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entrepreneur, tech exec. politically independent, preference for data. msft/expe/startups. harvard, stanford, cmu. mba, mscs (ai), applied math
Joined April 2008
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” - Thomas Sowell.
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@Scott_Thought I love the love and humor here. For the wedding speech: “Every day, Twitter has one main character, and your goal is to not be that person.”. Merry Christmas to the six year old, mom and dad… and him!.
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Good test of your filter bubble:. The definitive cause of the January Washington DC helicopter/plane collision that killed 67 people has been determined. Do you know what it was found to be?.
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"We can't endorse the lab leak hypothesis, because the wrong people have been saying it might be true". "We cannot call for Claudine Gay to step down because the wrong people are pointing out her plagiarism". "We cannot acknowledge closing schools for more than a year was wrong,.
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@sciam @KamalaHarris If you think you know when the FIRST time was that “Scientific” American endorsed a candidate, you’re right. What a joke this publication has become. Just sell to Mother Jones and be done with it already.
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“The New York Times no longer exists to report the news, but to signal to its liberal audience when it is safe to acknowledge a truth known long ago.” - @AbigailShrier (paraphrasing).
A miracle has happened. The NY Times ran an oped acknowledging not only that the covid virus likely originated in a lab, but that government officials and scientists conspired to keep the substantiating evidence secret. The lab leak theory was censored on social media because
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@OsseChi @alexaforcouncil @juliej_won @tiffany_caban @ShahanaFromBK @SandyforCouncil @LincolnRestler @AmandaFariasNYC Glad you guys are having fun and getting connected! . Lots and lots of K-12 kids at schools still have to eat like this in schools. They look thrilled too, don’t you think?
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The complete absence of COVID as a topic from the 2024 election is pretty stunning. There are enormous policy questions around response, origin, lab safety, censorship, learning recovery for kids, institutional reform and more. Not a single question at the debates. The.
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@NoContextHumans Not enough info. Depends upon cost of goods sold, and whether they reported it to their insurance company. Profit = Revenue minus costs .Assuming the perp walked out with the $70 item and the $30, ostensibly it’s $100. But the $70 item didn’t actually -cost- the store $70,.
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@SamHarrisOrg It was NOT a hard call journalistically, nor ethically. Twitter locked the nation's 4th largest circulation newspaper out of its account for weeks. NPR called it "not a story." . That utterly blows up already thin public trust, which will long outlast any presidency.
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It was pilot error. The pilot happened to be female. The pilot ignored an explicit warning to fly lower, even from her co-pilot, who had more flying hours. Look closely at which news outlets are reporting this accurately, and which are not.
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@laurahelmuth I see you're the Editor in Chief of Scientific American. Do you have any magazines you can recommend that discuss science?.
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The recent NPR blowup, from the @uberliner piece to the hiring of the CEO, gets at something I've been thinking about for some time: the growing recognition that Liberalism and Progressivism are not the same things, and do not even have the same objectives. Progressivism is not.
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While nothing can be inferred at all about competence based on sex, it is reasonable to question whether the promotion/training paths were tight enough in the 2018-2022 era that she became a pilot. That’s a valid area of inquiry and we should not shy away from it. 67 people died.
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@Breaking911 Debt is not "canceled," only shifted to others. In this case, plumbers and truck drivers will have increased cost (inflation) to pay for the arts major's degree they voluntarily signed up for.
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Has anyone checked in on the New York Times’ lead COVID health reporter? . What an utter failure of journalism. Is this someone who should be following the science for the world’s formerly most-credible paper?
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@SamHarrisOrg They didn't just ignore the story. Important platforms of communication actively blocked discussion of it. They even locked the account (briefly) of the Press Secretary of the United States. It was an appalling, egregious error done solely for political goals.
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@sfmcguire79 It's a start, @Stanford. Feels like the "administrator" who egged this on and led the struggle session with a prepared speech needs to be shown the door. (Stanford MSCS '87).
