Ben Krout

Go Dawgs.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Texas, Pennsylvania and now Ohio.

This is a powder keg and has the potential to unwind 200-300 basis points of annual GDP if it metastasizes.

How did it get this bad?

The collective leadership of frontier AI has failed miserably in doing the basics:

1. Paint a positive picture of what is possible with AI. Instead of spilling the ink on the glass half full, stories abound of pearl clutching, catastrophizing or arcane technical jargon that, together, breed mistrust, fear and skepticism.

2. Visibly and disproportionately enrich the local communities AI data centers operate in. Tell these stories with a megaphone and have local leaders lead with the financial proof so it’s irrefutable.

3. Stop infighting and stop trying to influence the government or trick them because of the asymmetric knowledge the industry has relative to outsiders and observers. This further makes it seem like a shady money grab to many bystanders.

Data centers have unfortunately become THE symbolic representation of the asymmetric upside for a very narrow tech elite and a class that are untrustworthy.

Inasmuch, the safer bet may be that the pushback and resistance grows…

[Techno Fog @Techno_Fog]

Today - Dr. Fauci's former senior advisor, David Morens, pled guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US.

Morens and others plotted to conceal/destroy federal records re: COVID-19 and federal grants to avoid FOIA and the Federal Record Act.

[Peter J. Hasson @peterjhasson]

This is infuriating on a personal level and let me tell you why:

My wife was pregnant and in her clinical year of PA school at this time. She’d already had covid. Her doctor--and even the doctors teaching at her PA school!--said it was totally reasonable to not get the vaccine since she had the antibodies and was pregnant.

But virtually none of the hospitals or doctors offices in the DFW area would accept PA students for clinical rotations if they weren’t vaccinated—even if they were pregnant, even if they had the antibodies—because they were following Fauci’s advice.

My saint of a wife put our baby daughter first and still didn’t get the shot because she didn’t want to risk anything that might mess with the baby, but we had to spend months and months living out of Airbnbs in various rural small towns across Texas—the only places in the state where hospitals couldn’t afford to turn away help from PA students, vaccinated or not—while eating the rent on our empty apartment at the same time. It was worth it but it literally cost us tens of thousands of dollars while we were a one-income household living on a journalist salary.

And so now, to see Fauci had the same concerns she did? Infuriating.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In a diner, I accidentally asked the waitress for "power coffee."

I meant strong black coffee. My English failed me.

She didn't correct me. She yelled to the back: "ONE POWER COFFEE FOR THE SAMURAI!"

The cook banged a spatula on the grill in approval.

They brought me a mug the size of a bucket.

I have visited that diner every Tuesday for six months.

Last month, I arrived feeling defeated after a terrible week.

The waitress looked at my face, placed the giant mug on my table, and said softly, "Power coffee is on the house today, Samurai. Stand up straight."

I did not need a speech. I needed a mug and a title.

I stood up straight.

[Bobby Burack @burackbobby_]

Spoiler: By Tuesday, DiJonai Carrington is going to claim people are sending her mean tweets and the media is going to demand Sophie Cunningham condemn it.

That’s how they will spin the story away from Carrington’s foul and post.

It’s what happens every time.

[Fusilli Spock @awstar11]

Being educated is always good

Being a credentialist, know-it-all, douche is bad

Clear enough?

[NN @NnPnemck]

I don’t care how frustrated you are with Republicans.

There is no version of “teaching them a lesson” that’s worth putting the people who gave us an open border back in power.

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

What changed is control over the Justice Department. He knows he'd be prosecuted for perjury if he told Congress now what he told Congress before.

[Mark Halperin @MarkHalperin]

I'm trying to figure out if the pro-Fauci media really doesn't understand @RandPaul and why he is doing this -- or is just pretending not to understand.

[2WAY @2waytvapp]

“We see he’s a liar,” says @MarkHalperin about Anthony Fauci. “We see he’s not on the up and up. And then the media, literally to this moment, is still canonizing him… There’s something mentally wrong with someone who lies about public health and whose desire to be famous is that strong.” @NIH @2waytvapp

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

Someday historians are going to look back and be astonished at the amount of absurd bullshit Americans took pride in believing during this era

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Hmm I wonder why the families of 9/11 don’t want Mandami at the 25th anniversary memorial ceremony. Could it be for any of the following reasons?

He campaigned with Hassan Piker who said US deserved 9/11

He endorsed Claire Valdez who also said America deserved 9/11

He endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier who founded a group at Columbia with a stated goal of overthrowing Western Civilization

He sympathized with the Boston Marathon bombers before the murdered bodies were even cold?

His dad has justified “suicide bombing” (like the ones in 9/11) as “first and foremost a category of soldier”.

Mandami has refused to condemn the phrase “Globalize the Intifada” which is exactly what 9/11 was

During his mayoral campaign he took a smiling picture with his arm around Iman Siraj Wahhaj who was accused of being one of the co-conspirators of the 1993 world trade center bombing

He has said he wanted to defund the police about a million times and demonized law enforcement

Yeah I wonder why the families don’t want him there. The bigger question is how the hell did we get here in the 1st place?

Ps - All the above is readily accessible with a quick google search. He hasnt hid who he is.

[Just Jen ℞ 🫡🇺🇸 @JustJenRX]

THIS AGED WELL…

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

中國方面也澄清說：“我們從未與那位女士發生過性關係。萊溫斯基小姐。”

[City Journal @CityJournal]

Data centers haven’t been raising residential bills.

The sharpest increases are found in states that have pursued the country’s most aggressive climate policies, not those with the most data centers.

California, with some of the nation’s fastest-rising electricity rates, has seen relatively modest data-center growth. Virginia, where data centers consume more than a fifth of the state’s electricity, has experienced price increases near the national average.

@Shawn_Regan in the City Journal Substack: https://t.co/454zAKubNC

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

This is the intellectual version of a COVID Mask. You may think you’re doing something smart but you’re not.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

I didn’t get cheated.

You did.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

If Graham Platner committed rape five years ago in Maine, why is no one demanding he be charged with rape? The statute of limitations is, crazily, twenty years in Maine. The alleged rape was five years ago. Yet no one is demanding charges. Or even an investigation. Why is that?

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

God Bless America

[The Rubber Duck ™ @TheRubberDuck79]

on June 3, 2019 - Julian Assange explained that the Russia Hoax of 2016 was a brilliant Hillary Clinton strategy because she used the [soros] media to project the crimes she was guilty of onto Donald Trump, as it was Clinton that had the connections to Russia - not Trump.