People ask me how I can stand being around all those anti-patriot Republicans at Lindell's cybersymposium. The answer is that they aren't uniquely the problem, that their opponents suffer the same corrupt thinking.
When George Washington was leaving office, he warned about political parties that put party before country. That's what Trumpists are doing when contesting the last election with unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.
But then the left-wing has the same problem. It's as if both parties have thrown basic civics at the window. In this case, there are two basic issues. First of all, the President is the Executive branch, it's the Legislative branch who passes laws.
Second, it's not 1 senator blocking this law, but 51. There are only 49 senators in favor of it. Pretending only 1 of those 51 senators is blocking the bill is complete nonsense, some twisted view of the world.

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21 Dec
Yet again, this is trending from Twitter's fact checkers, and yet again, it's "false", or at least, "misleading".

It's a US thing, where authorities are demanding only vaccination.

In Europe, experts, studies, and political authorities have reached different conclusions. Image
In Europe, government policy in most major countries treat "proof of vaccination" and "proof of recovery" the same. They don't have this political pressure to force provably recovered patients into getting vaccinated.
There's good scientific reasons to get vaccinated even if you've acquired some immunity by having recovered from an infection. Vaccination after recovery is still clearly in your OWN BEST INTEREST. It's not clear they are the best public policy, though.
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20 Dec
I doubt whether the Omicron variant causes a milder illness. I suspect it's just people's wishful thinking and cherry picking data.
Newer variants will appear, on average, to cause milder illness because they are infecting greater numbers of vaccinated or recovered populations, and younger people who aren't vaxxed yet.
Thus, the early data is likely to show it's not severe -- and people are already jumping on that because they desperately want to believe.

But we really have to wait for mature data before we start believing that.
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19 Dec
One thing I'm proud of is that I refuse to "chin bra" my mask. It's either completely on (including covering the nose) or completely off, folded neatly in my pocket.
I know you guys hate the "other side" who has taken a pro-mask or anti-mask stand. I don't, I think both make strong arguments and are reasonable people. Instead, I hate the in-betweeners, who passive-aggressively wear masks halfway.
Sure, there's reasons to briefly take off your mask, such as to take a drink, so you might be tempted to "chin bra" it for a moment. And then you forget and leave it there. This is bad.
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15 Dec
All NFTs are nonsense, but on top of that, most are fake/fraudulent, with serious flaws such as pointing to a website instead of the promised artwork.

So I was surprised that these actually aren't fraudulent. Still nonsense, of course, but not fraudulent.
The most important issue is whether the URL points to a website (fake NFT) or to a hash of the promised artwork (real NFT). This points to a hash:
This means that when the world collapses, the Internet as we know it has died, and all that remains is the Ethereum blockchain -- you can still prove there's a connection between the NFT you control and the promised artwork.
Read 5 tweets
14 Dec
The New York Times has sold an NFT.
The Associated Press sells NFTs.
It can't be a scam if the mainstream press has validated that it's not a scam. Thus, you can't criticize people for getting in on it.

...except, of course, it's a scam.
I say this as somebody who READS THE FREAKIN' CODE. Blockchain 'tokens' (whether fungible or not) are really interesting and useful. I've got no qualms with the tech. It's the use of the tech that's a scam, which is provable by looking at the code.
People are promised things like "ownership" of something (there is no "ownership", either of the NFT or of the artwork they are claimed to represent). They are promised they are "decentralized", which usually isn't true.
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13 Dec
I don’t believe in open source, as I don’t believe calling things “open source” is a meaningful abstraction. Most source code has always been open and always will be.
It’s just a political term used by people jealous of those who don’t show their source and who are nonetheless wildly successful.
It’s basic economics: building source code to your own spec is vastly (orders of magnitude) more efficient than building software to somebody else’s spec.
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