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@washingtonpost Wasn’t it the hospital itself, both on the website and via two apparent operators on the phone “falsely” said this? . Why are these “pounce” stories always framed around people noticing the thing, rather than the thing itself? Shouldn’t journalists notice the thing?.
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“The New York Times no longer exists to report the news, but to signal to its readers when it is acceptable to discuss a truth known long ago.” . - @AbigailShrier (paraphrased)
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The helicopter pilot, specifically. The passenger jet pilots did nothing wrong.
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With the atrocities in Israel and the various responses to it, we are seeing yet again in full color that Liberalism and modern Progressivism are NOT the same thing. Since 2010, Progressives have become increasingly illiberal, in multiple foundational ways: freedom of speech,.
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@IJasonAlexander Unpopular view: We'd be better off with LESS cultural emphasis on celebrity opinion, not more.
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@Brink_Thinker I’m convinced that “Dad Jokes” are simply a lifelong attempt to maintain and rekindle this silliness. Good job, Dad.
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@IJasonAlexander Look. You're a terrific actor. And your decision to leave Twitter is of course something anyone can do, at any time! But this seems connected to termination of a -free- benefit, and availability to others of what used to be an exclusive club. Can't help but think:
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@JomboyMedia Jomboy fans probably already know the rule but I had to remind myself; sharing it here:
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@MattWalshBlog <pause> . “What do YOU think was the best segment?”. <pause>. “What other answers have you heard?”
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NY Times Editorial Board tackles the affirmative action decision. Mentions:. White: 3 times.Latino: 6 times.Black: 10 times . and yet . Asian: 0 times. Asian Americans were the plaintiffs in the case, and clearly showed harm.
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Just left a "Twitter Spaces" room in which a BBC reporter interviewed @elonmusk. 3,000,000 people tuned in. 3 million -- unedited. In contrast, in a typical night in February of this year, CNN draws about 587,000 during all of prime-time -- an audience 1/5th the size.
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@madrid_mike Teleprompter and short edits do wonders. If only that were what the Presidency entailed.
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@mindyisser Have you visited? I have. The people are friendly but freedoms are quite limited. Like speaking against the government? You can’t. Want to choose your own career? Better know someone in government. The poverty is pretty immense. Everywhere there’s a sense of being monitored. In.
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If you have a teen or young adult who is on social media, encourage them to consider following @AuschwitzMuseum. These stories must be remembered.
19 April 1934 | A Belgian Jewish boy, Eddie Steiner, was born in Antwerp. He arrived at #Auschwitz 22 September 1943 in a transport of 1,425 Jews deported from Malines / Mechelen. He was among 875 people murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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@NoahPollak @Possiblyinabit @Penn In some senses not a bad statement. But was freedom of speech, including voicing dissenting viewpoints, backed heavily for members of Penn’s women’s swim team over the past couple of years? . I feel like I’ve read that precisely the opposite was true.
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@imillhiser The Constitution is, BY DESIGN, a power limiting document, not a power expanding document. Progressives hate this aspect of it, and the institution which is tasked with upholding it.
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@historyinmemes List allegedly committed these murders because he grew despondent over the family finances. One of the tragic epilogues to this story is that after the fire that burned down the List home a couple years after the murders, police discovered that the skylight in the ballroom was.
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@UjuAnya Nonsense. Living in France, I was asked this question often; it was polite. At college, I was asked it often. Stop looking for offense in everything. Yes, it can SOMETIMES, RARELY come with negative overtone or intent, but your assertion that it’s “never polite” is ridiculous.
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@cenkuygur Why do you think it’s no big deal that federal power is for sale to the highest bidder and/or foreign rivals?.
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@bennyjohnson No need to ask.He’s a .Boom Operataaaah .Booooom Operataaah.Coast to coast .LA to Chicago.
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President of the American Psychological Association.
Let go of the fear. Let go of the lies. Let go of the control issues. Let go of the manipulation. Let go of the selfishness. Let go of that which has been stolen. Let go of the denial. Let go of the tendency to dehumanize. Let go of the greed. Decolonize.
