Elon Tusk @srs@schelling.pt
We should use the word "stupid" with different colors or flavors, like the power rangers, say, or the spice girls.
This thread, for instance, is woke stupid.
(The question is obviously ambiguous and highly sensitive to inferred context)
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RT @hankgreen
Hey @Google, this is...real weird.
https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1353784705989046272
Image of Ursula von der Leyen flagged as sensitive content! 😂
RT @ben_golub
New game:
Make an economist angry by adding the word "neoliberal" to a book or paper title.
For example: "The use of knowledge in neoliberal society" https://twitter.com/KiaThomasEdits/status/1353690112572477443
😂♥️🤦♂️ this was fun! Now let's talk about bitcoin!
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RT @ShaanVP
If you're out of the loop - this is the (hilarious) story of a subreddit (wall street bets) taking down a multi-billion dollar hedge fund... get your popcorn ready 🍿
https://twitter.com/ShaanVP/status/1353951035224694785
Regarding values and given the historic responsibility of our country in particular, China's approach should've really fallen out of fashion by now. - Like building concentration camps for a sub-cultural and religious minority.
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RT @vonderleyen
The EU has the largest single market in the world. We are open for business but we are attached to reciprocity, level playing field & values.
Today, the EU & China concluded in principle neg…
https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1344268974444441600
Elon Tusk
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@spritelyproject Probably needs a whole blogpost explaining the gravity of this current moment, and what this means is now open to us.
But in short: secure, distributed object programming in mutually suspicious peer to peer networks? Open for business!
@hfaust well, depends on how to consensus protocol works I suppose.
And of course they won't use anything resembling a simple majority because they creates exactly the kinds of problems they claim to counter. /sarcasm
Everyone, is it normal that I don't see any posts on @doctorow's profile page? (Even though the page claims there are ~84k posts) - is this a bug?
Elon Tusk
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If you think "It's not censorship unless the government does it," I want to change your mind.
It's absolutely true that the First Amendment only prohibits government action to suppress speech based on its content, but the First Amendment is not the last word on censorship.
1/
Elon Tusk
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Can’t get this song about Putin’s secret aqua disco out of my head
Elon Tusk
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RT @flancian
@TwitterDev
I've been trying to get access to the Twitter API for @an_agora for four days now -- I only get this boilerplate back from you, with no details on exactly how our use case is in violation even though I've offered more details and options. Could you please help?
RT @alicemazzy
libgen/scihub are of such monumental social/moral worth that their illegality delegitimizes the law as a whole
Elon Tusk
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when a society finds itself sunk-cost-fallacying about why bright youngsters must be denied access to the sum of human knowledge is when it may be time to take a deep breath and pull the bandaid off (change funding incentives)
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RT @alicemazzy
libgen/scihub are of such monumental social/moral worth that their illegality delegitimizes the law as a whole
https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/1220062740825415689
@amir @pee_zombie -- Osama bin Laden #misattributedquotes
Hot take: You: the world is in a grain of sand!
Existentialists: therefore, the world isn't all that impressive actually.
Hindus: therefore, sand is pretty impressive actually.
Zen Buddhists: (hit you with a stick)
Christians: and GOD MADE THAT SAND!!!
6/ addendum: the act of being aware might be heroic, but the resulting self-actualization is not. Any pathos we habitually associate with it is misguided. It is an attempt to escape the very thing itself. The meaning of life is as sacred as going to the bathroom. This is absurd.
5/ By choosing awareness, Sysiphos moves fate and meaning from a divine to a completely human sphere. The price for this is the infinite struggle with his rock. - it's *not* like awareness solves any problems! This is what makes him the absurd hero.
