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Aug 22, 2019 3 tweets 1 min read Read on X
The government’s not going to do gun control so they’re thinking about doing Minority Report instead. washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
Some people think universal background checks are too much of an infringement on liberty, but what we’re talking about here is researchers helping create a pathway to use consumer surveillance and AI to perpetually monitor people in their homes. washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
Like, what happens if they figure out that Alexa or Siri can detect when somebody’s about to have an episode? What is everybody going to do with that knowledge?

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May 31, 2023
Corporate bullying like this is why journalists need to forge ahead with holding the platforms accountable with bills like CJPA.

The platforms have skimmed from our work, bought off publishers with “charitable” grants, then act like bullies the moment they face accountability.
Journalism policy is complicated, and different groups have taken different positions on CJPA. We are supposed to air out those disagreements with civil debate.

But censorship threats like Meta’s have only one goal — to end debate.
Meta couldn’t be bothered to show its face in the two committee hearings this bill has already had in the Assembly, where it passed both with unanimous “yes” votes.

Meta’s ban threat, one day before an Assembly floor vote, is clearly designed to stoke fear, not debate.
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Mar 29, 2023
I was sitting around today thinking about how you’re not going to be able to find all the intellectuals in one place anymore and concluded that we’ll have to go back to reading magazines or something. techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/twi…
It’s this crap situation where we demolished a lot of the mid-sized publications where you might find interesting writers, and now we’re demolishing the big-sized app where you could find interesting writers, and now starting next month you can find them ?????
What am I supposed to do? Go to cocktail parties?
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Nov 16, 2022
Hegel was a genius obviously, but what amazing marketing luck that Napoleon was smoking the Prussians at Jena right at the exact same Hegel was finishing his book and realizing he had reached the universal end of human history.
Like Fukuyama made me think the “end of history” was the moment liberal democracy wins everywhere, but for Hegel it’s more like “the end of history is when I, specifically Hegel, realize that Napoleon’s victory has brought mankind to self-realization by me specifically, Hegel”
You may think it’s more complicated than this, and maybe it is. (Do not correct me.) But also, it is not.
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Nov 10, 2022
Unfortunately, because something in my personality is deeply damaged, the messier this app gets, the more likely I am to use it more.
I don’t read this app to be noble. I work at the newspaper to be noble. I post on Twitter to roll around in filth and pay occult worship to the psychic forces of thumos!
Also because the parody account got suspended, I’m resharing a screenshot of it here, because some comedy martyr out there paid $8 to make this joke.
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May 25, 2022
Texas law, in its own way, requires public schools districts to play a part in helping financially prop up gun manufacturers.

To be eligible for underwriting Texas school bonds, banks have to certify that they don’t refuse to do business with gunmakers. news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/te…
Notable detail under the present circumstances. news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/te…
Seems like any Texas public teachers’ pensions would have required teachers to stay personally invested in gun companies too, at least from this early coverage, but would need to do some more checking. pionline.com/legislation/te…
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Jul 20, 2021
Jeff Bezos busted unions so that the personal wealth he gained as a shareholder from paying his workers lower wages would, among other things, fund his trip to space.
In the old days you had a bunch of Ford lineworkers up in Michigan paying NASA to do it.
UAW put Neil Armstrong on the moon and people really did rally around it!
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