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Twitter knew, for five years, that “Russian bots are amplifying hashtags” (like #ReleaseTheMemo) was utterly false. They saw piece after piece in the news about it. And they said nothing. Would we have known any of this had Musk not purchased Twitter?.
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@realDailyWire wait so the "extreme actions" taken to respond to this were to. continue to employ this individual?.
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@marcfriedrich7 @Figensport He was taken in by a man in a yellow hat, then returned to Manhattan, getting into all kinds of troublesome hijinx.
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@MonicaHesse One of the hallmarks of progressivism is completely imagined human behavior. If only humans behaved like that. But we don’t, often for reasons which won’t change. No, that boy wouldn’t be “drowning in prom invites.” He’d be bullied by his peers and mocked by many girls.
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Why is enrollment declining in Seattle Public Schools?. Reasons pondered in this Seattle Times piece:.- low birthrates.- migration.- "just fewer kids in Seattle".- high housing costs in Seattle . NOT mentioned in this Seattle Times piece:.- closing the district to in-person.
The district will use a state grant to understand what's behind the enrollment decline and come up with ways to attract families.
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@katiecouric I’m pro choice. But what’s the total number? I’ve seen anywhere from 400,000-900,000 US abortion annually. So aren’t we talking about 5,000-12,000 annually? That’s about 10x-60x the number of 0-18 year olds who died with COVID annually. I’ve seen 1.3% as the number frequently.
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The Gallup numbers on race relations in the US are striking. They make a very good case that we are NOT on the right track with a racial essentialism approach, which is the underlying theme in too many DEI initiatives. Let's look at some data and see if you agree. 🧵
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@paulkrugman Yes if you exclude a lot of the essential things which went way up in price, inflation really isn’t that bad.
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@CoopManDo @JonathanTurley Was a major turning point for sure. When Twitter 1.0 silenced the laptop story, when they locked the account of the newspaper reporting on it, when “50 national intelligence experts” suggested Russian disinformation, it was a clarion moment. So many institutions tossed their.
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I’m heartened by two great examples of character and class this week. Tracy Chapman and Novak Djokovic. 1) Chapman had this to say about a country cover of her hit song, “Fast Car”:
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@sabrinakosmas They’re simply signaling they’ve abandoned the debate on facts, logic and persuasion. It’s an over-learned gimmick. It was effective from about 2005-2021. It no longer is.
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Are you considering a move from WA? I’m getting more serious about it, and have compared tax consequences of WA to NH, NV, TX, and FL. Link follows.
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@BobFergusonAG Hey Bob, five people were stabbed over the past few hours in our largest city here. You're the Governor-elect. Care to comment? .
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@atrupar Me? I think it's problematic. Just as public schools generally don't stock the Kama Sutra or "Anarchist Cookbook", or "Best of Hustler Magazine," they probably shouldn't stock some publications. That's not a "ban" -- it's simply saying that the curation process should leave.
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@sfmcguire79 @Harvard Has there ever been an utterance of “my truth” that isn’t surrounded by hogwash?.
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Okay, West Coast Progressives, it's time to show your work. How's it going? By that I mean, how are empirical OUTCOMES of the programs you advocate doing in terms of metrics. In Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco, we've spun up programs. We've spent hundreds of millions.
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Washington State tax receipts have risen about 20% on a population-adjusted, inflation-adjusted basis since 2019. Can anyone name a single service that's gotten 20% better? By what metrics?. Has public education improved 20%? .Have roads improved 20%?.Has public safety improved.
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I disagree with Ron DeSantis on pro-life and abortion, but I think he’s the best of the GOP candidates, and he’d be far, far better than Biden/Harris/Newsom. I do not understand the Trumpers in the GOP; he’s old, he’s got so, so many liabilities, he’s going to be in criminal.
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@RNCResearch “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” in Ferguson was a lie perpetuated for weeks by numerous media outlets, particularly CNN. It stoked racial tension, anti-police sentiment and division, and caused an enormous amount of harm and loss of property.
