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Jon Stokes @jonst0kes
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I'm pondering what I am politically. I used to think of myself as a progressive but I don't love identitarianism. I have a love/hate relationship with populism, so maybe I'm a "localist" but the name is terrible. I kinda want to bring back "Regulator": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_th…
Like, if somebody asks me if I'm a liberal or conservative or progressive or whatever, I bust out my Warren G impression:
I feel a new Twitter bio line coming on: "Author, Coder, Rocker of Mics & Waxer of Chumps, Regulator."
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The JS community is sadly a hotbed of this kind of project-destroying crusaderism. There's some of this in the Ruby world, as well, but it's not as widespread.
I have no doubt that "here is a list of evil people/companies that are not allowed to use our software" will catch on as a licensing thing. 🙄 I look forward to being formally prohibited from using a wide range of things on firearm-related projects.
In the present culture war, it seems that everything that can be weaponized will be weaponized. The only thing that has yet to be weaponized are literal weapons, but y'know give it a minute. 🤦‍♂️
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He’s right but this is only half of it. Other half is they’ll appropriate left’s argument (made re: Russia) that social media manipulation is an attack on democracy, and recast ham-fisted moderation as RU-style attacks that delegitimize election results they don’t like.
This angle will be effective because it’s not entirely wrong, and we’ll all be arguing over the degree to which it’s an exaggeration.
If Trump were gone from office tomorrow, the battle over Russiagate would still be less than half over. We’re going to be fighting over what level of algo-and moderation-driven platform bias casts a cloud over election results for years.
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I've come to the conclusion recently that I've not done a good enough job of talking about the 3D printed gun issue. I don't think anyone has really. There are too many smart, open-minded people who are like "yeah but these files are dangerous so how can u not want 2 delete them?
"Ok, so you convinced me that bad people cannot just print guns. Still, this stuff is bad so why should it not get deleted? Why should we not delete dangerous files and content from the 5 computers we all share?"

I've failed to give a good answer to this.
The problem is structural. The case for censoring these files can be summed up quickly & grasped by a five-year-old. The case against censoring them is complicated & requires specific knowledge in multiple domains.
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⚜️1. Certainly you’ve heard that Sam Patten has flipped and he’s going to spill it all about @realDonaldTrump right? He’s got the goods, Trump is doomed! Not so fast, in fact his plea marks a shift in the entire investigation but its complicated, get comfortable.
2. Who is Sam Patten? He’s been around for awhile and it appears everyone is referencing Natasha Bertrand’s fortuitous interview with him in April, call it lazy? Anyway this is he and his wife Laura at the Whitehouse in 2015 and yes McCain in 2014, they both play a big part.
3. Let’s start with what he tells us
a maverick himself tackling complicated problems and international politics, makes no secret of his time in Russia or State Dept. and working for Senators. He’s even been published in the same outlets that now claim him as a mysterious spy.
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Thread: On John S. McCain III, Deceased

1. Well, we’ve been “knee-deep in the hoopla” (apologies to Starship) of the deceased Sen. McCain for the last couple of days, haven’t we? The Democrats and the Left have turned themselves into pretzels praising him.
2. Do they honestly think we’ve forgotten their rabid accusations of warmongering and racism against McCain when he was running against their little tin god Obama in 2008? How low can you go when it suits your situational politics, Rep. Lewis?
politico.com/blogs/jonathan…
3. In their crocodile tears and false praise of McCain since his death, the Democrats are showing once again that they basically think that the only good Republican is a dead one. This pretty much turns my stomach:
foxnews.com/politics/2018/…
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It's art up for review in opinions, of course I'm going to gravitate towards something shared with interest, when he didn't say a word for 2 days! Why was he there? #opendata #smartcities #bigdata #ai
I went through every single video he released in hip hop to understand him not saying a word. Easy to work out, he's a very bitter man who has absorbed all his parents immigrant opinions at home #opendata #smartcities #bigdata #ai
His parents are not middle class anywhere & neither is he #opendata #smartcities #bigdata #ai
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Still having a love-hate relationship with the "Retweet with comment" option here on Twitter:

❤ Best way to add a personal take (keeps the context AND is 100% seen by your followers
💔 Doesn't initiate conversations as well as replys, no obvious way to answer
💔 "invisible" for everybody that doesn't follow you. I can't even see if other people retweeted or retweeted with a comment. Why on earth should I want the user bio when I click on the Retweet count?
💔 Visual hierachy is flipped. First the comment, than the piece that is commented on. Imagine a blog where you first see the comments and then the post
💔 Orginal tweet is often truncated, with loss in formatting
💔 Original tweet can be missunderstood as link "card"
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Сделать что ли тред про Оксфорд? Один лайк — один факт, все как положено.
1. Оксфорд, возможно, единственный город в мире, где разнообразие, типичное для мегаполисов, сочетается с почти деревенским уютом. Я не знаю других мест, где можно всюду ходить пешком и при этом найти ресторан практически любой кухни мира.
2. “It’s not the way we call it in Oxford” («Мы в Оксфорде зовем это по-другому»), — если вы только что переехали, готовьтесь слышать эту фразу регулярно.
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-This is my first AU I’m posting (I’ve written before but I’m not finished with the other ones) so I’m sorry if it sucks 😔✊🏼
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-I write around 3-6am (aka crackhead hours) so I don’t know what was going on my mind at that time cjsbjdbsjdbsjd this is pure crack.
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