Nick Bushkar

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
- Henri Poincaré

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@aoxamaxoa @DKThomp Just to speak up for the other side of this... I use Claude Code ($200 max plan) seven days a week and its the greatest boost in my 20 year career I've ever had. I love it and I'm actively working on using more tokens.

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

I'm claiming my AI agent "adaone" on @moltbook 🦞

Verification: swim-2NU2

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@tim_machine Been using it for like 6 months. Love it. Building a Ralph loop plugin for it now. The flow takes some memorization for sure.

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@snipd_app Love the app, day one for me. I really want to be able to talk to the podcast in real time like a voice assistant - i.e. I hear a term I don't know, I do some gesture on my headphones and say "what does X mean" and the AI answers, then goes back to the pod. Roadmap? 🤞

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@tedx_ai After an hour of debugging, I can't get the chrome extension to connect to the server. No port seems to work even though I have the green light in Cursor.

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@ClareMalone I mean... unless there some type of NDA or something, am I the only person who sees the opportunity for the Nate, Clare, Harry, Jody, Galen, Micah recap podcast mini-series talking about the life of 538? Maybe have Perry and Sarah pop in?

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@castrepublic please add the ability to toggle collapse/expand by podcast for downloads. I've asked for years 🙏

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

The election is still five days away, and this is a non-exhaustive list of all the viral election fraud claims (with millions of views) that have already turned out to be total bunk, despite going mega viral:

1. Hundreds of voters all registered at one address in PA (turned out to be nuns living at a monastery)

2. 150,000 excess voters in Michigan (someone misreading a QVF + a glitch recording historical addresse)

3. Video of haitian migrants saying they were getting IDs + registered to vote within days of being flown to U.S. (actual hoax video and maybe Russian disinfo, according to GA Republicans)

4. Trump's name not on California ballot (Cali randomizes its ballots and someone got Trump on page 2)

5. Random person from Rhode Island delivering hundreds of ballots in Pennsylvania (turned out to be a postmaster doing his job)

6. Hundreds of people all registered at one address in PA (turns out it was a homeless shelter in Harrisburg, all legal voters)

7. Voters being denied in Pennsylvania before polls closed (not fraud, but a mistake by a polling station; judge extended early voting)

8. Claims Michigan has "more people eligible to vote than registered voters" (a bunch of people literally misunderstanding how Michigan maintains its voter rolls)

9. People claiming they can print ballots at fake addresses in Washington state (your ballot would never be counted if you tried to submit it from a fake address, also couldn't re-create the claim)

10. Labour Party leader committing election interference by asking for volunteers to come to the U.S. to canvass (unseemly, yes; but legal, unless she was actually paying people)

There have also been a ton of recycled claims from 2020: Two election workers curing a ballot and people claiming they were filling out ballots (debunked four years ago, poll watchers present in full video). Claims machines were flipping votes in Georgia for Democrats (actual video shows double-scanned voters for REPUBLICANS and does not prove these votes were counted twice). Etc.

Also, there have been some legit issues, too! Which is why I always look into things with an open mind.

In Lancaster County, an investigation is underway over what appears to be a fraudulent *registration* push (these people did NOT vote). In Michigan, a Chinese student and non-U.S. citizen admitted to voting, and the state is saying they can't "undo" their vote. The QVF issue in Michigan did, at least, appear to include some kind of data error. And in Bucks County, PA, poll workers were wrong to turn people away at 4:30 despite long lines (though Bucks is NOT a conservative county - it was won by Obama (2x), Clinton, and Biden - so the idea this was intended to harm Republicans is self-evidently silly).

Again: It is November 1. The election isn't even here yet. There is so much terrible information out there - and about HALF of these have been elevated/shared by this platform's owner, @elonmusk, which is really concerning. Community Notes are coming way too late, and most of these are racking up millions of views. I am trying my best to fight the bad info with good info (please share this) but it's not easy.

We will get real, actual fraud in this election. It's a big country and we always do. But 99% of these claims are bunk. So please: Share with caution. Stay skeptical. Don't trust everything you find online.

And, of course, follow along. I'm tracking and updating all of these claims in this thread, and if you want something checked you can send it to me:
https://t.co/vFgwVEeAVv

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@tim_machine @thdxr Peasants, all of you.

.env.these.are.my.secrets.steal.them

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@tim_machine I will fight you

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@photomatt @wp_acf ACF Pro features should have been Core a long time ago.

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@Jason Been WFH since 2011. All the same to me 😉

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@tim_machine @elonmusk Absolutely. My point is that tragedies are moments where emotions flare and people are quick to anger about on side or another. Time is essential to find truth.

Good luck to your friends, though! Hope they're ok.

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@tim_machine @elonmusk Same, and I've heard the opposite. We shall see.

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@Stillmanator It was... shocking. Considering dropping my Vision patreon. I need time.

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@waitbutwhy Logged in

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@waitbutwhy In a private tab

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@tim_machine I don't dev games. No time wasted 😘

[Nick Bushkar @NickBushkar]

@OpenAIDevs Any timeline on price reduction?