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@NoContextBrits "Lived experience." . "Experience" is sufficient; there are no experiences people have which are not "lived" in some way.
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@politico Just because Vance still won even though CBS failed to moderate fairly doesn’t mean CBS shouldn’t be roundly criticized. No questions on COVID response? Walz’ handling of the George Floyd protests? Making Vance defend his running mate’s crazy statements but not doing the same.
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Hot-takers on today's SCOTUS ruling: . Please be aware that President Obama deliberately targeted an American abroad for killing by drone without any due process of law in any federal or state court. That's not a hypothetical. It happened. Should he be criminally liable for.
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@MeghanEMurphy The New York Times no longer exists to report the news, but to signal to its audience when it is socially acceptable to acknowledge a truth known long ago. - Abigail Shrier (paraphrased).
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King County has the most retail theft of any Nordstrom location. - Erik Nordstrom, CEO. "During a summit on retail crime, Nordstrom, based in Seattle, claimed the stores located in King County are responsible for approximately 10% of its companywide losses due to theft, despite
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@washingtonpost I mean this is right around the corner from you guys. If the hospital is not, in fact, doing these procedures, it is the hospital itself — both its website (now updated apparently) and not one but two phone operators who confirmed “falsely” that they are. Maybe that’s the story?.
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@mcsquared34 What a moronic statement. No system has lifted more people out of poverty than capitalism.
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@boshin_goshin @caroljsroth lol no. It’s unconstitutional, and also would be rife with fraud. Nearly all European efforts to tax overall wealth have been repealed.
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@neal_katyal I see political punditry, but what is her Constititional and legal argument here?.
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Things Seattle Progressives Were Mostly Right About . - Bike lanes.- Road diets . Things Seattle Progressives Were Mostly Wrong About. - Homelessness policy.- Public education policy.- Vax mandates .- Allowing CHOP/CHAZ.- Permissive approach to repeat offenders.- Harm reduction:.
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@ComfortablySmug @redsteeze There really are some odd elements to this evolving story, I have to admit. Wishing Mr. Pelosi a swift recovery and good health. I do really wonder how much Vijaya Gedde would have allowed the discussion of this, had the whole Musk thing not happened.
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@biello_joseph Buried in the very last paragraph; the writing that comes before it seeks to obfuscate the simple truth.
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@TristanSnell Does the Constitution matter? . PPP was passed by a bipartisan vote and signed into law. You know, the way laws are done. Student debt transfer is trying to use clever loopholes in direct contradiction to clear Congressional intent.
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@AJDelgado13 @jakeflanagin @kalihollowayftw Yikes. What an elitist response. You and other alums should be far more concerned that the entire DEI effort, and attempt to hide and excuse clear plagiarism, has eroded and will continue to erode the credential, unless significant change is made. (HBS MBA, ‘91).
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@BarackObama Nearly 72 hours. Did it take ChatGPT that long to thread the rhetorical needle?.
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@nytimes While I think the label is wrong, since NPR clearly has editorial discretion, its editorial discretion has been comically left for years now, through R and D administrations. A once-great brand, ruined. This was just one memorable milepost along the way of total credibility
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@sarahbeth345 @KerryKennedyRFK @roryekennedy @joekennedy @KKT_Kennedy Had the exact same thoughts. "Denounce" his candidacy? . Note that they didn't "denounce" his candidacy when he started running as a Democrat -- they simply "denounce" him now, deciding to do the same thing, but simply outside the bounds of a specific corporate entity.
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@RcaZenith When I worked at Microsoft in the 90’s Windows for Workgroups was in internal beta testing, and had a built in messenger called WinPopup. You could change your username to anything and send a pop-up alert dialog to any computer on the LAN. So, working late at night, a new.
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@delaneypv15 Luckily there are places you can go which embrace a different kind of economic system:. Cuba .North Korea .Vietnam .China .Russia .Laos .Venezuela.
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