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@the_good_matty

1 month

lmao this guy never ceases to amaze, these people have like a 6 hour recorded conference where they explicitly lay out their desire to create parallel media, education, government, housing, etc. in order to fit their interests better - it’s not a conspiracy theory

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8 months

some of the lamest people in history

swyx @ICLR_conf

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ppl in sf are nicknaming the SoMA-Mission-Potrero district "The Arena" because of all the Al engineers and researchers actually trying stuff down here @openai , @notionhq , @replit , @neuralink , @ycombinator , @AdeptAILabs , @replicatehq , @roboflow , @LangChainAI , @trychroma ,…

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white dude yimbys once again showing their fragility when confronted with someone who they can't immediately browbeat with credentialism

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@tomgooner84 @kastorcaster @Huaian2007 @AaronJay954127 @Pal_action being the victims of (non-unique) historical persecution does not entitle us to a genocidal settler-colonial ethnostate, sorry bud; also a nonsensical formation that you've constructed - some schmuck from brooklyn stealing some palestinian guy's house isn't "keeping him safe"

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@the_good_matty

10 months

reposting this because garry tan is a coward and also is doing cool eliminationist rhetoric

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@tomgooner84 @kastorcaster @Huaian2007 @AaronJay954127 @Pal_action then you must be getting murdered nonstop in Britain huh

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8 months

me at the growsf meeting, having the time of my life, all the women out of frame

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1 year

@YIMBYPoland lmao I guess you don’t have a favorite thing then because this is hilariously incorrect

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2 months

@smudge_green @PeoplesForumNYC @palyouthmvmt @answercoalition you’re literally responding to a post about it so it did at least one thing

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@sarahnadav @HadasThier @SenGillibrand our government doesn’t fund Hamas, give them arms, or provide them with diplomatic cover to do war crimes; why would it make sense to “speak out against Hamas” in America

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ridiculous and offensive; to be clear, this guy's "neuroscience credentials" amount to having an undergrad degree in biology, doing a stint as a lab assistant as an undergrad, and doing some independent studies

Bilal Mahmood 馬百樂

@bilalmahmood

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I am proud of my academic & professional achievements, and to have studied under some of the leading neuroscientists of the country. But I’m disappointed that SF politics have devolved into smear campaigns to distract us from the issues. So let's get into the facts. 🧵

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@PhilWMagness @HistOfTheRight @xanlpz @zeithistoriker that's not the point being made that you were directly responding to, which is that the coherent articulation of an ideology does not necessarily precede someone holding it

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@the_good_matty

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they’re not just Smol Bean Reformers To Make Society Better :))) they are explicitly sociopathic

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3 months

lmao the yimbys keep going, winning hearts and minds, participating in the technocratic discourse they oh so love

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3 months

@PhilWMagness @HistOfTheRight @xanlpz @zeithistoriker i thought you were some sort of historian, this was written as a post hoc attempt to define fascism as a coherent ideology (and co-opt/subvert leftist ideas) after it already existed as practical phenomenon

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@Rasselas68 @RockTheKoopa @feeqlain @littmath the idea that math is "indifferent to ideology" is an ahistorical and, ironically, ideological position

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making monetized, "internet-first", "parallel institutions" for education, media, governance, with the goal of replacing existing institutions as part of a plan to, more or less, take over the world

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@GalenMetzger1 oh ok

Lebensraum - Wikipedia

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1 year

@YIMBYPoland this question makes no sense and if you actually knew anything about the demographics and geography of the city you might know that; stay in your lane

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cool "parallel education" example, wherein kids sit at a computer and learn how to code, then do child labor for people :) fun inspiring stuff

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i mean, when i say that they're sociopathic i mean it literally, not in the colloquial sense - they want to destroy society and replace it with their own - a society where they can more or less do whatever they want

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@Rasselas68 @RockTheKoopa @feeqlain @littmath oh, okay, so you're a weird TERF who also doesn't know math; good luck with that

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28 days

@gilduran76 @loomdoop lol funny that this is the guy constantly whining about the supposed maoism of SF leftists

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@the_good_matty

3 months

the mayor's office just loves to lie in the most brazen way possible; they put out a press release saying that the mayor saved the fillmore safeway with ~ extensive discussions~... when I sent them a sunshine request for this they claim that there are no such records

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@eclipseo10 Is “hollowing out public services, government, education, and social institutions in lieu of privatized and unregulated versions” bad? yes, it’s, as I said, sociopathic

