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Dec 28 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Homicide numbers are poised to hit a record decline nationwide. But most Americans think violent crime is on the rise.

There’s a stark disconnect between how a lot of Americans feel and what’s actually happening. Disinformation is distorting our perception of reality. Image
More details here: abcnews.go.com/US/homicide-nu…
More data to add to this point: Crime overall is down year-over-year, including violent crime.

Q3 2023 vs Q3 2022, violent crime dropped 8%, while property crime fell 6.3%—its lowest level since 1961

But 77% of Americans think crime is up over last year. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/p…
My theory on the disconnect between declining crime stats and false vibes about rising crime:

Aside from overt disinfo from right-wing orgs like Fox News, when crime stories are spotlighted in MSM, people assume crime is high.

There’s a lot of anecdote extrapolation going on.

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Jul 28
The audacity of Elon Musk always complaining about psyops, when he’s part of the biggest “psyop” this century.

Right-wing figures like Musk, Trump and DeSantis have tricked millions of people into believing they’re fighting for them.

Their fake populism is as clear as day 🧵
Fake elite “populists” are exploiting anti-elite messaging from real populist movements.

They are “elite” themselves but claim they’re fighting oppressive systems while perpetuating them. They do this by making their fake populism not about economic class, but ideological class.
The right knows they can’t make credible economic arguments, so they’re waging an ideological war on progress or what they call “woke.” They shamelessly prey on people’s grievances and fears of change. They feed their supporters anger while they fatten their own pockets.
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Mar 20
This news got buried in the GPT-4 hype: One week after it was announced, Meta’s AI model LLaMA got leaked on 4chan - because of course it did.

While OpenAI has been more guarded about who gets access to its model, Meta has a more open application process.

It’s not going well...
So this is what happened.

OpenAI has stricter control over who can access their GPT model and build AI tools with it

But Meta created an application process where any AI researchers can request access to their LLaMA AI model

There’s already been a leak. theverge.com/2023/3/8/23629…
While the idea of democratizing access to AI models sounds great on paper, it has a lot of risks in the unregulated, pre-ethical AI governance environment we’re currently it

Extremists getting their hands on these sophisticated AI models can be dangerous

It’s already on 4chan
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Mar 13
This is how Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, in a nutshell:

SVB over-invested in long-term mortgage-backed securities. As rates rose, value of those securities dropped—they sold at a $1.8B loss. SVB said it needed to raise $2.25B to offset the loss. Then VCs triggered a bank run…
Peter Thiel & other VCs told their portfolio companies to withdraw cash. SVB customers withdrew $42B by the end of Thursday. SVB went cash negative as it tried to cover the withdrawals. By Friday morning, regulators shut down SVB and FDIC said it would insure $250k of deposits…
The same VCs who attack the government began begging for a bailout for a bank run they helped cause.

By Monday, the Biden Admin guaranteed 100% of deposits, promised SVB accountability, and Biden said they did it without spending any taxpayer money. Companies could meet payroll.
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Dec 1, 2022
Watch for yourself. In the same breath, Kanye West praises Hitler and attacks Jews.
Kanye West is blaming the entire Jewish community for his bad business deals. That’s what’s happening. He is echoing centuries-old antisemitic tropes, straight up praising murderous Hitler, and targeting millions of people all because he’s unhappy with his contracts. Just sick.
This is rock bottom for Kanye West. There is no coming back from this
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Nov 29, 2022
This is a massive deal. Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, is guilty of seditious conspiracy. The Oath Keepers coordinated with Trump advisor Roger Stone ahead of January 6
The fact a jury convicted on seditious conspiracy charges is remarkable. This isn’t a guilty plea like the Proud Boys. A jury found seditious conspiracy charges to be viable in relation to January 6. This could have massive ramifications for how the DOJ approaches future J6 cases
To put it more simply: The chances the DOJ charges people higher up in the January 6 plot with seditious conspiracy just went up
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Sep 1, 2022
Graham once tearfully praised Biden's decency. Now he's threatening violence on behalf of Trump.

He traded his friendships with Biden & McCain for opportunistic Trump sycophancy.

He personifies the @GOP’s amoral pursuit of power.

My latest @Independent.
independent.co.uk/voices/biden-l…
@GOP @Independent In 2019, Graham was asked about his transformation in loyalties.

Graham gave a clear explanation of both his friendship with McCain and his allyship with Trump. He said, ”If you know anything about me, it’d be odd for me not to do this... This is to try and be relevant.”
@GOP @Independent To Graham, this is all about relevance and power. He has no real principles. He blows with the political winds.

Now, thanks to the GOP's amoral pursuit of power and relevancy, we're in an unsustainably violent political environment of Trump and the GOP’s own making.
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