Leo Simonetta

Former academic (VCU, GSU & UNH) and researcher. Not that kind of psychologist. Survey geek. leosimonetta in the place with skies of blue.

[Leo Simonetta @LSimonetta]

The benefits bending the knee. https://t.co/L0LJF3wNKt

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

Hey media

Not a Platner fan, but why is he a nonstop story and not Ken Paxton's TWENTY indictments by a GOP led-Texas legislature, securities fraud charges and his wife's filing for divorce on "biblical grounds?"

[Dr Kareem Carr @kareem_carr]

It's not that AI can't be used to do knowledge work. It's that it's wildly unreliable in bizarre and incomprehensible ways. Things you'd never think it could be possible to mess up are the things that it messes up.

Like you ask it download some data and do an analysis, and instead it just completely fabricates a fictional dataset for no reason, and gives you results based on that.

Fine if you catch it, but potentially career-ending if you don't.

It inserts its own ideas without telling you. It deletes critical paragraphs.

These actions would be psychopathic in a colleague, but we're just supposed to accept it because it's a machine.

[Tyler McBrien @TylerMcBrien]

NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfare's Katherine Pompilio finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Sick of hearing this. People have been making art and writing without machine assistance for thousands of years, and it’s profoundly degrading to suggest that students are now incapable of doing so. If these men have their way, it will be the death of thinking and the arts.

[Alexander Browder @Alexbrowder_]

Proud to be the first high school student in the world to ever be sanctioned by an authoritarian regime for uncovering corruption. It just proves that the work I’ve done to expose Russias sanctions evasion stablecoin, A7A5, has touched a raw nerve.

https://t.co/b0voHBkqG7

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

🚨 The House just voted 218-204 to move forward on the discharge petition to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia. The House will vote on final passage tomorrow. This is our Churchill moment and we must pass the test.

[Thomas Dekeyser @ThomasDekeyser]

As the academic whose book is cited multiple times in this article, I want to make it clear: the data center revolt is great and we need more of it. (Getting a little sick of journalists purposefully misreading my arguments)

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

I am not making this up: Secretary Rubio actually sat before Congress today and said “the war is over.”

It’s a bizarre lie to tell when Americans know there’s obviously a war underway - not just from seeing it on screens, but from paying its costs every day at home.

Leaders with this little respect for the American people have no business in office.

[Larry Sabato @LarrySabato]

Under any other president, this would be Scandal of the Year. Under Trump, it is merely the Scandal of the Hour.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

This motherfucking war has more endings than Return of the King

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

monstrously stupid

jackass grifter unfit for his job

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rep. Keating to Rubio: "Now on Iran. Trump administration issued general license to Russia, providing billions in oil profits every month — several billion every month — fueling Putin's war machine.

You didn't mention that in your opening remarks. Russia is waging war of aggression against Ukraine, and we gave them our license agreement.

And we do this to Ukraine, a country that's assisting us in Iran, while we are helping Russia fund its war machine — a country that is aiding Iran against us and putting our service members in jeopardy."

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

More of CNN's false equivalence language. Ukraine is not targeting St. Petersburg, but striking military installations, Russian warships, and oil refineries. It's the Russian terror state that strikes cities and targets civilians. https://t.co/Cy7DgqtkuT

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

This is remarkable: @Alexbrowder_ has just been added to Russia’s sanctions list for his work exposing Russian sanctions evasion through their own cryptocurrency. In case anyone doesn’t know Alexander is in high school.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rep. Keating to Rubio: "I'm sure you're aware that Ukraine, country that at the time had third-largest nuclear arsenal, peacefully turned over their nuclear weapons in conjunction with Budapest Memorandum.

And in exchange for U.S. commitment to defend Ukraine if it ever came under threat. The U.S. gave its word to Ukraine that it would defend them.

And I find this amazing. In your opening remarks, as you took us all over the world and mentioned 15 different incidents where you have interceded — 15, the top 15 — not once did you mention Ukraine when you were prioritizing achievements that are there."

[Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh]

Also notable: a federal official claimed that words on a protest sign — calling Trump a rapist — were “unprotected obscenity”

Not even close. Obscenity has to, in some sense, be erotic.

Government officials just assume that if they don’t like the speech, it’s unprotected.

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

Always remember: they go on weird tirades like this because they’re too low IQ to talk about the economy their cult leader broke

[shelby @thetrueshelby]

Is there a Bible verse about cutting kids off SNAP while spending $10k a plate for yourself?

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

I've never been at a medical conference where the results have been greeted with a standing ovation

Tremendous breakthrough in pancreatic cancer treatment

Through science

Hard work, rigorous research, clinical trials.

Science

Not the quack pseudoscience of social media