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if that weren't bad enough... universities have become WOKE MADRASAS (insert picture of people protesting an actual genocide) - yeah they ~ just want functioning schools :))))) ~ , definitely not reactionary racist morons

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@MattBruenig if I were an accelerationist and were somehow made the president of a university, I don’t think I’d be doing anything different

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10 months

also this stupid dweeb is lying, no one kicked out his socialist friends from being in DSA or w/e, but cool shoutout to the very reasonable red start that i ran

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@the_good_matty

1 year

@primalpoly @DeanPreston don’t threaten me with a good time

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1 year

@wantactionnow @marcelemoran if someone finds a $20 on the floor and wants to buy a smoothie they should be able to

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@the_good_matty

10 months

also, in what is probably the most offensive 1) keep star trek out of your mouth, dipshit 2) this is not right, roddenberry made SF starfleet HQ because he believed it represented progressive, humanist ideals, not because it had libertarian tech innovation or w/e

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@the_good_matty

2 months

how could chesa and/or dean preston do this?!?!

Toshio Meronek

@tmeronek

2 months

Since 2020 the 109 luxury condos at 1554 Market Street have sat empty. Thank you YIMBY movement

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@tomgooner84 @kastorcaster @Huaian2007 @AaronJay954127 @Pal_action the moment that pakistan, e.g., can be considered an apartheid ethnostate engaging in ethnic cleansing as part of an explicit colonial movement, i'll be happy to denounce it (as if that matters)

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@the_good_matty

11 months

this is my ted lasso

helena hind

@cynicalzoomer

11 months

my goodness

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10 months

just wondering about who has their (((fingers))) all over it

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10 months

oh, cool, ((( @DeanPreston ))) is expanding the "tentacles of the city to block progress"

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@the_good_matty

2 months

@kcordz25 @carterforva “some say it’s not enough” yeah because it’s not

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@the_good_matty

1 year

@ClaraJeffery @DeanPreston uh, yeah, like half the weird techno-liberals in the city

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@the_good_matty

10 months

wherein garry tan completely mischaracterizes the basic structure of SF govt

✂️ Bad Civics Lesson

30 seconds · Clipped by Matty · Original video "The Truth and Lies About Driverless Cars in SF" by Garry Tan

www.youtube.com

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@the_good_matty

2 months

@AntounNabhan @BernieSanders VC guy thinks that mild, partially-successful opposition to unrestricted free-market housing is somehow the primary cause of the bay's ills, surprising

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@bilalmahmood it's absurd to call yourself a neuroscientist and you know it, pretty insulting to people that actually put in the insane work to actually become legitimately credentialed; anyways, if you're so confident in being able to stand behind this, why did you remove it from everything?

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3 months

incapable of responding to the basic question "at what level of knowledge and intellect does someone gain the right to make correct claims about the efficacy of markets?"

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@the_good_matty

1 year

lmao maybe a bullseye on a jewish guy in a city where a right wing guy famously killed a supervisor isn't so great idk

Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club

@harveymilkclub

1 year

At a time of rising political violence, including the assassination attempt against Speaker Pelosi just weeks ago, the @sfexaminer ’s decision to put a literal bullseye on @DeanPreston and run it on their front page is deeply irresponsible and contemptible.

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1 year

@decadimitry we're ~ data driven ~ (except if it means i gotta look at a homeless guy)

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1 year

thank god for the Innovation Economy

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@mateosfo @PippengerHarlo @ratnika_prasad learn to read and stop this nonsensical tone policing; the qualifier "precarious" implies a prediction of a bunch of displaced people who are likely in a bad political and financial situation due to climate change - people living here can't afford already, much less such people

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11 months

@afromaterialism @noahpasaran yeah, agreed, i mean, this is kind of the thesis of Peoples Republic of Walmart or whatever — big capitalist firms are planned both at the firm level and as part of the broader economic system of capitalism

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@the_good_matty

10 months

Radical @DeanPreston

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1 month

yeah I guess this is a thing to do if you just moved here and don’t know any of the restaurants

Bilal Mahmood 馬百樂

@bilalmahmood

1 month

San Francisco has amazing food. From the Tenderloin to Japantown to the Haight. Over the next month, I'll be sharing a different restaurant every week! Have a favorite in District 5 you feel I should visit? Comment below!

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@stripessmusic @uhshanti

The brutal cuts in the Breed budget - 48 hills

Child care, housing for youth, code enforcement, the Food Bank ... all are facing the axe as cops get more and big landlords get tax breaks.

