Joe Hewitt

[Joe Hewitt @JoeHewitt111]

@MaximeGabella @fchollet Science is a process built on testing predictions. If a theory is not testable is it science?

[Joe Hewitt @JoeHewitt111]

@fchollet Like flying in a cloud, you loose your horizon and fly in circles, as my dad would say it’s time to straighten up and fly right.

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@ThomasSowell Mamdani is using the same trick Akkad uses in his book: focus on the response to evil while not addressing the evil. Both are blind racists trying to dress-up their rotteness.

[Lucy Biggers @LLBiggers]

In three parts, I explain how I was brainwashed into becoming a biased climate reporter.

Step 1: Deconstruct your identity.

When I entered a newsroom at 25, this was the pervasive ideology: The world is divided into two groups—the oppressed and the oppressors.

If you are white, straight, privileged, or American, you are inherently an oppressor. Everything you grew up believing is wrong or evil. You cannot be trusted to see the world as it really is because you are inherently racist, biased, and part of the oppressor class.

I was young, excited to be there, and surrounded by people I thought were smarter and cooler than I was. So I absorbed their worldview and ceded my judgment to the group.

Once you are demoralized, feel guilty for being an oppressor, can no longer trust your own intuition, or your own interpretation of the facts, you will believe whatever the group tells you to believe.

Step 2: Atone for your sins.

Because you are an oppressor all you can do is atone for the sins of your birth. You can do that by repeating and advancing the group’s ideology. You never question it, because questioning the ideology is treated as proof that you are racist, selfish, or an oppressor.

For me, this manifested as becoming a climate reporter. Through my work I could help the downtrodden, the indigenous people and other marginalized groups. I could be a good ally.

And so without questioning, I pushed the idea that climate change was an existential crisis, fossil-fuel companies were evil, capitalism was destroying the planet, and America was an imperialist country that had destroyed the environment. Essentially all of the problems we faced were because of Western imperialism.

If I had any doubts about this way of thinking I would shut them down. Who was I to question any of it? I was just some stupid, privileged white girl who didn’t know anything. That was what I had been told about myself and that is what I believed. Better to go along with the group, keep my head down, and be a good ally.

Step 3: Fully submit to the ideology.

The West is evil. America is evil. Capitalism is evil. White people are evil. Everything you grew up believing is wrong, and the only way to fix the world is to tear all of these systems down.

The weird thing is that I fell for all of this from a place of compassion. I wanted to help the downtrodden. I wanted to solve inequality. I wanted to fix the world.
I thought that by giving up my personal agency to this ideology, I was playing my part in atoning for the sins of my birth.

I believe what I went through is still incredibly relevant today. It helps explain the DSA’s growing power within the Democratic Party. Why most Democrats can’t bring themselves to condemn socialism. Why so many young people believe America deserved 9/11. Why young people and celebrities chant “Free Palestine” without understanding that Hamas is a terrorist organization or anything about the conflict. They’ve been told what to believe and who the oppressor is in each of these situations.

Ten years of cancel culture has taught people that questioning the ideology doesn’t simply mean you disagree. It means you are an evil oppressor. You are racist, sexist, privileged, out of touch, evil. Disagree and you will be cast out and lose everything.

Once people become afraid to trust themselves, examine the facts, or stand against the group, you’ve got them. They can be convinced to believe and do anything.

What do you all think? Did I describe this accurately?

[Joe Hewitt @JoeHewitt111]

@brivael The world is run by people who profit from scarcity. Do you think they are going to simply relinquish that control because Elon has a better idea?

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@LangmanVince Come in Vince, plenty of news worth reporting, no need for misleading posts, do better

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@WTSmith17 NYC gone

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@iam_smx He’s a designer with a mission

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@ihteshamali You must add reasonable constraints, the world is not a reasonable constraint.

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@G_S_Bhogal @beffjezos Musk owned companies have created 120,000 jobs and pay approx $6 billion in salaries - this is wealth creation - without taking money away from others.

[Thierry from arvy 🇨🇭 @ThierryBorgeat]

Citadel Securities just put institutional weight behind what the AI bulls won't say out loud.

In a new macro note titled "Tokenomics," Citadel makes the argument plainly: even the most powerful technology on earth still has to pass through the boring discipline of cost curves, capacity limits, and marginal returns.

The evidence is piling up:
– Amazon removed its token usage leaderboard
– Microsoft cancelled Claude Code subscriptions
– Multiple companies reporting unexpectedly massive token bills

Their conclusion is the part that matters.

Adoption is no longer about what AI can do in principle. It's becoming about the price and scarcity of the inputs needed to run it at scale. Compute. Power. Cooling. Memory bandwidth. Inference budgets. All real, all binding constraints.

And here's the kicker from the chart.

The Silicon Data LLM Token Expenditure Index, a benchmark for how much the market is actually spending on AI tokens, has started rolling over. Citadel reads it as a shift toward cheaper models. Companies substituting away from expensive frontier AI toward "good enough" alternatives.

That's economics 101 doing what it always does. When the price of something rises, people use less of it, or find a cheaper version.

Citadel sees a bifurcation forming. Frontier AI concentrated among a few firms with the balance sheets to absorb the cost. Everyone else quietly downgrading to simpler, cheaper models.

This is the part of every technology revolution the early narrative ignores.

The technology being real was never the question.

The question was always whether the economics could carry the valuations.

When one of the most sophisticated trading firms on earth starts writing about AI in the language of cost curves and rationing instead of limitless demand, the conversation has quietly changed.

The hype was about what AI could do.

The reckoning is about what it costs.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt released another banger!

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[Joe Hewitt @JoeHewitt111]

@XFreeze I think he means you should not punish them hard, if of course theres a reason behind their boldness

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@SaiKate108 I bet this top 10 list is managed by people who were born after 60-70s and don't understand the fact Clapton is one major reason for rock quitar as we know it.

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@SenWarren How much did their employees pay?

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@ImMeme0 Do better, these were satirical posters not democratic campign items

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@KamalaHarris During the Obama administration, the highest national average gasoline price reached $4.27 per gallon in June 2012.[abcnews +1]
During the Biden administration, the highest national average gasoline price reached $5.07 per gallon in June 2022.[forbes]

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@KamalaHarris Gas reached 4.27 under Obama and 5.07under Biden

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@JoshHall2024 Joshua you can do better, where is the tape, who has the tape, who can listen to the tape?