just saw a bad take. Be careful out there

One thing that we can agree on with the Hawk Tuah crypto scam is that this is the future and we should welcome an administration that makes these scams easier

Idk if this is on purpose or just from pressure but these are not the same guy. How are news sources and the NYPD able to share pics of a totally random innocent dude?

In case there’s any doubt here, I feel very uncomfortable people cheering on someone’s murder. But I also feel very uncomfortable with a society allowing people to die in the name of the “free market” and “capitalism” and people being cool with that. It doesn’t happen in other countries.

Health insurers will justify all the awful stuff they do by saying that the market and the system requires them to be competitive on costs. Which, ok, sure. But it takes a certain person to optimise a system to deny people life saving coverage in the name of costs. Nobody HAS to do that.

“UK uncovers vast crypto laundering scheme for gangsters and Russian spies” - I can’t imagine the US is going to allow this sort of thing to continue indefinitely before it requires actual AML/KYC controls on Tether: which kills its business. on.ft.com/41igoSD

Ok we need a list of every person wronged by the American healthcare system and start from there

I keep getting media requests but tbqh I don't think I'm the right person to have on shows. If you're a lawyer, academic, journalist, closely following SK politics, present in Seoul, and fluent in English, please reply to this post with your creds so I can forward them to people who keep asking me.

This article is insane. “A January 1977 petition published in Le Monde criticized the detention of three men arrested for non-violent sex offences against children aged 12–13” jfc France en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...

This guy worked for State Dept for ~2 months. He has no inside knowledge of anything he talks about, even as he claims he ‘watched a censorship regime grow from the inside.’ It’s all bullshit. And the absolute credulity displayed by Rogan here is why commentary & journalism aren’t the same.

I don’t think it’s a very well thought out coup if people can vote against it. Isn’t that Coups 101?

We gotta stop thinking that any country is immune to fascism. Every country is an election away, at most.

From my years working around VCs and the startup world, these guys more often than not believe that they are the smartest people in the room and they are changing the world. Consequently, regulations stopping them from profiting off their generous brilliance is, to them, massively unfair.

I always find it silly how so many supposedly smart people will see something they think is stupid and criticise it without taking the most basic step of trying to understand why it might not be stupid. Did he think that maybe some doctors might have some insight into weight loss worth listening to?

One of the very damaging things Musk has done is delegitimise ketamine as a genuinely effective mental health medicine.

Make a note that not a single Republican senator expressed any opposition to Matt Gaetz becoming Attorney General.

100%, there's a strong, almost-overwhelming desire from liberals to understand, engage, and empathize with conservatives in a way there almost never is vice-versa. Nobody in MAGAland 2020 was like "wow we really need to listen to Biden's arguments and learn how he connected with voters"

TIL that the CEO of Bluesky is legally named Bluesky

Equating “Trump supporters” with “the entire spectrum of the right, globally”, is one of the key problems with this frankly boring point of view.

“Brazilian authorities have indicted ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, accusing him of ‘full knowledge’ of a 2022 plot to kill his successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and overturn the results of the presidential election.” Well, look at this thing called “accountability”… www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/a...

Think I might write something on this but I’m pretty sure DOGE is going to break up this Musk/Trump bromance. Neither of them understand how government work. Trump blew the budget out last administration. Absolutely no way Musk can deliver anything effective on that and keep Trump happy.

The reality is Republicans just think trans people are weird. But they can’t say that, so they’ve built this entire fiction that they’re dangerous to make themselves feel better. The obvious conclusion to this genital vetting is actually increased danger. This will collapse in on itself eventually.

I was CTO at a very influential campaigns organization for several years, and I can say that politically, this is roughly correct. You need to show an aggressive, emotional alternative. ~70% of people are partisans. If the other side’s partisans don’t despise you, you’re probably doing it wrong.

Friendly reminder: The USG spends $290 billion on personnel. If you fired EVERYONE who worked for the federal government, you’d save 5% of the budget. You know where most of it goes? Defense and back to us in Social Security and Medicare.

Don’t feed the trolls There’s a reason it’s an old internet adage. Don’t mock, don’t engage. The attention is the point. Just block.

Big surge in trolls. And not the funny or entertaining kinds. Block immediately. Not a scrap of engagement.

AI is all so immediately detectable, and all so soulless, and I think they’re connected. I’m a first principles guy, which is very hard to do with AI, but my gut feel is that this isn’t a solvable problem. Computer generated amalgamations of data will always miss that little something.

Bluesky is pronounced like “bloo-ski” right

Are people attacking him for paying sex workers? I mean he’s done plenty of other bad shit. Is that really what this current line of attack is?

I’m very interested to see how this Trump Musk relationship ends up. I know some think it will go the distance but these are two people who have shown no ability to share the spotlight.

Just a reminder that it is impossible to define ‘blockchain’ in how it’s used in a way that doesn’t also include databases. Therefore there is no way to define ‘crypto’ that doesn’t also include regular bank, fintech, and cryptographic transactions.

I think this is a pretty important thread to try to keep your sanity. Yes, bad stuff is going to happen, but he’s not all powerful. Certainly not smart enough to steamroll the entire bureaucracy. Democracy will most likely survive, not without a good few injuries however.

With Ukraine launching missiles at Russia, we’re seeing the same conservatives say Zelenskyy is out of control, that he’s starting WWIII. These are the same people who said two years ago that Ukraine should surrender to Russia, that Zelenskyy should compromise.

Sell Chrome… to who? Chrome is subsidised entirely by revenues from other Google products. This breaks Chrome, and benefits users how?

I’m genuinely curious about why it took the election results for millions of people to leave X? Did the content or moderation policies suddenly become worse or did people suddenly realize they were on Truth Social 2.0? If you left X this month, can you share why?

Just saw my first crypto post on here, so I guess that’s starting

Oh it's pretty wild. As recently as 2009, women senators couldn't use the members pool--it was men only--for the very important reason that at least two male senators enjoyed swimming nude www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/u...

Annoyed it took me seeing this for it to register. The VC rush for crypto and showed that they only care about money, regardless of the victims. The Trump-supporting All In podcast boasted about investing in ponzis. Trump will enable them to make more money. Who cares who suffers?

What would it take to get #PresidentElon trending on Twitter? Would it last long enough for Trump to see?