48hills.org

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@the_good_matty

10 months

wherein this whackadoodle lies about DSA, claims that your parents need to be murdered in taiwan to read mao (??), and then complains about socialists wanting public ownership of stuff

✂️ DSA Lies and Complaints About Basic Social Democracy

48 seconds · Clipped by Matty · Original video "The Truth and Lies About Driverless Cars in SF" by Garry Tan

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@the_good_matty

8 months

@katewillett lol you know she sued Dean Preston for blocking her on Twitter right

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@the_good_matty

1 year

@ericvgatz @MidwestDeplore @fuelgrannie @moultano @JamesTCarterII @PippengerHarlo i know basic concepts like "causality" are tough for some people, but I mean, babies figure this stuff out pretty quick

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@the_good_matty

3 months

damn it’s almost like markets are bad at providing housing

Laura Waxmann

@laura_waxee

3 months

🚨Scoop: The developer of a brand new rental apartment building in downtown #Oakland has walked away from the project — a move that underscores the distress building in the city’s multifamily market. @sfchronicle

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wherein garry tan has a basic misunderstanding of star trek, rude

✂️ Star Trek Fanfiction

13 seconds · Clipped by Matty · Original video "The Truth and Lies About Driverless Cars in SF" by Garry Tan

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@becauseberkeley yeah this dude's villain origin story is hilarious and so silly

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3 months

@maxdubler I know how it works, I also have a phd in math and have been working in applied statistics, machine learning, housing price prediction, and also more or less have a masters in economics; do I still get to be called a rube when I say that markets dont work to provide housing

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1 year

@1929stockcrash i live above a wine bar near hayes valley so I see this pretty much constantly

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10 months

wherein garry tan complains that (((Dean Preston))) is "expanding the tentacles of government"

✂️ Tentacles

7 seconds · Clipped by Matty · Original video "The Truth and Lies About Driverless Cars in SF" by Garry Tan

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1 month

@CrookeJenkins @garrytan @AaronPeskin thats not garry lol

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2 months

*stares furiously in Bell Riots*

Marke B.

@supermarke

2 months

wow sure hope using police drones to force poor people into drug testing so they can get that $100 a month to keep from starving solves all of San Francisco's problems. 🤞🤞🤞

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@Rasselas68 @RockTheKoopa @feeqlain @littmath this is true on S^1, so

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1 year

@uhshanti LVT would fix this imo

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1 year

piggy bank

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lmao internet is leaking

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even this is too generous, the econ 101 bros dont even understand econ 101

fuelgrannie

@fuelgrannie

26 days

“haaaaaallllllppppppp!!!!!😤🍼😫”

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2 months

@j_yinzer @katewillett yes, genocide is justified because some schmuck from Brooklyn wants to get cheap land and has a tenuous cultural connection to non-unique historical persecution

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3 months

just casually re-reading the stanford intro macro text... i'm sure that this is just chock full of hard, objective facts befitting an non-ideological, empirical science

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@maxdubler oh, you're back, cool; maybe you're capable to responding to the basic content of my post, which is that you seem intent on claiming that anyone who disagrees with you is ignorant; i am not... now what?

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wherein garry tan describes his astroturf bullshit as a "voter revolt" and says how they're going to wipe out the "far-left cabal"

✂️ "Voter Revolt" and Wiping Out The Cabal

17 seconds · Clipped by Matty · Original video "The Truth and Lies About Driverless Cars in SF" by Garry Tan

www.youtube.com

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1 month

@cmonjussthetip you clearly haven’t read or listened to anything these e/acc people have to say

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@the_good_matty

3 months

this fuckin guy, biggest shande in human history

Y Disassembler

@loomdoop

3 months

The arrogance of these politicians is incredible. This is San Francisco Supervisor @RafaelMandelman .

