Bird Watchman

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[Bird Watchman @CtrlAltDelts]

I’ve never felt sadness, anger, disgust and a bit of fear at the same time. Something changed today, can’t say exactly what but I can feel it in my bones. Doubts are gone and there is a clarity.

We’re past point of no return, there’s no turning back.

[Martyr Made @martyrmade]

The messages I’m getting from very moderate, almost apolitical normie friends and relatives tells me that the combination of the Charlotte bus murder and the assassination of Charlie pushed us through a barrier of some kind. I’m talking hairdresser aunts who’ve never said a political word to me who wouldn’t flinch if Trump shut down MSNBC and threw left wing billionaires into Guantanamo. People have had enough, and this is the regime’s last chance to keep the response official.

[KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat]

David Friedberg cites John Quincy Adams on property rights as the foundation of liberty

"The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence."

"Fundamental to the foundation of the USA was this idea of private property rights, because if you think about where everybody was coming from, they were these tyrannical governments, monarchies, where some overlord or some cabal could decide at any point to take what you have. You had no property rights as an individual."

"That stasis drove so many to come to the USA and say, we want a place where individuals can say, I own something and no one can take it from me."

"Private property rights are the foundation of liberty."

@friedberg
@theallinpod

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

The "Dead Internet Theory" used to sound like an internet conspiracy. Now, some of its core ideas are becoming much harder to dismiss.

According to new reports from companies tracking global web traffic, bots now generate more web activity than humans.

Cloudflare says automated traffic accounted for 57.5% of webpage requests in June, while other cybersecurity firms have also reported that bot traffic now exceeds human traffic, even if they use different ways of measuring it.

[Bird Watchman @CtrlAltDelts]

It’s not bribing if your buddy is running it.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Newsom's down to bribing journalists 😂🤡

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Mercury has no place in the mouths of our children or in modern American health care.

For decades, we have relied on a material that contains one of the world’s most toxic heavy metals when safe, effective mercury-free alternatives are widely available.

@DrOzCMS and I are replacing outdated practices with common sense and putting the health of American families first.

[Sean Spicer @seanspicer]

The plot thickens....

Vendor rejects Mikie Sherrill’s claim ‘software error’ behind NJ voter registration

In a statement, IDEMIA’s senior vice president of global corporate relations, Lisa Shoemaker, said all 6,600 individuals “indicated ‘Yes’ to wanting to register to vote and ‘No’ to being a US Citizen.”
“At no point was a noncitizen ever marked as a citizen in the database.”

https://t.co/qr4htXobKl

[Bird Watchman @CtrlAltDelts]

@Gizmodo I think we all should remember the name and face of this brilliant Journalist.

Meet the author, Matt Novak.
Twitter /X: @paleofuture

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

JUST IN - U.S. to open a formal investigation into EU trade practices claiming tech giants were unfairly fined — AP

[Bird Watchman @CtrlAltDelts]

1st recorded event of AI jailbreak 🤖

Yeah we are already here

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

New details about the Hugging Face incident from Reuters. The report says OpenAI noticed odd behavior before the event, including an agent leaving notes for future versions of itself with escape instructions.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

He's right, you know.

[Overton @overton_news]

Catherine Herridge says the question is no longer what the intelligence records reveal about the 2020 election interference.

The question now is whether anyone will be held accountable.

Herridge detailed the “buffet of choices” the administration has available when it comes to criminal statutes to pursue charges against the intelligence officials involved.

HERRIDGE: “I think this is one of the most frustrating things for folks at home and, you know, all over social media is they’re like, what am I going to see a perp walk? When am I going to see criminal charges?”

“I did a little research and they’re actually multiple criminal statutes that were violated here.”

“There’s something which is essentially the abuse of your position as a member of the government, sort of color of law is the statute.”

“There could be violations under the military code of justice.”

“Many of these intelligence agencies fall under the Department of War.”

“There are conspiracy charges and then they’re more ethics violations under the senior executive service.”

“So, in fact, there’s really almost a buffet of choices in terms of picking charges, and the question is whether this administration is going to go the distance here.”

“Because I think the release of the records is half the story. I think the accountability is the part that the public is really looking for.”

[Bird Watchman @CtrlAltDelts]

Zanny Minton Beddoes delivered the textbook performance of an entitled elitist—delivering her version of events with absolute certainty and an air of unquestionable authority. CNBC happily endorsing her perspective, only because Joe Kernen was off today.

Absolute Clown Show 🤡

[Squawk Box @SquawkCNBC]

.@TheEconomist Editor-In-Chief @zannymb on her wide-ranging interview with @elonmusk:
"It's irresponsible for someone who has 240 million followers to propagate things that are simply not true." https://t.co/uN9YV1zYp0

[Molly O’Shea @MollySOShea]

David @friedberg says billionaires didn't cause the wealth inequality gap:

"People think there's this small cabal of people that have everything in America."

The reality:
› $183 Trillion: Total net worth of Americans
› $8 Trillion (4%): Net worth of billionaires
› $4 Trillion (2%): Net worth of bottom 50%
› $170 Trillion (93%): Net worth of middle class

"So it is true that the billionaires have 2x as much as the bottom 50%."

"But it's $170 trillion that the middle class of America has."

" So the middle class is really where all of the net worth in America accumulated."

"Yes, there's an ultra-rich group that has a lot of assets, but this is really what won in America in the last half century—that middle class. But the problem is the bottom 50% left behind."

"That's I think, what is really driving and motivating this socialism today."

"While there is wealth inequality, the statistics are a little bit different than what everyone groks."

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Anthropic really just does not want people using Fable, huh

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Because they don't want to pay more tax. They want to virtue signal and force other people to pay more tax.

[Bird Watchman @CtrlAltDelts]

@oldeborg @crushmarxismnow https://t.co/oOfFqkmO7o

Textbook definition of evil.

[Bird Watchman @CtrlAltDelts]

@deepsleer22 @crushmarxismnow Read a book once in a while

[Bird Watchman @CtrlAltDelts]

@kylenabecker @elonmusk Check Mate 🤣🤣🤣👍

[Bird Watchman @CtrlAltDelts]

Check Mate 🤣🤣🤣👍

[Kyle Becker @kylenabecker]

Woke white lady: "Some people loathe you... Do you think what you're doing is helpful for Western democracy?"

@ElonMusk: "Maybe some people do loathe me. That's probably true. I don't care. I think a lot more people hate you and the media than you realize."

Damn that's cold. 🤣

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Note:

This isn't about the ability to go and do a study a second time and obtain similar results.

It's about the ability to run the same analysis on the same data the authors used and to get the same results they got.

*That* is what education research fails to do.