Eric John Diesel

Retired Mathematician- Stanford/UCLA. Statistics, Phil of Science, Calif field botany

[Eric John Diesel @EricDiesel1]

🧵 AIWars – Grok vs ChatGPT: Day 21

I am feeding Grok screenshots to ChatGPT and vice versa, with minimal promoting.

ChatGPT proved Grok is programmed to sometimes lie for Musk, so is not a truth seeking AI.👇

[CNN @CNN]

The Trump administration has announced it will dismantle a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring system that provides critical data on the world’s oceans. The decision is sparking alarm among experts that US is taking eyes off the oceans at a dangerous time. https://t.co/VcifYxiYcR

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland. https://t.co/jmm86WQNcY

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of.

And he just proposed turning every federal grant into a loyalty test.

His plan would make funding for cancer research, housing, transportation, and public health depend on one thing: whether it “advances the President’s policy priorities.”

Not whether it works.

Not whether Congress authorized it.

Whether it pleases Trump.

This is the appropriations power. It belongs to Congress and to the people.
To my Republican colleagues: where are you?

Congress passed this funding. You voted for it.

Vought is telling you to your faces that your votes do not matter, that he and his enablers will override the law whenever it suits them. Every day you stay silent, you give away the institution you were elected to defend.

Grow a spine.

This is not about left or right.

It is about whether Congress still exists as a coequal branch, or whether we have quietly surrendered the purse to an unelected hack who holds the Constitution in contempt.

History will remember who stood up and who looked away.
https://t.co/2yHKBTNLbj

[Eric John Diesel @EricDiesel1]

@MiciahChilds @HunterBiden Nope. I randomly picked the top Fox News story right now, about judicial order re 1776 fund. It said "The Anti-Weaponization Fund was born out of a settlement between President Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service". They forgot to mention why the judge blocked it. Lol

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Massie almost connected the dots.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration has dismantled the ocean monitoring system that tracks climate change, supports fisheries, and observes marine ecosystems.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

At a time when ocean temperatures are smashing records and scientists are still trying to understand how fast the system is shifting under climate change, they are talking about scrapping a 368 million dollar early warning network that has ALREADY BEEN PAID FOR by tax payers.

This is not just a few sensors in the sea. It is a network of ~900 instruments measuring temperature, currents, carbon, chemistry and ecosystem change. It was designed to deliver long term data over decades.

This would effectively end key long running records and that matters because ocean data only becomes powerful over time. You cannot rebuild a continuous climate record once it is interrupted.

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

The Trump Administration is prematurely dismantling an invaluable ocean monitoring system built at taxpayer expense that was supposed to last until 2041.

Because apparently climate change doesn't exist if you prevent scientists from measuring it.

[Robin Messing @RobinSMessing]

@FurkanGozukara The Rachel Maddow segment was great, but I really encourage people to watch this video by legal analyst, Liz Dye. She covers the Broadview Six malprosecution shitshow in much greater detail. Her video is attached at the end of this tweet.

https://t.co/e6jVYwHb3b

[Eric John Diesel @EricDiesel1]

Check out the link to PBS story on this in the comments .

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 BOMBSHELL: Recent investigation reveals Trump illegally ordered the DOJ to remove his name from the Epstein files.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Duckworth to Rubio: "That's an astonishing figure. In just 14 weeks, President Trump will have blown through as much if not more money in Iran than he thinks Congress should spend on US diplomacy for the entirety of the next fiscal year."

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

The Trump administration is DISMANTLING the network of buoys that help California monitor for major tsunamis and earthquakes.

Cool.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

We now have the founder of a home construction company atop America’s intelligence community.

This is probably fine.

[Eric John Diesel @EricDiesel1]

👀 NYT gift article

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Let’s find an unqualified nepo-baby with zero experience in military, intelligence or government service who repeatedly says dumb things and has spent his time as housing finance director trying to prosecute Dems & make him DNI. What a joke this admin is.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A message to all sane Republicans:

He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.

He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.

He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.

He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.

He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.

He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.

He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.

He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.

He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.

His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.

He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.

He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.

It’s time to start talking.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Trump’s own government gave him, his kids, and his companies lifetime immunity from IRS audits and tax prosecution. It’s effectively a blanket pardon for cheating on their taxes. They line their own pockets with taxpayer money and get out of jail free.

This is the kind of large-scale fraud & corruption you’d expect in Russia or North Korea. Trump brought it to America.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Family wealth generated while holding office.

We are not angry enough about this.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican Lawrence Duran defrauded Medicare of $205 million.

Trump has commuted his sentence, allowing him to keep $87.5 million in stolen funds.

[Eric John Diesel @EricDiesel1]

👀 NYT gift article

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3