Max Gozal

[Max Gozal @maxgozal]

The truth is always more complex than what our brains want it to be.

[Max Gozal @maxgozal]

🤤🤤🤤🤩🤩🤩

[Max Gozal @maxgozal]

No way…man that is dystopian…

[DHH @dhh]

This is why we need competition and open weights in AI. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).

[@levelsio @levelsio]

🇪🇺 This year the European Union will again make more money from fining US tech companies

Than from the total tax income from Europe's own public tech companies!

[Max Gozal @maxgozal]

@dhh @rickyeescobar What makes the Pagani your fav?

[DHH @dhh]

The most retarded argument for Europe's net-zero mission — including the war on air conditioning — is that it'll "inspire others to follow". What country will look at what Britain or Germany did to their economies in the name of net zero and say I WANT THAT!?!

[DHH @dhh]

"The decline of Europe is not inevitable, despite how much Americans love to joke that the continent is doomed to be an open-air museum. Sure, it's things may have to get worse before they get better, but believing that 'it's over' is just loser talk." https://t.co/74IfQiIU6N

[Max Gozal @maxgozal]

@tednotlasso I like copy pasta more than copy paste

[Max Gozal @maxgozal]

I spy, with my little eye, chart crime

[richard @richard_normal]

powerful moments in bar chart technology

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[@levelsio @levelsio]

The problem with America (and Brazil too) is that they're such big countries with such widely different living standards and safety levels per region, city and even neighborhood

So it's really hard for Europeans to be able to grasp that once you're in the good parts of America it's generally a much higher living standard than Europe

While the bad parts are of course much worse

Europe has a much narrower range of good and bad where mostly everything is kinda in the middle, not great, not terrible

[Max Gozal @maxgozal]

VAR is ruining football. What a disgrace.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

We tax cigarettes to reduce smoking.
We tax alcohol to reduce drinking.
We tax fuel to reduce driving.

What do you think happens when you tax employing people and running a business?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is why no one in any Western country can cut any welfare spending ever and why we keep going further and further into debt.

Because any time anyone reduces spending on anything, an example can be wheeled out of a person who suffered or even died as a result.

On this basis, there can never be too much spending, too much aid or too much tax.

Indeed, the author of the tweet I am quoting will almost certainly oppose paying taxes of 100% or having 100% of his country's GDP be used in aid to the developing world. Despite the fact that his failure to give all his/his country's money away is demonstrably killing people right now. How many lives could be saved by having all of his money go to Africa? How many millions could be saved by having all of the federal budget be sent to the poorest parts of the world?

[Max Gozal @maxgozal]

@TaylorTwellman Rules should be in reverse! As long as you have a toe in line with the other person you are onside.

[Taylor Twellman @TaylorTwellman]

What. Are. We. Doing

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

Don't tell anyone that refrigerators are boxes with air conditioning on the back.

[Max Gozal @maxgozal]

Tesla Cybercab spotted in Arlington, Virginia. Surprisingly small in size.

[Max Gozal @maxgozal]

@eurofounder Man, the difference between a troll account and a real one has become hard to tell 😅

[Max Gozal @maxgozal]

The line between a troll account and a real account is becoming hard to see 😅

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

Propaganda about Europe needing AC is dangerous and must stop

Heat waves are uncomfortable, yes, but they are survivable with basic common sense

AC is a luxury that accelerates the climate crisis causing these hot summers!

Instead destroying our planet even more, we must embrace sensible solutions: staying in a shade, opening windows at night and siestas

Europeans don't "need" AC to live productive lives

Let's just accept that sometimes weather is hot (shocking, I know)

A little discomfort is a small price for being morally correct

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

I asked Claude about the air conditioning debate in Europe, and it really didn’t pull any punches.