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@Zach_A_Palmer @PippengerHarlo seems like exactly the opposite happens all the time - playing a little hardball and not supplicating yourself to developers who don’t have anyone’s best interests in mind is good, actually

The Former ‘Monster In the Mission’ Project, Now Slated to Be Affordable Housing, Gets Even Bigger

Mayor London Breed is ordering a supersize increase in the number of units to the affordable housing complex going into what used to be the Burger King and Walgreens buildings at 16th and Mission, at...

sfist.com

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@PippengerHarlo

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@lbuprofin @eclipseo10 you are misunderstanding the political project here - their end goal is of course to get away with not paying into a public system and also to sell these awful technologies to public schools as well

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3 months

lmao

Dimitry Yakoushkin

@decadimitry

3 months

It seems possible that Brooke Jenkins is having an affair with Victim's Advocate Jovan Taylor. Or he is sexually harassing... his boss? While people should be free to have the relationships they want, an affair with a subordinate is sexual harassment. We need an investigation.🧵

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@crulge it's basic econ 101 that there is exactly one commodity in the world, one producer, and one buyer, all of whom have perfect information about everything, read a danged book

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newest YIMBY argument: we need to upzone organs

B Dubs

@BDubsSeattle

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@the_good_matty @PippengerHarlo And we have a horrible shortage of organs. How do you see that as a good example?

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@BigMeanInternet average ratio of (confidence in their own knowledge) / (actual knowledge)

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no thanks to NIMBY Dean Preston

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9 months

we’re back baby, DMCA trolls fuck off

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10 months

reposting this because garry tan is a coward and also is doing cool eliminationist rhetoric

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@uhshanti totally cool and normal stuff with no precedent

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2 months

fine, bernie's not dead to me anymore, if just for the fun replies this will obviously solicit

Bernie Sanders

@BernieSanders

2 months

We need leaders like Dean Preston in every state, at all levels of government - leaders who not only stand up to special interests, but also have the courage to address striking levels of inequality at their core. That's why I'm endorsing Dean for the SF Board of Supervisors.

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@RivasAD counterpoint: no, and you'd be well-served by gaining some statistical / causal reasoning

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damn i've been dean this whole time and have just been play-acting as an easily-findable obviously different guy

♦️Susan Dyer Reynolds♦️

@SusanDReynolds

9 months

Hey I think I found a ⁦ @DeanPreston ⁩ fake account 🤣 I mean, he has ⁦ @sfindependent —⁩ a DSA blog with fake reporters — so no doubt he has fake accounts to attack his critics 🤷🏻‍♀️

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even if this were true, class traitors are good

Paul Graham

@paulg

1 month

It's weird to think that Dean Preston grew up much richer than Garry Tan or Brian Chesky or the Collisons or for that matter almost all the tech founders he hates on.

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@maxdubler most inane attempt at a gotcha in human history, anyways; the 'housing market' as it exists in america does not have as an objective to provide housing at any price for everyone, much less at a *reasonable* price; my personal situation would have no impact on this fact

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@queenozymandias you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to him

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1 year

@JackieT_97 removing a public service that connects them to the world is an antisocial behavior, hth

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@disco_socialist yeah the bad guy is the EPA, but otoh it promotes spectral sex positivity

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i dont know why i made these

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@daze_soma @MLNow @EskSF by virtue of doing journalism joe is a journalist; bilal does not do neuroscience

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@kristenmag @abc7newsbayarea selling arms to a state that's currently participating in a genocide is also illegal

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this makes me like 2x as qualified to call myself a mathematician as this guy does to call himself a neuroscientist, but i would never dream of doing this

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@uhshanti no, he thinks the “conspiracy theory” that these people mean what they openly say is stupid; he’s totally on board with the actual stupidity

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@maxdubler i've read every dumb stanford study or whatever about rent control or markets at a level of mathematical sophistication surpassing your own... now what?

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@BobsU22448 @fuelgrannie stop being a pedant; the contextual (and colloquial) usage of the term "amenity" is meant to imply something extra on top of what you expect to get as a baseline

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@the_good_matty

7 months

why won’t they condemn hamas

Sesame Workshop

@SesameWorkshop

7 months

Our hearts are with Israeli and Palestinian children and families affected by the crisis in the region. All children deserve a safe childhood free from violence and terror.

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@the_good_matty

3 months

@noahpasaran nonsense; barely squeaking out a victory against one of the worst candidates in history by threatening everyone at gunpoint with “what do you want the other guy??” and also lying constantly is not “organizing”

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"weird al" jazeera

@the_good_matty

1 month

yes, feel bad; that’s what you get for accepting and reinforcing the idea that any of these technologies should be developed *at all* under our current regime - the field of “AI ethics” serves to give evil people cover for going and making AI systems that do evil

Meredith Whittaker

@mer__edith

1 month

I'm sitting this morning wondering which BigTech cloud the "Lavendar" & "Where's Daddy?" systems are running on. What APIs they might be using. Which libraries they're likely calling What work did my former colleagues, did I, did you contribute to that may now be enabling this?

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