Duke Ho

Dentist. Often silly, sometimes stubborn, but rarely stupid.

[Duke Ho @chiefofteeth]

@BarstoolBigCat @PFTCommenter @PardonMyTake got a shout out in the press room post interview!

[Duke Ho @chiefofteeth]

@BarstoolBigCat @landondonovan Sounds like someone is about to get skull fucked.

[Duke Ho @chiefofteeth]

@FreddyLA7 Texas... we don't know what it means to be medium.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Let me explain why I think Freddy resonates.

Lots of Europeans visit the USA as tourists. They visit New York City, or Washington DC, or Hollywood, or Las Vegas, and if they visit natural beauty too, they go to really crowded places like the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone.

So while they see our cultural and natural icons, they are mostly in blue cities and they therefore also see the decline, the homeless, the drugs, the dirt and the rude, rude Americans.

But Freddy is not doing that. Freddy is driving, and he’s doing it through the heartland, where people are kind and polite, the skies are wide open, and the bounty of Buc-ees and Bass Pro Shops are overwhelming.

Freddy is not seeing fentanyl and decline.

He is seeing the real, hopeful, patriotic, kind America that European tourists rarely traverse.

And he loves it.

That’s why Freddy is a phenomenon.

[Duke Ho @chiefofteeth]

@BarstoolBigCat How can you eat when the Women's US Open is so tight! Where's @hen_ease leading from the front!

[𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 @DKH013]

Proof that 99% of what we worry about never actually happens.

[Duke Ho @chiefofteeth]

@stoolpresidente Any comment @BarstoolBigCat ?

[Duke Ho @chiefofteeth]

@Mark_Penn @DrNima1979

[Duke Ho @chiefofteeth]

@pamelam35 It's the most amazing place you will ever go to and there is one truth... the TV coverage doesn't do it justice.

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

Hell yes, Kid!

[NASA @NASA]

Liftoff.

The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon.

Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.

[Duke Ho @chiefofteeth]

@pamelam35 I effin love growing up in Texas but I may love tailing your picks even more! #winner

[Duke Ho @chiefofteeth]

@timburchett Even though I love Texas, I'm a HUGE fan of yours and have even given to your campaign. Any chance you will be in DC Monday or Tuesday? I just want to say thank you (and maybe also get a pic, lol). Thanks and wishing you continued success!

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 JUST IN: Iran State TV has reportedly been HACKED, and is showing a message from President Trump calling on Iranians to RISE UP again the regime

Wow!

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

🚨 Breaking: Text messages received by Iranians all over Iran that "help has arrived" (referring to Trump's "help is on its way"), and now is their time to rise up

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

This gets to the core of the issue more than any debate about specific terms.

Do you believe in democracy? Should our military be regulated by our elected leaders, or corporate executives? Seemingly innocuous terms from the latter like "You cannot target innocent civilians" are actually moral minefields that lever differences of cultural tradition into massive control.

Who is a civilian and not? What makes them innocent or not? What does it mean for them to be a "target" vs collateral damage? Existing policy and law has very clear answers for these questions, but unelected corporations managing profits and PR will often have a very different answer.

Imagine if a missile company tried to enforce the above policy, that their product cannot be used to target innocent civilians, that they can shut off access if elected leaders decide to break those terms. Sounds, good, right? Not really - in addition to the value judgement problems I list above, you also have to account for questions like:

-What level of information, classified and otherwise, does the corporation receive that would allow them to make these determinations? How much leverage would they have to demand more?
-What if an elected President merely threatens a dictator with using our weapons in a certain way, ala Madman Theory/MAD? Is the threat seen as empty because the dictator knows the corporate executives will cut off the military? Is the threat enough to trigger the cutoff? How might either of those determinations vary if the current corporate executive happens to like the dictator or dislike the President?
-At what level of confidence does the cutoff trigger, both in writing and in reality?

The fact that this is a debate over AI does not change the underlying calculus. The same problems apply to definitions and use of ethically fraught but important capabilities like surveillance systems or autonomous weapons. It is easy to say "But they will have cutouts to operate with autonomous systems for defensive use!", but you immediately get into the same issues and more - what is autonomous? What is defensive? What about defending an asset during an offensive action, or parking a carrier group off the coast of a nation that considers us to be offensive?

At the end of the day, you have to believe that the American experiment is still ongoing, that people have the right to elect and unelect the authorities making these decisions, that our imperfect constitutional republic is still good enough to run a country without outsourcing the real levers of power to billionaires and corpos and their shadow advisors. I still believe.

And that is why "bro just agree the AI won't be involved in autonomous weapons or mass surveillance why can't you agree it is so simple please bro" is an untenable position that the United States cannot possibly accept.

[debivice @debivice]

@adamcarolla

[RealRawNews @RealRawNews1]

Department of War source: US forces have hacked Iranian drones heading for Israel and turned them against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps soldiers who launched them.

[Penguins Jesus @PenguinsJesus]

There are people in this country who rooted against their own country and own team in this game.

The team who wanted to share their victory with the children of their teammate who was killed by a drunk driver.

Perspective.

[Duke Ho @chiefofteeth]

What a GREAT Story... The Boys of Team USA https://t.co/i4AltdOWW4

[Stoolies Clubhouse 🏴‍☠️ @StooliesClub]

I could run through a brick wall right now!!

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