Somehow ended up deleting this, so I will repost it for those continuing to wonder if I am a "low-key zionist". I support the existence of Israel more fully now than at any other point in my life. Absolutely.

As I watch every international interaction on X transform into a flame war, with my countrymen beating their chests and calling everyone else weak and poor…. I am forced to wrestle with the fact that even in this ebb of civility- this is my culture and I miss it when I leave.

When you don’t have principles, all you are left with is a rhetorical battle of “who started it”.

This is probably completely correct.

I’m never going to forget that all the Red Cross did in this war was sanewash Hamas.

Things have really changed in America both legally and culturally since the 90s. Especially in tech. The people who built the web are very different than those doing so now.

Luckily, I explained to both of them what happened, and they thought it was funny.

I thought that it would be an obvious joke, but she forwarded it to the client.

We had just released a major website for a fortune 100 client. I telnetted to port 25 (the sendmail port)- and used the smtp protocol to spoof a message from President Clinton to the account manager congratulating her for her service to America by releasing the site.

We sold that company to a larger marketing firm, and I stayed on. In the new company, I started to run into the issues from my prior company culture.

This would probably result in me facing a massive battle with HR and end in my termination today, if not legal troubles. But it ensured everyone working in that company was thinking about security all the time, and getting continuously better at doing so.

In my first startup, we used to constantly try to hack each other’s Linux workstations. One time, when we hired a new programmer, I got access to his machine, watched him through his camera until he picked his nose, then I snapped a picture of it and made it his desktop.

The only position I have on PoliticoPro is that it has me thinking about the value proposition of MatLab licenses more favorably.

If this seems a little more creative than what US based AIs create, that’s because we are increasingly restrictive with what we allow companies to train AIs with. Old tech tried to fight for looser IP laws. We failed, and might lose the ASI race as a result.

I can’t help but think that this saga ends with Bryan Johnson figuring out how to implant his consciousness into his son’s body, killing his child.

I’m looking for people willing to bet that America will actually have an Iron Dome in whatever amount of time they want. Not for military bases, but for the country.

Something that makes me an alien is that if I express honestly held views and you claim that disqualifies me for a label, I don’t really care. The views are what matters, and the label is at best a first order descriptive approximation.

I know that Twitter has changed because @bendreyfuss has not clarified whether or not either of these people are invited to the orgy.

RT @webdevMason: Really looking forward to another 4 years of living in a completely bifurcated social reality where the competing politica….