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May 19, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
If this is true what else should be true? If @DineshDSouza is right then why won’t True the Vote turn over evidence they have of election fraud to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations? GBI says what little there is doesn't "even merit an investigation."
readtangle.com/otherposts/200… GBI Director Vic Reynolds in a Sept. 30 letter: “What has not been provided is any other kind of evidence that ties these cellphones to ballot harvesting. As it exists, the data, while curious, does not rise to the level of probable cause that a crime has been committed.”
Sep 13, 2020 8 tweets 5 min read
THREAD ON THE SOCIAL DILEMMA

Interesting push back against my critique of the self-important Netflix doc
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1304796…
I stand by my conclusion that these self-flagellating programmers are delusional. Evidence in the form of replicable studies for their claims lacking Remember when Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems said 20 years ago that we would soon be engulfed in nanotechnological gray goo?

In the film @JonHaidt says social media causes teen problems esp. in girls, echoing @jean_twenge from her book iGen. But those studies didn't replicate.
Sep 12, 2020 8 tweets 2 min read
THREAD:
I watched Netflix doc The Social Dilemma—so many self-important people pronouncing such nonsense about their power to rule the world through social media with their algorithms that "control" us helpless automata, yet another "existential" threat to humanity. Be skeptical! Evidence from cognitive science (cf Hugo Mercier's Not Born Yesterday) shows that these people had next to no influence on the 2016 election or anything else of importance. Pure self-aggrandizement. "I worked for the tech company that now threatens humanity. I'm guilty!"
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Jan 18, 2020 13 tweets 3 min read
I received a lot of good feedback from conservatives on my (failed) thread trying to encapsulate conservatism, so let me try again with a real thread, starting with the stereotypes of how liberals see conservatives & how conservatives view liberals (from my The Believing Brain): What liberals think of conservatives:

Conservatives are a bunch of Hummer-driving, meat-eating, gun-toting, small-government promoting, tax decreasing, hard-drinking, Bible-thumping, black-and-white-thinking, fist-pounding, shoe-stomping, morally-dogmatic blowhards.