Trump’s lies about 2020 must not silence legitimate efforts to address real vulnerabilities. Those who began following me > 2020 may be unaware of much of my pre-election election security advocacy & the many graphics that graphic artists on Twitter created to support it. 1/
12/ Current Ballot Marking Devices—verses pen & paper (with exception 4 voters w/ disabilities)—-are too risky as a primary voting system, regardless of which vendor supplies them. Most vendors supply them bc some election officials want them. Most experts say they are too risky.
33/ Short thread with embedded video clips explaining some of the concerns with touchscreen voting machines (both with and without paper) as opposed to pen and paper. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1301911…
“Japanese TV calls Peter Thiel America’s Shadow President after meeting Japan’s Prime Minister… Officials said [they] discussed the…future of advanced tech cooperation between Japan & the US.” 3/6/26 (Thiel also recently met w/ the presidents of Argentina, Chile, & Paraguay) 1/
WTH? First, a company (“Hugging Face”) said it had “resorted to [an open source] Chinese AI model to battle a fully autonomous cyberattack bc US model guardrails stymied its defense”
Then we’re told that the perpetrator was a rogue “OpenAI test model” that had “escaped”. 1/
👀 El Salvador's AI Agency has named Ginger Luckey Gaetz (Matt Gaetz's wife, Palmer Luckey's sister) as Strategic Advisor. Palmer’s firm Anduril is backed by Peter Thiel & partners w/ Palantir.
El Salvador recently joined the Thiel-ally-led “Pax Silica” global initiative....1/
😳 Jacob Helberg—who left his position as an advisor at *Palantir* to join Trump’s State Dept—spearheads the international “Pax Silica” initiative. In May, he discussed it w/ Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale: “Jacob Helberg on Pax Silica & the New Global Order in the AI Age” 1/