Share this page!

stevemur Profile picture
Twitter logo
Feb 8 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Basically, a Social Credit System as applied to a market economy. Legal, but kind of insane. I don't even know Lauren's viewpoints.

Should Airbnb block, say, Jeffrey Epstein's relatives? Ghislane Maxwell's? Harvey W's?

Consider telling AirBnB "don't do this" with your wallet.
I dropped @PayPal for similar reasons, and do everything I can to avoid using @GoFundMe. These are mainstream services, but have taken on the role of ideological purity tests. I wrote about why I disagree with that approach here:

stevemurch.com/financial-syst…
I haven't even heard of Lauren Southern until now. Doing some reading, she's to the right of me politically. Does this mean she should be banned? Does this mean her parents should be banned?

This is entirely legal, but does it make you change your view of what Airbnb is?
It DEFINITELY makes me change my brand perception of @Airbnb and not in a good way.
Apparently AirBnb has reversed their decision, which they claim is based on an “appeal” from Southern’s parents. But her parents never actually submitted an appeal. Sounds like PR reversal — which suggests if she didn’t have a platform, she and her parents would be screwed. Not a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with stevemur

stevemur Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @stevemur

stevemur Profile picture
Feb 7
Regarding odes to Presidents 45 and 46, which seem to be all the rage in #ChatGPT and pundit circles today... I decided to give it a whirl. Recorded February 7th 2023 at 2pm. (It's nondeterministic so your results may vary, but this is my 1st attempt.)

I earned an MS in CompSci: Symbolic and Heuristic Computing at Stanford in '86, just when neural nets were being invented. So I get the basics of HOW this can happen WITHOUT explicit nefarious aims.

But let's please not deny that it's happening, or claim it's insignificant.
*technically, '86-87.
Read 11 tweets
stevemur Profile picture
Feb 7
Is Generative Chat headed in the direction of Microsoft Excel, or AM/FM/cableTV?

Once you encode values into a text-generator, the audience is going to self-select. I'll share a few threads and screenshots on this. Ponder what you'd LIKE the output to be -- it's not simple.
Follow this thread for numerous examples:

I think these examples can absolutely be criticized as "cherry picking." And the values will change over time, even upon explicitly repeating them, because ChatGPT is non-deterministic. But clearly, there are values here, no?
Read 13 tweets
stevemur Profile picture
Feb 7
Seattle Public Schools have seen at least a 10% drop in enrollment, and now have a dire forecast on enrollment in the next 5 years. SPS is looking at consolidating schools, shutting some down.

If only someone had said something. #Seattle

seattletimes.com/education-lab/… Image
SPS is now looking at shutting some neighborhood schools down to try to save money. Image
This is remarkable, because a few years ago, the McCleary decision boosted funding for public schools by billions of dollars (as many of us taxpayers know -- the hike in property tax bills was enormous for some of us.)

washingtonea.org/advocacy/mccle… Image
Read 17 tweets
stevemur Profile picture
Mar 3, 2022
Seattle Teachers Union letter, advocating to keep all 56,000 K-12th graders masked until “at least May 1st.” This despite @CDC and state department of health guidelines. They don’t cite a single study which shows that mask mandates change outcomes. Follow the science, or nah?
Washington State is lifting all indoor mask mandates March 12th. But the teachers union insists that somehow letting kids and their families decide whether to mask up or not doesn’t “center the need of BIPOC communities.” What?
This is the same union which demanded that teachers get priority vaccination but then kept schools closed more than just about any other district in the nation. 74% of them said that even full vaccination wasn’t enough to return to in person learning.
Read 12 tweets
stevemur Profile picture
Mar 2, 2022
Good morning. The @CDC says it’s ok to make masks optional. The State Department of Health agrees. @GovInslee has made masking optional statewide as of March 12th. But the Seattle teachers union won’t agree to let kids choose to mask or not. Why does SPS give them this power?
They say it’s in their collective bargaining agreement. So essentially adults are forcing kids, who have done everything asked of them during this pandemic, to keep covering their faces, because some adults want more. Shameful.
They don’t represent all teachers, but many members imposing this entirely optional harm on kids are paid to help kids with their development. The clock ran out on finding any clear evidentiary link. Now it’s revealed for what it is. It’s about bargaining. A hostage situation.
Read 15 tweets
stevemur Profile picture
Jul 11, 2021
Here's a pretty astonishing fact the Sawant Solidarity Campaign likely doesn't want you to know...

1/6
Just 19% of donations to the "Sawant Solidarity Campaign" come from WITHIN her district.
That is, 81% of the funds raised to KEEP her in office come from OUTSIDE her district. 81% of funds are from non-constituents.

2/6
What's more, the MAJORITY of funds -- an astonishing 60% of the funds to keep her in office -- come from OUTSIDE THE CITY OF SEATTLE.

3/6
Read 6 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Send Email!

:(