He can publish it online @SubstackInc. He can tweet the whole thing. He can read it out loud on the corner of 14th and U Streets NW. He can definitely get another publisher. This is not Orwellian — it is called consequences and lots of people’s books are dumped for much less.
You live with the consequences of fist pumping at people who then attack the Capitol as a mob. You essentially been Romneyed.
Lastly @HawleyMO send it to me and I would be happy to read it as I was looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this topic. You used to actually be surprisingly thoughtful on tech reform until your whole jam became about, well, clicks and the twitchy demands of naked ambition
But it’s way past time that you stop mixing up the First Amendment with the dangerous game you have been playing. Well, now the game is Truth or Consequences and you just picked the latter. Stop whining when you lose because of your own shitty choices.
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This is 100 percent true. @staceyabrams is the kind of data geek they should have listened to since she thinks in numbers and networks and systems and laid out her whole plan for winning with humility. As I saw far too many walking out, I thought: Arrogance thy name is tech.
And here is one in 2017 when she was not well known yet and still in the Dem primary for a run at the governor of Georgia race. I was looking for a Democrat who was smart on tech and @hilaryr suggested @staceyabrams as someone to watch. Indeed: recode.net/2017/11/15/166…
Visited Tony Hsieh at his downtown Vegas digs many times, but this in 2014 was particularly fascinating. Admiring all the truly oddball creations, he leaned in, smiled his impish grin and whispered to me: “It’s all a simulation.” Maybe so, but his was a weirdly wonderful one.
Here’s a great interview of Tony we did in 2016 in Vegas that really will give you a good idea of what he was like: vox.com/2016/5/18/1169…
And very few CEOs ever let me wander around their offices and ask anyone anything on video, but Tony did in 2010: allthingsd.com/20100419/termi…
As someone who has a lot of relatives who supported Trump and discount justifiably tough stories about him, I got over the shock of how strong his base was a while back. Recently a relative parroted back an interview I did in a completely twisted way that reflected well on Trump.
When I pointed out it was not what was said and tried to correct it SINCE IT WAS MY INTERVIEW, she insisted her version of my work was correct and my version was my “opinion” and wrong. It was mind blowing but totally expected after years of it and there was no convincing her.
Is this a bad person? No. Is it a stupid person? No. Is this a person who cannot differentiate between true and false? No. What she is is someone with a bad information diet, someone tired of feeling like smarter people disrespect her even if she sometimes acts disrespectfully.
The reason he’s doing this is that they have been criminally incompetent. Rather than owning up to it, they’ve decided that Americans — fatigued from the slog — will accept the needless deaths. This is a political calculation that might appeal to more people than their rallies 1/
Remember that they slow rolled on reasonable gun legislation after the horror of Sandy Hook and the many other senseless massacres of the innocent and it worked. Americans love nothing more than what’s next and this will appeal to the base instincts of far too many to move on 2/
Why listen to health care experts who want you to eat your vegetables & make the hard choices to save lives. The most shameful characteristic of Americans is an obsession with individualism to the most selfish degree using love of liberty as the excuse for juvenile behavior 3/
This is deep in my long thread, but let me make this dead clear: Banning TikTok and then oddly enough not allowing a decent solution like an IPO here in the US or being bought by a US company is a THANK YOU gift to Mark Zuckerberg from Donald Trump. Or should I say Spasibo? 🇷🇺
In the interests of competition that lifts us all, Facebook should immediately decry this weird move to disallow a reasonable solution that will allow TikTok to continue to operate safely and securely. But a company that landgrabs and neutralizes probably likes unfair advantage.
Crazy me for wanting capitalism to solve this important issue and assuage users that the Chinese government is not spying on us. What do you think @stevenmnuchin1? Do you like capitalism or is bizarre destruction of value your preference? Is the fix in?